@nanoUFOM to GamesEnglish • 28 days agoFiraxis preserves the 33-year-old, $10,000 386 PC Sid Meier used to develop Civilization – and it still workswww.techspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square24arrow-up1353arrow-down12
arrow-up1351arrow-down1external-linkFiraxis preserves the 33-year-old, $10,000 386 PC Sid Meier used to develop Civilization – and it still workswww.techspot.com@nanoUFOM to GamesEnglish • 28 days agomessage-square24
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•28 days agoThat’s about $32k in today’s money, using the “Other goods and services” category at in2013dollars.com.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•28 days agoDid he have a special 386? I had one as a kid around that time and we were poor as dirt (then again, it might have ‘fell off the truck’ at Dad’s work)
minus-squareaardlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-228 days agoThere was the 386DX and significantly cheaper SX - first was full 32 bit, second just 32bit instruction set with smaller external busses. Then you could add the math coprocessor. And of course RAM and disks were expensive. 16MB RAM was way above normal for that time.
That’s about $32k in today’s money, using the “Other goods and services” category at in2013dollars.com.
Did he have a special 386? I had one as a kid around that time and we were poor as dirt (then again, it might have ‘fell off the truck’ at Dad’s work)
There was the 386DX and significantly cheaper SX - first was full 32 bit, second just 32bit instruction set with smaller external busses.
Then you could add the math coprocessor. And of course RAM and disks were expensive. 16MB RAM was way above normal for that time.