[muglo] Re: SCSI Burner

on 31/5/02 10:42, Tee Cashmore at tee.cashmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> Chris wrote:
> 
>> How much does your friend want for it?
>> 
>> Later,
>> Chris
> 
> Hi,
> He would like $200 (originally $400+), but make me an offer. BTW Doug
> it's an external, presently used on a G3 all in one.
> TTFN,
> TeeC

A place down the street (Toronto @ College & Spadina) sells *new* internal
Ricoh 6/4/24 SCSIs for $70 CDN and external 6/4/24s for $150 CDN.

<http://www.sonnam.com/parts.asp?code=part&prod_code=CDR>

There's no way a 6 x write and 16 x read *used* drive would go for $200
since brand spanking new 24R/12RW/40Read are $150. I guess it's the same
feeling/disillusionment I get when I contemplate the worth of my Quadra 700.
I paid $3100 for the whole system back in 94. Now a scant 8 years later I
couldn't *pay* someone to take it off my hands (the only reason I keep it is
as a back-up to my back-up 6100 (I can't bear to part with it yet)).

The same rule of thumb applies to computer accessories as to computers:
reduce the NEW value of XYZ by at LEAST 30% each and every year. $400 two
years ago is *new* now only $196 (which is about right for SCSI). Discount
even more if it is used.

PS If anyone wants a IIci I could probably grab it and get it to you somehow
(it's been sitting on the junk table for the last 9 months now... I nabbed
the Pentium 166 for casual use (believe it or not but Windows 95, running
Office 97 and Explorer 5.5 is remarkably stable, and the multitasking is way
ahead of what OS 7.5 offered at the time (one thing M$ did get right a long
time before Mac OS X entered onto the scene 6 years too late)).

Eric.



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