Subdeacon Joe Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Only $3,495! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Jack, SASS #77862 Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 And just last week I looked at a 4TB external drive for $127 at Costco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted May 14, 2013 Author Share Posted May 14, 2013 And just last week I looked at a 4TB external drive for $127 at Costco. And, to put it into perspective for inflation, one of the online inflation calculators produced: "$3,495 of 1980 dollars would be worth: $9,928.98 in 2013" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Dawg, man....! I remember when I installed a 20 mb hard drive in my AT clone.... buddy of my said "Wow! You'll NEVER fill THAT thing!" Come to think of it... Bill Gates hisself once said "When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Church Key, SASS # 33713 Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I worked with an IBM 1460 in the mid-60's that had a 200 Byte X 20K Sector storage unit about the size of a refrigerator. It was the big thing then as we were using tape drives until it came along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashpowder Hal Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I saw my first "real" computer in 1970, in a refrigerated room, The size of my house, with reel-to-reel machines, whirring and clicking. All of which fits in yer i-phone now, which has more memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I worked with FADAC, the artillery's ballistic computer for 30 days in 1966. It was housed in it's own 2 1/2 ton truck. You actually sat inside of the computer. It boasted an unbelievable 4 kbytes of memory. The readout was only numerical and was displayed on nixie tubes. My company bought a Phoenix drive for our computer system in the late 1970s. It had six 16" discs and was housed in a 4 foot tall cabinet. Memory? 1 meg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 My first Mac workstation for my graphic design business back in 1990 cost $3000 - grayscale monitor $3000 - Mac IIcx w/8 mb of Ram and 16 mhz processor $3000 - laser printer $3000 - 80 mb external hard drive $1000 - b/w scanner $2500 - misc software Total $15,500 Just bought this Macbook for $1600... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share Posted May 15, 2013 Amazing how far and how fast computers have come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 A brother in law who was a high school Math teacher bought a TI calculator for $800 because it could never get any cheaper. It did square and cube roots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I keep a card in my desk. It is about 3"x5" and contains 100 bits (yes, bits, not bytes) of core memory. It would be from the 50s. I tried to post a picture of it but the security software here won't allow that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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