Remember when they said you would never need that 40 meg hard drive.

[Epidemic]

When I bought my first PC they tried to just sell me a second 5 1/4 in drive. They told me I would never need anything more than that.

[wju425]

Remember when Bill Gates said that we'll never need more than 640K?

It shows that nobody knows what the future will bring.

\o/ Billy

[J-Excel]

My first HD was 10MB. Now I can carry 100 times that on my keychain at a fraction of the cost. I returned a 66MHz CPU once in exchange for a 25MHz CPU because I thought it was too fast.

[agathodaimon]

heh, yep... I remember going to Best Buy to upgrade my friend's computer.... He had 4 megs of ram, and he paid about $80.00 for another 4 meg stick.

Man... we had EIGHT MEGS!

[Mike]

So so glad I didn't live through those days.

[Droppyale]

My first PC was a P2...

guess I'm not that old

[wju425]

I remember paying $20 each for 256K 30pin sticks at the army surplus. Later I paid $15 per 1meg 30pin stick and finally got 8 megs of mem for my 386 sx16. Those were the good ol' days?

\o/ Billy

[Jonty]

My first computer back in 1980 was a Sharp MZ80K and had a big 48KB memory which was spread over 24 x 2KB chips. The Z80 processor ran at about 2Mhz or thereabouts. Great machine for the time though.

Originally posted by Epidemic
When I bought my first PC they tried to just sell me a second 5 1/4 in drive. They told me I would never need anything more than that.

Duke, when did you first buy a PC?

There have been many such flashback threads in last two years. Interesting how fast technology progresses.

My first PC was a 386 with 4MB, 256 MB drive, DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 and office 4.3.

Worked pretty well. Boot up to C:\> and type win to fire up windows.

Cost me about $1200 give or take.

Had a floppy drive, a CD drive (1X) and a Creative Sound card.

This was in 1994--just 9 years ago.

But you know what? The case was the same. No change in the beige color or size as we buy today.

[Ryanoffski]

I love some of the old DOS games, too bad most don't work now