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I still have a portable "Compaq" somewhere..unless the X took it,that bitch.

Considering what it offered, that was a deal. My dad assembled his own system from from lower cost vendors and made them work together. He started with a Compucolor 16-color 8081 and added an Imsai 8080 that would interface with it, giving direct access to the RAM. He added a cassette tape deck that would save programs, and then later replaced it with a floppy disk drive.

All that cost him considerably less than $6,000, but there were trade-offs. For one thing, a 10MB hard drive was almost unheard of back then, and he didn't have a printer. You could buy a decent new car for $6,000 back then, and you had be aware than in four years, it would be behind the times.

$13k adjusted for inflation

I miss CP/M and Wordstar.

Wow what a deal!

That shop had some epic junk sales on weekends sometimes, I heard from weirdo friends who were up thattaway back in the day.

I might be thinking of a different place, but IMSAI sounds really familiar. But I just had a Vic20 and a Timex Sinclair back then.

I lold at the price