I SPENT WHAT ON COMP PART$?!?

[Brangwen]

Fellow Members:

I was goin' through some old computer files and came upon this receipt! On my ...


Order Number: 98399909058
Date Ordered: Wednesday, March 7, 2001

Products
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1 : Iwill KK266 Socket A ATA /100 266 FSB: 139.00
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1 : AMD ATHLON-TB-1200 Athalon Thunderbird 1200Mhz Socket A: 339.00
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1 : IBM DTLA307030 30GB Ultra ATA/100 7200 RPM EIDE: 165.00
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Sub-Total: $643.00
Tax (0%): $0.00
UPS Service(GND): 15.28
Total: $658.28


Memories! My wallet still hurts, but I remember what a high this was ... good box, also. IWill's famed board!

Any similar war stories?

Brangwen

[daveleau]

lol

$2400 on a credit card for my first computer:

Gateway
K6-2 400
3GB hdd
2MB vid card
CD-rom/ floppy
17" monitor (which I am currently still using after 3 RMAs)
64 MB Ram

[Optimus Prime]

I have a green recruit war story :

AMD Athlon Barton 2500+ CPU
MSI KT4AV (And a POS ASUS A78NX-X) Motherboard
80GB Maxtor 7200RPM Maxtor HD
Geforce 4 Ti4200 GFX Card
17" Iiyama Monitor
Mouse
Keyboard
Case
CD-RW

All for the low, low price of £340 what a deal, huh?

[Gutter Ball]

IBM PS/2

386
2 megs of RAM upgraded to 4!
100 HD
both floppies
13 inch IBM monitor
some kind of vga card
Windows 3.1

$4000CAN from Future Shop

I remember when you got that IWILL, Brangwen! We built our TBirds at almost the same time, I remember

Yours still alive? Mine - no ;-[ Mine died a hellish burning death upon the infamous blown capacitor Abit board .. *sniff*

btw, good to see you again, Brangwen

*p.s. sorry, no time to dig through old receipts today

[Ed_S]

LOL... 1rst comp, circa 1983

Tandy Color Computer - $299.95
64K memory upgrade - $150 (approx)

External 5¼" floppy drive with controller - $399.95
External 300 baud (pbs) modem - $149.95
"Multi-pack Interface" - $199.95

...and so on - had a couple grand in that one fully decked out!


Or to name a few things you youngsters may relate to -

4 - 1 MB SIMMs @ $35 each, used and thrilled to get such a deal!
420 MB hardrive - $249.95

Sony 2X CD-R (no W) - $300


ahh, the good old days...

[thekingofpain]

Im not gonna admit what I spent on Apple computers in the mid to later 90's---nope, no way uh uh---
Lets just say I could have the top of the line Apple product now for the same $$$---hmmm---guess I did then as well...

[Brangwen]

Originally posted by Socalgal
I remember when you got that IWILL, Brangwen! We built our TBirds at almost the same time, I remember

Yours still alive? Mine - no ;-[ Mine died a hellish burning death upon the infamous blown capacitor Abit board .. *sniff*

btw, good to see you again, Brangwen

Hello Socal . . . Wow, long time! I like what you did with your eye.

My IWill crashed and burned also ... when a heatsink/fan Ziff clasp broke during operation. After 3 mos. of "haggling" with the vendor, the board was replaced and I received a 1.33 Ghz as the vendor was out of the 1.2 Ghz. I put the assembly with the above IBM HDD together and gave it to my brother. He uses it till this day.

I remember you and I had a clash of opinions about our respective motherboard choices! I thought for sure the all-knowing Socal-***-*** was correct until I built my system.

That was a lot of fun. Bring me up to date sometime!

Brangwen

[Buzioid]

WOW
I remember the days.
ACER Pentium 120mhz
8mb ram-upgraded with 2 16mb/$40 ea
2x cdrom
1mb cirrus logic video
1gb
all for $2600

I also got a Apple 2e from a friend and the reciept was still in the documents and it said $1999.

I dropped nearly $2k for a 8086-1 workstation back in the 1980s, back in the wondeful days of cutting-edge CGA graphics.

I am sure there are several people here that can recount stories of $1000+ Megabyte-range hard drives and $500+ Kilobyte-range memory upgrades.

And to think I overhear teenagers griping about giving $100 for a 80GB hard drive when I am shopping at Circuit City or Best Buy.

Robert Richmond