(OT)Re: [HSF] Wiki article

[Ben Bidstrup]

In 1985 we bought 2 Apple Mac SE Small hard drive about 10 Mb I think 
and 512 Kk of RAM and 1 FDD. We also bought a Apple Laserprinter. 
This weighed a ton. About 25 Kgm because it was built to last. It was 
still working some 12 years later. They were networked with Apple's 
built-in localtalk as it became known. We then set up with the help 
of our computer guru and the foresight of a few people a database 
using Omnis 1. Great programme. We bought a 10 Mb external hard disk 
with a tape drive, and estimated that it would take about 20 years to 
fill it with patient data.
I can still run the database on a much later Mac.
The SEs were upgraded with RAM each Mb costing some 400 500 Pounds 
sterling! The computers were about 3000 pounds each and the printer 
about 3500 pounds. If we got pages printed outside they were 50 p 
each!. Powerpoint was yet to be released.
To do that with an IBM compatible was very difficult as you needed 
all sorts of other software. Ethernet was not yet available!

Now a Laserprinter is 100 dollars (cartridges are 200 though!) etc.etc.
A few memories on a wet Sunday morning!

>Prasanna,
>   
>   I surely don't remember that Greetings paper. But many thanks for 
>saving that information in your mind.
>   
>   Now, going down memory lane, I do remember that I had purchased my 
>first PC, a 386 version in those days - must be 1994. The PC cost me 
>about INR 50,000 and the colour inkjet printer cost me INR 22,000. I 
>remember this very well, because my monthly salary at that time was 
>about INR 10,000. And the same printer started selling at a new 
>reduced price of  INR 15,000 just 15 days after I purchased mine.
>   
>   That was the first and the last colour printer cartridge I ever 
>bought. Don't need to print in colours now a days, with multimedia 
>projectors and presentation software around.
>   
>   Sukumar.
>
>prasannasimha <prasannasimha at gmail.com> wrote:
>   (This is really (OT))
>When I read the sentence on printing of an article I got a flash back.
>The first time I ever saw a color ink jet printer print out was when Dr
>Sukumar Mehta had sent me a New Years greeting many years ago which had
>been printed using a color printer (which was a very rare thing in those
>days !!!!).
>I bet he doesn't remember that but it was something which on seeing
>made me say "Wow". Now we take these things for granted !!!
>
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Ben Bidstrup FRACS FRCSEd FEBCTS
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon