Re: [Thinkpad] Off Topic RE: Antiques

So how come no one has mentioned a Wang?
Our office had a few different models in the 80's

Theys had cassette tape drives and were attached to IBM Selectric
typewriters for printing.
Somewhere in this museum I should have the manuals.

Dinosaurs.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colgrove, George" <George.Colgrove@state.vt.us>
To: "Frank K-F" <ferko@attglobal.net>; "David Goldman" <David@dgoldman.com>
Cc: "Thinkpad mailing list" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Off Topic RE: Fujitsu 200GB notebook HD?

> Some more useless babble:
>
> As a kid, I grew up (in my weaning years in High School - early '80's)
> with a TRS-80 Model 4 - with no hard drive and a daisy wheel printer
> that weighed a ton! (I had already started to use a TRS-80 Model I with
> a cassette tape drive at school in Jr. High - 1981). Our Model 4 came
> with the large capacity floppy drives (I believe 360K) and 64Kb of RAM
> which was much better than the Model I and III we had at school! This
> setup set my family back over $4,000! With no hard drive, we had to
> switch those floppies in and out like mad. My next step was at college
> (1986) with my AT&T 6300 ($2000). That one came with a whopping 640Kb
> and full 640Kb floppies - but still no hard drive! Though there wasn't
> as much switching of floppy disks, it was beginning to get real
> annoying. It wasn't until after I got married (1989) that I finally
> bought my AT&T 6386SX with my first 3.5 inch floppy disk drive an
> aftermarket 5.25" floppy and a 40 Mb hard disk (about $2,000)! A few
> years later that went up to a 340Mb hard disk at a whopping cost of $350
> (at the $1 per Meg barrier)! I remember right after that - of course -
> the price plummeted!
>
> Somebody stop me!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org]
> On Behalf Of Frank K-F
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:36 PM
> To: David Goldman
> Cc: Thinkpad mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Off Topic RE: Fujitsu 200GB notebook HD?
>
> Yes, David, the good old days .. TRS-80 and such. My HP PortablePLUS, a
>
> ROM-RAM box with two expansion slots (64 pin predecessor of PCMCIA) ...
>
> I got a gigantic 2MB SRAM 'disk' for a mere $2900 .. in 1988 .. but
> managed a database with 11000 addresses plus Lotus123 etc., under DOS2.2
>
> on an 8086-8Mhz chip upgrade that cost me an additional 400. And those
> were real dollars, before Jimmy Carter.
>
> Frank KF
>
> David Goldman wrote:
>
> >The first personal hard drive I ever had hands-on experience with was
> for
> >(gasp!) a TRS-80 Model I about 24 years ago. 5MB for only $5000.
> Woohoo!!!
> >
> >I guess hard drive prices have come down a little since then. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
>
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