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  • Business Expenses: 1985 Hardware

    My biz records from 1985 emerged from hiding on their way to the recycling bin:

    Hardware Expenses - 1985
    Hardware Expenses – 1985

    Yup, you read it right:

    • $944 for what might have been a 20 MB drive
    • $406 for a 10 MB (!) hard drive
    • $1400 for an EGA graphics board & matching display

    A few years after that, I gingerly plugged a $750 80387 math coprocessor into an 80386 system that we depreciated forever.

    Another page of that report says I dropped nearly $3500 on various chunks of software.

    The times, they definitely have changed. Nowadays, I buy throwaway off-lease Dell boxes costing less than that 10 MB hard drive and use Free Software for essentially everything I do.

    I wish I still had that HP plotter, though…