Tom Miller writes:
 
>I have for sale the following:
 
>      HP3000 series 33 computer
>      with system console and 8 ports
 
>      HP 7920 Hard disk  50 Mb drive & 1 disk pack
 
>      HP 7925 Hard disk 120 Mb drive & 2 disk packs
 
>      HP 2608 Line printer
 
>All offered as is. I have all the documents for the system and they are
>included.
 
>Asking $1000.00 plus shipping
 
Unfortunately, Tom, your price is about $1500 too high :-).
 
I have exactly the same machine (in almost exactly the same
configuration), for which I personally paid $165,000 in 1979 (three times
the price of my house), and which I figure counting interest paid, would
have been about $350,000 to $400,000 in today's dollars. And the machine
has less than zero value now in today's market -- except as a desk
(otherwise, you would have to pay somebody to haul it off). The 7925's are
now used as printer stands, and the HP3000/33, with its superior genuine
wood-grain simulated table top, is my personal work desk for one of our
Macintoshes.
 
However, I'm not about to sell the thing. Not only is it museum quality
furniture, I would imagine that I'm the only businessman in Las Cruces, NM
with a $400,000 executive desk.
 
Wirt Atmar