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Originally Posted by porsche4life
Sounds pricey. Very pricey.
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It was actually cheaper that the Genuine IBM brand 6 MHz IMP PC AT with a yellow text on black background with 1 MB (Yes just one MB) and a 32 MB (yep megabytes) hard drive. Running DOS 2.3 No mouse. No graphics and no internet.
Shortly after we bought it they came out with the lightning fast 8 MHz machine.
I just did the inflation calculator and that old IMB in 1983 dollars adjusted for inflation cost us just under 12 grand in 2015 dollars.
Heck we bought a IBM PC that came with DOS 1.1. and it was 5 grand as well. And it had zero commercial software. You boot that puppy up and you saw A:\. The boss took it back and traded it in on a Systems 36. It at least had software to do accounting. We had to hire a lady to program it to do what we wanted. It used 8 inch floppies! No hard drive at all.
32 years ago I knew the future computers would be faster and better but I could not have imagined 128 Gig of RAM and 6 cores and 12 threads. 3840 x 2160 with billions of colors on a 28 inch display and HD sound. We don't use the sound at all and may or may not even put speakers on it.
It has the ports to hook up 10 displays.
