I gotsta get me one of these!

[STC]

1-800-EXPLODE-MY-HEAD

Ohidv69WfNQ

[newfiend]

I think I just found the replacement for the surface pro tablet I "was" going to get.... Thanks for posting!

[makryger]

64 THOUSAND colors?!

[richard1980]

For part 2, you have to call the number....

[WindowsHTPC]

wow... $3395 for a 386. I wonder what my 486DX/33 cost back in 1994. Thank you grandparents for buying me a computer. They probably thought it was just a big $$$ toy... but it put me on a path to a job... then again I am unemployed right now! Perhaps they should have bought me a chemistry set instead.

[STC]

This is your brain..... TSSSSSSSSS!

[erkotz]

I remember my school had some of those when I was in ~5th grade. I remember using Linkway Live on them.

[foxwood]

I recently came across an old invoice from 1991, for a machine that was to be used as a File server (running DECs Pathworks on OS/2)

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AST 486/33 EISA
 8Mb RAM
 300Mb HD, 16ms SCSI HD
 486/33Mhz
 VGA graphics, no monitor               $9200
 600Mb HD Upgrade            add        $ 600
 MultiScan Monitor           add        $ 750
 Upgrade to 16 MB RAM        add        $ 700
                                         ----
                                      $11,250

[STC]

Ooo SCSI. Yum.
I miss my Adaptec AHA-1540 cards.

[CyberSimian]

I miss my Adaptec AHA-1540 cards.

I still have my Adaptec AHA-1520 card, and I still have the slot that it plugs into (an ISA slot no less, on an Abit BX6 motherboard).

I purchased my first PC (an IBM microchannel PC with 16MHz 386) for about 3000 UK pounds, and sold it some years later for 5 UK pounds. Is this thread going to turn into the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHx ... el&list=UL

-- from CyberSimian in the UK

[STC]

BBC Micro anyone?

(Only the Brits will know what I am talking about)

[lithium630]

I miss my Commodore 64. I had to upgrade to a 286/12 with a 2400 baud modem to run my BBS.

[STC]

I owned a ZX80!

that was my first 'computer'. Then the ZX81 *with 16k rampack*, then the magical Speccy!!


AND I had to walk three miles down the road each day to pickup Hovis bread!

[foxwood]

I'm not a Brit, but I started a ZX81, and then went for an Amstrad CPC (64 first, then 6128).

I also bought an internal modem for a PC on a trip to Florida in 1988, even though I didn't have a PC to install it in at the time. It seemed like a good idea at the time (and it did get good use, eventually).

[newfiend]

I was a Vic 20 kid that later moved to a commodore 64.. Ahh the days of typing in all that code to run a game.. Fun times. My parents friends had a HP PC because he worked at HP.. That was a nice machine back then although I have no idea what was inside it. amazing how far things have come an now the phones we use today can do more than the pc's we had back then. God I suddenly feel really old.. Ugh!

Sent from my SGH-i937 using Board Express

[RealCodeGuy]

An IBM PCjr was my first computer. The NFL football game I wanted to play took 640k of ram to load which it had, but DOS used 128k to load the kernel. I dropped another $300 on a 256k expansion board just so I could play that silly football game. No hard drive but it had a wireless keyboard which was unheard of back then. It's not the hardware that makes me feel old though, it's the younger programmers we hire that weren't born until after I graduated from high school.