9 Mar
2024
9 Mar
'24
6:11 a.m.
I look back fondly on the IBM PC-XT of 41 years ago. It was very pricy here
in the Great North but it allowed for a much more advanced computing
environment. What one could do with a 10MB hard disk! Granted it was far
more popular in the business world than the consumer one. However, it made
possible much greater developments that hobbyists and experimenters latched
onto.
Happy computing!
Murray 😊
9 Mar
9 Mar
8:05 a.m.
On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at 14:12, Murray McCullough via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I look back fondly on the IBM PC-XT of 41 years ago.
I think I briefly used one at university.
I wrote about it recently. Its startling price put the Apple Lisa,
launched the same year, into context:
«
The Lisa flopped partly because it was $9,995, about $30,000 today. A
lot, sure, but for comparison, the first version of the original IBM
PC to ship with a hard disk as standard, the IBM PC/XT, also launched
in 1983 – and thanks to its 10 MB (no, not gig) hard disk, it cost
$7,545. That's about $22,500 now. This is why eight-bit kit like the
C64 dominated the 1983 market: 64 kB of RAM, audio cassettes for
storage, and an analog TV set for a display was all that most home
users could afford. The C64 was $595 at launch in 1981. By 1993,
inflation meant that was about $1,000, which by then would get you a
486 PC.
»
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/19/windows_nt_30_years_on/
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8:23 a.m.
Fond memories too, my second significantly used home computer (mainframes and midrange at
work) (first was Trs80 m1, many others that I did almost nothing with)
Mine was the first pc/xt clone I found for under $1000. Eventually grew to 3.5" A:
disk and two double sided 80 track 5.25 disks for B: and C: (stolen from the trs-80 m1)
The a: was operating system and most tools, a few specialized alternates for making
greeting cards or something. The b: and c: were my "raid" array...everything I
wrote to B was also written to C.
still have that in storage, as well as several original pcs when they were tossed out at
work.
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 03/09/2024 8:11 AM CST Murray McCullough via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I look back fondly on the IBM PC-XT of 41 years ago. It was very pricy here
in the Great North but it allowed for a much more advanced computing
environment. What one could do with a 10MB hard disk! Granted it was far
more popular in the business world than the consumer one. However, it made
possible much greater developments that hobbyists and experimenters latched
onto.
Happy computing!
Murray 😊
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