[sdiy] Holy price tags, Batman!

[Richard Wentk]

At 18:25 18/09/2003 +0100, Tim Stinchcombe wrote:

>I have a couple of EMS brochures and a price list from the early seventies:
>the Synthi 100 is listed at a mere £6,500. A VCS3 was £350: since EMS
>(http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/) are currently listing a new one at
>£1800, perhaps they could fix you up a new Synthi 100 for approx
>1800/350*6500 = £33,500. I can't imagine anyone starting the bidding on such
>an item at such a ridiculously high price.

Except poss in Japan, which is where most of the big modulars seem to have 
ended up - as collectors items and 'investments'. So $100k is mad, but not 
insanely mad. (Sadly.)

Richard