Re: What's to become of the Apple II?

[gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <01bbd549$5c318a20$4ef30c26@tomz>, Tom Zuchowski <tjz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>Charles P. Hobbs <transit@primenet.com> wrote in article <328F7E01.3B08@primenet.com>...
>> Apples were never that cheap (they were around $1000 for a complete
>> system in '85 or so). However the prices of other 8-bitters (Atari,
>> Commodore, TI) fell like a rock during that time period.

>Including my printer, I had close to $4000 in my II+ system in 1980.  It
>was a high-end system, with 64K and two disk drives....

	Back in '84, my //e with 1 drive, monochrome monitor, 80 columns,
parallel card and printer ran about $2500.  Lucky I had mommy and daddy
to pay for it. =^)

	Used it right up until maybe 2 months ago when the "E" key died.
(replaced it with another //e CPU I found at a thrift for 3 bucks.)
It's still sitting nearby waiting for when I have time to open it and
poke around thinking I can fix it. =^)  (and clean out the 12 years of
accumulated dust, eeeeggg =^p)
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