hey everybody...im new with a few questions

[a2fan]

Hm.. when I was a young but coherent kid I lived in a very small town (5000?) in Kansas during the early 80s when I first started seeing computer.

Where at in Kansas?

 

[magnusfalkirk]

Base list prices as of November 1982, according to Datapro Research Corp.'s "All About Personal Computers":

Timex-Sinclair 1000	$99.95
Commodore VIC-20	$199.95
Atari 400		$299
TRS-80 Color Computer	$399
TI-99/4A		$450
Commodore 64		$595
PMC-80/81		$595
TRS-80 Model III	$699
Toshiba T100		$795
Atari 800		$899
Cromemco C-10		$995
NEC PC-8001A		$1205
IBM Personal Computer	$1265
Commodore PET 4032	$1295
Apple II Plus		$1330
Commodore CBM 8032	$1495
Franklin Ace 1000	$1595

Note that the Franklin came with 64K RAM while the Apple only came with 16K, so that's why the Franklin cost more.

That's odd, I bought my first Apple II, a II+, in 1981 in Van Nuys, Ca and it came standard with 48k of RAM. The store was having a sale, they were selling the II+ at their price. So I bought the computer, a Disk II drive and a few games for a little over $1500. Being in the Air Force at the time, and not making a lot of money, I didn't buy a monitor because I couldn't afford it so I also bought a modulator to hook the II+ up to my small portable color tv to use it as a monitor.

 

[billdeg]

http://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/1983_PC_Chart.pdf Here is a price chart from 1983 that has specific features to explain prices.

 

[TanruNomad]

I didn't think Apple was still selling the 16K option as late as 1982!

 

[vwestlife]

I didn't think Apple was still selling the 16K option as late as 1982!

The Datapro book also says you could have your choice of either the II or the II+ for the same price. That may have been true when the II+ was first introduced and Apple was selling off remaining stock of the II, but I didn't think they'd still have any regular II's left as of 1982.