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<blockquote data-quote="Whiskeyman" data-source="post: 392611" data-attributes="member: 13556">An IBM PC Model 5150 my parents purchased for me in 1984 for college.&nbsp; It was upgraded to dual DS/DD 5 1/4 inch floppy&nbsp; drives and 128 kilobytes of RAM, which I later upgraded to 192 kilobytes. In addition, it had a monochrome graphics card, and a 14-inch monochrome monitor.&nbsp; It cost just short of&nbsp; $2400, back then. I used it with a early word processor and an early version of PC Basic to model mechanical systems for some upper level Mechanical Engineering classes.&nbsp; It was a very good machine for it's day, to me, and several of my co-horts in college.&nbsp; But it almost got several of us thrown out of school.&nbsp; My parents had it and used it for a few things until a few years ago, when the local animal shelter's IBM PC (same model) quit working and my parents gave it to them.&nbsp; It was still working as of two years ago, at 28 years old.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whiskeyman, post: 392611, member: 13556"] An IBM PC Model 5150 my parents purchased for me in 1984 for college. It was upgraded to dual DS/DD 5 1/4 inch floppy drives and 128 kilobytes of RAM, which I later upgraded to 192 kilobytes. In addition, it had a monochrome graphics card, and a 14-inch monochrome monitor. It cost just short of $2400, back then. I used it with a early word processor and an early version of PC Basic to model mechanical systems for some upper level Mechanical Engineering classes. It was a very good machine for it's day, to me, and several of my co-horts in college. But it almost got several of us thrown out of school. My parents had it and used it for a few things until a few years ago, when the local animal shelter's IBM PC (same model) quit working and my parents gave it to them. It was still working as of two years ago, at 28 years old. [/QUOTE]

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