1979-1982 or so, spent $2500 on my TRS-80. Added memory, disk drives, and that expansion card you need to drive both a printer and a disk drive (not counting the cost of my printer here, cuz it also got used in....)
1982 or thereabouts, bought a Leading Edge. This was a PC clone, but I remember looking hard at the Amiga at the time. Problem was, everybody at work (not the company, my co-workers) were choosing PC-clones and I jumped off the cliff with the rest of the lemmings. Did a nice swan dive at the bottom of that cliff and never looked back.
Fast forward to, I dunno, 2000 or so. Every 3 years I spent $2.5k on a new computer. Think it was '03 or so I spent less than $1k buying a new computer (I should note, I was buying gaming rigs this whole time). New CPU, motherboard, and graphics card, some RAM, re-use everything else, I was good to go.
Now? Don't think I've spent $2500 in the past 10 years. My games are good enough, and I'm more interested in gameplay than 4k graphics at 120 fps.
Bought my first PC clone about then (Score:2)
1982 or thereabouts, bought a Leading Edge. This was a PC clone, but I remember looking hard at the Amiga at the time. Problem was, everybody at work (not the company, my co-workers) were choosing PC-clones and I jumped off the cliff with the rest of the lemmings. Did a nice swan dive at the bottom of that cliff and never looked back.
Fast forward to, I dunno, 2000 or so. Every 3 years I spent $2.5k on a new computer. Think it was '03 or so I spent less than $1k buying a new computer (I should note, I was buying gaming rigs this whole time). New CPU, motherboard, and graphics card, some RAM, re-use everything else, I was good to go.
Now? Don't think I've spent $2500 in the past 10 years. My games are good enough, and I'm more interested in gameplay than 4k graphics at 120 fps.