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Originally Posted by red-beard
Early 1980's. The 1970's had the Apple I, the PET, the Altair, and the TI. I don't think the Trash-80 was out until 1980.
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The first Trash-80, the Model I came out in 1978 IIRC. The Model II with the 8" floppies came out around 1980. The Model II was the first available with a hard disk drive. The HD was the size of a large brief case and was 8 MByte. Just the HD drive retailed for $4500. A Model II with the full 256KB of memory and an 8 meg HD drive retailed for ove $8K. Note: that is 256K of memory !!
We started our software business (writing programs to rate auto and homeowners insurance) in 1978 using Model I's and progressed to Model II's and eventually PC-XTs and PC-ATs and on up from there. Quite an interesting experience it was in those early days.