Re: vintage hard drive scalpers on ebay

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From: Cydrome Leader
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:47

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Matt Ferrari <invalid@nospamorharvest.com> wrote:
> Apparantly a few sellers realize there is a demand for old obsolete scci 
> drives on ebay.
> maxtor 540s 540meg drive $195 selling price....
> Connor cp30540 540meg drive $173
> So its price is dictated by the fact that not too many people will be 
> selling these in the first place making them harder to come by.
> 
> I just snagged the connor one for $20 shipping included and installed it in 
> my sampling keyboard.
> 
> http://www.ferrari-dvd.com/EmaxII/101_0125.jpg
> 
> 
> 
> any readers here holding onto vintage computer items
> if so whats the reason?
> 
> This keyboard and another piece of gear I have uses 3.5 inch double sided 
> double density floppys. Those are getting harder to find also.

I think I still have drives like that.

You probably have the last operating connor drive by the way.

Its odd people haven't migrated that legacy shit over to some flash drive 
with an SCSI connector on it yet.

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From: Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
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Subject: Re: vintage hard drive scalpers on ebay
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