This is a bit off-topic for the thread, but deals with the same philosophy of selling question. Sager had 128 pin 13 X 13 PGA sockets for $3 each a few years ago. They have over 2500 of them in stock. I didn't buy any because I was not about to start the project I have in mind for them. Now they are priced at over $17 each. They still have over 2500 of them in stock. As far as I can tell, they aren't selling any of them, but they have upped the price by almost a factor of 6. How does this business practice make sense? Can they take a larger tax write-off when/if they dispose of them, if they list them at a high price for a while? Surely any tax benefit is based on their cost? Do they think a large corporate customer or the military will suddenly find a desperate need for 68030 sockets? The 128 pin socket fits the 68030 processor. I'm minded to re-design the Daystar adapter for the Macintosh IIcx to physically fit in the SE/30. But I would need a hundred or two of the PGA sockets to make it a viable project. At $3 each it was doable. At $17 each the cost of sockets would be more than what most folks would want to pay (I think) for the finished product. Jeff Walther