Remember when?

[Xster]

This thread is dedicated to old times of computers, well, not THAT old, but i was recently flipping through an issue of CGW that was from April 1998, and came upon an ad for Micron. Their top-of-the-line system shown is as follows:

Micron Millenia XKU
Standard Features
82440LX chip set
512KB internal L2 cache, 2MB Bios
Integrated 100MB Iomega Zip drive, 3.5" floppy drive
32X EIDE variable speed CD-ROM drive
32 voice wavetable stereo sound, Advent 009 speakers
with subwoofer
3Com/US Robotics 56K x2 data/fax modem
Diamond Viper V330 128-bit AGP 3D video with 4MB
SGRAM
Microsoft IntelliMouse, USB connections
Microsoft Windows 95 and MS Plus!
Microsoft Office 97 Small Business Edition
Choice of Micron Software Solutions Pak
5-year/3-year Micron Power limited warranty

And of course, the most beefed up system:

NEW! MICRON MILLENIA XKU 333
Intel 333MHZ Pentium II processor
(features MMX technology)
64MB SDRAM
8.4GB Ultra ATA hard drive
17" Micron 700FGX
.26dp (16" display)

Nice, isn't it?

edit: Sorry bout that, anyways the price of the system i listed is:
[B][COLOR=crimson][SIZE=3]$2799

[Dokeman]

and its still under warranty...

[Tazman]

How about the price?

Here's a blast from the past (i have about 6 of them in the basement ).

Whah - I can't seem to get an attachment to work of an old Tandy 5000MC for $8500 (monitor and mouse extra).

Mike

[nomaxim]

Man, my first comp didn't even have a HDD. I saved data on a cassette player.

OS was Dos 3.7. It was a Commadore

My second Comp Stepped up to two 5 1/4 floppy drives and a 80mb HDD. and yhe OS was DOS 4.4 It was an IBM 808 something c.1986

WHAT SPEED IT HAD!

[alligator_al]

Well, I started out on a borrowed commodore PET (remember them?) but my first computer was one of the finest the world has ever seen (see attachment; no, that's not me...)

With 16kb (yes, that's a 'k') of memory and a tape player for a HDD, it was all a young programmer could ask for (BASIC of course)

Still got it, and it still works

BTW I think this thread maybe belongs in the community forum (just my gut feeling; don't pay any attention to me )

[kjg]

My first computer was an acorn BBC basic.
It had the really floppy disks that were about 3"square.
But it had pole position, chuckie egg and ski slalom so i was happy.

[eagle1]

Oppps!!!

DP.!

[eagle1]

I think I have the same pic as yours TaZ! But it's on another pc.!
It's like $8000 in a Radio Shack article or something like that.!

[alligator_al]

Originally posted by kjg
My first computer was an acorn BBC basic.

You mean one of these? (my third computer! )
Chuckie Egg was a true classic. Ever play the games 'Frak', 'Elite' or 'Daredevil Dennis'?

[Music2LiveFor]

OMG!
Old systems!
My FIRST computer was a 4k Timex/Sinclair 1000. I actually had an extension that gave it 16k memory.
#2 was a Radio Shack CoCo2 with 64k (hand me down from my bro). I saved up and spent $250 for a full height external 5 1/4 FD. Was trying to find OS/2 for it... was getting bored with BASIC.

I have some OLD ads with 486 systems for multiple thousands of dollars.

VLB! LMBCO!

Unbelievable!