On 9/16/09, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: I bought an A3000 new (that and my A1000, the rest was used/free)... between "simple" memory upgrades and HD floppies/larger SCSI disks and an A2065, I've got well over $3K in it, possibly over $4K (not counting the GG2 Bus+ I made myself). The A1000 was upgraded incrementally with a mix of new and used parts, so it's tough to add it all up, but when I was populating the Spirit InBoard in the late 1980s, it was during the DRAM Dumping tariff war with Japan, and I remember individual 41256 chips soared from $3.50 each to $17.50 each essentially overnight (fortunately, I was able to scavenge some 50256 chips from a discarded engineering prototype at work, so I _didn't_ personally pay $560.00/MB). Stuff today is so cheap it's not funny; of course much of it is less interesting, thus the reason for still playing with the old stuff. -ethan