"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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Commodore PET 2001 (Personal Electronic Translator) was Commodore's first computer after purchasing MOS Technologies. Featured chiclet style keyboard and built-in cassette recorder. Designed primarily by Chuck Peddle. First version had only 4Kb RAM and subsequesnt models increased RAM to 8Kb, 16Kb and 32Kb repectively.
NEXT cube with 17" monochromatic grayscale monitor. NeXtCube CPU in a 12" x 12" Magnesium Cube, Keyboard. Mouse, Monitor Stand, Sparc 2Gb Hard Disk pre-loaded with OpenStep 4.3, SCSI Cable for Sparc Drive, Full Set of NEXT Manuals + Original Sleeves and Boxes!, Optical Disk, Boot Floppy for Sparc Drive and all original NEXT cables.
Hard-to-find 1st edition hardcover children's book from 1984. Introduces kids to the PC of the time......."THE BRAVE LITTLE COMPUTER" by David Lyon......Illustrated by R.W. Alley............published by Little Simon/Simon & Shuster, book is 9 x 8", 22 pages. full color illustrated throughout written in comic art style. Note: This item is no longer part of our collection as it has been sent to a new PC museum for display.
HP's first entry into the laptop market. Weighing in 8.5 pounds and with a 16-bit cpu running MS-DOS. 272Kb RAM and 384Kb ROM which was more memory than any other notebook at the time. Cost $2995.
