whats the most ya ever spent on pc parts?

raggie33

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i mean not today but years ago im just wondering what stuff then compared to now ive heard a people paying like 19 bucks a meg for memeory and stuff
 

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1994 - I paid $55CAD a meg for 30-pin SIMM memory for a 386 PC. Wow, talk about memories /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

This was not the most $$$ I have ever spent on a single component, but it was the most painful.
 

Leeoniya

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$150 for a Diamond Stealth 1000 video card with not 1, and not 4, but 2 megs of SDRAM. I believe it was VESA. on a 386 DX2 33mhz...not SX without a built in math processor - pfft!! and not DX4 - 66mhz /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif..those were reserved for the big boys...like my computer programmer father.
 

Eugene

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$45/M for 4 1M simms for my 386DX-40
or $1500 for the 1GHz PIII laptop I'm on now.
 

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My first hard drive was a 10 MB Miniscribe. Yes, that's 10 megabytes. I think I paid close to $200 for it. I think it was a half-height 8 inch drive. That was about 20 years ago. It's probably around here somewhere and it probably still works.

That was for my Radio Shack Color Computer. That computer would hold 64 KB of memory but I bought the 16 KB version and sent away for eight 64 Kb (kilo bit) replacement chips because it was cheaper that way.
 

raggie33

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rofl eluminator that a lot 20 bucks per meg? lol my 80 gig hardrive would cost 16,000 bucks i think at that price
 

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I think my mom paid around $2000 for her old IBM PS/2 model 30. It was an 8086, about 6MHz I think, with 640k ram and MCGA graphics. 20Meg HDD.

I don't know what we paid for the Apple II+ before that, but I think it was a heck of a lot.

I remember when a meg of ram was around $40. There was a fire at a ram plant or something many years ago.
 

Draco_Americanus

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I belive I paid about 80 bucks for 8 meg of ram back in 1995, then around 160 for about a 150 meg hard drive a year or so later. I learned the hard way to not drop a screw driver on a running hard drive, I was working on my 386 DX 40 and acidently droped the screw driver, even though I never got out of diapers I still thought I was a big kid for having a DX40! bought it and the main board for 20 bucks D.O.A. some one pluged the CPU in backwards and luckly the powersupply whent into shut down , saving the CPU and giving Me a great deal!
 

gessner17

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Recently I purchased 2 73GB 15K RPM SCSI drives at $400 a pop, plus the adaptec SCSI card was not cheap (32320).
 

nekomane

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16 MB RAM for a IBM laptop cost me 700$ back in 1994 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif
 

turbodog

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I have bought:

server motherboard for about $1000
512 meg pc100 ecc dimm for about $500
$40/meg for 30 pin simms
server case for $800
APC UPS for $3000 or so
HP DLT tape autoloader and 30 tapes for about $12,000
1 (one) 15 plug lvd scsi cable for $200
$800 for an intel processor
 

matt_j

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I was in sales when digital cameras were comming out. Well 2 MB SmartDisk memory card for Olympus cameras were 49 bucks.

In 1999 I bought a 128 mb flash card for my old nikon for close to $500...
 

geepondy

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Ya, I've paid plenty for pc parts in the past but can't beat any of the stories here. When I bought my first PC in 1993, a $2100 486dx250, I do recall part of the costs were a $150 upgrade from a 14.4k modem instead of 2400 and close to $200 for 8 meg instead of 4 memory.

Regarding digital camereas, in 1998 I paid $1000 for 1 megpixel Nikon Coolpix 900, the first real consumer digicam in my opinion and similar to polak187 above, I paid nearly $300 for 48mb flash card.
 
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