"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 Pong and Game Consoles wing of The Freeman PC Museum. We invite you to browse through this archive of vintage games. Currently, there are 362 games listed in this section of the museum. Have fun.
The Super PONG (model C-140) is a follow up to the original Atari Pong (model C-100). Compared to its brother, which could only play one game of pong, Super Pong offers 4 different pong games. Released in 1976. Like the earlier model C-100 ...
Sears Tele-Games Motocross Sports Center IV released in 1977 with 20 (16 pong+4 cycle) games in one. Introduces Motocross and other cycle games. Uses the GI AY-3-8760 pong chip plus the Atari C010765 that includes up to 32 variations of pon...
Nice assortment of game cartridges for the Magnavox Odyssey2 video game console. Includes; Boxed titles Helicopter Rescue, Football, Blockout/Breakdown, Baseball, SubChase/Armored Encounter, Alien Invaders Plus, Invaders from Hyperspace and...
Binatone TV Master 4 plus 2 Model 01-4869 was released in 1977. Features 6 games including Tennis, Squash, Squash practice and Football plus 2 shooting games Target and Shooting. Binatone made several versions on pong and this is the MK-6 m...
Television Tennis Model 035 by Executive Games was released in 1975. Executive also released Face Off in 1976 and then went bankrupt in 1976. Approximately 50,000 units were shipped. This unit used discrete digital components and has two bu...
Nintendo Gameboy “Color Edition” Clear Model CGB-001released by Nintendo in 1998 following the highly successful original, light-grey Gameboy, which was released in November of 1989. Nintendo had planned to release a 32-bit handheld but ins...
Nintendo Gameboy was released in 1989. Designed by Gunpei Yokoi who also designed the popular 'Game & Watch' system. The original Gameboy had a B&W LCD display.
1998 Nintendo released Dreamcast, which would become Sega’s top-selling video game through 2001. Dreamcast met its demise when SONY announced the Playstation 1. This is a 128-bit machine using a Hitachi SH4 RISC cpu operating at 200 MHz wit...
