so , did they finance computers in the 80's

[UndertheOcean]

OMG , JUST SAW THIS : mouse and Monitor NOT INCLUDED

[musette_sf]

1. Yes, they did

Financing available through Apple, IBM, and I can't remember what the third option was.

In the computer sales business, the 80s were the Good Old Days. A really maxed out system cost as much as many cars did.

Also note:

* There is NO hard drive.
* A 40MB would set you back, like, $400 or so,
* WTF with the Micro Channel? Tandy really, really made the bad bet there. Here it is 2010, and PCs STILL have 8-bit and 16-bit slots... this would seem to prove that the MCA "advantage" was dubious at best.

I sold some of these bad boys back in the day... yes, the list price IS $19,317. And back then, when we said "list price", we meant "list price".

[pokerfan]

2. The Apple Lisa came with mouse and monitor!

[Tobin S.]

3. Now I know why it was 1998 before my family owned a computer

I had no idea they cost that much back then.

[Lil Missy]

4. 16M hard drive. Ha!

I recall when 1G hard drives were unimaginable. Technology has improved exponentially since then.

[struggle4progress]

5. Adjusted for inflation, that's like $14500

[whistler162]

6. Yup... bought me a Kaypro XT financed

still have the restore disks.

[IDemo]

7. A 20 MHz 386 and 2 MB of RAM. Holy cow, she was a screamer!

[Rob H.]

8. We got a Macintosh IIci in 1989 for $8800 base price

With monitor, an upgrade from a 40MB hard drive to an 80MB hard drive, a scanner, and an inkjet printer the total was close to $11,000. (It may have been more than that, actually. I can't remember for certain.)


Edit: now that I think about it, it may have been a dot-matrix printer.

[retread]

9. It wasn't necessary if you listened to Captain Kirk .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVX5cyMOGAk

[Old Troop]

10. I got my first computer in the early 90s. They were down to about

$2,000 by then.