$8,499 P.o.s.

[Sh0ck]

I'm guessing this was in the year '89. I can't believe that price,

[Crimson Sky]

the price is pretty fair considering the technology at the time. Why can't you believe the price? $8499.00 in 1989 has the same buying power as $13,545.16 today! Its called inflation--lol ya might want to look it up

Source: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

[Rankenphile]

Ewww.... PageMaker.

[jptrvlr]

more like ewww 16mb memory. granted the first comp i ever had was a gigantus pos ibm. freakin heavy desktop case, 8088, green mono monitor, 5.25 and the end all to be all...drumroll...a 25mb hd. lol. it was heavy, loud and ugly and i loved every bbs surfing and dot matrix printing minuet. does any of that date me? lol.

jp

[Rankenphile]

L.O.R.D. and Drug Wars rocked.

Ah, simpler times. I remember playing MUDs and running D&D games over IRC using Telix. (Noppa: 3d6)

Good times. Good times.

[Tableleg]

Geez, for $8500.00 and it doesn't even include the monitor or mouse.

And I thought companys today were stindgy... lol

[abnoea]

^ heh, yeah, but that monitor would add a lot back then...

[jptrvlr]

/\ yeah no doubt VGA back then was amazing and spendy. lol, drug wars, wasted so much time in class playing that and leisure suit larry. that pixilated crap, and most of the bbs that we "downloaded" was over the blazing fast 28.8 and ive still got my first external 33.3 simple times how true.

jp

[adreamtraveler]

LOL man that's nothing....my dad paid just under $2,500 for our first apple II and that only came with 16K of RAM lol....and that was the high res model LOL

in all seriousness though....it is quite amazing how far computers have come.... ah good times...

[OvRiDe]

Yah.. can you imagine what your Dad would have done if you broke out the jigsaw and headed toward the Apple II!?!? OMG