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Re:Busy Being Born (2004) by bluedino on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:53PM (#27178850)
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!

Re:Busy Being Born (2004) by wdb on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:14PM (#27179026)
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.