26 Sep
2002
26 Sep
'02
1:50 p.m.
--- Curt Vendel <curt(a)atari-history.com> wrote:
Hopefully on the up side.... when things get better,
prices should have
fallen significantly and beginning grabs at bargains should be good for
all... the times of fat wallets and insultingly high Ebay prices are
now over and lean times and good bargains should be on their way.
Agreed. I'm seeing reasonable prices for core planes on ePay. Two years
ago, I won an auction but failed to meet the reserve for a 4K PDP-8/i
core stack. The reserve ($100) was five times higher than the previous
stack I'd bought (not at auction) not too long before (but before the
Dot-Com boom).
I decided I didn't *need* a core stack for a PDP-11 that ended up
going for under $50. I suppose I could have afforded it, but I
need the money more than I need memory for a non-primary machine.
I bid around $35-$40 and let someone else have it when it got too
expensive. The same kind of board would have gone for at least $100
a couple of years ago.
Good time to buy and/or hold. Bad time to sell, but if you need the $$$
right now, you gotta take what the market provides.
-ethan
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