Remember These Computers?

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Remember these computers?

The Radio Shack TRS-80 and the Apple II computers were "state of the art" when they were first introduced in 1977.

The TRS-80 ran on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor which had a clock speed of 1.77MHz. The computer shipped with 4K of RAM and later 16K of RAM. You could store data on a cassette recorder or optional floppy disk. It retailed for $599.

The Apple II, it's competitor, had a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor with a clock speed of 1 MHz and came with 4K of RAM which could be upgraded to a whopping 48K. Well, it was "whopping" back then. Data was stored on a cassette recorder or optional floppy disk. This computer retailed for $1298.

Today, for $599 you can get a computer that runs a Pentium 4 processor at 3 GHz clock speed, has 512mB of RAM (some with 1GB of RAM), 80 GB Hard Disk storage, CD and /or DVD drive and a color monitor.

Technology is just amazing. Faster machines, more capability and often at the same or lower cost than machines back in 1977.

What a deal!