Cardiffdaffs
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My first desktop was a Mesh computer. Bought in about 1994. Cant recall its price but reckon it was about £800.
The GUI was Windows version 1. I removed it to make more space.I had a Spectrum 48k - think it was £129.99. Plus Kevin Toms' Football Manager. Paid for it with my share of my dad's estate, which totaled £450 between three of us.
First desktop was an Amstrad 1512 (?). No hard drive, but I think it had two floppy (5.25") drives. It did have a GUI which seemed a load of nonsense at the time (late eighties?) when you could load everything from DOS. £650 as far as I remember which now seems ridiculous, from a computer shop on Linthorpe Road.
Similar to others, paid £1000 for a Dell including set up. Would be early 90’s. It did good service.
Used to be worth building your own - not any longer, unless you're building something fancy. I just bought a new laptop, 1920x1080, 16GB for less than $500.For quite a few years, the price of a desktop was about the same iirc. Only the spec' changed.
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