Scott Alfter wrote:
> In article <MsGdnQqi-ZFz4NDVnZ2dnUVZ_vzinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Scott Alfter wrote:
>>> In article <f118b8e288ea9d73acd16c3d3963d0ab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> Ted <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://snipr.com/ZipChip
>>>
>>> ...and I see the collectors are already bidding it into the
stratosphere:
>>> $127 after only three bids, with 4.5 days remaining. Odds are good
that
>>> it'll remain NIB after purchase.
>> Well, the current price isn't stratospheric--that's probably a little
>> low for a normal 8MHz Zip Chip sale.
>
> That's probably true, but I suspect it's unusual to have it go this high
> this early. Somewhere around $200 would be reasonable (I sold a 10-MHz
> RocketChip for that several years ago, back when it was just users and
few
> (if any) collectors). The people bidding so far aren't keeping their
bids
> particularly close.
>
>> If it does wind up NIB forever, that would be a shame, since I consider
>> mine among the most practical and indispensible additions I ever made
>> to my Apple //e.
>
> I wish now that I hadn't sold my RocketChip, as those were about as rare
as
> hen's teeth. When you've just traded in your IIe motherboard for a IIGS
> upgrade kit (as I had done at the time), though, and you don't have
another
> Apple II in which to give it a home, and you want^H^H^H^Hneed money for
> a ZipGS to get most of the way back to the speed that you had with the
> RocketChip...
>
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The price has not gone up that much, the start price was $99.00
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