2006-06-25 05:56:49 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
My first PC was a viglen Genie 386 dx 33 mhz with 4 meg Ram and 100mb hard drive. It also had a huge 1mb display card.(MS Dos 5 and windows 3.1)
It was 1992 (ish) and cost £1200.
Memory upgrades were £30 per MB.(+ VAT)
2006-06-25 06:09:59 · answer #1 · answered by 'Dr Greene' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was 1988 , I bought an assembled 8088 XT PC with a 20 Mb hard disk, black and white monitor, 3.5 inch floppy drive which could store an amazing 360 K of data and it also had the amazing 640 KB RAM and even more exciting it had an amazing processing speed of 4 Mhz which could be put on turbo to 10 Mhz - and the person who sold it to me gave me a full floppy of over 25 computer games in DOS and assured me that I would take a lifetime to fill that 20 MB hard disk. It even used to bleep.
It cost me Rs. 23,000/- which work out to about $ 500 at todays exchange rates!
2006-06-25 07:39:11 · answer #2 · answered by DemonInLove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, 23 years ago, I paid £300 for a Commodore 64. I was 17, and it had 39k of free-memory, was programmable in BASIC, and had a tape drive and 16, yes, 16 colours on screen. The 8-bit processor 'ran', if that's the word, at 1.7 MHz. Yet from programming it, I was able to program Apple computers at work, also in BASIC, which did very useful tasks very quickly. The Apples had a green-phosphor screen, and 32k of memory! And this was in a merchant bank headquarters,
and a mouse was just a rodent.
2006-06-25 06:04:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first computer was a Commodore 64 - 64K! It was back in 1990. I can't remember how much it cost, but I got a lot of enjoyment from it in the pre-internet days. Its in the attic now gathering value (I hope).
My first serious desktop was an Olivetti 4Gb in 1995, cost about £1100. This was a really good reliable machine and I'm sorry Olivetti don't make domestic PCs any more.
2006-06-25 06:06:13 · answer #4 · answered by migelito 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bought an Amstrad 2086, in 1988 for £1200. It went at 8 MHz CPU speed, had a 30 MB Hard disk (MB not GB!), and 640 KB RAM.
It was amazing, then. Played some great games on it, including SimEarth and Elvira.
2006-06-25 06:08:21 · answer #5 · answered by Kreb D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was 1987 when i bought an 8088 XT PC with a 20 Mb hard disk and paper white screen (black and white, pretty fancy compared to the amber screen colors!) and a 3.5 inch floppy drive (wow!)
I paid 1000 dutch guilders, which is about $ 600, or £ 350.
2006-06-25 06:12:41 · answer #6 · answered by ploink 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a commodore vic 20. Cost me about $400 before upgrades. Had an amazing 4k of memory and used cassette tapes as the primary media. Too many years ago to remember, but I think it was around 1982.
2006-06-25 06:00:29 · answer #7 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Early 80's I had a Sinclair spectrum with the large 64k memory for £125
2006-06-25 06:13:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i went in to pc world a few years ago early 90's i think, i asked for a machine that was 1 meg/gig (i dont no the difference).
1 meg replied the assistant why on earth do you need 1 meg? are you running a buisness?
i replied no.
i bought it for 1,ooo pounds. it's worth nothing now but i still have it. not that i can use it 4 much. it cant even be used on line!!
2006-06-25 06:03:07 · answer #9 · answered by tuppassister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We bought a packard bell in 1996 for £1800.00 the printer was a Hewlett packard 360 and cost £230.00 and we were stupid enough to buy insurance, can't remember the price but it was a lot.
We made sure we put a claim in for a few things.
2006-06-25 08:41:33 · answer #10 · answered by Jayne 2 (LMHJJ) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋