I keep the Invoice for My first PC a TI Pro 512K that was SortOf(IbmCompatible). The Total Price was 7604.10 dated 11/15/83. The 10mb Hardrive was 2500 of the total. Dos 1.0 (no subdirectory structure) About 1400 of the total was software. I bought the TI over the IBM because of the graphics. TI had about twice the resolution of the IBM which was basically the difference from keeping it 100% Compatible. If the Software wrote to the Graphics directly, it would bomb. I stayed with the TI up through the 80286 7mhz machine which had a dual boot Ibm/TI mode choice. The Ram Drawer for this box with 1.5MB ram was $2500.... In 86 we bought a PC Limited 386/16 (just before they changed the name to Dell) with 4mb ram and a 150mb ESDI (anybody remember ESDI?) Hardrive...I ran my wire harness manufacturing business on it in (mrp) software that we developed on 2.11 RBase. The OS was PCMOS (again, any takers?). PCMOS carved extended memory into partitions of Virtual Dos Machines, accessed serially Via Wyse 60s....
I kept the 10mb hardrive from the first pc for show and tell.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emmitt Dove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 11:06 AM Subject: RE: INPUT -- obsolete ?? > > Dennis, > > Define "reasonable." When I bought my first IBM PC/AT I paid an extra > $1000 for a second 20 megger. And those CMI drives were extremely short-lived. > > >In those days a 10 MB drive was considered huge, and 640KB of memory was > >pretty standard. > >I still remember how ecstatic I was when 20MB drive became available at a > >reasonable price. > > Emmitt Dove > Manager, DairyPak Business Systems > Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc. > 40 Lindeman Drive > Trumbull, CT 06611 > (203) 673-2231 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [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/
