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My dad found his order form from our 3rd computer (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by preludeofme to c/pcmasterrace

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Those were some good specs back in the day... And the price 😯

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[–] SidewaysHighways 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Shit. DVD drives!

In 96? Fucking bleeding edge stuff

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think it says 98. IE4.0 wasn't released until 97, same for Pentium MMX.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It literally says 1/16/98 on the order date :)

[–] Schmuppes -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Literally, as opposed to figuratively 1/16/98?

[–] SidewaysHighways 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] AtariDump 4 points 11 months ago

Not very common at all; you needed a separate MPEG2 card to decode the DVD as the CPU wasn’t fast/strong enough.

[–] deranger 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How did windows 95 keep you from gaming? That’s when I started. 98 wasn’t that big of a chance to my memory.

[–] SidewaysHighways 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] SidewaysHighways 4 points 11 months ago

And don't forget the floppy slot.

Every good 'puter has a floppy slot.