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    #11
    Owlhoot posted I wonder if anyone here is old enough to have invoiced in guineas
    If the global recession gets any worse, we may be returning to something not that far removed from your initial comment.

    However, replace guineas with guinea pigs.
    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

    C.S. Lewis

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      #12
      Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post
      £217 + VAT for an IBM keyboard in the mid/late 80's, pretty certain that's what they charged for the PS/2 keyboards too.

      I clearly remember buying 200 1mb SIMMs at £100 a go (bargain at the time) for a job at Leeds Uni in the mid 90's.
      1970s - I think it was £3K for a PDP-11 memory board (32KB or 64KB?), over £1K for a VT100 and something like £1,300 for a DEC dot matrix printer.

      piccies

      All in, that PDP cost more than the sum of the houses the DP staff had.
      Last edited by Sysman; 10 April 2009, 09:26.
      Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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