Yep in 1993 I was bitten a by a dog in a DIY store, their guard dog escaped and attacked me. They setteled out of court and I got £750 compo. My parents also put £750 towards it. We ended up having £1500 to buy a PC. Dixons ripped off us but none of us knew enough about PCs at the time, I was only ten years old!
We got for our £1300.
An IBM PS/1 386 SX 20, 2MB RAM, 80MB HD, 11" VGA Monitor, DOS 4.0, Windows 3.0 £750
A Cannon Buddle jet (actually very tiny almost portable) cost about £250
£300 for an extended warranty for five years - they told us PCs always go wrong and cost a fortune to repair.
In 1997 the 386 still looked new, and it still had 1 year warranty left so I wrote a fancy user interface mainly using batch files so the user could type type in a number to load windows rather than the cd windows win.com/386 or what ever it was. I didn't dare load windows automatically with the autoexec.bat because it was so damn slow! It was mainly a DOS machine windows on top. I sold it with Windows 3.1/DOS 6.22 but otherwise as new for £280 inc a dot matrix printer.
With the same money I went and bought a scruffy looking home built 486 DX4-120 and a year later paid £180 for a 2GB hard drive for it! I then built every PC until 2007 when I bought a basic sempron AM2//DDR2 machine for £200 brand new from Comet it was cheaper than I could built it for.
Over three years later one original part remains the motherboard, everytrhing else the HD, RAM, Processor, case, windows, PSU, cd writer etc has been changed.
The only reason I haven't upgraded my motherboard is I am worried about loosing my Vistra licence I paid £75 for.
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Sat 27 Mar 10 at 13:02
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