Fwd: CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, May 02, 2011, Richard Hane wrote:
>
>   If memory serves me right (and at my age it doesn't) we still have a 3
>   bay expansion for a model 12 and a 12 megabyte hard disk for our old
>   model 16.  I don't remember how much the expansion bay cost but the
>   hard disk was $4295.

Those were the days :-).

I got tired of dealing with the flakey interconnects with the
Tandy external hard drives for the Model 16/6000s, and put four
70meg hard drives in a full-size tower case with the primary
controller mounted where the main board belonged.  Bob Snapp
probably built larger systems, but that was huge for the time.

By comparison, I'm in the process of getting a 1U Supermicro
server ready to go to a client with 8GB RAM, and two 1TB SAS
drives with a total hardware cost about $2,000 including the 10%
Washington State sales tax.

When I went to work for Radio Shack in October 1980, a Model II
with 64K RAM and a single-sided 8in floppy sold for $3,899.
The Daisy Wheel II printers were $2,499, and hard drives weren't
available for them at any price.

Bill
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