I was running an Apple II+ when I bought my first modem for $600. At 300 baud the connection to "The Source" at $25/hour (an hour!) was excrutiating by todays standards.
Also added a 5mg hard disk (the size of a steam radiator) at $750 after I upgraded to the Apple IIe.... can't even imagine a hard disk at 5999...WOW! Brent Skean Current Solutions -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:30 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/
