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To: nickcarraway

Commodore 64, 2 floppy drives, expansion module, printer = $800 in 1984. 300K connection rates if I was lucky.

Sold for $25 when I bought a 386 w/ a 10 gig HD.

5 posted on 12/16/2005 2:20:29 PM PST by listenhillary ("Mainstream media" is creating it's own reality~everything sucks)

To: listenhillary

Commodore 64, 2 floppy drives, expansion module, printer = $800 in 1984. 300K connection rates if I was lucky.

Is that a typo? 300K, or 300b? Connection to what?

22 posted on 12/16/2005 2:35:04 PM PST by beezdotcom

To: listenhillary

Sold for $25 when I bought a 386 w/ a 10 gig HD.>>>>>>>

Where did you find a 386 with a 10 gig hard drive?

32 posted on 12/16/2005 2:40:57 PM PST by RipSawyer (Acceptance of irrational thinking is expanding exponentiallly.)

To: listenhillary

Sold for $25 when I bought a 386 w/ a 10 gig HD

Just last year I finally tossed all the games I had for the C64!

I still have my RS CoCo. Yes, still functional - tape drive and all!

LVM

39 posted on 12/16/2005 2:48:01 PM PST by LasVegasMac (HoOked on Fonics. Dun goOd For me?)

To: listenhillary

I got one of the first 500 C64s back in 1982 or so.
Sold it in college, around 1986, for $25 for beer money ;)
Served me well, but those drives were HUGE and sloooooowwwww.

68 posted on 12/16/2005 3:51:47 PM PST by SJSAMPLE

To: listenhillary

Sold for $25 when I bought a 386 w/ a 10 gig HD.

10 GIG?! Even my 486 only had 200 MB.

71 posted on 12/16/2005 3:54:29 PM PST by Sloth (Freedom of speech doesn't mean the rest of us have to shut up.)

To: listenhillary

My wife was a first-year school teacher in 1984-85. We had the opportunity to buy a refurbished Commodore 64 for $125 that summer, due to a special deal through her school system. After much debate (we'll never use one of those things!) we finally plunked down the money. Went and bought a Star 9-pin dot-matrix printer (more than the computer!) and an external modem (for accessing the GEnie Network and the old Prodigy network). We thought we were on the cutting edge! That setup got me halfway through my master's degree.

Fast forward a few years to 1988, graduate school. We got our first IBM-compatible computer. I sold the C-64 and all the stuff for $500 to a Korean student at the seminary. (I was asking $300 - and he insisted it was not enough! Go figure!)

Anyway, our first IBM-compatible was - you guessed it - another Commodore - PC20, if I remember correctly. Had a 20 meg hard drive, 2 floppies, and - are you ready for this? - a 4-color monitor! I paid more in 1988 for that setup than I did in '03 for the Dell I'm using now! too funny!

All that to say...ya gotta love that Commodore!

108 posted on 12/16/2005 6:46:51 PM PST by Ulysses ("Most of us go through life thinking we're Superman. Superman goes through life being Clark Kent!")

To: listenhillary

I had a RS-232 interface and it was a good day (night usually) when I could get 300!

151 posted on 10/20/2006 10:35:36 AM PDT by truemiester (If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)

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