"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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Introduced in 1977, the Altair 680 was one of the first computers to use the Mot 6800 cpu. Sphere and SWTP also announced computers using the 6800. This computer is now in a new museum and not part of our collection.
Absolutely clean example of rack mountable Compupro 816. 8088 based and not a scratch on it. Complete with all boards and fully operational. One of the last computers built by Compupro.
North Star Computers was founded by Drs. Chuck Grant and Mark Greenberg. Their first computer was the North Star Horizon which was an S-100 bus computer similar to Altair and IMSAI. It has two floppy disk drives, (which soon became double density, then double sided) which gave them a capacity of 360 Kbytes per disk drive. Eventually a 18 Mb hard drive (Winchester in those days) dr could be added via parallel port. The North Star Horizon was a very popular computer in the era from 1979-1981. Then they introduced the North Star Advantage and followed with the North Star Dimension. The North Star Dimension was a multi-user machine.
Complete system with software, manuals, dual floppy external drives and printer. Not quite as clean as our other system 9000 but this one has a nice printer.
