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To: Nervous Tick
A serial and a parallel port? You try to find those on your new fangled laptops.

$1795 in 1981 = $4199 in 2008.

25 posted on 07/04/2009 6:04:04 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
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To: KarlInOhio

The price really wasn’t all that bad. As I recall my H-89 in 1983 was $1999 for similar capability (but definitely NOT portable).

Interesting wiki about the rise and fall of Osborne Computer Corp:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Computer_Corporation


30 posted on 07/04/2009 6:09:33 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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