Remember When Hardware Actually cost Money?

[Ande]

Here's a few blasts from the past:




























All images from boredpanda.com. A great source of unusual things.

[LizardMan]

The new 16K RAM card that turns your computer into a working giant. Thank you Ande for sharing with us such old commercials

[johnshaw1917]

Thanks for the walk down memory lane Ande!

[JayCub]

Appreciated Ande, most i have never heard of but it does show how far we have come in a relatively short time, maybe this would be of interest to Leo, as he is really knowledgeable in this area

[leofelix]

wow
I still have an EPROM module.
It should be good for a Museum I think.
And there is gold, real gold in that module

[hellnoire]

My dad still has our Commodore 64, and if he ever thinks of throwing it out, I'm taking it along with all the disks that came with it. Fond memories I have of that computer...

[luffy]

Remember when DDR2 ram was so cheap? 4GB DDR2 was for like $35 (2008). Now it's around $70.

[Ande]

Hey, my first hard drive was 8 meg and it cost $2999.95
My next was a 35 MB drive for around $1000.00
My first memory buy was for 48 K of ram - $150.00.
When I see people complaining about the prices today, I just have to laugh.
The computer I have on my desk is faster, has more memory, and has more storage than the IBM 360/65 that cost new around $8 million.
We bought 4 MB of memory for an IBM 370/168 for $5 million, installed.
I ran a whole OS, telecommunications, database I/O and over 1000 applications in about 1 MB. No graphics, though.

[luffy]

You could have donated the $$$$$$ to me?

[hellnoire]

Hey, my first hard drive was 8 meg and it cost $2999.95
My next was a 35 MB drive for around $1000.00
My first memory buy was for 48 K of ram - $150.00.
When I see people complaining about the prices today, I just have to laugh.
The computer I have on my desk is faster, has more memory, and has more storage than the IBM 360/65 that cost new around $8 million.
We bought 4 MB of memory for an IBM 370/168 for $5 million, installed.
I ran a whole OS, telecommunications, database I/O and over 1000 applications in about 1 MB. No graphics, though.

When I was young, I didn't have a hard drive until Windows 3.11... in 1997-1998 if I remember right!