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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The future of the past mac
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.195115.16152@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 19:51:15 GMT
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In article <2587@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>In article <1990Nov11.174115.29185@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>> Yep-- isn't an industry where price drops are the norm really something?
>> Today, the Apple II+, w/64K RAM and two 128K disk drives that my father
>Please!  143K/drive...
>> bought in 1978 for around $1700 would probably go for about $100
	     ^^^^

Well, as long as we're nitpicking... back in '78 it would've been a 13-sector
per track drive, i.e., 116K/drive...

That seemed like a lot back then... and now I'm short on space on my 175 meg
Imprimis... ;-)

-Ivan Cavero Belaunde
Hardware Design Engineer
GCC Technologies
Internet: captkidd@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

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