On 4/17/2011 5:32 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 17/04/2011 5:14 PM, Nad R wrote:
>
>> Starting in the Late seventies, TRS-80 Model 1, 4k ram, cassette storage.
>> Later Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Power Mac 7100/66, Power Book G4 and an iPad
>> model 1.
>>
>> My favorite was the Power Mac 7100/66 was loaded and cost $5,000 for
>> hardware alone. It served me well for ten years before the operating
>> system
>> truly became obsolete.
>>
>> Right now, I love this little portable iPad that is now my favorite.
>
>
> My first computer was a Coco II from Radio Shack. It didn't take long to
> realize how useless Radio Shack is. I ended up getting an XT. I can't
> believe the prices I paid for that machine and accessories, but I sure
> am glad that prices have plummeted. I paid less for this laptop than I
> did for a 20 meg hard drive for that computer.
>

My first computer was something they called a clone. 386, 2 mb RAM, 40
MB HD. I only wanted DOS OS but I found something called Windows on it
and decided to check it out. It cost well over $1200. I used that
computer for more than 10 years. I learned a lot about hardware working
on that thing. Over the years I replaced the RAM, the hard drive, added
another one as a slave, installed a CD ROM and zip drive, the
motherboard, swapped out the CPU (Evergreen) and added a fan, and then
the power supply when the original one started smoking and shut down.
During that computer's life, it went from the original DOS with Windows
3.1, WFW, Windows NT 3.5 because I acquired a set of diskettes, and
Windows 2000 was the final OS.

I only use laptops now, and I've never done more to them than add memory.