How much did your first computer cost, and the one your using now

[low-key]

My frs tone was in 99 and it was around 1,000.00 and the one I am using now was a no name lap top on sale, it was 250.00

 

[Meglen]

My first Dell was about 500$ 11 years ago. my current one is a 900$ gaming PC.

 

[Meriweather]

Commador 64.....although DH says it doesn't count as a computer 84 or 85 about $200

I have a Dell laptop that was about $400 and a Gateway desk top that was about $350

 

[Deanna404]

I had a TI-99! It was a Christmas gift, so i don't know how much it cost. The first desktop I bought myself in 1987 was a Compaq 386 for about $800. This evening, I'm using an HP Stream laptop that cost just under $200.

 

[HopperFan]

Is there a prize?

Apple IIe .... $3000

Dell $400

 

[KMarston]

About &50! Timex-Sinclair in the early 80s!

 

[disneychrista]

I bought my first computer (a Mac G-3) in 1998, I want to say I spent about $2,000. My current lap top is an HP and was less than $500.

 

[Deanna404]

Is there a prize?

Apple IIe .... $3000

Dell $400

I bought my first computer (a Mac G-3) in 1998, I want to say I spent about $2,000. My current lap top is an HP and was less than $500.

You both came over from the Dark Side!

 

[low-key]

Is there a prize?

yes, winner gets a chicken dinner

 

[disneychrista]

You both came over from the Dark Side!

I loved my Mac! But PC's are so much cheaper.

 

[low-key]

I loved my Mac! But PC's are so much cheaper.

I love it when things drop in price

 

[RedAngie]

My first at-home personal desk top cost about $2000 in 1996. That was for the tower, monitor, keyboard, speakers, etc. It was a Compaq, but I don't remember the details about its power, etc.

Current laptop, a Toshiba, was about $500 two years ago.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

I don't remember exactly how much it cost (my parents' footed the bill), but I remember distinctly that it was 2.5 gigs, and I was SUPER impressed about that storage capacity!!!

 

[lilia78]

I got a beautiful blue iMac in 2001, cost around $2000 CAD, now use an iPad cost $599 CAD. I use a dell for work but I didn’t buy it and I didn’t have a choice of computer.

 

[Shsmith341]

My father has always been a computer nerd. He started buying computers before I was born. I think he had almost every Tandy TRS-80 since the late 70s. I remember we thought pong was a fun game. I have no idea what he paid for computers back then. I'm sure he wasted a lot of money just like he did on laser discs lol. We had a server in our basement starting in the 80s. My father was always busy printing information for me and my friends to complete school reports in the late 80s/early 90s. It was shocking to so many friends that we could skip a trip to the library by using the internet.

 

[Shsmith341]

Forgot to mention that I mostly use my google fi phone for everything now. I barely ever use a computer at home.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

my first computer was one my now ex-husband built with spare parts, so...free, I guess? He used to run a programming business. I am still using a gaming desktop that he built but it is old and slow, it's time to upgrade. My laptop is a 7 year old HP that I bought myself when I was working from home when my daughter was a baby, I paid $350 for it, but it is painfully slow and I don't use it much anymore. My kids have newer gaming desktops, I paid about $600 for my daughter's and $900 for my son's, plus he has hundreds of dollars in upgraded parts in it. We love PC gaming.

 

[Skippy918]

I got my first computer when I went off to college in 1995. It was a Pentium 90 with 8mb of ram running windows 3.11. I think it was $2000? It came with a crt monitor.
My current desktop is one of those really small Dell computers and it was around $300.

 

[mrodgers]

I got my first computer when I went off to college in 1995. It was a Pentium 90 with 8mb of ram running windows 3.11. I think it was $2000? It came with a crt monitor.
My current desktop is one of those really small Dell computers and it was around $300.

Similar, 1995 Compaq with a Pentium 90, but I think only 4mb RAM running Win95. Full package, it was somewhere around $1500-2000, I can't remember.

2nd computer was 2005, HP Pavillion full package and paid $500 I think.

Currently have an HP laptop bought in 2015 specifically because Windows 7 was on it. Paid $599.

I seem to get a new computer about every 10 years.

 

[moon]

IBM Aptiva in '95. first generation Pentium (WOW, a PENTIUM!) 1gb disk space (AWESOME!). It was close to $2,000.

The one I'm using how is a refurbished Dell, little over $200