Re: How much did a personal computer cost the year you were born?, USA Today, the Wall street Journal

2018-06-24 Thread Eric Oyen
Well, there were a few machines in there I didn’t know about. Honestly, to be a home computer, it had to be affordable and I doubt very much that anyone would bother with a $95000 machine with less than 4 K of ram and an old style magnetic memory core unit (weighing in at almost 1,000 pounds by

Re: How much did a personal computer cost the year you were born?, USA Today, the Wall street Journal

2018-06-24 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Yes that was really interesting. I only remember the Comodor 64 but very interesting to read about all these 70’s computers. Especially from 1974 when i was a baby. /A > 23 juni 2018 kl. 14:20 skrev Donna Goodin : > > What a great read, Mark. Thanks for sharing. That was quite a trip down

Re: How much did a personal computer cost the year you were born?, USA Today, the Wall street Journal

2018-06-23 Thread Simon Fogarty
This is scary, It starts in 72, I was born in the 60s Sent from my iPhone > On 23/06/2018, at 5:49 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > > How much did a personal computer cost the year you were born? > > By Evan Comen, The Wall Street Journal, Updated 8 hours ago > > Once wildly expensive and

Re: How much did a personal computer cost the year you were born?, USA Today, the Wall street Journal

2018-06-23 Thread Donna Goodin
What a great read, Mark. Thanks for sharing. That was quite a trip down memory lane. Donna > On Jun 23, 2018, at 12:49 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > > How much did a personal computer cost the year you were born? > > By Evan Comen, The Wall Street Journal, Updated 8 hours ago > > Once wildly

How much did a personal computer cost the year you were born?, USA Today, the Wall street Journal

2018-06-22 Thread M. Taylor
How much did a personal computer cost the year you were born? By Evan Comen, The Wall Street Journal, Updated 8 hours ago Once wildly expensive and inaccessible but to the very rich, computers today are one of the most ubiquitous technologies worldwide. Though many personal computers in the