Posted on 11/26/2006 10:31:43 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
*Monitor not included
memories...
expensive memories ;)
Stop it with the nostalgia technology stuff!
(LOL!)
I'm having flashbacks with a soundtrack of Streisand's
"The Way We Were"!
And what is frightening is that I never touched LSD!
one of my favorite lines from those days:
"You don't even what to think of what would happen if the Commies
got their hands on something like that..."
This rig set me back a Grand in 1986.
Even use on your boat. LOL!
I mean, any place that sells an AMD "Athalon" and an Intel "Core"...
You paid $2599.00 for a tip calculator???
"IT DOES OTHER THINGS!"
LOL The Taiwanese named these phones Da ge Da - The Big Daddy (as in the mob type guys who apparently used them ;)
My brother had a self-employed friend who was always the first to buy new technology. His one object of pride was his calculator watch, that he would calculate tips with using the stylus you had to carry around. Probably set him back $400.00.
And thats before an additional $99.95 for the DOS 3.2 operating system
LOL! When I was at Officer Basic at McClellan in 1983, one guy in the class brought his PC and matrix printer with him. Only cost him $3000.00 (he owned a computer programming business as a civilian). I figured, cool, that would only cost half as much as a new car then. I could almost have afforded the payments on one, except for being otherwise unemployed.
Besides, all I could have done with it at the time would be to write letters.
My first computer in 1994, a powerful 50 mhz Packard Bell 486 with 4 mg ram, 320 mg hard drive and 4800 baud modem cost only $1500.00. Took forever to download my porn, er, uh, legal research.
1987 .. my first computer.. a Tandy, dual 5 1/4 floppy ...
remember the old bulletin boards? and compuserve?
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