[Coco] DYSAN Digital Diagnostic Disk..........

[Salvador Garcia]

 Interesting item. I recall some decades ago, the maintenance department of the company where I worked, had a bunch of these discs, along with oscilloscopes, to align the floppy drives that came in for repair.

Now a rant, apologies before hand.

I am in Mexico right now, so the eBay page reflects my current location. Shipping to Mexico is $71.97 USD and the import duty is $31.77 USD. This effectively doubles the cost of this item! (plus a bit more).

I lived in Mexico for 16 years and my biggest peeve was having to pay a fortune to get electronic components. Components such as TTL ICs (74xx) and CMOS. I had to basically abandon my electronics hobby because I could not afford t pay $50 USD to buy, for example, 10 74LS274s or some 555s. 

The import duty was, and it looks like it still is, roughly 30% of the item price. I would so much like to retire to Mexico (San Miguel de Allende is looking good for this), but I am just not willing to sacrifice my hobby, which has matured to include newer stuff like Arduinos, R-Pis, and uController in general.

Thank you for lending me your ears, now back to the regularly scheduled programming. Salvador



    On Wednesday, December 20, 2017, 10:17:27 AM CST, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:  
 
 On Wednesday 20 December 2017 10:25:16 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:

> www.ebay.ca/itm/VINTAGE-DYSAN-3-1-2-ALIGNMENT-AND-DIAGNOSTIC-CE-DISKET
>TES-/112575319782

Having looked at it, has raised the chances of its being an original, and 
the shrink wrap may have wrinkled with age. Its been relisted, with an 
additional pix:

<https://www.ebay.ca/itm/VINTAGE-DYSAN-3-1-2-ALIGNMENT-AND-DIAGNOSTIC-CE-DISKETTES-/112624220037?>
which should be a much more clickable link than above. 

Since the seller says boxes, I have to assume he is liquidating whats 
left of Dyson. This may be the last chance to obtain one, ever. This 
seller has something else not often seen on ebay, a 100% rating.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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