Just found an old 1999 Staples catalogue check the PCs

Post by **Pete** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:19 pm

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Post by **Ryoki** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:23 pm

awesome

Post by **Bdw3** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:27 pm

Packard Hell.

The PC company that was so shitty we drop kicked them out of the US.

Wonder how their doing since NEC bought them.

Post by **eepberries** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:38 pm

You think that's funny? I have one of my dad's old science/technology magazines from around 1980.

Post by **Foo** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:45 pm

I've got an old packard bell laptop around here.

Works pretty well still, after I swapped out the crappy hard drive.

Post by **Canis** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:51 pm

Just imagine how funny current items will be in 7-10 years.

Post by **mik0rs** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:26 pm

Reminds me of the copy of PC Shopper I've got sitting around from 1994, advertising 125MHz PCs as the absolute dog's bollocks

Post by **Foo** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:31 pm

hang on I know it's around here somewhere...

EDIT damn can't find it. I had an excellent scan of an old hard drive advert, it was for like an 8Mb drive for $1500 or something stupid like that.

Oh well.

Post by **eepberries** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:34 pm

in before POSTING WITH A PACKARD BELL

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:49 pm

My parents still use a Compaq Presario from '98. Used to play Quake 2 and Tribes on that thing back in the day.

Post by **bitWISE** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:52 pm

Bdw3 wrote:Packard Hell.

The PC company that was so shitty we drop kicked them out of the US.

Wonder how their doing since NEC bought them.

You remember that 3d navigator desktop house thingy? What a piece of shit.

Post by **d3mol!t!on** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:55 pm

bitWISE wrote:You remember that 3d navigator desktop house thingy? What a piece of shit.

I do, and indeed it was shit

Post by **Captain** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:02 pm

Canis wrote:Just imagine how funny current items will be in 7-10 years.

Haha, yeah.

Post by **Foo** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:04 pm

Not as ridiculous, because the advance of PC tech has slowed massively since there's more money to be made by slower release of tech.

Post by **Captain** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:06 pm

Well, there will still be the "remember when 2GHz was good enough" conversations, olo.

Post by **seremtan** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:13 pm

lol, IBM Aptiva. any brits remember the TV ads for those, with some little chav getting all wet-panty because "[insert crappy late 90s band here]'s video is really kickin' with Aptiva!!111"

333MHz CPU + ATi Rage Pro = not remotely kickin', clart

Post by **Bdw3** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:16 pm

bitWISE wrote:You remember that 3d navigator desktop house thingy? What a piece of shit.

Hah- Yeah I do... Damn thing booted into it. Took ages to load up and close.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:17 pm

i still have a k62+ 500 sitting in my closet running my internet gateway. cost me a pretty penny in '99... guess she's gotten her mileage though. (especially considering that with a GF256 was my primary machine until i got the 2.4c i'm still using)

Post by **tnf** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:21 pm

i had an old sears catalogue from the early 80s with hugely expensive atari and coleco games in it...games were something like $50 or thereabouts if I remember correctly.

Post by **Turbine** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:35 pm

Well my computer right now, is the one from 2000, and I play HL2 on it at reasonable quality.

Well at least is still looks like the one from 2000 from the outside.

Post by **Canis** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:19 am

Foo wrote:Not as ridiculous, because the advance of PC tech has slowed massively since there's more money to be made by slower release of tech.

Fine...14-20 years.

Post by **Dek** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:32 am

Foo wrote:Not as ridiculous, because the advance of PC tech has slowed massively since there's more money to be made by slower release of tech.

Is that what you think is happening? They are releasing tech slower to make more money?

:icon27:

Post by **werldhed** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:39 am

I was using a 6-year old system up until this summer. It still runs top notch, too. I gave it to my parents and it suits them fine. XP, Office, Photoshop, Nero, etc... I even used to run Rhino 3.0 on it.
Works like a dream.

766 Mhz, 128Mb RAM, 45Gb HDD. It was great.

Post by **mik0rs** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:42 am

Dek wrote:
Foo wrote:Not as ridiculous, because the advance of PC tech has slowed massively since there's more money to be made by slower release of tech.
Is that what you think is happening? They are releasing tech slower to make more money?

:icon27:

Why do you think that's such an outlandish idea?

Post by **Denz** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:46 am

An Aptiva for 1,399.00!!!!! Woohoo!!!