12 Dec
2022
12 Dec
'22
7:30 p.m.
At 09:53 AM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
No wonder the prices on vintage computer stuff has been
going through the
roof on eBay over the past couple years.
If you spent $1,000 on a Commodore 64 system in 1985,
that's about $2,800 in today's dollars, courtesy of inflation.
A working C-64 system might go for $700 on eBay today? But people
were giving them away not long ago. It's the bathtub curve.
I have a bunch of old Amiga posters up there now. I thought they'd
fetch nice prices but they've seen little interest so far.
I have other R@RE items I'll list. Who knows how they'll do.
I have a NewTek Digiview digitizer that is the populated circuit board.
The chips have not been sanded to remove their numbers, nor is
it potted in epoxy like all the retail production units.
I saw a recent sale of a Digiview-labelled parallel port gender-changer
that went for $30. Go figure. I have at least one.
At 10:06 AM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
Holy crap, someone actually paid $810 for it?
They paid almost another $200 on top for the eBay global shipping program
and custom duties, too, as I had said I'll only ship to the USA.
- John
12 Dec
12 Dec
8:02 p.m.
New subject: Old Silicon Valley poster
On Mon, 12 Dec 2022, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
If you spent $1,000 on a Commodore 64 system in 1985,
that's about $2,800 in today's dollars, courtesy of inflation.
A working C-64 system might go for $700 on eBay today? But people
were giving them away not long ago. It's the bathtub curve.
40 years ago, a row of 16k ram chips (8 or 9 chips) sold for $100 to
$300 (Radio Shack and IBM)
40 years ago, a 5 megabyte hard drive sold for $1000 to $3000
Radio Shack charged $500 for an SA-400 floppy drive with case and power
supply.
you might pay similar prices, but capacity has double about every 18
months (one variation of Moore's Law)
8:12 p.m.
New subject: Old Silicon Valley poster
On 2022-12-12 1:02 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2022, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
How quick, does on forget this list, 1970's memory prices, $8K for 4K.
I still think the PDP 11, has the highest mark up on ebay.
Ben.
If you spent $1,000 on a Commodore 64 system in
1985,
that's about $2,800 in today's dollars, courtesy of inflation.
A working C-64 system might go for $700 on eBay today? But people
were giving them away not long ago. It's the bathtub curve.
40 years ago, a row of 16k ram chips (8 or 9 chips) sold for $100 to
$300 (Radio Shack and IBM)
40 years ago, a 5 megabyte hard drive sold for $1000 to $3000
Radio Shack charged $500 for an SA-400 floppy drive with case and power
supply.
you might pay similar prices, but capacity has double about every 18
months (one variation of Moore's Law)
8:27 p.m.
New subject: Old Silicon Valley poster
On 12/12/22 15:12, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2022-12-12 1:02 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Depends on whether your buying or selling.
bill
On Mon, 12 Dec 2022, John Foust via cctalk
wrote:
How quick, does on forget this list, 1970's memory prices, $8K for 4K.
I still think the PDP 11, has the highest mark up on ebay. If you spent $1,000 on a Commodore 64 system in
1985,
that's about $2,800 in today's dollars, courtesy of inflation.
A working C-64 system might go for $700 on eBay today? But people
were giving them away not long ago. It's the bathtub curve.
40 years ago, a row of 16k ram chips (8 or 9 chips) sold for $100 to
$300 (Radio Shack and IBM)
40 years ago, a 5 megabyte hard drive sold for $1000 to $3000
Radio Shack charged $500 for an SA-400 floppy drive with case and
power supply.
you might pay similar prices, but capacity has double about every 18
months (one variation of Moore's Law)
9:30 p.m.
New subject: Old Silicon Valley poster
$700 for a C64? Egads, you've been watching too much bad cable TV.
Nice payday on the poster. I going to speculate that it's specific to the
Silicon Valley one because of the recent hype of the TV show.
Sellam
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:36 AM John Foust via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
At 09:53 AM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
No wonder the prices on vintage computer stuff has
been going through the
roof on eBay over the past couple years.
If you spent $1,000 on a Commodore 64 system in 1985,
that's about $2,800 in today's dollars, courtesy of inflation.
A working C-64 system might go for $700 on eBay today? But people
were giving them away not long ago. It's the bathtub curve.
I have a bunch of old Amiga posters up there now. I thought they'd
fetch nice prices but they've seen little interest so far.
I have other R@RE items I'll list. Who knows how they'll do.
I have a NewTek Digiview digitizer that is the populated circuit board.
The chips have not been sanded to remove their numbers, nor is
it potted in epoxy like all the retail production units.
I saw a recent sale of a Digiview-labelled parallel port gender-changer
that went for $30. Go figure. I have at least one.
At 10:06 AM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
Holy crap, someone actually paid $810 for it?
They paid almost another $200 on top for the eBay global shipping program
and custom duties, too, as I had said I'll only ship to the USA.
- John
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