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Brian48

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Heh. Just so we can all keep a perspective......:D

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I got a free computer at work today

Gateway 466mhz, 64mb ram, 4.6gb hdd, etc.

And a sticker on the front, direct from gateway: This computer is NEVER OBSOLETEif you join the gateway network $19.99 per month unlimited dial up

hilarity ensues
 
BMWlover said:
Shit man, 8500 dollars. I forgot how cheap computers have become.
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Not really. Super-high end machines still cost $6,000 or more. The difference is that there are more price points than their used to be.
 
kmS said:
Damn I was one when this computer was the hot item :p
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Nothing in this thread made me feel old. RIGHT UNTIL YOU SPOKE UP!!! Good lord..

1 in 89... wow... just wow.. It's cool but man I feel old right now. in 89 I was... 15. And I am sure that will make someone else here feel old!
 
Whew, $8500 without Monitor or mouse, yeow! First computer my family got was a sinclair ZX80 (or something like that) cost $200 in 1981 or so.

Couple years later ('84 or so), we got an 8088 which went for around $4000 with green monitor. Think Dad spent $400 for a graphics card that he added. Never did get a HDD in there...
 
Grimlaking said:
Nothing in this thread made me feel old. RIGHT UNTIL YOU SPOKE UP!!! Good lord..

1 in 89... wow... just wow.. It's cool but man I feel old right now. in 89 I was... 15. And I am sure that will make someone else here feel old!
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WOW i wasnt even born for another year when this thing came out :D
 
I got my first PC - well, supposedly as a shared family one, but mostly used by me - in about 1992, I believe. That was about £2000 (no idea what the exchange rate was at the time!), and was an Apricot with a 25Mhz 80386SX CPU, 2MB RAM, an 80MB HDD and, I think, an ATI Mach 32 2D graphics card running a 640x480 display. It ran Windows 3.1 on MS-DOS 5 (I upgraded it to 6.22, to use DriveSpace). It also had some kind of strange coax "Ethernet" card, which I didn't understand the reason for at the time, and guessed I'd never need one of those at home. It didn't have a sound card and could only make sound from the PC speaker. It's actually very similar to the machine above, I guess, but with a hard drive and a monitor included.
 
Does that thing even have a lighting-fast RLL hard drive?

Because that would be cool!


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WOW! Brings back lots of memories! I was 17 at the time and I was just rocking along with my Commodore 64-C and Amiga 500.

For my online needs, I had a 300 baud modem which I used to connect to BBS (Bulletin Board Services). These operated in all ASCII characters. Those were the days! :p
 
Grimlaking said:
Nothing in this thread made me feel old. RIGHT UNTIL YOU SPOKE UP!!! Good lord..

1 in 89... wow... just wow.. It's cool but man I feel old right now. in 89 I was... 15. And I am sure that will make someone else here feel old!
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Let me split the difference between the two of you... in 89 I was 8. Yeah, that sucks and yes, I still remember my first 386.
 
Brian48 said:
I guess I'm the old man here. I was 25 at the time :eek:
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Ah good I feel better now. I was 19, wheewh. Thanks :) And I was just about to get my first PC, a 386SX/16 ... yeah hah! It ran Wing Commander, sort of... :) Before this I was coming from an Apple IIe and a C-64 before that... nostalgia ensues! :)
 
Move the onboard jumpers to OC that bitch 5 mhz for a 25% gain. Serious gains in performance all around =P.

-DarkLegacy
 
Bbq said:
I got a free computer at work today

Gateway 466mhz, 64mb ram, 4.6gb hdd, etc.

And a sticker on the front, direct from gateway: This computer is NEVER OBSOLETEif you join the gateway network $19.99 per month unlimited dial up

hilarity ensues
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I've got one of those... it's pretty beat up, but here is a pic of it's twin, in perfect, and I mean perfect condition.... The eMonster!!



And in 89, I was 21, and I remember those those Tandy's.. and wondering why anyone would spend that kind of cash on a computer......things have certianly changed!!
 
Brian48 said:
I guess I'm the old man here. I was 25 at the time :eek:
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I got you beat by a few years. I was 29 in 1989. And like digital_exhaust already said, I to thought it was crazy to spend that kind of money for a computer and had no interest in computers back then. I did not get my first computer until 2000 when I was 40.
 
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