How much was your first Computer?

Juninho10

Juninho10

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I'm talking more Desktop / PC - rather than Game Console

I was thinking the other day.... I got my first computer in the mid-90s when I was about 10/11 ish

Don't know how much it cost
 
Video Genie - The Polytechnic Book Shop sold them, but I bought mine off of a guy who was in a class I attended at Longlands - he hated it so sold me it for £60. It was based on the Tandy TRS-80 and had a cassette drive for loading / saving stuff.

Dinosaur of a thing when I look back but I learned to program on it and it took me in the right direction for an IT career so a very wothwhile investment back then.
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48K ZX Spectrum, it seems like it cost £175 when first released but I think I got it a year later so it might have been reduced to £129 by then.....it was still quite a bit of money back then though but worth every penny for Jetpac, Knight Lore and Manic Minor
 
Got a pc from Aldi for about £400
I can remember donating money to Alan Sugar in the seventies buying an Amstrad VCR for £379 bloody expensive then
 
Bought the kids a PC one Christmas, we planned it as we had BT supply the plug in filter doings, it provided internet dial up. Might have been 94 ish, a progression from Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Amiga 500. I think it was a HP inc printer and scanner from Dixons. Cost ! I think it was £400 ish ?. I used to go to South Bank Business Centre , in there was an IT unit there that sold Public Domain software floppy disks and other IT equipment the disks were ten bob a go and had primitive games and puzzles etc. The space age came to Teesside.:cool:
 
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Spectrum 48k Plus 👍

I know my parents said it cost a fortune at the time. My god I did some hours on that playing Commando and Yie Ar Kung-Fu😂Screenshot_20201027-060526_Samsung Internet.jpgScreenshot_20201027-060853_Samsung Internet.jpg
 
128k Spectrum +2, with built in tape drive, although I have no idea how much it cost as it was a Christmas present.

I then got an Amiga, but not the 500 that everyone else had, as somehow I / my art teacher managed to persuade my parents that I needed a Amiga 1500 (I think) which had more RAM to support my "artistic endeavors" (??) on Deluxe Paint. I remember it cost £1k which was a very large amount of money in those days (3 times the price of the 500), and we had to go to a computer shop in Leeds (next to Armley prison) to buy it for some reason.

Anyhow it got used mainly to play games, with the occasional foray into digital painting.
 
I bought my first PC and modem in 1997, it cost over a grand, £1200 I think. That was an incredibly expensive way of communicating with people in chat rooms and you even had to pay for an email address.
 
It was about £1k, about 1998.

my most recent build will have set me back about £4k once finished

had everything from speccy 48k to SNES & mega drive in between. Originally had Xbox, now PlayStation. Would get Xbox now but you can play most things on the pc via gamepass / Xbox app, so will probably get a ps5 for the exclusives
 
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Vic 20 Christmas of 81. 299 pound a lot of money back then but as someone above said it started me on a career that has served me well. I was working my first job at British steel on Ladgate Lane and working on the mainframe at steel House. The Vic 20 was a bit of a commute down given I had a dumb terminal in my office and a PET.
 
My wife bought me a Commodore 64 for Christmas in 1984 & it cost £220 if I rember rightly.

I got my first desk top from Byte in 94 & I'm pretty sure it was around £1000.

I also recollect paying something crazy like £200 a year later to take the memory from 8 to 16 meg. and having to replace the hard drive not long after because my new installation of win 95 had used up all the space.
 
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