From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Gavin Tersteeg <gctersteeg@gmail.com>, TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: LSX issues and musing
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 00:09:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220803050921.lgmzvgtpye5rseol@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496D2B07-8C23-4D2F-ABA7-132E8E2106C6@canb.auug.org.au>
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At 2022-08-03T14:32:10+1000, steve jenkin wrote:
> Price didn’t win the market. IBM’s 5150 was never “cheapest” or
> technically “best” at any time - hence rapid rise of (variable
> quality) clones, built down to a price.
>
> Wikipedia says:
>
> 1978: H11 US$1295 (kit) or US$1595 fully assembled ("4kword base system”)
> display advert
> <http://www.decodesystems.com/heathkit-h11-ad-1.gif>
> $1295 kit + postage/freight, bare system, 8KB
> (4kword), 6 Q-bus slots free. ROM ?
>
> 1981: IBM 5150(PC) US$1,565 for "16 KB RAM, Color Graphics
> Adapter, and no disk drives.”
> ( I only saw 5150’s with 2x 5.25” 360KB floppies
> included - otherwise, can’t run programs & store
> files)
Yeah, you could. You simply didn't store stuff to disks.
You used audio cassette tape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_cassette_tape
Regards,
Branden
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-31 19:57 Noel Chiappa
2022-08-01 5:37 ` Heinz Lycklama
2022-08-02 17:56 ` Gavin Tersteeg
2022-08-03 4:32 ` steve jenkin
2022-08-03 4:55 ` Ron Natalie
2022-08-03 5:09 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
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2022-08-05 4:35 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-08-03 15:17 Noel Chiappa
2022-07-11 23:47 Noel Chiappa
2022-07-15 8:07 ` Gavin Tersteeg
2022-07-27 8:02 ` Gavin Tersteeg
2022-07-27 16:24 ` Heinz Lycklama
2022-07-30 4:39 ` Gavin Tersteeg
2022-07-11 21:47 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-07-11 21:24 Noel Chiappa
2022-07-11 21:37 ` Gavin Tersteeg
2022-07-11 21:06 Noel Chiappa
2022-07-11 19:47 [TUHS] " Gavin Tersteeg
2022-07-11 20:01 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2022-07-11 20:26 ` Clem Cole
2022-07-11 20:30 ` Warner Losh
2022-07-11 20:37 ` Phil Budne
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