Guest Shirley_Crabtree Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 Ok....so tonight I ordered my new 60GB HD from Ebuyer.Not large by todays standards but I can't wait!Anyhoo it got me thinking of the first HD I ever bought 4 years ago...It was a 6.4 GB monster for the princely sum of £110 and I recall a jealous mate of mine stating quite catagorically "You'll never fill it up!".My how wrong he was.Nowadays you could fill that with XP Pro and 3 games!!!!!This prompted me to dig out my 1990-91 copy of the Tandy catalogue.I browsed to page 134 and WOW!!!Full page here 244Kb.I then started doing some (very poor) maths.To install a 344Mb SCSI HD in 1990,including the purchase of a SCSI controller,comes to £3045.20!!!!!My 60GB HD is costing me £65 despite the fact it is approximately 175X the capacity!!The Tandy HD works out at roughly £8 per meg,whereas my Maxtor is £0.0010833 per meg :o Pretty amazing really considering that when I remembered my 6.4 Gb drive @£110,I thought it expensive.Anyway I just thought I'd share this useless (and probably very badly miscalculated) piece of information with you all. :D Cheers.Shirl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o £205.85 for a floppy drive :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 How much was a PC in those days??Flippin heck its nearly a grand for a 40MB drive :o did you need to re mortgage your house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 2mb simm kit at £343 ?? :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 :blink: £3699 for a colour PC system :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shirley_Crabtree Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 Funnily enough in the same catalogue one could buy an Atari 520ST with software etc for a mere £399.99 or a Spectrump +2 "James Bond Pack" (One for IP!) for £159.99 and that included a light gun and an audio message from "Q"!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 I think my parents paid £350 for my Amiga 1200 about then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shirley_Crabtree Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 I think my parents paid £350 for my Amiga 1200 about then.Definitely the better buy ;) I hated the Atari ST but the Amiga isn't in this issue unfortunately :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PC Eejit Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 I remember buying a 64 MEGABYTE hard drive for my Amiga in 1992. It cost about £80 - £100 if I remember correctly :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Thats about right, I remember saving up my christmas money/pocket money and willing myself to buy 1 but I never did :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PC Eejit Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 I felt like a king when I fitted it :DFirst thing I stuck on it was Monkey Island 2 - that came on four floppies so the disk swapping was a thing of the past.Sigh.....happy days :) :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 I felt like a king when I fitted it :DFirst thing I stuck on it was Monkey Island 2 - that came on four floppies so the disk swapping was a thing of the past.Sigh.....happy days :) :ph34r:I did have a second floppy drive to limit floppy swapping :D :D Did you have any of the following.... Elite 2 Frontier, Oscar, Zool? quality games ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PC Eejit Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Didn't have Elite 2 - too "Space" for meHad Oscar on the CD32 (!) and Zool 1 & 2. I think Zool 2 had an AGA Version - all that was different though was fancier backgrounds.Zool 1 may have had the same - can't remember :blink: :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Do you remember Gloom?? it was a Doom clone for the Amiga and 1 of my fave games, I spend ages on that :P oh happy days :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PC Eejit Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 I do yes!My favourite EVER game though - and the one I've played the most in my life - was Kick Off 2 on the Amiga.Never understood how Sensible Soccer become so popular. Well actually I do, Amiga Power were right up their backsides so it just get free publicity for years :D :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 I did buy SWOS to see what all the fuss was about but I soon got bored of it. I didnt have Kick Off 2 though :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PC Eejit Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 You could either "get" Kick Off 2 or you couldn't. By that I mean, to some it was like pinball - unplayable to them really.But once everything clicked, it was the greatest football game ever. As sad as I am, me and a mate used to regularly play 40 minute matches - often 90 minutes matches too. Utterly brilliant! The recent Kick Off 2002 isn't a patch on it though :( :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarthy © ® ™ Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 My Acorn A3000 cost me £1000 back in 1989.I paid £125 for a 1 MB memory upgrade to make the comp 2 MB in total.I then spent £325 (ish) for a Watford 30MB HDD - Which broke after 1 year ! ! !All together I spent over £2000 on the computer and software etc. I sold it all for £100 in 1996 (ish)... :lol: I wonder what we will be looking back from in another 14 years??? :) Bio-Chips? GigaFlop Drives? Linux OS !!!! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ghost of Inept Pig Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 You're all utter utter utter utter fools (in a nice caring way, of course)Sensible World of Soccer ruled all and was almost the best game on the Amiga, but, of course, the best game on the Amiga was Speedball 2... oooh the days I wasted on that game...... and the James Bond pack sounded very cool... wonder if I could find it on e-bay... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PC Eejit Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Nah.....SWOS was a bug ridden monstrosity. Always crashed on me. Ended up getting a update disc sent out.The actual footy action wasn't the best either.....you could charge down the wing with the ball, cut inside to pass, and you'd find the ball would still be hurtling out for a goal kick :blink: :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarthy © ® ™ Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Elite was the 'only game to have' in the 80's in my humble opinion. It was a breakthrough and a masterpiece and was exclusively available on the Acorn machines (Electron and BBC Micro)....(for a few years anyway)...The day that Spectrum and Commodore got a version it's appeal fell - and so did Acorn funnily enough ! ! ! :lol: :lol: :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ghost of Inept Pig Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 But but but BUT...It was good, honest....Anyhow... I'm sure this was discussed many times in Amiga Power... let's just agree that I'm right?Okay? Good... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PC Eejit Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Look what happened to Amiga Power though :DAND Sensible Software :D :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PC Eejit Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 Found a remake of Sensible Soccer:http://www.geocities.com/yoda_soccer/dloads.htm :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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