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Firaxis preserves the 33-year-old, $10,000 386 PC Sid Meier used to develop Civilization – and it still works (www.techspot.com)

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's about $32k in today's money, using the "Other goods and services" category at in2013dollars.com.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did he have a special 386? I had one as a kid around that time and we were poor as dirt (then again, it might have 'fell off the truck' at Dad's work)

[–] aard@kyu.de 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There was the 386DX and significantly cheaper SX - first was full 32 bit, second just 32bit instruction set with smaller external busses.

Then you could add the math coprocessor. And of course RAM and disks were expensive. 16MB RAM was way above normal for that time.