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1981 Personal Computer Catalog

Posted by michael on from the old-skool dept.

edibobb writes "I just fired up my scanner and uploaded the 35-page 1981 (+/- 1 year) personal computer catalog from American Small Business Computers. 16K RAM for $22; 10 megabyte hard drive, 5 meg fixed and 5 removeable, with 14-inch platters; 25-character per second printer. Things have changed a bit since then!"

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  1. Phone number by kavachameleon · · Score: 5, Informative

    The phone number given is now the phone number for Upperspace. They make CAD software.

    1. Re:Phone number by zjbs14 · · Score: 5, Informative
      Same company, different products. Back in the later 1980's they released Design CAD as a low-cost alternative to AutoCAD. My parents' company actually used to by Corvus stuff from these guys.

      If you've ever been to Pryor, OK, you'd be amazed that anything technical would have come from a town like that.

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  2. Re:Remember Bill Gate's quote? by Chess_the_cat · · Score: 4, Informative

    You must be the last guy on earth to believe he actually said that. He didn't.

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  3. Mirror... by Copperhead · · Score: 5, Informative
    I mirrored the site here since his site doesn't seem to be weathering the storm. If you see broken images, it's because I'm still wgetting it.

    I'll take it down if he wants me to, of course, but I thought it would help.

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  4. Re:ah, the trs-80 color computer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Er...that would be John Conway's Game of Life. Less fragging.

  5. Wikipedia by cos(0) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wikipedia is amazing -- it even has an entry for The Magic Wand word-processing software advertised on one of the catalog's pages:

    Magic Wand (software)