Top of the line PC - $8,499

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DetroitStyle

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Tandy 5000
Lightning fast 20MHz processor
2MB of RAM
VGA Graphics card
Serial ports, parallel ports and mouse included!

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Special MM discount price $8,000!
 
My friend sent me an ad for a 2MB hard drive that you could probably use with this. The price was a reasonable $3k.
 
The MC I think stood for Microchannel, if so it was about the same spec machine I had back then but mine had 4MB and a 120MB SCSI Hard drive. (IBM PS/2 Mod 80 Tower)
It even had a lifetime warranty that I believe IBM quietly discontinued in the late 90's or early 2000's
 
The crazy thing is, the software that is displayed on the screen of that computer, I use in my job. I use Adobe-Pagemaker and it was last released in 2001.
 
The ad says monitor and mouse not included. If the mouse isn't included the price should come down a good $100.
 
my family had one of those back in the day, I remember playing games on it that loaded and played off a floppy, lol
 
Wow and a 386 processor. IIRC, that was an AT machine. I had an old XT machine a buddy hooked me up with and I drooled over the AT stuff for a long time. Good price on that piece.
 
Dr. Teeth said:
Wow and a 386 processor. IIRC, that was an AT machine. I had an old XT machine a buddy hooked me up with and I drooled over the AT stuff for a long time. Good price on that piece.
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The AT was the 286, the 386 wasn't until they had the PS/2

My friend had a Tandy HX 1000 back then, it was a piece of crap-no hard drive, 8088 cpu, and low-density floppy drive. Crappy Deskmate software but at least it had Microsoft Basic in ROM. The Tandy they had at the local Radio Shack was badass. First IBM-compatible I ever saw that had decent color graphics, sound card and speakers. Actually I think it was a AST Advantage. Always had some flight sim running on it. Jetifghter maybe.
 
robvas said:
The AT was the 286, the 386 wasn't until they had the PS/2

My friend had a Tandy HX 1000 back then, it was a piece of crap-no hard drive, 8088 cpu, and low-density floppy drive. Crappy Deskmate software but at least it had Microsoft Basic in ROM. The Tandy they had at the local Radio Shack was badass. First IBM-compatible I ever saw that had decent color graphics, sound card and speakers. Actually I think it was a AST Advantage. Always had some flight sim running on it. Jetifghter maybe.
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First machine I ever had. Also had the Badass 16K ram pack as pictured. I think I may have this lying around somewhere in a box...
 

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Version 7 isnt bad. I still use it :) That version on that PC in the ad has to be circa 1985

braxx said:
The crazy thing is, the software that is displayed on the screen of that computer, I use in my job. I use Adobe-Pagemaker and it was last released in 2001.
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