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Why is Tom stealing a printer? Needed one for the Delta Flyer?
In those days you could build it yourself for half the price of a name brand.
Edit: for the downvoters.
Did you ever go to a computer show and sale at a fairgrounds or expo center? Or buy/subscribe to Computer Shopper magazine (the one that looked like a telephone book).
The PC market was completely different in the 90’s.
My last custom build from 3 years ago was a little over $3k. For that mass produced box at $2k from over 24ish years prior seems a bit stiff by comparison.
Moores law has been a kind bastard for a long time.
200mhz in 97, with 2GB of hard drive space? Bet it had a 56.6kb modem too. That was all premium components at that time, the ryzen 9, 4TB nvme 5 and wifi 7e/2.5gb ethernet of its day.
Infinite more speed than the empty drive bays I’m using for CDs and DVDs.
Though I’ve been considering getting an external drive. Mainly to check if my old CD and DVD backups/data dumps are just junk now or are still readable (to probably rip the iso and then burn a new copy that will likely sit unused for another decade or two).
Those specs are adorable.
And the price absurd.
In 97? That’s a great deal, especially if it came with the monitor.
Guarantee the monitor was not included.
In those days you could build it yourself for half the price of a name brand.
Edit: for the downvoters.
Did you ever go to a computer show and sale at a fairgrounds or expo center? Or buy/subscribe to Computer Shopper magazine (the one that looked like a telephone book).
The PC market was completely different in the 90’s.
My last custom build from 3 years ago was a little over $3k. For that mass produced box at $2k from over 24ish years prior seems a bit stiff by comparison.
Moores law has been a kind bastard for a long time.
200mhz in 97, with 2GB of hard drive space? Bet it had a 56.6kb modem too. That was all premium components at that time, the ryzen 9, 4TB nvme 5 and wifi 7e/2.5gb ethernet of its day.
$2000 in 1997 is about $3920 today
Well, that is eight times more CD-ROM speed than most any computer sold today.
Infinite more speed than the empty drive bays I’m using for CDs and DVDs.
Though I’ve been considering getting an external drive. Mainly to check if my old CD and DVD backups/data dumps are just junk now or are still readable (to probably rip the iso and then burn a new copy that will likely sit unused for another decade or two).
But can it play Doom?
That mfer would have run doom like a mofo
Has anyone tried calling the number and asking for the p200v?
The chip that runs the smart outlet my coffee maker plugs into has better specs than that lol
And yes, it can run DOOM
eMachines fucking ate this market, one or two years later. My first PC was a 566i2 for like $500.
Ironically it could not run Doom, because it was cursed with Windows ME.