Money U Spent since ur first PC ?

[nwg]

Anything to do with Peanut Linux?

[TNT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCjr

IBM PCjr. King's Quest was the first game (to my knowledge) that your character could move in front of and in back of other objects. Loved that game! I still have my PCjr. I think it still probably works too.

I'm sorry I lied. I can't give rep points to chewy until I spread more peanuts around.

[Cambion7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCjr

IBM PCjr. King's Quest was the first game (to my knowledge) that your character could move in front of and in back of other objects. Loved that game! I still have my PCjr. I think it still probably works too.

I'm sorry I lied. I can't give rep points to chewy until I spread more peanuts around.

I gave him rep points on your behalf . It's hard to believe we got along with that small amount of memory. Was it Bill Gates that said "640k ought to be enough for anybody."?


Regards,
Cambion7

[TNT]

I was happy when I doubled my memory from 128 to 256. . . . . KB!

[Cambion7]

I was happy when I doubled my memory from 128 to 256. . . . . KB!

Heheh... I was happy when I upgraded my 286 12Mhz to a 16Mhz, then found some vendor selling DIP Chip memory at a bargain of a price... got me up to 1Meg of ram so I could use that nifty dos=high,umb feature. Them were the days!

[tigerman8u]

I figure at least 15- 20 k over the years. I have 2 desktops and 1 laptop for myself, one for my son and 1 for my daughter in their bedroom.

[photo_angel2004]

I know I have spent Other too,
Computer were a lot more expensive years ago so the $$$$ spent on computers will be higher then the younger generation.

I have had computers built for my dad and my son as well as upgrading and building new for myself as the technology changes.


I know I have spent at least 12 to 15 grand if not more.

[tigerman8u]

my 486/66 mhz cost me $2495 + $650 for printer and $800 for cd burner bundle (Texel) now Plextor. iirc Texel merged with another company (can't remember the name)and the name became Plextor.

[photo_angel2004]

my 486/66 mhz cost me $2495 + $650 for printer and $800 for cd burner bundle (Texel) now Plextor. iirc Texel merged with another company (can't remember the name)and the name became Plextor.

Isnt that funny with that same amount of money look what you can get now with it! Almost makes you feel ripped off. LOL

[atifsh]

Isnt that funny with that same amount of money look what you can get now with it! Almost makes you feel ripped off. LOL

very true amount i spent on first monitor , i could get a 19" flat panal now lol

[uufta]

Does this include the Commodore stock I bought before the Amiga came out, that tanked soon after?

>$6000

[sonic_emperor]

well,all the harwares i got 10yrs ago,i got it as a gift,i bought my first pc(my money)6 yrs ago,and i paid it round 13000kn,now thats round 2100$(1$=6.1kn)

but then,dollar was about 8kn for 1$....
and i cant really remember how much i paid for the second one 3 yrs ago,as its not the same pc,i was upgrading it all the time,meanwhile,only monitor and case are the same...

[TNT]

Does this include the Commodore stock I bought before the Amiga came out, that tanked soon after?

>$6000

I'm surprised to hear that the stock tanked after the Amiga. It was a great computer. I was very close to buying a 2000.

[NightbladeXX]

I know since my wife has reminded me that I ve spent about $15k

My first computer was an Apple II+ w/ the monochrome (green) 13' Monitor and Dual 5.25" floppies. Dad paid like $4k for that thing

Next up was a Ti-99 ? barely remember that thing

Then I had the ever famous Trash Tandy TRS-80 with the portable casseste drive w/ 100s of games that I had to write the basics commands out for, hehe

After which, I was in heaven when my pa got an original IBM PC w/ an Insmell 8088 PC what was truely killer about this rig was the massive 20 MB hard drive, dual floppies and a color monitor and the awesome IBM keyboard, which I still have

1988/89ish, Then we got a 386SX with 2 - 512K Mem sticks and a math co processor! I was tearin up the strip wit that bad boy

1992, For High School Graduation my dad bought me a ultra killer rig a Gateway 2000 FULL tower case with dual PSU's 486DX2/66 with 16MBs of RAM, an ATI Video Card for 3D graphics 512k of onboard video ram (an extra $1k), a huge 340 MB HD, a SBlaster Pro card, and the brand new AutoCAD release 12 (since I was going to UIC for Architecture) later on we got an original NEC external, since thats all they had a first, CD burner with upto 2x writes and 4x reads, and NEC's own proprietary CD's in the tray, and its was a SCSI-2 ? drive. Finally I topped it off an external 2 GB SCSI-? HD drive I was tearing up X-wings in Tie-Figther in style

from about 1995 - 1998 didnt touch a comp, which I call the medeval years

1999, gots me a NEC Pent II w/ MMx technology, 17' Monitor, 64 MBs RAM, 20 GB? HD later added a SB card and a VooDoo 3 video card

2000, built my first AMD Athlon rig using the NEC as a basis got a ABIT Mobo that turned out to be a POS and ABIT wouldnt do anything about it

since then I have spent thousands of dollars upgrading here and there building well over 100s of rig for friends and family

and several for myself mainly cheap as possible rigs to simulate a network for practicing for my CCNA and a cheesy server for my MCSE in Win 2000

my main rig now is a AMD Barton 2500, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, Promise SX4000 RAID Card w/ 128 ECC PC166 RAM, 1 GB OCZ Ram, MSI K7N2G-ILSR mobo, Enermax 465 PSU, a nice Kingwin Case, with tons of Glowing crap in it, and topped of with a Koolance Exos water cooler for CPU/GPU

Coming attractions include a new case (unsure what one), AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPU, MSI K8N Diamond Plus, min of 2GB of Corsiar Pro RAM, a nVidia 7800GTX, or dual 7800GT's, PC Power & Cooling's 850W PSU, and prolly a new Koolnace Exos-2 Water cooler and dual 21/22" Monitors

[uufta]

All I remember TNT, is I bought the stock at $11 and sold at $6, I dont think it ever recovered, the Amiga was a great computer from what I remember, but was ahead of its time, and most commodore fans couldnt afford it.
Of course this was 20 years ago when they first bought Amiga