Most $$$ spent on a now obselete rig!

[lhgpoobaa]

Ok... we have had most amazing F**kup with a system...
most grandiose (read futuristic) rig...
NOW!
Whats the most you have payed for a system which is now so amazingly obselete?

mine would have to be $4000 australian on a
p-166,
32mb edo
4mb steath graphics
2gig top of the line seagate
8x cd
17 inch monitor maybe 4 5 years ago?


"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you have created"~Darth Vader, Star wars

 

[dhlucke]

$3000 USD
1986
Mac Plus 8 Mhz
1 MB memory
8" b/w monitor
20 MB ext hd
800 kb floppy
dot matrix printer (roughly 25 pages per day)


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[Crashman]

Does how much I spent really matter if I sold it 6 months later for the same price I paid for it?

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

 

[74merc]

just bought a laptop around this Christmas, I'm sure it'll be obsolete soon...
point is, they'll all be obsolete, in really short order.
they always are.
same with cars, unless you buy a dirt cheap car and taxi without ever having to do any maintainance, you're gonna lose your ass.
its the nature of the beast.

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Independant thought is good.
It won't hurt for long.

 

[ajmcgarry]

unless you buy a dirt cheap car and taxi without ever having to do any maintainance, you're gonna lose your ass.

You could but a performance car made by some little company that only makes 20 cars a year.
Or maybe buy a Ferrari 250GTO.
Mmmmm.... appreciation!

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[kal326]

Well its not really a rig, but I bought 2 128meg PC133 cas 2 dimms back in August 2000 from Crucial Technologies. I paid about 180 a piece for them. Thats 360 bucks for memory alone. Damn Tawian earthquake, and me needing new PC133 memory. Now with prices dropping like a rock, I can get over 256 megs for the half of what I paid for one stick of 128 then.

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[Grizely1]

$3500 (CND)

286
i forget the rest (been awhile, it's smashed anywyas)

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I am the first and only one with a 16MB GeForce2 GTS graphics card!

 

[BuGaLoU]

LOL... I remember those things... My friend and I trashed one when Iwas younger and made a borg cube out of the parts... Now thats computing!

Computer: $2000 Internet Access: $40 Registering for forums: Free A good signature: Priceless

 

[rcf84]

$700 for a P4 1.5ghz

I didnt buy one. Northwood will make it obselete

Nice Intel and AMD users get a Cookie.... Yummy

 

[Raystonn]

Hey wait... those puppies cost $241 (around $390 with a motherboard)... not $700. The only parts Northwood will replace are the CPU and motherboard after all.

-Raystonn

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[Grizely1]

we're talking about what stuff was, not is.

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I am the first and only one with a 16MB GeForce2 GTS graphics card!

 

[rcf84]

sorry about that. Northwood will make it obselete is Q3 2001

Nice Intel and AMD users get a Cookie.... Yummy

 

[Raystonn]

What stuff 'was' when he bought it? But he didn't buy one. Therefore, I see no problem with using current prices.

-Raystonn

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[phsstpok]

1987

Zeos 286, 10 mhz (overclocked to 12 mhz at the factory)
0.5 MB DRAM
Monochrome monitor and graphic card (Hercules clone)
47 MB HD
1.2 MB floppy drive

$2700, USD

I was still using the case and power suppply until I retired them in November 2000.

 

[Grizely1]

You have to piss about everything dont you........

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Grass is a beautiful weed

 

[Raystonn]

We'll need another hose over here folks.

-Raystonn

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[reptilej]

$2,500 - leading edge P60, 8mb ram, 740mb hard drive(it was unconceivable how i could ever use that big of a hard drive back then). ahh the good ol' days of windows 3.11 and dos.

repeat after me, we are all individuals!

 

[juin]

3600 $ canadian

486 33mghz
4 ram
230 or 250 meg hd

and a old

286 that i buy for 5$ last year.I explore the cpu after a bat swing.I much know what that look like inside of a HD.