Powerful applications required powerful machines.  He we have a July 1980 advertisement where you can get those machines at 'Discount Prices'!

The email revolution is not new, but it has not always been as inexpensive as it is now.  Here you can exchange email overnight. July 1980.

Memory, we have always needed more memory.  You could get 32k of ram for your system for only $475.  Lets see, at that rate my current 378 meg would cost $5,610,937.  July 1980.

Compuserve has been with us for a long time.  They provided up to date news for as little as $5.00 an hour. All you needed was 300 baud modem. July 1980.

896K memory! Wow!  What am I going to do with it all?  June 1984.

You needed to be able to store your information off line, right?  Floppy drives were the way to go. June 1984.

Look! You could do windows! All you needed was Turbo Pascal 2.0.  Windows.. Hmmm I wonder where that concept ended up?  June 1984.

We all needed a little space to store all the things we began collecting on our machines.  5 megs for $280.  Who could need more than 5 megs?  December 1985.

Those TRS machines sure were getting cheap. And just look at those amazing specs!  January 1986.