My dad found his order form from our 3rd computer
My dad found his order form from our 3rd computer
Those were some good specs back in the day... And the price đŻ
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2 CD ROMs drives AND a zip drive? This guy fucks
Shit. DVD drives!
In 96? Fucking bleeding edge stuff
I think it says 98. IE4.0 wasn't released until 97, same for Pentium MMX.
It literally says 1/16/98 on the order date :)
Literally, as opposed to figuratively 1/16/98?
Heck I think you're right.
Man, I bet they were so bummed that they're stuck on Windows 95 then.
I was in a similar boat. Got our first family PC with windows 95 like 4 months before 98 released. Which kept me from being a PC gamer until i was later into my teens.
either way, how common were DVD drives in 98?
Not very common at all; you needed a separate MPEG2 card to decode the DVD as the CPU wasnât fast/strong enough.
How did windows 95 keep you from gaming? Thatâs when I started. 98 wasnât that big of a chance to my memory.
Well it's not that it "kept" me from it, but I seem to remember the couple of PC gaming friends that I had, had games that I couldn't run as they seemed to me (with like 30 years of memories obfuscating) to only run on Windows 98?
But I mean honestly that could've been my parents giving me excuses and stuff. Idk.
I didn't have access to News and stuff about upcoming PC stuff back then so I could only go off what others told me haha
And don't forget the floppy slot.
Every good 'puter has a floppy slot.
The 2X part means the DVD drive could read DVDs at up to 2X speed
Ah yeah I realized that after. But a floppy reader too! Dude definitely reading some floppies
2X speed was impressive for the time too :)
By 1998? Nah, not really. I think I had at least a 16x by then with my stock prebuilt.
I think there may be a difference in measurement and that might where the discrepancy is. According to Wikipedia's entry on optical drives:
The 1Ă speed rating for CD-ROM (150 Kbyte/s) is different from the 1Ă speed rating for DVDs (1.32 MB/s).
So if that was indeed a 2x DVD drive, it would be pretty comparable (if I'm interpreting all this info correctly): 16x150,000 bytes per second= 2,400,000 or ~2.4 MB/s and the 2x DVD speed would be 1.32 MB/s x2= ~2.6MB/s
Pretty close!
Ah wait, I misread it as cd. Didn't realize it was DVD.
Cd maybe but not DVD.
I came to the comments hoping somebody would explain a reason for 2 DVD readers back in the days of Win95 lol thanks!