Originally Posted by kane

The two items that jump out at me from back when I worked there in 1990-91 were a cell phone we sold. It was huge, weighed about 10 lbs and cost around $2,000 plus around 40cents a minute for calls. There was also the "top of the line" home computer. It was a 286 that ran at 16MHZ had a 20 megabite hard drive and 512K of memory. Once you added in a monitor and printer you were looking at close to $3,000.