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The SPARCStation | will have a base price in the neighborhood of $10,000. If you add a 100-mega-byte hard disk drive and a monochrome monitor, the price will be about $12,000. If you add the GX accelerator board, fig-ure a total of about $14,000. [...] When you put together a complete system, these machines are still well within striking distance of fully configured Mac IIs or IBM PS/2 Model 80s. The NeXT computer comes in substantially cheaper if you stick to the slow optical disk.

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The SPARCStation | will have a base price in the neighborhood of $10,000. If you add a 100-mega-byte hard disk drive and a monochrome monitor, the price will be about $12,000. If you add the GX accelerator board, fig-ure a total of about $14,000. [...] When you put together a complete system, these machines are still well within striking distance of fully configured Mac IIs or IBM PS/2 Model 80s. The NeXT computer comes in substantially cheaper if you stick to the slow optical disk.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 23:24:09 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

BYTE Magazine in 1989 talking about "affordable" alternatives to PC at "similar" prices
($14,000 in 1989 is about ~$35,000 today)

In conversation about 10 months ago from hachyderm.io permalink