how much did a personal computer cost in 1979?
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I didn't get into the PC world until the mid-80's - besides, the first PC wasn't invented until 1981.\n\nThe first PC compatible I had was an AT&T 6300 with 640KB of memory and an 8086 processor.  It came with two floppy drives.  I upgraded it later, adding two 5 MB hard disks (that's five megabytes, not five gigabytes).  I'm thinking it cost around $2,600, with a Princton Graphics EGA monitor.  This was probably 1984.\n\nMy first PC compatible laptop was a Zenith 181, 640 KB of memory, 8088 chip and two floppies.  I remember that cost $2,999.99.  It won PC Magazine's Annual award for laptops in 1986.\n\nBoth of these were after much 1979, because the "personal computers" of that day were NOT PC compatible.  My previous machine was a TRS-80 Color Computer running "Color Disk Basic".  This was the machine I did all my college papers on between 1981 and 1982.  The machine was much less, around $400, but that did NOT include a monitor, or a floppy drive.
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My answer is $ 70.00 because on the computer at Walmart they have some on stock right now not letting any one buy them until a certain date that I don't know about yet.
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Here is a link to get you started in answering your own question.  The link below is helpful in locating prices of laptop notebook computers.  Good luck.
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Well, Microsoft and the PC won the computer wars of the eighties for a few reasons. \n\n1) PCs were cheaper.  In those days it was quite common to spend a couple thousand dollars on a standard computer.  Macs generally were more expensive.  People wanted to have computers, but seeing there was a significant price difference, went with the PC.  \n\n2)  If you want an Apple Computer, you have to buy everything (pretty much) from Apple.  If you want to buy a PC, you can go to your local store and peruse the different brands, buy new components elsewhere from different stores from a different manufacturer (Proprietary Memory excluded for Dells, IBMs, and HPs).  People like choice. \n\n3)  Not only do you have choice in components, you have choice in software.  Name any big software title:  Chances are it may come on a Mac.  It almost definitely comes in a Windows Version.  \n\n4)  Most computer hackers used PCs rather than Macs because they liked swaping out components.  With the older Macs you had to buy a special set of tools just so you could open the bloody box.  This created a high pool of talented people who were capable of fixing many of the PC's problems and is still true today.  When a Mac used to go down (and they would every so often) you were stuck and often couldn't find somebody close to help you fix it, or answer your question.  \n\nNow I'll admit that a Mac has come down in price and that OS X is in many ways sweet.  Unfortunately Apple's market strategy will ensure that at most it will have maybe 10% of Marketshare.  \n\nNot everyone can afford a Mac and not everyone enjoys the packages Apple puts together.  (A low end Mac costs $700 or so CND, while a low end PC can cost $350 including rebate) People do sometimes sacrifice a little polish in exchange for cost.  \n\nPS I hate the one button mouse with a passion that burns with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.
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$828.619 USD\nwww.xe.com/ucc
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Yes, there were indeed computers and they were extremely expensive.\n\nENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems, although earlier computers had been built with some of these properties. ENIAC was developed and built by the U.S. Army for their Ballistics Research Laboratory in 1942, with the purpose of calculating ballistic firing tables. The computer was commissioned on May 17, 1943 as Project PX and constructed at Penn's Moore School of Electrical Engineering from mid-1944. It was unveiled on February 14, 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania, having cost almost $500,000. ENIAC was shut down on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment and a memory upgrade, and was transferred to the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland in 1947. There, on July 29 of that year, it was turned on and would be in continuous operation until 11:45 p.m. on October 2, 1955.\n\nThe American Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) (1937–42) was the first electronic digital computer. It implemented binary computation with vacuum tubes but was not Turing-complete and was limited to solving linear equations. \n\nThe Harvard Mk I is an ever earlier example.
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Yeah it's not bad for £499. Something like that wouldve cost £1500 1 or 2 years ago....laptop prices are falling all the time
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The System/32 (IBM 5320) is a single user minicomputer marketed by IBM in the mid- to late 1970s. It was used primarily by small to midsize businesses for accounting applications. RPGII was the (main) programming language for the machine.\n\nThe computer looked like a large office desk with a very small display. The machine had a built-in printer that directly faced the operator when (s)he sat down. SEU, DFU, OCL, and #LIBRARY are some terms associated with the S/32.\n\nBecause the System/32 was introduced in 1975, it earned the nickname "Bionic Desk" from the popular TV show The Six Million Dollar Man.\n\nThis entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors
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Depends on what you are using the computer for.\nJust basic word processing and internet you prob don't need it.  Games, graphics, etc, then yes.\nhttp://www.crucial.com might help with prices.
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7 bucks... check out the link.\n\nMatt
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great computers, but very expensive....you can build one your self for less. building your own computer isn't difficult to do, the down side is you have to be your own tech support
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To get a computer that costs less than $200, I think you would have to by a desktop computer.  The laptop is always more expensive, and I know that you were asking about a laptop in your earlier question.  \n\nUse the same stores I mentioned in the other question, and good luck!
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$499\n\nhttp://www.futurepowerpc.com/scripts/details.asp?PRDCODE=VCPN-G7900XXWB&REFID=PW
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It's time to buy a new computer.  There are several computer companys selling new pc's starting at $249.
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sure ... they are available at most PC parts stores ... and depending on where in the world you are ..they are not expensive \nAustralia about $25.00
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With a Celeron M Processor, 1.5 GHZ, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB disk drive & a DVD drive - $659+ (only 19 models found)\n\nYou can have more choice when you don't limit the processor. Just by not selecting any processor, the search returned over 180 models!!\n\nWith the above, but with any processor $599+
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if you have a computer with 3.1 on it, odds are it is out of date and xp will not run on it or will run so poorly it would not be worth the time. With P.c.'s starting out at around $400, just go get a new one.