Looking at a Computer Shopper from Jan 1995... hehe

[Whitedog]

Here's what you get for $3000

Pentium 90 (256k L2 cache on mobo)
1MB PCI video card
4MB RAM (NOT VIDEO - SYSTEM RAM!)
540MB HD
Floppy
14.4 Fax/Modem (They always had to throw in "FAX")
16 bit sound card with speakers
4x CDROM
MS-DOS6.2 WIN3.1
Free CD Titles (like Encarta or something)

WOOHOO!!!

Oh, you could upgrade to a 1GB HD for an extra $300


Here are some more prices...
P90 CPU - $759
32MB Simm (70ns) - $1365
16MB Simm - $579
Diamond Stealth 64 2MB video card - $345
Diamond Stealth 64 4MB video card - $600



****Horrible Memories****
Reminds be of one upgrade I did once.
Let's see.
I bought an ASUS mobo for $225, a P166 for $695, 4 - 8MB Simms @ $140 each, the above mentioned Diamond Stealth 2MB vid card for like $275. It came out to like $1800 with shipping or something... I thought I had the most awesome system too... BLEEK!

 

[dexvx]

What planet is that from (or the prices are in Canadian eh)?

I bought a Dell XPS Dimension system Feb 1995 for $2400:

Pentium 133, mobo 4PCI 4 ISA, 256KB L2 cache
2x8MB SIMMS
1MB #9 Revolution S3 Trio64
USR 28.8 ISA Fax/Modem
6X Teac CD-ROM
1GB Quantum Fireball
Floppy
Windows 95 with Office 95 Pro

 

[Spyro]

What planet is that from (or the prices are in Canadian eh)?

Ummm....... dude........

Looking at a Computer Shopper from Jan 1995... hehe

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: Spyro

What planet is that from (or the prices are in Canadian eh)?

Ummm....... dude........

Looking at a Computer Shopper from Jan 1995... hehe

I bought a Dell System, which i still have the receipt for 1 month later in Feb 1995 for significantly less.

Thats like saying I bought an Athlon 1Ghz when it first came out for $2000, when it was in fact ~$1200. Just because it was a long time ago, doesnt mean there wasnt a certain price bracket.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: dexvx

Originally posted by: Spyro

What planet is that from (or the prices are in Canadian eh)?

Ummm....... dude........

Looking at a Computer Shopper from Jan 1995... hehe

I bought a Dell System, which i still have the receipt for 1 month later in Feb 1995 for significantly less.

Thats like saying I bought an Athlon 1Ghz when it first came out for $2000, when it was in fact ~$1200. Just because it was a long time ago, doesnt mean there wasnt a certain price bracket.

Sorry, I think I mis-read your post

 

[Eug]

My first hard drive was 25 MB.

 

[MegaCharger]

Someone gave me a 60Mhz PC with a "Lightning Fast Speed!" sticker on the front

 

[spanky]

:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

That was back when my dad was more into computers and hegot that 4mb stealth card for a couple hundred down from that $600 because one of his friends had some connections or something.. I wish I could do that today

And, we actually got a 1GB drive with ours though. he said that going to a Pentium from a 486 or whatever he had was like night and day...

 

[Whitedog]

Originally posted by: dexvx
What planet is that from (or the prices are in Canadian eh)?

I bought a Dell XPS Dimension system Feb 1995 for $2400:

Pentium 133, mobo 4PCI 4 ISA, 256KB L2 cache
2x8MB SIMMS
1MB #9 Revolution S3 Trio64
USR 28.8 ISA Fax/Modem
6X Teac CD-ROM
1GB Quantum Fireball
Floppy
Windows 95 with Office 95 Pro

Congrats.... you win a bisquit.

It's in the magazine dude... and NO, it's not a dell.. it's from some mom&pop computer dealer.

And just so you know... these magazines came out like 2 months before the cover date... so these prices were for like November 1994.

Don't tell me you don't remember how prices fell over the course of 3 months?

 

[Whitedog]

he said that going to a Pentium from a 486 or whatever he had was like night and day...

Not really... Going from a 7MHz Amiga to a 486DX2-66 was Night and Day.

Going from a 486DX2-66 to a P100 was just an upgrade... :evil:

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Whitedog

he said that going to a Pentium from a 486 or whatever he had was like night and day...

Not really... Going from a 7MHz Amiga to a 486DX2-66 was Night and Day.

Going from a 486DX2-66 to a P100 was just an upgrade... :evil:

I misss my PS/1

 

[DaveSimmons]

The Micron I bought in November '95 for about $2600 was still only:
P133, 32 MB RAM, 1.6 GB HD, 2 MB Trio64 video , 4X CD, 15" monitor, Windows95

By December 1997 a mere $1236 got me (for the folks):
P166mmx, 64 MB RAM, 3.2 GB HD, 4 MB Stealth 3D, 24X CD (still not a burner), no monitor, Win95 OSR2

amazing on how prices for everything (except Windows) have plummeted over the years, even as speed and capacity have doubled and redoubled.


ed some '97 details:
P166mmx $135
Asus mobo $129
64 MB RAM $156
3.2 GB HD $189
24X CD $79 <-- not a burner, just CD
56K internal modem $89
Win95 $90

 

[XMan]

Heh, this forum had a small war with one of the columnists from Computer Shopper over overclocking Celery 300A's.

 

[bluemax]

Ahhhh... the Computer Shopper. Fond memories... they were cheap and about two inches thick - I loved 'em!
I started buying those during my XT (Tandy 1000SX) days!

During those early-to-mid 80's, it cost $1000 for the internal 10MB hard drive for the Tandy1000, over that for the external 10MB for a total of 20 whopping MB!

Hey... this was loooong before Win3.0 and everyone was on 360k floppies at the time, 10MB was a LOT!
But I wasn't to have a hard drive until my first 386DX-25. 40MB. The guy selling the IPC machine (you Canucks will know that brand...) ripped my dad off like nothing else. Charged the price of 4MB to upgrade from 1MB to 4MB. "Shouldn't I have 5 after buying 4 extra" "No, it doesn't work that way, you can only have 4."
It would be almost two years later when I would open it up to upgrade and found room for 8 DIPPs not 4. :|
(Yes, DIPPs. sticky-outy pins rather than the regular SIMM.)

I hung onto the IPC case for a long, long time. Mostly because noone would want it - the guy sold it to us right from the factory with a big, disgusting crack on the front bezel. Glued back together and sold to us.
But I did get $200 worth of game rentals out of him for it.... which means I was stuck with the case and he didn't have to pay up. But the rentals were good.

Um........ yeah, I'm done for now.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: X-Man
Heh, this forum had a small war with one of the columnists from Computer Shopper over overclocking Celery 300A's.

Hmmmm, I'm intrigued. Linky?

 

[XMan]

Oh, jezz, hmm, that was before FuseTalk even . . . hmm.

The guys name was Bill O'Brien and several members had nasty e-mail exchanges with him.

I'm not finding anything about it in the archived posts, it might have gone to the big Internet forum in the sky.

 

[zephyrprime]

Diamond Stealth 64 4MB video card - $600

And people complain about the high price of the geforceFX!

 

[Chobits]

Wow....And to think earlier I was talking to my mom (whose PC I'm upgrading) how the 1500 We spent in early 1998 for a 233Mhz Pentium1 processor, 32megs of ram, 4 gig hd, and a CTX 15 inch moniter...bascially the HP pavilioin 8240 was a total rip off

Though for some reason I don't think the prices of computers will get cheaper...I think if anything they might begin to cost more...especially as we start getting new technology that will begin to permeate the industry since we are all getting ready for a leap (actually since you are all getting ready for a leap I've battening down my hatches and waiting to see what happens with Palladaum, TCPA, bugs in techonolgy and the high prices)

 

[cmdrdredd]

the biggest jump for me was when I played Q3 big time like 2 years ago and had a Mac that got 50fps at 800x600 medium detail.

I bought an Athlon T-bird 1.4/Epox 8KHA/Crucial DDR2100 512MB/Leadtek GeForce 3 that got around 130fps at 1024x768 high detail

heh now that was a jump.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime

Diamond Stealth 64 4MB video card - $600

And people complain about the high price of the geforceFX!

yeah it's like buying a car...You can go economical where you can buy a Ford Focus (Radeon 8500/9500, GeForce 4 Ti4400/4600) or a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (GeForce FX 5800/5900, Radeon 9700/9800 Pro)

One costs twice as much as the other, but is on average 60fps or 60Mph faster in top speed

 

[Zepper]

Yup, I remember buying some memory at Sam's Club at that time. They were 4MB SIMMs at $40./MB=$160.!!! Edit: Can you imagine??? If they had 256MB modules at the time, they would have cost in the vicinity of $10,000. !!!!
. I bought four of 'em on speculation that RAM prices were going to keep going up for a while, but some of us remember what happend instead...
.bh.
:beer: time!

 

[alewisa]

I have a copy of PCW from August 1985 at home, (review of the Amiga 1000 - wowowow did I want one), there was also reviews of the Compaq Deskpro 286 and Kaypro 286, iirc proces were around £4000 for a 286-8Mhz (might have been 12Mhz...) with 512Kb memory. Thats motherboard RAM, not CPU cache ;-)

Next time i'm in Kendal I'll dig it out and post

Now the Amiga 1000.... that was going from night to day!

 

[arcenite]

I may still have my PS/2 somewhere.. 66Mhz 486 w/ a 100mb SCSI drive..mm... I later then added a 500mb drive too.

Bill

 

[vegetation]

Now the Amiga 1000.... that was going from night to day!

The Amigas were indeed incredible. From then on, the biggest difference in speed I've ever noticed from a single cpu upgrade was the 68K 7MHz to 68030 @ 25MHz with 32-bit RAM, ROM image copied to main memory and using cpublit or whatever that thing was called to make the text scroll quicker. I still remember how much faster the system became..