"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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Apple Lisa 2/10/Macintosh XL. Includes: Apple Profile Drive and RARE Profile Drive cord, Lisa Keyboard, mouse, parallel Profile card, software, books, Lisa/Mac XL boot disk, Lisa/Mac XL system disk, MacPaint, MacWrite for Mac XL/Lisa. Lisa 2 was about half the original price. In January 1985, the Lisa 2/10 was renamed the Macintosh XL. The XL was discontinued later the same year.
The original Macintosh introduced in 1984 on Superbowl Sunday commercial had a young woman athlete being chased by faceless storm-troopers who raced past hundreds of vacant eyed workers and hurled a sledgehammer into the image of a menacing voice. That week, numerous newspapers and magazines ran stories with titles like "What were you doing when the '1984' commercial ran?" Apple Computer was reborn! The Mac 128K was release on January 24, 1984 and created much excitement with its built-in monitor and graphical user interface (GUI). The Mac 128K was discontinued on October 1, 1985.
Franklin ACE 1000 is an Apple IIe clone. Complete system includes monitor, external floppy drives, ACEwriter, ACEcalc, ACE DataPerfect, Investment Adviser by Titan, Franklin Ace DOS software, The Printshop, Print Shop Companion, Newsroom, manuals and and books.
Games included: Zxxon, Chop Lifter, Serpentine, Microprose F-15 Strike Eagle, Sky Fox, Math Games, Wavy Navy, Star League Baseball, Hardball, Epic Word Games - Disk 1 & 2. Poker, Cyclod, Fixit, Conan A&B, Jungle Hunt, One on One, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.
Books included: Franklin Ace 1000 User Reference Manual, Programming your Apple II Computer by Paul Bryan, Apple II BASIC by David C. Goodfellow, Basic Apple Basic by James S. Coan. I speak Basic to my Pet by Aubrey B. Jones and Jr; Basic Computer Games by David H. Ahl.
Panasonic KX-W1510 Personal Word Processor in new condition, only used once! Includes:
Panasonic KX-W1510, monitor, printer, disk drive, keyboard, additional paper feeder attachment, instructions, quick reference card and dust cover. This even has a spell checker and thesaurus (Accu-spell plus).
Western Digital Pascal Micro Engine. Western Digital, best known today for making hard disk drives and controllers, developed the Microengine, a CPU-based hardware implementation that understood the p-codes of the P-System(Pascal).
This is a working Apple Emate 300, including stylus and power supply.
The Apple eMate 300 was designed for the education market. Features ARM 710a(25MHz) processor, 3Mb RAM (1Mb of dRAM, 2Mb of Flash Memory), 8Mb ROM, PCMCIA slot, IrDA-infared beaming capabilities, Newton InterConnect port and a translucent aquamarine and black "clamshell" case. It has a LCD display, backlit with a 480x320 16-shade grayscale resolution. The eMate is the only Newton model to resemble a traditional laptop.
