My first computer was a DataGeneral Nova with 4096 words of memory and Teletype with punched paper tape input/output.
Bill Cook Kent WA USA ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:28 AM Subject: Re: INPUT -- obsolete ?? > In a message dated 6/3/2002 11:38:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << Bought my first PC in 1985/1986, 1 - 8085 processor Kaypro with 640 KB of > main memory, 20 Mb Seagate hard disk, 1 -5.25 floppy, 1 8 pin dot matrix > Brother printer...Total cost $2,700. OS was of course MS-DOS 1 point > something and application software was of course Rbase 4000. > >> > My FIRST one was a Franklin ACE 1200 (Apple Clone) 2 140K Floppy Drives, a DR > CPM80 Card, and an Epson MX100 printer. Total price was $2800. Then I added > the seagate 5 meg hard drive that was a $5999 addon. Database was a flat file > manager called DB Master, from Stoneware Software. $795 for the database. > > When I went to the True Blue IBM PC (XT wasn't available yet), $5495 for the > 8088 chip PC, 640K usable Ram, 2 360K Floppies, and a 20 Meg Seagate. I think > RBase 4000 was $695, and the upgrade to RB5000 was included in Upgrade > Express, which I THINK was $249 for a year of upgrades, and unlimited tech > support. > > My, how things have changed <g> > > Damon > > Damon D. Kaufman > President > Stalder Spring Works, Inc > ISO-9002 / QS-9000 Certified > 2345 S. Yellow Springs St. > Springfield, Ohio 45506 > Voice 937-322-6120 > Fax 937-322-2126 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
