All that for only 16344 SEK, around 26000 SEK or $2500 in today’s money. I had that computer for a long time playing a lot of games, probably mostly Counter-Strike and other Half-Life and Quake 3 mods.
My current GPU’s VRAM has more space than my old computer’s hard drive did.
Amazing. That’s 8x the video ram in my first computer. I saved for 4 months to get it and it was the first love of my life.
Baldmanbob1
I bought a Packard Gell off the Best Buy shelf that was open box/as is with lightning damage that had fried the god, 14000? Dial up modem. Bought an external 28K and took it all home, set me up a bice BBS system around my best game, Trade Wars 2002, had 47 players at one point all online. Think this was 93-95 sometime?
shadowmage666
Ah yes the ergonomic keyboard that everyone used to have lol
Raelyk
I was reading the list and was like “I don’t recognize any of these parts so they must be pretty old,” until I noticed it’s not even in fuckin English lol
StomachAromatic
Show this to the kids that say PC parts are expensive now.
jmdinbtr
Creative SoundBlaster!
CitySeekerTron
If you think 128MB is low, consider that less than 20 years before that the Commodore 64 had 64K of RAM, with about half of that consumed by addressing the internal ROMs.
Or that a few years prior, the Atari had like 128 usable bytes of RAM for the (stock, not counting bank switching) 4KB cartridges.
It’s crazy to me as I’ve written parsers that eat through hundreds of MB of RAM in a few seconds.
AK_4_Life
That’s not bad. My first PC was 1998 and only had 48 mb of ram
Merlin404
Why is Thursday on the bill lol, and wonder if you got a Pingvin stång candy with it
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Just found the receipt from 1999 of the first computer I bought.
Specifications:
* Pentium II 350 MHz
* 128 MB PC100
* 8.4 GB HDD
* Voodoo Banshee
* 17″ CRT monitor
* Sound Blaster PCI 128
* Win 98
* Keyboard, mouse, mousepad, speakers and more.
All that for only 16344 SEK, around 26000 SEK or $2500 in today’s money. I had that computer for a long time playing a lot of games, probably mostly Counter-Strike and other Half-Life and Quake 3 mods.
My current GPU’s VRAM has more space than my old computer’s hard drive did.
Good lord, a Pentium II
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Reppa inet sen dag 1, underbart.
They always get you with the Fraktkostnader.
Voodoo banshee… My god… I’m old
What is the Banshee?
Amazing. That’s 8x the video ram in my first computer. I saved for 4 months to get it and it was the first love of my life.
I bought a Packard Gell off the Best Buy shelf that was open box/as is with lightning damage that had fried the god, 14000? Dial up modem. Bought an external 28K and took it all home, set me up a bice BBS system around my best game, Trade Wars 2002, had 47 players at one point all online. Think this was 93-95 sometime?
Ah yes the ergonomic keyboard that everyone used to have lol
I was reading the list and was like “I don’t recognize any of these parts so they must be pretty old,” until I noticed it’s not even in fuckin English lol
Show this to the kids that say PC parts are expensive now.
Creative SoundBlaster!
If you think 128MB is low, consider that less than 20 years before that the Commodore 64 had 64K of RAM, with about half of that consumed by addressing the internal ROMs.
Or that a few years prior, the Atari had like 128 usable bytes of RAM for the (stock, not counting bank switching) 4KB cartridges.
It’s crazy to me as I’ve written parsers that eat through hundreds of MB of RAM in a few seconds.
That’s not bad. My first PC was 1998 and only had 48 mb of ram
Why is Thursday on the bill lol, and wonder if you got a Pingvin stång candy with it