I’m not too sure Adam Osborne was the best person to get business advice from…
…FROM THE FOUNTAINHEAD
By Adam Osborne
The responses I have received following my warnings against paying for goods in advance lead me to believe that a very serious problem exists within the microcomputer industry.
It seems to be the rule rather than the exception that companies big or small will hold your money for months at a time, and in a few cases they may never deliver anything. Moreover, a number of microcomputer hardware manufacturers, including some of the largest, are staying out of bankruptcy only by exercising day-to-day financial agility.
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This is bizarre. They just slipped this in at the end of the magazine where they normally just have advertisements.
QUESTION OF THE MONTH
Is the Communist conspiracy to conquer America an imminent danger at present? Are subversive elements in this country being held in check?
Asked of: J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI.
YES, Communism today does represent a great danger to America. Our democratic way of life is threatened by a gigantic tyranny which already has engulfed millions of freedom-loving people.
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That’s $504 in 2011 dollars. For 8K of ram. By comparison, you can buy 57GB of ram from newegg.com for the same price today. That’s 7,125,000 the capacity in 33 years.
THE CHIPS ARE DOWN!
8K NOW JUST $149 ASSEMBLED
Thinker Toys™ brings down the high cost of adding big memory capacity to your S-100 system I
The ECONORAM III* 8Kx8 (by Morrow’s Micro-Stuff) comes fully assembled, burned in, tested and fully warranted for one full year— lor just $149!
It’s configured as two individually addressable 4K blocks. And it typically consumes less than one-half the power of any competitively-priced memory.
Obviously, our new ECONORAM III* 8Kx8 isn’t just another cheap kit. It’s a design breakthrough in dynamic memory that gives you guaranteed reliability with tremendous savings in cost and power. Read the rest of this entry »
What are you doing for brand names week?
*this week and every week the best bandwagon is the brandwagon it’s Brand Names Week
May 17-27
Day in and day out, you get top value when you buy the manufacturer’s brands you see advertised in this magazine. Why? Because brand name makers stake their entire reputations on giving you satisfaction. Because they take the lead in coming up with new product ideas to make your living constantly easier and better. Read the rest of this entry »
I love that they put their logo inside a punch card.
A “Giant Brain” that’s Strictly Business
IBM’s new 702 Electronic Data Processing Machine brings to the accounting and record-keeping problems of business the speed and capacity of giant scientific computers.
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Maybe I should change the name of the category to YDI…
They Made It From You-Do-It
The Prices’ Trinkit, a jewelry enameling kit, turned them into big-time hobby makers.
By Phil Hirsch
BILL and Barbara Price were in a rut.
Both of them had been department store buyers for three years. Now, in the spring of 1953, their jobs were beginning to pall. They wanted something a little more exciting to do.
Their bank account amounted to $3,500. By investing the money in a business, Bill and Barbara could buy all the excitement they wanted. But instead, they gambled their savings on a trip to Europe, in the hope that the trip would produce a money-making idea. Read the rest of this entry »
This magazine can be kind of depressing…
Little Oddities of Life
A Philippine Superstition
Forty years ago, the native chieftain who carried this skull on his shoulders stole the wife of Guanu, another tribal chief. The latter retaliated with a battle-axe, and took this skull as a trophy of his revenge. Upon Guanu’s death, the grinning mask was placed upon his grave as a tombstone, when immediately an orchid sprang from the cleft in the frontal bone that had been cut by Guanu’s battle-axe. Read the rest of this entry »
