Those were some good specs back in the day… And the price 😯

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    22·
    10 months 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.

    • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      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?!”

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Today I deleted 1 TB of old files that were buried and forgotten

        It blows my mind that such a thing is possible

    • doctorcrimson@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Honestly was the Windows 95 Factory Install really necessary? They couldn’t be bothered to install it themselves?

      • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        … if there’s a working number shown in media, I immediately call it.

        Most of them actually go to some kind of line with an automated message regarding whatever you’re watching. If they get too old though they go out of service. RIP.

        I wanna say I originally remember doing this with some number in Fight Club and it went to Tyler Durden’s line?

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      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)

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.comEnglish
    15·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    “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?

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      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

  • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    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!

  • sharpiemarker@feddit.deEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    So funny story, if this is the first-gen (Blue) Dell XPS, we also bought one similarly spec’d.

    Dell shipped it to us and when it arrived, it had 64 MB of ram instead of the 128 MB we ordered it with. Rather than sending us out new ram, they shipped us ANOTHER whole XPS. They never asked for the first back.