Me and my mate bought a PS/2 once, I think it was the model 55, it had a 386 and 1MB of RAM. We upgraded the RAM, put Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.22 and sold it for twice the price :).
We were very puzzled at the MCA slots, never seen them before at the time, but then we must have only been about 15.
The oldest PC we ever bought was a late 80's Tanden 386. It must have cost £1000s when new. It had an MFM 20mb hard drive, the motherboard was about four times the size of a current one, and everything needed its own controller. I seem to remember even the floppy drive had its own controller card. It had a green screen monitor with a Hercules video card.
We put an IBM PS/2 VGA monitor with it we used to pay £15 each for, and put in a VGA card, tried to sell it for twice the price but there was no takers. It was too old even in 1997. I think we were asking £60 for it, which wasn't a lot in 1997 for a 386 with 4MB of RAM.
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