Computer delivery
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jonwallace
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Re: Computer delivery
The slogan says "Thinking ahead for the 80's". That implies late 70's - very early 80's to me.
John
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StuartR
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Re: Computer delivery
I remember repairing a disk drive in the early 1980's. It was about half the size of a dustbin and stored 256KBytes.
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Rudi
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Re: Computer delivery
Thats where documents were a max of 1KB and images were monochrome pixels of 5mm square...
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StuartR
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Re: Computer delivery
I don't think we had images at the time Rudi. Except for pictures like this...
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Rudi
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Re: Computer delivery
Interesting image...
Is it character based? And if so, what character map is if made from?
Is it character based? And if so, what character map is if made from?
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Rudi
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BobH
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Re: Computer delivery
Could that possibly have been before the IBM-PC made its debut?
I agree that the price point is high, but the makers must have had limited resources for R&D, manufacture, sales and support and could not get the price point down. IIRC, the first IBM-PC came out in August 1981 and cost about $3500 - $3900 with a monochrome graphics monitor, dot matrix printer, and no HDDs but with two 5-1/4" FDDs and 256k of RAM.
I agree that the price point is high, but the makers must have had limited resources for R&D, manufacture, sales and support and could not get the price point down. IIRC, the first IBM-PC came out in August 1981 and cost about $3500 - $3900 with a monochrome graphics monitor, dot matrix printer, and no HDDs but with two 5-1/4" FDDs and 256k of RAM.
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