Bestbuy ad from 96

[Colorado_Outback]

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[Colorado_Outback]

Thought it was interesting that the price of a new Apple is almost the same today.

And look at all those awesome games, spent many hours playing Decent II!

[Mazin]

LOL Sd ram, Pagers, answering machines.....lol forgot all about the 90's.

[Ronin13]

Wow, and to think I believe we had about 10 of those products! Links LS! Classic game! And looking at the memory, we've come a loong way in the last 13-14 years.

[waxthis]

Very cool....

[Colorado_Outback]

That $2400 Mac comes with a 1.6gig HD and 16mb of memory

Edit: and no display, that 15" crt will run you another $499.

Crazy...

[Geology Rocks]

good to see Mac was over priced back then too!

joe

[Ronin13]

good to see Mac was over priced back then too!

joe

I agree- I do film and music production in my spare time and everyone says I need to get a Macbook pro... okay, if you want to donate $2,000! I can't afford that chit, and my HP does just fine thank you!
Also, not sure who games here, but most of those games are under $35! Man I miss those prices, at $60 a pop I have to be really choosy which games I buy, bc if they suck I only get like $25 out of them max.

[Mazin]

Umm, you truly get what you pay for when you buy a mac. Bought my father in law one when they converted over to Intel cpu's and it just went out this year and that was because he spilt a beer on it, over 5 years old and more than 7 hours a day everyday working on it, yea it was well worth it.

[TFOGGER]

I wonder if they had any bitchin deals on high speed, 28.8Kbps modems?

[cfortune]

hahaha that is awesome. Seeing Hexen brought back some memories. Also my parents had that 133mhz HP (err packard bell)... What was that awesome skiing game that came on Windows 95 computers???

Funny to think now the phone in my pocket has better specs than those machines.

[Ronin13]

Funny to think now the phone in my pocket has better specs than those machines.

I was just talking to my mom about that... Remember back in the day before the interwebz? I remember- and I know not how old I was- when my mom first came home with our first modem. She required a modem hookup for work (as she did a lot from home) and it always tied up the phone lines. Gosh back then porn didn't even have videos online, it was just pictures :( but it was free! :D

[Colorado_Outback]

Umm, you truly get what you pay for when you buy a mac. Bought my father in law one when they converted over to Intel cpu's and it just went out this year and that was because he spilt a beer on it, over 5 years old and more than 7 hours a day everyday working on it, yea it was well worth it.


I have a 17" HP of similar age and run time, that I spilled a whole cup of coffee in the keyboard, had it take a couple of 3ft + falls among other things and Im typing this post on it...
Oh and it was 1000's less than any mac at the time so I think it was well worth it[Beer]

Just like Ford vs Chevy or Glock vs XD's everybody has a favorite..

[TFOGGER]

I have a 17" HP of similar age and run time, that I spilled a whole cup of coffee in the keyboard, had it take a couple of 3ft + falls among other things and Im typing this post on it...
Oh and it was 1000's less than any mac at the time so I think it was well worth it[Beer]

Just like Ford vs Chevy or Glock vs XD's everybody has a favorite..

More like Mosin Nagant vs AR...[LOL]

[spleify]

Haha, thats awesome. I had that same Motorola flip phone and that pager.... [ROFL1]

[alxone]

makes me miss my old pager

[Mazin]

I have a 17" HP of similar age and run time, that I spilled a whole cup of coffee in the keyboard, had it take a couple of 3ft + falls among other things and Im typing this post on it...
Oh and it was 1000's less than any mac at the time so I think it was well worth it[Beer]

Just like Ford vs Chevy or Glock vs XD's everybody has a favorite..


Yea but whos os still needs 50,000 firewalls and anti-virus software?

Anyway I can see the point but as a person who works on windows and other platforms, I prefer Macs and see the value in them.

Oh and btw Ford & Glock

[cfortune]

I was just talking to my mom about that... Remember back in the day before the interwebz? I remember- and I know not how old I was- when my mom first came home with our first modem. She required a modem hookup for work (as she did a lot from home) and it always tied up the phone lines. Gosh back then porn didn't even have videos online, it was just pictures :( but it was free! :D


hahahaha... I remember when you couldn't find whatever you wanted on the internet. We had only 1 phone line so I'm totally familiar with the issues that a 14.4 modem caused around the house. I remember when I found animated porn .gifs..... It made me realize that the web was going to be the next big thing [LOL]

[electronman1729]

Ahhh

good old Descent II

[Hoosier]

Decent II was fun. I worked in the computer department at a Best Buy in 93 and 1994. I remember when the very first Pentium machines arrived, it was from Packard Bell and was one of the 60Mhz ones. First box we opened and the CPU was loose on the inside, having flown around the inside of the case during shipping was totally destroyed. The "Fast" ones were a blazing 90Mhz.

H.

[kwando]

LOL... remember my first cell phone

[Mazin]

TFC, counterstrike, and remember AOL's 50 free hours to try it out? Well after that they charged you.....I was 15.......My mom was pissed $300 some odd dollars later I learned two things, a. paying that amount off making $6 dollars mowing the grandparents lawn takes forever, b. How to make hidden directorys filled with good ol porn.