Bought my very first computer at Sears, ages and ages ago. An IBM PS2, as I recall. I used to work there, and got a good deal on a floor model; worked great for quite a while, too, but of course, I needed to upgrade eventually.
Can’t recall how much I paid for it, but I do know it wasn’t cheap. Took me awhile to pay it off.
I think I remember with mine, less than a month later right after I bought it, it was outdated, meaning I couldn’t run any programs that were just published. I think that was about 1990 or 91. Could have even been ‘88 or ‘89. I should have taken it back right then. Freakin thing has the calculating speed of a digital watch.
One good thing though is after I paid it off (after like 10 or 12 years), my credit score shot to the stratosphere as if the credit companies were saying: “W-What? He paid $7000 for a calculator?? He paid the absolute minimum for 10 years?”
I use to actually get $5000 checks in the mail from credit companies saying if I cashed their check I agreed to their loan. Very tempting.
That is exactly what happened to the housing market crash. They sent those “$5000 checks” (although much higher money) to people who had the credit score of a squid. And incredibly, Barney Frank wanted banks to do it again after the disaster.
Just another example how liberals truly want to destroy the country or are just incredibly insane. Let one lib prove me wrong. “Everyone deserves a house”...Oh, so in other words, the carpenters, the electricians, the architect, the landowner, the initial owner of the house should all say “F it” work for nothing and burn their money “Here is a free house” using the logic that Wall street CEOs get a big bonus which is like saying “The poor should get a free house because Captain crunch is a good cereal”