13 Sep
2005
13 Sep
'05
9:20 p.m.
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
[5150]
Wasn't the pricing something like minimal equipment for $1695 or
$1895, but about $5K with maxed memory and two floppies?
$13xx ! ($1365? $1380?) with minimum RAM, no floppies, and no adapters.
But the FDC card was about $300
the CGA card was about $300
IBM wanted something like $300 for each row of RAM! (<$100 for the same
chips "for TRS-80 or Apple")
IBM wanted something like $300 for each floppy drive (<$100 for same thing
"for TRS-80")
IBM wanted something like $600 for CGA, $300 for Mono (<$100 for composite
B&W CCTV monitor)