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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: [OT] PC hardware prices [correction] (was Re: The integral type
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:35:10 +0200
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On 28.03.2025 02:05, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 27.03.2025 12:14, bart wrote:
>> On 27/03/2025 02:24, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm speaking about all that inferior systems that had a comparably
>>> high price without a matching quality. And about years and years
>>> passing without vendors of such products changing that situation.
>>
>> I guess ... you're talking about either the IBM PC hardware or MS
>> software, or both? (Although PCs weren't expensive.)
> 
> Here PCs were expensive; a friend of mine bought one for ~8000 DM,
> IIRC, (compare that to 2000 DM for a Commodore PET; even the first
> Apple was expensive but not that expensive as the IBM PC).

Upon reconsideration it appeared to me that the price estimates do
not reflect their _original_ price. It was ~3000 DM for the PET and
~12000 DM for the IBM XT. (Although prices rapidly dropped after the
first years of their release, as I've just verified; that's were my
"2000 DM" memories stems from). - So they were actually even *more*
expensive (and rarely commonly affordable). - That doesn't change my
point (rather it supports it yet more), but I wanted the numbers to
get fixed.

Janis

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