From: "Tim" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Bank of England Interest Rate
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:31:52 +0100
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>>>> "Andy Pandy" wrote
>>>> > ...  How much did people pay ... 10 years ago? ...
>>>> > ...  For a computer with 1Gb
>>>> > memory and 160Gb hard disc?
>>>>
>>> "Tim" wrote
>>>> Where was that available from, 10 years ago?
>>>
>> "Andy Pandy" wrote
>>> From various mainframe manufacturers.
>>
> "Tim" wrote:
>> Hmmm - care to name *any* ?
>>
"Tim Woodall" wrote
> Can't remember the disk size ...

See here:-
http://www.mashek.com/SGIsystems/Challenge.php

Best is 2 x 4GB drives, way off being a "160Gb hard disc" !!



"Tim Woodall" wrote
> ... but I was using an SGI challenge in about '94 or '95
> that I think had 1Gb of ram (and IIRC 4 processors).
>
> ...
>
> It feels like a very long time ago now and I may have
> got the details wrong but they're not way off the mark.