Subj : Re: Price Piece in your c
To   : vorlon
From : ACMEBBS
Date : Sun May 22 2022 00:53:00

-=> vorlon wrote to ACMEBBS <=-

 AC> That's is just crazy watching how the prices go crazy the last
 AC> couple of hours of many auctions.
 vo> Yeah.. You think your going to get the item, with 1minute or 30s left
 vo> and someone else comes in bumps the price up really high.....

Oh yeah. For instance...found the 1st transistor radio I owned from 1970 from a
big department store which no longer exists. In my case...forgot to check in
the last hour and lost it when someone else put in a higher bid. Still kicking
myself over that one several years later. If I remember right the winning bid
was $14.

  AC> This is the 1st time I've come across this. Remember back in the
 AC> day drooling on some of the other models I couldn't afford at that
 AC> time.
 vo> Oh, yeah. I did as well. I saw one of the early developer machines,
 vo> that required the softkick setup. I knew I'd get one one day, it just
 vo> took untill sometime after 2006 for it to happen.

Too bad I wasn't into retro's during this time frame. If I had been...consider
what I may have gotten for a good price. Only thing is I wouldn't have had the
money or space to get my dreams.

 AC> Heard someone on You Tube talking about the difference between the
 AC> current machines and "real" machines. With none of the
 AC> capacitors/Varta batteries & such on the Commodore machines...they
 AC> mentioned you could p/u the mini's years from today not not face
 vo> Those issues are easy to get past. It's the machines that get left in
 vo> storage that suffer. That then makes the working machines left smaller,
 vo> and pushes the price up even more.
 vo> If my soldering skill was higher, I'd get a couple of the re-production
 vo> mb's that have been produced and build one.

Same thing here. Had considered getting an Amiga MB...buying the chips seperate
& building a new machine for me. Getting the A500 was less trouble in not
trying to find the chips I would need (if they were available). Add to that the
costs of the A500...was quite a bit cheaper...but still have an Amiga I'd been
wanting for a while.

 AC> Personally...the times when I had the real 500 were lousy (bad
 AC> marriage)...but loved it because of the joy it gave me. Would love
 AC> a real 500/500+ or such...but with the prices & issues they have
 AC> because of the age/parts they used...the mini's are what I wished
 vo> A lot of electronics from that period have these issues, it was called
 vo> "The great capacitor plauge"

Have heard/seen this in systems from this era. 

 AC> the real ones were like. Even expect eventually to have 3D printed
 AC> cases with real keyboards like what I mentioned about my MiSTer
 AC> setup.
 vo> I've got a MiSTer as well, but not done much with it yet. Just
 vo> installed the Amiga stuff, installed 3.2.1 and got RTG video mode
 vo> going. Then other things came up.

Me either. Between the retro systems & 3D printing...doesn't leave me as much
time I would like to have. Maybe...if I moved to Pluto where I could get more
than 24 hours a day. ;)
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