OT: Server pricing 1999

[Richard Kreiss]

Just cleaning out some file and came across pricing for server from a white
box company in NY from April 23, 199

P3 Xeon 500 MHz w.512K memory
SuperMicro Dual Xeon GX chipset, Adaptec 7890 SCSI Ultra 2 Wide, 128 PC100
ECC SDRAM, 2 9.1 Barracuda Fast SCSI-3 drive, 1 3.5 FDD, 8Mb AGP 3D video,
ATX full tower case, 32X NEC SCSI CS-ROM, sound Blaster 15, speaker
keyboard, mouse 3Com 3C905B-tx NIC Windows Server NT 5 user license
$3,299.00

If I go back further, my fist Radio Shack Model II with 64K of memory, the 3
drive expansion bay, a 9 pin wide carriage dot matrix printer, cable and
Profile cost me somewhere near $8,000.00.  I think there was some more
software & hardware involved in that purchase but I don’t remember any more.

Oh, back to work - some much for another walk down memory lane.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net