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To be fair that Powerbook (I had a 160 a few years before and it costed a lot) didn't cost you (or your family) the equivalent of 200 or 300 US dollars, it was
by jaclaz 4y ago
To be fair that Powerbook (I had a 160 a few years before and it costed a lot) didn't cost you (or your family) the equivalent of 200 or 300 US dollars, it was more like 2,000 (at the time, so something like 4,000 dollars today):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_190 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_190
So, besides being really tough, you probably cared a lot about it or at least your parents told you to be careful with the thing that costed so much money (and you still managed to break it a couple times), think at how you would have treated something that was given to you by the school.
- vertis 3y agoI think my parents spent about $1600AUD on it, which seems cheaper that the originally priced $2200USD. My very vague memories are that I got it in January 1996, so about 6 months after release. I don't think, for me at least, it was the price tag so much as it was priceless. It wasn't replaceable, but your point is valid. Attitude to technology in much of the developed world is that it's disposable. We don't repair things like we used to.