From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:48:51 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
    wrote:   
   >		I doubt that but then I started with the C=64 which was about $200    
   >dollars plus a floppy disk drive at about $210. The floppy was good to    
   >store about 161 kilobytes   
   >and a programmer really had use assembler to get anything done.  We got    
   >the first   
   >boot block viruses and had anti-virus programs.  Some publishers of    
   >programs got   
   >infected.  Modernised C=64s with extra memory and maybe accelerators are, I   
   >believe, net-capable.  Some compatible drives may be available.  But    
   >they still so many   
   >years later have active programmers doing demonstration that other people   
   >enjoy.  The manual was misprinted and it contained several code    
   >sequences to be   
   >used that simply did not work  but it was still the most popular single    
   >computer   
   >model ever produced.   
      
   I still remember reading an article in (IIRC) BYTE pointing out that   
   cost of a then-current small computer had dropped to the price of a   
   common new car -- $5000.   
      
   Cars, of course, common or not, have gone up since then. Computers,   
   which specs nobody even dreamed of back then, have dropped. A lot.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)