[Tfug] Historical milestone

[johngalt1]

With this link, you can look at Radio Shack catalogs from 
many years ago.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

It has annoying flash animation to turn the pages but seems 
workable enough

Look up your old computer, hi-fi or phono and see how much 
it cost.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "erich" <erich1>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 7:47 AM
Subject: [Tfug] Historical milestone


> Hey folks,
>               Here's  a story about the guy that invented 
> the Altaire.
>
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8600493.stm
>
>         It's fun to be nostalgic. My first PC was a Radio 
> Shack Tandy 8088
> I already got my degree from a technical school, and often 
> daydreamed
> about having my own PC to do my engineering/physics 
> problems.
>         The PC came with a 5.25" floppy drive, and was 
> really just a toy
> until I purchased (for nearly $800) a 40Mb 
> hard-drive-on-EISA card,
> and installed it. All this would have been in the early 
> 80's
>
>
> 
> Erich
>
>
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