I feel kind of wasteful.
Yesterday I got a great deal on a used PC. It is a year old Dell Dimensions 1100 with a 2.77 GHZ chip, 512 memory, a legit copy of Windows XP Business, and a legit copy of Office 2003 business. I paid $75 for it. It is a great PC at a great price.
The reason I feel wasteful is a basically threw out two old functioning PCs that were badly outdated. I bought both back in 1998 when I opened my office. I paid probably $3,500 for the pair. Over the years I updated the memory, operating system and replaced hard drives. I even fixed the cooling fans on both PC.
But finally the old girls just couldn’t keep up. One just ran a web cam and the other was backup storage.
So today I stripped out the hard drives and memory and tossed both boxes in the dumpster.
I remember when PCs were so expensive. I bought my first in 1992 for $2,000. It was a 386 with a 80 MB hard drive and 4 megs of ram. I still have the chip around here somewhere. I took it home and learned how to use it. It had a 1400 cardinal modem that I used to go onto bulletin boards.
I later got Compuserve.
Then I got a used 486 from my SIL for $500. What a deal and what a good PC. I eventually gave that PC to my BIL. He met his current wife on that PC.
I have had a dozen or more PCs since, but I still feel wasteful when I don’t run a PC until it dies.
Oh well.
This $75 PC could have run NASA or NORAD back in 1992.
We are living in good times.
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I had no idea that Pat met his wife on that PC!
Yep! Sure did.
I find it somewhat scary that the remote for my TV has more computing power than my first personal computer.
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