[Coco] Color Computer 3 System gets top $$$ these days

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 28 January 2015 11:39:00 Mark Marlette did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Allen,
> I still have four NIB CoCo3s as shipped from Tandy complete with
> Compuserve pamphlets, etc... Not $50, not $5000. :)
> I use to have more and the serious collector does buy occasionally.
> At the peak I had over 500 CoCo3s, under 20 now.
> 
> Getting close to another end of an era at Cloud-9. I thought I would
> never get rid of over 150 cassette decks, today, I still get requests.
> They are gone too. Are we getting old? :)
> Mark Marlette
> http://www.cloud9tech.com
> mark at cloud9tech.com
> 
You just had to ask, didn't you. ;-)

Yep, turned 80 last October. I think that confirms it, we ARE getting old.

>       From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
>  To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>  Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:22 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Coco] Color Computer 3 System gets top $$$ these days
> 
> > On Jan 28, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > <RANT>
> 
> I can see an investment when you buy a bundle and can resell the pieces
> for more money, or if it's something that will go up in value like the
> Apple 1s ;-)
> 
> Can you imagine the "investment" if we had stocked up on the "new in
> box" CoCo 3s for $50 each and what we could sell them for now?
> 
> 
> 
> آ آ آ  آ آ آ  -- A


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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