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chicot60
06-18-2015, 03:35 PM
http://i.imgur.com/OWEVv5n.jpg

TLG
06-18-2015, 03:48 PM
and to think , in 1989 minimum wage would've around $5.00 an hour
taking into account differences in cost of living, taxes, insurance, fuel, utilities...
by todays standards that computer would cost someone approx. $20,000

thank goodness for mass production ...

wattso99
06-19-2015, 12:59 AM
Thats about what I paid in 84 with canned software for HVAC

whoknows
06-19-2015, 01:33 AM
I wish I had put the 7500.00 I spent on a computer back in the eighties and put a little more in microsoft.