The way I see it, it would cost me about $2,000 for: rent (first and last months + deposit), fuel (it is over $2.00 a gal now), utility deposits (Elec, phone, DSL, Cable), and for food expenses until the first paycheck.
OMG, I had the very first style of home PC (my dad works fo xerox). It had no HardDrive, 8" floopy disks that you had to config and sysgen each of them, an a wierd looking daisy wheel printer that was slower than a typewriter.
Did you believe Al Gore when he said he invented the internet?