From that era I had a Gateway 2000 with a Pentium 100 that had 80 MB of RAM. At work then, I was forced to work with OS9 Macs that crashed all the time with 3 programs running. That ol' Gateway ran circles around them.And that was 1997 dollars.....which is probably equivalent to over $6,000 today!
And how much RAM were we using back then? A HUMONGOUS 256K?
I had a $3,000 gateway in 1995. It was a beast. It was expensive but when you called support you actually spoke with someone who knew what they were doing.From that era I had a Gateway 2000 with a Pentium 100 that had 80 MB of RAM. At work then, I was forced to work with OS9 Macs that crashed all the time with 3 programs running. That ol' Gateway ran circles around them.
Back in '91 I got my first computer-- a USA Flex from the back of the Shopper. a 386sx @20mhz with 1Mb of ram. Cracking the 640k limit was tricky and every program was different. DOS 5.0 helped a lot with accessing that upper memory.
I'd love to see a couple pages of ads in there to see what some prices were!LOL....
I found this buried in the back of a cabinet today.... Who else had a subscription to the biggest "magazine" ever coming to you every month?
This just cracked me up--- a 200 Mhz Pentium Pro for $3,500!!
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I will post some later today--- any particular company?I'd love to see a couple pages of ads in there to see what some prices were!
Just any page(s) that had a lot of items listed to see what I can remember LOL...I will post some later today--- any particular company?
I did! It often had 1,000 pages of not just computers/parts to sell, but editorial reviews. Ordered my first Gateway 2000 PC for $3K from it.Who else had a subscription to the biggest "magazine" ever coming to you every month?
LOL....
I found this buried in the back of a cabinet today.... Who else had a subscription to the biggest "magazine" ever coming to you every month?
This just cracked me up--- a 200 Mhz Pentium Pro for $3,500!!
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That really sounds cool as hell! I had to look up femtoseconds...About that time I built a"video capture" machine. 12 ESIA slots, 64 Megs, an EISA caching controller
with SCSI with16 Megs 7 SCSI drives for data acquisition, 1 drive for OS, CD-Rom burner and last but
not least a Laser Disc burner on a 486 50MHz.
Windows ran super fast in a virtual machine run from a ram drive.
Camera resolution was in femtoseconds. Too bad they filled in the hole
under Waxahachie TX. SCSC.
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Certainly entitled to your own color opinions, but T-Mobile is sorry you feel that way. Kinda cool #FF00FF works nicely as a text color!I still hate that fugly magenta color...
Omg. Packard Bells. I haven't thought about those pieces of shit in 20 years. I don't believe you could cram any cheaper junk cards and boards inside of an enclosure and claim it was a workhorse, any better than PB did. I worked on a few of those things for some friends who had them. Always the exact same problem: Sound card went out. Never mind the fact they placed the sound card, with oscillators components, right over the microprocessor chip on the motherboard.That really sounds cool as hell! I had to look up femtoseconds...
I had a very young family at the time, and I was not able to upgrade to a 486 of any kind. Remember all those shitty Packard Bells in the aisles at Walmart? They sucked... but all I could think of was "but it's a 486!" We skipped the whole 486 line and went directly to that Gateway Pentium 100. I remember seeing Gateway "cow" boxes prominently displayed in scenes on ER back then..... not-so-subtle product placement... LOL
I still have an old "cow" box in the shop. I don't know why, but it looked good beside the old TRS80 box.That really sounds cool as hell! I had to look up femtoseconds...
I had a very young family at the time, and I was not able to upgrade to a 486 of any kind. Remember all those shitty Packard Bells in the aisles at Walmart? They sucked... but all I could think of was "but it's a 486!" We skipped the whole 486 line and went directly to that Gateway Pentium 100. I remember seeing Gateway "cow" boxes prominently displayed in scenes on ER back then..... not-so-subtle product placement... LOL