> 1985
Mac ~$3000
> 1985 Mac using scrounged stuff ~$3000 - NOT AN OPTION.
> 1985 Mac bare ~$3000 (Macintosh was not amenable in the 1980s to cutting
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Mark Tapley wrote:
True in general, but my Fat Mac in about 1985
[1] cost ~$1500
(new) including University of Texas' academic discount (I was a
student).
Sweet. I didn't have access to that deal. It would have been nice.
I decided that way because that price beat
Ciarcia Circuit
Cellar's price for a *kit* for an 8086 SBC,
"Micromint SB180??"? (PC compatible 9 slot)
I built one of those.
I'm pretty sure that the SB180 was Z80-based; the PC compatible was called MPX-16.