IBM PC hacking

[Fred Cisin]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> [5150]
> Wasn't the pricing something like minimal equipment for $1695 or
> $1895, but about $5K with maxed memory and two floppies?

$13xx !   ($1365? $1380?)  with minimum RAM, no floppies, and no adapters.

But the FDC card was about $300
the CGA card was about $300

IBM wanted something like $300 for each row of RAM! (<$100 for the same
chips "for TRS-80 or Apple")
IBM wanted something like $300 for each floppy drive (<$100 for same thing
"for TRS-80")
IBM wanted something like $600 for CGA, $300 for Mono (<$100 for composite
B&W CCTV monitor)