My first PC was a used 386 for $200. A love/hate sort of thing so I didnt want to blow too much cash on a PC.
I soon got hooked on the incremental upgrade/tweak cycle, (loads of cheap used parts) 486DX board for $30, 8x as much RAM $20, bigger HD $10... in the end that machine booted Win3.1 in about 5 seconds and was fast and stable and I actually liked using it. AND to stay on topic, after the board and RAM swap FPS's flew; from 16-20 to 90+ frames per second, it was a massive visible upgrade.
To get similar for my A500 wouldve cost $1000+.
yeah, second hand helps. In hindsight, with the time Ive spent with an 030 lately, I wish I had gotten that on a 1200 rather than switch to a PC when I did
Not trying to bicker with you btw. Your experiences are just as valid as mine, just interesting to me that we ended up with different experiences.
Today at least, hardware is cheap even for brand new stuff, and with linux, there's finally something out there that isn't concerned with whether I am doing something MS/Apple doesn't want me to.
But maybe thats an entirely different thread
Unrelated but because its cool.. On a whim, I set up Ibrowse to use RAM as cache instead of the hard drive, and its moving a lot nicer now. Dont imagine I'll ever max out the 64 megs of RAM I have now, so its all good.
Getting kinda used to downloading files to RAM too, and then unpacking them to wherever they are supposed to go. Good stuff
