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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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[–] IndiBrony 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Don't mind me. Just showing off the Sinclair ZX Spectrum bag I got a couple of weeks ago. I'm nostalgic for 5 minute loading screens that could trigger an epileptic fit!

The 80s were a different time.

[–] peanutyam 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh that’s amazing!

The 80’s were certainly a different time. Especially when only allowed to access a computer at school for a few minutes in the day (Apple IIe) so all of us could “have a go at the computer in the library”!

I would never have imagined as a kid what it was going to be like today with smartphones and the internet everywhere….

[–] BrownianMotion 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You were lucky! We only had BBC's in our computer room.

[–] zerbey 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Only had BBCs". The best 8-bit computer of their generation? ONLY had a BBC? You have any idea how lucky we were growing up with those amazing machines in the 80s-90s? I owe my whole career to the BBC, with an honorable mention to the ZX Spectrum I had at home.

Even today, they're still in use.

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