A look at the most expensive PCs in computing history

[TheGardener]

Having a day to think about things, it was a DEC pc (IBM compatible) that came out in the mid-90's that was $10,500. No idea what the list was on the Rainbow 100.

 

[angminas]

http://dilbert.com/strip/1992-07-17

 

[K7SN]

So who writes the compilers? Honestly I'm not trying to be confrontational I'm just curious. I bought a very old Norton book of ebay and he mentions some of those things to. I find it fascinating.

I've written 2 1/4 compilers; two for Pascal and graduate class attempt at a C superset for a hypercube 7 The first Pascal was written in assembly to mirror Wirth work on a LSI-11. The second Pascal was written in original C to port to a Harris Mainframe and had everything from time stamps on the listing and error messages; like report unbalanced BEGIN and END mistakes

 

[rpanic]

I still have in original boxes, with drives and printer, a Xerox 820-2 that I used as a kid.