11 Aug
1997
11 Aug
'97
6:18 a.m.
From: Bob Wood <altair8800(a)hotmail.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Altair prices!
Date: Monday, August 10, 1998 8:19 AM
No, I'm not talking about Ebay prices.
Instead I thought you might be interested
in seeing an original Altair Price list
from July,1976. Here's the link to a jpeg of it...
http://home.att.net/~rwood54741/25.jpg
We have heard that the 680 was a failure
because the 16k memory card for it cost more than
the computer. Take a look at this list and you
will see it in black and white. The 680 computer kit
cost $466 ($625 assembled). The 16K memory card cost
a staggering $685 as a kit and $865 assembled. That
is a whopping $43 per 1k of memory.
Yipes! And I thought paying $43 for a 4 meg SIMM a few years ago was
expensive!
Bob Wood
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