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Reply 20 of 24, by Baoran

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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.

Reply 21 of 24, by brostenen

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Jed118 wrote:

Hah, I played DOOM on a 386 DX 40 with little problems 😉

What system? Did it play fluid in all levels and in full screen? Never seen that been done on a 386.
You need at least a 5x86-133/dx4-120 or Pentium-133 to run it 100%.

Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 22 of 24, by brostenen

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oohms wrote:

If you really want to go for a 'buttload of cash' from that era, look at EISA and SCSI - there is some crazy hardware from that era but I can imagine it would be hard to source

Yup.... That would be hard to source on my budget. Actually impossible.
If money was no problem, then I would be able to source those parts.

Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 23 of 24, by brostenen

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Baoran wrote:

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.

My parents got their first computer around late 1987 to early 1988 or something like that. It was a 286 as well, with EGA and 640k of Ram. It was extremely expensive as well. I guess it was money well spend, as the machine is still working. At least last time I turned it on. I own that machine now.

Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

My blog: http://to9xct.blogspot.dk
My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/brostenen

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Reply 24 of 24, by Intel486dx33

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Bought my first computer in 1993

CPU - 486dx-33
Motherboard - Generic ISA made in Taiwan.
Memory - 4mb ( 1mb x 4 ) They costs $20 each.
Hard-drive - Conner 120mb. Costs $1 per 1mb. ( $120 )
CDROM - Sony 2x with Sony Controller.
Audio - Sound blaster compatible.
Graphics - Oak tech SVGA
Modem - 14.4k
Display - 14" SVGA
OS - Win3x and DOS 6
Cheap Keyboard, serial mouse, speakers
Laser printer with HP emulator card.

In total it costs me $2,800

Eventually, I upgraded it with a VLB motherboard and VLB 32-bit controller card, VLB graphics card, and Sound Blaster, and 8mb of ram.

So I don't understand why today's people complain about how expensive Macbooks are. To me they are a Bargain.