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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 3:17 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:

>  Boy, does that bring back memories!  I jumped into the home computer
> world in 1977 and instantly became evangelistic for the concept, for home
> and businesses.  Sold my first commercial program in 1978.  Not even
> floppies were available for the Apple II at that time.
>
> I still look back in wonder at WHY in the world did I pay $1,998 for a 5
> meg hard drive in 1981 or so, for an IBM PC.  But that is how I now make my
> living.  In '77, $1,698 for an Apple II with a whopping 48K (yes,
> kilobytes) of memory; did not include monitor or tape drive, and floppies
> were not available.  That was just for the system.  It only did 40
> characters per line back then because it was built to use normal TV's for
> monitors.  It was so funny watching the UPS guy's eyes get bigger and
> bigger as I counted out the cash to give him when the Apple was delivered!
> Back then, $1700 was like a quarter of some people's annual salary.  I was
> hooked and hooked bad.  :)  I bet I spent I spent more on computer books,
> magazines, and software than I did for the hardware per year. :)
>
> It also ruined my body but now we know more about the ergonomics.  <sigh>
> I remember reading a multi-page article about ergo in 1978 or so and
> thought yeah, these guys have great ideas.  I adopted most of them, but
> remember, that was way before mice were used.
>
> David Merchant
>
>
Interesting words.
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