Continuing on this nostalgia theme... I found the receipt for my very first computer the other day. Not the first computer I used (that was the family computer), but the first one that was all mine. This was 7.5 years ago. The parts we're purchased at the Computerfest that year, and most of them came from 5'oclock computers.

"Full" ATX case w/250W ps. - $89.76 (HA- this case, which I still have, is a small mid-tower)
32x toshiba cdrom - $71.40
Pentium II 333MHz cpu - $576.30 (!! the most expense cpu I've ever bought!)
3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive - $20.40
6.4GB western digital hd - $223.48
MS "Natural" kb - $46.92
asus P2L97 mb - $141.78 (funny, the price of a decent mb hasn't changed much in 7 yrs!)
USR 56k modem - $93.84 (modems .... hahaha)
17" relisys monitor - $324.36 (my sister is using this one right now)
logitech mouse - $18.36
windows 95 OSR2.5 (revC) - $93.84
128MB SDRAM - $204.00 (damn)
soundblaster awe64-value - $63.24
nvidia Riva128 4MB video card ~ $220 (I don't have this receipt since this was purchased elsewhere at CF, but I recall the price was just over 200 bucks.

So it was a ~ $2300 computer system. Holy shit, man.

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