Re: Some Funny Pics.

EscapeArtist

LOL, is that someone's ashes in that Sparc unit?

Every time I see an old computer I think: Remember when that was the most bad**s hardware you could possibly own? It had a whopping 256kb of RAM expandable to 512 and a 3.5" floppy - and a 15" COLOR MONITOR!

Then I laugh at how much these things cost way back when:

Radio Shack TRS – 80 Model II (1979)
Price : $3,450 (32K RAM)
$3,899 (64 K Ram)

Would you believe that the same computer price ($3899) adjusted for 1979-2009 CPI would be equivalent to you spending over $7,500.00 for that TRS-80 II today?

http://www.ixibo.com/2009/01/10-most-expensive-antique-computers/

Makes me want to go watch that old movie "War Games" with Matthew Broderick again just to see him wreak havoc with that old computer and dial-up modem where you had to put the phone in the modem cradle.

Jackson

I love that you had to pay only $495 extra for the installation kit!

And to think that you could fit the entire contents of that HDD on a single rewriteable CD.....

49 times over.

thomthom

@escapeartist said:

LOL, is that someone's ashes in that Sparc unit?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10365289-71.html

david_h

A firm I used to work for in Vegas bought a summagraphics computer system with a desk size digitizing table, separate concrete-lined hard drive (so you couldn't move it accidnetly)a single 14" BW monitor and other accesories that would fill a room. It had a whopping 256 M on the hard drive and perhaps a 1/2 meg of ram.

Price. . ..$120,000. We replaced it in 1990 with a 386 desktop that cost about $3000, and ended up dropping the $120K system off a cliff in the desert. (not really--but it ended up becoming the most expensive door stop in history)

EscapeArtist

@thomthom said:

@escapeartist said:

LOL, is that someone's ashes in that Sparc unit?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10365289-71.html

Thanks for the link, that's actually pretty darn cool. I like the post-it notes idea.

boofredlay

remus

I can just imagine some awkward parents: "Now if you refer to the olives on your plate, its clear that they swim towards the egg, where the olives are..."