Considering what it offered, that was a deal. My dad assembled his own system from from lower cost vendors and made them work together. He started with a Compucolor 16-color 8081 and added an Imsai 8080 that would interface with it, giving direct access to the RAM. He added a cassette tape deck that would save programs, and then later replaced it with a floppy disk drive.
All that cost him considerably less than $6,000, but there were trade-offs. For one thing, a 10MB hard drive was almost unheard of back then, and he didn't have a printer. You could buy a decent new car for $6,000 back then, and you had be aware than in four years, it would be behind the times.
[ + ] xmasskull
[ - ] xmasskull 0 points 2.9 yearsJun 23, 2022 14:43:35 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] HughBriss
[ - ] HughBriss 2 points 2.9 yearsJun 21, 2022 19:10:09 ago (+2/-0)
All that cost him considerably less than $6,000, but there were trade-offs. For one thing, a 10MB hard drive was almost unheard of back then, and he didn't have a printer. You could buy a decent new car for $6,000 back then, and you had be aware than in four years, it would be behind the times.
[ + ] Spaceman84
[ - ] Spaceman84 2 points 2.9 yearsJun 21, 2022 18:37:58 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] spasswerk
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[ + ] Not_a_redfugee
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[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 2.9 yearsJun 21, 2022 18:39:59 ago (+1/-0)
I might be thinking of a different place, but IMSAI sounds really familiar. But I just had a Vic20 and a Timex Sinclair back then.
[ + ] SecretHitler
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