Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
yeah...seems like the right price...not a total rip off...but coulda gotten it for better...around then, i got a matrox g200 w/ a pIII 350 mghz w/ 128 megs pc133 w/ 17 inch monitor for about 1500 or so...
P3 didn't come out until late Feb of '99, starting with 450MHz.
When in '98 did he buy this? That would make a big difference in the price. For example, if this was early in '98, a P2-333 with 128MB PC133 (which was very new at the time, you could just about compare it to having 1GB of PC3200 today) would have been a top-of-the-line system. And 7.2GBs would have been the envy of all your friends in early '98 (as an example, I remember buying an 8.4GB WD 5400rpm-ATA/33 for $150 in April of '99 and it was an amazing hot deal).
edit: I bought my first 17" monitor in August of '97 for $475 wholesale -- just another example.