I almost puked

[Chiefwhatdahey]

Stopped by local pawn shop today (they're the only ones that sell gun bags in town) To get bag for sons new .20 ga (he did some serious shoveling this winter and we don't do allowance) When lo and behold the wife notices laptop on counter she comments on make and says "that is the same as yours", I says "yep it sure is"," she says look it is only 375.00" :yikes: I paid 1200.00 for same puter two years ago brand new :angry:

[Big_Dave]

Funny thing about used 'puters........what IS wrong with it? :yikes:

Ya gotta look at it with that perspective.

Know what I mean?

If the deal was 'that good', I'd be puking all night long at the nearest bar. :yikes:

[Jimbo]

Hey Chief, The first Computer I ever owned was a Cumulus Workbox, that I bought from Sears. They had one with 560 kilobytes of RAM, a 40 Megabyte Hard drive (Yes, Megabytes, not Gigabytes)and 3 expansion slots in the back, so I could upgrade it later.

They also had another, with twice as much RAM and Hard drive space, as well as 6 expansion slots instead of 3. So, with the first one costing $1,300, and the other, with twice as much everything, only $400 more, I laid out $1,700 for my computer.

I was so proud. I was the very first person that I knew, that actually had a computer in their house.

Later on, about a year and a half later, I was in a computer trade show looking for some parts. I saw a guy with my computers for sale. Now understand me, these were not computers "LIKE" mine, they were the exact same computer.

Price??

Please don't think I'm making this up. I have no reason to.
He wanted $75 a piece, including the keyboard and mouse.

If I had waited a year and a half to get a computer, I could have saved over a thousand dollars. And those were 1,000 1989 dollars.

Talk about feeling sick!! I was just glad I didn't bring my wife to that show. She would have killed me.

[Chiefwhatdahey]

Yup, I have two puters in the basement that I can't give away 386 & 486

[Jimbo]

Keep them for nostalgia purposes.

[Chiefwhatdahey]

boat anchors for windy days on the Wolf ;)

[HSLD]

Funny thing about used 'puters........what IS wrong with it?

Pawn shop, I'm thinking stolen!!!!!

HSLD

[Pipester]

Hey Chief, The first Computer I ever owned was a Cumulus Workbox, that I bought from Sears. They had one with 560 kilobytes of RAM, a 40 Megabyte Hard drive (Yes, Megabytes, not Gigabytes)and 3 expansion slots in the back, so I could upgrade it later.

They also had another, with twice as much RAM and Hard drive space, as well as 6 expansion slots instead of 3. So, with the first one costing $1,300, and the other, with twice as much everything, only $400 more, I laid out $1,700 for my computer.

I was so proud. I was the very first person that I knew, that actually had a computer in their house.

Later on, about a year and a half later, I was in a computer trade show looking for some parts. I saw a guy with my computers for sale. Now understand me, these were not computers "LIKE" mine, they were the exact same computer.

Price??

Please don't think I'm making this up. I have no reason to.
He wanted $75 a piece, including the keyboard and mouse.

If I had waited a year and a half to get a computer, I could have saved over a thousand dollars. And those were 1,000 1989 dollars.



And if the rabbit had stopped for a crap....the turtle would have beat him.




Talk about feeling sick!! I was just glad I didn't bring my wife to that show. She would have killed me.

[towstrap]

Same here I bought a Dell set up in 93 / 94? And I give like 1,400 for it. 6months later my parents decided they needed one, got the same system 6 months later for 860 beans. These were real beans to not like beanie beans. :rofl: I was pretty sick. I don't EVEN wanna talk about upgrading. Mine does just whatI want it to. When it breaks it's gone and I'll go buy a throwaway at Sam's or something.