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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] 1 points 1 year ago

We had a PCjr. Default was 64k, but we got the 64k sidecar add on for a whopping 128 kb of RAM. We also got a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 with the aluminum case and red LEDs that I still have, because it's amazing even though it's useless. Dad would use it to connect to Compuserv.

We never had the Chiclet keyboard, though - I think they were on to regular keyboards by the time we bought ours.