Reply 20 of 24, by Baoran
I bought my first PC ever in 1989 and it was a 12Mhz 286 with vga card, vga monitor and 1Mb ram. Even that was really expensive back then. I can't imagine how much I would have had to pay for a 486 back then if they were even sold in my country. I built a 486 33Mhz retro pc last winter and I have not found any games that would run well on it that would require high amounts of ram. It has 8 1Mb 30pin sticks and it seems to be more than enough.
I upgraded the 286 pc that I bought in 1989 to 33Mhz 386 with 4Mb ram in 1992 and I built a new 90Mhz Pentium pc in 1995 when computers seemed to become more affordable here and that one had 16Mb of ram.