lol
the prices from those days just kill me
Yeah. I recall that people claim that Apple's original 32 bit Mac was too expensive at $2495 without a hard drive. However, i did a comparison of the cost of a basic IBM-PC XT which was the current PC in release in1984, one floppy, 512K of RAM and a Green screen monitor, was also $2495. Steve Jobs wanted the Mac to sell for $1695 to $1995 and it was built to sell for that but he was overruled by the CEO of Apple. But contrary to the claims of the anti-Apple crowd, what it was was competitive with the name brands. It did not compete with the cut-rate cloners though that came later.
What IS amazing is to look at these prices in comparison to today's dollars.
I had my first computer built for me in 1998
I thought I was a really hot s**t getting a 10gb IBM hard drive. It was $290
128mb of memory was a lot of RAM~!!!
That cost me $180
I loaded windows 95 into it
After that I built all my computers even today