How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?

In today’s money (inflation adjusted)

This an ad from Personal Computer World (UK) from 1985

    • TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I was starting writing here to correct you that it had 48KB (like the spectrums) but thought to check on wikipedia and… you are right! Oh my goodness! 1kb and called a computer! And was a computer!

    • peanutyam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Ooh! I had a ZX-81 with a 16k ram pack on it (and cassette recorder to save with!) as a kid haha….god I’m old!!

      • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Don’t mind me. Just showing off the Sinclair ZX Spectrum bag I got a couple of weeks ago. I’m nostalgic for 5 minute loading screens that could trigger an epileptic fit!

        The 80s were a different time.

        • peanutyam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Oh that’s amazing!

          The 80’s were certainly a different time. Especially when only allowed to access a computer at school for a few minutes in the day (Apple IIe) so all of us could “have a go at the computer in the library”!

          I would never have imagined as a kid what it was going to be like today with smartphones and the internet everywhere….

            • zerbey@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              “Only had BBCs”. The best 8-bit computer of their generation? ONLY had a BBC? You have any idea how lucky we were growing up with those amazing machines in the 80s-90s? I owe my whole career to the BBC, with an honorable mention to the ZX Spectrum I had at home.

              Even today, they’re still in use.

          • Malfeasant@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I guess I went to a well funded public school… In 1984-5 we had a whole bunch of apple ][s so we had an hour or so per week of programming in basic- I had a commodore 64 at home so I could do the classwork in the first 5-10 minutes, then spend the rest of the time playing with it to see what it could do…

    • zerbey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I do, wonderful machine. You could get a 16K RAM pack (most did) that made a huge difference. Problem is, if an ant sneezed in the next town over it’d wobble loose and the machine would crash. A dab of Blu-Tac was just the ticket.

      The ZX Spectrum came out 2 years later and was far more capable, and reasonably priced.