$6,000 for a 10MB desktop – and it’s not an Apple

By Paul Smith

Bitterwallet - 10 MB for $5995... and it's not Apple
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Posted in Stuff, tech January 12th, 2010 | 13 Comments

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13 Responses to “$6,000 for a 10MB desktop – and it’s not an Apple”

  1. Posted by Nobby | January 12th, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    Back in the days that floppy discs were just that.

  2. Posted by The Real Bob | January 12th, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    No wonder I’ve never heard of them they were based in Oakland, how much of that stock do you reckon ever made it out?

  3. Posted by LanceVance | January 12th, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    I’ll take 2!! I would want one with the optional 256k RAM though.

  4. Posted by TheillegitimatesonofGunn | January 12th, 2010 at 7:45 pm

    Yet another waste of Cyberspace (see what I did there? Funnier than half the shit on this site)

  5. Posted by Codify | January 12th, 2010 at 11:57 pm

    How about the Apple Lisa – $9,995 on release, equivalent to $23,380 in today’s money. But back then, even mactards weren’t so gullible and eager to hand over megabucks just for a “oh look, it’s so shiny!” toy computer.

  6. Posted by Graham | January 13th, 2010 at 7:45 am

    you laugh now, but in 20 years there’ll be another website (or the equivalent) publishing photo’s of our current PC adverts & Laughing at them (maybe even advert of the Jesus Phone!!!!!)

  7. Posted by Wibble | January 13th, 2010 at 7:58 am

    I had a Mac+ at Uni. Great portable computer – it had a handle in the top!

    I think that cost just under £3000 with it’s ImageWriter printer.

    I upgraded it with a 30MB hard drive, which cost £400. The hard drive was the size of two bricks.

    I added the ultimate upgrade as well – the Mac Puke sound….which played every time you ejected the floppy. Neat eh????

  8. Posted by Wibble | January 13th, 2010 at 8:00 am

    Just to add….Macs aren’t virus-proof either…..we had Macintosh viruses back in 1989! I don’t think they’d even invented them for Windows back then!

  9. Posted by Darren | January 13th, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    Macs aren’t immune, but there are only 4 known viruses for the MAC, and 2 of them are MICROSOFT related!! the Melissa virus which was mac office 2001 and the mac.simpson virus which mass mailed, but ended up sending you to a simpson online list… hardly a threat

    the other 2 are from TIGER OS X days…

  10. Posted by Darren | January 13th, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    I think there are only 4… Im sure someone is going to prove me wrong… some PRO PC user or something…

    and please dont let this get into a MAC VS PC argument.

  11. Posted by Wibble | January 13th, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    Don’t you remember nVir A, nVir B and nVir C? That’s three for a start….

    (ok, they’re from when Macs weren’t just shiny things for people with too much money…they were dull things for people with too much money!)

  12. Posted by Darren | January 14th, 2010 at 9:52 am

    @wibble.

    exactly… not active, i wonder how many viruses there are for a PC?

  13. Posted by James | January 14th, 2010 at 11:10 am

    @Darren.

    I wonder how many PC users there are?

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