How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?

In today’s money (inflation adjusted)

This an ad from Personal Computer World (UK) from 1985

  • @peanutyam
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    41 year ago

    Oh that’s amazing!

    The 80’s were certainly a different time. Especially when only allowed to access a computer at school for a few minutes in the day (Apple IIe) so all of us could “have a go at the computer in the library”!

    I would never have imagined as a kid what it was going to be like today with smartphones and the internet everywhere….

    • Brownian Motion
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      1 year ago

      You were lucky! We only had BBC’s in our computer room.

      • @zerbey
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        1 year ago

        “Only had BBCs”. The best 8-bit computer of their generation? ONLY had a BBC? You have any idea how lucky we were growing up with those amazing machines in the 80s-90s? I owe my whole career to the BBC, with an honorable mention to the ZX Spectrum I had at home.

        Even today, they’re still in use.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I guess I went to a well funded public school… In 1984-5 we had a whole bunch of apple ][s so we had an hour or so per week of programming in basic- I had a commodore 64 at home so I could do the classwork in the first 5-10 minutes, then spend the rest of the time playing with it to see what it could do…