Re: IIgs Video

[mystix@direct.ca (Herbert Fung)]

In <375ea794.16166142@news>, CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) writes:

>>I think the card came out originally in about August of 1989 and at the time
>>Advantage Computers in Burnaby BC was selling it for about $625CAN I believe.
>
>I don't remember it ever being that expensive.  I just went through
>some old magazines and in the July, 1989 issue of A+/InCider there is
>an article about video digitizers, scanners and the Video Overlay Card
>and the sidebar lists the VOC at $549 US!

Well you got to factor in Canadian and US exchange here.

>That just blows me away as I'm sure it was sometime between 1989 and
>1992 that I saw the VOCs being sold, brand new, in a computer store in
>downtown Toronto for $140 CDN.  I got mine after that store went out
>of business and all its stock got sold to another business.  That
>business didn't want the Apple II stuff so it went on sale.  I was off
>a little in my earlier post, I got my VOC for $85 CDN.

I think I bought mine for $175CDN in 1990 at a show that had unwanted stock.

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