[Coco] NEW NORMAL

[Sean]

Well, I did pay like $175 for a 512k CoCo 3 memory expansion once.

In 1990...

That was many many months of allowance saved up!  :)




On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:54 PM, camillus <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To all it may concern,
>
> Maybe I did overreact,  and I apologize for using "inappropriate" words.
> I'm just so PO, to see that so many people are being ripped.
>
> I do not however take back that the price war is insane and will
> eventually end in the fact that many "coco lovers" will have to cease there
> hobby.
>
> Imagine when  the "superIDE" controller will eventually be there, which I
> expect that will be soon, and I guess that it would be not cheaper then
> $200, and add there the nice SDC floppy emulator $25, and the new static
> 512 memory expansion card for $50 I think it was. This would add up to $275
> and then a coco 3 for $300 gives a total of $575.
>
> And for the ones that like to have LCD monitor they have to add the
> rgb2vga adaptors of which I lost track of the prices, but say avg. $100
> then the bill goes to $675.
> And you do need an MPI for the two cards I mentioned before, another $80
> to $100 would be my guess??
>
> Will eventually be close to $1000 when a complete set is set on the table
> with all the odds and ends. Not bad for a "vintage computer of 35 years
> old". Wonder how much that would eventually end up on eBay, newnormal
> thinking maybe $3000 ?
>
> Sorry but I refuse to call this "NEW NORMAL" and out-loud insane and I
> regret that if my coco3 breaks down,
> it will be the last one that I ever owned.
>
> Maybe I should put it on eBay now, then I can buy me some commodore 64,
> also a vintage computer and close as old as the coco, but still around for
> less then $50, or maybe the new FPGA board with LINUX is only $500 and then
> I can emulate as many old vintage computers for which there are cores.
>
> Again my apology for using degrading words...
>
> cb
>
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