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dylan604 on May 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Happened with Supermicro?

Remember the old catalogs that were phone book sized of all of the mail order PC parts vendors? er, what's a phone book you ask? My first PC was built from one of these. It was a 486 after the Pentium line was introduced.

sk5t on May 15, 2019 [–]

Computer Shopper was a strangely entertaining publication--the crude design, the suuuper homemade ads. Who needs a Hayes 9600 modem?

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