Let me tell you about my $4000 486... ;-)

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Post #332,664 by Another Scott 9/16/10 9:16:41 PM Reply	Let me tell you about my $4000 486... ;-)
Post #332,669 by folkert 9/16/10 10:25:01 PM Reply	Mine was $2184... 8MB of memory, 486/33 DX with a 110MB and a 256KB VESA SLOT video card. and a 13" Samsung 1024x768x256 monitor. Crappy keyboard and a square mouse.
Post #332,672 by Another Scott 9/16/10 10:44:12 PM Reply	486/66 EISA/SCSI. 6 months later it was $1000 less...
Post #332,673 by malraux 9/16/10 10:46:37 PM Reply	1992 486/66 DX2 w/64M of RAM, around $6000 as I remember it. The company I worked for bought two of them for financial modeling. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #332,674 by Another Scott 9/16/10 10:47:41 PM Reply	Ah, the good old days! :-)
Post #332,680 by drook 9/17/10 7:57:34 AM Reply	I remember the first time I saw 500M hard drive I thought, "Wow, that would be like having a server on your desk." -- Drew
Post #332,697 by jake123 9/17/10 9:23:02 AM Reply	Hey, I can play this game My truly insanely expensive P100, with a whole 32MB RAM. The RAM alone cost me 2400 bucks... but it was worth it; ran some real 32 bit systems with flash and style on that machine...
Post #332,702 by static 9/17/10 10:57:21 AM Reply	I could too, though I'm not sure I really want to. Although I didn't pay for it, I remember my first computer was normally retailing at AU$500 but was on special for Christmas at $300. It had just 16k of RAM, no mass storage and I had to use my own TV! I do remember paying $1600 for 16Mb of RAM quite some years later, though. It was for a 386SX PC. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #332,685 by boxley 9/17/10 8:22:59 AM Reply	/hand waves and my $700 esdi drives! Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #332,724 by crazy 9/17/10 6:51:39 PM Reply	Mine was $5K It was the 1st computer I ever bought for myself. It took about a month of extra consulting to pay it off.

Can I take this opportunity to point out ... - (drook) - (46) - Sept. 16, 2010, 07:05:53 PM EDT

Well, Linux developers develop for . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Sept. 16, 2010, 08:00:22 PM EDT

yeah, we have a pool to see when 3par suckage starts :-) -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 16, 2010, 08:39:37 PM EDT

Well here is my attempt to SOAPBOX. - (folkert) - (39) - Sept. 16, 2010, 08:39:33 PM EDT

Gah. - (malraux) - (10) - Sept. 16, 2010, 09:11:34 PM EDT

Let me tell you about my $4000 486... ;-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (9) - Sept. 16, 2010, 09:16:41 PM EDT

Mine was $2184... - (folkert) - (6) - Sept. 16, 2010, 10:25:01 PM EDT

486/66 EISA/SCSI. 6 months later it was $1000 less... -NT - (Another Scott) - (2) - Sept. 16, 2010, 10:44:12 PM EDT

1992 - (malraux) - (1) - Sept. 16, 2010, 10:46:37 PM EDT

Ah, the good old days! :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 16, 2010, 10:47:41 PM EDT

I remember the first time I saw 500M hard drive - (drook) - Sept. 17, 2010, 07:57:34 AM EDT

Hey, I can play this game - (jake123) - (1) - Sept. 17, 2010, 09:23:02 AM EDT

I could too, though I'm not sure I really want to. - (static) - Sept. 17, 2010, 10:57:21 AM EDT

/hand waves and my $700 esdi drives! -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 17, 2010, 08:22:59 AM EDT

Mine was $5K - (crazy) - Sept. 17, 2010, 06:51:39 PM EDT

Would a Mac desktop be cheaper? - (drook) - (27) - Sept. 16, 2010, 09:53:26 PM EDT

On Mac Hardware... - (folkert) - Sept. 16, 2010, 10:25:47 PM EDT

Depends on what you want to do. - (Another Scott) - (25) - Sept. 16, 2010, 10:42:23 PM EDT

And AVCHD is what I'm looking for - (drook) - (24) - Sept. 17, 2010, 07:59:41 AM EDT

Well then... - (folkert) - Sept. 17, 2010, 09:25:30 AM EDT

Apple claims FCE4 will do it on an Intel Mac. - (Another Scott) - (22) - Sept. 17, 2010, 09:41:47 AM EDT

Yeah, I'll be looking - (drook) - Sept. 17, 2010, 10:53:12 AM EDT

probably can however - (boxley) - (20) - Sept. 17, 2010, 11:23:02 AM EDT

I should find a Video Toaster and a Betacam -NT - (drook) - (19) - Sept. 17, 2010, 11:33:30 AM EDT

Or - (crazy) - (18) - Sept. 17, 2010, 06:58:45 PM EDT

Heh, yeah I know - (drook) - (17) - Sept. 17, 2010, 08:24:52 PM EDT

Have you been taking misdirection lessons - (crazy) - (16) - Sept. 19, 2010, 11:57:53 AM EDT

Somebody's been taking grumpy pills - (drook) - (15) - Sept. 19, 2010, 12:48:07 PM EDT

grumpy pills? - (crazy) - (14) - Sept. 19, 2010, 05:44:13 PM EDT

You're more self-aware than the people I'm talking about - (drook) - (13) - Sept. 19, 2010, 06:37:56 PM EDT

No-one is more certain than . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 19, 2010, 06:46:23 PM EDT

Have you stopped to consider... - (mvitale) - (1) - Sept. 19, 2010, 10:00:20 PM EDT

No, that had never occurred to me -NT - (drook) - Sept. 19, 2010, 10:34:21 PM EDT

On the MS side - (crazy) - (9) - Sept. 19, 2010, 10:36:40 PM EDT

"Pick your poison" - (drook) - (8) - Sept. 20, 2010, 12:39:14 AM EDT

Got it - (crazy) - (7) - Sept. 20, 2010, 07:44:03 AM EDT

Where did you offer any solutions? - (drook) - (6) - Sept. 20, 2010, 04:39:02 PM EDT

Maybe you simply posted in the wrong forum. :-) - (static) - Sept. 20, 2010, 07:57:01 PM EDT

What about this? - (beepster) - (2) - Sept. 20, 2010, 09:02:21 PM EDT

He has looked at it and tried to use it. - (folkert) - (1) - Sept. 20, 2010, 09:04:25 PM EDT

On deficiencies - (drook) - Sept. 21, 2010, 10:03:11 AM EDT

Or you could have found a bunch of other people - (crazy) - (1) - Sept. 20, 2010, 11:20:29 PM EDT

Working on that - (drook) - Sept. 21, 2010, 09:47:14 AM EDT

Here is the Movie Maker you're describing... - (rickw) - (3) - Oct. 28, 2010, 02:38:51 AM EDT

He found a decent NLVE for Linux... - (folkert) - Oct. 28, 2010, 07:27:08 AM EDT

I think I already installed that - (drook) - (1) - Oct. 28, 2010, 02:29:06 PM EDT

You might want to keep an eye on iMovie. - (Another Scott) - Oct. 28, 2010, 09:51:46 PM EDT

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