Re: price for used 255

From: H Vlems (hvlems.nieuw_at_zonnet.nl)
Date: 10/11/03 

Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:46:10 +0200

"Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply" <helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de>
schreef in bericht news:bm8gi4$2n0$1@online.de...
> What is the current "market value" of an ALPHAstation 255? I know one
> can get them for free if lucky, and I know one can pay way too much
> (i.e. a much faster new system would be only slightly more). I'm
> interested in what a willing buyer would pay to a willing seller. :-)

The value of second hand gear is difficult to guess. Look at eBay for prices
of, say, 18 GB SCSI disks. The price varies between $1 and $30. Same for an
AS255. For a collector it may have some value, but as you write you can pick
up faster systems free of charge, especially white box alpha's. The AS255
has one real advantage: it is small and won't upset your better half when it
is carried into the house. Power consumption is on par with a PC (try
running a big alpha for a normal period of time :-). But you wanted a value,
depending on the disks, say eur 50. (I paid eur. 100 for a Digital Server
3300 and two PC's a couple of months ago).