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Hopefully this is the correct place to post this, seems the most appropriate. Was going through some stuff and found a bunch of old Byte Magazines I had bought a few years ago and thought I would share some random pics of interesting things in them. Flipping through and it is hard to believe people actually bought these, considering they are about 75% ad's in the whole thing. So the pics I'm posting right now are from 1996 and 1993. Just check out those system specs and prices! And some of the hardware advertised, I don't think I have ever actually seen either... I have a few more mag's I can take some pics of if you'd like. From 1991-1998.

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Reply 1 of 15, by johnvosh

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Reply 2 of 15, by johnvosh

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Reply 3 of 15, by johnvosh

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Reply 4 of 15, by johnvosh

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More pics!

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Reply 5 of 15, by johnvosh

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last of the pics for now

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Reply 6 of 15, by Caluser2000

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Great tread. Some from early 1990s Assies Your Computer's mags TECH Tip series.

Ram cost nz$100 per meg back then so everyone was trying ram doublers and the like. As well as ways to increase hdd capacity by using hdd compression programs.

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There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

Reply 7 of 15, by Jo22

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Thanks guys for sharing!
It's always interesting to see how things were perceived back then.
I'd rate this thread with a thumb up or 5 stars if I could.

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-05-09, 20:49:

Great tread. Some from early 1990s Assies Your Computer's mags TECH Tip series.

Ram cost nz$100 per meg back then so everyone was trying ram doublers and the like. As well as ways to increase hdd capacity by using hdd compression programs.

Unlike RAM doublers, disk compression actually worked.
And performance wasn't necessarily bad, depending on the PCs CPU.
I'm using DoubleSpace on my XT (+V20), since the original HDD from the mid-80s merely holds 20MB capacity.
From what I can say, the lower amount of data being read/written
due to the compression compensates for the theoretical loss in performance.

"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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I never used either. I just got more ram or replacement hdd.

I had plenty of disposable income at the time I got my first x86 system, a clone 286/16. Wasan't long before I decided a 40meg hdd wasn't anywhere near big enough.

There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

Reply 9 of 15, by Horun

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Thanks those are great ! Google books has some old mags with but they are very hard to read compared to these picture. Thanks again.
I have a few older 1996-98 local adverts saved with prices from local shops, will dig them out and post a few pics (if I can find them)...

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 10 of 15, by flupke11

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PC magazine in Belgium was the reference monthly in the nineties, and luckily I still have most editions. I'll dig through them. Any particular year or advert you're looking for?

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What a brilliant thread - thank you, top nostalgia value! I REALLY want that Dell Pentium Pro in the first pic 😍. Some of the prices though! 12+ grand for a Pentium Pro with 128MB of RAM!

Modern PC: i7-9700KF, 16GB memory, RTX 3060. Proper PC: Pentium 200 MMX, 128MB EDO memory, GeForce2 MX(200).

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This is one of my personal favorites:

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Any doubt that there's a double shot of vodka in that OJ ? No. No doubt at all.

Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK9VU1aJvTI

I could watch Shatner tap on that real computer keyboard all day.

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100 000 BFR, the price of a Colani DX4 100, is in 2021 (inflation corrected) worth around 4000 EUR. That seems about right for a powerhouse pc, with the current GPU prices.

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flupke11 wrote on 2021-05-11, 20:40:

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100 000 BFR, the price of a Colani DX4 100, is in 2021 (inflation corrected) worth around 4000 EUR. That seems about right for a powerhouse pc, with the current GPU prices.

that vast tower in the lower right, with it's lockable panel and imposing design.... it's great! I remember seeing a few of those over the years

Reply 15 of 15, by chrismeyer6

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This is an Awesome thread. I miss all these PC magazines and catalogs. I loved thumbing through my monthly Tiger Direct catalogs and planing builds I could never afford as a kid.

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