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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] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We actually had one of those Macintosh 128 K machines in the lower left. My dad got two external floppy drives for it. The first lesson I remember learning, that I still remember is when the dialog box asks:

{Disk Read Error, [Abort][Retry][Initialize]?}

Initialize is Never ever ever the correct option.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assuming "Initialize" reformatted the disk and preped it to be used fresh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Correct, and that could be very problematic depending on the disc I had grabbed