On EPay. This is insane for mfm HDs

[Micom 2000]

I entered a search for Miniscribe HDs on E-pay and this is what came up.

http://search.ebay.com/miniscribe_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQfromZR40

Talk about mining for gold. If anyone is actually buying from these dealers, XTs without HDs should be popping up all over EPay. Curbside or thrift stores will be thronging with scavengers hoping to hit the magic XT or PC HD bonanzas. I regret even more abandoning all those XTs in Toronto when I moved out here. Possibly this is just some sort of early indication of Altheimers and what I read in this search isn't real. I imagined it.

Lawrence

[MikeS]

ooooohhh, oooooohhh, I'm rich! What's your problem? Sounds good to me, who has a dozen or so somewhere... I'd even test mine!

Retirement at last; here I come!

m

[Micom 2000]

Chortle, chortle, snort, snort, I have a couple of boxes of 30 pin SIMMs. They could be next on the old computer bonanza trail. I knew there had to be some reason why I went into this old computer madness. snort, snort, chortle, chortle. Maybe even all those token ring cards I have could become valuable before I bite the bullet. Nah, it'll never go that far :^(

L

[carlsson]

Please realize that a high Buy It Now price tag doesn't mean anyone will buy the item. Perhaps someone desperate may buy a MFM drive at $50-100, but highly unlikely to get those $300+ drives sold. So much for a gold mine.

[MikeS]

Please realize that a high Buy It Now price tag doesn't mean anyone will buy the item. Perhaps someone desperate may buy a MFM drive at $50-100, but highly unlikely to get those $300+ drives sold. So much for a gold mine.
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Aw geez, Anders, you're such a buzz-killer; too much time with the PETS, play some games on the C64s for a bit.

Leave us our dreams, especially Lawrence; he seems to be talking a lot lately about dying, and maybe dreaming of that day when his token ring cards become valuable is what keeps him going. For me, it's the reluctance to leave this mess for my executors and I've vowed to clean it all up before I go; that should keep me going well past 100...

m

[Druid6900]

Well, you old geezers just make me the beneficiary of all that crap (make sure the executors know to ship prepaid) and I'll make sure it all finds good homes with deep-pocketed people :)

It's the LEAST I can do for you guys.

Personally, since rumour has it that only the good die young, I should live FOREVER !!!Muhahahaha

[lynchaj]

Well said.

Ebay seems to have more than its share of goofy sellers these days.

Get real!

Thanks!

Andrew Lynch

[carlsson]

On other hand, if you list a 5 MB hard disk for $500 and get it sold, you may get so excited that you get dangerous heart fibrillation. I wonder if the eBay user agreement has a disclaimer for death caused by auction outcome.

[MikeS]

Good point, Anders; I don't know about Lawrence, but my adrenalin and blood pressure may well have reached unhealthy levels when I saw those prices and dreamt visions of a life of ease and luxury financed by Miniscribe 8025s... I'll have to watch that.

As for you, Druid, I'll put your name at the top of the list of whom to call, but I doubt that there would be sufficient assets in my estate to cover prepaid shipping, even though it is less than 100 km.

m

[Mike Chambers]

ouch! that's crazy. nobody is paying $300 for these bwahahahaha! those miniscribes were very very well built drives though. i have one in an XT clone (2 MB) that JUST started going haywire about a month ago and has been is daily use since it was installed back in 1986.

maybe i'll sell it on ebay lol. (j/k i'm an arsehole but not that big of one)

[Druid6900]

@MikeS

Fine, fine, I'll have someone pick the stuff up. Just have them mail me the keys LOL

@MikeC

You might be saving someone's life selling that dying drive. Imagine the shock to a buyer's system if they actually got something on FleaBay that WORKED :)

[bobsstuff]

Recently sold -- $100:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220124948324
None found over $100
NOT bought by a newbie to ebay. Often higher prices are by buyers with under 10 feedback, not in this case.

[MikeS]

Well, it includes the controller and it looks like it's been formatted, tested and a DOS boot installed. If he values his time it doesn't sound unreasonable to me; what do you folks think?

m

[Druid6900]

With the controller and tested, I would have sold it for about the same (mine would have showed it working though :) )

[Micom 2000]

I still find it ludacrous tho. About a year ago I sold an ultra-clean IBM PC with HD for $100 to a forum member and felt a bit guilty about it. I must remember: TIMES CHANGE !! As do values, both monetarily and morally.

I still have a boxed-up and tested raised logo Apple IIe with either a Duo-disk or 2 fdds.
I cancelled because I doubted the buyers seriousness and sincerity in actually paying me.
In a throwaway economy $ become meaningless to those of certain means.

Inflation can outflank you and one must remember what you're paying for rent or groceries.
Prices are relative and you can't buy a hamburger for two-bits anymore.

Lawrence

[Unknown_K]

Sooner or later people wil have to pay some crazy money to find working drives that old. Most of the gear has been recycled, and when the hoarders die and their stuff gets recycled those old drives will end up being a little rare.

I find the people who want the exact drive that shipped with a particular machine are the ones who will pay extra for them.

If I ended up getting an XT I will just stick an old 8 bit SCSI controller into it and then use any old SCSI HD I have laying around. The idea of an XT is apealing to me these days (I never owned anything pre 286), but the prices on ebay are not.