shortcolin on Nostr: For people who are upset about current computer hardware prices: I scanned in my 1991 ...

For people who are upset about current computer hardware prices: I scanned in my 1991 DEC computer catalogue.

Inflation adjusted, 32Mb RAM (p31) for your DEC VAX computer is £45,219 and a 1.2Gb hard disk (p128) is £44,745. A 32Mb VAX 4000 with options would cost £200,169.

Maybe modern hardware is cheap.

I used the Bookeye 5 book scanner at Edinburgh university library, which was quite a neat thing.

https://archive.org/details/decdirect-hardware-february-april-1991/page/n31/mode/2up

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