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Want to see what a $20,000 PC looks like?

Or a few years later
1982: At the West Coast Computer Faire, Davong Systems introduces its 5MB Winchester Disk Drive for the IBM PC, for US$2000.
 
Originally posted by: zzuupp
Or a few years later
1982: At the West Coast Computer Faire, Davong Systems introduces its 5MB Winchester Disk Drive for the IBM PC, for US$2000.
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I remember my first office PC (non mainframe terminal) that we had to share had a 20 MB hard drive. I was thinking we would never fill that thing up.

And if we were still using DOS today (DOS XP?), 10GB will probably still be plenty.
 
i think the list leaves out Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Processor Technology SOL.

i went to a few Homebrew Computer Club meetings in the early '80's. Lee attended
them regularly & i remember seeing his computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Felsenstein

for me one of the stand-outs of the meetings was this guy who ran a small business
named Crashed Platter Products. he took apart those old hard drives with the huge
platters & made clocks and stuff out of them. at every meeting, he would stand up
and try to sell something made from a crashed hard drive. it was classic.
 
That keyboard in the OP looks like a real treat to type on. You mean my wrists have to be 4" off the desk AND I get to angle my hands back to me at a 45*? Rock on.
 
whoever is holding the patent for calm shell laptop design (what almost everyone is using today) is making bank.
 
I did some minor work with the IBM 5100 which used some kind of BASIC.

A couple of years before I did significant work on a couple of earlier programmable calculators which where functional predecessors of the personal computer. One of them, the HP9100 stored the programs of up to 320 instructions in a credit card size magnetic card. It was fun to draw results on the optional plotter.

The other, about the same time, the WANG 700 kept the programs on cassette. I remember writing exponential fitting programs that run for hours.

That was before I learned FORTRAN and worked on a real computer with 64K of memory, 1 MB fixed heads hard disk and program media on punched paper tape. It had a "high speed" 250 CPS PPT reader and controlled the 4,000 sensors and actuators of a steel mill.

That was over 30 years ago, but I am still young 🙂
 
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