What are you willing to pay for an operating system, including all these great programs:

Calculator, Calendar, Cardfile, Clipboard viewer, Clock, Control Panel, Notepad, Paint, Reversi, Terminal, and Write.

Now if you guessed $99.00, and the year was 1986 you would be correct.

Just incase you where wondering: what cost $99 in 1986 would cost $188.40 in 2007 (source).

Now lets compare that to the market today.

According to NewEgg: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic is only $189.99, so in 21 years the prices of Windows has only gone up $1.59.

Keep reading to see the video of Steve Ballmer selling Windows 1.0 from youtube.

Here is a video of Steve Ballmer selling windows 1.0.x in a classic youtube video: