"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.
Magnavox Odyssey Video Game released in 1972 was the first video game. This is an all-original unit in original box including all six cartridges, manual, overlays and special accessories to support the various games. The odyssey did not hav...
INTV released the System III in 1985 after purchasing the rights of Intellivision from Mattel in 1984. Mattel discontinued the Intellivision II in 1982 and announced the Intellivision III but never shipped it. INTV followed up with the Syst...
Atari 7800 ProSystem released in 1986 to replace the 5200 SuperSystem. Cartridges include: Spiderdroids, Super Breakout, Choplifter, Berzerk, Adventure, Crystal Castles, Pole Position II, Combat, Demons to Diamonds, Dig Dug, Kangaroo, Defen...
Coleco Telstar Alpha model 6030 released in 1977. Used the GI “pong game on a chip”AY-3-8500 game chip. The console has 4 games and 3 levels of difficulty.
Manufactured in 1975 for Sears Tele-Games PONG. This was first system ever sold by Sears. Atari PONG was selling slow until Sears released this unit for the Christmas market in 1975- Then sales boomed and the product was very hard to get. N...
In 1978 Milton Bradley introduced the original Simon (Simon Says Game) at huge party at Studio 54 in New York. In 2003 Hasbro released (14) different 25th special edition packs including the Simon 2, and handheld Simon, a Tee shirt and a to...
