Spotted in an online archive

I’ll take two. :wacko:

Looking at the full spec, 256k etc., the 20MB hard-drive (or Winchester as they were often called back then) stands out and would have been state of the art.     My first proper PC was 640K, 20MB hd and a Hercules (high-res) mono gcard.   I bought in three for the small company I was with at the time.    That would have been 1988.

Seems about right for the price of a PC In them days. Shows how far we have come.

That equals around £10,000 today. amazing computing ever took off, especially given, 3months later you’d need to drop another £x hundred on some more hardware , and a full replacement withing a year or so.

You old(er) guys her must of been doing well In the 70s nd 80s to get in to computing.

I missed all that early stuff, was doing lots of other stuff and shared the morbid fear of computers that some 90% of the populace must have had then. I won a competion with WH Smith and Memorex cassettes (!) in about 1980 and went to the store to collect. I could buy a computer, books or albums with my £1,500. I was a workshop foreman at the time, not interested in the ‘pooter, bought some vinyl and books. Then the local manager offered me a holiday, by circumventing the rules: I book it and he puts the remaining £1, 400+ (in WHS vouchers) through the till for a few months. Went to B.C. in Canada for a couple of weeks, motels and hire car. Wonderful, wonderful holiday. Oh, and I also got 50 Memorex cassettes, some of which I still have! :scratch:

So I am not one of the oldpharts with an original ‘pooter history, had to struggle to catch up. Which I almost have, thanks to MM and you guys. What goes around, comes around… :bye:

Ahhh, the RML 380Z, I went to the local college in 1980 and they had one for students doing computer science courses, a big rack mount style case with two 5 1/4 floppy drives (single sided?), 56 K RAM, colour graphics and a keyboard built to survive World War III, the keyboard supplied with the original IBM PC has a reputation for being indestructible but it’s nothing compared to the one that came with the 380Z.