What was your FIRST COMPUTER and how much did it cost?...we've come a long way.

[dpk777]

lets see what we all had for our first PC's.

I had a Pentium 66mhz, 8mb RAM, 404mb HD, 14.4 modem, 13in monitor, Win 3.11...cost about $3000.

All I needed was DoomII...=)

I still have it at home...and it still works!!!

 

[erub]

Dell 386 - 40 meg HDD, 2 meg of RAM, 13" monitor, SVGA!! Graphics (top notch, ran Harvard Graphics like a pro!), DOS 4.0 on big ol floppies, came with both the 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy drives (once again, top notch!) - all this for the bargain basement price of $3500 or so in 1990. And I used it for 7 years (my next computer was a P200 MMX, besides a 486 black and white laptop)

 

[Mucman]

Packard Bell 80x86 with 1M of RAM, monochrome monitor and a 10M HD... I think it cost my Dad $5000cdn back in 89-90 (maybe earlier)

 

[vegetation]

C64, 5.25" floppy, 1200 baud modem. Came out to about $600.

 

[Geforcekj]

386SX 33mhz, 640K RAM, 105MB HDD double spaced to 120MB. It was around $2000cdn, b/c 486's had just started comming out...

/edit: had 2400bps modem

 

[N8Magic]

Atari 600XL, with RAM upgrade and Indus 5.25 floppy.

It came out to around $2,000.

 

[DannyLove]

Compaq Presario (forgot model #) but it was when the 233 MMX "technology" first came out. Guess,/............. just guesssssssss how much it was......................... 3 G's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

danny~!

 

[Logix]

486DX - 33MHz, 8Mb RAM (all the slots were filled), 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives, and 200MB and 500MB hard drives. It had a 14.4 modem and had DOS 6.0 + Win 3.1, all combined with a 14" Viewsonic monitor. Over $3K around 1994, I think.

 

[Geforcekj]

<< 486DX - 33MHz, 8Mb RAM (all the slots were filled), 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives, and 200MB and 500MB hard drives. It had a 14.4 modem and had DOS 6.0 + Win 3.1, all combined with a 14" Viewsonic monitor. Over $3K around 1994, I think. >>



no way you had a 486 33 that came with a 14.4 they wern't out yet? but that would have been some power system , you and your Math Co-Processor

 

[AdamDuritz99]

cyrix 266mhz 32mbs of ram. 4 gig. 15" monitor, on board sound and video. Cost a little of 1200.


peace
sean

 

[Logix]

Well, the computer was put together by my uncle (I was about 11 at the time) for my family. Maybe the modem was added later. It was top-notch when it came out and very pricey. I think it was the fastest 486 when we got it.

 

[trmiv]

Commodore 64, I have no idea how much it cost.

 

[GhettoFob]

Packard Bell P100 with 16 megs of ram, 1.6 gig hd, 14.4 modem. $2500. Amazing thing is that it still works today. :Q

 

[areohbe]

Packard Bell

Pentium 75 mhz processor
8mb of ram
1 gig hard drive
i think 1 mb of video memory
combined modem/sound card that gave me MANY headaches
and dual 4x cd-rom drives (da hell did i need two cd-rom's for anyways)
15 inch monitor
crappy speakers that hooked onto the side of the monitor

cost about 3 g's at CompUSA (boy did we get screwed)

 

[Schlocemus]

It was a Micron <Blah! I forget>

Pentium 100
16 MB
etc...

It cost around $3k

Edit: Hmm...I seem to remember something like "M45Li"....

 

[LukFilm]

We certainly came a long way...

386/40DX, 4MB RAM, 250MB HD, 14'' monitor, no modem, 8bit SB (!) added later on etc. $1,300 - not TOO bad.

 

[Rage187]

original Macintosh


My dad said he paid well over 2k..

 

[RxL77]

a 486DX, 33mhz (later upgraded to a whopping 66mhz)
4 megabytes of RAM
4x creative labs CD-ROM
212MB HD
US Robotics 28.8 modem
Windows 3.1!!!!!

The memories...

 

[FrustratedUser]

Used C128, ~$150 back in '88

 

[OutHouse]

Apple II C no hard drive, had to flip the 5 1/4 disk to side two two run any big programs. man i played Adcanced Dungeon and Dragons all the time. $500.00

 

[PsychoAndy]

lets see, i had a 66 mhz 486, i think it was dx, 2 340 meg HD's, 8 megs of parity ram, SVGA chipset, 13 inch monitor, 14.4 zoom modem, upgraded to no named brand make in korea 33.6 USR compatible (just when the world was going 28.8), 3.5 and 5.25 drives, 1x CDROM, speakers that were tiny and one of the very early creative cards (i think, my memory is shot), dos 6.0, windows 3.1, oh and i had NORTON COMMANDER!! anybody remember that?

got it as a gift.....i'm told it was around 3-4 grand at the time

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Athlon 500mhz SlotA. Damn it was expensive!!

 

[Jerboy]

Apple Macintosh IIci in 1990

25MHz Motorola 68030
4MB memory
80MB SCSI HDD
no CD
13" Apple color monitor

My dad says he paid about $8,000

Memory was added to 24MB or so at expense of $1,000


That is 1990 $9,000's.. Unbelievable eh?

Its soul is still here. I gutted everything out, but the case is on my desk. There is nothing inside except for few ocassion I need to hide something from the parents. It makes a great monitor stand.

 

[MiExStacY]

compaq p133,8mb,14inch,1gig,cdrom...........3g's too.i remember everybody in school was like dang you got a p133 wooow

 

[Tsaico]

286 8-12mhz. with 1 meg of ram and no cd rom, and plenty of hours logged on it.