On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:09:38 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:40:38 +0000 (UTC), gregz
wrote:

The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 7/15/2012 9:33 AM, notbob wrote:
On 2012-07-15, Red Green wrote:

And I thought I was the last one... Must be a CT thing (OEM
Stamfordite)
:-)


p.s. and also a "-ski".

Nope. Lots of us.

Better yet, you can pick up decent box fer zero $$. Ppl can't give
'em away, anymore. Actually costs $$ to dispose of 'em. I haven't
paid for a computer in yrs. Granted, I'm not running the hottest
gamer box in town, but running Linux gets me what I need for nada.
Finally hadda kick out the jams and splurge fer an LCD monitor, no
CRTs lying around. My new Acer 23" is killer. I may join the 21st
century if I can find a decent box fer $200.

Oh yeah, two days ago a 17" CRT turned up, fer free. With 2 keyboards
and two mice. I passed.

nb


Back in 93 I paid $549.00 for my first 17" CRT monitor, the price was low
because I got dealer pricing. Remember when a 20mb hard drive was
cheap at $250.00? O_o

TDD

My first 15 inch monitor was $400. First 17 inch was $400. Still have it,
Gold Star.
it was around 1993 when I broke down and bought my first personal computer.

I saw monitors way back working at DEC in 1969. They were just starting to
get into desktop monitors, vs the big rack mounted devices, using light
pens.

At another workplace $2000 monitors were common in the 90's I worked on the
worlds highest resolution monitor, something like $15k. Sony bought the
company started by IBM, to stop making the product. I remember buying a
high speed hd, $2000 for something 1-2 gb. Thing ran too hot to touch.
Hitachi.

I'm glad I don't have to play much with hardware anymore, but the software
will kill you.

Greg


My first PC was a first day ship IBM PC-1 that cost about 2 grand
(employee price) with two 128k diskette drives, a tape recorder "mass
storage" and a whopping 64K of RAM. (Epson dot printer and mono
monitor)

Ditto, though I had a single-sided diskette drive and 48K memory (the minimum
available on the employee models). It didn't stay that way long, though.
Within a year it had two double-sided drives and 704K memory. ;-)

I still have it, but I highly doubt it'll boot.

Several years later I did the $300 WDWX1 controller/ST238 upgrade to a
hard drive but that also required a new system board.
My old one suddenly just "went bad" and I had to replace it on the M/A
... funny how that works huh?
I had a problem earlier with one of those diskette drives and needed a
new one too. They only had the 360K. ;-)

The original IBMs were 140K. I always ran with two drives and a third RAM
drive. When I booted, the first thing AUTOEXEC did was to copy B: to C:.