My computers

Copy of a post from a few years ago then updated :

Monday, June 07, 2004

I was recently thinking about the length of time I have a computer for and when I need to buy a new one. Right now - but I cannae afford one.

My first "computer like" thing was an Amstrad PCW10 which I bought in August 1993.

This fucked up and I ended up buying an actual computer in March 1995 - a Compaq Presario with a hard disk of 200MB - of which only half has been used to date.

EDIT : I found the leaflet that came with my first computer.
Compaq Presario 433
Intel 486sx/33 Processor
4MB RAM
200MB Hard Disk Drive
Integrated SVGA 14" colour monitor
Software installed MS-Dos 6 Microsoft Windows 3.1 (at least it never crashed on me once unlike "Fucking Windows 98" which crashes at least once a day) Still got that computer. I think it cost £1100. The black and white printer I bought cost £320. Nowadays you can buy a scanner/photocopier/fax machine/colour printer for under £50.

Update I don't have the computer anymore and I only use Windows 98 on my ancient laptop.

In September 1997 I then bought a Packard Bell Pulsar 23 with a hard disk of 4.3GB. At the time I thought it was impossible to fill this space up. How wrong I was. With all the crap I bought along with this one, monitors, scanner, printer I paid about £2800.

In June 2000 I bought a Tiny PC. I have no idea of its full name. It was advertised as having a 30GB hard disk but I found out this was actually only 28.6GB (which is now reduced to 885MB).
Can't remember how much I paid for this one - I'll need to look it up and edit post - probably around £1500.

Methinks it's time for a new one.

EDIT :
I bought another new one in August 2005 :
This one packed in about 15 months ago. I bought another one off Ebay but never got it to work. Actually I've bought quite a few off of Ebay but these were to be used as my main computer.
Again - I'll need to look up and see how much I paid for this one.

So the latest one I received on 19th July 2009. I paid £129.95 plus £14.90 postage.
I'll need to do some checking on this - I'm sure the Buy it now price was £109.00 .
Advertised as having a 500GB hard drive - but in reality only 465GB. Changed days fron the 200MB computer which I only ever used 100MB of.

I wonder if I'll ever but a brand spanking new one again.