On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:13:29 -0600 "James Spinti" <jspinti at dartdist.com> wrote: > <snip> > Selling for as little as $1,565, the PC used an Intel 4.77 megahertz > processor and Microsoft's Disk Operating System. The machine offered > memory > capacities from 16K to 256K and either one or two diskette drives. An > expanded system for business with color graphics, two diskette drives > and a > printer cost about $4,500. > <snip> > Full height, 160K 5.25" floppy. > > My first PC was a Heathkit H-100 with dual 8088/8085 so you could use > CP/M, > since there was so little software for the Z-DOS 1.0 OS. It came with > dual > 360K drives and my printer had true descenders, too and 192K of system > RAM > and 64K of video RAM expandable to 192K (at about $100/64K, if you > installed > it yourself). > > Ah, yes the good old days...4.77 MHz and considering it fast! > Wow, I suppose my old Tandy 1000EX is somewhere in this range as well. It was 4.77MHz/7.44 turbo. Had 64k memory, upgradeable to 640k I believe. 64k-> 256k was about $150, and then from 256-> 640k was another $250 I think. Had an internal 5.25" drive. It looked like an old apple in a way. I put a 300baud modem in. I don't recall the video memory, though it was hercules monochrome. Ran TandyDOS (MSDOS?) 2.11. With Tandy windows. I thought it was a deal back in 85/86 I think. Paid about $600-700 for it on clearance. Took me a month to save to buy the monitor for it. The 9pin printer was $150 I think. Then, later on I bought an external floppy drive and a couple of other accessories for $50. I had the system maxed out to what it's capacity was, and what I could afford. I used it until a couple of years after I got married, though it's wasn't good for much more than writing a couple of letters and text documents at that time compared to the new. It died a flaming, smoking death in '93/94 after it booted up with various characters across the screen. After that, I was at a friend's house, about a year later playing a game. Need I say more other than "DOOM"? Shawn