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Whoops. I missed a couple of items when I added it up. Still Under 5K is amazing.
My first work computer was a 6 Mhz Genuine IBM AT with 32 Meg hard drive & 2 megs of RAM. It cost the boss a cool 5 grand. It came with DOS 3.0. We added a second graphs card to it had one color display and one orange text on black background display. We connected it to a film recorder through a GPIB board. We ran a program from Zenographs called Mirage that allowed us to do the graphics and send the file to a film recorder. We could make a 35mm slide and we charged 30 to 70 bucks per slide. We had customers standing in line to buy them. The film recorder and computer and software cost just over 35K. That was in 1986.
Powerpoint and video projectors killed the market for slides.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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