Re: SCSI 5.25"

[blackm00@cam.org (Michael Black)]

Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote in message news:<3C896044.91CBF4B4@intergate.ca>...
> e-person@libero.it wrote:
>
> > How much did you pay for it?
> > Looks like an interesting piece of hardware. :-)
>
> $5, but a friend of mine had recently started working at that
> store. He did the pricing on it and asked me not to let the
> cashier see the back of it. Their prices on SCSI stuff was
> genally very high.
>
>     Wayne

But realistically, $5 was probably what it's worth.  A 5.25" disk
drive isn't particularly wanted at this point, and you'd really
have to have a specific need to want one that connects to the SCSI
bus.  You helped the store, by taking an item that likely would
have sat there for a long time if it carried a higher price.

This reminds me of a used computer place that existed here some
years back.  When I first stumbled on it, I thought it was great,
and bought some non-standard motherboards for a low price to
salvage the memory.  The next time I was in there, I found some
tiny board that happened to have an IC that I wanted.  When I
get to the cash, the guy starts fussing over the 2 inch cable that
was still attached to the board.  The board was priced at $2, but
apparently if I took the cable, the price would be higher.  I left
at that point.  They weren't pricing things, they were just picking
off things that they could recognize, and putting a higher price
on them.  A cable, no matter how non-standard or useless, must
have more value than some tiny board.  But they couldn't even do
that right, because they let this board slip out with the cable
still plugged into the board.

So yes I can see a place seeing an SCSI connector (count the pins!)
and automatically figuring it's worth more, without paying attention
to what the device would do when connected to an SCSI buss.

       Michael