Yes, shame he opened it to take the photos, but I guess he felt he had to, to post it. I would have just used a stock 1400 photo, I guess.
Interesting that there's a wireless card (looks like an Orinoco) stuck in the card slot - perhaps all of the system's computers were pre-configured for wireless? That would have been pretty advanced in 1997.
Yes, how the hard drive size and RAM have multiplied. I think my first 386 from 1991 had 40 mb hard drive and 8mb of RAM. I was so tempted by an LC package but that was about $400 more at that time. What I bought was an NEC, which had proprietary everything. That cost added up over time as I upgraded that thing...I think the purchase price with the monitor and HP printer was about $2,400. Ye gods. And last week I was reinstalling Windows 98SE for my old games system and wondering if that OS would even fit on the 2 GB hard drive I wanted to try. (It did.)
And yes, I think the largest HD shipped on the 1400 series was 2 gb - a 6 gb drive would be aftermarket. I know the 1400c/166 units had 2 gb drives.
Interesting that there's a wireless card (looks like an Orinoco) stuck in the card slot - perhaps all of the system's computers were pre-configured for wireless? That would have been pretty advanced in 1997.
Yes, how the hard drive size and RAM have multiplied. I think my first 386 from 1991 had 40 mb hard drive and 8mb of RAM. I was so tempted by an LC package but that was about $400 more at that time. What I bought was an NEC, which had proprietary everything. That cost added up over time as I upgraded that thing...I think the purchase price with the monitor and HP printer was about $2,400. Ye gods. And last week I was reinstalling Windows 98SE for my old games system and wondering if that OS would even fit on the 2 GB hard drive I wanted to try. (It did.)
And yes, I think the largest HD shipped on the 1400 series was 2 gb - a 6 gb drive would be aftermarket. I know the 1400c/166 units had 2 gb drives.