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"Mark Metzler wrote: I was in WalMart last night, and I swung by the Electronics area. I was curious as to how much a replacement drive would cost me for my PC at home, which has a 17gb drive in it. They had a 80gig drive sitting on the shelf next to the surge suppressors for $70. Never mind that it comes with the software to copy everything to the new drive. So I stood there trying to do the math on what it would cost to equate that volume of storage with ST506 drives at $1995.00 a pop. My head started hurting, so I rounded the ST506 to $2000. It would take 16,000 ST506’s to reach the memory of the drive in WalMart (again sitting on the shelf, not behind a locked cabinet). At $2000.00 a pop, it would cost me $32,000,000.00. Now that would have been a nice sale, but would have been stolen by Jim Scharffe or Mike Daniel. Here is another perspective. If stacked on top of one another, they would be as tall as a 667 story building. If from sea level, they would stack high enough to top the tallest building in Downtown Denver. If sold with a cabinet and power supply, Josef Rabinowitz would be retired. "

"Ohmigod! I'm reminded of when I worked for Heath Kline at Priority One Electronics in Chatsworth...and before that for Galaxy Computers in Woodland Hills when the Commodore 64 was introduced! We thought it huge compared to the Timex Sinclair...."

"We both have been into computers since 1970's & currently own 6 OSBORNE's in working condition. Although we use DOS now, we miss cpm & how actually FAST it was compared to Windows. We miss dBase. Append as well instead of Access now. We still have data on 5 1/4" discs we need to put into the dos machines we use now. Sorry to hear you are leaving the business - we certainly hope you find a buyer who will keep the collection intact! Best to you & your wonderful efforts!"


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Heathkit H-8 Computer
Heathkit H-8 Computer

Heathkit H-8 Computer system with H-17 Floppy subsystem and H-9 Video Terminal. Input from a user "Jay": CPU was an 8088, upgradeable to Z80. Ran at 2MHz, I performed the HUG mod that allowed me to run at 3MHz (software selectable!) Base RAM was 4KB and expandable to 64KB. Display was dumb/smart terminal connected through serial IO port. I had the H9 (pictured on your site) and also the H19 (looked identical to the H89 but without the floppy drive). These ran VT52 terminal emulation. (Among several others.) Operating systems included HDOS, CP/M, UCSD Pascal. Couple odds & ends: bootstrap was keyed in on the front panel of the H8 in split octal machine code-- address & instruction. The H8/H9 kit was buildable by a 7th grader over a single weekend. This computer is now in a new museum and not part of our collection.

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