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1988 vs. 2008: A Tech Retrospective
By Becky Waring, PC World
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Think the iPhone is pricey? The cool cell phone of 1988 cost $4,382 in today's dollars. A 150MB hard drive? $8,755. Take a trip with us down memory lane and you'll never whine about the price of a gadget again.
Ever wax nostalgic about your first PC or cell phone? It's easy to forgive your Tandy desktop or your Motorola portable for their limitations -- after all, they were technological infants.
What we often forget, though, is how $%#@! expensive that crude neolithic junk was! So join us on a trip two decades back in technology's history -- and we bet that the next time you're charged $895 for a small square of plastic and transistors, you'll smile and say, "Wow, what a bargain!"
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http://tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=6328095
I had a Commadore 128.... I thought I was cool... I rang up a $300+ phone bill playing chess with some dude in Cali... I was in New Jersey...Ouch!!
My how times have changed!!
By Becky Waring, PC World
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next >
Think the iPhone is pricey? The cool cell phone of 1988 cost $4,382 in today's dollars. A 150MB hard drive? $8,755. Take a trip with us down memory lane and you'll never whine about the price of a gadget again.
Ever wax nostalgic about your first PC or cell phone? It's easy to forgive your Tandy desktop or your Motorola portable for their limitations -- after all, they were technological infants.
What we often forget, though, is how $%#@! expensive that crude neolithic junk was! So join us on a trip two decades back in technology's history -- and we bet that the next time you're charged $895 for a small square of plastic and transistors, you'll smile and say, "Wow, what a bargain!"
Home Desktop PCs
http://tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=6328095
I had a Commadore 128.... I thought I was cool... I rang up a $300+ phone bill playing chess with some dude in Cali... I was in New Jersey...Ouch!!
My how times have changed!!