In 1979 I bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 with two 10 inch floppies. No hard drive! Loved it so much, I took it back under the 90-day warranty and upgraded to a 4-user Altos with 4 Zilog Z-80 processors and a hard disk and tape backup. That was when I started getting serious about PCs.
In late 1984 I bought four 286 IBM PC ATs with 30MB disks and 640K of RAM for myself and 3 Lattice C developers. They cost about $5600 each. Several years later I upgraded all 4 to Compaq 386s. For my Chief Scientist, I bought 5 MB of RAM with a color graphics card. Pirice tag for that one machine: $13,000. We were running Digital Research's Flex-OS developing software for IBM's Point of Sale system. The performance of the 386s, gave us a significant edge over our competition still using 286s.
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In 1979 I bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 with two 10 inch floppies. No hard drive! Loved it so much, I took it back under the 90-day warranty and upgraded to a 4-user Altos with 4 Zilog Z-80 processors and a hard disk and tape backup. That was when I started getting serious about PCs.
In late 1984 I bought four 286 IBM PC ATs with 30MB disks and 640K of RAM for myself and 3 Lattice C developers. They cost about $5600 each. Several years later I upgraded all 4 to Compaq 386s. For my Chief Scientist, I bought 5 MB of RAM with a color graphics card. Pirice tag for that one machine: $13,000. We were running Digital Research's Flex-OS developing software for IBM's Point of Sale system. The performance of the 386s, gave us a significant edge over our competition still using 286s.