Price tags for Commodore 64 in the vintage 1980s: $2,000 - $4,000 depending on accessories.

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Man, I still remember the specs like it was yesterday...lol Gigabyte GA-586HX Pentium 166 non-MMX 32mb EDO SIMMs 2.1gb Quantum Bigfoot HDD Matrox Mystique 4mb PCI video 33.6K Cirrus Logic ISA Modem Soundblaster 16-bit ISA soundcard Win95 OSR2

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1979 - TRS-80 Model 1. Z80 CPU 2.5 Mhz. 48Kbs RAM. No hard disk. Two 180Kb floppy disk. £700. 1986 First PC Tandy 1000. Intel 8088 4,7Mhz. 640Kbs RAM. 20Mb Hard disk. Still only £500. Went into graceful retirment still in perfect working order ten years later. Stuart

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You people don't know what old, slow is VIC-20 TAPE DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!! (NO floppy's, NO hdd, NO nothing!!!!!!!!!) Old "black and white" TV for monitor.

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"You people don't know what old, slow is" I beg to differ sir, you haven't met my grandmother. :-) Some people are like Slinkies™, not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs...

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"You people don't know what old, slow is" That was my point. Old was fast if you took control of it.

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If we're talking 'First Computers' Mine was a Sinclair ZX81. For the first year I had it I was limited to 1k of memory. I didn't have a tape deck so I spent 4 hours typing in a basic program, 5 hours debuging it and 10 minutes playing the game if you didn't accidentaly knock the power lead and loose everything yo had done. When I finaly got my MASSIVE 16k ram pack and tape deck, I spent two days typing in the 'FROGGER' program. I debuged it, ran it and saw the marval of those low res graphics only to find that the auther of the program had forgotten to include the bl***y 'FROG' sub-routeen. That's when I learned to be a programmer. After that I went on to a Commodore 16 and then an ORIC 48k which in my opinion was better than the Sinclair Spectrum. After that came the Amiga 500, then the Amiga 1200 then onto PC's which I paid £1,300 for. GaryM

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8088/4.7Mhz/1Mb ram/40Mb hdd/1.44 floppy/dual monochrome & cga/2300 baud modem/Epson FX185 printer. Fast and totally problem free. Net access through bulletin boards was generally free and chat rooms were civil and informative. Skip

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My first computer was a Patriot PC in 1997 and had a Cyrix 233mhz CPU 32mb EDO RAM 4mb Shared Graphics 1.99gb HDD Floppy Drive 32x CD-ROM Drive Still have it here collecting dust, all it needs is a CD-ROM drive and a HDD and it works perfectly Amazing how fast computers have made progress in such a short time :-0 ________________________ MSI KT8 NEO Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.0ghz 1.0 GB DDR PC3200 2X 160 GB HDD Hightech Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro Iceq 128mb ( Core 425 MHz and Memory 380 MHz )

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First PC that I used was a 286 with 1mbram ,40mb HD, 5.25, and 3.5 floppy drive in 1991. Came with dos 4.0, lotus 1-2-3, quattro pro, wordperfect 5.1, drawperfect, and a bunch other titles. The good old days without microsoft software. Excellent pc for school work.

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Stuart said: > 1979 - TRS-80 Model 1. Z80 CPU 2.5 Mhz. > 48Kbs RAM. No hard disk. Two 180Kb > floppy disk. £700. Back in 1979 I also had a TRS-80 Model 1 with a 2.5 MHz Z80. It only had a whopping 4K RAM. I had to settle for tape drive. I did not upgrade to 48K RAM and add two floppy drive until later. I also added an add-in card that allowed me to run the CP/M operating system. For all those not familiar with CP/M it was what the original PC DOS was based on. Unfotunately the TRS-80 Model 1 deserved it's Trash-80 nickname because of it's poor design. It is hard to believe 25 years later my current computer relative to the TRS-80 with two floppy drives is: CPU = 1000 X RAM = 22,000 X Disk = 4,000,000 X

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Did anyone ever have a "Vectrex" console? man, that's going back some years, although was probably more advanced than the old Atari consoles...... Some people are like Slinkies™, not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs...

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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=549 Cost around $2,000 US

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In 1982 I had a Sinclair ZX-81 which had no hard-disk and 1 Kilobyte (yes folks, that's 1024 bytes) of memory, expanded to 16 Kilobytes by a box called a 'Rampack'. The computer plugged into a television, had a monochrome display, no sound, a flat touch-(in)sensitive keypad, and you saved onto an audio cassette tape. If you disturbed the interface between the computer and the rampack (by typing on the keyboard, walking across the room, breathing) the whole thing crashed and you lost everything. Sinclair was a wonderfully eccentric company who also made the original wheelbarrow-with-a-ball-for-a-wheel, and a three wheeled pedal-assisted electric car called the C5. Quite a lot of the software for it was written by a company called Psion. Yes, that Psion, the palmtop people. I've still got all my own teeth, you know... Bass players do it standing up

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"Price tags for Commodore 64 in the vintage 1980s: $2,000 - $4,000 depending on accessories."???????????????????? Were you living in the deep recesses of Siberia and ordering from a mail order catalog from Communist China?? The first time I was a Commodore 64 (was in 81 or 82) it was $600 in an office supply store in a small town in the US. In 1983 the C64 started selling in Target stores for $200 - that was my first computer.

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Don Arnett, Could you please givmme a break? It was sooooooo long time ago that I always thought that was how much I spent. You've just corrected my long-standing beliefs. Thxs :-) G-Day

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286, MHZ=?? 32MB ram on two (16 bit slot) cards about ten or eleven inches long by about five inches high, filled with chips. Two 71 MB hard drives, each equal in size to 3 or 4 hard drives at todays sizes. Gargantuan power supply, the whole box weighed about 45 pounds or so.

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>> Unfortunately the TRS-80 Model 1 deserved it's Trash-80 nickname because of it's poor design. << Sadly this is true. The basic design was good but it was designed down to a price. The original only had an upper case display. When memory chips became cheaper you could piggy back another 1Kb chip onto one of the other six and get lower case. Yes 1Kb of video memory but it was amazing what you could do with it though. Stuart

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Commodore PET Late 70's 4K RAM Cassette Tape.

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Hehe, mine was a no-brand IBM-clone. 486 running at 33 Mhz (16 MHz without Turbo), 4 megs of RAM, 2 megs of video RAM, math co-processor. That was mid-1993. AMD Athlon XP 2700+ Asus A7V600-X 512 MB of DDR RAM GeForce FX 5200 (256 MB) Seagate 120 GB SATA

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A clone fitted in a tower box with an AMD 386 @ 40Mhz, 4MB. of RAM, 1MB SVGA Trident card, mouse and a 14" CRT and 80MB. of hardisk. It came with MS DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 (this was in June 1992)

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VIC20, I remember the timer units were called Jiffies.

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I had basically the same specification machine as Hooner, except for the hard disk: * 386SX 25MHz * 4MB RAM * 40MB HDD I had DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 running nicely on it. I remember programming in QBASIC and Borland Turbo C++ and playing games like Lemmings and Doom. It cost £110 and came with a mouse _and_ mouse mat! Included was a 14" analog colour monitor and everything was Compaq branded (it was a Deskpro, in case you're wondering). Later, I upgraded and got a 4x CD-ROM drive (ooh!), an ISA sound card and some stereo monitor speakers. :-) James

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1st computer: Sinclair Spectrum +2a (128bk ram + built in cassette deck 2nd: Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3 (with built in 173k 3" disk drive wow what speed loading was now!!!!!!!! I then acquired a 128k+ and a 48k+ Next i had(have) A Sam Coupe (ex Sinclair User) with TWIN!!! disk drives Then i bought an Amiga1200 and also 040 40 +32mb ram for it and a 4x scsi cd rom with squirrel interface. 1st pc was a 486 dx2 566 ( i used to fix up PC`s and sell them on to students at this time, just that this was one i wanted to keep for myself) upgraded to a dx 4 100 then i got my 486 laptop then i built myself a pc chips based amd k6/2-300 with 64mb ram and a 4.3gb hd, 8mb SIS on board graphics and cmedia onboard sound oh and a 12MB |Voodoo 11 :) many happy hours playing doom and quake on this, tho i used to play doom on the Amiga too. then i built a k6/4-450 system which when the mobo died i replaced with my present mobo and p111 650 which is my main workstation, I also refurbed a p3 866 to use for games and grahpics work. I also have a BBC model B and i have all my computers still that i have bought for myself including my p120 testbed with 128mb ram hat runs dos6.22 and Win3.0, or 3.11 or 95 depending on what i`m using it to test Woof

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Ahhhhh the good old days. Commodore 64 with 5.5 floppy drive Added Dolphin Dos and an addition reset switch. Had a ton of games and apps. Atari 520STFM Was okay just didn’t offer much for it. Amiga 500 with internal 3.25 floppy and an addition external 3.25 floppy Added 1.5MB to give it 2MB total, and man was it fast. HP Pavilion AMD KD2 300MHZ 4 Gig HDD 48MB Ram 4MB shared video Self Built AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Palomino 20 Gig HDD 256MB Ram 16MB PCI Video Self Built AMD Athlon XP 1800+ thoroughbred 80 Gig HDD 512MB Ram 64MB AGP Video Present: Self Built AMD Athlon XP 2400+ thoroughbred 80 Gig HDD 1024MB Ram 128MB AGP Video And that’s my computing past.

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I can't really remember my first computer. All I remember is that I got it sometime in the early 1980's when I was about 5 years old. It was a little silver one, hooked up to an old black and white TV. It had a slot on the side that you could put L-shaped cartridges in. It also came with programming books. I guess it could've been something from the 1970's because it was old when I got it. Then I got an Atari. Then I got a Nintendo. The computer I have now I got in 2001. 40GB hard drive, 128MB installed RAM, Compaq Presario Pentium III processor.

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My first computer was a: 486dx/33Mhz with math co-processor 4Mb ram Tseng labs ET4000 videocard with 4mb of ram (It was hightech at the time, it could display high colormodes :-) ) 168Mb SCSI harddisk Ms-dos 6.0 and windows for workgroups 3.11 That was back in 1991 It was a pretty good computer and i used it every day until 1998 When i bought a: pentium II /266Mhz 32Mb Ram (upgraded to 64 a year later) 2.1GB harddisk S3 virge videocard with 2mb ram (upgraded in 2000 with a Nvidia Geforce II 32 mb AGP-card) windows98 Crystal3D soundcard 32x cd-rom That computer lasted for 4 years, in 2002 i bought a: pentium4 2.4Ghz 768 Mb ram St powervr kyro2 videocard 64mb 80GB harddisk Dvd drive cd writer windowsXP im still using this computer and it runs pretty good, i think this one will last for a 5-6 years

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