I remember buying my first Intel 286-based computer for NOK 12.000 in 1991. At that time the 286-computers were reasonably well spec'ed home computers. The 386sx was introducing itself to the market at twice the price at that time.
Last march, I bought my present computer. What I got was a 2,4 Ghz processor-based, reasonably well spec'ed computer for about the same price. Inflation considered, I'll agree that it's cheaper than the same class of stuff as in -91, but it can still be considered to be in the same price segment, imo. Jostein ----------------------------- Pictures at: http://oksne.net ----------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:37 PM Subject: Re: What would you do with a 24x36 digital chip? > >> if you look more serious cameras, > >> you will see > >> that the evolution happens just the same way as it has done > >> for computers. > >> The price stays as high as the market is willing to pay, and > >> the changes are > >> in what you get for the money. > >> > But it didn't happen that way with computers. Early computers were as > much as $10,000 for just a cpu. I remember when we decided to do the > Mercedes brochures on macs in about 1987 or so. We bought two Mac IIs > for twenty grand. Then spent another 20 on monitors, a scanner, and a > printer. Each cpu had 8 megahertz clock speed and 8 megs of ram. I > couldn't figure out why I was having trouble getting beyond page one in > Quark. Now you can buy the very best Mac for around $3,000. So not only > has the technology advanced by a huge amount, the price is only about a > third of what it once was. >
