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I think we spent $1100 on it when we got it. Sold it at a garage sale for $10.

Whats the most you've spent on a machine that you went on to sell for under $100?

does paying the special waste depot to dispose of it count as selling for under $100?

if so, then it would be a box that was nearly $2500 when i got it a decade and a half ago. forget what was in it, i think it was back when the K7s were hot shit.

Got that picture from this article - kind of interesting:
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/articl ... table.html

My dad bought one of the first XTs.
I think he paid AU$5000 at the time, and it came with 128kb Memory, 2 5 1/2 inch floppies, CGA monitor and no Hard drive

back then Hard drives were a luxury item, so it booted to dos 1.2 or something i cant remember.

You had to have the boot disk in every boot, load the OS, then you could do what ever the fuck it was you could do with these things.

I remember having a whole box of games with it. Ended up selling the games for $1
i still have the XT in the garage

I bought a PC for $1800 in '99 and gave it to my brother for free. He ended up spending a few hundred on repairs, but it lasted him 2 years beyond the 6 I had it.

I remember that tandy being the shit because it had a 3 voice on board sound system - my friends just had a single beep (except for the friend who had a roland mt-32 hooked up to his machine). Was funny to play old sierra games in 16 colors while having what felt like TV quality midi sound playing.

Transient wrote:I bought a PC for $1800 in '99 and gave it to my brother for free. He ended up spending a few hundred on repairs, but it lasted him 2 years beyond the 6 I had it.

its not a car, what the hell did he need to "repair" ?

A few bad fans, plus the video card died (I guess that was replaced, not repaired) and some other random shit I didn't pay any attention to.

My Packard bell

133mhz 16mb ram
1mb video memory
1gb drive and a 14.4 modem
15" monitor all for about $1500

then add 3D accelerator $399.00
and a 4 or 40 gb (cannot remember) drive $350

And I give it away many years later

486DX-2 ( amd ) 66mhz ( turbo )
8MB of EDO ( 2mb sticks )
S3 Virge DX/GX
4.3gig Maxtor HDD
Uhhhh, that was $1800 at the time...

within that week, i pulled it apart and got grounded by the rents..

good times.

I think a 486 was our 4th computer, maybe 5th.

My dad's computer growing up was a 33mhz Gateway. I remember getting quite good at playing demo games from magazines on Windows 3.11.

My dad was an apple-freak of sorts (now cured), i remember he bought a computer that was incredibly expensive at the time, with a rather unique A4 sized screen that had this new seriously high tech ability of displaying various shades of grey. And with actual internets, too!

For a while, people would come to the house and admire the PC

Spectrum and AtariST, baybee.

Ryoki wrote:My dad was an apple-freak of sorts (now cured), i remember he bought a computer that was incredibly expensive at the time, with a rather unique A4 sized screen that had this new seriously high tech ability of displaying various shades of grey. And with actual internets, too!

I remember that monitor, one of the Mac II models amiright?

Could be sir, don't remember

I still have sitting at home in my parents basement an XT Laptop. No hard drive, 640k ram. And LCD screen, but grey. I also have a 286 portable, Greyscale screen, and a 20meg hard drive. I don't know if I still have the 2400k modem around anywhere...

My dad bought one of the first IBM PCs in Finland back when Windows 3.1 had just been released. 20,000 Marks at the time

I think there's still a TI-99-4a and Apple //e at my mom's house. After those I got a 386 20 MHz, then built my own 486-DX50. I've built them since.

Windows? Please. MS-DOS is where it's at.

HiMEM + QuickMenu

atari gui was better mind

Dark Metal wrote:Windows? Please. MS-DOS is where it's at.

Exactly. Windows came on our 3rd machine.
THose DOS days taught me a lot about memory management, writing autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get my games to play, using EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.SYS, all that hassle to get games to load.

Good stuff.

Dark Metal wrote:Windows? Please. MS-DOS is where it's at.

MS-DOS 4.0 to be exact. All of the important operations in that computer were done in the CLI anyways.

urrrgh, computer nostalgia. can i play?

first PC (our third computer, first two being Atari 400 and 800XL respectively) was an Amstrad. I think it had a 20M HDD, which was *huge* at the time. only DOS on that one.

after that, i think we had a Tandy 386 with 2M of RAM and an 85M drive, which I actually just threw out last year. it did run Win 3.1, but slowly.

i don't remember what happened after that, as i had my own computer separate from my mom's. i think we both had 486s for a while.

lol, my oldest PC was a 900MHz celeron with XP from 2002. i had almost zero interest in PCs before then. in fact, i'm on to my third machine in six years and all with XP