Good Old Days

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue Jun 17 09:57:37 1997

> Sunday AM, while waiting for Windows 95 to boot on my trusty
> Hewitt-Rand 386-33, I found myself browsing through a copy of the June 198
> edition of Creative Computing.

Creative computing was always about 2-3 years behind or worse.

> (gasp) one of the Winchester hard drives which will store five or even te
> megs of data! (An advertisement on page 189 quotes $3339.00 for five megs

nov/dec 1980 _s100 Microsystems_

MOrrow designs (thinker toys) DISCUS 26mb hard dive system_ $4995

(ithaca) Intersystems DPX-2a (z8002 16 bit cpu) basise machine $4795

Northstar* Horizon-2 (DD controller) z80 4 mhz 32k ram (assembled/tested)
$2699


Allison
Received on Tue Jun 17 1997 - 09:57:37 BST