--- Curt Vendel <curt_at_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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Received on Thu Sep 26 2002 - 20:50:01 BST