I'm fascinated by the early PDP-11 range - and if I saw one readily available, reasonably priced, and close at hand (shipping is not trivial for those machines)

I'm fascinated by the early PDP-11 range - and if I saw one readily available, reasonably priced, and close at hand (shipping is not trivial for those machines) then I don't know if I'm actually competent enough to handle a machine where normal configuration duties include changing the wirewrapped backplane! That's part of the fascination too though.