in 1987 I started using an XT at work to keep track of student grades, and to word process the lab manuals ( in WordPerfect 4.2), and after two or three weeks I knew I wanted one for my very own. (even though you did have to shut down one application - say, Lotus 1-2-3 - to fire up another, say the wordpro application)
It was 1988 when I got the cash together, since it was $5000 for the setup -- an XT, with a 5.25 floppy drive and a blistering 32meg hard drive. The monitor was glorious amber and grey (better to look at than green, apparently). with inflation (taking the price of a stamp as a decent indicator), that would be about $6800 in today's dollars.
last July I bought a laptop for 20% of that, and it would have been significantly less, had I not put 2Gig of RAM in it.
the USB memory keys are going to be coming enclosed in cornflakes boxes soon.
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Date: 2006-11-07 11:21 pm (UTC)It was 1988 when I got the cash together, since it was $5000 for the setup -- an XT, with a 5.25 floppy drive and a blistering 32meg hard drive. The monitor was glorious amber and grey (better to look at than green, apparently). with inflation (taking the price of a stamp as a decent indicator), that would be about $6800 in today's dollars.
last July I bought a laptop for 20% of that, and it would have been significantly less, had I not put 2Gig of RAM in it.
the USB memory keys are going to be coming enclosed in cornflakes boxes soon.