dick3248
join:2005-07-25
El Paso, TX
| How much did you pay for your 1st computer?
I paid US$1,980.00 for a 25mhz computer with 10mb hard drive. It didn't even include a modem. I paid US$19.99/month for a dial-up account and porn at that time was only software/pictures hahaha. This was in 1993. I started building my own around 1997. The motherboard cost me US$150.00, a 32mb memory cost me $169.00 and a 4gig WD hard drive cost me $270.00. Now you can get a
500gig hard drive for much less than that. Back then nothing was intergrated with the motherboard. Not sound, not NIC, nothing.
So how much did it set you back for your first computer? |
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iZuDeeN
Premium
join:2004-04-14
Malaysia | It was around USD1,500+ (RM5,500) for a 486 DX2 66Mhz..
with Sound Blaster 16 and 4x CD-rom .....
Can't remember when I bought it, but probably in year 1992/93... |
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madblue
Premium
join:2003-04-19
Malaysia
clubs: | reply to dick3248
around RM3,500 for a 486 computer in year 94
no Cd-ROM, too bad....
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athlon 11
join:2003-01-15
31400 | reply to dick3248
around rm3600,that time is year 2000 where pc already become mass product,so nothing special to say ,but i choose a independent motherboard which come with no build in of anything like grafic or sound card,because i prefer a easy upgrade. |
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dick3248
join:2005-07-25
El Paso, TX
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RM3,600.00 to RM5,500.00 for a pc? wow that's expensive though cheap(in terms of us$} compared to mine. How many in the rural area can afford that? I probably could not have afford one had it not been for the 12 month no interest deal offered by the retailer.
what do you all use your pc for? |
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redglobe
join:2005-07-15
Malaysia | reply to dick3248
My own first PC is NEC Powermate VE Pentium 133MHz.. cost me around RM5000 (around USD1300++) that time =_=... |
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iZuDeeN
Premium
join:2004-04-14
Malaysia
| reply to dick3248
Actually, I didnt buy it...
my dad bought it for me...
first was the basic PC... at RM4,500
SInce it has no sound nor cd-rom, I asked my dad to get the Sound Blaster 16 kit... a Sound Card & A 4x CD-rom...
which cost around RM1,000.
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XEQtor
Wanna See My 8 Boobies?
join:2003-02-20
52100
 ·Streamyx
| Mine was really late: RM7k Dell Dimension XPS-T (1999) loaded up to the Yazoo (at that time). P-III Katmai, 'humongous' 128MB RAM, 'fastest' 4x Sony CD-RW, Diamond TNT-Riva AGP, Turtle Beach Montegro II sound card, Altec Lansing ADA-885 (5.1 THX/AC3, Dolby Digital, 140W RMS) speakers. Had 'fastest' 7200rpm WDC Caviar HDD. And, 19" CRT monitor!
Later upgraded to 512MB RAM, added another 7200 rpm WDC Caviar HDD. Swapped to 40x Sony CD-RW, later to LiteOn 4x DVD-RW, and more recently, Pioneer DVR-A08XL 16x DVDRW, and currently, Pioneer DVR-110 16x DVDRW. LOL!
Still alive today!!! Altho currently switched off as I'm playing with a 'faster' Dell Dimension 800MHz unit. LOL! Pioneer DVR-110 16x stolen fr ancient PC to this 'newer' unit. You shd see it trying to burn an 8x DVDR. heh heh.
Was provided with RM10k+ notebooks before this, so started 'owning' one v late in life. LOL! I thot paying RM7k for a PC then was decent until told otherwise, and that I need to go get my head checked! But amazingly, nothing died on me (except MS mouse) until today - touch wood.
Waiting for Dell to throw out a Conroe box for me to get my second PC. LOL!
XEQ. |
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CatEyes
Evga
Premium
join:2003-03-10
IG,PG,MY | I din pay for it .. my dad did :P (hey I was 11)
I think it was almost RM4-5k ?
a 8086, 16MHz, CGA, 14inch monitor, 2x 5'25' FDD, 640kb memory
no mouse, no hdd, or whatever
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signmeuptoo
Tune in to XM 120. BOO
Premium
join:2001-11-22
LOSTinSpace
clubs: | reply to dick3248
College food money, and I really starved to do it (three days without eating and then just some texas fries...
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bixantine
Hyelbaine
Premium
join:2003-03-05
Malaysia
clubs: | I cant remember how much it was but it was a NEC Powermate 286 Plus. It had a turbo button that made it go to a whopping 12Mhz! :P kekekeke
Cheers!!!  |
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Kikachi
join:2003-05-26
Malaysia | reply to dick3248
a Compaq Presario with s Pentium 166mhz cpu, 24mb ram, s3 trio64+ vga card 1mb vram, a 28.8kbps fax modem , a 8X CDrom and a Voyetra soundcard. all for RM4100 during mid 1997. |
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ThirdShifter
Premium
join:2002-03-16
Vernon Rockville, CT
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about 1200 US dollars in 1998/9. It was a pentium 2 400mhz. with 128 Ram and a 15GB hard disk.
The video card was voodoo 3 16mb. 3dfx was huge back then.
Sound blaster was the preferred sound card. Also we got with it a 17 inch trinitron Sony Monitor.. Which was considered the top of the line before the introduction of flat screen monitors a year later.
All baught at Imbi Plaza.
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laffalot
Crunch Tsc
Premium,ExMod2004-7
join:2002-03-27
Scotland
clubs:
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Think mines was in the region of £1,200 GBP works out at around $2,219.28 US at todays rates. Think it had a 1.4 athlon, 512 of ram and a 80gb HDD.
Since then I've always built my own system.
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susuwatari
join:2004-09-13
Malaysia
| reply to dick3248
Mine was a rm5k clone with 486 with 4Mb ram, can't really remember the exact specs as it was 1994. My display was probably a Trident with 1Mb, and the Harddisk, should be 128 Mb .. lol |
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bixantine
Hyelbaine
Premium
join:2003-03-05
Malaysia
clubs:
| Can you believe the specs of pc these days compared to the past? I mean you could fit an entire pc in terms of diskspace from a pc 10 years ago into a USB thumbdrive! 
Cheers!!! |
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