Dell Supercomputer
 

I just had to share this ad I saw while capturing VHS-taped races for a 1997 Dell computer:

http://lord_k.home.comcast.net/Dell.1997.Super.PC.jpg

Not worth $50 today :laugh:

Speaking of super computers

http://www.top500.org/list/2008/06/100

Note many of the top 10 are in the same location.

Here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrenc...nal_Laboratory

See section on World Class computers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene
This particular model is the current most powerful super computer on earth. At the end of the year the first true A.I. experiment is supposed to be activated by a cluster of these. Hello Skynet.

I would gladly have my old 486 back. There are some games which I used to play as a child that simply don't work on these new-fangled devices.

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...mputerAd-1.jpg
u jealous of my rig:-P

It was only $499 as well. Inflation sure has hit hard.

No - that was a $8499 PC.

Technology is always evolving. My first mp3 player cost 300 bucks with 64MB build in flash memory. Now? Then there's my Canon G2 that I paid 1400 for. Hmmmm.....let see what else I pay arm and a leg for. Oh oh oh.....my first LCD monitor.....15" 1024 x 768 res, 600 bucks.......

Oh, oops, I was just completely wrong.

Haha now thats some old school gaming.
I had the 386 then the 486 ..takes me back lol
http://www.geocities.com/cfleri/Gallery/Intel386DX.jpg

What a Beast ! :D :D

HAHA, wow this brings back memories. I remember upgrading my comp from 386 to 486 and thinking I had just created a supercomputer.. It was a whole new world.

Well the mainframes my dad used back in the 1970s took days, if not weeks to process data! The new stuff that came out in the 1980s must have been warp speed for him.