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Mid 1990's online PC catalogs Q

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stirgy

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Does anyone know the names of some of the Computer order catalogs that were around back in the mid 90's? I believe it was 1994-95 when I ordered my first PC - through a mail-order catalog.

It was similar to a Harbor Freight catalog. It was in color, and I used to get them in my mailbox what seemed like every other day.

I can't remember the catalog name and it's driving me crazy, because I used to flip through the pages and drool over all the new and exciting technology!

I can still hear the dial-up fax modem blazing away @ 56k while trying to connect me to the 'World Wide Web'.

Catalog? Anybody?

cheers!

😕
 
Computer Shopper was the first one that came to mind for me too. I remember being excited at a CD burner only being $500, when I told friends about it, they'd ask why you want to burn a CD.
 
Remember Damark catalogs? I've never seen a bigger collection of refurbished electronic junk for sale until Woot got bought out by Amazon.
 
Computer Shopper was a monthly magazine (with 90% ads), not a catalog, but it's probably what you're thinking of.

I remember thinking how smart I was in that era to spend a couple hundred more for a PC from Ares Microdevelopment because they were the only maker to put the CPU on a daughterboard, and do the same with RAM. That was going to "future-proof" my PC!
 
My stack of Computer Shopper is right next to the stack of Playboys. Wonder what it'$ worth. 😕
 
I remember browsing through these catalogs in the early 2000s. Tons of little mom and pop online shops would advertise, and normally each place had their own full page which listed their prices on drives, RAM, CPUs, and video cards. Occasionally they were even list fully assembled PCs. I remember Freeway Technologies and CyberPower PC. Ah those were the days!
 
PCMall and Global Computer comes in mind. Egghead too.
Of course my favorite was Computer Shopper with their phone-book-size magazine/catalog with about 800 pages every issue.
 
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I believe that's the one. Spent like $2,400 on a 'Pionex' PC deal - really just to play Doom and to check out 'chat rooms'...

Came with Windows 3.1 installed... Hot damn!

Thanks for the replies all!

stirgy

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Computer Shopper was it in the mid 90's. I placed many orders from it.

When Best Buy was actually relevant in the mid to late 90's I would look at their Sunday circular to see if the mainstream PCs they were pushing had caught up to whatever PC I had built at the time. They never did.
 
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