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Sh0ck
01-10-2006, 11:48 AM
I'm guessing this was in the year '89. I can't believe that price, :eek:
http://www.ww3gaming.com/e107_plugins/kig_menu/_imagefiles/****ty_computer.jpg

Crimson Sky
01-10-2006, 11:55 AM
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
01-10-2006, 12:33 PM
Ewww.... PageMaker.

jptrvlr
01-10-2006, 05:10 PM
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
01-10-2006, 07:44 PM
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
01-10-2006, 09:13 PM
Geez, for $8500.00 and it doesn't even include the monitor or mouse.

And I thought companys today were stindgy... lol

abnoea
01-11-2006, 12:29 AM
^ heh, yeah, but that monitor would add a lot back then...

jptrvlr
01-11-2006, 02:32 AM
/\ 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
01-11-2006, 04:02 AM
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... 8)

OvRiDe
01-11-2006, 04:32 AM
Yah.. can you imagine what your Dad would have done if you broke out the jigsaw and headed toward the Apple II!?!? OMG :eek:

crenn
01-12-2006, 09:36 AM
Take a look at the description XD


Its Intel 80386 processor operates at a lightning fast 20MHz

Then what is a GHz according to their standards? Warp 10? XD

Rankenphile
01-12-2006, 01:51 PM
At that time, a 1ghz processor was unthinkable.

I still remember seeing a computer magazine in 97? 96? that had a cover story talking about how the 1 Ghz threshhold had been hit in a consumer-end processor. It was a very big deal then.

Zeus
01-12-2006, 01:57 PM
I am sure that our current processors will look slow compared to the new Thz CPUs in about 10 years

g0t m0dz
01-13-2006, 07:18 AM
At that time, a 1ghz processor was unthinkable.

I still remember seeing a computer magazine in 97? 96? that had a cover story talking about how the 1 Ghz threshhold had been hit in a consumer-end processor. It was a very big deal then.

what about when intel shink their processor sizes to 65nm or hit 5GHz

*edit*without extreme cooling

adreamtraveler
01-14-2006, 01:41 AM
Yah.. can you imagine what your Dad would have done if you broke out the jigsaw and headed toward the Apple II!?!? OMG :eek:

:eek: XD hahahaa i wouldn't be here today LOL

onelegout
01-26-2006, 02:38 PM
I remember playing MUDs
Hell, even I remember playing MUDs and Im only 16! :D

crazybillybob
01-26-2006, 04:58 PM
/\ 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

Wow.....My first memories of bbs 1200bps.....I was very happy when we got a new pc that had a 120Mb HDD 16Mz and 2Mb Ram...Oh and a 2400bps modem.... and VGA monitor......It was a packard bell and it was thought of as top of the line..... That little pc started collage with me (granted I put 128Mb of Ram in it and Spent $250 on a Maxtor 1Gb HDD.....:rolleyes: those were the days....) Can you saw Wildcat bbs?

Crazybillybob

Guttenaffe
01-29-2006, 11:42 PM
Prodigy online 1200baud baby!

I still remember by password from back then! Apple12 :D (froget the user name)

tybrenis
02-11-2006, 12:10 PM
Lol my dad bought a p.o.s. gateway in 95, it was all tricked out with like two hard drives, equalling up to 800 mb, like a 500 mhz processor, and he paid somethng like 5,000 dollars for it.

LOL

DaveW
02-11-2006, 03:27 PM
Moore's law states that the raw power of a computer doubles ever 18 months. That was at first considered simply conjecture, but has recently been proved as an actual phenomena.

Best example? 9 years ago, the first computer to have a processing power of over 1 TeraFLOPS, was Red (something, i forget the name) by Intel. It could do 1200 GigaFlops. This year, ATI and Nvidea have made claims that their graphics processors could pip a TerraFLOP by the end of this year.

This is the intersting part.

The Red [Something] was the most powerful supercomputer in the world in it's day, at 3x the raw processing power of other supercomputers. It had 39,000 Pentium 2's clocked at 333Mhz each.

Which would mean that 2007's GPU's will have the power of 39,000 Pentium 2's.

For another FLOPS comparrison, Deeper Blue, the computer that actually beat the world chess champion, had around 215 GFLOPS of power.

FLOPS: Floating point operations per second.

Your calculator can do about 10 FLOPS.

What do you think of that then? AS you can probably tell, my figures are pretty rough, i havn't double checked them-but i can tell you they're pretty damn close to home. Feel free to correct me.

-Dave

tybrenis
02-11-2006, 04:52 PM
Lol, nice math Dave. Very interesting

SaWBLaDe
02-14-2006, 02:45 AM
lol this reminds me of this:

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4337/pic22076ik.jpg

crenn
02-14-2006, 04:06 AM
Wow!!! A 15mb Hdd!!!! I Could Fit 3-4 Mp3's On It!!!!

And It's Only $2495 Too!!

OvRiDe
02-14-2006, 04:16 AM
Sounds like an RIAA ploy to me.. :D