9 Dec
1999
9 Dec
'99
4:59 p.m.
And if you want to compare prices, maybe you want to
look in the back
of a late-70's BYTE, see that a Shugart 801 sold for $350+ back then
to hobbyists, adjust for inflation since then, and arrive at an adjusted
price today of over $1000 for a new Shugart 801. California Digital's
prices are a bargain by this method. I certainly can't justify keeping
parts in my inventory for over twenty years!
This defines a whole class of "surplus" dealers, and its fine with me, but
I don't ever buy there unless I just have to have some left hand widget
nobody else could provide. Legacy suppliers are what I call them. They buy
up complete old parts inventories and milk them for the last dime.