Posted on 11/26/2006 10:31:43 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
*Monitor not included
I've always wanted one of these to set in the corner of my home office. The sound still raises chill bumps on my arms. Music to the ears of a true news junkie...
Blurb from Feb. 1998:
http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=942
IT'S NOTHING, REALLY
O.K., so how many of you noticed the new addition to the cast of Seinfeld during this, the show's last season? I'm speaking, of course, of his new Mac. Always a fixture, but never a player in the plot, Jerry's Mac (one of the elderly LC types, if I'm not mistaken) sat comfortably within view by the window (behind the table behind the couch). Then, several weeks ago, I noticed a brand new Mac in its place. Comically, for a character never seen actually using his computer, Seinfeld's Mac is one of the top-of-the-line $7,000 upright, thin-screen 20th Anniversary edition Macintoshes, much like the one used by Batgirl in last year's Batman and Robin.
I also got my first computer in 1994 and it also was a Packard Bell, 100MHz. Cost: $2800. Less than four months later it was out-dated. They had already came out with 500.
They also called those phones "bricks", for obvious reasons...
Heck yeah! That was so cool!
I sometimes wonder whether I may have stumbled once or twice on the early FR compuserve bulletin boards, since I browsed a lot of conservative boards. I found the current FR in 1998 looking up something on the Teamsters.
The funny thing is that I had a DOS-based 486 w/ 8 meg of RAM in the mid-90s that outperformed anything since as far as my work programs like AutoCAD and Lotus are concerned.
I loved my Tandy. Played a lot of games on them.
My PB actually lasted a couple years (was way faster than the crap the school computer labs were running) before I had a 133 mhz 586 with a gig hard drive built for $1300.00. $1500.00 is actually the most I've ever spent on one system, and two I had built in 2000 and 2001 are still going strong in my office, with no upgrades, running Win98. I think I replaced a fan motor on one.
LOL!
Could never afford a Tandy. I bought a "Tardy" from a guy off the street for $100.00, but I ended up leaving a $200.00 tip at a restaurant. I was ruined!
Bought a used TRS 80 (portable) for, I think, $1500. Probably never even sold for that much new.
Bought my first Cellphone (hump-mount) for $1250, installed. $0.40 per minute.
Bought my first house (Crystal Beach, FL) for $72,500.
Circa 1987-1988 -- back when a buck was a buck!
Hey where did you find that pic of the FR main server? Do the beebers still connect to that one?
My how far Nokia has come.
Lol! I love it.
Coolness is having a Bag Phone.
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