[Coco] $200 for an SDC was crazy?

Tue Mar 27 20:45:41 EDT 2018

To be honest setting up and using a SDC is now a no brainer with the SDCX GUI and his SDC image that is ready to copy and paste to a SD card.
Most basic operations with the SDC are now just 'point n click'

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  Original Message
From: kevin at kevinbecker.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 8:36 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] $200 for an SDC was crazy?

I wasn't refering to the cachet of an iPad so much as the fact that
they can't be bothered to perform a simple task.  But yeah, anyone
taking an interest in a CoCo at this point is probably up for some
tinkering.

On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 09:15 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Kevin Becker <kevin at kevinbecker.org
> > wrote:
> > That's probably overthinking it.  I think it's just hoping to take
> > advantage of either uninformed users or people who have a lot more
> > money
> > than time.  I've worked with executives who literally engage IT
> > workers
> > earning six figure salaries to load movies on their iPad.
>
> I'd like to think that people interested in the coco are not just
> into
> the cachet ...
>
> or  ... hmm ...
>
> ... be a wonderful world if the 6809 had serious cachet. Not that USD
> 300 is all that serious for cachet.
>
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Do you think it might be money laundering? Use stolen credit
> > > cards,
> > > pretend to ship it back and forth?
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Deny Wilson <deny.wilson at gmail.c
> > > om>
> > > wrote:
> > > > That link led me to this one
> > > > <https://www.ebay.com/itm/TRS-80-Gaming-Bundle-Lot/
> > >
> > > 272953735969?_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26
> > > asc%
> > > 3D20131227121020%26meid%3Dcaf83fe3afbe4714b21329851725
> > > 8ac8%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D273113937945%
> > > 26itm%3D272953735969&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982>.
> > > > What's with all these ridiculously priced items?
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 2:49 PM, rietveld rietveld <
> > >
> > > rietveldh at hotmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I had to check the calendar.   I thought it was April 1st
> > > > > when I saw the
> > > > > listing
> > > > >
> > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.
> > > > >   Original Message
> > > > > From: David Ladd
> > > > > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 4:26 PM
> > > > > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > > > > Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Coco] $200 for an SDC was crazy?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Tim,
> > > > >
> > > > > You are right that it is crazy and now the price is $318.
> > > > > :(  Keeps
> > >
> > > going
> > > > > up.
> > > > >
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> > >
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> > > > > >
> > >
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> > > > > +-----------------------------------------------------------
> > >
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> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.ne
> > > > > t> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Check out this price!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/273113937945?ul_noapp=true
> > > > > >
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> > > Joel Rees
> > >
> > > One of these days I'll get someone to pay me
> > > to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C.
> > > Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single
> > > #ifdef,
> > > run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define,
> > > and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast.
> > > http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/06/reinventing-comput
> > > ers.html
> > >
> > > More of my delusions:
> > > http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-
> > > danegeld-ransomware.html
> > > http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html
> > >
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> Joel Rees
>
> One of these days I'll get someone to pay me
> to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C.
> Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef,
> run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define,
> and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast.
> http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/06/reinventing-computers.
> html
>
> More of my delusions:
> http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomw
> are.html
> http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html
>

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