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good questions, I’ll check back later to see if anyone has the answers
I remember seeing on PCmag, that a 386 was selling for about $5,000.
I hope that helps.
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.
Computerworld of 29th September 1986 lists it at $6499.
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.
Infoworld, 23rd April 1990, says $18,296.
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.
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.
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.
I worked for HP and was on the design team for the first Vectra, a 66mhz 486. I’m sure this was the first released. I still have one in the attic I think.
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Osborne, Kaypro, Altair, not mentioned here.
A typical 486 system was configured as follows:
486-25 MHz.
4 MB RAM
1.2 MB 5.25 FDD
1.44 MB FDD
150 MB HDD
16-bit VGA w/ 512KB
14” CRT Monitor (1024 x 768 capable)
All of that goodness above would set you back $5,000. Assuming a nominal rate of inflation, that computer would cost over $9,000 today.
Intel released the Pentium Processor on March 22 1993. The processor was a 60 MHz processor, incorporated 3.1 million transistors and sold for $878. The first Pentium microprocessor core was code-named “P5”. Its product code was 80501 (80500 for the earliest steppings). And there were actually two versions, specified to operate at 60 MHz and 66 MHz respectively. It also came with an unknown math bug in it, which was finally acknowledged by Intel in 1994 and they issued a recall. The Pentium chips included a floating-point unit (FPU) also know as a math coprocessor, while previous Intel CPUs did all their arithmetic using integers. I have been unable to confirm it, but I think it was the IBM PC and then adopted by the clones.
Yeah. Spent almost $6,000 for my self built 486DX 50Mhz rig (true intel not cyrix, AMD etc.) in the early 90s, had a whopping 340 MB HD. I was thinking “No way will I ever fill up 340 MB”. Funny how times change. Amazing to consider the beast you could build with 6K today.
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