2007-07-20 15:03:49 · 24 answers · asked by Uncle Wayne 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
inheritance money. We received a portion of a (very small) inhertitance from a distant relative. We had absolutely NO MONEY, but no debt other than mortgage, so we thought, what the heck... it's found money why not get a couple toys for the kids. We got a swing set for the yard, and since I was homeschooling, we bought our first computer. a 386.... no internet. and it was 2nd hand.
love and blessings
rammie :)
2007-07-20 15:58:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
My first computer. It was an IBM clone xt-86. It had 640k ram, a 20 meg hd (not gig), and an amber monitor. The clock speed was 8.5 megahertz. It cost $1300. My office software was First Choice.
Around 1984 or so....
2007-07-20 22:10:32 · answer #2 · answered by Skip-Jack 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a Radioshack/Sinclair 1000, in 1983. Had a 1K "memory cartridge" you could buy and add on to the "fully loaded" 512 byte system memory. You hooked it up to your TV. Storage was a cassette tape.
Outlay of cash? About $150.
What I got out of learning to program in Basic? Priceless.
Edit: looking at all of those other "next-gen" monsters, I guess I had the one made out of sticks and stones.
2007-07-20 22:28:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1500 in 1999
2007-07-20 22:07:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
had a free one and was taking it to be fixed when I got in a car accident and it cracked the Mother Board (it's as close as we can figure out what happened) so I got a new computer for 1200 compliments of the insurance company.
2007-07-20 22:34:07 · answer #5 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very first I bought was $400 for a 100 MHz processor.
I owned a Commodore 64 but my parents bought it and I have no clue how much they bought it for.
2007-07-20 22:08:57 · answer #6 · answered by meissen97 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
$1700 for a Dell in 04'
2007-07-20 22:08:58 · answer #7 · answered by ƙʀɨʂʂɨ ᴌɨᴛɀ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am still considering buying a computer myself; I don't know what my current two computers cost. (My parents paid.)
I *intend* to pay anywhere from $700 to $2500. (Obviously, I need to narrow things down a bit more...lol)
2007-07-20 22:07:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My first computer was an Atari 400. I don't remember but I think it was around $75.00
2007-07-20 22:12:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, someone bought it for me.
It was an 8088 with 64k of main memory and a 5.25" floppy drive. Ms-Dos was disk loaded at boot up.
LOVE your neighbor as yourself.
Amen.
2007-07-20 22:14:59 · answer #10 · answered by jesusfreakstreet 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋