which computer should i buy?

[Westsider]

Buy a red computer, they go faster.

But ones with LED's go faster than the red ones.

[Psyber]

That price is unbelievable in hindsight given it would have to be around $15K in today's money. You can buy a brand new car for that.

I first looked at a computer and dot matrix printer for my medical practice in 1984 and was looking at $14K all up - that was alot back then and I shelved the idea.
In 1987, I got an Aquarius XT Turbo with 640K of RAM, one 5 1/2 inch floppy drive, and a 10MB HDD, plus an Epson 9 pin dot matrix printer for about $2700.00
Big brand names like IBM were about double that price still.

[Wedgie]

I got an abacus in 1973. It was 20 cents.

[Johno6]

I got an Abcess in 1998... it sucked

[smac]

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my Commodore 64 recently. It's now a Commodore 65 and I can't believe the difference!

[Psyber]

On a quick count I appear to have bought about 12 computers, including 4 laptops, for personal use between the XT in 1987 and my current i5.
Fortunately, as a reseller I've bought wholesale, and I've been able to sell of most of the old ones privately before they got too old to be useful.

[dedja]

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my Commodore 64 recently. It's now a Commodore 65 and I can't believe the difference!

I'd go the next step if I were you and go for the VB Commodore ... better known as Commodore 78