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Panther_99FS
May 1st, 2011, 09:20
http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/01/vintage-computer-ads/
johnh_049
May 1st, 2011, 10:31
:wiggle: ah the memories.
had a TS1000, Texas Instruments, and radio shack color computer back in the day.:applause:
Roger
May 1st, 2011, 12:25
Ha ha,
Had a ZX81 and built my own 15k ram extension board.:costum:
gigabyte
May 1st, 2011, 12:48
That brought back some memories, the ATT computer was actually manufactured by Olivetti, at the time Olivetti was huge in the Mini computer market especially in the banking sector. I worked for a dealer and that very computer was what I used to learn MSDOS, Unix, and Windows 1.0a when it first hit the market. Man I loved that thing, single 5.25" 360 floppy drive and a whopping 256K of RAM it was just smokin. Then went the next model came out we actuallt had colour and it had an unbelievable 10 meg hard drive - I was sure I would never be able to fill that thing...

Oh Yeah that first Olivetti I had, it came with this program called Microsoft Flight Simulator Ver 1.0 in a green coil bound book and a single 5.25" floppy disk, it was kind of a nea little program, I have kept up with the upgrades over the years and still mess with that flight sim stuff now and then...lol
Tom Clayton
May 1st, 2011, 14:14
They missed one!
Toastmaker
May 2nd, 2011, 09:47
WoW !! $8499. . . for a "386" - can you believe that ?

:running:
n4gix
May 2nd, 2011, 10:12
WoW !! $8499. . . for a "386" - can you believe that ?

:running:

Yeah, I can believe it! The last hard drive I bought for my then current 486 'puter was only 40MB and cost about $500!!!
kilo delta
May 2nd, 2011, 10:20
Yeah, I can believe it! The last hard drive I bought for my then current 486 'puter was only 40MB and cost about $500!!!


Or even a lot more recently...

My Samsung 64GB SSD drives cost me over £600 each in Jan 2008! Today you'll find faster,better drives for under £100!:kilroy: