[Coco] Sneak peek

[Roger Taylor]

At 09:37 AM 2/15/2009, you wrote:
>On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Mark Marlette wrote:
>
>>
>>Even so, if one knows the CoCo/MPI well enough, you just make your own. :)
>>
>>GAL16V8, can't stick a whole lot of smarts in those chips.
>
>I was just being pedantic :-).
>
>As a practical matter, there's no shortage of these things out 
>there. The last two I picked up were $35 (eBay) and cost-of-shipping 
>respectively.
>
>Steve



You're assuming that there aren't many CoCo users vs. available 
MPIs.  There's many more CoCo owners.  I can definately confirm by 
looking at my customer list over the past 8 years that there's way 
more CoCo users out there most tend to think, from all over the 
world, who are rediscovering the CoCo through the web.  Some don't 
even have to go so far as the attic or storage building to drag out 
the boxes of Mint condition stuff they packed away 4 or 5 months 
after Xmas back in the 80's.  But there's also a lot out there that 
are very active yet do not choose to mess with a mailing list.

So, yes, the MPI is a hard-to-get item.  Watch the bids pile up at 
the last 5 minutes of an MPI listing.  At the end, one guy is 
laughing his butt off while the other 10 or 20 are not.  :)


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Roger Taylor

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