Re:Busy Being Born (2004)
by sam_4675 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:25PM
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I remember the well deserved Lisa hype. But $10,000! I saw one in my professor's office a few years later shortly after the mac had been introduced. I was in awe.
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I’m always amazed at the price of early computers. My dad made $12,000 a year back then. Even the original Macintosh was an outlandish $2,499.
The IBM PC AT was $6,000 and the first Compaq 386 was $12,000!
Yes, my dad had a Model 80 and even older one and they were worthless when we tried to sell in 2019. We got $50 for both together. Think I should've kept the keyboard it had the best keyboard ever made (in my opinion).
But we kids never had a Nintendo or XBox but we always had the latest computer hardware at home. I can still remember that my dad showed us the cd-rom drive in the 80s it was massive.
I get the impression that Steve Jobs had no sense for what people were willing to pay for products. Macs were overwhelmingly present in schools, but I doubt many could afford them even if they wanted to. $2495 was an insane amount of money in 1984
Jobs wanted a lower price for the original Mac but lost to others who wanted to take profits. After his departure he complained about the high Mac prices and their effect on Mac market share. Conversely there’s a reason that Gassée the father of the Macintosh II was smirking about the high prices of the current Mac Pro line: https://mondaynote.com/mac-pro-fooled-you-90d560fcca99