My first PC was a 486DX-33MHz, with 4MB of RAM, a 200MB hard drive, and Windows 3.1. My first upgrade project was to install an additional 4MB of RAM, bringing the total to a lofty 8MB. Those four 1MB SIMMS cost me approximately $200. This was well before the big memory price deflation of the late '90s. My current PC is ... well, technically, it's still my first. I've been steadily upgrading it for years. It no longer has any factory-original components, not even the mouse, which outlived every other element in the system (the keyboard was the first to die). My scanner and cable modem are perched atop the gutted carcass of the original desktop case.