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Yeah, I don't quite get the way people sometimes reminisce about the hardware costs of the past. We used to have consumer CPUs topping $1000 back when that was
by paulmd 5y ago
Yeah, I don't quite get the way people sometimes reminisce about the hardware costs of the past. We used to have consumer CPUs topping $1000 back when that was some serious money, and big-boy graphics workstations could easily run the tens or hundreds of thousands.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoNon-toy computers were only available to the relatively wealthy for nearly a decade. The original Apple II was the equivalent of around $5000, which certainly wasn't a casual purchase for most people. If you look in back-issues of Byte the prices of early PCs with a usable spec are eye-watering, even before correcting for inflation. Prices didn't start dropping to more accessible levels until the 90s.
- rodgerd 5y agoAn Irix workstation is like buying a Countach. It's a thing you have because it's the thing that you always wanted.