Same class IBM PC with two 5-1/4 Floppy Drive no Hard Drive $2,500 worked

all spring my senior year in high school then summer to save up buy that piece of crap. I think it was $2,500 might have been less.
[Post edited by jdkhokie at 01/16/2022 4:21PM]

In response to this post by MrBayAreaHokie

Posted: 01/16/2022 at 4:20PM

I was in that first engineering class at VT that got a PC -- MrBayAreaHokie 01/16/2022 3:36PM

Nah it was Olympics -- Hoke 01/16/2022 8:05PM

I wasn’t engineering (Arch) but we got slide rules. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 01/16/2022 5:13PM

I had to keypunch cards in order to run Fortran programs. ** -- Hokie`79 01/16/2022 4:49PM

Best confetti that has ever been. ** -- VaTaz 01/16/2022 6:14PM

Same class IBM PC with two 5-1/4 Floppy Drive no Hard Drive $2,500 worked -- jdkhokie 01/16/2022 4:20PM

Sounds about right. I built my first from scratch and the Seagate... -- HokieJay 01/16/2022 10:01PM

And they recommended the dual drive version -- MAHokie69 01/16/2022 7:32PM

Monochrome monitor, DOS, maybe VisiCalc and WordPerfect ** -- Brown Water 01/16/2022 4:32PM

U are right…that was the price….same as tuition, room and board in-state** -- MrBayAreaHokie 01/16/2022 4:29PM

Fortran max max sucks ** -- astrohokie 01/16/2022 4:03PM

Still has no idea what Dr.Harrison Fortran/EF 1oo6, taught----> ** -- bourbonstreet 01/16/2022 5:36PM

Fortran IV With Watfor and Watfiv is what I remember and I have no -- Femoyer Hokie 01/16/2022 4:17PM

Same. Keypunch cards. One program deck never compiled. Even after redo! ** -- ColoVT82 01/16/2022 4:55PM

No kidding. I just remember a big stack of keypunch cards 🤮 ** -- UEMcGill 01/16/2022 4:46PM

And my stack *never* worked. Just wanted to shuffle the deck at times. ** -- Femoyer Hokie 01/16/2022 4:48PM

Punch cards -------------------> ** -- Brown Water 01/16/2022 3:42PM

Yup. Knew where all the lesser used card punchers were. -- HokieJay 01/16/2022 8:34PM

Continuous Do Loop king------>>>> ** -- Stork 01/16/2022 5:35PM

Never forget a girl crossing the drill field with a tall stack of cards and -- turkeywinghokie 01/16/2022 4:49PM

In the basement of Burruss Hall. ** -- Femoyer Hokie 01/16/2022 3:48PM

Been there, dt. ** -- astrohokie 01/16/2022 4:03PM

Had some hanging Chads issues at VT ----------------------------------->> ** -- UTPr0sim 01/16/2022 3:43PM

Don’t drop them on the drill field 😂** -- MrBayAreaHokie 01/16/2022 3:42PM

I was in the first that could buy calculators (we still learned sliderule) ** -- UTPr0sim 01/16/2022 3:40PM

Mid-late 70s? ** -- Brown Water 01/16/2022 4:19PM

Early 70s. Started in 72, bought my first HP in 73. They would not let us -- UTPr0sim 01/16/2022 9:28PM

I remember having games on my TI-83 in high school. ** -- MP4VT2004 01/16/2022 3:39PM

Same class IBM PC with two 5-1/4 Floppy Drive no Hard Drive $2,500 worked

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