Reply 59040 of 59048, by CharlieFoxtrot
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Cuttoon wrote on Today, 18:26:And, whether people spend that much money for the mere function or as collectors / hoarders.
There should be some kind of ceiling for the former, since the replicas appeared. Think those went as low as 50 €?
Ebay is full of junk that has completely bonkers asking prices and they won’t sell for that. Looking at sold items gives often much more realistic picture what people are willing to pay for a certain item. One example about insane asking prices that I can think of are MediaVision Thunderboard sound cards. There have been some for sale like ages with something like 250€ asking price. Nobody’s paying that and just as an example I got IBM EasyOptions NOS boxed sound card which is a Thunderboard variant with UART MPU401 for around 70€ around year-year and a half ago. At least not long ago some dude tried to sell MPU401 replica/clone card (MDR401, there is a discussion about these here in Vogons) for around 200€ when you could get these weird repro cards for 60-70€ a piece when they were available from a seller that most likely also made them. In my experience they work wonderfully, but 200 beans for one is just bananas.
Ebay is mostly just stupidity nowadays, but of course you occasionally can score items in decent price. I’m also sometimes willing to pay little more if I really “need” something, but I generally don’t go to foolishness, far from it. I also have a pretty decent parts bin nowadays, so I rarely crave anything that badly.
As far as replicas go, yes there are significantly cheaper options. Or just get PicoGUS and you get also other fantastic features along with intelligent mode MPU for the roughly about same 60-70€.
