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- Jul 7, 2013
I'm entering a contest where you build a PC that would be the "modern equivalent" to your first ever computer. It's mostly "equivalent" in budget, and you have to sub,it a listing of the PC you're trying to "recreate", if it was a prebuilt, or some kind of proof of the individual components' prices, if it was custom.
My first system was an eMachines prebuilt with a Celeron D 330, either 256 or 512MB of RAM, can't remember, Windows XP, integrated graphics, and a 128GB IDE Western Digital HDD. It came with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse (no speakers, if I remember correctly). I'm trying to track down accurate pricing for a model like this, as I don't remember the exact model number. Does anyone know of a retro archive of some sort where I could find pricing history on stuff like this? This was around 2002 that my parents bought the machine, so I'm currently checking if Overclockers ever did any coverage on these...found an old thread asking about eMachines in general from '02 here on the forums, so I'm hopeful.
Anyways, wish me luck, and I appreciate any help that can be provided!
My first system was an eMachines prebuilt with a Celeron D 330, either 256 or 512MB of RAM, can't remember, Windows XP, integrated graphics, and a 128GB IDE Western Digital HDD. It came with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse (no speakers, if I remember correctly). I'm trying to track down accurate pricing for a model like this, as I don't remember the exact model number. Does anyone know of a retro archive of some sort where I could find pricing history on stuff like this? This was around 2002 that my parents bought the machine, so I'm currently checking if Overclockers ever did any coverage on these...found an old thread asking about eMachines in general from '02 here on the forums, so I'm hopeful.
Anyways, wish me luck, and I appreciate any help that can be provided!
