"Mark Metzler wrote:
I was in WalMart last night, and I swung by the Electronics area. I was curious as to how much a replacement drive would cost me for my PC at home, which has a 17gb drive in it. They had a 80gig drive sitting on the shelf next to the surge suppressors for $70. Never mind that it comes with the software to copy everything to the new drive. So I stood there trying to do the math on what it would cost to equate that volume of storage with ST506 drives at $1995.00 a pop. My head started hurting, so I rounded the ST506 to $2000.
It would take 16,000 ST506’s to reach the memory of the drive in WalMart (again sitting on the shelf, not behind a locked cabinet).
At $2000.00 a pop, it would cost me $32,000,000.00.
Now that would have been a nice sale, but would have been stolen by Jim Scharffe or Mike Daniel.
Here is another perspective. If stacked on top of one another, they would be as tall as a 667 story building.
If from sea level, they would stack high enough to top the tallest building in Downtown Denver.
If sold with a cabinet and power supply, Josef Rabinowitz would be retired. "
"Ohmigod! I'm reminded of when I worked for Heath Kline at Priority One Electronics in Chatsworth...and before that for Galaxy Computers in Woodland Hills when the Commodore 64 was introduced! We thought it huge compared to the Timex Sinclair...."
"We both have been into computers since 1970's & currently own 6 OSBORNE's in working condition. Although we use DOS now, we miss cpm & how actually FAST it was compared to Windows. We miss dBase. Append as well instead of Access now. We still have data on 5 1/4" discs we need to put into the dos machines we use now.
Sorry to hear you are leaving the business - we certainly hope you find a buyer who will keep the collection intact!
Best to you & your wonderful efforts!"
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Welcome to the Calculators wing of The Freeman PC Museum. We invite you to browse through this archive of vintage calculators. Currently, there are 108 calculators listed in this section of the museum. Have fun.
HP-41CV Calculator released by Hewlett Packard in 1979. Original retail price $325.00. This model followed the HP-41C and competed with TI’s model TI-59 and TI-88. The HP-41CX came later. Nice unit with HP case and manual.
Texas Instruments TI-85 Scientific Calculator designed as a standard tool for the calculus classroom and replaced by the TI-86. Released in 1995. Replaced the TI-81. Features: Complex Numbers, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equation...
LaCOPY Copier manufactured by LaPhone, Inc in Walnut, CA. Uses spray-on toner and special paper. Nice new unit with original box. Looks like someones dream copy machine that never went anywhere. Maybe spray-on toner could be part of the pr...
TI Model T-1250 Calculator with memory released by Texas Instruments in 1975. Complete with manual, original box and a book titled: The Pocket Calculator Game Book published in 1975.
