Five of the six are about how things used to be bigger. In the case of the PC tower, aren’t they roughly the same size now they have been for years? I know a lot of people have gone to laptops, tablets, and so on, but desktop computers are still very much in existence.
My first computer tower was 3 feet tall and about 18" deep. It was about the same width as a modern one though. The brand name was “Fujitech Jumbo”, and it housed an 8086 blistering along at 8MHz, with 512kB of RAM, a 5-1/4" floppy (360KB), a 3.5" floppy (720KB) and a 20MB hard drive. Video was courtesy of a Hercules monochrome graphics card and an amber monochrome monitor. And for all that processing power (or lack thereof) that sucker drew enough power that it would momentarily dim the lights when switched on (like how an electric motor does), and it sounded like a jet engine starting up (probably the 5-14" double height hard drive spinning up). I ran that baby with MS DOS 2.2. No mouse. No sound card. Not even a modem.
Kyle Robert over 9 years ago
Five of the six are about how things used to be bigger. In the case of the PC tower, aren’t they roughly the same size now they have been for years? I know a lot of people have gone to laptops, tablets, and so on, but desktop computers are still very much in existence.
Perkycat over 9 years ago
So glad they advanced from dial-up. I used to read a book while waiting.
mr_sherman Premium Member over 9 years ago
Towerum Colossus?Is that a type of IBeuM Threesixtus?
up2trixx over 9 years ago
My first computer tower was 3 feet tall and about 18" deep. It was about the same width as a modern one though. The brand name was “Fujitech Jumbo”, and it housed an 8086 blistering along at 8MHz, with 512kB of RAM, a 5-1/4" floppy (360KB), a 3.5" floppy (720KB) and a 20MB hard drive. Video was courtesy of a Hercules monochrome graphics card and an amber monochrome monitor. And for all that processing power (or lack thereof) that sucker drew enough power that it would momentarily dim the lights when switched on (like how an electric motor does), and it sounded like a jet engine starting up (probably the 5-14" double height hard drive spinning up). I ran that baby with MS DOS 2.2. No mouse. No sound card. Not even a modem.