Dell Catalog, Circa August 1996

[FelixDeCat]

I was cleaning up my bookshelf the other day and forgot I was keeping this to laugh at one day. Instead I actually enjoyed the trip down memory lane. Pictures have been downsized for quick loading except the last one:

August 1996 Cover

NT Server

Laptop

Desktops <-- highest resolution

 

[KLin]

Those Dell Dimension cases were a bitch to take off and put back on correctly.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: KLin
Those Dell Dimension cases were a bitch to take off and put back on correctly.

Not to mention the floppy drives were like little frankenstein boxes with all the extra screws and clamps and so forth. Never made sense to me when I was salvaging them many moons ago.

 

[nerp]

Those dell AT101W keyboards were excellent. Those were the days when the included keyboard with such a machine was a durable, high quality design. People buy those actual keyboards on ebay for a nice price due to their quality. They're like the Model Ms made by IBM. No sense getting rid of it if you actually care about something pleasant to write on.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: nerp
Those dell AT101W keyboards were excellent. Those were the days when the included keyboard with such a machine was a durable, high quality design. People buy those actual keyboards on ebay for a nice price due to their quality. They're like the Model Ms made by IBM. No sense getting rid of it if you actually care about something pleasant to write on.

Im very touchy about keyboards. I was stubborn about not wanting to use a winkey board, so I used a compaq keyboard from 1998 until about 2003. It finally gave up the ghost after years and years of getting the crap beat out of it when I got mad. :laugh:

Im alot nicer now to my hardware. I just slam my wireless mouse down. 🙂

 

[silverpig]

LOL. 16 MB ram in one of them - upgrade to 32 MB is $225.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: silverpig
LOL. 16 MB ram in one of them - upgrade to 32 MB is $225.

Dont forget that $125 28.8 modem so you can get on AOL.

 

[GoingUp]

Heh! We still have the atlec lansing speakers from the cover hooked up to my parents computer back home. Got em with a Gateway back in 1996.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Haha it's always funny to look at old stuff. It's also interesting how their logo has barely changed, if at all. When you look at stuff that long ago you tend to notice that the company logos change a bit over time.

Now to think, you can get a low end dell desktop for less then 500 bucks and it will blow away that desktop like no tomorrow.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: silverpig
LOL. 16 MB ram in one of them - upgrade to 32 MB is $225.

Dont forget that $125 28.8 modem so you can get on AOL.

*click click* *scramble scramble* *EEEEAWWWW EEEEAWWWW* *whwshshshs* *You've got mail!*

 

[darkxshade]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: silverpig
LOL. 16 MB ram in one of them - upgrade to 32 MB is $225.

Dont forget that $125 28.8 modem so you can get on AOL.

*click click* *scramble scramble* *EEEEAWWWW EEEEAWWWW* *whwshshshs* *You've got mail!*

:thumbsup: Oh the nostalgia 😛

 

[finite automaton]

Originally posted by: darkxshade

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: silverpig
LOL. 16 MB ram in one of them - upgrade to 32 MB is $225.

Dont forget that $125 28.8 modem so you can get on AOL.

*click click* *scramble scramble* *EEEEAWWWW EEEEAWWWW* *whwshshshs* *You've got mail!*

:thumbsup: Oh the nostalgia 😛

don't forget the sounds of the hd clicking just before the you got mail

 

[rivan]

The desktops have #9 video cards. Man, they were the shit back in the day.

:music:Now I'm 64!:music:

 

[dbk]

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: darkxshade

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: silverpig
LOL. 16 MB ram in one of them - upgrade to 32 MB is $225.

Dont forget that $125 28.8 modem so you can get on AOL.

*click click* *scramble scramble* *EEEEAWWWW EEEEAWWWW* *whwshshshs* *You've got mail!*

:thumbsup: Oh the nostalgia 😛

don't forget the sounds of the hd clicking just before the you got mail

A friend of mine had that as his ringtone for a day....truly annoying

 

[Modelworks]

512KB pipeline burst cache and a S3 Virge video card 166mhz system for only $2399 ! Where do I sign up ? Make sure to include the travan backup for only $225 !

Reminds me of the days when you had to set jumpers for memory speed, bus speed, processor multiplier , voltages.

 

[Babbles]

Those were some nice images from memory lane. My first computer was a Packard Bell (133Mhz I think), which was nothing short than a steaming pile of junk.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
512KB pipeline burst cache and a S3 Virge video card 166mhz system for only $2399 ! Where do I sign up ? Make sure to include the travan backup for only $225 !

Reminds me of the days when you had to set jumpers for memory speed, bus speed, processor multiplier , voltages.

The S3 Virge video card utilizes PCI local bus for improved performance. Now you can play Doom or Duke Nukem without any lag for a true "virtual reality" experience!

 

[melchoir]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
512KB pipeline burst cache and a S3 Virge video card 166mhz system for only $2399 ! Where do I sign up ? Make sure to include the travan backup for only $225 !

Reminds me of the days when you had to set jumpers for memory speed, bus speed, processor multiplier , voltages.

Those days aren't all that long ago. What? 3-4 years?

 

[KillerCharlie]

Wow, you mean technology improves as time goes on? That's hilarious!

 

[destrekor]

We had like a Pentium 75mhz Acer computer as our first computer. Got it in 1994, pretty sure it was like $2000.
Nuts.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: melchoir

Originally posted by: Modelworks
512KB pipeline burst cache and a S3 Virge video card 166mhz system for only $2399 ! Where do I sign up ? Make sure to include the travan backup for only $225 !

Reminds me of the days when you had to set jumpers for memory speed, bus speed, processor multiplier , voltages.

Those days aren't all that long ago. What? 3-4 years?

Didn't they have soft multiplier and FSB settings in the days of the Celeron 300A? That would have been 1999-2000, IIRC.

 

[zzuupp]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: silverpig
LOL. 16 MB ram in one of them - upgrade to 32 MB is $225.

Dont forget that $125 28.8 modem so you can get on AOL.

*click click* *scramble scramble* *EEEEAWWWW EEEEAWWWW* *whwshshshs* *You've got mail!*

Yay!
I got mail!
Yay!

 

[Chaotic42]

I miss cases that looked like those.

Edit: From the best computer magazine ever, Family Computing

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: silverpig
LOL. 16 MB ram in one of them - upgrade to 32 MB is $225.

Dont forget that $125 28.8 modem so you can get on AOL.

*click click* *scramble scramble* *EEEEAWWWW EEEEAWWWW* *whwshshshs* *You've got mail!*

oh dammit don't remind me! I have nightmares about that :laugh:

 

[Shawn]

Those seem expensive for the time. I think we got a Compaq P233 MMX with 32MB ram and a 6GB hard drive for $1200 or so back in late 1997. I guess prices went down a lot in a year or so.