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Jason
Arrrrghh!
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
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Location: New Jersey
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 Posted: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:40:40 Post Subject: Old Hardware Prices |
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I just found some receipts form 1997-1998, and man were the prices scary!!
I paid:
$75 for a 56K modem
$169 for a 2x2x6 CDRW
$157 for a Slot A Athlon 800 Thunderbird
$70 for 128MB of SDRAM
WOW! And I wouldn't pay as much for the current top of the line stuff now! Can't believe I dropped that much on a cpu!!
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Dud3!
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Joined: 21 Aug 2003
Posts: 1469
Location: Florida
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| Posted: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:40:32 Post Subject: |
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Here's something a little newer from July 7, 2000:
Full tower case
300W Sparkle ATX power supply
AMD Athlon Slot A 700MHz processor
Epox EP-7KXA Slot A 4x AGP mobo
128MB Infineon PC100 SDRAM
Sound Blaster Live!
Labtech three piece speaker set
Western Digital 30GB 7200RPM hard drive
48x CD-ROM drive
Acer PA3000 TNT2 M64 32MB AGP video card
Lucent 56K V.90 winmodem
Panasonic 8x4x32 CD-RW ($200)
Acer 99sl 19" monitor ($400)
Mouse and keyboard
Total with tax and labor:
$1,800.84 
We had a shop in Gainsville, Florida build this because we had no way to get parts. We had just come back from a year long trip, and we had been out of the computer world for that long, and sold our old computer before we left. So we payed these guys to slap together a system to our specifications.
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IceNine
*The Freshest*
Joined: 08 Sep 2003
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Location: Bel Air
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| Posted: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:18:44 Post Subject: |
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I remember around '99 when I paid $400 for an Athlon 600, an FIC SD-11 (piece of crap), and a case... 
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XXWoodmanXX
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Joined: 07 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:21:49 Post Subject: |
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| IceNine wrote: | | I remember around '99 when I paid $400 for an Athlon 600, an FIC SD-11 (piece of crap), and a case... |
Yeah, that was MY first Slot A combo, too!
I also remember paying $240+ for a 4/2/24 Creative burner, and a whopping $275 for a pair of STB 12Mb Voodoo2 cards, putting them in SLI for Q3 LANs. :p |
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BeerCheeze
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Joined: 14 Jun 2003
Posts: 9284
Location: At the Bar
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OK... Don't say I didn't warn you..
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120 MB W.D. IDE HDD - $285.00
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Teac 1.44 MB Floppy - $41.00
1MB SIMM -$38.00 (That would be $9,728.00 for 256MB)
Intel 486 33Mhz CPU - $305.00
Maxtor 345 MB IDE HDD - $345.00 (I remember thinking.. Cool only $1 a meg!!)
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1 MB Vesa Bus Tridend Video Card - $65.00
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8MB 72 Pin SIMM - $220.00 (down to a super low price of only $7,040.00 for 256MB)
Intel Pentium 100Mhz - $275.00
Coner 1.6GB HDD - $275.00
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16MB 72 Pin SIMM - $300.00 (droping fast... now at a low low price of only $4,800.00 for 256MB)
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Dud3!
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Joined: 21 Aug 2003
Posts: 1469
Location: Florida
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| Posted: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:51:28 Post Subject: |
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Speaking of SIMMs! $25 per MB for 4MB of 32 pin SIMMs for our 386.
Electroman ran soooo much faster after getting that extra 4MB of RAM 
A mere $6,400 for 256MB of RAM then...
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