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Tom Scales
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 Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: How things have progressed |
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I am going through boxes and boxes of my father's papers. I found an
invoice dated 9/19/1990 -- not that long ago and 9 years after the PC was
introduced.
2Mb memory module for an IBM PS/2 Model 70 (yes, Dad was suckered by IBM).
$193.
2MB (not GB, MB).
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budgie
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: How things have progressed |
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:02:22 -0400, "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I am going through boxes and boxes of my father's papers. I found an
invoice dated 9/19/1990 -- not that long ago and 9 years after the PC was
introduced.
2Mb memory module for an IBM PS/2 Model 70 (yes, Dad was suckered by IBM).
$193.
2MB (not GB, MB).
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I once paid $A720 for a 120MB hard drive.
I had some brochures here that I found during a cleanout, with a 386DX
motherboard for $A1700. (ATM $A1 ~=$US0.82)
The leading edge has certainly moved a bit. |
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Guy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: Re: How things have progressed |
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December 1989: My first PC buy was an Adtech 286-16 MHz (with turbo button pressed), baby AT case, 1 MB RAM (the little bug-looking chips), 10 MB HD, 15" VGA monitor, cannot remember video but I think 16KB. No software, DOS 3.1 command prompt only. $2,017. The sales tech tried to talk me down from the VGA monitor as it was "extravagant."
I upgraded that system many times, never upgraded or replaced the power supply. Its last config included a Pentium 200MMX with 64MB RAM and a 4MB video card. It could run Win 98, but not Win Me.
I put it out for recycle last Sunday night.
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Tom Scales
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:43 am Post subject: Re: How things have progressed |
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Well I hope my life expectancy is pretty good. The PC was introduced when
I was a junior in college.
"Christopher Muto" <muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:_LbTh.136561$_73.25562@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
| Quote: | tom, i don't know what your life expectancy is, but to me 17 years is a
long time ago.
"Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:461cdc24$0$13301$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
I am going through boxes and boxes of my father's papers. I found an
invoice dated 9/19/1990 -- not that long ago and 9 years after the PC was
introduced.
2Mb memory module for an IBM PS/2 Model 70 (yes, Dad was suckered by
IBM).
$193.
2MB (not GB, MB).
Wow.
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Ben Myers
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:44 am Post subject: Re: How things have progressed |
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I built my own AT clone from PC Designs (RIP) for around $4200 with NEC EGA
Muiltisync monitor... Ben Myers
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:48:19 -0400, "HDRDTD" <HDRDTD@comcast.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Somewhere I still have the original reciept for the genuine IBM AT (the
'enhanced' version) I bought in 84-85 for close to $7,000.00
6Mhz, 30MB HD, EGA graphics and monitor, 5 1/4 and 3 1/2" floppies, math
co-processor, Intel Above Board (memory add-in card with 1.5meg ram on it).
Every PC I've bought over the yaers since then has cost less and was faster
than the one it replaced.
The last new system was a XPS410 that cost $1400 without monitor.
"Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:461cdc24$0$13301$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
I am going through boxes and boxes of my father's papers. I found an
invoice dated 9/19/1990 -- not that long ago and 9 years after the PC was
introduced.
2Mb memory module for an IBM PS/2 Model 70 (yes, Dad was suckered by IBM).
$193.
2MB (not GB, MB).
Wow.
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ego
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 7:23 am Post subject: Re: How things have progressed |
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Gotta weigh in on this one...
In the 70s, on a navy command and control ship, I worked with
the Univac CP642B computer. It was refrigerator-size, water
cooled, with external tape drives.
RAM? 32k!
Cost? No one knew - after all, taxpayer dollars. |
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