The "FIRST PC" and personal timelines (Was: And what were the80s

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Thu Apr 22 20:09:25 1999

>> Just to put things into perspective, a week's groceries, these days, for a
>> family of four, cost about $150, a decent mid-priced car costs $15000, and a
>> farily well equipped and appropriately designated personal computer with a
>> 400MHz pentium, 8GB HDD, 64MB of RAM, OS installed, all the multimedia
>> features, plus a current-generation modem (V.90) costs $400 less the monitor
>> with monitors costing $139 for a 15" and $300 for a 20" type. These prices
>> are from Best-Buy's ad in last Sunday's paper. You can probably do better
>> if you shop.

>These prices are also based on technology that has had 50 years to mature,
>and therefore the comparison is entirely invalid.

"If the automobile had followed the same price-performance changes as
the computer industry in the past 50 years, a Rolls Royce would today cost
$4.95, get two million miles to the gallon, go 50000 MPH, and explode
once a day, killing everyone inside." -- Robert X. Cringley

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Received on Thu Apr 22 1999 - 20:09:25 BST

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