Things oldfags will remember

desktop threads

>>57182078
Where have they gone?

>>57183060
>Where have they gone?

who's to say?

>>57182017
They were financial disasters. The average nerd is under-funded as far as the major IT names were concerned and the big money outfits who bought container-loads of gear had reps cold-calling them every day.
Nobody wants to go to a Computa Expo to see a bunch of identical exhibits from dying shopfront outfits. A stroll through the local mall would be better. And you'd see chicks.

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Real UNIX

>>57183265
only mac users know the feel of real UNIX™

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>>57182017
tfw I'll never go back to the glory days of computing

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>>57183280
Funny, thats what I run now.
More Marketpro Computer show pick ups from when my buddy got his first car. It was hard getting distros from the internet on 14.4

>>57182017
I bet those shows were amazing.

>>57183652
I remember seeing Webcam technology being demonstrated for the first time in my life at one of these. I had heard of it before that and seen it in magazines but actually seeing it in action was amazing to me at the time. This was like 1998 and I was in 6th grade.