Sticker shock

[Marauder2003]

Cleaning out old receipts. Found some for Toshiba portables I bought.

04/1992 $7550.00 T6400DXC. 486DX, 200 mb HD, color screen.

10/1993 $7075.00 T6600C. 486DX2, 510 mb HD, color screen.

05/1996 $6100.00 T720CDT. Penguin, 1.3 gb HD, color screen.

Holy cow! Surprised I have enough money to be retired.

[manuelcardenas77]

Wow! So what's that amount in today dollars?

[d33pt]

Those were some high end machines at the time. Hopefully they made you money.

[the86d]

I think I paid about ~$800 for a i486DX2-50 notebook, floor model (I worked at the shop, so I finagled a tad).

i7 Dell, 1TB HDD (non-SSD): $749

http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-8900-desktop/pd?oc=fddogsk104hw10&model_id=xps-8900-desktop

Most quad-core Android tablets with FREE (to $5) applications are more productive than most of the computers I used to have used prior to Win7 (dual-core AMDs), at a whopping price tag of about ~$100-$150 (NEW on eBay).

[Marauder2003]

Wow! So what's that amount in today dollars?

$12814

$11659

$9258

[Marauder2003]

Those were some high end machines at the time. Hopefully they made you money.

I was mainframe contracting in Italy. Not really used for work. I was part of a user group called Team Toshiba. We were support on Compuserve. For a few years they did supply a PC but never the top of the line.