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Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:18 am

And what did you pay?

Celeron 333 and I paid $1000 for the whole getup!

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:37 am

The HP I mentioned in the other thread:
HP 100Mhz, 16MB RAM, 8GB HDD. with the monitor.

$3000.00

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:45 am

Magnavox XT Turbo with CD-ROM, 40MB Hard drive, 640K RAM, VGA monitor, all for about $4,000 back in 1990. I had a CD-ROM drive before the state university I attended had one.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:51 am

notchback wrote: Magnavox XT Turbo with CD-ROM, 40MB Hard drive, 640K RAM, VGA monitor, all for about $4,000 back in 1990. I had a CD-ROM drive before the state university I attended had one.

thats exactly what I had.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:53 am

commadore 64 hooked up to the console tv. we never watched much tv but damn did we type in a shitload of numbers from "compute!" magazine

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:55 am

marklaken wrote: commadore 64 hooked up to the console tv. we never watched much tv but damn did we type in a shitload of numbers from "compute!" magazine I didn't think of that as a computer. I guess I can go back to 1983 with my Vic-20. I even opted for the super duper cassette tape drive.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:04 pm

IBM PC Junior, circa 1984.
I don't remember what we paid though.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:04 pm

HP 86

Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:05 pm

sad thing - I was still using that C-64 hooked up to the only tv in the house in 1993 and did consider it to be a computer :) - still remember typing term papers on the tv "speedscrip" my ass - lol

Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:17 pm

sinclair ZX spectrum

The ZX Spectrum was an 8-bit personal home pooty released in the U K at around 1981 by Sinclair Research Ltd. Originally dubbed the ZX81 Colour

The Spectrum was blessed with a Zilog Z80A CPU running at 3.5 MHz, The Spectrum had 16 KB of ROM and either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM.

'kin 'ell I thought it was the dogs bollocks :D

Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:21 pm

1973, IBM System 360

Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:23 pm

isn't that from the italian job Glenn?

Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:37 pm

TRS80 Color Computer

Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:41 pm

I still have never owned a computer. I only post from work.

except the time I posted from jiffy lube and my orthodontists office waiting room.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:45 pm

My dad bought that thing for us for Christmas 1977, and I haven't not owned a computer since.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:01 pm

Skim wrote: I still have never owned a computer. I only post from work.

except the time I posted from jiffy lube and my orthodontists office waiting room.

Once the Pimpala is done, you can get you one!!!

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:06 pm

Commodore VIC 20 w/ tape drive.

before that, my mom used to be able to bring home a Commodore PET (no idea what the specs were) every odd weekend as her work wanted to get everyone computer-literate.

Used to play 'lemonade stand' and 'oregon trail' text games.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:10 pm

First PC was an Apple, c.1987. DOS, floppys, cartridges, Dot Matrix printer with the green/ white paper with the holes on the sides, in a continuous ream. The big deal was making stupid banners out of groupings of letters. No Internet, just "bulletin boards", and every one was a long distance call. Black and white tiny monitor. Email nonexistent; BBS addresses were "Go Blablabla". First computer experience was a decade earlier. Took a "computer science" course at the university in the late '70s to be "on the cutting edge"... Punchcards, BASIC, FORTRAN.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:12 pm

Tram wrote: First PC was an Apple, c.1987. DOS, floppys, cartridges, Dot Matrix printer with the green/ white paper with the holes on the sides, in a continuous ream. The big deal was making stupid banners out of groupings of letters. No Internet, just "bulletin boards", and every one was a long distance call. Black and white tiny monitor. Email nonexistent; BBS addresses were "Go Blablabla". First computer experience was a decade earlier. Took a "computer science" course at the university in the late '70s to be "on the cutting edge"... Punchcards, BASIC, FORTRAN.

But what did you do before you retired? You took this class just to kill time as a retiree right?

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:15 pm

alexs64 wrote: Tram wrote: First PC was an Apple, c.1987. DOS, floppys, cartridges, Dot Matrix printer with the green/ white paper with the holes on the sides, in a continuous ream. The big deal was making stupid banners out of groupings of letters. No Internet, just "bulletin boards", and every one was a long distance call. Black and white tiny monitor. Email nonexistent; BBS addresses were "Go Blablabla". First computer experience was a decade earlier. Took a "computer science" course at the university in the late '70s to be "on the cutting edge"... Punchcards, BASIC, FORTRAN.

But what did you do before you retired? You took this class just to kill time as a retiree right?

If De Vry offers a course in comedy, you should sign up. :roll: