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It's a large quantity but it looks like the going price is about $120. I presume these were going out untested. So really, $60 sounds a bit cheap but really not
by kristopolous 3y ago
It's a large quantity but it looks like the going price is about $120. I presume these were going out untested. So really, $60 sounds a bit cheap but really not unusual. The 2,000+ of them is the real crazy part.
Sadly, just because something is 40 years old doesn't mean it will fetch a high price. Especially microcomputers. There's a bunch of rare and also cheap ones.
Rare because almost nobody wants them and cheap for the same reason.
For an equivalent today, think about some low end random model android phone from the early 2010s. Both cheap and rare
- jsnell 3y agoThe article says they were tested. > Plus, they were essentially new. “It’s new old stock, but it is tested,” he says at the beginning of the clip. “I think the seller actually peeled the original tape off, tested it, and then taped it back up again.”
- kristopolous 3y agoOh I didn't read closely. In that case, good deal
- jeremyjh 3y agoI mean you can write Z80 assembler on one. Who cares if it was popular in the 80s?
- ChickeNES 3y agoI think I was one of the last to score it at $100 a few days ago. It's been relisted at $120 and $180 and is now gone again. I assume this article will result in the full stock being sold shortly
- kristopolous 3y agoCome back in a few months. I think it'll go back down. Z80s aren't really that hard to come by. IBM PC complete with manuals and keyboard? Yes, expensive. Z80? Not so much
- saghm 3y ago> Sadly, just because something is 40 years old doesn't mean it will fetch a high price. Especially microcomputers. There's a bunch of rare and also cheap ones. > Rare because almost nobody wants them and cheap for the same reason. > For an equivalent today, think about some low end random model android phone from the early 2010s. Both cheap and rare There was an episode of the Dead Zone that had a twist like this. The main character and some others were out in the woods and came across some people who took them hostage while trying to look for a plane that had crashed nearby a decade or two ago and was rumored to have really expensive cargo. In the end, they plane turned out to be full of computer chips that were high end at the time of the crash but virtually worthless in the present.
- bombcar 3y agoIt’s also the plot to one of the Han Solo short stories.
- ekaryotic 3y agocliffhanger with sylvester stallone too.
- SomeRndName11 3y agoMust have been a box of 7400s, lol
- shortformblog 3y agoThe prices have only been going up because the supply has been dwindling down. When he started selling them at first, it was $59.99, but he is now down to less than 100 units. He is likely basically out at this point. It is one seller, he has been testing them all.