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What was the stupidest amount of money you paid in the past for legacy components?

  • 03-07-2009 10:39pm
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭


    I can remember paying £150 for the option of an extra 4 megs of ram on a new PC. Also paid £150 for a single speed CD Rom. :eek: (Worm drives at the time). It was not too long ago (2002? ) when Elora Computers had a 1GB USB 1 pendrive in their catalogue for £999 :eek:


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  • #2
    GrumPy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭GrumPy


    Your really old



    I remember paying €50 for a 128MB flash drive, it was purple too.


  • #3
    JDxtra
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    £100 for 512k (yes, thats half a Mb).


  • #4
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,469 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    paid 120€ for my 128mb creative mp3 player :pac:


  • #5
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    1987 the company I worked for paid 100 IR per Meg of RAM & 120 IR for one Genius PS2 ball mouse :eek:

    -

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • #6
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Ghost Train wrote: »
    paid 120€ for my 128mb creative mp3 player :pac:
    ugh. been there.


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  • #7
    Anima
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    I got the impression you meant paying for obsolete equipment in this day and age.

    No point spouting prices you paid for cutting edge components at the time, sure it sounds silly now but we all did it!


  • #8
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Anima wrote: »
    I got the impression you meant paying for obsolete equipment in this day and age.

    No point spouting prices you paid for cutting edge components at the time, sure it sounds silly now but we all did it!
    People still pay stupid prices for obsolete componente.Take my 87 yo old man, he came home from the Bray market with a cd Rom, serial ball mouse.keyboard and a paralell port Printer. Thinking he was doing me a favour. God knows what he paid for them. I told him to being them straight back where he got them and never ever buy anything to do with a computer again without asking a family member.


  • #9
    PogMoThoin
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    Paid €300 for 2x1GB ram, and thats only 2 yrs ago. Bought another identical set few weeks ago to bring the pc up to 4GB and it cost me €30


  • #10
    dingding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭dingding


    in the late 80's I spent 27 pounds for a box of 10 3.5inch floppy disks (low density) :eek:


  • #11
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    €10 for Windows ME.

    Should have asked for a tenner to take it off his hands.


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  • #12
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    €10 for Windows ME.

    Should have asked for a tenner to take it off his hands.
    I wouldn't have installed that system at the time if I was paid to, I was a 98 die hard for a long time after that system came and left.


  • #13
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I wouldn't have installed that system at the time if I was paid to, I was a 98 die hard for a long time after that system came and left.


    why? 95b was solid as a rock ;)


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