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Re: CFFA no more ?

And let's not forget, when I purchased my first Apple II in 1979, it was some $1200.

Floppy drive a few months later: over $500.

John.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:43:59 -0800 (PST), Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Nov 21, 9:06 am, aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Nov 21, 8:34 am, "sfahey" <sfa...@a2central.com.remove-h03-this>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I believe the last 4 runs were 200 ea.
>>
>> 800 cards in 4 runs...  There exists 800 apple II users
>> willing to buy a $110 hardware device?
>>
>> Rich
>
>Rich,
>
>There are some of us who were around back in the old days who remember
>what insane pricing was *really* like.
>
>I remember paying close to $400 for an EMPTY 1-MB RamFactor card and
>then 32 chips to fill it up to the full 1-MB of RAM. Doing the
>assembly myself saved around $80. I was making about $7 an hour back
>in 1988, and that was no small investment.
>
>So I consider $110 a bargain.
>
>-Warr


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