Re: price for used 255
From: Keith A. Lewis (lewis_at_PROBE.mitre.org)
Date: 10/13/03
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:52:40 +0000 (UTC)
helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes in article <bm8gi4$2n0$1@online.de> dated Sat, 11 Oct 2003 08:55:32 +0000 (UTC):
>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. :-)
Last year I bid almost $400 on Ebay on an Alphastation 255 with 256 MB of
RAM and 2 small hard drives. I was outbid at the last minute.
Later on I bought an even better PWS500au for less than that. Although it
came with some weird dual-output Tru64-only video card which I have since
replaced. (Think that's worth anything?)
The amount of RAM is key. It's getting hard to find that old stuff for a
reasonable price, so if the system you're talking about has only 32 MB, $150
might be a reasonable price, but if it's maxed out at 256MB it might fetch
$400 on the open market.
I think the 255 came in different CPU speeds too.
--Keith Lewis klewis$mitre.org
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