1996 Best Buy Ad

• gorocks99

  

  166MHz Packard Bell with 16 MB of RAM, a 2 GB hard drive AND a built in 28.8k modem for just $2000? What a deal!
  
  http://gregarious24.imgur.com/best_buy_flyer_september_1996
  
  
• Heretic

  

  Just think. If you drop another $50 on a copy of that RAM Doubler 2, you'd have 32 megs of RAM and be able to reprogram our nation's defense computers like in Wargames!
• justincredible

  

  Muppet Treasure Island was legit.
• Heretic

  

  BUY A SHITTY PRINTER FOR $379.99!!!!
  
  But since you can print out a pretty fucking snappy American flag on it, it's worth every damn penny!
• chicago510

  

  Isn't it amazing how far technology comes?
  
  You can now get 100x the RAM in a cell phone and like 30 times the Storage in a microSD card for a fraction of that price.
  
  And the size of those monitors haha those bitches weighed like 20 pounds.
• SnotBubbles

  

  justincredible;911927 wrote:Muppet Treasure Island was legit.

  Reps.
• SnotBubbles

  

  Also from 1996:
  
  
  
  
• gorocks99

  

  lol, $140 for a VCR and $70 for a pager.
• Benny The Jet

  

  1996 and Apple was STILL way overpriced
• namod65

  

  Benny The Jet;911954 wrote:1996 and Apple was STILL way overpriced

  So true lol.
• Heretic

  

  chicago510;911933 wrote:Isn't it amazing how far technology comes?
  
  You can now get 100x the RAM in a cell phone and like 30 times the Storage in a microSD card for a fraction of that price.
  
  And the size of those monitors haha those bitches weighed like 20 pounds.

  True. I had a Mac Performa during college and the couple years afterwards. That thing was a bitch to lug around. Now, at work, I have a computer that's like worth 500 million of those that's a fraction of the weight.
• I Wear Pants

  I had a sick Packard Bell back in the day. Shit was ungodly expensive though.
  
  I remember it had a 200mhz processor and 8GB hard drive. Also had a tv tuner which is an oddly modern inclusion.
• chicago510

  

  Windows 95...GOAT operating system upgrade? Everything before that sucked.
  
  
• Iliketurtles

  

  chicago510;912090 wrote:Windows 95...GOAT operating system upgrade? Everything before that sucked.
  
  

  YES!! Windows 98 sucked dick... 2000 sucked even more.
• justincredible

  

  Windows ME was a horse abortion.
• I Wear Pants

  I thought 98 was good.
• wes_mantooth

  

  funny thing about where i work...we still have to work on some machines that are windows NT or 2000 based.
• WebFire

  Windows 3.11 is the first Windows I started on.
  
  
• I Wear Pants

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• justincredible

  

  WebFire;912289 wrote:Windows 3.11 is the first Windows I started on.
  
  

  Same here. Started on MS-DOS but 3.1 was my first windows experience. It was awesome at the time.
• WebFire

  justincredible;912346 wrote:Same here. Started on MS-DOS but 3.1 was my first windows experience. It was awesome at the time.

  Our first family computer was a DOS system. I remember when we got a new PC with Windows 95 (for almost $2k) and being blown away that you could load Encarta and watch video clips.
• justincredible

  

  WebFire;912350 wrote:Our first family computer was a DOS system. I remember when we got a new PC with Windows 95 (for almost $2k) and being blown away that you could load Encarta and watch video clips.

  Encarta. I forgot all about that program. That was the shit back in the day.
  
  Our first computer was running 3.1 with Microsoft BOB on it. LOL. The DOS machine was at my grandma's house. I believe she paid something like $2500 for it in the mid 80s.
• chicago510

  

  justincredible;912411 wrote:Encarta. I forgot all about that program. That was the shit back in the day.
  
  Our first computer was running 3.1 with Microsoft BOB on it. LOL. The DOS machine was at my grandma's house. I believe she paid something like $2500 for it in the mid 80s.

  
  
  No effing way. That was an OS? Talk about fail...
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  Any of you young 'uns know what a bag phone was?
  
  I remember seeing a home VCR for the first time in the summer of 1977 at a girlfriend's house. Her parents paid something like $1100 for it. They had HBO,too - talk about cutting edge....
• justincredible

  

  Cat Food Flambe';912426 wrote:Any of you young'uns even know what a "bag phone" was?

  Yep, mom had one in her car at one point. It was mostly used for drug deals.