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Posted by Juim on Wed Oct 1st at 4:55am 2003

Hey I'm considering buying this new computer from Radio Shack!. I know it's kinda spendy but its got a phat pipe and can crunch some serious numbers.





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Posted by Gorbachev on Wed Oct 1st at 4:57am 2003

WOW! That's a good deal, it even supports that graphics heavy OS/2! Why would anyone ever need 16Mb of RAM? Honestly 2Mb is overkill. I'd love to have a computer with mouse support... [addsig]



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Posted by Sinner_D on Wed Oct 1st at 8:04am 2003

16mb of ram...OMG overkill!!! check it out, its got a floppydrive too...DAMN

thats one l337 sys...lol

BAH, Gforce is overrated...

"lightning fast 20Mhz proc" LMAO

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Posted by Leperous on Wed Oct 1st at 10:21am 2003

For only $8500? Wouldn't it be hilarious to dress up your spinkee new Pentium 5 when they come out soon in one of those boxes and fool people...



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Wed Oct 1st at 10:59am 2003

wow. For the time that's gotta be crazy to not have the 5" floppy drive. I loved those things, how you would press the lever down to lock in the diskette.

CDs are too efficient.





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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Oct 1st at 12:29pm 2003

the prices alone, make me cringe..

if i recall, my first upgrade from 4 to 8 megs of ram costed my about $300.00 .. that was forking incredible

my first pc was just slightly newer than this model..

it was a 90 model 80486 sx 33

4 whopping megs of ram

5.25 and 3.5 floppy

250 meg HD

512k video

5200 baud modem <--- i think thats right

and ran dos 6.0 + windows 3.1

i was so proud to have this machine too... so stop laughing.. it was one of the first 486 PC's in my area

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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Thu Oct 2nd at 5:43am 2003

The first PC I remember was a 386 running at 25 MHz

absolutly stunning to think about

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Posted by DesPlesda on Thu Oct 2nd at 7:13am 2003

My first PC was a Commodore Amiga 1000. It's older than me. I learned to program on it, and I still play Lemmings on it.



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Posted by Sim on Thu Oct 2nd at 3:30pm 2003

Me too Des, but mine was a 500.  The Amiga had the most polished games ever.  Did you use Amos for programming?

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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Oct 2nd at 3:37pm 2003

actually, the first "thing" ( i hesitate to refer to it as a computer) was a commodore 16..

it was little more than a keyboard, it had a game slot, much like the atari 2600 did...

my first real PC was the one posted above, the 80486

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Posted by gimpinthesink on Thu Oct 2nd at 6:25pm 2003

The first camputer I had was a Sinclare Spectrum ZX 128k and it took audio cassets instead of disks, and I still had it untill the other month till my mum through it away

But the first PC I had was a 486 I think with 40MB Ram and a 800MB HD, and we still had that untill we were robbed the other year which was handy cos we were going to drop it down the stairs and claim on the insurance anyway.

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Posted by Hornpipe2 on Fri Oct 3rd at 12:36am 2003

ATARI 800 REPRESENT!

also we had a 386 that had 2 megs of RAM... couldn't even run Doom.  Ha!

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Posted by matt on Fri Oct 3rd at 10:09am 2003

i wonder how much it would cost today?... [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Oct 3rd at 10:23am 2003

? posted by matt
i wonder how much it would cost today?...

i saw one last year..

$25.00 - nearly same model.. only wasn't a tandy.. but a better IBM model

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