26 Jun
2001
26 Jun
'01
5:27 a.m.
Do remember that at the time PC ethernet cards were gruesomely expensive too.
Even in 1990, when I went to grad school, the fact that I got a NIC through
the housing department for *only* $129 was a real bargain. And the housing
department was buying them in bulk and splitting up the packages and selling
at cost, retail was still much more expensive.
Also remember that in 1984, PCs were struggling to catch up to the A2
in terms of capability and were perhaps twice the price, and that
1984 was the year the Macintosh was *born*. It was a different era,
and if you needed ethernet, it probably made sense.
No sarcasm at all. I just can't imagine a
business in 1984, a time at
which the PC was becoming entrenched in the business environment, trying
to create a network of Apple ][s by purchasing a card that, as someone
else has pointed out, cost as much as the computer itself. That's just
silly. And that's probably why we've only actually seen this one that was
found recently. I've certainly never heard of the card or the company, so
they probably didn't sell many.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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