Those were some good specs back in the day… And the price 😯
Seems like overkill
How will you ever fill up 8.4gb of storage
The day we got our 10mb hdd and installed it, as the old man carved up partitions and I got my H: drive, I can still hear his voice, “who could ever use all this space?!”
Today I deleted 1 TB of old files that were buried and forgotten
It blows my mind that such a thing is possible
DVD Decryptor card that came pre installed
Honestly was the Windows 95 Factory Install really necessary? They couldn’t be bothered to install it themselves?
You know you’re an old geek when you look at the spec and go “300MHz PII? 64MB RAM? that’s late 96 or early 97… Or cheap 98, but it’s shipped with win95, and ooh la la IE4.0 pre-installed, definitely late 96 or early 97” and then you see the invoice date, and recognize it as Clinton’s 2nd inauguration.
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Dude, you got a Dell!
My friend was hooking up with him. He was kind of a degenerate Stoner, but we all were… he was an actual loser iirc (from… 20? yrs ago)
I was going to be extremely impressed at the 64 GB of RAM until I realized that said MB.
Such a throwback though, that iomega zip drive was cutting edge.
It’s been 25 years and their invoices look the same
“It’s an investment in your family’s future, sir…”
So OP, do you now do clickity clacks professionally for money? Did that included edutainment software suite do the trick?
I had an okay PC earlier than a lot of people in my age bracket, me and siblings all do use computers in our work now lol, so if they said that to my dad in the 90s they wouldn’t be wrong
Lol it really did, software engineer here
I remember when we upgraded to a Pentium III and later put an aftermarket Voodoo card in the thing after much begging on my part. That was the first PC I had that felt genuinely “powerful” to me.
IDE DVD ROM drive and a hardware DVD decoder.
Dude, you could play DVDs? On your computer! Wow, truly it was the future.
I just saved a pair of altec Lansing computer speakers from becoming ewaste at my work. They’re easily 20+ years old but still work decently enough! I just use them to play music when no one else is in the office.
Even back then you had McAfee bloat preinstalled
For the kids, this would’ve been a top of the line beefy set-up. I would say in '98 you would find a 1gb hd, a 120 Pentium, and 16mb of ram in a typical home that had a computer.
Remember things upgraded fast back then, by '00 your average Joe would be buying Pentium iii’s with 600mhz and a DVD drive! Woah!
This monster has 2 DVD drives! And a floppy drive too!
My dad had the >$4k receipt for our 1988 286 until this death recently
Powerhouse rig
This system is jacked AF for 98 Almost a 10 gig HDD!
CD ROM, endless capabilities
A 300 MHz Pentium II in early 1996 is insane. No wonder it cost so much!
I remember getting my first computer in 1998 and it was an AMD K6-2 and it cost approximately $1200.
You only paid $35 tax on a $3000 computer?
Even better, they paid $2.89 tax on $35 of the total
