[ARC5] deathwatch for radio shack?

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 26 Sep 2014 at 7:27, Mark K3MSB wrote:

> 
> Brings back memories.   I used to have an RX-02 dual 8 inch floppy disk drive
> from DEC.   Somewhere along my various job moves I gave it to a friend that
> was into old computers.  I wonder if he has back problems now.... 

The University of Idaho surplus recently had an old IBM hard drive for sale: it 
has a 1/4 HP motor on it and must have weighed at least 50 lbs. I was very 
tempted to buy it and save it as an historical object.

The very first microcomputer I ever worked on or with was a Southwest 
Technical Products "kit". 1 K (that's K) of RAM for that thing cost $1500.00.

I also remember one of the first microcomputer hard drives: it was a 5 mb 
drive that cost $4995.95. It was sold by Radio Shack as part of their Model 2 
business system.

Gee...

Ken W7EKB