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How times have changed
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:41:00 -0000
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Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°5 +...
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Here's the order confirmation for my 1st ever computer package bought in
Old Grizzly...
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mine was in a frame of ten strings and nine beads to each string and it
BoyPete...
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Must have been cheap beads ;)
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Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°5 +...
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Did you get it second hand from Boadecia then? LOL
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cost 3 groats ;-)
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BoyPete...
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Can't remember the year, but my first 'proper' poota cost £1,200. Used a
Cyrix 6x86 processor running at 166.MHz. Had a 2.1Gb HDD, a 12X CD Rom.
Can't remember the memory. The Cyrix was a lot cheaper than a
Pentium.................same reason I use AMD today. Never owned a Pentium.
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°5 +...
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Before 1998 then. Remember my package had an Epson Stylus Color 600
printer, Umax A4 flatbeb scanner and Philips ESP2 digital camera included
in the price. Plus loads of compulsory software I didn't need or want.
However the M$ Works and the Philips Image editing I still use.
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:)
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1998:
andon...
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You do know that you were robbed?
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Rabbit...
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That looks about the same as my first one and about the same price and the
week before it was delivered the P111 came out :-(
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°5 +...
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But PIII didn't last very long did it? :)
andon...
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°5 +...
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And Tiny still went bust. :(
andon...
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Yes, but the guys who started the firm sold out years before to a
bigger greedy firm who turned it from a small bespoke systems outfit
into a box shifting monster. If you had known them when they were
building i386's you would have had a very different experience :-)
Just think how slow that would have been with Windows v3
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No. It got so hot they stopped making them
They ended up with so much egg that they stopped trying to compete
with AMD and went back to just getting on with their own business and
building decent chips.
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Ali...
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Strikes me as being expensive - my first computer (1980) was £1000, so was
my current one (2000).
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°5 +...
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My current computer with a Sempron 2.6, 512Mb DRAM, 80Gb HDD and Windows
XP home edition cost about £350 - 6 months ago.
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Mike Tullett...
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In one of my drawers here there is the receipt for my first ever hard drive
circa 1993. It was a grand total of 469 GBP!!
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°5 +...
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How many Mb was that then?
Mike Tullett...
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It was a state of the art - 120MB SCSI drive.
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°5 +...
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Sam...
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Enough to make the flying Mother Superior crash land.
Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°5 +...
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Not so, since I didn't claim it on expenses. LOL
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Troy's Human...
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My first one was bought in 1984 (Amstrad CPC 464) - wonderful - still play
games from it on a PC emulator :-) No HDD just cassette drive - took 10
minutes to load a game. Cost £350. Had played around earlier than this with
the Spectrum :-) Also loved the BBC.
My first PC was bought in the early 1990's (can't remember exactly). Came
with 1 Mb ram which I upgraded to 2 Mb. HDD was less than 100 Mb and CPU
something like - naah can't remember. Cost £1600 !!! Came with Windows 3.0
which I later upgraded to Windows 3.1.
I intend buying a new PC in the new year and I'm looking at approx. half
the price of my first one :-)
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noreen...
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It sure has FN , when I think what I got including 19inch TFT monitor
;-)))))
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http://www.flyingnun.co.uk/tinypooter.jpg
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