BuzzFeed Digs Up Best Buy Ad from 1996

**Dennis Burger** · 02-22-2012 03:33 PM

Have you guys seen this yet?! Oh, memories....

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**David Vaughn** · 02-22-2012 04:50 PM

Wow...16MB of ram for $129.99...what a bargain

**DennyMo** · 02-22-2012 06:44 PM

I snicker every time I recall how much my college roommate paid for his 386-20 in 1988...

(I still have one of those Logitech Sheetfed Scanners on pg. 7. I think Win98 was the last OS to support it...)

**Tracy Rainwater** · 02-22-2012 11:24 PM

Oh don't I know. I had my first computer built back in 1996 or 97, I forget which.

As I recall it had a Pentium 100Mhz with a whopping 128 MB of RAM, which I was originally told wasn't possible. I also had a SCSI card to run my scanner and ZIP drive. By the time you threw a video card in there and a modem, it was around $4000. And then there was that HUGE 3.2GB hard drive.

**Jerry Del Colliano** · 02-22-2012 11:46 PM

I had a Mac laptop from that era that was $7,500 and the size of a briefcase.

Color screen - unlike the Mac 520b that I started AudioRevolution.com with. That thing was a total POS. My Mac 8500 was what I ultimately made the site sing with. Restarts every 20 to 30 min. Gotta love the pre-Jobs/NEXT 7.3.9 type OS.