What is a price of a computer in 1990?

Answer 1

That all depends. On what is in it (Motherboard, processors, hard drives, CD drives....., the list goes on and on), and what on the outside (monitors, printers, scanners....). There are also the programs.

If you are building one, that is a good choice, cause if something stops working, you know how to replace it (because you built it!), and you don't have spend a couple hundred to get it repaired.

www.tigerdirect.com has all you need to build yourself a computer (bare-bones kit)

Now your motherboard can easily get into the thousands, now don't be discouraged by that. A good rule of thumb is the more expensive the faster and more powerful it'll be.

Your hard drive(s), this stores all of the information. If you have lots of pictures, music games, videos, movies, and other stuff, a 500Gb drive would do good. But if you don't want to worry about running out of space you can get a 1Tb drive (Tb is the biggest available on the market). For a 1Tb drive that can cost you about $200.

Next if you have lots of movies or videos, or if you are a gamer, you will want a good graphics card. This device sends the signals to your monitor so you can see what you are doing. Any of the new stuff from the NVidia G-Force line is good for the average gamer or photographer or what ever you do. Those also can get very pricey, several hundred.

Now that's just a few things that are essential in a computer but that doesn't count the monitor/screen, CD drives, speakers, keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner, extra hard drives... I'm sure you get the picture.

Answer 2

Computers now start anywhere from $500 to several thousand dollars. A good brand that I have found is made by a small computer company called MATRIX COMPUTERS not to give them free advertisement but... they are a good company to buy a computer from and they ship world wide 888-320-5554 speak with John there he is the ceo of the company and can give you a great deal.

Answer 3

depends on what kind of desktop unit you are looking for to purchase. if u want brand new in box it ranges between 199-over 1000, but if you look on eBay or Craigslist you will probably find one between 100-1000, look out for what u buy though. make sure you read all of the description.

Answer 4

Traditionally the price of Supercomputers have been at least 10 times the price of standard large mainframe computers of the same time period. The price also varied with the model of Supercomputer in a given line (e.g. economy or standard CPU, quantity of memory, speed grade of memory). Early Supercomputers were high performance uniprocessors or high performance uniprocessors with low performance input/output multiprocessors. Only much later did Supercomputer multiprocessors appear using massive numbers of inexpensive commodity microprocessors. However that factor of 10 in price has generally followed.

Answer 5

The money to built a computer is about 600,00000,00000,0000000000 Chocolate pooops Yummy ;)

Answer 6

Anywhere from about $1500 to hundreds of millions, depending on the type and required performance.