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To: Grut

IBM PCs were hideously expensive: $8000 or so....

Hmmmm...lookin' at my Fry's Electronics invoice of 11/82, my IBM 8088 with two floppy drives, 128K memory, and a COLOR monitor was $2540.

Six months later, I added a 10Mb HD/Controller card .... for $1100!!!!

Just amazing.....

~GCR~

62 posted on 08/12/2006 12:26:30 PM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck ("It's never too late to have a happy childhood" - unknown)

To: GoldCountryRedneck

Now we have these deals:

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Price:	$	349.98

80 posted on 08/12/2006 1:45:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)

To: GoldCountryRedneck

Hmmmm...lookin' at my Fry's Electronics invoice of 11/82, my IBM 8088 with two floppy drives, 128K memory, and a COLOR monitor was $2540.

Guess I misremembered. Eight thousand sticks in my mind, though... maybe the price of the first ATs?

84 posted on 08/12/2006 3:54:52 PM PDT by Grut

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