Re: Re: First Computer That Ran Synchronet BBS
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Feb 05 2022 12:38 pm
I can't resist computers that clients offered me. I was given a little toaster-looking HP Pavilion, circa 2004. It was a couple of years old, when all computers had to have CD cubbies and clear doors over the opti drives and two-tone cases with wings, and proprietary speakers that hun off of a monitor in a matching two-tone scheme. That thing had 512mb of RAM, a 500 mhz celeron and ATA-33 drives. But, it ran the BBS perfectly for the next 7 years.
PCs with proprietary parts always bugged me. In early high school, I had a
inside it, and I saw it had a riser board for the expansion cards to be ins
Nightfox
PCs with proprietary parts always bugged me.
At any rate for a while they were also bad about having proprietary parts, like in the PCs they made to try to "compete" with the MAC... they were a monitor and PC in one case.
I have to admit, I may be thinking of Digital, though. In the mist of time I get those confused. :)
In the late 90s, there was one particular Windows PC I remember seeing in stores that was an all-in-one that used translucent blue & white plastic and looked a lot like Apple's new iMac at the time. I remember hearing Apple sued that company because their PCs looked too much like their iMac, and they won, and the company making those PCs had to stop selling them.
Yes! It was an eMachines, and yes, Apple sued them and they had to stop selling them...
and looked a lot like Apple's new iMac at the time. I remember hearing Apple sued that company because their PCs looked too much like their iMac, and they won, and the company making those PCs had to stop selling them.
Yes! It was an eMachines, and yes, Apple sued them and they had to stop selling them...
At any rate for a while they were also bad about having proprietary parts
like in the PCs they made to try to "compete" with the MAC... they were a
monitor and PC in one case.
I have to admit, I may be thinking of Digital, though. In the mist of tim
I get those confused. :)
I remember seeing some Windows PCs like that in the late 90s & early 2000s. I
the late 90s, there was one particular Windows PC I remember seeing in stores at was an all-in-one that used translucent blue & white plastic and looked a l
like Apple's new iMac at the time. I remember hearing Apple sued that compan
because their PCs looked too much like their iMac, and they won, and the compa
making those PCs had to stop selling them.
In the late 90s, there was one particular Windows PC I remember seeing in stores that was an all-in-one that used translucent blue & white plastic an
looked a lot like Apple's new iMac at the time. I remember hearing Apple sued that company because their PCs looked too much like their iMac, and they won, and the company making those PCs had to stop selling them.
Yes! It was an eMachines, and yes, Apple sued them and they had to stop sellin
them...
I remember seeing some Windows PCs like that in the late 90s & early
2000s. I the late 90s, there was one particular Windows PC I remember
seeing in stores at was an all-in-one that used translucent blue &
white plastic and looked a l like Apple's new iMac at the time. I
remember hearing Apple sued that compan because their PCs looked too
much like their iMac, and they won, and the compa making those PCs had
to stop selling them.
This would have been in 1994, which was before the iMac (I think). These were more "boringly" packaged units in plain beige cases. I think I also remember those PCs that looked like they were knocking off the look of the iMac, but don't think I ever saw one firsthand. I wonder who made them?
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