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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (14198)	11/17/1997 9:08:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Strangely enough, Chaz, I just stumbled on a Byte magazine from July, 1977. A rather unpleasant experience, as it was very musty and induced some respiratory discomfort; the articles weren't very interesting either. Not many survivors from that era, except Apple. $700 floppy drives, probably 120k at that; 50-slot S-100 systems, Apple II base price was $1200 with 4k of memory, or you could max it out with 48k for $4000 or something like that. I think Altair may have already bit the dust by then. Today, for the opposite viewpoint, I picked up an academic-looking history of the 360/370 line at a book remainder sale. I still sorta like the 360 channel architecture; I'm pretty confused about why PC's still have this 10 or 16 IRQ line thing after all these years. Pain in the rear end, that. Cheers, Dan.