Reply 320 of 394, by Horun
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mmx23 wrote on 2020-04-06, 19:59:Speaking the prices, at launch, the cheapest Pentium Pro costs around 1000 usd ( 150 MHz) and 200 MHz 256k costs 1200 usd.
Of course, high price was because of low yelds but other reason was the fact that only P Pro was able to be used in 4 way cpu servers.
You are correct about the price of P.Pro cpu's back then. The P.Pro 200 256k and 512k was first released late November 1995, the 1mb cache version took another month or so before release. The 256k was at $600 and the 512k was at about $675 for the first month or so but due to demand and low yield they both doubled in price by mid Jan of 1996 and stayed there for quite a while. I have a receipt from that time (end of Dec 1995) showing the P.Pro 512k at $675 and the Asus P6NP5 motherboard was $275. I worked for HPc at the time and got those at "wholesale price" due to my connections.
Other things that were extremely expensive back then was RAM and good SCSI drives, 128Mb EDO (4x32mb) cost $650, two ST32550WC's cost near $1500 for the pair ! Yikes.
Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun