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- From: timm@xongmao.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Tim McClarren)
- Subject: Re: going price of '030 cubes and boards?
- References: <MS-C.724448675.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:20:20 GMT
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- Mark Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
-
- >One of my hobbies is prowling surplus shops and buying old computer equipment.
-
- >The prices people here seem to expect for '030 systems are ridiculous. These
- >are machines that are out of warranty, have been fully depreciated (look at
- >your IRS forms sometime) and thus have only salvage value, and are dead ends.
-
- >$1500 for a '030 system with a printer is top dollar.
-
- >Similarly, the prices people are asking for 25 MHz mono slabs are also in the
- >stratosphere. An 8/105 slab with printer isn't worth more than about $2000,
- >particularly those late 1990/early 1991 slabs that are now 2 years old.
- >Again, that's top dollar.
-
- >I'm sure that some people have had success in selling off their machines at
- >much higher prices. P.T. Barnum did say ``A sucker is born every minute.''
- >However, before you get too optimistic, remember the story of the Tulip Boom.
-
-
- I'm a complete price gawker myself, and always call a spade a spade,
- but fair market value is what people are willing to pay for equipment.
- Good luck finding all those '030 cubes with the laser printer for $1500,
- and I'll take all the 25Mhz stations you can drum up at $2K a pop, even
- the 8/105's.
-
- I think a fair price for an '030 cube WITHOUT the printer (8/200 or so,
- with working optical) is $1800. A fair price for an 8/200 station is
- $2500. How many of those do you see advertised? Do you think no one
- here is selling their machine?
-
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