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First post, by Anonymous Coward

Posted on 2014-12-26, 01:37

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PC Magazine from Dec 7th 1993 offers an excellent window back in time:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=7k7q-wS0t00C … 0system&f=false

There are lots of pictures of strange and obscure hardware in here.

Anyone interested in VL EISA 486s and first gen VLB cards should really appreciate this magazine.

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Reply 1 of 2, by devius

Posted on 2014-12-26, 12:17

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Awesome! The 486 DX2/66 looks like an excellent CPU 😁 I want one of those. Pentium 60 is way overpriced, although some lower-end machines seem to be priced very close to the higher-end 486s. Tough call.

And why isn't there a single Pentium 66 system in that magazine? Does it cost twice as much as the 60 or what?

Reply 2 of 2, by Jolaes76

Posted on 2014-12-26, 14:15

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It came out later, bugfixed, and more expensive - by that time, demand was much higher...

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