My personal computers over the years...

1978 1981 1984 1992 1999
2005
2009
2019
Manufacturer OSI CCS "clone"
Cost $300 $3100 $4600 $2800 ?
$950
$1000
$2000
CPU Mostek 6502 Zilog Z80 Intel 8088 Intel 486DX33 AMD K6-III
AMD Athlon 64
Intel Core 2 Duo
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Bus proprietary S-100 ISA (8 bit) ISA (16 bit) PCI+ISA
PCI
PCI+PCI Express
PCI Express
Clock 1 MHz 4 MHz 4.77 MHz 33 MHz 400 MHz
2 GHz
3.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
RAM 4 kB 64 kB 640 kB 16 MB 256 MB
1 GB
8 GB
32 GB
Disk audio tape 1.2 MB 8" FD 10 MB HD 210 MB HD 8 GB
120 GB
640 GB
4TB+1TB SSD
Video Card none VDM-1 Hercules Tseng ET4000 Matrox G400 AGP
ATI 9550 nVidia 9600 PCIe
Radeon RX570 PCIe
Video Display n/a
Vucom
mono CRT
ADI 3E
Samsung 950p
Samsung 2443
Crossover 27QLED
Lenovo L27q
Resolution n/a 64x16 char 720x348 mono 800x600 colour 1920x1200
2x2560x1440
Printer Teletype 35KSR Terminet 300
Okidata ML 92 dot-matrix, 72 dpi HP LJ2P+ laser printer, 300 dpi Lexmark E210, 600 dpi
Canon MF4350d, 600 dpi
HP MFP M477fdw, 600 dpi
Print Speed 10 cps 30 cps 80 cps 4 ppm 12 ppm
23 ppm
28 ppm (color)
O/S none (monitor) CP/M MS-DOS Linux 0.99 (SLS)
Linux 2.2 (RedHat)
Linux 2.4 (Debian)
Linux 2.6 (Ubuntu)
Linux 4.19 (Debian)
Programming Tiny Basic Turbo Pascal Turbo C gcc Python
Editor none WordStar 3.3 PC-Write emacs
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