Thought maybe we could make this thread about ancient technology and how much we used to pay for it, back in the good old days....
The price of storage has really come down.
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Hmm.. circle 405 in inquiry card on the bottom reminds me of the oversized newsprint-type 'computer shopper' magazine.
Purchased some memory DRAM chips to upgrade the 'ol 386 sx up to 16MB RAM
Purchased some memory DRAM chips to upgrade the 'ol 386 sx up to 16MB RAM
We were led to believe if we got a degree in computer science, the babes would be swarming over us.......fuckers lied.....
Very first computer I owned. Over-priced toy.
Mike A.
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This thread makes me feel old.
Yeah, I remember at a job that I had at the time we paid ~$5,000 for a 10MB external drive. Some mark-up on that since it was part of a document management system. Same for the "high-speed" daisy-wheel printers that we had. Ridiculously expensive @ ~$10K each.
Yeah, I remember at a job that I had at the time we paid ~$5,000 for a 10MB external drive. Some mark-up on that since it was part of a document management system. Same for the "high-speed" daisy-wheel printers that we had. Ridiculously expensive @ ~$10K each.
mat200
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lol .. I just threw out a bunch of 3.5" disks from my parents home ...
DOUBLE SIDED, HIGH DENSITY.. 1.44MB not those cheap 720s .,..
DOUBLE SIDED, HIGH DENSITY.. 1.44MB not those cheap 720s .,..
sebastiantombs
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I finally got rid of the mobo that supported a 3.5" drive. Still have bootable DOS, and Win98 DOS disks hanging around complete with necessary utilities on them. I'll have to clean those out one day soon, I can use the space in my desk drawers.
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looney2ns
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My BIL has told me about the first Hard Drive his employer purchased back in the day.
Something like $11k, and sounded like a chopper getting ready for lift off.
Something like $11k, and sounded like a chopper getting ready for lift off.
looney2ns
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My first 'puter. I did manage to learn how to program in DOS on it. 
Swampledge
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Fortunately, my wife is far more receptive to me adding cameras today than she was when I bought that Commodore 64 back in the 80’s somtime.
The first hard disk I used was on the PDP-8, 32k 12-bit words. I have a souvenir ST-506, the first 5 inch hard disk, 5 megabytes, cost $1,500 in 1980. The first floppy drives I bought were off-brands at $400 each. I carried a $10,000 4K memory board to a customer in 1972, on the New York subway, fearing that I'd get mugged. IP cameras are pretty cheap in comparison. Looney, I was on the development team for the TI-990 family, which includes your TI-99 box. Its architecture was IMO far superior to Intel's, but TI didn't know how to market computers, Intel did, and the IBM PC was born with Intel silicon.
The 5.25 floppy drive cost more than the computer did......
Back in the days when you had to purchase a math co-processor chip separately, or pay more for one with it integrated......