The $4.80 PC

Yes, you read that right: a PC for four dollars and eighty cents. The computer is a genuine IBM PC: an IBM PC350 with a 100MHz Pentium Processor, 32MB RAM and a 1.7GB Hard Drive. MicroCenter has it “for store pickup only” (duh! it would cost more to ship it than you're paying for it!). I'm not sure if it has any empty slots, but you can pick up 16MB EDO memory for $4.99 each. Of course, that's 19 cents more than you paid for the computer itself. This could be a Linux-driven router or firewall, or an NT-driven print server. But the real point, is that I just keep chuckling at the price. A $4.80 computer. Who'd have ever thunk it?

Posted by trygstad | Category: InfoTech | 11:22 PM