For the nostalgic geek out there

[jimbob200521]

For those geeks out there that are nostalgic, DVICE did an article today about a Best Buy add from 1996 including a 1.6gb Hard Drive for an all new low of $239.99 (after $30 MIR). This really shows just how far we've come in 15 years.

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/09/best-buy-ad-fro.php#4 (scroll down for the images)

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[HeXen]

i've got ads i could show from the 80's. not BB specifically of course but just general ads placed in mags back in the time. Like Atari ST, Amiga..etc. i got tons of nostalgic magazines

I used to have a Kmart ad that showed the Atari 2600 on sale for $199.00, but some jerkwad threw it away

 

[SandEagle]

ah nostalgia. i remember when this was posted earlier today

 

[Rage187]

ah nostalgia. I remember when this was posted earlier today

chtpt

 

[jimbob200521]

chtpt

..?

 

[Rubycon]

That's nostalgic?

How about this?

http://www.earlytelevision.org/lafayette_catalog.html

 

[bfdd]

I was reading an old playboy from the early 80s which had an ad from Mitsubishi bragging about their like 40+ mpg Colt.

 

[jimbob200521]

That's nostalgic?

How about this?

http://www.earlytelevision.org/lafayette_catalog.html

Nostalgic to a 24 year old Just seeing some of the hardware in the add made me think back to some of the first computers I had, what they could (or couldn't) do, and what we've got now for computers.

The stuff in the add you posted obviously has what I posted beat by sheer age, but I just don't feel nostalgic when I look at *shrugs shoulders*

 

[SandEagle]

That's nostalgic?

How about this?

http://www.earlytelevision.org/lafayette_catalog.html

that was great. thanks

 

[Rage187]

..?

Came here to post this

 

[superccs]

The price of Mcaffee AV hasn't changed LOL.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Seeing this makes me regret I never saved any of that stuff. Always fun to look back.

The most nostalgic thing I can say I have is a legit copy of windows 98. I'd have to install it some day, just for fun. Could easily do it in a VM, but it would not give the same nostalgic factor as installing it on an old machine.

 

[jimbob200521]

Seeing this makes me regret I never saved any of that stuff. Always fun to look back.

The most nostalgic thing I can say I have is a legit copy of windows 98. I'd have to install it some day, just for fun. Could easily do it in a VM, but it would not give the same nostalgic factor as installing it on an old machine.

Window's ME is the oldest I have on CD, but I've got DOS and maybe even Windows 3.1(1?) on floppy

 

[shortylickens]

Seeing this makes me regret I never saved any of that stuff. Always fun to look back.

The most nostalgic thing I can say I have is a legit copy of windows 98. I'd have to install it some day, just for fun. Could easily do it in a VM, but it would not give the same nostalgic factor as installing it on an old machine.

I got 95, several copies of 98, ME, and plenty of old office and utility software.
Have several games from the early 90's, but only CD based. My diskette games disappeared a long time ago.

 

[gorcorps]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2192878

I don't think this even left the front page... so you didn't even have to search

 

[OVerLoRDI]

That 8x CD rom drive is what got me... $150, wow..

 

[Rubycon]

Anyone remember Smart & Friendly?

 

[IndyColtsFan]

That 8x CD rom drive is what got me... $150, wow..

I can remember the excitement when CD burners dipped under $1000. If I am not mistaken, HP had one of the first sub-$1000 units and Best Buy carried it.

 

[911paramedic]

This is pretty funny, because I am currently looking for a 16Gb thumb drive. I keep looking at the ad and making sure it says what it says for storage, and that I am thinking the right thing about my thumb drive. lol

I think my first computer had a 80Mb HDD. Could that be right? Now I am all confused...

 

[Jeff7]

This is pretty funny, because I am currently looking for a 16Gb thumb drive. I keep looking at the ad and making sure it says what it says for storage, and that I am thinking the right thing about my thumb drive. lol

I think my first computer had a 80Mb HDD. Could that be right? Now I am all confused...

Sounds about right. I was also in the 80MB club when my dad bought the family's first PC 33MHz 386DX. I think the first upgrade was to get a second 80MB drive, and then the next size up was somewhere around 212MB.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I wish I had some old ads. I remember driving to CompUSA late just before closing on Saturday night because they had a hard drive as such an incredible deal that I wanted to be sure to get one before they were sold out and I was hoping they would already have them marked at the sale price. It worked, I got one.

850 MEGAbytes for $199. And yes, at that time that price was worth the special trip hoping to score one. I remember upgrading a 486 from 4MB RAM to 8MB for like $159. At that point it was pretty much impossible to find RAM under $55 per MB, so that one felt like a great deal too.

 

[Rastus]

My first hard drive was $750 for a 10M that you couldn't boot from. It crashed all the time and if you were lucky, you would only have to do an hour and a half high level reformat. If you weren't (usually), it was three hours. It was for an Amiga 1000.

 

[ussfletcher]

Mouse in a box? What? Does a mouse even need a box that large? Am I missing something here?

 

[Blitzvogel]

That's nostalgic?

How about this?

http://www.earlytelevision.org/lafayette_catalog.html

That is cool how people could build televisions back then like we build computers today. I guess computer building will come to an end at some point, but let's hope for the best and remain capable of doing it for cheaper than a pre-built for a while!

And crazy to think how expensive computer systems were only 15 years ago. I was at Best Buy the other day and was enticed to get a 14" HP laptop with a dual core AMD Fusion A4 w/ 160 SPs, 4 GB DDR3, 320 GB HDD, 1366 x 768 monitor, for $379. Damn computing is cheap now.

 

[Shmee]

anyone remember the original dark forces? Bought it on steam recently, I still like to quote it now and then. "Freeze rebel scum!"

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