CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

[Richard Kreiss]

My first model II 64k the 3 drive expansion bay, profile, and a 9 pin dot matrix printer cost me about 8,000.00. 

I think that also included scriptsit and a box of 8" floppy disks. 

I Can put together one hell of a system for that money today

Richard
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On May 2, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:

> 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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