Needed / Available

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Oct 12 16:01:37 1999

I'm inclined to agree with you about this matter, except that there's a
company in SD or MT or somewhere thereabouts which has apparent'y persuaded
him that if he sells one of their boards with his monitors it's worth many
hundreds of dollars. That's no longer the case, since you can buy a VERY
decent 20" monitor at the local computer house for <$400. . .not MUCH less,
but less, just the same. Those guys in the northern prairie were once
offering a board for about $400 and that might have been a bargain if you
HAD to have the large format and the market would then bear a price of
$1100 for a 16" NEC Multisync 4D or $2200 for a 19" Multisync 5D. Those
days are behind us, though, and I don't miss 'em.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: Needed / Available


>>Well . . . what I meant was the monitors. That's what he's asking $75 for
>>and without the Appollo stations they're of little use, being fixed
>>frequency types. If he asked $25 for them they'd still be difficult to
>>move.
>
>Depends on the locale. Here in SoCal we have a LOT of these workstation
>monitors turning up and a few places have even brought in a tech to modify
>a batch for use on a PC and sold them at a higher price. I don't see the
>standard units as a bargain even at $25, unless you NEED one. They are OLD,
>BIG, HEAVY, and generally support only a single (low in modern terms)
>resolution.
>
>At $75 IMHO he is looking for suckers, people that don't know what the
>monitor is, or what is required for its use, and are lured into purchase by
>what they think is a low price for a BIG color monitor. So maybe he sells
>one or two at that price, and each of those customers then tell ten friends
>about getting ripped off at so and so's place. Great business plan.
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 12 1999 - 16:01:37 BST