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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)

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 23:39:11 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     Just for what it's worth, the highest-end DELL at the time, the DELL 386 25MHz with 322MB hard disk, 4MB RAM and VGA color monitor was $8,899 ($22,000 today).

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 23:45:45 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Trit’

     @TritTriton fwiw that's 4 years later, PC had commodified a lot by then--still not cheap but nowhere near those crazy numbers from the late 80s

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     Trit’ (trittriton@shelter.moe)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 23:45:46 JST Trit’

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     @thomasfuchs Quite the very first PC with a color monitor in my family (in 1993): not a DELL, but a 486-SX 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM, HDD 128 MiB. I don’t know its price (I was 8…), but I guess that it was like several months of salary for my parents, at that time.

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     BITNACHT (bitnacht@bitbang.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 00:14:47 JST BITNACHT

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     @thomasfuchs Wait, wait, wait!
     “The NeXT computer comes in substantially cheaper […]“? Cheaper than a PS/2? 🤯

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 00:14:47 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • BITNACHT

     @bitnacht list price of the ps/2 80 was $8,495 with 2MB RAM and 70MB hard disk, monitor is extra, in 1987

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 00:15:10 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Asymco

     @asymco @Chancerubbage nice kit

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     Asymco (asymco@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 00:15:11 JST Asymco

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     • Chancerubbage

     @Chancerubbage @thomasfuchs In the early 90s I only worked with a DECStation (Ultrix) or IBM RS/6000 (AIX). Not mine of course.

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     Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 00:15:12 JST Chancerubbage

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     @thomasfuchs @asymco

     In the 90s, when Mac’s were starting to look sketchy, mismanaged due to retail needs and Motorola clones, I seriously considered a silicon Graphics low end.