I had a
Vic20 3.5kb RAM
Cassette deck (proper Commodore one with no speaker, so silent loading unlike Spectrums)
Took Atari-style joysticks
I also had a "Super Expander" cartridge which added 3k to the ram as well as enhanced graphics
Cost a shade under £400 back in early 1980's!!! - Sold it in 1993 for £25
(I also previously owned a 1970's Commodore Video-Game machine with slider controllers, which played 3 Pong-style games (tennis, squash, football), and also came with a hand-gun/removable rifle butt gun attachment for the 4th game - a shooter game.
Had a Commodore Calculator (Red LED display) too.)
Even my first PalmPilot (m100) beat the Vic for processing and my current PalmPilot T5 has a 466MHz processor!!!
I've also got a BBC B Micro in the loft
Cost me £25 second-hand in 1994, but at least it has a 5.25" Floppy Drive and dedicated monitor.
1st laptop was a Compac Armada E700, which I gave to my brother. 500Mhz CPU and 30GB HDD.
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Currently running a "Trigger's Brush" desktop
Intel 2.8Ghz 2TB HDD
Laptop
Toshiba 1.73GHZ DualCore 120GB HDD with 1.1TB external HDDs
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So - Can anyone beat a 1970's Commodore Video Game unit for nostalgic computing????????