Our first desktop was a 365k. It cost $5600 Canadian and my father had a program at his work that allowed him to buy it and pay it back in payments. It took him 5 years to pay it off.

Powerhouse rig

I have a very similar PC in the kitchen right now. It was my first PC. Pentium II 400, 32MB RAM, AWE64 ISA, DVD Decoder card, etc. That DVD decoder card was definitely an upsell though. That AGP graphics should have been able to do mpeg decoding in hardware.

You only paid $35 tax on a $3000 computer?

A 300 MHz Pentium II in early 1996 is insane. No wonder it cost so much!

I remember getting my first computer in 1998 and it was an AMD K6-2 and it cost approximately $1200.

That mouser was so comfy (first consumer optical)! You could spin it out, but then again also overclock it.

And not to brag, but I bought (also my third computer) a Celeron 300A at that time & overclocked it from 300 to 450MHz making it the fastest Intel CPU for years. Those were some good days.

Well, we know he overpaid by about 1500 dollars...

Intellimouse is a timeless classic

64MB ram? Go wild!

My man got that dual DVD setup in 1998! I got my first own computer when i was 15 in 2001 and it had a DVD tray and I thought I was cool af. Watched the first DVD the same day and a few days later I got a DSL modem and I was king of the world. It ran Delta Force like a dream.