Re: Proposed new rules for CSA2

[Greg Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>]

In article <8_7ga.654$d4.130@fed1read03>, Scott Alfter
<salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote:

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> In article <240320032139496567%gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>,
> Greg Weston  <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com> wrote:
> >In article <COKcnc3A8s_QGuOjXTWcpg@comcast.com>, Bill Garber
> ><willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> Pardon my PCitis, but in 1984 I was J. Random Consumer and I did
> >> in fact build a PC-XT with 10 mb hard drive, 360k floppy, CGA and
> >> monitor (color) for $550. Oh yeah, and Jameco was where I got most
> >> of the parts. Now, back to Apple II.
> >
> >You're pardoned. Apparently where you were, Apple II prices stayed high
> >longer than they did here so we're working with different contexts. I
> >didn't pay close to $1500 for a //e in 1984.
> 
> Are you talking about just the computer, or a complete system?  In 1985, my
> parents forked over ~$2100 for a IIe system with 128K, a DuoDisk, a
> green-screen Monitor II, and an Imagewriter connected through a Super Serial
> Card.  The printer & serial card accounted for ~$600 of that, which puts the
> rest of the system at ~$1500.

In 1984, I paid about $900 for an essentially similar setup (the
DuoDisk came out after I got mine, I believe, so I had a pair of cinder
blocks) minus the printer.

G