today it is perfectly legal – in Apple’s eyes – to install a HyperDrive ($2,200 for the 10-megabyte version from the General Computer Company, Cambridge, Mass., 02142, (617) 492-5500) in Mac. All Macintosh owners can rejoice – assuming they can afford to buy their machines this somewhat expensive present.
The only noticeable difference between the two 512K Macs on my desk is that one has a HyperDrive logo affixed to its case. The real differences are all inside. This in itself represents a step up from Apple’s other methods of adding disk storage, including Apple’s own add-on floppy disk drive, which sits next to the Mac like an afterthought.
THE EXECUTIVE COMPUTER – PUMPING UP MACINTOSH’S MEMORY – NYTimes.com
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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It really puts things in perspective, doesn’t it? I remember being so happy in ’92 that drives had fallen to the fantastic price of only $3000 for a 670 meg drive and controller. Now Seagate is sampling 8,000,000 meg drives that will sell for a couple hundred bucks.
My understanding is that these advances aren’t reflected in calculations of GDP. A $3000 computer is a $3000 computer even if one is a million times more capable. And it bums me out, then, when I read people saying how we have it worse than our parents, etc. Was the Internet a lot better back then?
I remember asking the CIO in 1989 how much storage (total) he had on the 3 mainframes. He proudly told me he had “9 gigabytes” (this was a multi-billion dollar retailer). Times sure do change!
I bought 32mb of memory for a fast 386 in 1990. Cost: $1,000
IBM’s OS2 failed, because it required 4MB of memory.
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But it sure beat windows for stability (Windows 3.0 was a horror show). OS/2 allowed you to take old DOS programs and run more than one at once. This was actually a huge productivity boost at this one company I worked at. The process required to older DOS programs to manage sales and inventory. The data entry women no longer had to open and close the programs repeatedly to transfer info from one program to the next.
“No one needs to run more than one program at a time!”
Who said that?
NT 3.x was no hot product either. IN fact, some say NT did not come into its own until 4, sp4. And it was a memory hog as well.
The only version of OS2 I ever played with was Warp 4. It was more linux like with a GUI shell than a real Gui. (I was doing an email migration from cc:Mail to Groupwise and the only platform the gateway would run on was OS2.)
True, but that was a small market at the time. Most people were fine with shuffling a few open windows, just like papers on their desks, actively working only with the one on top. They did not have use for real multi-tasking. Microsoft understood that and won.
Amusingly, neither did Apple. Their first true Multi-tasking OS was OSX. They had the best GUI, but not the best OS. NT 4 was the first OS that had a decent GUI and multi-tasking. Apple had to play catch up after that (Steve Jobs saved their bacon).
“My understanding is that these advances aren’t reflected in calculations of GDP. A $3000 computer is a $3000 computer even if one is a million times more capable. ”
They do however go into the calculations of inflation,having the effect of reducing the calculated value below what it actually is. Nevermind that the computer still costs the same as it did last year, since it does more, that means CPI can be reduced. One of many tricks, like removing food and energy costs from CPI to make it lower than it should be.
I do love Macs. But I will not pay a premium for the name. That is why I did not buy one 30 years ago. And why I do not buy them today (albeit my wife has most of the i line.)
I bought a great Mac for $400 on Craigslist a few months ago.
Macs are like GM cars in that respect. They depreciate fast once you drive them off the lot. I stay away from the used market (unless I personally know the person) as you never know what abuse they have done to the machine before you get it.
But the few Macs I have owned have been used. If you befriend a real Mac Geek, you can get decent computers at great prices because they are always upgrading to the latest and greatest!
Who’s paying for a name? I’m paying for a great machine.
For me, usually around a year after buying fairly top-of-the-line laptop PC, it starts to struggle, especially when moving to a newer version of Windows. My 3yo MacBook Pro still flies along, even when running Windows 8 in a VM.
That said, I’m eyeing off Apple’s latest offerings 😉
back in the early 90’s I had a 486 with an 85 meg SCSI internal drive and a 20 mb removal hard drive. That was considered an ‘awesome’ machine back then. Now my phone has far more computing power and memory.
Assuming society doesn’t collapse or we don’t get fried by a Carrington type solar event… I can’t imagine what the computing tech will look like 10 years from now. Hopefully it won’t be like this: http://youtu.be/iRq7Muf6CKg
Collussus was before Sky Net. But before Collussus and Sky Net was Dune. At least the notes of Frank Herbert, which is son turned into several novels.
And before all of them was Isaac Asimov and the zero law of Robotics as practiced by Daneel Olivaw.
I’m sure all of this neat stuff was thought up by a mastermind some where in DC.
Ah the ignorance of the youth… The real progress was when punch cards were replaced terminals. Nobody called the dumb then.
My first computer was a Zenith with an 8088 processor and 20mb hard drive. Orange display purchased when I went to Auburn. Still have it but not brave enough to plug it in as I suspect it might release the smoke that all computers run on. They run fine until the smoke escapes!
release the smoke that all computers run on.
LOL! Love that. I have released the smoke on several.
Pre-286 days, I was thrilled when 1MB Ram barrier broke, then later when add-on 250K chips could be added at about $50/MB.
DIPS? God how I hated those things! SIMMs were the greatest thing since sliced cheese when they first came out.