Gold! My PC Invoice from 1994

oldPC Apr 7, 2013

Just found this in a drawer. Amazing. From nearly 20 years ago. I paid $5190 for a desktop PC. Some highlights:

  • 486 chip running at 66 MHz (new PC has effectively 4 CPUs running at 3500 MHz each. Maybe 8, it’s quad core with 2 threads per core AFAIK. Not my area!)
  • Soundcard and CD Player kit ($870) cost about same as my new PC (system unit)
  • Graphics card was nearly $600
  • 15” CRT display was $870.  (Hello New PC again)
  • 340 MB hard drive was $475  (MB, not GB…what?…that is, AFAIK, $1.39 MILLION per TB.  MSY have a good 2 TB drive for $93 today)  update: maths after image.

Here it is, with the original Amex slip still attached:

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Maths on that disk price

1994 was $1.39 per MB

So x1000 is $1,390 per GB

and x1000 again for TB, thus $1,390,000

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