11 Feb
2010
11 Feb
'10
5:54 p.m.
On 11/02/2010, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/11/10, Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
wrote:
Interesting to note. It was expensive then, and by extension,
absurdly expensive now. I routinely install enterprise-grade web
servers that are well under $10K (dual-socket, quad core, 48GB of
memory, 1TB internal RAID, quad gigabit NICs, etc).
A positive bargain .. Just to rent space in the (UK's) 1982 equivalent
of the Internet, BT's Prestel, was ?5,500 pa for 100 frames.
Approximately ?22,000 ($34,344) in today's money.. That got you about
75K of usable publishing space, and they never got above 100K of
subscribers who could potentially see what you published.. (Scan of
the price list hosted at www.viewdata.org.uk)
No wonder it vanished virtually without trace as soon as the Internet
started being noticed....
Rob
Ethan Dicks wrote:
> For comparison, a "standard package" color IBM PC/AT (5170)
> ... was $5K at launch in 1985, IIRC.
$5,000 in 1985 is the equivalent of $9876.79 in 2008.[*]