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I'd get the latest fastest Intel Processor 4 core or more, with two threads to each core, a motherboard to match it, max it out on RAM, a Nvidia Card best on the market, 2 ssd's biggest possible, and two fastest matching size (normal) Hdds to back them up on, and a box to put it all in, then with what ever money I had left over I'd use it to buy the biggest flat screen, maybe two to hook it up to.
The CDC 300mb SMD disks, popular in the 70's on DEC and other mini systems, were over 25K US. I once submitted a repair bill from servicing one that was over 10K just for the fix.
You are missing a tiny factor here. $6k in 1985 is the same as $13.5k today.
$13.5K?!?!?!
I'd buy a new John Deere tractor!
Biggest Bang for the Buck! Pshaw! I buy what I buy, and it has whatever "bang" I desire. I'm really not interested in competing with the NSA for computing power. Further, what "programs" would I run on it? I barely run programs now, it's all on the web. My compilations run fast enough.
Years ago when things sped up enough, we joked that you no longer could go get a cup of coffee or a cigarette while you had a build running.
I realize it's academic. I'm concluding that my point is if I had $6K or $13.5K free spending money, I'd not be spending it on a computer.
You know that the rate of technology is good when you can go high end specs for less then $1000, even the infamous apple iTrashcan which costs $3,999.00 at the highest is half the price of those old computers.
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