Money U Spent since ur first PC ?

[atifsh]

crap im stuck with the grandpa's...

guys really if uv saved little or skiped few of ur statof art machines uv would be little more rich

all this time i thought iv spent way too much, but now its other story

[Chewy]

My beast: (It's time you met him, I keep him back from the general world)
cost 700$
shrink a 2hr20min movie in 9 min at 70% compression
burn 2 different dvd's at the same time at 4x
take a file mode full 4.4Gb and make an iso in 2 minutes

[steveareno1955]

crap im stuck with the grandpa's...

guys really if uv saved little or skiped few of ur statof art machines uv would be little more rich

all this time i thought iv spent way too much, but now its other story

I thought that way when I was younger, but now realised you can't take it with you when you die. Just like Tim Allen says "more power"

[UncasMS]

i cannot (and wouldnt want to) sum up all the money i spent over the last 15yrs on hardware ^_~

buying a used 286-8mhz-640k with 5 1/4fdd + 20mb hdd + 14" monochrome monitor + 9 needle printer cost some $1000+

my first scsi hp cd burner was ~$500

...


we dont want to know what fortunes our hobbies cost us, do we?
*g*

[Chewy]

15yrs on hardware

and i thought 8 yrs was a long time

[UncasMS]

well 8 is almost half of it ^_~

[nwg]

I have no idea how much I have spent as I have had many computers. My first laptop alone was £3000 ($5,150). It was a compaq and had the first TFT screen. The screen was £1000 of the total price. The specs was a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM.

My first computer was this one and was also about $3000 -

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

I could also add ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, etc as well.

[IndianPrincess]

I have probably spent up to $5000. My first was a gateway pentII with windows 2000. Add a laptop for school, two printers and a new dell desktop. I have spent some money. (Not including pc software)

[Jack Lurker]

I started with a ZX80 that I assembled myself, can anyone remember what year they were launched? I cant, it's too long ago!! Then I had a spectrum 48K, then a 128K and I've just kept going ever since. I cant even guess at the amount I have spent, mind you I had to sell almost everything once! There's nothing as effecient at parting a boy from his toys as a bitter woman!!

Hold on, theres the little bugger: http://oldcomputers.net/zx80.html 1980 the ZX80 was launched, I suppose the name was a giveaway! Thanks for that link nwg

[jmet]

My first computer was a "Tandy 1000". All "DOS" commands. I think I gave $300 for it. lmao

My second computer was a "PIONEX" from "Sam's Club". Paid around $1200 for it.

My third computer (this one) is a custom built computer, that I paid around $2000 for.

I can't even tally up all the hardware I've put in them. Basic guesstimation would be around $3000.

[nwg]

One of my favourite early computers was a Scheider (Toshiba). Everything ran from a floppy disk that was built onto the keyboard. It had a small amber coloured screen (no proper colour in those days). I ran a DOS program called Multimate on it a lot (anyone remember that).

[atifsh]

I thought that way when I was younger, but now realised you can't take it with you when you die.

yeah but u could leave it for ther younger ones

[drfsupercenter]

I have only had 1 PC, the one I am using now. Got it in 6th grade, now I am in 9th. I guess I am one of the younger members here.

[TNT]

My first 'PC' was a Peanut. If anyone can tell me what that is, I'll give a rep boost to the 1st person. No Cheating!

[Chewy]

PeANUt

http://cs.anu.edu.au/Student/comp2300/lectures/

IBM rolled the dice on a desktop venture with the peanut computer (remember the
silly Charlie Chaplin ads) and OS/2 and it lost. ...