| laborlitigator |
Let me start it. . .
$129 for an 8 mb of ram (1994) |
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| phins2rt |
| I remember when ram was $50 a mb!!! |
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| texrb |
| $550 for a VCR player (1982) |
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| JerryinTO |
| $7,000 for a '74 240Z ( in 1974) and sold it for $9,000 in 1977. Bought a '77 4.9liter Trans Am. Did that son of gun GO!!:eek: |
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| dj-mdx2 |
"I remember drinking CokeŽ on my way home from school in San Antonio, Texas. I got a quarter a day for bus fare and a Coke. The year was 1957. A Coke was 5 cents out of a machine. It sure tasted good on a hot day."
Apologies to Barbara Anderson from Denver, CO, USA
Coke stories |
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| greatscot |
| I remember when I paid 34 cents for a gallon of gas (1969) |
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| JimH |
| I remember paying 15 - 20 cents for a McDonald's hamburger in the early 60's. |
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| CTPYHA |
How about $1.40 for a pack of cigarettes? And it wasn't 60's, not even 70's...
:2: |
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| eurohazard |
| I remember when I paid $50 for a well used '80 Honda Accord in 1992. |
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| mdxx3 |
I remembered I paid $2200 for an Apple 2e in the early 80's (with printer, monitor and duo-drive or whatever they called that floppy-drive thing). And it was like a 1 MHz thing!!!
Also remembered I paid $300 for an 63 MB RLL HDD (that's megabyte - not gigabyte). That was mid 80's. It's 6,400 times cheaper today. |
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| laborlitigator |
| $2G's for a 486 |
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| Maik |
I paid $1,995 for my first brand new car...1977 Honda Civic.
My first computer...salesman told me that with 90 meg (no typo here) hard drive, I will NEVER use it all up! |
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| phins2rt |
| I remember paying $5 for a case of Heileman's Special Export in college. |
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| justlegend |
| I remember paying $0.75 for slice of pizza |
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| andreseng |
| I remember paying 0.49 cents for the first 45 rpm record I ever bought. The Doors, Light My Fire, in the summer of 1967. Then went over to the pizza place and got a meatball hero for $1. That was the first time I went out by myself, a big day for me. Funny how certain things stick with you. |
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| justlegend |
| I remember Paying $8000 for Macintosh Quadra 900 back in 1991 |
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| Jim03MDX |
| $250 for an iPod mini. And that was only 3 months ago. Now I hear they are down to $200. In another year they are probably going to be $90. :20: |
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| Dr. Ken |
| I remember paying $999 for a PC Jr in 1984, which included 128K RAM, 1 floppy and no hard drive or monitor. MS-DOS cost extra. |
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| XStatic |
$800 for my first computer, an Atari 800 with floppy and acoustic modem
$500 for my first hard drive upgrade 80meg (upgrading from the 10meg that I thought I could never fill up on my PC XT) |
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| laborlitigator |
| What's an acoustic modem? |
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| crmsnidol |
| I remember buying my first PC CD-ROM drive (1994 or '95) for $550! It was 1X of course and the "edutainment" package included such craptacular games as Loom, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. |
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| XStatic |
quote:
Originally posted by laborlitigator
What's an acoustic modem?
Seriously?
300baud baby!
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| greatscot |
| I remember paying $1,000.00 for my first VCR in 1979. It was a two piece set by Sony, and the piece with the tape player in it was a "pop-up" tape deck. |
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| CTPYHA |
In early 90's someone donated me same VCR, it was Panasonic, but it was two pieces with pop-up tape deck! That thing worked with a rubber band on the internal wheel! I was wondering when it was made, now I know! Thanks.
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| laborlitigator |
| $25 for the Matrix on DVD (one of the first ones to come out) |
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| BaldEagle |
In 1983 the company I worked for bought a computer for my office. It was an IBM, can't remember the model, but it had a 5 1/2" floppy, no hard drive, and it cost $7000. The first time I tried to input P & L's using Lotus123 for the 32 stores I supervised it ran out of RAM. Had to upgrade with additional memory and 128K (I think, not sure) of additional RAM cost $700.
I also remember paying 25 Cents for a gallon of gas in the mid 60's during a gas price war. |
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| ByeByeChrysler |
I remember when a 286 was a good PC
and the new 386's were really fast. (mid 1980's) |
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| laborlitigator |
| Interesting how technology has generally gone down in price over the years. |
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| Dr. Ken |
I remember being envious of a friend who had a 486. I only had an 086xt at the time.
My first pentium was a 75 mghz model and cost nearly $2000, and I thought it was an amazing price. |
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| texrb |
| Paying $.29/gallon for gas in 1966..........but then I was only making $.50/hour in high school!! |
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| Blueflame |
I remember when I first got laid. Brought flowers, dinner, etc etc
Max out the good old credit card.
WOW priceless..:D |
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| greatscot |
quote:
Originally posted by Blueflame
I remember when I first got laid. Brought flowers, dinner, etc etc
Max out the good old credit card.
WOW priceless..:D
:2: :19: :21: :19: |
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| laborlitigator |
quote:
Originally posted by Blueflame
I remember when I first got laid. Brought flowers, dinner, etc etc
Max out the good old credit card.
WOW priceless..:D
Now that's funny! |
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| BWSmith201 |
quote:
Originally posted by Blueflame
I remember when I first got laid. Brought flowers, dinner, etc etc
Max out the good old credit card.
WOW priceless..:D
I was starting to wonder where that was going for a second... ;)
"Back in the day I only had to pay..." you get the idea... :p
Hey, that rhymes... I'd take my little poem further, but it's a family forum! :2: |
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| greatscot |
quote:
Originally posted by BWSmith201
. . . Hey, that rhymes... I'd take my little poem further, . . . :2:
Yes, your'e a poet,
but you don't know it,
look at your feet,
they're Longfellows
:rolleyes: |
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| laborlitigator |
Here's another. . .
2.00 a minute for a call to the Philippines. Early 90's. Now, about .40. |
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| CTPYHA |
quote:
Originally posted by laborlitigator
Here's another. . .
2.00 a minute for a call to the Philippines. Early 90's. Now, about .40.
How about $2.25 a minute for calls to Russia in early 90-es. Now... heh... about 15 cents a minute with local phone provider and less then 10 cents, if you buy a prepaid card. But that's not all. If you call Moscow in particular, it's 3.9 cents with prepaid card. So, it's actually cheaper to call Moscow from Chicago, then to call New York!
That's what Internet have done to costs of communications. :p |
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| hondacuraworld |
$12 for a 1979 Ford Fiesta in 1993 :2:
Somebody left it for dead in front of the auto parts store I worked for, and $12 was all I had. I said it as a joke, but just $12 later, I had the title in my hand! :cool: :rolleyes:
All I did was tighten down the bowl on the fuel pump, and she fired right up! Started with a screwdriver, it made an ABRUPT right hand turn if you let go of the wheel. No heat, no muffler. Drove it on a friend's dealer plate for a week, then crashed it into a snow bank when it became low on gas. Sold it for $50 to a shop I knew. Still have a Polaroid of that whipped puppy :D
Then there was my $43 1988 Pontiac Lemans, but that was another story :4: |
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| laborlitigator |
| MSRP for my X (Sept 2002) |
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