"Don White" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:
John Gaquin wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message

I remember when I bought my first IBM PC, in 83 or 84. It came with one
floppy drive, and a second floppy was $300. Sheesh. No hard drive in
that first unit, but you could get a TAPE drive.


Yup.... I recall our first in 82. Sprang for the extra floppy; also
sprang for additional memory (512K), a color monitor (extra $300, iirc)
so my little girl might be more interested. All that and a
wide-carriage d/m printer, and the tab topped out just under $5K. A
couple of years later, a guy I was building houses with bought an XT
........ with a built-in hard drive of -- ready? -- 5 megabytes!!!!
Brave New World!!! Overwhelming technology run rampant!!!

My next PC was an 8086-based unit from "Eagle," and it had a 10-meg hard
drive. Wow!

My first home computer was an 8086 IBM that work sold off as surplus. It
didn't even have a harddrive.

How about this *handy* device from 1973........the original cell phone:

Name: Motorola Dyna-Tac
Size: 9 x 5 x 1.75 inches
Weight: 2.5 pounds
Display: None
Number of Circuit Boards: 30
Talk time: 35 minutes
Recharge Time: 10 hours
Features: Talk, listen, dial

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