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Snap. Wind the clock back 30 years…to 1992 I had bought my first Acer 386SX 20 MHz as a first year engineering student. A whopping 4 MB of RAM and 120 MB Quantum hard drive. 14” SVGA monitor. I can’t recall how much video RAM it had but I think it wasn’t more than 1024K. DOS 5.1 and Windows 3.1. Not such thing as USB - a high speed connection was a centronics parallel printer port 😂

I never realised Acer have been going that long. My monitor is a Acer, great monitor, also my Laptop is a Acer, was great in its day, not so much now, too slow.

At least we have got rid of the Packard bell, machines, they were awful.

That was in Sydney back in the day. Not sure what their status was in the UK at the time. They were fairly brand new to the scene there. It was supposedly socket upgradable to a 486 although I never bothered and kept that until I built my own Pentium II when I started working in ‘97. I can even recall the salesman’s name (bizarre the details you remember) from the small computer shop where I got it.

Acer was founded in 1976.

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I never bothered and kept that until I built my own Pentium II when I started working in ‘97.

You haven't built your own computer unless you've soldered all the ICs onto a printed circuit board and constructed a keyboard from individual switches.

I bought my first real computer in 1988 - the Amstrad PC1640 with a CGA monitor - slightly more RAM than the 1512. Dual 5 1/4" floppies and no hard drive. Been through many a PC since then, I used to change them probably about once every 18 months but these days the rate of change has slowed enormously.

Yeh done plenty of that in my time, but soldering a Pentium II system from loose 7400 glue logic kicking around was a bit above my pay grade 😂

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When I got my first computer, my ZX81, I never realised it would cost me so much over the years

My first "proper" computer was a 25MHz Intel 386 with 4MB of RAM, a 13" VGA display and an 80MB HDD (near top of the range at the time)... it cost me slightly more than this 3.1GHz 6-core Intel Core I5 iMac with 8GB RAM, a 27" 5K retina display and a 256GB SSD.

In real terms that first computer probably cost me more than my last 2 iMacs combined... it's a funny old world

And I'm just waiting for Apple to bring out a 27" iMac with an M2 in it

For a bit of 90’s era nostalgia courtesy of YouTube

What Happened to Cyrix Processors? Nostalgia Nerd

I never used them so I'd almost forgotten about Cyrix... although I have fond memories of their Intel Inside headstone

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Adrian the earliest in all probability (based on Apples historic media launch dates) will be late March next year.

If not then likely it will be October as iPhones typically are announced in September. June tends to be when they announce iPads. Not set in stone of course….especially with global pandemics and chip shortages in play…

Latest rumor mill suggestion is they could launch an up-spec Mac Mini at a launch event on 8 March …

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/06/gurman-apple-ev...

March 8 event now confirmed as “Peek Performance”…might be some new Mac’s and Minis being announced.

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/

Looks like an updated/up spec’d Mac Mini is looking increasingly likely to be announced next Tuesday.

In the meantime I thought I’d share this. Quite interesting on a number of levels…

YouTuber Modifies M1 Mac Mini to Be 78% Smaller