In 1975 at Honeywell, we sold a 25 MB disk drive ( yes, 25 megabytes) that required an air cooled environment for $25,000. It went with the Honeywell 2000. A state of the art computer with 256KB of internal memory and the latest in Hollerith punch card technology. Again needed an air cooled room and cost $250,000.
In 1979, I saw something called the Texas Instruments 99/A home computer. Used GROM cartridges for games and basic learning games plus 5 1/4 inch floppies so you could run things like Multiplan. I knew the world had changed at that moment and switched careers. But I still have that TI 99/A!
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