"Todd Vierling"  wrote in message 
news:4421DA8E.3.classicc{at}bbs.kataan.org...

> This approach has afforded me the flexibility to keep per-PC upgrade costs
> well below US$200 a year, without sacrificing "usable" speed and
> expandability.  My longest running motherboard was installed about 5 years
> ago, and today has 1GB PC3200 DDR RAM and an AMD Sempron 3200+ (socket-A)
> installed -- not too shabby for that kind of base hardware longevity.


I bought a $500 Celeron 533 system in 2000, then a 1.1 GHZ chip for $40 in 
2003, a new ATA-100 hard drive in 2004, and just recently removed the guts 
in 2006 and replaced them with a $25 P4 motherboard, a cast-off 2.2 ghz 
chip, and 512MB in new RAM.

As for classic computers, I'm considering an experiment - running DOS only 
for a month and seeing what all of the upgrades have really gotten me in 
terms of productivity gains. I found a copy of DOS, packet drivers, email, 
web, and 1-2-3, but I got rid of all of my older systems! I'd love to find a 
working VLB 486 system with 8-24 megs of RAM, that's what I used in 1993 or 
so when I first discovered the internet.
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