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Apparently $150 to businesses. "Apple Team Developing Maclike Smalltalk" https://books.google.com/books?id=Dj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=digitalk+v/mac&sou

• rjsw 11y ago
  Ok. My memory of it was from a bit earlier, I first saw it sometime in 1986. You would have had to add the cost of APDA membership to the $150 stated in your link. I found an OOPSLA conference report that described seeing a demo of the Apple Smalltalk+MacApp product. I also found a flyer for Smalltalk-80 on the IBM AT for $1000 from around the same date.
  • igouy 11y ago
    I very much doubt that Smalltalk-80 was fun to use on a lowly PC-AT ;-) This was -- USD 199.95 Smalltalk/V286 March 7, 1988. https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=digitalk+smalltalk+v/286&source=bl&ots=jg-JNM2df5&sig=zCZ6zSeRV1zcLMT_VhaK49_YWkQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFIQ6AEwB2oVChMIh-Xi5qS9xwIVkCWICh1taQpK#v=onepage&q=digitalk%20smalltalk%20v%2F286&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=P...
    • rjsw 11y ago
      Smalltalk/V (not 286) was perfectly usable on a PC of the day, I ran it on an Olivetti M24 with a paper white display. The Smalltalk-80 flyer states that an 8MHz 286 was faster than a Xerox Dolphin and 20% of the speed of a Xerox Dorado. The painful part would have been the display, they were just using EGA (640x350) so you couldn't see much at one time. I saw a demo of this and don't remember thinking that it was too slow.
      • igouy 11y ago
        Back-in-the-day I did not consider Smalltalk/V usable, that changed with V286 :-)