Comments on: Save Money on Your Technology Expenses http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/01/save-money-on-your-technology-expenses.html News for Consumers in Changing Times Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: enoughwealth@yahoo.com http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/01/save-money-on-your-technology-expenses.html/comment-page-1#comment-40 enoughwealth@yahoo.com Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/01/save-money-on-your-technology-expenses.html#comment-40 Best tip is probably to avoid buying the latest electronic toys completely. My first home computer was a Sinclair ZX80 - for "under $1,000!" in 1980. It came with 1K of memory, and a 4K memory expansion pack if you paid extra. You saved programs onto an audio cassette tape, and plugged the "PC" into a standard black&white TV as the display (it didn't have colour output).<br /><br />The next year I spent another $400 (remember, the were 1981 dollars!) on the vastly improved "16K" of memory - it couldn't be used in addition to the previous 4K expansion pack, so you basically had to throw out what you'd bought the year before... just like today ;)<br /><br />If only I'd taken that $1,400 and bought microsoft shares instead in 1981... (but they seemed way overpriced by the time they floated) Best tip is probably to avoid buying the latest electronic toys completely. My first home computer was a Sinclair ZX80 – for “under $1,000!” in 1980. It came with 1K of memory, and a 4K memory expansion pack if you paid extra. You saved programs onto an audio cassette tape, and plugged the “PC” into a standard black&white TV as the display (it didn’t have colour output).

The next year I spent another $400 (remember, the were 1981 dollars!) on the vastly improved “16K” of memory – it couldn’t be used in addition to the previous 4K expansion pack, so you basically had to throw out what you’d bought the year before… just like today ;)

If only I’d taken that $1,400 and bought microsoft shares instead in 1981… (but they seemed way overpriced by the time they floated)

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