Flash Back: 1998 The ultimate gaming rig

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:23 pm

Pay close attention to the prices, and the amount of memory LOL.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4&q=techtv

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:10 pm

aww... i wanted to know what was in it for video.. thats about the time i got into computers with a 233 mmx.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:23 pm

lol in 1998 my dad had a Packard Bell with 128MB of EDO lol.. It was pretty fast in it's day.. lol

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:39 pm

LMAO that is hilarious now days but I am sure in it's time....and Leo was actually almost skinny

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:24 am

Somebody smack her with your dongle

Koo Koo Mouse · Post by **Koo Koo Mouse** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:24 pm

Yupper.. Sounds about right for that year getting all the BEST wasn't cheap.

Not knowing how to build comps back in 99, I custom ordered a PC from somplace in Califoria to my specs, A P3 -450 Asus mobo and Plenty of ram (I can't remember how much ram or what vid card was!) and that addtronix case you see in the video, but a four bay. (still useing that case today)
The thing cost 2 grand and was NOT the lastest and greatest but wow that thing rocked!! Decieded that the only bottle neck then was my crappy monitor, Bought a Sony 19" trinitron for $800 and some sound works. So yeah I had about $ 3,000+ into that! I was top dog amost friends for a while.
Still have the Addtronix case running my NF7 setup current, and the Sony 19" (in the other room) but everything else is givin away as outdated. Unreal..

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:07 am

That is why I hate buying new hardware. Most of my hardware purchases are for used items like video cards that lose value the day you buy them.

Don't feel too bad about your purchase Mouse. Back in 1986, I bought a pc for $2500. It was an IBM clone running at 8MHz with 640k of ram and no hard drive. It came with a CGA monitor that was only 13 inches. I then added a 10 meg hard drive. Don't even remember how much that sucker costs.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:33 am

Yah, one of my clients showed me an invoice from like 1993 for a P60 Server with 2x2.1GB HDs and 16MB of EDO... $11,000......... EACH they bought two..

eGo

123cool · Post by **123cool** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:06 am

jesus 4500 bucks without the monitor?! thats just too much!

comparing todays systems that will soon need 2GB of RAM to run vista, i did have to laugh when she said...

128 SDRAM, incredibly greedy, 64MB will be all you will ever need.

on a serious note though why does the case have places for 5 fans? i thought you just needed HS those days.

Lmandrake · Post by **Lmandrake** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:41 am

How about 2 grand for a Gateway 486dx33 with 2mb of ram and a 20mb hard drive in early 1992.

I did get to play Aces of the Pacific and Aces of the Deep on it!

I remember paying 150 for for 24k modem upgrade!!!

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:44 pm

I cant remember exactly what model my boss has (still works) but back in the day it was about 18,000 and was one of the first PCs ( if you can call it that) on the market. It was an IBM that much i remember.

glassoftea · Post by **glassoftea** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:45 pm

Sweet Jebus!

128 MEGS of RAM!!!!

Seriously though, computers and gadgets in general have been the very bane of my existence. Since I have been able to afford geek gear I have been buying it, and even when I can't afford it, that's what credit cards are for right?

I remember when I got a GM card with a 2000 limit, I had a Commodore 128 (those were gaming days weren't they, games had to have substance, not just looks) and didn't know much about PCs so I went to a pawn shop and paid way too much for a huge tower POS with a 1 meg video card and some other crap.

I dug myself out of debt a couple of years ago and have become financially secure but still wonder how much better off I'd be if I had never gone down that road. Oh well, no use crying over spilt milk but damn, I've spilt a lot of milk. And the bottom line, no matter how cool it is, like that 800MHZ intel celeron laptop I bought in 99 for 2200.00, it will always be yesterdays piece of crap, sometimes before the day is over.

Glass

rndmtask · Post by **rndmtask** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:46 pm

Holy crap good old techtv. I probably watched that episode live, it sure seemed familiar. I think it was summer of 98 when I built my first computer. Maybe that episode is what sent me on the road to buying asus motherboards. I only own one motherboard that isn't an asus.

My first computer was much like that. Asus p2b with a 440bx, p-2 300mhz, 64 megs of ram, and a diamond firegl something or other with a permedia2 chipset. I don't remember what this cost because my dad payed for most of it. The permedia2 even ran quake3 with settings turned down. That was a great computer.