Originally Posted By: Wolf359
Originally Posted By: Pontual
In 1997 I built a PC with a Pentium MMX processor. I think it was 200Mhz. Bought all the parts on Fryz electronics, in LA, just like in a supermarket, taking the pieces from gondolas and so. Also bought a Win95/Office copies there. It end up costing more than a ready box, but was a fun project and I learnt a lot from that experience, specially with that pesky defective quantum hd ...
I started building my own PC back in '85, that was a Turbo 8 Mhz 8088, had 512k of Ram which was a big jump up over the Commodore 64 I had before. No hard drive back then, just 360k floppies. Maybe it was around 1-2k, can't remember, way cheaper than the average price of 5k for an IBM machine at the time. Now it's no longer cheaper to build your own so the only real advantage is to get the best parts and build it exactly the way you want and not have any pre-installed bloatware on the machine. Otherwise it's just cheaper to buy one pre-built.
That made me open the old wood chest mem ... I had one of those 8Mhz pre-multimedia (w/o CD drive), of 1 MB of RAM (the max available at the time), no modem, in 1988, but it was a prebuilt. It used the OS Windows 3.0, AutocadCAD2, also the state of the art! After that, circa 1993 came the multimedia Acer Across dual speed CD drive with 66 on the clock, with a 36kbps modem or something like that, maybe 2MB of RAM, OS Win 3.1 ...
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