[Red Badger]

I paid $400 for a 40MB HDD once, by mail order!.............& I thought I was getting a great deal!..............Is Computer Shopper still around?............

[posterchild]

Paid $465.50 for a 40MB hard drive from a Computer shopper vendor in 1989. Pathetic I still remember the price and the occasion. Several people on my dorm floor had to come by and behold the miracle of 40MB:)

[Blue Highway]

I paid $400 for a 40MB HDD once, by mail order!.............& I thought I was getting a great deal!..............Is Computer Shopper still around?............

Yep Computer Shopper is still around but it went from that mammoth 300+ page monthly computer bible, to a thinner than PC Magazine pamphlet like magazine now. I used to subscribe to it in the mid 90's prior to me getting my feet wet with PC's. Took me a year to decide what I wanted. At the time Pentium I's rated at 90mhz were the top dog, and I waited it out until the 233's came around and of course I went agauinst the grain with AMD, as I didn't want to support the 800 pound gorilla (Intel)

[KarlInOhio]

Is Computer Shopper still around?............

I just saw one on the magazine rack a few days ago. It looks like a regular magazine rather than the huge catalog of ads with three articles so the post office counted it as a mag for postage of the old days.

$200? I could buy 10 of them (almost 20 if you count inflation) for the price I bought my 7 MHz Leading Edge PC in 1985. And toss in another 3 (5 with inflation) for the price I bought my hard disk to add later on.

Excuse me while I shake my cane at some young whippersnappers.

[DJ Frisat]

"I paid $400 for a 40MB HDD once, by mail order!.............& I thought I was getting a great deal!..............Is Computer Shopper still around?........."

I paid $700 for a 20MB drive for my Apple II+.

And I saw a Computer Shopper on the rack at a grocery store the other day. It's a VERY SLIM magazine these days - a mere shadow of its former girth!

[billakay]

Yes, it’s just a LOT thinner than you remember it.

[GATOR NAVY]

I remember going through Computer Shopper to find my first computer in 1996. Once I narrowed it down the hard part was finding a company that would ship to an FPO address (I was in Japan at the time).

[Lx]

Ah, the days when IDE came out and you had to physically remove and replace the Bios chips to support IDE.
It sure was nice to have a ROM burner heh heh.