[Coco] Another 'rare' opportunity on eBay

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 23 June 2010, sales at gimechip.com wrote:
>that's funny :-)
>I think it's a sale in one of dad's Rainbow's that had it for 99.95, but
>yep, you're right it was $129.95 (i did some digging). I didn't know it
> was SASI - if it is SASI, could not an aftermarket SASI Controller (such
> as used with the DISTO HDA) be used with it (assuming you could find
> one)? I wonder, only because I read that they could only employ the Tandy
> Controller. -John
>
The thing that fried my beans about that $129.95 price, is that it had (I 
opened it and looked at it) about 75 cents worth of common TTL IC's on it, 3 
of them, so it was basically a glorified parallel port, which is about what 
it takes to talk to a sasi controller.  The shack could have sold it for 
$19.95 and made a heck of a lot more money because they would have actually 
sold a few of them.  Then we would be vilifying them because those drives 
with a sasi controller board would have self-destructed 20 years ago, and 
when the shack designed it, there were not then any sasi drives on the 
market but theirs.

 As it stood, at about the end of '88, I'd be willing to bet they were 
hammered (Literally) and binned to get them off the inventory.  Just one of 
a long line of marketing mistakes in the coco's history.

By that time Tony had made his SC-II w/4n1, and I was having a heck of time 
with a B&B interface & an ST-238R, plus it was about full, so it was a no 
brainer to buy a 7120s Maxtor and life was sweet till the maxtor got the 
stickies & needed bumped to start it.  Now I have a TC^3 and a 1 gigabyte 
Seagate Hawk drive and that Just Works(TM).  By the time I needed to move 
the maxtors contents to the new drive, I had nearly 100 megs of stuff to 
move.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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