"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 Toy That Thinks It's A Computer
The Sega Pico was released in 1994 as an educational electronic toy for children. Kids used the over sized pen in conjunction with the drawing and zoo templates to interact with what was on the screen. S...
1978 Texas Instruments Little Professor II, TI’s children’s calculator that also has Math problems to solve. Functions, Four Tables, No memory, (8) LED display and 19 key buttons.
Magnavox is credited with shipping the first video game called Odyssey. In 1977 they released Odyssey 2000. In the 70’s there was a glut on the number of Pong type machines released. This was caused by the development of a low cost chip by ...
56 Atari and Coleco Game Cartridges: Flash Gordon, Air Raiders, Space Shuttle, Video Olympics, Eggomania, Asteroids, Adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark, StarMaster, Solar Fox, Bermuda Triangle, Yars Revenge, Front Line, Star Raiders, Slot R...
Sega Dreamcast with game controller, cables and CD’s: AeroWings, NFL 2K, NFL 2K. The Dreamcast is an 128-bit console system released on September 9th, 1999 in the USA and October 14th, 1999 in Europe. The Dreamcast was released in Japan in ...
