Re: Buying a new computer

Don Phillipson wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:n%Dll.16255$YU2.14602@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I came across my January 1988 copy of Byte last night. . . .
But I'm still looking for old Bytes. Back in the day when a new 64k
CP/M machine cost $4,000.00 and one that was used ( burned in for 48
hours or more) was $5,000.00

You may have to look earlier than the first Byte. In 1983 64k CP/M
machines cost $2,000 (including free software suites for Kaypro and
Osborne.)

Byte started in 1975 and in 1978, a few months before the First Radio Shack
hit the streets, a friend built a 64k machine with an ASR-33 for I/O. It
cost him about $12,000.00 for the kit. He soldered every socket and chip on
the board.

I had about $2500.00 into my Radio Shack Model one by the time I bought my
first Osborne, which was right after they started bundling dBase II with it.

The industry, such as it was, had been saying for a couple years that
economy of scale would allow the type of price drop that happened when
Tandy, PET and Apple hit the market.


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