Depreciation

From: Kip Crosby <engine_at_chac.org>
Date: Wed Dec 3 10:21:53 1997

At 14:07 12/3/97 GMT, Barry Peterson wrote:
>No, my point was quite the opposite; it embarrasses me to see how
>little my "investments" are worth now.....
>I remember, in about 1982/3, buying two Teac
>360KB drives for $160 each and people at work were amazed that I
>got such a great deal! (I still have/use them)

In the spring of 1984, I ran out of hard disk space for the first time. My
12MB full-height Rodime was still fine, but I agonized over needing a
bigger drive and finally went back to the vendor who had sold me the
computer. He gave me a great deal on a Seagate ST4026, which formatted to
24MB on that machine; list on the drive was $3175, but he took the Rodime
and $1875 cash. I still have that drive and, while I haven't booted it in
years, I'm sure it would.

At about the same time, I urgently needed some DSQD (770K on that computer)
5.25 diskettes. From my computer supplier, a box of ten would have been
$85, but he was out of stock, so I had to go to the ONE office supply store
in San Francisco that stocked them, and pay $110.

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Computer History Association of California
Received on Wed Dec 03 1997 - 10:21:53 GMT

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