On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:24:16PM -0500, M H Stein
wrote:
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:37:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
Subject: Re: Commodore PET
"Collectible Microcomputers" says: $150 to $400 (chiclet keyboard),
$25 to $150 (typewriter keyboard)
But I don't find that their idea of prices translates at all to the
real world. Maybe about 10 years ago when noone cared about vintage
computers, but not now.
FWIW, my Chiclet PET cost me a cool $900.
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Feh! My 8032/8050 cost me $5000!
And the Chiclet PET >$1000 IIRC.
My PET 2001-32N (badged as a 3032 in Europe) was $1195 with a C2N and no
disk...
Of course, that was a while ago, when no one
cared about vintage computers
'cause there weren't any to speak of, and in CDN$ when they were worthless ;-)
At least mine was in USD.
I got a lot of miles out of that PET. I still have it and it still
fires up (but I think I have an IEEE problem that may turn out to be
cruddy 40-pin sockets on the VLSI I/O chips).
We were going to get an 8K PET, but my mother decided to get something
that wouldn't be limiting the day it was brought home. I didn't get a
disk drive for it for many years, and when I did, it was a 2040 with
upgrade ROMs, turning it into a 4040, from University Surplus.
I wouldn't mind getting a chicklet-keyboard PET (I sold that $100 one
I had a few years back for slightly more than I paid), but I don't want
one badly enough to pay $900. I'd probably seriously consider a broken
PET with a shell in good shape, since I'm confident of my abilities to
diagnose bad RAMs, bad sockets, etc.
-ethan
I sold one of my Educator 64's a year ago for $1200. It's not actually
a PET, but still...
Mike