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hunter

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31. Last new computer I bought was a Raspberry Pi for $35.

Mon Dec 11, 2017, 05:58 PM

Dec 2017

The rest of the system, the monitor, keyboard, mouse, SD card... I already had. A Raspberry Pi leaves your 20 year old computer in the dust.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/

The most I've spent for a computer and accessories, in inflation adjusted dollars, was for an Atari 800XL. I still have all my old Atari stuff and more Atari stuff I picked up later in thrift stores for pennies. Those machines live on, emulated on my Linux Desktop. One click and I'm back in the 'eighties again playing Pengo or reading my senior thesis. Okay, I never read my senior thesis, I'm sort of embarrassed now because it was a less-than-subtle "fuck you" to those who had rejected the senior thesis I wanted to write.

Second place in expense was for a shopworn 386 I bought for $300. That was retired at Windows 3.1.

After that most of my computers have been diverted from the e-waste stream. I wipe the drives, install Debian, and I'm good to go. The last Windows I used was 98SE on a duel booting dumpster 486. The 98SE serial number was on a sticker on the bottom of the machine. I first signed onto DU with that machine.

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1997 computer price [View all] SHRED Dec 2017 OP

My first PC was bought on Dept Store charge. Over $2,000, Packard Bell 386 or 486 angstlessk Dec 2017 #1

Or who would want it? Kilgore Dec 2017 #2

$3400 for a 64k Morrow (CPM) in 1984 Thirties Child Dec 2017 #3

I'm with you. FuzzyRabbit Dec 2017 #7

Like you, I was early adopter. TRS-80, Atari 400, 800, Commodore 64. Midnight Writer Dec 2017 #13

I have both. SergeStorms Dec 2017 #15

Younger than you, but otherwise, same: land line, print books, flip phone question everything Dec 2017 #17

(KIA--"Killed In Accident"?) lastlib Dec 2017 #22

Hope not question everything Dec 2017 #23

My dad forged ahead with every new tech gadget until he died in 2016. LeftInTX Dec 2017 #26

Amazing man. Thirties Child Dec 2017 #30

See you and raise. Tactical Peek Dec 2017 #4

$1150 for a dot matrix printer musette_sf Dec 2017 #9

$4,000 for a laser Apple printer in 1987 (nt) question everything Dec 2017 #18

Yep, I sold LaserWriters back then musette_sf Dec 2017 #24

As a colleague of mine used to say.... Turbineguy Dec 2017 #5

I wish I still had the receipt from my first computer. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #6

review from 1985 of Tandy 1000 which costs about $1200 for base model... msongs Dec 2017 #8

I paid $138 for a 4K memory board for an S100 computer, so 1MB of RAM would have cost $55,200.00 Binkie The Clown Dec 2017 #10

Around that time, I bought a new purple iMac for $900+ C Moon Dec 2017 #11

My dad bought a new computer around that era. forgotmylogin Dec 2017 #12

Don't forget to SHRED your personal information. montana_hazeleyes Dec 2017 #14

LOL SHRED Dec 2017 #21

I paid around $1800 for an Atari 800 with 48K of ram in 1981. Kablooie Dec 2017 #16

I paid over $3400 with an employee discount for a IBM PC back sinkingfeeling Dec 2017 #19

7 GB HD on a Pentium II ?? Something about that sounds odd ... eppur_se_muova Dec 2017 #20

We always got my dad's left-overs LeftInTX Dec 2017 #25

7GB!!!! You mad man!! There is NO WAY you will fill that!! Afromania Dec 2017 #27

LOL SHRED Dec 2017 #28

Linux Red Hat operating system, 32 ram & good sound! You were top flight, very ahead of the wave Sunlei Dec 2017 #29

Last new computer I bought was a Raspberry Pi for $35. hunter Dec 2017 #31

I recall so well sending thousands on hardware and software back in the day. At one RKP5637 Dec 2017 #32