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Originally Posted by freebeard
In 1984, being relatively poor, I went without a car or telephone for two years to be able to afford a $2500 128K Macintosh. It turned my life around.
My next computer shall be a $100 Raspberry Pi 400, the keyboard model, like an Apple ][.
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I was 3 in 1984, but didn't know I was relatively poor. In school I got 1 pair of sneakers every year, and that seemed fine.
My dad socked away $3,000 by 1995 and bought a Pentium 100, 8MB Ram, 1.2 GB HD, 15" color monitor... it was a killer system. I broke it often, fixed it often, and performed upgrades like adding RAM and installing a faster modem.
My career so far has entirely been a result of that. I "knew computers" back when that's all it took to get a job. Was offered my first IT job while having a beer at a bar with someone I had just met.