My man got that dual DVD setup in 1998! I got my first own computer when i was 15 in 2001 and it had a DVD tray and I thought I was cool af. Watched the first DVD the same day and a few days later I got a DSL modem and I was king of the world. It ran Delta Force like a dream.
For the kids, this would’ve been a top of the line beefy set-up. I would say in '98 you would find a 1gb hd, a 120 Pentium, and 16mb of ram in a typical home that had a computer.
Remember things upgraded fast back then, by '00 your average Joe would be buying Pentium iii’s with 600mhz and a DVD drive! Woah!
The day we got our 10mb hdd and installed it, as the old man carved up partitions and I got my H: drive, I can still hear his voice, “who could ever use all this space?!”
I just saved a pair of altec Lansing computer speakers from becoming ewaste at my work. They’re easily 20+ years old but still work decently enough! I just use them to play music when no one else is in the office.
I had an okay PC earlier than a lot of people in my age bracket, me and siblings all do use computers in our work now lol, so if they said that to my dad in the 90s they wouldn’t be wrong
You know you’re an old geek when you look at the spec and go “300MHz PII? 64MB RAM? that’s late 96 or early 97… Or cheap 98, but it’s shipped with win95, and ooh la la IE4.0 pre-installed, definitely late 96 or early 97” and then you see the invoice date, and recognize it as Clinton’s 2nd inauguration.
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