My dads old super Laptop

Burgon

Burgon

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Hey guys,

I visited my dad yestrday I found his old laptop, its 11 years old, the CPU is something like 8405 with 33Mhz and a 8MB ram The Hdd is a few megs. My dad Bought it for nearly 3000 british pounds! almost 6000 US dollars!!! Is this even possible?
 
Sure it is. I remember finding the specs and price for my backup Digital box:

Pentium 1@133MHz, 16MB RAM, 1.2GB HD, CD-ROM, integrated S3 graphics with 1MB video RAM, low-end SB soundcard.
In 1997, US$2,867.
The 14" matching Digital monitor was US$750.

Total: US$3,617, and you still hadn't bought Win95, any software apps, keyboard, mouse, speakers... This was considered a BUDGET system just 9 years ago. That's $4,300 in today's money.

I have an old PC World magazine from 1996. The prices were insane for rigs that wouldn't even be considered worthy of being doorstops now... and any old-timer will tell you that RAM sticks were so expensive that they had to be insured against theft.

Tom
 
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I wonder how much my old, OLD Toshiba T1600 originally went for...
286 Processor(I'm thinking it was 12MHz...)
2M RAM
16 color grayscale LCD
...you get the idea :P
 
yeah my dad bought a laptop for $5000AUS back in the day, it was before xp, and it had 833mhz, 256 ram, 20gig HDD, and 16mb of video ram
 
The_Other_One said:
I wonder how much my old, OLD Toshiba T1600 originally went for...
286 Processor(I'm thinking it was 12MHz...)
2M RAM
16 color grayscale LCD
...you get the idea :P
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I think that this is actually slower than my Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus. Sorry to say it, but it adds up.
 
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