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VINTAGE COMPUTER QUESTIONS

Posted on 02/01/2012 8:20:48 PM PST by mamelukesabre

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Thanks in advance.
1 posted on 02/01/2012 8:20:58 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

Google is your friend… my FRiend :-)


2 posted on 02/01/2012 8:22:16 PM PST by bksanders (Old Gets Older the Older I Get)
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To: mamelukesabre

good questions, I’ll check back later to see if anyone has the answers


3 posted on 02/01/2012 8:23:15 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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I did that already. That’s why I’m here now. But thanks for your help anyway.


4 posted on 02/01/2012 8:23:44 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

I remember seeing on PCmag, that a 386 was selling for about $5,000.

I hope that helps.


5 posted on 02/01/2012 8:24:50 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: mamelukesabre

This site has a lot of archived computer advertisements.
http://www.aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads/international/compaq

I bet you can find the specific models and some may have prices in the ads.


6 posted on 02/01/2012 8:26:10 PM PST by mnehring
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I am trying to find info on 3 different computers. First, the Compaq Desk Pro 386 of 1986...how much did it cost brand new when it was first hit the stores?

Computerworld of 29th September 1986 lists it at $6499.

7 posted on 02/01/2012 8:28:00 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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I was poor and way behind the technology curve when I bought my used Tandy 386SX with a 33mhz processor, 4MB of RAM and about 100MB of harddrive space. (Windows 3.1) I had to add a 33.6 modem and a sound card to get online. (the ISP felt my pain and send me a floppy with Netscape 1.22, it hadn’t come with a browser).... I think the Pentiums were just on the market. I remember seeing an external CD-burner on sale for something like $999 or the like. Amazing how that price dropped.

lol.


8 posted on 02/01/2012 8:28:58 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: naturalman1975; mamelukesabre

$6,499!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

how much is that in 2012 dollars?


9 posted on 02/01/2012 8:30:46 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: mamelukesabre
HP Vectra 486

Infoworld, 23rd April 1990, says $18,296.

10 posted on 02/01/2012 8:33:19 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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Where are you getting these figures? I havn’t been able to find diddly on the internet.


11 posted on 02/01/2012 8:37:31 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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And finally, what make of computer offered for sale the very first pentium I 60Mhz computer and what was the model name/number?

I know Gateway had a Pentium I at 60Mhz, my company got them for all electronic shops when they first came out. Don't know if it was the first though.

12 posted on 02/01/2012 8:38:24 PM PST by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
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To: GeronL

I was using a third hand commodore colt(IBM PC copy) with an 8088 CPU and a 4th hand IBM monochrome amber monitor in the early 90s. It had a hard drive, floppy drive and modem, but couldn’t run windows. I used it for wordperfect and quattro pro.


13 posted on 02/01/2012 8:41:36 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: GeronL

My first Goldstar 286 pc had a 20 meg HD. Today that would fit about 4 mp3s. I paid $2000. :)


14 posted on 02/01/2012 8:42:02 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: GeronL

My first Goldstar 286 pc had a 20 meg HD. Today that would fit about 4 mp3s. I paid $2000. :)


15 posted on 02/01/2012 8:42:02 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: mamelukesabre
books.google.com Some of the older computer magazines are fully accessible on that.

HP Vectra 486 information.

Compaq Desk Pro 386

. I'm in Australia so the links are to the Australian version which I use by default for searches.

16 posted on 02/01/2012 8:42:02 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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Oh, when you said vintage, I thought you meant vintage, like the IBM Q-7 NORAD Sage computer that I was a maintenance man on for 7 years.


17 posted on 02/01/2012 8:44:23 PM PST by JaguarXKE
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Sorry - wrong link for the 486 Vectra

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LTsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT13&dq=%22HP+Vectra+486%22+%22$18,296%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7hEqT6GvJOr6mAXr5Mn0Dw&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22HP%20Vectra%20486%22%20%22%2418%2C296%22&f=false


18 posted on 02/01/2012 8:46:41 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: mamelukesabre

If it’s any help at all my 386 DX40 was about 1400 in 1991. A 486 SX36 2 years earlier would have probably been about 2500 to 3000.


19 posted on 02/01/2012 8:46:52 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)/?)
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except for the brand name system, you’ll never get an answer. When I built my first system for my self (vs an 8086 at work) a 386 dx, the hard drive and memory were 30% of the price. a scsi card and 500mb drive were ~ $500 and the 1/2meg ram and everx 16bit card was another $500.

The first pc i played with a tandy trs-80 with 64k and duel 5.4” floppy (’78-79) was over $10k then.

Since my dad died just before turkey day, been thinking about trying to find his 4004 hexadecimal system.


20 posted on 02/01/2012 8:48:24 PM PST by waynesa98
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