Dell Turns 30

[RPMDAD]

This Is What A $3,000 PC Was Like Back In 1984

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dell-turns-30-3-000-124500892.html

 

[czygvtwkr]

That is a Dell?

 

[Gummie]

Isn't that where the farmer is?

 

[GURPS]

That is a Dell?

looks like an IBM XT or AT

 

[GURPS]

in 1990 I was delivering UPS to Lex Park.
I made deliveries to some contractor on either Lei dr or Salamauna Ct ... that sold Dell's

 

[RPMDAD]

Negative, as the add says, it is a picture of an IBM PC just showing what $3000.00 PC looked like in 1984.

 

[czygvtwkr]

Never used a computer before I went to college, got my first one my second semester and became engrossed into them. I can remember many brands that no longer exist (as PC makers); IBM (what I had), NEC, Zeos, Packard Bell.

 

[Merlin99]

Never used a computer before I went to college, got my first one my second semester and became engrossed into them. I can remember many brands that no longer exist (as PC makers); IBM (what I had), NEC, Zeos, Packard Bell.

What I remember most about them was the huge Hard drives, a 40 meg hard drive was bigger than an entire PC104 computer.

 

[GURPS]

Never used a computer before I went to college, got my first one my second semester and became engrossed into them. I can remember many brands that no longer exist (as PC makers); IBM (what I had), NEC, Zeos, Packard Bell.

we had a Heathkit running CP/M and a Z80 Processor in 1979 or 80


this is a great book about the early PC Industry, I have re-read it many times over the years;



PC Roadkill


in my collection I have

2 Osborne Suitcase Computers
1 Compaq Luggable 1
1 Compaq Luggable III - 1st computer to use a Plasma Screen ....
[I remember asking a vendor @ the 1983 Air Force Assoc Convention in DC if the mono-chrome Plasma display he was showing off would every be used for TV's - I got this blank stare]

Commodore 64, 64D, 64 SX [portable], 128

 

[GURPS]

and in the 1st few years Dell sold add on / upgrade kits for PC's