On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 03:40:16PM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 10:33:33AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
> >The first "PC" I ever bought was an XT clone in 1982. IIRC it cost
> >about $1500 for 640K RAM and dual 360K floppies, with a hercules graphics
> >card and an amber monitor (the herc card didn't do colour, but the text
> >quality was vastly superior to what a CGA card was capable of).
> The prize does not sound right: I found a quote from the 17th April 1986:
>
> 1 M24-20M-640 for $5500
Olivetti were a name-brand PC, and an expensive one. and
not-entirely-compatible (i worked in a few places that had some,
lots of stuff didn't run on them)
no-name clones were much cheaper, the price difference was far greater
than it is between noname clones and name-brand PCs these days.
> I cannot spot the difference.. I don't know why one is a "SP"
> version and $1500 more expensive. I don't think the keyboard was
> worth that much;-)
likely no-one at the time could either. but people (well, businesses)
happily bought them, probably for similar reasons to why people happily
pay Apple $100 for extra RAM worth maybe an $10-$15.
> Anyway, with 1982 would you have been ahead of time: according to
> Wikipedia "IBM PC/XT (model 5160)" was released March 29 1983
> ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT)
might have been '83 or '84 rather than '82. I remember taking that PC
with me when i moved to Sydney in '85, and i'd had it for quite a
while (before moving out of home, and then to at least two share-houses
before i moved to sydney).
> The first IBM/PC came with 3 OS (PC/DOS, CP/M-86 and UCSD p-System)!
> I actually did not know that..
i had PC/DOS and CPM/86.
craig
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