Cost of tech

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Cost of tech

Post by Gfamily » Mon Jun 21, 2021 4:00 pm

In sorting through some papers that had ended up in the attic, I found a pricelist for computer bits from 1995
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Re: Cost of tech

Post by jaap » Mon Jun 21, 2021 4:49 pm

Here is a 1988 price list for the Psion Organiser and its accessories.
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A 128 KB memory module (EPROM) is more expensive than the cheapest Organiser model, which had just 8K RAM and could not actually handle that 128KB module.

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Re: Cost of tech

Post by stańczyk » Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:51 pm

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Note the price in the top right corner. I think this is from late '70s or early '80s. A 10TB disk (one million times larger) now costs about one tenth of the price.

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Post by shpalman » Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:24 pm

stańczyk wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:51 pm
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Note the price in the top right corner. I think this is from late '70s or early '80s. A 10TB disk (one million times larger) now costs about one tenth of the price.
$10k in today's dollars apparently. https://twitter.com/glennklockwood/stat ... 2748708864

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Re: Cost of tech

Post by individualmember » Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:27 pm

I recall that the big external drives I was using in the mid ‘90s were 72Gb and cost about 5 grand. SCSI, and the adapter cards and cables were a small fortune as well.

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