[Info-vax] Fwd: Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:28:12 +0200, MG wrote:

> On 11-10-2011 23:24, Bob Eager wrote:
>> They weren't that bad...people still pay vast sums for Apples, after
>> all.
> 
> That's a good point.
> 
> I do remember that the very first were even more expensive than Macs are
> today, even without taking inflation into consideration.  I believe the
> first IBM PC generation was in the thousands of dollars (the price of a
> new car, or a new VAXstation).

About $3000 AFAICR. Since this was 1981, there were no VAXstations. By 
the time there were, a PC was under $1000.

> Though, I must admit, I don't remember those days too well (I was still
> very young back then, after all).  Were IBM PCs hyped in the same way as
> Apple Macs are today?

Not really. IBM wasn't all that interested in selling them...but then 
they never were.




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