12 May
1997
12 May
'97
12:33 a.m.
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Tim Shoppa wrote:
On microcomputer prices, here's some prices from
the back of an
August 1982 BYTE that I just happen to have on my desk here:
Compupro M-Drive (S-100) with 256Kbytes of RAM: $2795
Compupro Disk 1 (S-100) floppy controller: $ 555
Morrow designs 5 Mbyte hard disk S-100 subsystem $1975
Box of 10 Dysan DSDD 5.25" floppy diskettes $ 60
Tandon TM100-2 5.25" FH DSDD 360K floppy drive $ 325
Shugart SA851 8" DSDD 1.2Mbyte floppy drive $ 555
Epson MX-80 dot-matrix printer $ 500
Hmm. Looking at those prices, that must have been an ad from a discount
house.
--
Ward Griffiths
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