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An old Techworks Accelerator ad

Posted by: JT737 on 2023-10-28 08:17:20 I found this old ad from 1992 wedged into one of the manuals for a Daystar accelerator I recently acquired. I wonder just how many forgotten Mac Classics are still sitting on someone's shelves like in this ad......

Posted by: bigmessowires on 2023-10-28 08:34:56 My god, those prices. A 25 MHz 68040 accelerator was $1595 in 1992... that's like $3500 today. Sometimes I forget how insanely expensive computers and peripherals were in those days.

Posted by: bigmessowires on 2023-10-28 08:35:56 I wonder if TechWorks was affiliated with MetroWerks? They are using a very similar font for their company logo, and both are in Austin Texas.

Posted by: JT737 on 2023-10-28 10:07:13 @bigmessowires -Yea, the 68040 accelerators were definitely a bit steep! And very expensive in today's dollars if you do a time/value of money calculation on them. However, I think that the 68030 25Mhz accelerator wasn't too obscenely priced for the day....especially when a new 68030 based Mac was around $2,000 or so. Of course, more money than I would have had back then! I was still using my family's original 128k Mac at that point in time-which had been upgraded to 512k so you could actually do (some) stuff with it. So I would have been very happy with the stock Mac Classic. Metroworks....there's a name I haven't heard in awhile. I actually have a copy of CodeWarrior for the 68k somewhere around here.

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