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Twenty-three years ago today....
1983 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983> - Apple Computer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer>introduced the *Apple Lisa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa>*, their first commercial personal computer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer>with a graphical user interface <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface> and a computer mouse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse>. It had 1 MB<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte>of RAM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_Access_Memory>, and was priced at US $ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar>9,995. What cost $*9995* in 1983 would cost $*19092.48* in 2005. -- tj ============================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ============================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20060118/9c7d9488/attachment.htm |
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My first computer was an Apple II with 64KB of memory,
two external 143K floppy disk drives, green monitor and 40 column text screen (for an 80 column text screen you needed a 80 column card), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II I don't know how many countless hours I have spent to find out the mysteries of the machine and it's 8-Bit 6502 processor (The 6502 had an accumulator and even two registers, one was named X and the other Y). The total memory size of 64KB is the size of a small JPEG picture today. It contained everything, the operating system, the software, and the data. -J. ________________________________ Von: Friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:Friam-bounces at redfish.com] Im Auftrag von J T Johnson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2006 02:53 An: Friam at redfish. com Betreff: [FRIAM] On this day in history Twenty-three years ago today.... 1983 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983> - Apple Computer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer> introduced the Apple Lisa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa> , their first commercial personal computer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer> with a graphical user interface <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface> and a computer mouse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse> . It had 1 MB <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte> of RAM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_Access_Memory> , and was priced at US $ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar> 9,995. What cost $9995 in 1983 would cost $19092.48 in 2005. -- tj ============================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ============================================== |
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I hope you always had your trusty copy of System Master nearby!
Thank you, Tim Densmore -------------------------- "Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy." --Spider Robinson On Jan 19, 2006, at 2:05 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > My first computer was an Apple II with 64KB of memory, > two external 143K floppy disk drives, green monitor > and 40 column text screen (for an 80 column > text screen you needed a 80 column card), see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II > I don't know how many countless hours I have spent > to find out the mysteries of the machine and it's 8-Bit > 6502 processor (The 6502 had an accumulator and even > two registers, one was named X and the other Y). > The total memory size of 64KB is the size of a small > JPEG picture today. It contained everything, the operating > system, the software, and the data. > > -J. > > ________________________________ > > Von: Friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:Friam-bounces at redfish.com] Im > Auftrag > von J T Johnson > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2006 02:53 > An: Friam at redfish. com > Betreff: [FRIAM] On this day in history > > > Twenty-three years ago today.... > > 1983 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983> - Apple Computer > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer> introduced the Apple > Lisa > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa> , their first commercial > personal > computer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer> with a > graphical > user interface <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface> > and > a computer mouse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse> . It > had 1 MB > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte> of RAM > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_Access_Memory> , and was priced > at US $ > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar> 9,995. > > What cost $9995 in 1983 would cost $19092.48 in 2005. > > -- tj > > ============================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism > www.analyticjournalism.com > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > To change something, build a new model that makes the > existing model obsolete." > -- Buckminster > Fuller > ============================================== > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2705 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20060119/e481eb56/attachment.bin |
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