Old Computer Show Flyer

[sharkeeper]

This brings back memories.

Back in the days when it was fun to look through Computer Shopper Magazine.
All mice had balls except those really expensive workstation ones that used a laser and a grid pad.
Video Cards that did 1024x768 with 256 colours were state of the art.
You were talk of the group if you had Ad Lib sound. (or any sound card)
Trinitron mean flat screen even though the screen was only vertically flat.
Fully equipped systems had 1.44 3 1/2" (B) and 1.2 5 1/2" (A) drives.
Windows was run by typing CD\Windows - win.com and people used it for playing solitaire and mindsweeper.
24 pin Dot Matrix Printers were top of the line - if you had a laser printer you signed your name with ESQ after it.
.28 mm dot pitch meant you spent more than your mortgage on a monitor.
Zeos was still around.
Getting "online" meant calling a BBS, connecting to compuserve, prodigy, or AOL at 2400 bps. A 1200bps Hayes external modem cost $699 back in 1988. Chat rooms in AOL started with A and ran to Z and were very dead!
I could go on and on...

 

[imported_Beavis]

LOL

Good one



I remember Bill gates saying "You only need 640K Ram"

 

[Safeway]

This is insane =P

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
This brings back memories.

Back in the days when it was fun to look through Computer Shopper Magazine.
You were talk of the group if you had Ad Lib sound. (or any sound card)
Windows was run by typing CD\Windows - win.com and people used it for playing solitaire and mindsweeper.

C:\Windows was typically in the path in your autoexec.bat, so you didn't have to CD to it 😛
This flyer must have been around what, 89-90?
I still remember spending LOTS of time going through Computer Shopper... and spending about $130 on my sound card - and it was a freaking off-brand (Reveal), but it was (mostly) SB Pro 2 compatible 😀 (and I've still got it)

 

[RU482]

hahaha...they spell out the brand of the floppy drives, but not the brand of the hard drive

 

[So]

Ah...good memories. I was only a wee tot, but I remember our brand spanking new 286. That thing was AMAZING. I'm sure that makes me a baby to some of you guys, who got to revel in new commodore64s and remember the osbourne flameout firtshand.

 

[jadinolf]

I still have 128 megs of memory in my desk drawer which cost roughly $2400. 🙁