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| Thread ID: 146670 | 2018-10-20 21:45:00 | The first PC. Was it really that long ago? | R2x1 (4628) | PC World Chat |
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| 1454591 | 2018-10-20 21:45:00 | Wow, those machines were EXPENSIVE. IBM found a lever and a place to stand (www.youtube.com), and we were surely moved. It is just a bit of a shame they chose to stand on a pile of sand in a spot subject to strong tidal flows. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1454592 | 2018-10-20 22:05:00 | But do you know when the first programmable computer was built? It was a valve computer, it took up ten rooms of a house in Bletchly Park near London. It was used to decode the German Enigma signals in the Second World War and was instrumental in winning the war. | Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1454593 | 2018-10-21 01:02:00 | I dunno, my first computer was $1900. So was second. So was 3rd. So was 4th....then I stopped buying them and started building/upgrading my own. The parts got more awesome and more configurable and prettier. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1454594 | 2018-10-21 01:34:00 | But do you know when the first programmable computer was built? It was a valve computer, it took up ten rooms of a house in Bletchly Park near London. It was used to decode the German Enigma signals in the Second World War and was instrumental in winning the war. Yeah, Right. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1454595 | 2018-10-21 02:15:00 | Yeah, Right. Known as a "Bombe" Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1454596 | 2018-10-21 03:37:00 | first programmable computer . . computerhope . com/issues/ch000984 . htm" target="_blank">www . computerhope . com First programmable computer The Z1 was created by German Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room between 1936 and 1938 . It is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer, and the first really functional modern computer . |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1454597 | 2018-10-21 04:07:00 | I got my first computer in about 1984. A Sanyo 555 with a green screen, two floppies, no HDD and 256K of RAM. It cost me about $NZ6000 !!! I was obviously earning far too much. It seems impossible these days but I achieved a huge amount on that primitive beast and I think I had more fun with it than with any machine I've owned since. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1454598 | 2018-10-22 20:53:00 | Computers in the 80s were expensive right. IBM lost its own market in a world they standardised. The costs literally went down and down with IBMs trend. | Kame (312) | ||
| 1454599 | 2018-10-22 23:29:00 | I got my first computer in about 1984. It cost me about $NZ6000 !!! . Really? It was 1900 for C64, 1984 $1900 for A500 1985, $2200 for A2000, 1991 or thereabouts Never spent more until I got into gaming PCs |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1454600 | 2018-10-22 23:48:00 | Really? It was 1900 for C64, 1984 $1900 for A500 1985, $2200 for A2000, 1991 or thereabouts Never spent more until I got into gaming PCs You've made me think. I think you are right - it was $6000 after inflation, which would make it about $1900 at the time - still expensive though compared with today. |
Tony (4941) | ||
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