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Re: Vision Plus and Prometheus modem
Stingray (stingray@webzone.net) wrote:
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: I'd like to get a copy of that too, if possibel. I just got a Prometheus
: Promodem at a thrift store for $1.
--> Just to show the contrast; I bought that Prometheus ProModem
second-hand, for $435.00 and that was a good deal at the time.
A bit under 2 yrs later, I got my first SupraModem 2400, new,
for $285. I just got a 56K internal, new, for $89. The problem
with being near the top end of my hobby, since 1985; is that
I have to be very, very careful around a wife that is fed-up
with all the money I've `wasted' (her words!) over the last
15 yrs. If I add up all I've spent on my IIe (for example);
it's about $4,500 and I'd be lucky to get $45 for it now
(not that I'll _ever_ give up my IIe - it's what started me
on my computer journey and it will always hold a special spot
in my heart). Anyway - sorry for the digression; it's just
seeing the modem I got so long ago, going for a dollar. I
have to laugh, or I'd go nuts over what I've spent on my
hobby in the last decade and a half. Oh well - C'est la vie!
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