What was your first Computer and how much did it cost?

[GALRLF]

Just wondering what everyones first computer was and how much did you have to pay for it? Year also?

 

[ultimatebob]

It was a Commodore 64 with cassette storage, and I paid $10 for it at a yard sale around 1990.

 

[venk]

Dark Forces 1 and about $50

It pwned

 

[Leper Messiah]

IBM 8088 640K ram 20MB HDD, 5.25 drive, dot matrix printer, 4 color monitor. I paid $75 for it at a garage sale in like 1995.

 

[Benthere]

Sinclair, about a hundred bucks in 78 or 79

 

[MikeMike]

Leading Edge computer with W3.1

i forget the specs but i do know it had a 5" (or whatever size they were) disk drive

 

[nboy22]

slot A 750 mhz with 128 mb of ram, like a 30 gig hdd maybe? it was like 700 bucks not including the monitor, with the monitor it was like $820. I think it was in 1999 or so.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Pentium 100Mhz
16 MB RAM
1.2 gig Quantum Fireball HD
Diamond Stealth video w/ 2MB
4X CD-ROM
14.4K modem
Windows 95
15" MAG monitor
2 speakers
3.5" floppy

$2048 on New Year's Day 1996

 

[Skunkwourk]

Macintosh LC with 12 inch color screen 2mb ram and 40mb HD....cost who knows, parents bought it...

 

[imported_goku]

Repost eleventy billion times! .......

 

[Pacfanweb]

I had a TRS 80, and an XT back in the day, but my parents bought those.

First one I ever bought was a Packard Bell 486 and I think is was about 1200 bucks.

 

[Kremlar]

I had a Commodore 64, paid $200, with no disk drive or Cassette tape. It was said - I typed in programs out of a magazine, couldn't even store anything.

Returned it a week or 2 later and got:

Coleco Adam, $200, 1987 or so. I think they were originally $800 or so but just started dumping them for $200. Not a bad deal - came with a high-speed cassette and daisy wheel printer!

Eventually ditched that and got a full Commodore 64 system.

 

[imported_LoKe]

IBM NetVista - P3 933MHz. Paid like, $300 CAD for it, hah. That was before I became midly knowlegable about computers. -_-

 

[Willoughbyva]

386sx 30mb hard drive, 4 meg ram, 16 bit color, 14" monitor. Somewhere around 1500.00 in like 1992 I think.

That was the first real computer.

I had a c64 in the 80's with floppy drive. I think it was around 1000.00 all together.

 

[MX2]

Atari 800XL with the external "true" floppy drive, and an external modem cradle. I dont recall how much it was. Would have to ask my Mom

 

[Juno]

pentium 133mhz with 1.51gb hard drive and 32mb of memory for $2,200 in september '96.

 

[RossMAN]

Commodore Vic 20 in the 80's and it was a gift.

 

[sniperruff]

it was around 97'

P233 MMX
3.2gb HD
8X CD Rom
4mb S3 Virge
Diamond sound card
32mb of blazing EDO ram
all loaded with windows 95
28.8k modem

$1500

 

[bctbct]

HP pentium 166 $1200 about 1998?

 

[destrekor]

1994
Acer.. model unknown
800mb HDD
4mb RAM
75mhz Pentium

one of the first models around to feature Windows 95 preloaded
i dont know the cost, i think somewhere around 2000 though
14400buad modem
i liked playing where in the usa is carmen sandiego on it, and some weird puzzle game

 

[MasterAndCommander]

Kaypro PC, $2399, 1988

I still have it too...in fact I'm posting this reply with it

Spec's of my first system:
-NEC V20 Processor (Equivalent of Intel 8088) @ 4.77 MHz
-512K RAM
-2 - 360K 5.25" floppy drives
-CGA Adapter with a 13"Amber Monochrome monitor
-300/1200 Baud Modem

 

[RbSX]

IBM ps/2 14 mhz bitches!

1994?

 

[jimbob200521]

in the mid 90's, i bought my first computer, an ancient ibm with who knows what in it, for $100. (talked the guy down from $120 )

 

[Kadarin]

Apple 2+, whenever it first came out. It was a couple of grand, I think. 48K RAM, woohoo, and you needed an expansion card to run Interger Basic, and another expansion card so that you could have both upper and lower case text.

 

[NL5]

Mid 80's - Commodore 64 - don't rememebr how much.