Topic: Tech news from 1995

[Clive]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554/page/1

[sam]

how wrong but how right is that person. The internet is a useful tool but bloody hell we do rely on it and to think that our students actually learn anything from just sticking them in front of a computer is very short-sighted..

[Rik]

Pre-Google, I always likened the 'net to be let loose in the world's largest library, but without access to the index...

[Simon]

1995 sounds not all that long ago, but not many of us had home PCs then! 

[Clive]

Heck, I was on my second!  I'd changed my Dec 386 for an Atlantic 486DX by then.  I think my internet speed was a lot faster back then though. 

[Rik]

I'd been through 286 - 386SX - 386 - 486 by then...

[Simon]

Some people always have to go one better!   

[sam]

i think i must have been getting my first proper pc around then, i was 12. :-D ... though I may have still been on the old acorn a3010

[Rik]

A good place to start.

[Clive]

Was that the Archimedes?

[sam]

i believe it was...

.. I actually started off with an atari 65xe... I still have it and reckon if I ever have kids (edit: on girlfriends request - when I have) they need to be able to write a couple of games on there before I let them lose with a more sophisticated machine. Have to get them to respect their computer.

[Clive]

The Archimedes were good machines.  We had one for a few years. 

[Reno]

Any of you remember what the prices were back then? I ran across an old newspaper ad when scotty and me ran the shop. Back in 95 a person could buy a packard bell 250mhz 32mb with a 4 gig hd for only $3500 ~ 7000 pound.

[Clive]

I think you have the conversion rate back to front Bob.  Back then $1 would buy £0.6
My first Dec 386 cost nearly £2000 which translates to - oh yeah, $2000 in Rip-Off Britain. 

[sam]

I think our first proper pc was around that mark.. though I'm not sure as my parents would have gotten it. I think they look back now and realise how good use of cash it was.