Analyzer was Re: KIM-1 repair advice wanted

[Patrick Finnegan]

Scott Stevens declared on Saturday 08 October 2005 08:49 am:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 21:34:38 -0700 (PDT)
>
> steve <gkicomputers at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > They were too
> > > expensive (always in the five figures, usually the
> > > mid five figures)
> >
> > those same analyzers are about $50 on ebay now
>
> Yes.  $50 for the analyzer, which is too high a price without the
> pods, then you spend 3 years and ultimately another $300 finding the
> pods.

A couple years ago, Purdue's salvage op was selling complete (with pods) 
10MHz HP logic analyzers for $50 each.  I ended up asking them how much 
they wanted for one some day late in December, and they said "Merry 
Christmas".  Of course, I do buy quite about of stuff from them, mostly 
things that they'd tear apart as scrap.   And then there was the 1989 
Chevy boxvan I bought from them[1] to haul things back from there to my 
house. :)

Another reason why it pays to befriend your local scrapper...

[1] One of the few things I have paid a large amount from them (at 
auction), but probably a lot less than it was really worth.

Pat
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