On: Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 09 – Artificial Intelligence (1981)

[whyenot]

Around that time my dad bought a Z80 S-100 bus system (made by Thinkertoys) with 64k memory, two 8” disk drives, and a terminal for $14,726 in 2023 dollars. Hacking and tinkering with microcomputers could be a very expensive hobby, in the early days.

[narrator → whyenot]

Hacking and tinkering with AI can be expensive today. A machine with an A100 is about that pricey. Thankfully, now we have the cloud.