Reply to: Cheap Indian laptop

[bogeyman]

The built-in monitor would let you do that!

Ever use any of the routines in "Sweet16"?

Yes but not so easily.

I think I still have the Sweet16 'manual' somewhere.

[Churchill]

I bought an Apple IIe (European version) with 32K or RAM dual external floppies in 1980 for the princely sum of £1066 (I remember exactly).

It was amazing what you could do with it. I bought a 3rd party 6502 assembler which really let you get at the machine. The ROM-based BASIC was pretty good too.

Sold it when first child was born and sulked for a month.

The built-in monitor would let you do that!

Ever use any of the routines in "Sweet16"?

[bogeyman]

Methinks they are cheating and simply converting the USD prices to quids. >£2K for an Apple ][ and > £3K for an early IBM PC sound more like what you actually had to pay in the UK.

I bought an Apple IIe (European version) with 32K or RAM dual external floppies in 1980 for the princely sum of £1066 (I remember exactly).

It was amazing what you could do with it. I bought a 3rd party 6502 assembler which really let you get at the machine. The ROM-based BASIC was pretty good too.

Sold it when first child was born and sulked for a month.

[Doggy Styles]

I have worked with people who would only use edlin.

I used to think that was named after the bloke who created it.

[Churchill]

I have worked with people who would only use edlin.

q!

(quit damn it)

[Sysman]

The 1959 IC was probably an AND gate. Which to be fair, do cost rather less than $10 now...

Dunno what the PC sold for here, but the first XT I saw cost about £3k...

Originally Posted by The Times dept of random & weird statistics
Down memory lane

1977 Apple sold its Apple II for $1,195 (then £680). It had only 16 kilobytes of random-access memory and the price did not include the monitor

1981 The first IBM PC cost $1,565 (then £775) and had the memory for a few text files. Source: Times archive

Methinks they are cheating and simply converting the USD prices to quids. >£2K for an Apple ][ and > £3K for an early IBM PC sound more like what you actually had to pay in the UK.

[BrilloPad]

I used to work with Webheads who wouldn't use anything else.

I have worked with people who would only use edlin.

[Churchill]

And it used to work first time in those days too.

Probably because you'd use coding sheets first!

[Doggy Styles]

copy con: c:\code.c

Don't forget ^Z when you've finished.

And it used to work first time in those days too.

[Churchill]

Notepad.

copy con: c:\code.c

Don't forget ^Z when you've finished.

[Doggy Styles]

Notepad.

I used to work with Webheads who wouldn't use anything else.

[voodooflux]

Ah, in that case it IS the $100 laptop (or a similar project). These were going to form a cloud/P2P network without using central servers IIRC.

Pretty sure many massive companies like MS have put money into this.

I think it's a similar project - the original $100 laptop concept was part of the One Laptop per Child project - although it was closer to $200.

I remember reading something on the cloud networking concept for these devices - looked interesting.

[d000hg]

Looks like the £7 price may have been a misquote, and the actual price will be closer to £70. Still not bad though! Linky.

Ah, in that case it IS the $100 laptop (or a similar project). These were going to form a cloud/P2P network without using central servers IIRC.

Pretty sure many massive companies like MS have put money into this.

[bogeyman]

The 1959 IC was probably an AND gate. Which to be fair, do cost rather less than $10 now...

Dunno what the PC sold for here, but the first XT I saw cost about £3k...

IIRC the first integrated circuit was an op-amp made invented at Siemens in 1946 by a bod called Jacobi. Before the invention of the transistor (correction - no it wasn't)!

[expat]

Down memory lane

1981 The first IBM PC cost $1,565 (then £775) and had the memory for a few text files. Source: Times archives

The 1959 IC was probably an AND gate. Which to be fair, do cost rather less than $10 now...

Dunno what the PC sold for here, but the first XT I saw cost about £3k...

I saw an PC in a New York office in the early 80s, and was told that it cost $5,500. Of course, it did have a Graphics Adapter (green only).

It was owned by a contractor.