WTF – Closets of Computers?
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That’s one creepy family….
Ahhh, I remember this ad! I even had one of those puters. Now if I only had the Gateway store in my closet!
I love how the back panel to his closet lit up like the lights to heaven in the end. He must be computer Jesus! Either that or that’s how they made photocopies back then.
what a geek
What? A greek!
Isn’t that sleek?
That last comment was a little meek
This could go on all week.
if it does, i’ll go ‘EEK!’
It’s Pedo-Dad!
He is probably getting ready to play Doom over the LAN with his buddies. Too bad these PCs were obsolete when Warcaft 2 came out – or he could have had much fun.
How freakin old is this? Can you even find that processor anymore?
hehe just read the full description.
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“3.5 inch floppy, 5.25 inch floppy, and 5-disc CDROM changer” (nb speed not stated) — “how many other computers have all this?”. Which is sort of like bringing out your beaten up old car and pointing to how it has an overdrive on 3rd and 4th, an automatic choke, AND a short-wave radio with integrated 8-track player. Brilliant… for the time. Now… next to useless.
This is what it was like in the Matrix in 1987.
Noo! Don’t go towards the light Daddy!
Spring for the 100MB hard drive! Those 66MHz CPUs are a rockin’! They’ll play DOOM at almost 60FPS!
Note: I started off @ 8 bit CPUs before 1980. These are AWESOMEz!!1!
I bet you could’ve got onto COMUSERVE with a 9600 BAUD MODEM if you ordered one separately.
Er, ‘Compuserve’. I was more a GEnie user, myself.
Are we having a nerdgasm here? This does bring back memories- I was lusting a Gateway while in the computer lab pounding away on WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS.
“for a Gateway” that is…. in Computer Shopper magazine.
A Gateway COMPUTER, right? Not dry humpin’ doorways or nuthin’, I’ll generously assume. You know how these forum topics go down-hill fast.
I was using a nice GUI desktop publishing package on the Atari ST by they time that came out on the PC.
Mmmm… Calamus.
I used to DREAM of Calamus. Or that other one… Serif Page Plus or whatever… which later turned up on the hardly-any-faster-but-at-least-they’re-in-colour 386s at secondary school.
And further dreams of having the 4mb expansion, monochrome hi-rez monitor, handheld scanner, 80mb external pizzabox hard disk and 300dpi laser printer to make proper use of it with whatever 100% of awesome that a pre-web tween could concoct for fanzine purposes. Or at least, schoolwork.
Had to make do with 1st Word (then later, magazine-cover copies of Protext and GFA Write!… which was fully WYSIWYG inside of 1mb, with bitmap fonts, but it seemed rather pointless (!) so I went back to plaintext) and the even-for-the-time Retrotastic Printmaster Plus instead. Not like it was worth doing anything more complex than that with a 9-pin dot matrix, anyhow.
Well, until I got gifted a 12mhz 286 with hercules mono display by some mad friend of the family, with a working – for what it was worth – copy of Lotus Symphony on it. From which I actually did turn in some school essays in glorious 9-pin, bitmapfont quality. Before realising that there was a perfectly good, merely headless post-upgrade 486 board sitting in the cupboard with a 160mhz(!) overdrive chip on it. Transfer the 40mb hard disk, the 80s-vintage ISA hercules board and 12″ amber monitor, scrounge up a few mb’s of RAM, a set of windows and Works install disks, and a superceded parallel port zip drive for mass storage …. and bwoy, ah think we’ve just got ourselves a usable modern-style com-pew-tarr.
Had to ditch the dot matrix after that though. Trying to print any kind of embedded images with its terminally faded ribbons was a complete non-starter. Secondhand deskjet 310… get in.
Is that enough nerdgasm for you?
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS — memory lane for sure. The publishing company I work for used that when I first started back in 1994. To think that I thought we were behind the times then: I recently found out that one of our competitors still uses WP 5.1 for DOS right now as their primary publishing tool. That is, right now as in 2009 (yeah, WP is up to version 14). How’s that for fucked up??? Simply amazing that they are still in business.
I was using NABU. Top that for nerd cred! It was a computer that came with no software but downloaded everything off of your cable. It was released back in the 80′s.
Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P
Added the serial port myself.
8K of RAM. 9K if you counted video RAM, which you could use some of, since it was overscanned on the TV set.
Oh yeah, 1MHz 6502 CPU. Blindin’ fast! Still remember 6502 opcodes and hand-assembling those little functions to ‘optimize’ things.
weeeeeell allegedly about as good as a 3-4mhz Z80… given how one was motorola derived, and the other, intel… an architectural anomaly that stood for some time, pretty much until intel got its shit together properly with the pentium.
if motorola hadn’t spun off into the weeds with the powerPC (after many valiant years keeping up the fight, granted) then given up on CPUs altogether, who knows what sort of 68k-derived ubermachines we might be using today, with Intel’s efforts finally having lost the battle for competitiveness once they hit that ol’ ~4Ghz massively-increasing-TDP wall. If you’re getting twice as much (or better) done per clock, and we assume they both started going multicore at about the same time, well… no contest
Love the badass music in the background! lol
He is talking as if she knew what he is talking about…
“Daddy, what is it?”
I was waiting for the ‘Do-si-do, do-si-do, do-si-do’ from Stepford Wives..
Freakular … this must be the ad my parents saw back in ’94 that inspired them that An Atari Might Well Just Be For Christmas after all…
(our first “real” PC was a Gateway DX2-66… complete with the See Dee Raom Draive, front panel keyboard lock _using an actual key_ and vertical floppy in a HugeNormous case resembling the base of the largest, hardest wedding cake ever)
(oh yeah and the turbo switch you could use to bring the framerate of Wolfenstein down to a level where it didn’t immediately make you want to hurl – there’s a reason that Doom is limited to 35fps and you shouldn’t play it in a darkened room…)
I am also of course forgetting the Powerful Pracessor (hey, it could compress 56k mp3s in almost one-quarter of realtime! AND play them back whilst you did other basic things in windows 3.1!), and the Plenty of Hard Disk Space (when your current storage is 350-ish double-density floppies, 540mb all in one place is ENORMOUS)
According to the model number on the case, it has an Intel 486 CPU clocked at 66MHz.
This advertisement is from 1993~1995.
Technology sure has come a long way since 1999.
It’s kinda sad that my laptop is better than any of those computers now.
My Verizon Blitz (the ultimate ‘dumb’ phone) could probably outgun all those oldies.
Your wrist watch probably could.
Eh? If this can be a WTF video any commercial can.
Evil Inside
lol alot of hard disk space and a powerful processor ment 1 gb of space and 32mhz processor XDDDD
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that Casey Kasem (Aka Shaggy from Scooby Doo, or the host of American Top 40)?