VE7FIMI just saw someone re-list a NI card they paid $3,000 for an astounding $18,000. It's not going to sell for anywhere near that, since another one sold last week for $1,500.
projectgus@ve7fim I remember this weird niche electronics hoarding world from when I worked at a university nuclear physics department. We had these ~1980 era counter cards, an AMD 16-bit counter IC on a VMEbus breakout board. Still in daily use, but realised we had no spares. Available for a mere $8,000 from one of these companies whose business model is "sooner or later someone will *really* need one of these random junk items, at short notice..."
@ve7fim In their defense, the existence of these companies has no doubt saved people's projects sometimes - as it's probably not affordable to run a business around that stuff otherwise. Still a super weird world.
I'm pretty sure we redesigned the system so it didn't need the weird old counter cards.