Time Warp Computer Pricing Revealed

Agg writes "OCAU has posted an article which shows just how much computer pricing has changed over the last 20 years or so. During a 24-hour period I asked OCAU readers to scan and send me an ad page from the oldest Australian computer magazine they could find. This snapshot of historical pricing is fascinating and, quite frankly, a little scary. How does $5999 for an 8.6MB hard drive strike you? For reference, 1 Australian Dollar is worth 70 to 80 US cents."

Comments

newsflash

[Anonymous Coward]

Hardware prices drop over time.

/.'ed

[Joey Patterson]

I hope that site wasn't hosted on a 128K Mac that they brought here in a flying DeLorean.

How

[Julian Morrison]

...does $5999 for an 8.6MB hard drive strike you?

As silly. I mean, why didn't they want that one more dollar?

Re:How

[eingram]

So they could advertise, "8.6MB hard drive now LESS THAN $6,000!"

Woo! Sign me up.

Re:Look at more recent stuff

[JWSmythe]

Judging by most of the computer "users" I've met, computers surpassed the average users mental capabilities in about 1998. :)

Most users can be replaced by a simple shell script anyways, so that wasn't hard to prove.

#!/bin/pseudoperl
#
# Replacement for average user
# v1.0b

use ICQ;
use email;
use browser;

while (1){
while ( period = "waking hours" ){
$input = browse( randsite() );
send_icq( To => randuser(),
Message => "$input ! hahaha!");

$input = read_mail();
send_email (forward_message());
);
sleep (8 hrs);
};

Not too mention

[geekoid]

that everybody know Australa is populate by thieves, and therefore stole the computer anyways. ;)