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How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?
In today's money (inflation adjusted)
This an ad from Personal Computer World (UK) from 1985
It's crazy how Computers have changed over the years !
I guess people who have used PC's from the old era would be able to appreciate the current Computers in a completely different level.
Never mind computers (my first one, in I think 1985, had two floppy drives and an amber screen, very fancy), it's phones that blow my mind. I grew up with a heavy black bakelite dial phone that lived on a special bench in the hall, and now I do video calls with my family on the other side of the world from wherever I happen to be. Toll calls used to be a huge deal, you had to call the operator, we didn't even have direct dialling. I watch TV on my phone, not even Star Trek had that!
The old computers from my childhood still boots faster than any modern OS 😎
Those are antiques now so the might cost a lot as well
Was Olivetti any good at that time?
Psh, $5700 and they don't even come with a 4090.
Seriously, though, it's no wonder why businesses had most of computers in the 80s; these companies were ripping people the hell off and getting away with it. Nearly $6 grand and you don't even get a hard drive, nor a reasonable amount of RAM. Give me a fucking break.
