Re: What would you do with a 24x36 digital chip?

[Paul Stenquist]

However, personal computers weren't new technology in '91. They were 
new technology in '81. That's where you have to draw your price 
comparisons.
On Jan 10, 2004, at 12:07 PM, Jostein wrote:

I remember buying my first Intel 286-based computer for NOK 12.000 in 
1991.
At that time the 286-computers were reasonably well spec'ed home 
computers.
The 386sx was introducing itself to the market at twice the price at 
that
time.

Last march, I bought my present computer. What I got was a 2,4 Ghz
processor-based, reasonably well spec'ed computer for about the same 
price.

Inflation considered, I'll agree that it's cheaper than the same class 
of
stuff as in -91, but it can still be considered to be in the same price
segment, imo.

Jostein

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Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: What would you do with a 24x36 digital chip?

if you look more serious cameras,
you will see
that the evolution happens just the same way as it has done
for computers.
The price stays as high as the market is willing to pay, and
the changes are
in what you get for the money.
But it didn't happen that way with computers. Early computers were as
much as $10,000 for just a cpu. I remember when we decided to do the
Mercedes brochures on macs in about 1987 or so. We bought two Mac IIs
for twenty grand. Then spent another 20 on monitors, a scanner, and a
printer.  Each cpu had 8 megahertz clock speed and 8 megs of ram. I
couldn't figure out why I was having trouble getting beyond page one 
in
Quark. Now you can buy the very best Mac for around $3,000. So not 
only
has the technology advanced by a huge amount, the price is only about 
a
third of what it once was.