Dell reflects on 25 years of PCs ~ PC arrived in 1981

CNET ^ | August 7, 2006 4:00 AM PT | By Tom Krazit Staff Writer, CNET News.com

[GoldCountryRedneck]

I've got a picture of the incident card

Wow! Which book??? Or...if you can scan the pic, would love to add it to my vast (half vast?) store of useless information!

Thanks for the update!

~GCR~

[johnny7]

LOL... it sure has evolved. It's effect on the advertising/publishing industry since 1989... has been mind-boggling.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Nice Profile Page....

[Milhous]

My LJ collection starts with Issue 6 with a story about The Joy (and Agony) of SLIP. LOL. Over the years my SLIP struggles sort of slipped over to BGP battles. LOL.

[IronJack]

The book is called Big Java by a guy named Cay Horstman. It's part of a J2EE class I'm taking, along with Ruby on Rails and Eclipse. THAT is how far computing has come in 25 short years.

Unfortunately, my scanner is in storage right now, and it would take an act of God to get it out. But if you've got a Borders near you, look in Big Java, page 399.

[Physicist]

I have a rackmounted Dell PowerEdge 6350 with four Xeon processors, 2GB RAM, and three 9 GB SCSI hard drives set up as a RAID-5 unit. I bought it on Ebay for $112 last month. I set it up with RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.

It's 7 years old, and still a screamer.

[Milhous]

Nice Profile Page....

Thanks but IMHO it desperately needs a makeover. May as well decorate it with an unabridged rant accreted from years of FReeping. ROTFL.

[FlJoePa]

I'm not a big Dell guy. PC's are PC's imo. But I love to read about guys like this. People that bash him or his company are simply jealous - that they weren't there first.

Zillionaires usually have better ideas than the rest of us. We need to accept that fact.

[silent_jonny]

I nominate this Gateway model as the worst pc ever made.

I don't know the proper name for it, but I always called it the "POS".

There was no fan inside and the only ventilation came through those small holes on the back. The heat inside had no where to go. You could fry an egg on this thing.

It was also weak, slow and overpriced.

[Nowhere Man]

But I seriously think it was the Apple II that launched the personal computing revolution. There were so many of those things in schools and libraries that when kids thought "computer," they thought "Apple."

Yea, I was one of them, I have an Apple //e myself as well as a TI-99/4A. I used it until 1992, the Apple, as my main computer until we got a Dell '486SX/25 (which is uder thism onitor as I type, Mom still likes Windows 3.1 and Word Perfect 5.1) and my current machine (I'm using now) I got in 1998, a Pentium II/266 MHz although I have a Pentium II/300 chip I ought to put in it. I also have a Thinkpad 570 but the screen croaked on it, IBM did have a problem with the screens on some of them, next time I'll get a Dell notebook PC.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Found this business oriented presentation,...does show the 3D cube Desktop ....:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10...Demo and presentation

[printhead]

Not everyone gets to be part of the ecosystem.

[Milhous]

Wiki's picture of the first computer bug:

[GoldCountryRedneck]

God has other things to do - I'll buy the book!!

Thanks again and hope the class delivers for ya'.

~GCR~

[Grut]

The thing is, IBM PCs were hideously expensive: $8000 or so, IIRC. So I think credit for the early boom in PCs (read, "home computers") belongs to the clone makers and the brands like Atari, Commodore, Radio Shack and so on that made affordable computers.

[GoShow]

Dell Completely Sucks,

Mickey’s cloned computers and gadgets are nothing but cheap knock off’s, The DJ ditty ever heard of it? Dell makes nothing.

- The Stock and Laptops are blowing up.

- Bait and switch sales tactics: Try calling and buying
Any computer from them for 299?

- Mail in rebates, Still waiting…

- Worst Service.

- Worst outsourcers: The Indians don’t even want their call center jobs.

- They sell TV’s now, and who makes their TV’s again?


Dell can’t even be the Walmart of computers - HP beat them to it.

[RightOnline]

I'm in the computer business (but in the Clusters field at a ..ahem.....huge corporation; not PC's), and Dell is a MAJOR competitor of mine......but I'll always give them credit for making very, very decent machines. Good company, worthy competitor. I'm glad they're out there and still doing it.

I still love kicking their asses in the marketplace, though. :) That's just my competitive side; can't help it.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

*WOW* and *WOW*!!

Awsome Milhouse!!!!Where else but on FR?!?!?!Many thanks, and I'll still buy Big Java Jack!

Tip 'o the Stetson to ya' both!

~GCR~

[Larry Lucido]

Was that you??

[Fatuncle]

My brother bought a top of the line Dell about a year ago. I don't know the model.

It's worked flawlessly. Never a lick of trouble.

I would not bother with tech support, I'd send yours back and tell them there is something seriously wrong with it, and they could refund or replace.