"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 C64 with Model 1571 external floppy drive. Includes PaperClip Word Processor Manual, The Whole PET Catalog, Compute!'s Data File Handler for C64, Commodore User Manual for Basic v4.0 and The Users Guide to Commodore C64 and VIC-20.
This was the first product that Pertec Computer Corporation built after aquiring MITS in May of 1977. This system integrates the MITS Altair 8800b computer with hard drive controller and the datakeeper storage system. Ed Roberts, founder of MITS, left the company and resumed his medical school education at Mercer School of Medicine in Georgia. This system had a short life cycle. Pertec purchased MITS to go into the "Business Systems" marketplace. This system was an attempt at an "All Blue" professional package. The system pictured here is the computer part of a system that included a desk. This system probably ran Peachtree Accounting Software and MTX, a multi-user BASIC program that was non-Microsoft, also used by MAI Basic Four. This system was prone to overheating problems. This computer is now in a new museum and not part of our collection.
Introduced in 1970 by Ohio-based Ohio Scientific. Inside is their Superboard II single board computer. Includes 6502 version of Microsoft BASIC interpreter.
Introduced in 1980 the Superbrain was a totally integrated system with keyboard, display and disc drives. Featured dual Z80A cpu's@4MHz. Dual buit-in 5.25" (2DSx350 Kb) floppy drives and a optional 10Mb hard drive. Includes CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. This computer is now in a new museum and not part of our collection.
TRS-80 Micro Color Computer Model MC-10 in original box. Easy to learn BASIC language, 4Kb RAM, serial I/O port, cassette port. and attaches to any standard TV. Includes instruction manual,TV interface ,power supply,and cables.
