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| Thread ID: 27511 | 2002-11-24 08:34:00 | OT - a blast from the part...a 1994 computer brochure | falvrez (390) | Press F1 |
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| 100990 | 2002-11-24 08:34:00 | Dug this up from my "beach house" (which in reality is my crappy-old-PC-hardware-that-I-haven't-got-the-heart-to-throw-away dumping ground) today: It's a 1994 PC General pamphlet...what a laugh! "be in the first 100 to purchase a system and get a free upgrade from a 170mb drive to a 210mb!" Praise the lord! A "high speed" internal 14.4 modem for a mere $399 (I've got one for for $200 if anyone wants it). 17" monitors" A small price to pay - $1499. 16 bit stereo (!) sound card, $169. And this bit make me laugh because I bought one: Game master multimedia kit - double speed CD rom (still got it), 16 bit stereo sound card and 14 titles on CD - $499 (+GST by the way). Some things haven't gone down that much in price: a cordless infra red mouse at $125 was good value in '94, surely...also a box of 10 3.5 floppies at $9 is about the norm...not that any sane person would want to use one. Maybe I can sell the pamphlet on trademe as a collectible. Any bids? :) |
falvrez (390) | ||
| 100991 | 2002-11-24 22:26:00 | U shooda scanned it and shown us, its not as fun reading it as txt. I saw a 1997 PC WORLD mag the other day, good fun looking at laptops: they r so ugly too. And its like "OMG OMG 1 GIG HARDRIVE ITS SOOO BIG!" Yeah |
Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | ||
| 100992 | 2002-11-24 22:36:00 | I remember my first 286 running ToyBox 2 (Search my other posts for download - less than 2 megs). I had a 20 MEGABYTE Hdd and when we upgraded to a 486, there was no 5 1/4" floppy, but rather a CD-ROM drive, it had a whopping 245MB HDD! We doublespaced both drives! Nowadays, 6 Gig is barely enough to get by with! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 100993 | 2002-11-24 22:44:00 | You'd be better off with an Amiga 1200 - far better value! | crozier (2004) | ||
| 100994 | 2002-11-24 23:19:00 | Shortly I'm getting a delivery of a hundred or so pre 1990 computer mags, so I can scan up the good ads and get them online :D But in the meantime, for a good laugh, check out vintagecomputerads.com (http://www.vintagecomputerads.com) B-) B-) B-) | honeylaser (814) | ||
| 100995 | 2002-11-25 05:44:00 | I've still got the Dec 1989 PC World. First Compaq Server box with twin 386/33 processors for $48,000. First notebook at about $12,000. I wrote my articles on a Mac back then :8} robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 100996 | 2002-11-25 08:05:00 | Maybe robo should still be doing stuff on mac. osx is really very good, and the machines are fast and user friendly. On archival junk, I have a Maxtor 80mb drive bought 1992 which still runs perfectly - no bad sectors, just a bit small. Plenty of discs. word6.0 remeber that, excel 3 remember that (lucky that one didn't last for long, windows 3.0 remember that, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - now that was useful for getting rid indirectly of my useless windowsxp that i have reinstalled but never use. Funny how outdated stuff can surprise. Have old dos discs, I think about 3.0 is the earliest, plus some pre-mac apple stuff. One day I'll have a big throwout, i don't want to be a computer archivist. |
rugila (214) | ||
| 100997 | 2002-11-26 05:16:00 | You can give the apple stuff to me! :D | spielburg (747) | ||
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