[crazy4laptops]

The Univac commercial got me thinking, what was the first computer you wished you could get if you had unlimited cash? Or remember when (insert old computer here) was expensive?

The attached laptop (a beast of it's time) was more expensive than my modern Macbook Pro in 2001

I actually used the latitude version of this computer, it was decently good for XP when one added 256MB of RAM.

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[LiveBrianD]

Just a few weeks ago, while cleaning my pet rat's cage, I found a frys ad from 2008 that I had in my pile of newspaper. It was kinda funny looking at that, and comparing it to today. Still, I really had to laugh at the ad you found.

[coastie65]

I remember when I had upgraded from the Commodore 64 to the Commodore 128 ( out of necessity; fried MOBO ). I would have loved to have gotten the Amiga. With the Commodore, it was expensive as you had to but the Computer as well as the Disk Drive ( they were seperate ) , the Printer, and Monitor. You could easily spend around $800 on the C-64 and the C-128 was even more.

[mjd420nova]

I did some repairs on a friends Atari 420, and later the Atari 512. Mostly game oriented but did have some wordprocessing and some desktop tools for the 3.5 inch floppy. Not all that expensive but tough to service and parts were hard to find.

[coastie65]

mjd420nova, on 26 February 2012 - 11:30 AM, said:

I did some repairs on a friends Atari 420, and later the Atari 512. Mostly game oriented but did have some wordprocessing and some desktop tools for the 3.5 inch floppy. Not all that expensive but tough to service and parts were hard to find.

Seems I recall an Atari 600 & 800, but not sure. They used to put the Commodore 64 Stuff on one side of the 5 1/4" Floppy and the Atari stuff on the other side.