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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 09:35:30 -0500
- From: Doctor Math <root@sangerchem.nd.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: The Pro-34
- Message-ID: <telecom12.913.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 913, Message 10 of 10
- Lines: 35
-
- I stopped by a Rat Shack last night to see if I could get myself a
- Pro-34 scanner for Yule. As others probably already know, it's been
- discontinued for a little over a year. The original retail price was
- around $350; they apparently stopped producing them and then started
- dropping the price until they were all gone. IF anyone can find ANY
- left in stock, the current retail price is $34.95 (!)
-
- Oh, well. Guess I didn't need it that bad :)
-
- Though I'm sure it's been discussed already, does anyone have pointers
- to the laws about cellular interception and the new equipment ban?
- It's probably online; I just don't remember. The Season does that, you
- know :) :)
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: $34.95 !!!! Yeah, and the CT-301 cell phones went
- way down in price also. I paid many hundreds of dollars for mine, and
- I paid about $300 for the scanner. Does anyone remember the little
- Sinclair computers (with the crummy membrane keyboard) back in the
- early 1980's which started out at some high price and eventually wound
- up being sold off the shelf at K-Mart for $9.95 (yes, nine dollars and
- ninety five cents)? Or how CB radios in the early/middle 1970's were
- priced at $200-300 for a 'cheap' one and nearly a thousand dollars for
- a nicer model? They were about $19.95 when CB went to forty channels
- a few years later. Telephone answering machines using accoustic
- coupling techniques (because direct connection was still illegal) sold
- for nearly a thousand dollars in the middle/late 1960's, and cordless
- phones in those days 25 years ago were about the same price. When I
- was employed by the Amoco and Diners Club credit card processing
- office in the middle sixties we got a few terminals ... CRT's they
- were called ... about five thousand dollars each for the four or five
- we got; 95 percent of the work was still done via 80-column punch
- cards in those days. But $34.95 for the Pro-34? That is something! PAT]
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