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minus-squareJordan Lund@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoI was in college when this came out and, yeah, it was super cool… but nobody could afford to own one at the time. There were two form factors, the Cube and the Pizza Box. The Cube was $8,000 in 1990 dollars. The Pizza Box was $5,000. If you run that through an inflation calculator that’s the equivalent of $19,279.50 for a cube or $12,049.69 for the pizza box.
minus-squaremarv99@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoHere you can take a look at the NeXTstation brochure, it is mentioning your price of $5,000 on the last page. Do you by any chance know what around the same time the costs for a “normal” PC was? Just to get an idea about the difference.
minus-squareJordan Lund@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoI was rocking a $600 Amiga 500. :) The Macintosh SE/30 was the year before at $4,400 ($4,900 with a hard drive). PC prices were $1,000 to $2,000.
minus-squaremarv99@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agoThanks alot for the details. Very interesting, I did not know that the Mac SE/30 and the (cheapest) NeXTstation had comparable prices. What I knew (for here in Germany) was that PCs were expensive (compared to today), but much cheaper than the Macs and NeXTs.
I was in college when this came out and, yeah, it was super cool… but nobody could afford to own one at the time.
There were two form factors, the Cube and the Pizza Box.
The Cube was $8,000 in 1990 dollars.
The Pizza Box was $5,000.
If you run that through an inflation calculator that’s the equivalent of $19,279.50 for a cube or $12,049.69 for the pizza box.
Here you can take a look at the NeXTstation brochure, it is mentioning your price of $5,000 on the last page.
Do you by any chance know what around the same time the costs for a “normal” PC was? Just to get an idea about the difference.
I was rocking a $600 Amiga 500. :)
The Macintosh SE/30 was the year before at $4,400 ($4,900 with a hard drive).
PC prices were $1,000 to $2,000.
Thanks alot for the details.
Very interesting, I did not know that the Mac SE/30 and the (cheapest) NeXTstation had comparable prices.
What I knew (for here in Germany) was that PCs were expensive (compared to today), but much cheaper than the Macs and NeXTs.