Saved Altair 4K BASIC

From: jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net <(jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net)>
Date: Wed Nov 11 04:27:03 1998

> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:01:30 -0600
> Reply-to: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Saved Altair 4K BASIC

> At 02:34 PM 11/10/98 PST, Max Eskin wrote:
> >That seems sort of overpriced. I mean, 4 kilobytes of code for $150? Was
> >this a reasonable price at the time, or were there similar programs for
> >less?
>
> Max, how old were you in 1978? :-) Let's see, $150 in 1978 would be
> at least $500 in today's dollars, maybe 12 cents a hand-crafted byte.
> Today's Visual C 5.0 is about 131 megs installed at about $500, or
> about seven decimal places in the less expensive direction.

I'm still just a baby at that time. :)

Hehehe... Well, we have few local big stores with that discount bins
and none of them that good. These software are those undesireables
that they can find to fill those bins up.

Office xxxx for so many monies with word files not compatiable to
past and future word programs?! Oh gawd.

Also I'm still preeved at MS's choices on selling only upgrade
OSes. I can afford to obtain the real OSes without upgrade junk but
I don't want upgrade OSes because they sniff out the old copies
installed on hd or disks that still have to be bought with the system
in the past. I'm not at that point yet because all of my systems are
built up.

Once again, WHY does MS choose to sell upgrade OSes only forcing you
to pre-buy new systems with software in past just for this?

I had to get my frustration off my chest on this.

Jason D.

>
> - John
 
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