[ARC5] deathwatch for radio shack?

[Glen Zook via ARC5]

I had a client who had a Radio Shack Model II with the hard disc drive.  That thing was huge!

My first exposure to computers was my senior year at Georgia Tech.  I had a required class which involved learning ALGOL, which is a subset of FORTRAN.  The programs were run on a Burrough's 5500.

When I acquired my TRS-80 Model I, I could do a whole lot more programming in BASIC than I could ever even think of using ALGOL.
 
Glen, K9STH 

Website:  http://k9sth.net


On Friday, September 26, 2014 11:31 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
 


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
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