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Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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