Check This Out.... Somethings Are Cheaper 15 Years Later!

[ospreylinks]

Look at this deal!



It is hard to believe that anything is cheaper today than 1989.... but here you go!

Jeff

[shoplineca]

Jeff
One of my businesses I had in the US was a large preschool I owned in Marietta, Georgia in 1993 and I had 3 of those babies in my computer lab (along with some other computers).

I bought them at a garage sale for about $40 each and that was just 5 years after they came out.

My pride and joy was my office computer. A Packard Bell 286 with blazing 16 Mhz and 4 megs of ram. It replaced the Brother Word Processor I had been using for that business.

Malcolm

[plumbrokeacres]

"lightning fast 20MHz" what will they say in 10 years about the systems we run now?

Andrew

[discountlabelsupplies]

"what will they say in 10 years about the systems we run now?"


My guess is nobody will have towers. Just a tablet with an optional wireless keyboad.

[lina-mallows]

in 2004 this was posted- It's only four years later.
We have an iMac- so NO TOWER.
And our keyboard is still tethered.

[tea_past_times]

Thanks for sharing that little nugget Lina. very informative,useful information!!

[cumos55]

Microwave... Just bought a new one for $85.. the first one we ever bought was $240

VCR... Bought a new one for $50

color TV's.... not the digital

Video Camera... the old style tape camera...

Handheld computers...Used to be more than $20, $30 and more. Now you can get them for $10 and they do more.
The first Texas Instrument handheld calculator was about $1000 when it came out in about the mid 1970's

Long distance telephone service... 1989 was $1.00 per minute... Today 4 cents per minute

Less expensive than in 1989

Just to name a few.

[cumos55]

The first computer fit into one big building... all tube technology and all it could do was add and subtract