That's because cars now have wussy ass engines instead of V8 engines. The only car I can think of worth getting brand new is a Maclaren F1, and that's only because it will do 0-100 in 4 seconds and maxes out at 391. On Monday 06 September 2004 12:44, James Knott wrote:
Robert A. Rawlinson wrote:
You must have had double density. My first was one I built. It had 8008 cpu with 2k memory, no floppy or hd just a cassett rrecorder. It had no e prom to start it up so that involved setting 16 address switches and 8 data switches then pressing data enter switch. It took 15 min to load a program that way that would allow me to us the keyboard. Then another 15 min to key in a program in hex that told it how to read the cassett program. A system crash meant you had to go back and do it all over again. The time was 1974. I remember the $5000 5 meg HD which I think was the first out. I remember thinking that no one could ever use that much storage. Boy have things changed. Bob
My IMSAI cost me about $2000 (CDN) with 4K memory, but no I/O. As an indication of cost, a couple of months earlier, I had purchased a new 1976 Mercury Monarch for $6300. A couple of years ago, I bought a new Ford Taurus for a bit under 30,000, so a comparable computer purchase would be around $9,000. Also the car's performance hasn't improved quite a much as a computer's has in the past 28 years. ;-)