So my last post, my dad found his 3rd computer… he finally found his first computer!
Bonus: Back of the receipt has some additional purchases: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8ed5e2cb-3a29-4a8d-9f0f-347cc41771f2.jpeg
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That’s about 3800 bucks in today’s money.
Pretty crazy how far things have come.I thought PCs were closer to $8000 in 1980s money. This is considably cheaper than I thought it was. My current PC cost more than $3800, thanks to out of control GPU pricing.
65MB HDD in '89? Some people had it all.
I had to make do with 20MB until 1992, when I got a 386/33MHz with 60MB HDD. And it was glorious.
Then Strike Commander came out the next year demanding nearly 40MB. xD
I got my first 1GB HDD in like 95 or 98 and thought I would never use close to that…fast forward to now and I’m filling up terra bytes for movies I watch maybe once a year and video games that sometimes I never even play.
This dad was not a console peasant.
My first was in 1982.
No hard drive. Just two 5.25 floppies.
Came with floppies for Fortran and cobol.
640K ought to have been enough for anybody, except this guy’s dad apparently
Your dad overpaid. I can get twice that speed now for the same amount ;)
This is so cool to see. Thank you for sharing!
Labor @ $45/hr
Damn, that sounds like a pretty sweet gig. $45 = $111.43 in today’s money.
I guess Dad built this computer himself.
That’s probably shop rate. Like paying a mechanic. Shop rate for me is $160 but I don’t get nearly that, also covers machines, rent, etc.
oh yeah… 89/90… I remember, I wanted the 386 because 32bits and protected mode (windows 386 enhanced mode for the win!) so I bought something like your father but a 386/1MB/40MB and I upgraded to a VGA card and a 14" multisync VGA monitor (1024x768, at the time it was incredible). Cost of all this? $4000…
Saw that 45/HR labor charge (I work in IT and my going rate [for the company, not my pay] is a little above that. No wonder he said he’d do it himself, at those rates
oh I did everything myself too, bought all parts and assemble everything, always funny to plug everything, LED, turbo button, HDD led, etc.
What was the ‘scariest’ thing to do at the time? Like, before slipping into that sweet sweet AM5 chip with easy placement and locking, putting in the CPU and thermal pasting scared me and all my friends.
in late 1992 my first ‘ibm’ pc was a used one of about the same specs (286, 1mb ram, 30 and 20mb hdd, cdrom, evga). cost me $80
