[Coco] NEW NORMAL

[Richard E. Crislip]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:54:38 -0500
"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
> 

For what it's worth, in 1984 I paid $256 for a bare bones 64k CoCo II,
$399 for my first 156k disk drive and $299 for the second, well over
$100 for the MPI. I do not remember what I paid for the 128k CoCo 3, but
I do remember paying $250 for the 512k upgrade. By the time I finished,
I had almost $4K tied up in those systems. So given inflation, $300 is
still less than they were worth then. <sigh> ya know what they say
about a fool and his money 8-). BTW, that remark is pointed at ME and
nobody else.