How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?

In today’s money (inflation adjusted)

This an ad from Personal Computer World (UK) from 1985

  • @Jacksachatter
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    610 months ago

    Apricot? So there were 2 pc makers with connection to fruit? Or Macintosh is not yet Apple then?

    • @DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
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      410 months ago

      Macintosh was always Apple. Apricot may have been trying to ride on the coattails of Apple’s popularity (I remember the computers but I’m too lazy to look it up).

      • @Jacksachatter
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        110 months ago

        I don’t recall apricot and olivetti. But the other I have vague memories especially the Macintosh one. Compaq doesn’t count as it is still existing.

        • umbraroze
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          310 months ago

          Olivetti, from Italy, was pretty famous in Europe as a typewriter manufacturer. So it wasn’t much of a surprise my father’s first PC (and the first PC compatible I could use) was Olivetti PCS 386SX, circa 1992.

          Turns out Olivetti is surprisingly important in computer history too. Olivetti made Programma 101, which was the first programmable desk computer/calculator, way back in 1965. If NASA bought a bunch of these, I guess it was serious shit.

          • @Jacksachatter
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            110 months ago

            Thank you! This is interesting. I’d go to a Google/wikipedia/youtube rabbit hole now

        • Flying Squid
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          310 months ago

          Olivetti originally made typewriters (we used to have one). Never heard of Apricot.