Very first computer I ever specified and bought for my employer was an HP86A, green screen, 2 * 5.25 floppies, plug-in 64k memory module, Epson M1500 printer and an HP plotter - bargain at $13,500! My *istD I bought for a heavily discounted $1900 direct from the importer.
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CollinB Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2014 10:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: When did equipment get so cheap? >Yeah, that's it. The same sort of thing happened with PC's. Remember >what the first XT's cost? > >Alan C When I was selling Apple ][ plus computers, people would spend $2500+ on the system to run a $200 VisiCalc program. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
