Hot Deals Long Forgotten

[trauschu]

In cleaning out a box of old stuff last night out of my closet, I came across a CompUSA ad from September 14, 1997.

I don't mean to spam or be OT, I just thought it was funny and humerous to look at some of the "deals" from the past.

Check out these deals!!!!

Desktop - 200 mhz, 24 MB RAM, 3.2 GB HD, 16x CD-ROM, 33.6 Modem, 14" Monitor $1999.91

Notebook - 166 mhz, 16 MB RAM, 2 GB HD, 20X CD-ROM, 56K Modem, 12.1" display $3499.99 :shocked:

3.5 GB Hard Drive $199.99 "OUR LOWEST ADVERTISED PRICE EVER!!"

4.0 GB WD HD $259.99

7.0 GB Maxtor HD $399.99

16 MB RAM Memory Upgrade $59.99

17" CRT Monitor $549.99 "HOT PRICE!" :laugh:

Diamond Supra Express 56k Modem $99.99

1MP 640x480 2MB HP Digital Camera $399.99

ReWriteable/Erasable CD-Recorder $499.99 :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

ReWriteable CD $24.99

Sim City 2000 SE $29.99

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy $39.99 "LIMIT 1 PER CUSTOMER"



Kinda puts in perspective the deals we get nowadays.

Merry Christmas!!

 

[RaiderJ]

That's good stuff! So will we be laughing about $200 PC's in another 7/8 years?

 

[BadNomad]

Funny stuff

 

[trauschu]

Added CD-RW drive for $499.99 and a single blank CD-RW disc for $24.99

 

[Nick5324]

Good stuff, love those < 10GB hard drives.

 

[Sleeping]

I still can't belive I paid $300 for a 300 baud modem back in the days, ahhhhhhhh.

 

[ECartman]

or $399.99 for my first hard drive -- 5MB

(I still have the IBM PC I put it in --- that was $2200 with two (count 'em TWO) 5 1/4" floppies and no hard drive and screaming with an 8088 at 4.77mhz)

 

[driveeuro]

I remember our 25mhz 386 computer, 6mb ram, 40mb hard drive, 5.25" floppy, 3.5" floppy, 13" monitor...... $2500 back in 1991 it was I believe.

YIKES!

 

[Speckledpig]

Hey, starfleet academy is a great game.

 

[Stas]

In 10 years ppl will be listing today's prices on the products saying:

7800GTX 512 -> $650 (omg, does Mario run on it?)
1GBx2 low latency DDR -> $250-300 (2GB? what is this? how can you live with less then 128GB?)
500GB HD -> $300 (what's a hard drive?)

lol

 

[thescram]

Try $500 for 16mb of RAM! In 94/95 I think.

 

[middlehead]

That SimCity 2000 price is STILL a good deal

 

[regpfj]

:thumbsup:

good stuff

 

[BadThad]

Argggg.....reminds me of how I got fleeced in the past.

My "worst" purchase ever: 8MB FP 72-pin RAM module for $350.

 

[ECartman]

Originally posted by: BadThad
Argggg.....reminds me of how I got fleeced in the past.

My "worst" purchase ever: 8MB FP 72-pin RAM module for $350.

dman you're a "glass half empty" type eh? :laugh:

 

[grappa]

I've got a 4 GB hard drive lying around somewhere. I'll let it go for a cool $700.

 

[MIDIman]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
That's good stuff! So will we be laughing about $200 PC's in another 7/8 years?

I think we'll laugh at the crap we got for $200.

 

[phantom309]

When I bought my first computer RAM was about $65/meg. My first real job was in a graphics studio working on a Quadra 950 with 56 megs of RAM....that works out to $3640 JUST for the memory.

God, that was a great computer. I wish I could find one now, just to have one.

 

[bwnv]

1982
IBM pc- 4.7 Mhz 8086, 64K ram, low density floppy, mono graphics, 1 serial + 1 parallel port, keyboard, copy of DOS $2500.00

10 Megabyte Hard drive $10,000.00

Controller card for hard drive was around $450.00 , but included the cable

Don't remember how much for the monitor

Was working in an r&d gig at the time and we picked up about 15 of these babies, but only 2 or 3 had hard disks in them.

P.S. I think it took me a couple of months before I filled up my first floppy too. LOL

 

[Souka]

Originally posted by: driveeuro
I remember our 25mhz 386 computer, 6mb ram, 40mb hard drive, 5.25" floppy, 3.5" floppy, 13" monitor...... $2500 back in 1991 it was I believe.

YIKES!

Heh.... I had a 25mhz 386 also....noticed one day the CPU was a 33mhz cpu.... so I desoldererd the 50mhz clock crystal and replaced it with a 66mhz one. Wall-la....386-33mhz.

 

[soflawill]

I loved my diamond supra 56k modem. Our town had "arrived" when 56 k became available!!

 

[rancherlee]

1993, Packard bell DX2-50 with 8meg ram, 1.2gig HDD, a 4x cd-rom, and a 14" monitor for only 1999$ out the door..........

 

[HomeAppraiser]

We had three Apollo workstaions that I did GIS/CAD work on in 1991. Then HP bough Apollo and the IT guys said we had to replace all the motherboards or something like that at a cost of over $3000 each.

 

[johnnqq]

i remember my apple IIC...it ran mario bros just fine!

 

[Gillbot]

heh, I paid over $300 to upgrade my P166 to a P233 with new fangled MMX!