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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

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[-] captain_samuel_brady@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sir, I’ll have you know that I had an IBM PS/2 Model 25 with 256 glorious colors in MCGA. And fuck every developer that didn’t support MCGA, because it dropped down to 4 color CGA if not. No support for EGA.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

and i'm sure you learned your valuable lesson :)

[-] captain_samuel_brady@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Almost certainly not as my next PC was a Gateway 2000.

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