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I question the value of posting links to auctions/sales that are priced at 5x or more over what the market will bear. Nobody is going to buy an SCC-1 for 410 euros, so why bother posting the link here?
 
Trixter said:
I question the value of posting links to auctions/sales that are priced at 5x or more over what the market will bear. Nobody is going to buy an SCC-1 for 410 euros, so why bother posting the link here?
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Perhaps to create a wack sense of normalcy? Someone apparently blew $625 on PeterLI's own outrageously overpriced LAPC-I and FB-01 listing.
 
I've seen some crazy pricing going on for sound cards lately. An MPU-401/AT pulled almost $300 for a boxed card, untested, about 6 weeks ago. There's another guy that seems to have several MPU-401/AT's, MT-32's, etc, and is selling them in computers, refusing to separate, and has a closed auction or two even at his heavily-inflated prices.

Anyone remember the LAPC-I, untested bare card that got $450 about 5 months ago??? Or the ever-present $80+ that any old GUS will gather.... let alone a more desirable one like an ACE. Crazy world... but then again, more and more of these things lie in the hands of collectors...
 
FOR SALE
CT1330: http://cgi.ebay.de/281223301095
CT1600: http://cgi.ebay.de/301043237864
CT1600: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/231031868107
LAPC-N: http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e145910977
MCB-1: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roland-MCB-...8&qid=1387198433&sr=8-1&keywords=roland+mcb-1
MCB-10: http://link.marktplaats.nl/755282765
MCB-10: http://cgi.ebay.com/271346020559
S-MPU-IIN: http://page10.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m115204592
SCD-10/SCB-7: http://cgi.ebay.de/291036810574
SCC-1: http://gonnagan.wordpress.com (is potentially willing to sell 1 or 2 of 2: 1 boxed, 1 not boxed: waiting for asking price)
SCP-55: http://www.mercatinomusicale.com/mm...00-sb55-sound-brush-scp-55-vsc_id2880416.html
SCP-55: http://www.mercatinomusicale.com/mm...-borsa-spedizione-dvd-cd-altro_id3167252.html
SCP-55: http://www.mercatinomusicale.com/mm/a_roland-scp55_id1801786.html

SOLD
EUR 25: CT1600 & CT2600: http://cgi.ebay.de/370960215280
EUR 93: MPU-401AT & SCD-15/SCB-55: http://cgi.ebay.de/220726064078
EUR 282: PAS (8 BIT): http://cgi.ebay.de/301036094910
 
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PeterLI said:
In my opinion, as with anything, there is no set value for anything.
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True, but there are reasonable ranges. Most would agree that $600 for a vintage sound card is outside of what 99.9% of what people would pay. You just happened to find the 0.01% who would.

I own the only PC Mockingboard documented in existence and even I would be hesitant to sell it for that much. I also have an Interwave prototype, an M-Sound LPT DSP, and other crazy rare stuff, and I wouldn't ask that much for those either. I have two SCC-1s, three IBM MFCs, an Adlib Gold, etc. etc. etc. and I can't imagine actually selling any of them if I put out an opening bid of $200.
 
I wonder if a lot of this has to do with Chiptunes... not as popular as it was say last year in pop music, but certainly there's got to be some non-vintage computer fans buying up this stuff as well.
 
All "chiptunes" and chiptune references you hear in pop music are done with modern VST instruments, so I don't think that's it.

I think it's just an upturn in the economy after five years, and a new influx of people who used to be teens in the mid 1990s and are now early 30's and want to build DOS boxen to run old games.
 
Trixter said:
I think it's just an upturn in the economy after five years, and a new influx of people who used to be teens in the mid 1990s and are now early 30's and want to build DOS boxen to run old games.
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Or they want to finally get their hands on the fancy sound cards they couldn't afford back then, when they had to settle for a cheap SB clone instead of a GUS or Roland.
 
Trixter said:
All "chiptunes" and chiptune references you hear in pop music are done with modern VST instruments, so I don't think that's it.

I think it's just an upturn in the economy after five years, and a new influx of people who used to be teens in the mid 1990s and are now early 30's and want to build DOS boxen to run old games.
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Wasn't there a card made fairly recently for modern-era PC's for producing music using SID chips harvested out of old C-64s?
 
geoffm3 said:
Wasn't there a card made fairly recently for modern-era PC's for producing music using SID chips harvested out of old C-64s?
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Not a card, but a standalone box:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektron_SidStation

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It was famously used by music producer "Timbaland" to rip off a C64 chiptune and use it as part of a Nelly Furtado song:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbaland_plagiarism_controversy

 
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