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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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Sharp 1500A Pocket Computer (sys 2)
Sharp 1500A Pocket Computer (sys 2)

Sharp 1500A Pocket Computer released in 1981 along with the PC-1500 Pocket Computer with case and AC Adapter. The PC-1500 is one of the world's most sophisticated hand held computers. Although it shares many features with its cousin, the SHARP PC-1211 Pocket Computer, the PC-1500 provides advanced capabilities as a 7x156 programmable dot-matrix LCD display, a tone generator for creating special effects, ASCII character set with upper and lower cases, scientific and mathematical functions, user-defineable function keys, n extended version of BASIC which provides 2-dimensional arrays, variable length strings, graphics commands, program chaining and many other advanced features, up to 4Kb bytes of optional RAM (Model CE-151), an optional printer/cassette Interface (Model CE-150) which allows 4 color X-Y plotting, program and data storage and printing of programs and data in one of 9 different character sizes Includes: CE-155 8Kb Memory Module CE-150 Printer and Cassette Interface C-210LP Superscope Cassette with AC Adapter 6 rolls of paper, T10 sets of color pens and Viking Case. 6.2lbs.

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NAME   Sharp 1500A Pocket Computer (sys 2)
MANUFACTURER   Sharp
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ORIGIN   Japan
YEAR   1981
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