yup. The first computer my dad bought was about 3 grand. didnt come with the monitor or mouse....A CD drive cost an extra $300. It was one of those cheap cd drive, where you had to put a cd in another special case, then you put that case into the drive.
Well if you bring this thing to 1950s I am sure you can sell it for a million dollars easy. You can not take a product out of its time.
Anyone wanna come to my house to play Oregon Trail? I am lonely. I sure wished we could connect two computers together and send messages like over a fax.
product cycle, vcrs used to be thousnds, now you couldn't give them away. color televisions used to be top notch technology. even dvd players have gone down substantially, cd players, everything has to recoup its intial research costs. history channel does a great special on this btw, i think it rolls several products into one program. the history of the pc, and vcr. according to them, beta was higher quality.
Next thing in computer is direct human machine interface! Not some stupid keyboard and mouse interface!
it was I had both, beta kicked the hell outta vhs when it came to a/v quality, they just took too long to figure out how to get extended recording capabilities at that quality level, by then it was too late vhs had won. thats why beta was still in use in the broadcast industries for years afterwards.
I saw that on History Channel. I can't really say I recall the VHS BetaMax war, but they said that BetaMax only had one hour of tape vs VHS having two hours so you could put full length features on VHS tape.
