[Eug-lug] gOS dev board on sale for $60

[Ben Barrett]

Wow, that inflates to over 10TB, based on 2007 dollars.


ben


On Nov 9, 2007 7:21 AM, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> marbux wrote:
>
> > Wow. I remember paying over $550 for 4 MB of extra RAM for a bleeding edge
> > DEC 386-50 MHz box in 1992 because Netware was too sluggish with only 8 MB
> > on the server. :-)
>
> I remember 256 KB, $2200, 1983.  Adjusted for inflation, that's about
> $4500 in 2007 dollars.
>
> I was an undergrad at the time, writing data collection and analysis
> software for a biology professor.  She had a MINC-11, which was an
> LSI-11/23 (the 2nd gen microprocessor implementation of the PDP-11
> architecture) built into a lab cart with a nice collection of analog
> modules: D/A, A/D, and a high precision timer are the ones I can
> remember.  Of course, there's nothing there you couldn't duplicate
> today with your laptop's built-in sound chip.
>
> Dual 8" floppy drives, too.
>
> http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Digital/minc/index.php
> http://hampage.hu/pdp11/kepek/minc.jpg
>