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I’ve been flipping through some of the old computer magazines from the 1990s available on the Internet Archive. - CD-ROM Today: https://archive.org/details/CDR
by klodolph 6y ago
I’ve been flipping through some of the old computer magazines from the 1990s available on the Internet Archive.
- CD-ROM Today: https://archive.org/details/CDROMToday/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/CDROMToday/mode/2up
- MacFormat: https://archive.org/details/Macformat44S/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Macformat44S/mode/2up
- MacAddict: https://archive.org/details/MacAddict-009-199705/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/MacAddict-009-199705/mode/2up
My conclusion is that being a fanboy was never really a tenable position, it’s just that back in the 1990s, you had to spend something like $2,500 just to own a nice computer.
- acdha 6y agoOr more - if you wanted new things like CD-ROM drives, good quality sound, etc. you were often well north of $3k - and when you adjust for inflation that’s like a $4500+ system today.
- ghaff 6y agoBill Machrone, the long-term editor of PC Magazine, coined something that came to be known as Machrone's Law: "The computer you want always costs $5,000." Over time, that $5K system got more and more tricked out to the point where you had to really start working to get to that price point maybe 10-15 years ago.
- falcolas 6y agoBeing a fanboy may just be a default position - a representation of justifying purchases - but the realization is new for me. It took watching companies I previously championed (Blizzard, Apple, CDPR, Google) make insane yet intentional miss-steps.