[justsomehnguy]

> Delphi 5 Standard costs $89 and Delphi 5 Enterprise is a whopping $2,468

> Delphi 5 Professional. [...] is $540 (retail $799).

http://www.tpcug.org/newsletter/nl_2000/may2000/delphi.htm

Now your salary is $100 (at best!) and... you have something like $500000 worth of software on that $3 CD with a black and white photocopied cover.

Many doesn't even know what there were the times when you needed to pay for the tools what are now available absolutely free.

[ajuc]

I got Delphi (don't remember the version) from a PC magazine with CD in 90s and the CD broke after a while. My father phoned to the newspaper if we can get a replacement and they sent us another one for free.

Today it would be absurd but then it was a big deal for us.