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It was gorgeous and groundbreaking. I'm guessing it would have cost at least $1000 at the time, maybe $2000, which might have been a hard sell competing with .
by imglorp 10y ago
It was gorgeous and groundbreaking.
I'm guessing it would have cost at least $1000 at the time, maybe $2000, which might have been a hard sell competing with ... who? PC? Landline phone? Home use or corp IT?
Before its time ~~ before its market.
- at-fates-hands 10y agoThe Motorola DynaTAC was available in 84'. They had car models before that, so maybe Motorola? I had a boss who used to sell them and told me just to lease them it was around $2K up front with like $99/month for something like 50 minutes a month with $.99 for each minute of overage. But at the time the market was so small and only one or two companies selling service.
- Merad 10y agoIt's easy to forget the massive leaps that we've made in computing technology in the last 30 years... In 1983, $1000 wouldn't even buy you a 5 MB hard drive - a hard drive, by the way, that was roughly the size and weight of a brick. A year later in 1984, Apple Macintosh 128k retailed for $2500. If the technology had actually existed to build this phone in 1983, I imagine the cost would have been in the six figure range, at least.
- mpclark 10y agoI believe the ICL "One Per Desk" was the slickest phone/computer combo commercialised around that time -- it shipped in 1984. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk