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Oh the prices we used to pay.... w/PIC

Kelemvor

Kelemvor

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Was cleaning out our box o' manuals and came across this...

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Wow. 10 Gig drive must have been huge back then. And of course the old Parallel port Zip Drive.
 
I paid $379.xx for a 20 MEG (yes, meg) MFM Seagate drive in 88. Was awsome too. Had a 4 to 1 interleve (took 4 passes to read one track).! 😀
 
That's nothing. I paid 180$ for a 2.5gb drive back in the day. 😉 It was one of the first DMA/33 drives.

I also paid 110$ for a 210MB drive way back when.
 
Originally posted by: Amol
420!!!!
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Ha, didn't even see that.

And for those that bought other things.. Yeah, but do you have the receipt? 🙂 I bought other stuff like paied $100 for 2 megs of RAM and things like that but don't have the receipt...
 
i remember buying a computer from Gateway when i moved from the UK to the USA. It was 133MHz, 1GB, 32mb ram and cost me $2,400. that was 1996

hahaha.
 
The first Atari 2600 I bought (in 1980 (I think...may have been 81) cost about $149., and games ran between $30 and $50 for most. A FEW Activision games and some of the other NON-Atari brand games were a little cheaper, but IIRC, they didn't come out for about a year after the 2600 did. And we complain about paying that price for today's games...which are a LITTLE better...😉
 
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Originally posted by: Amol
420!!!!
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Ha, didn't even see that.

And for those that bought other things.. Yeah, but do you have the receipt? 🙂 I bought other stuff like paied $100 for 2 megs of RAM and things like that but don't have the receipt...
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No receipt. My dad bought them on his Master Charge (no MasterCard then).

The $379 drive was for the PC that my grandpaw bought me for college:

Tandy 1000 SX 7.16MHz 8086 processor, 384K of ram, two 720K floppy drives and 16 color Tandy Graphics. Also included a Tandy dotMatrix printer. $1607.xx after tax and all. 😀

BTW, I ran the drive at a 3 to 1 interleve for almost a year before I found out that the PC wasn't fast enough to read at 3 to 1. Hence, it took 17 passes per track to read the drive. Didn't care at the time as it was still so fast that it made my head spin! Those were the days!!! 😀
 
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Originally posted by: Amol
420!!!!
Click to expand...

Ha, didn't even see that.

And for those that bought other things.. Yeah, but do you have the receipt? 🙂 I bought other stuff like paied $100 for 2 megs of RAM and things like that but don't have the receipt...
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I think my wife still has the receipts for the Sony Vaio P1 200 MMX we bought in 97 or 98...with a 15" monitor, somewhere around $2500...it had 2 mb video ram (Ati All-in-wonder) 32 MB of RAM, a Zip100, and a 4.3 Gb HDD!!
 
Originally posted by: KarenMarie
i remember buying a computer from Gateway when i moved from the UK to the USA. It was 133MHz, 1GB, 32mb ram and cost me $2,400. that was 1996

hahaha.
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My dad bought me the very same computer for college in 96, believe he paid 2,100 or so. I think about it now and just shake my head.
 
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