Not to date myself, but those bring back the days when I would peruse the occasional issues of Byte.
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Last year, while cleaning my basement, I found a CompuAdd catalog stuffed in a box. It was probably from the very early '90s, just before it went out of business. I was looking into buying a PC-compatible at the time and was comparing them with Dell and Gateway. As the (uncited) Wikipedia article mentions, CompuAdd did seem to have a better rep than Dell at the time. The prices in the catalog were like these ads. Everything was so mind numbingly expensive back then that nowadays everything looks so damn cheap in comparison.
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Can't access the original link from work because the site is flagged as "Adult Entertainment"(?) but following on SerialBegger's post, my first PC was a CompuAdd.
I think bought it in 1991 or 1992 and it cost about $2500 or $2700. It was state of the art at the time in that it had both 5-1/8" and 3-1/4" floppy drives. I wish I could remember what processor it had in it. I think it was better than an 8486 though, maybe 1 meg. I think it had either a 40 or 80 meg hard drive (1/4000th the memory of my current laptop)
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I try not to think about the money I've dropped on computers since my first one back in '85 (Apple IIe). A $3,000 PC from '90 is probably less powerful than a $20 calculator watch now, nevermind that it was 100 times more powerful than the computers NASA used to go to the moon.
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That sounds about right for me as well (CompuAdd). Mine was a 12MHz 80286 with 1MB of 0 wait state memory (a big thing at the time), I think this was 1988-1989. Hercules monochrome graphics card and 12" monitor, a 20MB hard drive and I think I added a first gen SoundBlaster that had SCSI support for the CD-ROM drive I added and I also got a Logitech mouse which came with it's own adapter card. It was also north of $2000 but less the $3000.
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Can't access the original link from work because the site is flagged as "Adult Entertainment"(?) but following on SerialBegger's post, my first PC was a CompuAdd.
I think bought it in 1991 or 1992 and it cost about $2500 or $2700. It was state of the art at the time in that it had both 5-1/8" and 3-1/4" floppy drives. I wish I could remember what processor it had in it. I think it was better than an 8486 though, maybe 1 meg. I think it had either a 40 or 80 meg hard drive (1/4000th the memory of my current laptop) |
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These will blow your mind. For some of us, they are a way-back machine, for you youngsters it will be akin to seeing cavemen unfrozen from the ice.
There's even a special one for BafflingBeerMan as a bonus.
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