16 Jun
2018
16 Jun
'18
7:49 p.m.
From: Clem Cole
The 8 pretty much had a base price in the $30k range
in the mid to late
60s.
His statement was made in 1977 (ironically, the same year as the Apple
II).
(Not really that relevant, since he was apparently talking about 'smart
homes'; still, the history of DEC and personal computers is not a happy one;
perhaps why that quotation was taken up.)
Later models used TTL and got down to a single 3U
'drawer'.
There was eventually a single-chip micro version, done in the mid-70's; it
was used in a number of DEC word-processing products.
Noel