On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Craig Sanders <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 10:33:33AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote: > > I bought my first PC at home Northern summer 1993, a AMD 386 40 MHz > > system with 4 MB Ram (and a black&white 14" monitor). > > The first "PC" I ever bought was an XT clone in 1982. IIRC it cost > about $1500 for 640K RAM and dual 360K floppies, with a hercules graphics > card and an amber monitor (the herc card didn't do colour, but the text > quality was vastly superior to what a CGA card was capable of). > > The 20MB hard disk I bought a few months later cost another $1000. > enormous, 20MB was more than 55 floppies worth of data. > I had an XT with blue monitor cost me around a grand when I got it, I remember going to a "clearance" sale that a supplier in Perth (where I lived) had every year to clear out old and damaged stock, I got a 40MB HDD that had been returned under warranty and was only reading one side of the platter making it a 20MB drive, picked that up for $40 from memory it was an MFM drive
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