On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 10:33:33AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
> I bought my first PC at home Northern summer 1993, a AMD 386 40 MHz
> system with 4 MB Ram (and a black&white 14" monitor).

The first "PC" I ever bought was an XT clone in 1982. IIRC it cost
about $1500 for 640K RAM and dual 360K floppies, with a hercules graphics
card and an amber monitor (the herc card didn't do colour, but the text
quality was vastly superior to what a CGA card was capable of).

The 20MB hard disk I bought a few months later cost another $1000.
enormous, 20MB was more than 55 floppies worth of data.

I had an XT with blue monitor cost me around a grand when I got it, I remember going to a "clearance" sale that a supplier in Perth (where I lived) had every year to clear out old and damaged stock, I got a 40MB HDD that had been returned under warranty and was only reading one side of the platter making it a 20MB drive, picked that up for $40 from memory it was an MFM drive