Posted By
Hans
on 2012-05-20
13:47:00
|  Re: [Epay] Complete Plus/4 system on sale - for UK residents only
MIK,
The setup took my fancy in particular because it reminds me so deep to my own setup I had in the 80s.
I just had started my own business in 1988 but couldn't afford an IBM XT machine (DM 6 k by that time, equals to some GBP 2,800 nowadays), let alone a 9-pin Oki dot matrix printer for DM 3,000 = approx. GBP 1,400.
My "office" started with a Plus/4, two 1551 (stacked on each other), pirated copies of Script/Plus, Calc/Plus, and Superbase, and a dot matrix printer which was named Seikosha 180, IIRC.
Burnig of the Eproms with Script/Plus -which replaced the in-built 3+1 chips- and Calc/Plus which was on a handsoldered expansion port cartridge did cost me DM 300.
But it worked! And I made money with that equipment!
After sitting, however, a whole day in front of a flickering cheap TV screen ("Your monitor is at channel 36"), I was always happy to cut off the system at 6 and go for a pint (or two) to the pub next door....
Reg's,
Hans.
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