I lost all of my hard disk data due to a power surge in December. On Wednesday the data recovery man who had supposedly been working on my disks for over 3 months informed me that he had given up. He has returned the disks and now I am back to square one. Mostly. I have from time-to-time made backups of my data and so have recovered all of my documents pre-July 1998 and ~1500 of my photos from 2001-2003. As I restore data I have been going down memory lane and looking at some of my past work. Here is a gem, my fantasy computer wish list from 27 January 1996:
| Description | Price | Tax | Price | Essential |
| Pentium 133 | 1645 | 22 | 2007 | * |
| 1080Mb IDE HDD | 315 | 22 | 384 | * |
| 1080Mb IDE HDD | 315 | 22 | 384 | |
| 32Mb RAM | 1020 | 22 | 1244 | * |
| 64-bit VGA card w/MPEG | 39 | 22 | 47 | * |
| Upgrade to 2Mb Video | 60 | 22 | 73 | * |
| Philips 17” MM Monitor 1280×1024 | 1200 | 22 | 1464 | * |
| Sound Card, 4xCD-ROM, 18 CDs | 315 | 13.2 | 357 | * |
| Upgrade Sound Card to 32bit PnP | 70 | 11 | 77 | * |
| MS Office Pro 4.3 CD-ROM (OEM) | 65 | 0 | 65 | * |
| Adobe Photoshop 3.0 NFR CD | 172 | 0 | 172 | * |
| Adobe PageMaker 5.0 NFR CD | 161 | 0 | 161 | |
| 5377 | 6435 | 5890 |
Check out that price!!
I ended up getting the P166 version of this for my 21st birthday, from all of my family put together.
Photoshop for 172? Not 1722? Wow. That’s pretty amazing.
Office pro for $65!