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Cost of tech
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 4:00 pm
by Gfamily
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
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 4:49 pm
by jaap
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.
Re: Cost of tech
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:51 pm
by stańczyk
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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.
Re: Cost of tech
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:24 pm
by shpalman
stańczyk wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:51 pm
disk.jpg
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.
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Reddit says
1981; Pinterest says
1976.
Re: Cost of tech
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:27 pm
by individualmember
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.