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An old Techworks Accelerator ad
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bigmessowires
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My god, those prices. A 25 MHz 68040 accelerator was $1595 in 1992... that's like $3500 today. Sometimes I forget how insanely expensive computers and peripherals were in those days.
bigmessowires
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I wonder if TechWorks was affiliated with MetroWerks? They are using a very similar font for their company logo, and both are in Austin Texas.
JT737
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@bigmessowires -Yea, the 68040 accelerators were definitely a bit steep! And very expensive in today's dollars if you do a time/value of money calculation on them.
However, I think that the 68030 25Mhz accelerator wasn't too obscenely priced for the day....especially when a new 68030 based Mac was around $2,000 or so. Of course, more money than I would have had back then!
I was still using my family's original 128k Mac at that point in time-which had been upgraded to 512k so you could actually do (some) stuff with it. So I would have been very happy with the stock Mac Classic.
Metroworks....there's a name I haven't heard in awhile. I actually have a copy of CodeWarrior for the 68k somewhere around here.
However, I think that the 68030 25Mhz accelerator wasn't too obscenely priced for the day....especially when a new 68030 based Mac was around $2,000 or so. Of course, more money than I would have had back then!
I was still using my family's original 128k Mac at that point in time-which had been upgraded to 512k so you could actually do (some) stuff with it. So I would have been very happy with the stock Mac Classic.
Metroworks....there's a name I haven't heard in awhile. I actually have a copy of CodeWarrior for the 68k somewhere around here.
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