History, my time

By remembering that I didn't have computer at home, I remembered that how expensive PC's were about 15 years ago, at least for university students. Older people in computer industry can probably tell more interesting stories, but I remember XT's with no harddrive. With their green monochrome monitors, they cost around 600,000 Tomans ( and I have no idea how much it was in dollars , but the average salary was less than 20,000, just imagine!) Anyways, Not many dared to think about owning a computer.

Then emerged 10 Meg harddrives (TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEN megabytes). They were as big as a shoe box.

AT's appeared very soon and the prices dropped dramatically. 300,000 Tomans for a 286 with 40 Meg hdd and color display , usually equipped with 1 Meg RAM. What more a man could ask? Then appeared the companies who sold financed PCs and there came my solution. My first PC which I bought at the end of second year of university was a 386, with 120 Meg hdd and 2 ( read TTTTTTTwo) Meg RAM.