nrg_alpha Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Interesting price and feature comparisons on PCs from the 1970's and 80's vs 2009: http://technologizer.com/2009/10/25/pc-prices/ Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngreenwood6 Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 That is awesome lol. My personal favorite about that article is the 2 MHz processor vs the 9,320 MHz processor lol. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/#findComment-979641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keldorn Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Mhz: 2 RAM: 0.256 VS Mhz: 9,320 RAM: 4,000,000 That is hilarious, I guess if you wanted to mutlply it, if 2 Mhz computer in 1975 cost $1,987.0, then one with 9,320 should cost $1,987.08 x 2/9,320 = $9, 259, 420 xD Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/#findComment-979695 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 That's not really surprising. New technology is always expensive because it's difficult to make and there aren't very many experts in the field. As there come more experts and we find better ways of manufacturing it the prices will also lower. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/#findComment-979710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I paid £60 for 1MB extra RAM for my Amiga 600. I also paid around that amount extra to have the 2GB HDD for my first PC rather than the 1.6GB, how times change. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/#findComment-979742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 I paid £60 for 1MB extra RAM for my Amiga 600. I also paid around that amount extra to have the 2GB HDD for my first PC rather than the 1.6GB, how times change. Ah, Amiga... those where the days.. I used to have an Amiga 500 and 2000. For graphics, Amiga was the man, so to speak. The PCs at the time were pretty much (exlcuding lesser known brands) either IBM or IBM 'clones'. In highschool, we pretty much mocked PCs for their weakness in the graphics department. Oh how times have changed lol I do miss the Amiga era though.. *Sigh* Brings back good memories.. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/#findComment-980124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I spent endless hours messing about with Deluxe Paint! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/#findComment-980150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 I spent endless hours messing about with Deluxe Paint! As did I! Then in 1996, I got into the game industry.. they were using PCs (ewwww) and Photoshop 3! At the time, PS 3 intimided the hell out of me.. I much preferred Delux Paint over it.. but as I got to learn PS, I realised it was powerful as hell.. that was pretty much the catalyst that got me into getting a PC and a cracked version of PS for home [ot]Before anyone picks up the phone and starts dialing the anti-piracy police, for the record the current version of Photoshop I'm using is in fact legal and legally mine. [/ot] Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/#findComment-980171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keldorn Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 I didnt own a PC until Windows xp was out. Well I did have prior experience using computers when Windows 95 was out, but they weren't my mine, Just friends and the ones at my school. In 1998 computers had like 256MB ram, and that was considered top of the line. The internet was a collection of a pages thrown together with blinking .gifs and construction signs. I remember in 2001 when I hit Grade 9 , there was this computer science class, I can't remember the name of it, but someone was building a website on one of the computers, I think it was there that I realized that was something I wanted to do,but unfortunately that wasnt part of the class, again I can't even remember what the class was teaching, but it wasn't anything like that. It wasn't until a fews years later in 2005 I got my own computer, then I installed apache, mysql, phpmyadmin , and started casually messing around with it and learning. It took till 2009 before I could actually program anything PHP. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/#findComment-980368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keldorn Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 I didnt own a PC until Windows xp was out. Well I did have prior experience using computers when Windows 95 was out, but they weren't my mine, Just friends and the ones at my school. In 1998 computers had like 256MB ram, and that was considered top of the line. The internet was a collection of a pages thrown together with blinking .gifs and construction signs. I remember in 2001 when I hit Grade 9 , there was this computer science class, I can't remember the name of it, but someone was building a website on one of the computers, I think it was there that I realized that was something I wanted to do,but unfortunately that wasnt part of the class, again I can't even remember what the class was teaching, but it wasn't anything like that. It wasn't until a fews years later in 2005 I got my own computer, then I installed apache, mysql, phpmyadmin , so instead of endless hours messing with delux paint, I spent mine messing around with a LAMP stack. It took till 2009 before I could actually program anything PHP decent enough to call myself PHP programmer. >>> I think this is bug, I didn't quote myself. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/#findComment-980371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 >>> I think this is bug, I didn't quote myself. I would say you did. You hit the quote button instead of edit by the looks. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185557-classic-pcs-vs-new-pcs-their-true-cost/#findComment-980373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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