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Barebone Cheap Computers

When home computers first came out in the early 1980s it seemed like all the computers were cheap barebone computers. By today's standards they had almost nothing in them besides a barebone motherboard, a floppy and a hard drive. Video was minimal an communication outside the barebone computer was non-existent. As computers progressed, companies selling discrete computer parts started to spring up and enthusiasts began to actually build their own computers.

These were still barebone computers if judged by today's standards. If you built your own AT with a couple megs of memory and a color monitor you were hot! The memory on board were just little chips you plugged into sockets--no DRAM or SIMMs yet. And, troubleshooting a cheap computer you built yourself was a daunting task.

Calling technical support usually resulted in the advice of "take the motherboard out of the case and put it on the table and call me back." This is not to criticize the tech support of days gone by, I was one of them. It was just difficult to tell what was wrong with a non-booting system.

Barebone cheap computers were even available in kits one could purchase and build it yourself on the kitchen table. Barebones have progressed a great deal over the years. You can now buy a barebone system you can use as a starting point to do your own upgrades and build exactly what you want. Many computer junkies love this idea because they know exactly what they want how to build it. They love tweaking the system and getting it just the way they want. Their home built tricked-out machine seems to run faster--and often times it does.

If you are looking for good barebone system, check some of the links on this page. Good starter cheap computer systems are still available and thanks for keeping the dream alive.