New rig

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.

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...

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

For only $8500? :shocked: 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...

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.

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 :sad:

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 :biggrin:

5200 baud modem <--- i think thats right

and ran dos 6.0 + windows 3.1 :smile:

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

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

absolutly stunning to think about

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.

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

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

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.

ATARI 800 REPRESENT!

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

i wonder how much it would cost today?...

matt said:
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