[Coco] More ebay madness

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 25 January 2009, Ed Orbea wrote:
>If you thought that some of the CoCo prices are laughable, take a look
>at this:
>http://cgi.ebay.com/Timex-Sinclair-1000-Computer-printer-50-tapes-20-books_W
>0QQitemZ330301096562QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item330301096
>562&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C2
>40%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/Timex-Sinclair-1000-Computer-printer-50-tapes-20-books
>_W0QQitemZ330301096562QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3303010
>96562&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7
>C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50>
>
>It is for a Timex Sinclair 1000 computer system.  It is tested and in
>good working condition.  It comes with an original Box,owners manual,
>printer, printer owners manual, 16k expansion memory module, over 50
>cassette tape software programs, cords, 20 Timex Sinclair 1000 and ZX81
>Books.  Television and Cassette Recorder are not included in Auction.
>
>Now get this, the starting bid is $5.000.00. That's right, 5 thousand
>dollars!
>The auction closes in 35 minutes, and I wonder if the seller has any
>idea as to why nobody has bin <grin>
>
>Ed Orbea
>
Tee tee. $5k?  Boggle...  Having once owned one of those, and finding its 
keyboard was a 30 minute wonder, I put a TI99/4a surplus keyboard on it by 
putting the whole thing in a bigger box, along with the 16k rampack, and gave 
it to my kids.  They had a blast with it, but sadly all turned out to be 
windows users to this day.  Something in the water maybe?  Dunno, but it 
makes me sad.

As for bidding on it, I *might* start at 50 cents.  But then I'd recall it has 
a z80 brain & withdraw the bid.  Having written about 30k of code for its z80 
cpu without an assembler to hide the architectures brokenness, the best I can 
say about the z80, and zilogs support of it, is that both were at the time, 
badly dain bramaged.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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