[Info-vax] Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died

[Paul Sture]

On 11 Oct 2011 23:21:31 GMT
Bob Eager <news0001 at eager.cx> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:28:12 +0200, MG wrote:
> 
> > On 11-10-2011 23:24, Bob Eager wrote:
> >> They weren't that bad...people still pay vast sums for Apples,
> >> after all.
> > 
> > That's a good point.
> > 
> > I do remember that the very first were even more expensive than
> > Macs are today, even without taking inflation into consideration.
> > I believe the first IBM PC generation was in the thousands of
> > dollars (the price of a new car, or a new VAXstation).
> 
> About $3000 AFAICR. Since this was 1981, there were no VAXstations.
> By the time there were, a PC was under $1000.

Circa 1991/2 I came across the US edition of one of the mainstream PC
magazines of the day which announce on the front cover the first $1000
PCs (at the same time the UK equivalent announced the first GBP 1000
PCs).  I bought my used VAXstation 2000 at the end of 1989.

> > Though, I must admit, I don't remember those days too well (I was
> > still very young back then, after all).  Were IBM PCs hyped in the
> > same way as Apple Macs are today?

Certainly in the corporate world.  The place I was working at in 1996
had some PS/2 systems which were leftovers from a previous project
using OS/2. They were well stacked with RAM for their day, one having
14MB.  Apparently they cost as much as a new VAXstation 2000 had when
that was introduced.  I knew which I would rather have had for that
money ;-)