Found a Microcenter reciept in a mobo box

[VirtualLarry]

MSI 865PE (Neo2-P) mobo $99
P4 2.8 800FSB tray $209 - $30 bundle discount = $179
1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 DDR kit $219
ThermalTake Spark 5+ heatsink $15

P4 2.8, 2x512MB DDR, and a mobo, for $500. Plus $15 for the heatsink.

Pricey stuff back then.

 

[Dadofamunky]

The RAM is ridiculous.

 

[TheStu]

I remember the pricing for the core of my college computer.

AMD Athlon XP-Mobile 2500+ - $99
Abit AN7 Motherboard - $99
2*256MB GeiL Golden Dragon PC3200 - $130
1*512MB GeiL Golden Dragon PC3200 - $125
Thermalright SLK-947U heatsink - $30?

It was a really kickin' system at 2.42 GHz... oh man... that thing would scream, I loved that system.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

remember my gf buying me my x1900xt for $550 and my AMD x2 4800+ Toledo for $630

 

[alyarb]

that's my kind of woman. where is she now?

 

[Dadofamunky]

Geesh. Where you guys been? I used to buy 1 MB sticks for $40 apiece and feel like I scored. Weird thing was, I had eight of them on a 286-20 motherboard and used them across five or six platform changes with the same DOS/Windows OS. Those things lasted through a 486-100 build. Then PC100/PC133 came along.

 

[OS]

i remember when computers had two floppy drives and no hard drives, you booted off one and ran programs off the other.

and when you upgraded ram, you put the chips in one by one in each socket..

 

[PM650]

I built one hell of a Diablo II/web browsing machine back in 05 :awe:

 

[hans007]

when i was 17 (12 years ago) i saved up $200 to buy a 3.2gb fujitsu drive to upgrade my 1.2 gb drive.

it was more space than you could ever use. it was like 70 cds worth of music in mp3 form!

 

[MagickMan]

My 10MB MiniScribe made me the envy of all the geeks in my HS.

 

[Gillbot]

I paid north of $300 for a 2nd stick of 64MB WAY WAY back.

 

[Rubycon]

i remember when computers had two floppy drives and no hard drives, you booted off one and ran programs off the other.

and when you upgraded ram, you put the chips in one by one in each socket..

I still have my custom DIP puller.

 

[MagickMan]

Oh, and I fondly remember my quirky 300bps modem and logging into the local BBS. Good times.

Update: Found the receipt, $200 for the modem.

 

[mazeroth]

In 1997 I had saved up $2500 from working at Burger King for a full year in order to buy a Dell computer. I landed a:

Pentium II 300mhz
64MB Ram
6.4GB HD
nVida Riva 128

What's funny is I wanted the Matrox Millenium and the saleswoman (yes, a woman) told me to call back in a few days as the new Riva 128 would be available for the same price. I'm glad I did, because that card was much faster.

The computer before that was a Pentium 100 that my brothers and I shared with a Rendition Verite V1000. It was WAY ahead of its time, even having anti-aliasing. I remember playing Quake 1 at 400x300 with anti-aliasing turned on, or at 512x384 with it off.

 

[OS]

lol that is a cool story

the RIVA 128 was my favorite card of that time

 

[Claudius-07]

Matrox Millenium!! God I just got a few tears in my eyes thinking back. Wonder if anyone remembers the Number Nine cards.... I swear I still have one in box.

 

[Markfw]

I just found a receipt. 2/12/96. 2 8meg (yes meg)72 pin NP 60ns 2x32 ram. $185 EACH for $370

 

[sgrinavi]

I had over $2,200 in my x2-4200 system less than 5 yrs ago (7800 GTs in SLI).

 

[WT]

Geesh. Where you guys been? I used to buy 1 MB sticks for $40 apiece and feel like I scored.

My first RAM upgrade was from 1mb to 2mb .. it ran me $270. It was so I could see the joystick and hand in the original Wing Commander game. Wow, did I have disposable income back then !!

 

[vshah]

Matrox Millenium!! God I just got a few tears in my eyes thinking back. Wonder if anyone remembers the Number Nine cards.... I swear I still have one in box.

i had a number 9 ticket to ride, and a number 9 revolution.

 

[aigomorla]

The RAM is ridiculous.

thats how much ram costed when p4's were around.

 

[anand_user]

In 1989 paid $4000 for Mac se/30 , and extra $300 for 4mb ram upgrade from stock 1 mb ram. plus $400 for dot matrix printer.

 

[troisanh]

8" floppies and tape drives on an old apple back in 85.

 

[hkklife]

In June of '96 or so I got a Gateway Pentium Pro 200 with 32MB EDO RAM, 2.1GB HDD and a 4MB Matrox Millennium. That thing got me all the way through college and then some. After I figured out how to overclock it to 233Mhz, I finally maxxed it out by popping in a Voodoo 3, 128MB RAM and an Intel OverDrive CPU that essentially turned it into a PII 333 (almost a mini Xeon)! LOL, those were the days...back when Intel actually wanted you to upgrade your old mobo by buying one of their OverDrive CPUs??