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		icedchai 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What came after the 486? This makes me feel old. I remember getting a 486 (DX4/100) in mid-1994, the Pentium was still too expensive!

bluedino 14 days ago [–]

A friend of mine bought a Pentium 60MHz from a local computer store, they originally wanted $10,000 for it, but he got it for $4,000.

It wasn't much more than a year later that I was able to get a Pentium 100MHz for $2000. It's amazing how fast things progressed back then.

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