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

  • GunpachiEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    It’s crazy how Computers have changed over the years !

    I guess people who have used PC’s from the old era would be able to appreciate the current Computers in a completely different level.

    • @kemal007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      When I remember back to the early 80s, me a single digit aged human with my first Commodore 64 and a cassette tape drive, to being a high school aged kid and helping my buddies install their extended memory set chip by chip to get them to 1mb of ram, to way in the future where I type this comment on a mobile phone touch screen capable of unfathomable high resolution graphics and speed is still a surreal feeling.

      I grew up and grew old with computers and it’s wild to imagine a life without and a world without them nearly 50 years later.

    • MrsDoyleEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Never mind computers (my first one, in I think 1985, had two floppy drives and an amber screen, very fancy), it’s phones that blow my mind. I grew up with a heavy black bakelite dial phone that lived on a special bench in the hall, and now I do video calls with my family on the other side of the world from wherever I happen to be. Toll calls used to be a huge deal, you had to call the operator, we didn’t even have direct dialling. I watch TV on my phone, not even Star Trek had that!