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| Thread ID: 53655 | 2005-01-23 10:12:00 | ok : why did ya, and did ya regret it??? | beetle (243) | PC World Chat |
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| 317308 | 2005-01-24 02:01:00 | I invented computers,not long after in a fit of boredom i invented the internet. True story,page 1263 of the bible. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 317309 | 2005-01-24 04:06:00 | I had been using computers in a work environment, but when I retired I felt I needed a home one, partly to assist my wife in her genealogy endeavours. I bought an XT, green screen,no HD, twin 360k floppies, in 1988. I still have the receipt for $1195. Mind you, this was no ordinary XT, it was a TURBO !! Gee ... The first switch-on was a serious moment, followed soon by the inevitable upgrade path... Happy days . Tony |
TonyF (246) | ||
| 317310 | 2005-01-24 04:37:00 | Fascinating thread . Like TonyF I felt compelled to pull out the invoice for my first computer . I bought it on June 12th 1996 (ahhhhh the day I became self-employed, and no looking back) from PC Direct (no I wasn't serv{ic}ed by Sharon . . . ) and I can't believe how much I paid for it . It was a PC Direct Vortex 565TI, with a Pentium 133MHz processor (my mates were impressed) with 24Mb of RAM (upgraded from 16Mb), 15" monitor, 1 . 7Gb HDD, 3 . 5" FDD, CD-ROM, Windows 95, Office 95 and an external 28 . 8k modem - this cost me $4,818 . 37 plus an additional $786 . 38 for a Panasonic laser printer . Can you believe it cost $299+GST for an external modem 9 years ago? Plus I bought a surge protector for $129+GST . :@@: That PC is long gone, and I have owned a few since, but the surge protector is still going strong! I wrote some billing software in 1996 for the P166 PC and I'm still using that exact same software today . :thumbs: There are 4 PC's under the desk right now, the fastest is a P4 2 . 66GHz HT PC but my favourite is an ex telephony P2 450Mhz MMX server-grade PC running Windows 98 that I picked up from the auctions 6 months ago for $40 . It's what I'm using right now plus I use it for my work . I can't believe this PC cost less than 1% of my first PC! Andrew |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 317311 | 2005-01-24 05:20:00 | hhhmm, my first pc...... ah thats right, my trusty old 166, man that thing was a beast, back in the day of course, i was using that right until 2003 until i brought my p4. ive still got my 166 and its still going, a good old back up system.... |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 317312 | 2005-01-24 08:34:00 | Wa-hey . . Back in the dim dark ages (about '84) I picked up an excuse for a computer, called the SEGA SC3000 . Everything was on rom cartridges, including whatever version of basic you wanted to tinker with . They called it a '48kb ram' comp but that was including vram of 16kb . It was plasticky, icky and the software, games included, was prehistoric (remember pong anyone?) . I was so happy when I upgraded to one of those superpowered Amstrad CPC464's with cassette drive and all . . . Spent a lot of time saving up for the deluxe colour screen (16 colours or something, my memory ain't too hot) . It cost $600 odd for the comp and $750 odd for the screen . Then I got into dept trying to pay for it and had to sell it . . . :xmouth: Strange thing is, they never used to crash . BSOD was unheard of . . . :D |
Catweazle (2535) | ||
| 317313 | 2005-01-24 09:02:00 | My first computer that personally paid for and owned is this one, bought about 2 years ago.......well kind off. The only thing that is still from the original is the floppy drive :eek: gaming, upgrading, blowing the mobo tends to change the comp in a hurry :D But my dad bought an IBM PC-JX and I was brought up on that. All that 4.77Mhz powered goodness and it came with a 3 1/2 drive and 256Kb of mem. So I was given the power of pc-dos 3.20 to start with. Only trouble was there was no software out on 3 1/2 at that stage(imagine only using software that came out on dvd today :dogeye: ) so after about a year we changed to an IBM clone (clonewars :D ) which was 4.77/8 Mhz with a 5 1/4 drive and a 4 Mb hardrive, and with ms-dos rather than pc-dos. Then buy,sell,upgrade,buy....... and so on :D |
Raikyn (6293) | ||
| 317314 | 2005-01-24 09:12:00 | Further to my earlier message, I still have a fully working computing device I got in 1946 in Japan. Made of bamboo, fine on multiplying/dividing etc, not any good for adding.(not an abacus..) Does many things faster than punching numbers into a calc. Terry will have one of these, of course ... | TonyF (246) | ||
| 317315 | 2005-01-24 09:23:00 | Bought a second hand Gamma 486 DX33, 8MB RAM and 250MB HDD, DOS 6 . 11 and WFWG 3 . 11 for $2000 when I took the leap and went self employed late 1993 . That wasn't a bad price or spec either at that time . It was dead reliable too, never gave a moment's trouble . I needed a colour printer though, so I bought a Canon BJC600 and that cost $1875 trade! I spent $2-3000 on ink cartridges for that printer over the years . I still have my second computer (LCS P166, 256MB RAM, 3 HDDs and W98) running as a print server and backup storage machine . There are three more Desktops and two laptops running here as well now, but they have nowhere near the nostalgia value of that old 486 . I learned DOS and all my basic computing on that machine . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 317316 | 2005-01-24 09:57:00 | I remember when mom and dad bought our first P.C from PC direct. I remember it clear as day back in 1992 or 1993, being told by the P.C Direct sales person that we should go for a 286, as he couldn't think of anything that would require the processing power that the 386 had.... boy was he wrong. PC ran a program called (I think) Main Menu, which ran over DOS from which we could run all our dos games and apps. I think from memory Windows 3.1 was installed as well. |
Ash M (46) | ||
| 317317 | 2005-01-24 10:34:00 | I picked up from the auctions 6 months ago for $40. Holy moly, you people have got to tell me where you get these auctions from! |
Growly (6) | ||
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