[Coco] RE: [Color Computer] Looking for a Coco I 64k?

[Ward Griffiths]

On 11/12/2005 10:39 am, Dave Dunfield wrote:

> Obviously anyone who is comfortable piggybacking chips wouldn't be
> purchasing an upgrade, however Radio Shack did sell a 64k upgrade and lists
> it as upgrading a 4k/16/32k machine to 64k. I would immagine that there
> were some users who not being comfortable with lifting the lid themselves
> would have taken the machine to RS to have it upgraded... Perhaps all RS
> guys would have told them to try it, but I'm wondering if any people
> actually paid $199 for a button replacement.

Certainly nobody in my store, which by that time was in Downtown Los Angeles.  
$2 for a $.25 button was sufficient markup with a fair amount of goodwill 
attached.  That'd leave them bucks to buy software from an inventory we 
didn't have to split the profits on with the repair center.
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