My first computer was an Everex. I paid more than this system costs to upgrade the HDD from 20 to 30 MB.
Yes. I am a dinosaur.
FR is dinosaur-friendly : )
I worked on Osbornes and Northgates in my “yout’”,, and Sperry Rand Univac too before that.. my first computer was a Mac. but a windows user for years
No kidding, and these:
“The spec of the system is very low - 1.5 GHz VIA C7 CPU embedded onto a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB “
Are very low specs? Sheesh, 4 gb/186 mb 393 mhz runs fine for me at least, and I’ve played with Ubuntu (dapper drake) and it is very solid, even on an older box.
Heck open office runs on really old stuff as well, IMO, WalMart may have a hit on their hands if they can also watch movies etc and the “knuckle draggers” learn that you can emulate Windoze and maybe play games with the Wine program.
I may dust off the old Win 3.11 lappy out and see if the ethernet card still works...after I slug some geritol and take a nap...:)
You should have seen what I paid for an add on external 10MB HDD for my IBM PC. Didn't cost quite as much as the PC, which would buy you a top of the line, all the bells and whistles, laptop (and then some) these days, but it was expensive.
“Wow, we will never fill that hard drive up!”
Yes, ashamedly these were my own words, in 1989.
I think it cost more than my car at that time, the 8 pen color plotter was twice what my car cost.
Our current ACAD program alone would not even fit on a 40meg hard drive.
Everex = 1983?
I got my first Trash-80 in 1979 ....
My first was in 1992. It had 4 megs of ram, 104 meg hard drive a 13 in monitor and a 2 ppm black only printer.
It was on sale and cost almost $1700.00
Inflation, what inflation?
My first machine was a Chameleon.
No hard drive.
Booted off a single sided 160KB 5” floppy.
Booted IBM DOS 1.0
I still have the floppy.
Sure learned alot about the DEBUG command in those days!
BTW, I wouldn’t put VISTA on my toaster. That is not if I ever want/expect toast again!