From: "Gary Britt" 

$20,000 in 1972 was the price the "experts" referred to in the article set.
I am assuming they are correct.  IBM's stuff was always way expensive in those days.

Gary


"John Beamish"  wrote in
message news:41410322$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I think your cost estimates are off.  In 1967 had my own electric
typewriter
> (an SCM luggable which had a fixed 10pt pica pitch) which I bought from my
> summer job earnings.  (It didn't help; I still failed my year at
> university.)
>
> Leap forward to 1972 and my dad bought his first word processor (either a
> Micom or AES).  I remember it cost him Cdn$15,000.  He was making his
living
> writing speeches and articles and the ease of correcting and resubmitting
a
> piece just bowled him over.  He said it paid for itself in less than a
year.
>
>
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:4140b769{at}w3.nls.net...
> > As I stated there were typewriters at that time that could do a
> proportional
> > font.  They cost $20,000 in 1972 dollars.  That would be like a $100,000
> > typewriter today.  And of course we all know that the Government is
always
>
>

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