wow



monitor and mouse not included.



wait.... A MOUSE ?

they can't throw in one gotdam mouse for $8500 ???







[Edited on April 13, 2008 at 6:46 AM. Reason : ]

4/13/2008 6:45:26 AM

pft.. I got my very first PC in boxes in my closet. IBM PC XT8088 with a POWERFUL 25Mhz processor


I think it came out in 83-84... Something like that. We got it in 87.

4/13/2008 6:52:25 AM

i wish i had a time machine. i'd probably only use it to buy old computers and sell them in the past.

4/13/2008 7:01:42 AM

Notice the lack of a currency denomination. I'm fairly certain that this ad came out of a foreign newspaper or magazine. No way this ever cost $8499.

4/13/2008 8:39:13 AM

^Not far off, though.

Quote :

"The new Tandy 5000 MC, also expected for delivery in late summer, is an 80386-based box. Equipped with an extremely fast 84-megabyte hard disk, the 5000 MC is expected to sell for $6,999, without a monitor. "

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2DD103EF937A15757C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

4/13/2008 9:18:15 AM

i cut my teeth on a 386 in high scool

4/13/2008 9:46:40 AM

This is like one of the most famous pictures on the internet.

4/13/2008 11:24:43 AM

i was iffy until i saw that it can run OS/2. now I'm sold.

4/13/2008 11:34:00 AM

my first computer was a tandy 1000

SELECTABLE 4 and 7 MHz 8088 processor
640KB of RAM (the radioshack dude told my dad "that's all you'll EVER need!")
2 5.25" floppy drives
CGA graphics

i think it still turns on

4/13/2008 11:39:55 AM

We shoullda kept all those IBM xt's.

4/13/2008 3:24:07 PM

my first computer was this old 386 with a "Turbo" button on the front that would jack it up from like 5MHz to 20MHz or something along those lines.

i'd leave it in low gear going up hills, then pop it turbo for the straightaways.

man i was ballin' and the chicks kept callin'

4/13/2008 5:55:03 PM

Quote :

"Lightning FAST 20mhz"

4/13/2008 6:09:18 PM

^^lol yeah i was born in 85 so my first computer was an old 386. Guess i didn't start as young as some of you guys.

4/13/2008 6:28:19 PM

is NASA still looking for old as fuck computer stuff since the space shuttle was built with that era technology?

4/13/2008 7:17:54 PM

i held on to my commodore 64 for a while.

4/13/2008 7:42:57 PM

i still have my first as well a apple IIGS w/ whopping 1mb of ram!! still works!

4/13/2008 9:01:36 PM

well, technically, my first "computer" was this thing called a Sinclair ZX81. i had the "expansion" memory module, so was rocking a full 16KB RAM.

if you've never had the pleasure of having a nudge to the memory pack, or intermittent radio interference crash the entire computer., you don't know what you're missing.

that, and using a cassette deck for non-volatile storage (a least until the cassete tape developed a few dropouts) ... I could save/upload at a blazing 300 baud data rate.

i wish i still had this thing now.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX81

4/13/2008 10:52:41 PM

Quote :

"my first computer was this old 386 with a "Turbo" button on the front"

4/13/2008 11:26:54 PM

i heard that the turbo button didn't actually speed up your computer, it's just that when you don't turn it on it's clocked down. turbo was just 100% potential.

4/13/2008 11:47:21 PM

yeah, but who'd want to buy a computer with a "choke" ... "TURBO" sounds so much cooler.

it was there for backwards compatability for apps (games, mostly) that used the processor clock rather than a realtime clock.

you'd try to play video games on the new computer and it literally would run the game like 5x or 10x normal speed. funny for about a minute, but you couldnt keep up.

4/13/2008 11:54:46 PM