Best Buy flyer from September 1996

[DMX7]

2500 for a laptop that doesn't have 1 gigabyte of hard drive space? We were in stupid in 1996.

People weren't really storing media collections on their PC in 1996, but yeah, 1 GB wasn't much.

[Spur|n|Austin]

That ain't ...I had one of these:

Snake.. All day errday

[Venti Quattro]

Montell Jordan CD

[DMX7]

I had that Nokia phone. No lie.

[xmas1997]

I had that Nokia phone. No lie.

So did I.

[The Reckoning]

Computers were such a ing ripoff... and bear in mind that these prices are obviously not adjusted for inflation.

[Strange Love]

Having computers then was a big deal.

[DeadlyDynasty]

The Good Son was a ed up movie tbh

[Floyd Pacquiao]

wishbone

[InRareForm]

we are still using outdated sound quality cd's. not much has changed in that regard.

[Jacob1983]

The VHS part cracked me up. I also loved the audio cassette tape prices. Those are very hard to find. VCRs were badass back in the day.

[DJR210]

Sony 4 Head (!!) VCR on sale now through Monday for only 299.99!!

[benefactor]

Didn't even notice that the fax machine was one of those paper roll faxes until I read back through just now. I forgot those even existed.

[JoeTait75]

That was back when dudes would roll around in $200 cars with $800 systems in the back. Maybe they still do that, I don't know.

[Franklin]

Having computers then was a big deal.

true, it was 10yrs later when I got my first computer tbh. What do you think of my latest Lunar Goddess poem btw?
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...55#post7604955

[baseline bum]

Packard Bell computers

[Leetonidas]

8mb memory on those computers holy

[The Gemini Method]

det Dru Down album tho

[DarrinS]

Spoiled-ass kids. Do you understand how good you have it these days. PC's were even slower and more expensive in late 80's- early 90's.

[baseline bum]

Spoiled-ass kids. Do you understand how good you have it these days. PC's were even slower and more expensive in late 80's- early 90's.

I can't believe the ridiculous markup you used to have in boxed desktop computers. I remember when I built my first one it was about $800 and outperformed $1500 retail boxes.

[Jeff Leppard]

Wow! Who gives a ?

[DarrinS]

I can't believe the ridiculous markup you used to have in boxed desktop computers. I remember when I built my first one it was about $800 and outperformed $1500 retail boxes.

A friend of mine had a Silicon Graphics Indigo workstation. I believe he had $50k in total hardware.

Your low-end PC's of today could outperform that machine.

[CosmicCowboy]

I remember buying an IBM-XT with a dot matrix printer for about $7000. Had a screaming 128KB of Ram and a 10 MB hard drive. That was hot at the time. Wordstar was the hot word processing software pre-windows word.

[CosmicCowboy]

Later on I had a cell phone mounted in my truck that honked the horn when it rang and a motorola brick I paid $1250 for.

[Agloco]

Computers were such a ing ripoff... and bear in mind that these prices are obviously not adjusted for inflation.

Not much has changed in 18 years.