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Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?

In today's money (inflation adjusted)

This an ad from Personal Computer World (UK) from 1985

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was there too but vga was not. My dad got an IBM XT fully specd as a home computer (he was CFO of Emma EDB). I believe the hires could be EGA or probably Hercules as they don’t brag about colours - but his had CGA. The full spec of my dads pc - that changed my life - was: 2x256kb ram on full length isa cards. 10mb hdd, 360kb floppy. 9pin printer and cga. Total cost back then in Norwegian KR was 120000.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

After checking with my dad the price was half of what I stated. He got one for home and one for office - the business he was with was providing IBM mainframes, and wanted to check out the PC. My dad got them because of Lotus 1-2-3 - spreadsheets was the shit in accounting/ finance already

[–] BrownianMotion 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might be right, could have been ega. It was a long time ago and the mind is wobbly.

[–] Num10ck 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yea 8086 couldn't drive a vga. 16 preset ugly colors if you're lucky. unless you had a magical amiga with dedicated graphics chips to do 256 colors, 4096 if you're nasty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh those raster hacks and stuff...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sir, I’ll have you know that I had an IBM PS/2 Model 25 with 256 glorious colors in MCGA. And fuck every developer that didn’t support MCGA, because it dropped down to 4 color CGA if not. No support for EGA.

[–] Num10ck 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and i'm sure you learned your valuable lesson :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Almost certainly not as my next PC was a Gateway 2000.