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Posted on 3/21/25 at 4:09 pm to stout
I remember this day when I was a kid. Had no idea what my dad was doing but knew not to touch any of it. Eventually let me play Doom on it.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 4:10 pm to Shexter
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My parents paid over $2,000 for our first computer back in the mid-80's
Looking back I’m shocked my parents bought us one. Most of the time it was used by me to play Hardball and bash homers with Hank Contos and Willie Barnes (I’ll never forget their names). I logged stats in a notebook
Posted on 3/21/25 at 4:11 pm to stout
i had an apple powerbook 100 in 1991 that cost $1999 after my discount (purchasing it through the computer retailer i worked at).
still the best apple notebook ever.
still the best apple notebook ever.
This post was edited on 3/21/25 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 3/21/25 at 4:15 pm to CAD703X
and i had a friend with this Compaq "portable" bad boy 
i was super jealous
i was super jealous
This post was edited on 3/21/25 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 3/21/25 at 4:18 pm to stout
University of Alabama had a deal with IBM in the 80s where students could buy a PC for about $2500.
Which coincidentally was about double the out of state tuition for a semester. And quadruple the instate tuition.
Which coincidentally was about double the out of state tuition for a semester. And quadruple the instate tuition.
This post was edited on 3/21/25 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 3/21/25 at 4:41 pm to stout
My father bought our company its first computer in January 1984 for about $15,000. It replaced an NCR punch card machine that was around $22k. 
I was finishing high school but I remember it.
He later bought an additional 10mb hard drive for another $5k.
I was finishing high school but I remember it.
He later bought an additional 10mb hard drive for another $5k.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 5:07 pm to alphaandomega
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My father bought our company its first computer in January 1984 for about $15,000
my friend talked his dad into buying an IBM after we went to 'computer camp' in the summer of 1983.
it was a cool 10 grand and came with a green IBM monitor and okidata dot matrix printer and i forget how much extra he paid for Wordstar.
i used that to do my senior term paper.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 5:09 pm to CAD703X
same one I had from my Dad's computer "store".
Posted on 3/21/25 at 6:25 pm to Clark14
Thanks to those who shared but ample advertisements from that era show you how much people were willing to pay for what is today, crap.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 6:27 pm to stout
I think my first laptop was $2k. My school gave me a loan.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 6:38 pm to baybeefeetz
Still got my TRS-80 with those programming books it came with . Basic maybe
Posted on 3/21/25 at 6:52 pm to stout
We have a similar one of these laptops on display at work. It weighs about 25 pounds and that is without the external battery and plugs.
This post was edited on 3/21/25 at 6:55 pm
Posted on 3/21/25 at 7:02 pm to stout
20 megabyte hard drive
Yikes
Yikes
Posted on 3/21/25 at 9:10 pm to stout
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was 9 and probably saving my allowance for the SNES
The SNES debuted in 1991, baw!
Posted on 3/21/25 at 9:13 pm to Shexter
We used that Tandy computer in our computer class in HS.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 9:16 pm to meeple
Gateway Computer. 1997.
Dad got it and unboxed it on a Saturday. Threw me the Encarta CD.
He loaded up America Online- must of been a free disk.
Went in a good ole chatroom for the first time.
Family all gathered around at about 9AM.
Nudes. Straight up tittays in front of the entire family.
Welcome to the internet.
Dad got it and unboxed it on a Saturday. Threw me the Encarta CD.
He loaded up America Online- must of been a free disk.
Went in a good ole chatroom for the first time.
Family all gathered around at about 9AM.
Nudes. Straight up tittays in front of the entire family.
Welcome to the internet.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 9:38 pm to DiamondDog
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Went in a good ole chatroom for the first time.
Those late 90s chat rooms were something else. Yahoo checkers rooms was where I kicked back at.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 10:17 pm to meeple
NOLA.com had a good chat room back around 2000.
Posted on 3/21/25 at 10:29 pm to LSU Patrick
I remember logging into a board called Cajun Clickers. Might have been late 80’s.
This post was edited on 3/21/25 at 10:42 pm
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