The IBM personal computer sells for $4,385. Up to 256K of user memory may be installed.
BYTE Magazine, 1981
My gaming machine costed about $2,300, including the price tag of the 27" 1440p monitor. It has an i7 4790k, 16GB RAM and a Radeon R9 290X. With all that and it costs little more than half what the original PC costed in 1981.
I asked Wolfram Alpha to adjust it to todays money and I almost chocked with the answer... North of $11,000 !!! Yes, if the original PC were on sale today, it would cost eleven thousand Dollars !
We're talking about a chip that had 29,000 transistors versus one with 1,400,000,000 plus the ones on the GPU, 34 years apart. and the new system costs 1/5 the price.
My gaming machine costed about $2,300, including the price tag of the 27" 1440p monitor. It has an i7 4790k, 16GB RAM and a Radeon R9 290X. With all that and it costs little more than half what the original PC costed in 1981.
I asked Wolfram Alpha to adjust it to todays money and I almost chocked with the answer... North of $11,000 !!! Yes, if the original PC were on sale today, it would cost eleven thousand Dollars !
We're talking about a chip that had 29,000 transistors versus one with 1,400,000,000 plus the ones on the GPU, 34 years apart. and the new system costs 1/5 the price.
Damn, we moved fast in those 30 years!