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Yes, my 386SX 20Mhz with hopping 2MB and a 40MB HDD was about 1 500 euros in 1990, when the minimum wage was around 300 euros.

It was bought via credit and if I make the inflation calculation for today's money it would be a big pile of notes.




Same machine, investment was so big that my dad had to ask for a payroll advance from his boss, given I was struggling with Pascal (and my then computer was a Vic20). Turns out the boss had studied in the same college I was in, his answer was: "Whatever your kid need".

And that's how I got my hands on a 386sx. Around 1992 I installed Xenix and became a Unix nerd.

I love you, dad.


And that would be obsolete by 1994.


Yep, bought a Pentium 66 MHz in 1995 with 8 MB, around the same price.




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