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ok, so my dad cleaned out a filing cabnet this weekend, and found the flyer for the first computer he and my mom bought when the got married (20 years ago this year). man was this thing top notch, cost them nearly $1500 canadian.

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Bad thing is... that looks like the keyboard I had on my old computer till we got this one about 2 years ago :P
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10Mhz and 1MB memory:P....
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omg... my mother passed by, and she told me she had one of those!
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ad thing is... that looks like the keyboard I had on my old computer till we got this one about 2 years ago

Keyboards reamain almost unchanged.
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LOL.

I remember those things, I've seen quite a few of them.
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love the colors :P on the screen :D

operation with an indicator light :drool:

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ad thing is... that looks like the keyboard I had on my old computer till we got this one about 2 years ago

Keyboards reamain almost unchanged.

True that... but most people has better than windows 98 two years ago ;) haha
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10Mhz and 1MB memory:P....

mwahaha.. not 1mb memory.. expandable to 1mb :P its actually 256kb by default.

and for comparason: the latest ipod has an 80mhz processor and 32mb ram, with a high intensity lcd :P

i think i remember playing centipede on that pc.. till it started to make sparks.

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ive seen servers as old as that pc, they needed a room with about 0*C ... they were cool...
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