Reply 23840 of 27625, by BitWrangler
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Anonymous Coward wrote on 2023-03-01, 05:58:My good friend got a Patriot computer for Christmas '94. I can't remember the exact price paid, but definitely under $1000 for a setup that included a 14" "MegaImage" monitor.
It was a 50MHz Leopard/Opal LX board with Trident 9000i and winbond I/O. It was housed in a nice Enlight minitower case. Very good value for the money! I didn't know that Patriot had better equipped systems with the IBM BL chips, nor that they had anything to do with those crappy hotwheels PCs. Do you have any links to the story about their PSU supplier? I'm sure even if it hadn't been that, they would have folded anyway like everybody else.
Not really got specific details, https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/news-not-goo … tomers-1.266989
In 2000 they were knocking out the Hotwheels/Barbie box with large software bundle for $699 with cel 500/64MB win98, Gateways business basic had 400/32 for $779, but Tiger Direct had a noname K6-2/500 64, and MicroWarehouse a Presario K6-2/500 for just under $700 so while it was a sucktastic spec from a high end/gamer POV it was a competitively value priced system.
They were direct sales and had limited retail partnerships with Staples etc for some ranges and there's very little info around, that Hotwheels/Barbie thing being a search black hole which sucks up all more nuanced attempts.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.