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

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 28 January 2015 12:16:35 Mark Marlette did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Gene,
> You are the senior guy here..... :)
> Regards,
> Mark Marlette
> http://www.cloud9tech.com
> mark at cloud9tech.com

Maybe. I was under the impression that one or 2 of the GCCC guys were 
contemporaries though.

Lets see, does that call for a sugar free piece of Blueberry pie with some 
no sugar added ide cream on it?

Yes, I believe it does. ;-)
> 
>       From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
>  To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>  Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 10:52 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Coco] Color Computer 3 System gets top $$$ these days
> 
> On Wednesday 28 January 2015 11:39:00 Mark Marlette did opine
> 
> And Gene did reply:
> > Allen,
> > I still have four NIB CoCo3s as shipped from Tandy complete with
> > Compuserve pamphlets, etc... Not $50, not $5000. :)
> > I use to have more and the serious collector does buy occasionally.
> > At the peak I had over 500 CoCo3s, under 20 now.
> > 
> > Getting close to another end of an era at Cloud-9. I thought I would
> > never get rid of over 150 cassette decks, today, I still get
> > requests. They are gone too. Are we getting old? :)
> > Mark Marlette
> > http://www.cloud9tech.com
> > mark at cloud9tech.com
> 
> You just had to ask, didn't you. ;-)
> 
> Yep, turned 80 last October. I think that confirms it, we ARE getting
> old.
> 
> >آ  آ  آ  From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> >آ  To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >آ  Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:22 AM
> >آ  Subject: Re: [Coco] Color Computer 3 System gets top $$$ 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?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ط¢ ط¢ ط¢آ  ط¢ ط¢ ط¢آ  -- A
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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