6 Dec
1997
6 Dec
'97
11:35 p.m.
Kip Crosby wrote:
In the spring of 1984, I ran out of hard disk space
for the first time. My
At about the same time, I urgently needed some DSQD (770K on that computer)
5.25 diskettes. From my computer supplier, a box of ten would have been
$85, but he was out of stock, so I had to go to the ONE office supply store
in San Francisco that stocked them, and pay $110.
You should have been able to get them at your local Radio Shack
Computer Center -- for about $79.95, as I recall. That's the media
the Tandy 2000 used, and that machine and supplies for it arrived
during autumn '83. (Oh, yeah, I guess your supplier had them at the
same price, what with sales tax having that extra percent or so up in
the Bay Area).
--
Ward Griffiths
Two thousand yeare since Bethlehem and still we hear the lie,
that after years of hopes and fears the best part's when we die.