I wonder what this sold for originally?

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200385190566
>
>Tandy 12MB HD drive, with Xenix and filePro 16 Plus installed.  Currently 
>selling for $9.99 plus $25 shipping.  I think the HD alone was in the 
>multi-thousand dollar range originally.

As I remember, the primary HD, which came with the controller,
was $4,500 1983 dollars (close to $10,000 today after the FED's
inflation).  The secondaries were a grand less.  I forget what
the model 16 and 6000 machines sold for then, but the Model 2 and
Model 12s sold for $3,899 with 64K RAM and a single 8in drive (at
least the model 12s and 6000s 8in drives were double sided at no
increase in price).  A typical system for word processing with
Model 12, Daisy Wheel II, one external floppy, Scripsit,
Visicalc, and Profile II wouldn't leave much change from $10,000.

One of the first Model 16/6000 systems I sold in early 1983 had
the hard drives stolen, fortunately the thief left the controller
in the machine (perhaps the machine was too heavy for him :-).

Bill
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