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Cost of My Zeos 486-33

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ZeroEffect

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Was looking at an old invoice today for a computer purchased 11/14/91.

$3,095

A 486-33mhz powerhouse! 🙂

4MB of memory, VGA 1MB, HD=ST1144 (not sure how many MB)


You could buy some serious hardware with that amount of scratch today!
Including inflation, that would have to be close to spending $5,000 in today's dollars.
(maybe that guess is a little high, but probably not by much!)
 
I ran a 486/66 @ 100mhz w/ 24mb ram and a 512K vid card when I first signed up at AT.

lol. that was a pathetic system.
 
i hate a gateway 486 DX2/66 that thing was fvcking awesome when it came out. I think it cost slightly over $3k
 
1st PC

Radio Shack 8088 7.16MHz with dual 360k 5-1/4" floppy drives and 384k memory, tandy special 16color graphics, color monitor and printer dot-matrix: $1608.23 (No harddrive)

Added 256K memory: $300
Added 20MB Seagate drive: $379

1987 - Freshman year in college
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I remember Zeos... didn't they get bought by Micron (when Micron was still making PCs)?
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Correct. Micron drove them into the ground, though. I remember reading lots and lots of PC reviews. Zeos made some pretty good (and fast) computers for the day.

 
Originally posted by: ZeroEffect
Was looking at an old invoice today for a computer purchased 11/14/91.

$3,095

A 486-33mhz powerhouse! 🙂

4MB of memory, VGA 1MB, HD=ST1144 (not sure how many MB)


You could buy some serious hardware with that amount of scratch today!
Including inflation, that would have to be close to spending $5,000 in today's dollars.
(maybe that guess is a little high, but probably not by much!)
Click to expand...

I remember when we all laughed at the sub-1000 buck PC. We honestly thought it was the craziest idea ever.
 
i could never bring myself to spend that kind of money in those days even though i wanted a computer pretty bad.

in december of 1996 i finally spent $1200 on a AST PC with an AMD 486-133 CPU, 8MB RAM, 850MB HD and 14" monitor.
 
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