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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    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      Olivetti originally made typewriters (we used to have one).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.