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Loved my Apple ][+ -- best computer ever because it was expandable and simple. I bought the computer itself from a summer job I had, and dad bought the Disk ]
by chiph 12y ago
Loved my Apple ][+ -- best computer ever because it was expandable and simple.
I bought the computer itself from a summer job I had, and dad bought the Disk ][ drive and the cheap B&W TV we used as a monitor. Later on I added an 80-column card and a RAM upgrade to take it to a bank-switched 64k.
There were hard drives for sale at the time - Corvus sold a 5mb unit for $4900. Way out of my price range, and how could you ever fill that much space up? :)
- js2 12y agoI remember drives were crazy expensive but that seems high. Supposedly you could get the 10 MB Sider for $700 in late '85: http://apple2.org.za/gswv/USA2WUG/FOUNDING.MEMBERS/HOME.PAGES/EDHEL/sider/ http://apple2.org.za/gswv/USA2WUG/FOUNDING.MEMBERS/HOME.PAGE...
- joezydeco 12y agoThe Corvus was 10 Megabytes for $5,350 in 1979. $4,900 for 5MB seems plausible. http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan/corvus_apple_large.jpg http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan/...