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Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Typing in the games could be both fun and highly frustrating. I had an Apple II and if you fucked up on a line, you probably weren't going to be able to find it and fix it. There was no debugger and typing LIST would show you the whole thing and you couldn't scroll up. So if you did it right, it was great. If you messed up somewhere, good luck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't remember much on the apple, but in commodore basic you could do LIST 50-80 for example, I'm willing to bet the apple could too...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You probably could and I just never knew it.