On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:26:58 +0000
Peter Salisbury <peterthevicar@???> wrote:
> I was just tidying up and found a 10 year old copy of Micro
> Computer Mart (Jan 1998). Advertising 'unbelievable prices' such as:
>
> PII 300 with 32Mb RAM, 2.6Gb, HDD 33.6 Modem, and 14" SVGA monitor.
> all for an unbelievable £1479. No WAY you could ever fill a disk
> that huge!
we didn't have so much junk in those days to fill it with :-P
> Or how about one of those new fangled CD writers, 4xWrite, 4xRead
> for only £381.87 ?
>
> Or 64Mb of 168 pin RAM for £175.08
>
> Oh we were rich in those days!
some of us may have been, but it was several years before I could
afford a system with such a high spec and then it was only because
you richer folk were discarding 'em
--
John Lewis
Debian (Sid) & the GeneWeb genealogical data server
