(OT)Re: [HSF] Wiki article

[Mark Levinson]

On Dec 16, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Ben Bidstrup wrote:

> In 1985 we bought 2 Apple Mac SE Small

Same computer that started my career in programming...


The HSF was written on a Mac Performa 750.    The original HSF Web  
site was served off a second Mac Performa 750, along with an email  
and listServer.    The old Apple Laserwriter is still a workhorse.    
I gave mine to a friend who is still using it and can buy toner  
cartriges for next to nothing on eBay.

Mark


> 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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