Originally Posted by Tanque

Oh young grasshopper. My first PC, an original IBM blue cost $3100+ and had 48 k of memory two 5" floppy drives and a boat anchor of a monochrome
tube monitor and dos wasn't just a curious task to run it was the operating system. 1200kb modems were extra and you better know how to interpret the communication protocol because it broke a lot... and this was a hella step up from the Commodore Vic 20 with cassette tape storage..

I had to wait for these 'cause at the time I wasn't adventurous enough to buy a Altair 8800 and put it together...but I drooled over them...

I agree with you 3D printers of a year from now will knock your socks off...

Jerry