Re:New Mac Pro
by seltzered_ on Monday June 03, 2019 @06:09PM
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They were even higher in the early 90's. In 1993 the Power Macintosh 8100 (one of the first ppc computers) started at $4200 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_8100
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I found the invoice a while ago for the professional desktop publishing setup that my parents bought in 1993...a Quadra 800 mac, upgraded video memory, a flatbed scanner, b&w laser printer, a 20" monitor, a 14400 modem and some kind of fancy magneto optical drive or something for FedExing large files. Total price was $13k at the time.
Toss that $13k into an inflation calculator and sigh loudly. http://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1993?amount=13000
It's about $23k in 2019 dollars.
Sounds like the coolest computer in the city.
March 1989:
Mac IIcx, 16 MHz 68030, 4 MiB RAM, 80MiB HD: $7069
Radius two-page display (19”): $1495
Monochrome video card: $699
Extended Keyboard II: $229
A 20” monitor in 1993? That had to be super expensive!
Yeah it was definitely something geared towards graphics professionals...just found an old magazine ad for it, looks like it had a Trinitron tube and ran for $2700 at the time. It weighed an absolute ton. I certainly enjoyed the screen real estate for playing Sim City when my parents weren't working!
Also in googling for it I found it had been featured in Jurassic Park: https://productplacementblog.com/movies/supermatch-20-t-moni...