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

  • peanutyam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Ooh! I had a ZX-81 with a 16k ram pack on it (and cassette recorder to save with!) as a kid haha….god I’m old!!

    • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        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….

          • zerbey@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            1 year 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.

        • Malfeasant@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I guess I went to a well funded public school… In 1984-5 we had a whole bunch of apple ][s so we had an hour or so per week of programming in basic- I had a commodore 64 at home so I could do the classwork in the first 5-10 minutes, then spend the rest of the time playing with it to see what it could do…