How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?

In today’s money (inflation adjusted)

This an ad from Personal Computer World (UK) from 1985

  • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Not very surprising considering their inspiration from xerox parc. I bought a mouse in 86 for my dads pc - a 3 button Genius. On PC mouse would not take off until windows was launched - gui was not needed for real business use according to IBM

    • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      That mouse was so uncomfortable. It was built like a box, probably designed for a robot hand.

      • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yep - but it was the only one available in my area of Norway at the time (I got mine for under 500 NOK because the supplier did wrong. As I was just a kid he let it slide and I got to keep it. There was some painting software supplied as well. That guy went on to be one of Norways biggest producers of pc’s - REC computers