Posted by Colin McFadyen on 01/30/07 19:10
In <45bf92d3$0$1388$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> writes:
>Well I've got you beat: I bought one of those (I think it's a Shugart
>SA-1004) directly from Shugart for $3,000+
>I also bought a Diablo 1620 printer in 1977 for almost $3,000.
>Bill Vermillion wrote:
>>>> If we're playing un-upsmanship - my first HD was an 8MB eight-inch
>>>> that I got for $1500 as part of an as-is where-is closeout
>>>> on Radio Shack Model 16's.
Ok, take a look at this...http://www.carleton.ca/~colinm/xeroxsigma9-3.jpg
and take note of the cost of 128K MOS Memory.
This is the invoice for the upgrade of our Xerox Sigma9 mainframe when
it was upgraded from magnetic core memory to solid state. circa 1977
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