$8500? In 1989? Man, there seems to be something off about that ad.
In 1987 or so, not long after they came out, I bought a Gateway with 8 MB (consisting of 8 1mb modules populating all EIGHT mem slots, lol) of Ram for $3,500, which included $500 for the Sony monitor, iirc. This was a full 33mz DX, whereas the 'puter in this ad is a 20mz (probably the bus crippled SX) and only 2 MB of ram, being sold 2 years later.
Does not compute! :shocked:
Omg, I also payed $1,500 for a Microtek flatbed scanner (best price available) and, the real bargain, only about $1,000 for a cobbled together true Postscript laser printer that consisted of the Canon engine used in LaserJets with a separate HP branded Postscript controller/expansion board which resided in the 'puter and had it's own Motorolla 60200 processor and on board memory. That board, by itself had sold for $4,400 or so less than a year before.
I was one of the very few individuals on the PC side with true desktop publishing capability. It was so rare that many print houses were unprepared for Postscript files from a PC, and wouldn't take them.
I also spent ~ $300 for a 1st generation "answering machine" board that gave me TONS of phone options (including recording all calls to the HD) long before any of these options were available in any phone or phone service.
Good times.