We all know how quick 'tech' stuff prices fall...

[Webster]

I paid $300 for a CD-ROM drive!

I got you beat, lmy first CD-ROM drive cost me $499 + shipping...

Oh, while I'm at this, I paid for my first single side 350KB 5 1/4 floppy drive at a extremely cheap price of $600.00 and installed it myself (I was so proud of myself after I've done it )

[SquirrelDip]

hmm... how about $1600 for a CD burner

u cannot be serious!!!!!

ouch! $1600.00?

Yep.. and that was the wholesale price, no software. I had to buy
DOS software from GoldenHawk for $200.00 and make cue
sheets up myself.

I also recall those prices - it was a 1x, or possibly 2x, burner. My first one was a Wearnes 2X I purchased in Kuala Lumpur, paid just under $600.

Also, at the time blank media was about $20 per disk...

[smearbrick1]

Toshiba 2x CD-R/RW drive - $265.00

Intergraph Intense 3d Voodoo Card - (a whole 6 MB of video ram and 3dfx chipset, just to play Shadows Of The Empire and Resident Evil) - $250.00

Pioneer A03 - $360.00

RCA DVD Player (Plays on store bought DVDs) $300.00

[MackemX]

Toshiba 2x CD-R/RW drive - $265.00

Intergraph Intense 3d Voodoo Card - (a whole 6 MB of video ram and 3dfx chipset, just to play Shadows Of The Empire and Resident Evil) - $250.00

Pioneer A03 - $360.00

RCA DVD Player (Plays on store bought DVDs) $300.00

have you still got them? I know I've still got my ATI 8500 card I paid £230 ($450) for doing absolutely nothing apart from collecting dust!

[drjtech]

I paid $650 for my first floppy drive in 1980. It was for an Appl ][, 5.25", 126K, single sided.

They're now available as collectible antiques on eBay for about $5 each.

BTW, a box of ten floppies (that's 1.26 Megs of storage) was over $50.

-drj

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

In South America everything is more expensive, my first burner (years ago) was a Creative Labs 2X when it was the biggest thing around, and I got it for a bargain... $2000 . Mine did come with software, a creative-something-I-don't-remember-anymore and each blank CD was $10 (640MB Golden CDs).

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Just some addition, in that time, my hard drive was a 500MB IBM (I owned an Aptiva), so, it was HUGE to have a storage device capable to write discs almost 33% bigger than the biggest hard drive of that time. Imagine a dvd or something like it of 750GB of capacity.

I still keep my first recorded CD, it's a creative labs brand gold cd and it's filled with win3.1 & 95 apps.

[smearbrick1]

Toshiba 2x CD-R/RW drive - $265.00

Intergraph Intense 3d Voodoo Card - (a whole 6 MB of video ram and 3dfx chipset, just to play Shadows Of The Empire and Resident Evil) - $250.00

Pioneer A03 - $360.00

RCA DVD Player (Plays on store bought DVDs) $300.00

have you still got them? I know I've still got my ATI 8500 card I paid £230 ($450) for doing absolutely nothing apart from collecting dust! :roll:

I sold the CD-R/RW drive with my old Gateway PC about 4 years ago. The A03 was sold to my sister for 60.00 just last year!! (sucker). I sold the dvd player to a neighbor for 25.00 and I still have the Voodoo Card. I haven't really used it that much recently. Up until about a week ago I had it installed in a 1997 Dell Optiplex. It still works great for older 3d games. At the time I bought it, it was just about the best card you could get. Now, I don't even think 3dfx exists anymore or Voodoo (what was the last? Voodoo 3?).

[Webster]

Going back a little further, my first computer setup was a Rat Shack TRS-80 model I with level II ROM + Lowercase letter chip installed. System was decked with an expansion interface fully load with an unbelievable amount of RAM (for a total of 48Kbytes) with dual 5 1/4 floppy drives single side drives. Monitor was green monochrome (can't remember whether it as 12 or 13 inchs???) Total cost >$7,000.00 (What was I thinking of back then?!!!?? ). Mind you, this system was put together when I was a freshman in college (I have to skip a lots of meals to put it togher in a span of 12 months)

[p_l]

[MOVIEGEEK]

Sony DRU500A:
Paid $300US

@p_l,
"lightning-fast 20 MHz"

[Webster]

Ah, "lightning fast 20 MHz" mine was the good old Z80 CPU
"micro channel" it was good, but didn't quite made it to standard spec
Notice, mouse and monitor not included

[p_l]

@p_l,
"lightning-fast 20 MHz"

A generation from now, we'll look back on lightning-fast 3.2 GHz with the same indredulous derision.

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

My first computer was back then where the hardware brand name war over computers was held, when every manufacturer tried to pull costumers to their side. I owned an Atari 800 XL, It came with the connector to the TV (If you happened to have an Atari Game console, they shared the same connector ) As I were saying, it came with the TV connector, a cartridge for ATARIWRITER PLUS, another for SYNCALC, the external 5 1/4 floppy drive, and one joystick. It ran on BASIC. I don't remember how much my mom paid for that one (I was little), but I'm pretty sure it was expensive as hell.
The next one I got was a Commodore64C, it was huge back then!, the only problem was, that all the things I learned to do on the Atari, didn't work on the C64..... that sucked!.

[samijubal]

I had one of those with a printer, $50 for the 800XL and $100 for the printer, clearance at Kmart. Didn't have the floppy, had a tape drive, don't remember what that cost.