Comments on: 90s computer brands

By: Arzu Abasov

Arzu Abasov — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 11:22:55 +0000

hi all. I’d like to add that NEC was one of the major PC wendors and designers in the world during the wholeout history of PCs and the Fujitsu was and is the biggest Supercomputer designer in the world alongside with IBM.NEC’s PC 98 is one of the two bestsellers alongside with Commodore c-64.All of the information in this site is wonderful except of those about Japanese PC industry.The Japanese whole Computer industry was dominated by NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachimas Toshiba leading in laptops and notebooks, Sony in notebooks and gaming, Panasonic as a leader in rigid laptops.Fujitsu is the seond oldesomputer company in the world after IBM, while all of the Japanese POPC industry mainly standartised by NEC. Thanks again I hope this my comment is some informative too.

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 01:02:58 +0000

In reply to Bill Erndt. I wasn't familiar with that brand, so thanks for bringing them up.

By: Bill Erndt

Bill Erndt — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 09:28:00 +0000

What about Positive Computer? They were a brand sold by the Price Club in California in 1990.

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 22:02:49 +0000

In reply to Schrammbo.

I saw an Emachine in a rack in a data center at Scott Air Force Base for a while. I still have no idea what it was doing there.

I knew a few people who had them in the 90s but they ran them pretty much stock. I don’t recall them having much in the way of issues. I wonder if the power supply was too wimpy to handle the high-end graphics and sound cards and maxed out memory? I seem to recall some outfits advertising souped-up power supplies for them. And I’m sure they cut some corners on those motherboards early on to hit those price points. That $399 price was revolutionary. I couldn’t buy the parts to build a similar PC for that price in 1997. I tried.

By: Schrammbo

Schrammbo — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:21:48 +0000

When I was a PC tech at BestBuy (Store 32, ’97-99) I was there when the eMachine’s hit the market. That was an interesting product, people would buy the Low or Mid-teir model max out the RAM and add a Voodoo 3DFx cards and the best Sound Blaster cards available and have a decent gaming machine at under what you could buy a pre-made similarly spec’d machine for off the shelf. But boy were those eMachines cheap, we DEVO’d a lot of them.

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 02:52:18 +0000

In reply to Chris Toney. Wow, you're right, and that's a big name to miss. I'll get that added in later this weekend. Thanks!

By: Chris Toney

Chris Toney — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 02:44:50 +0000

Don’t forget the Magnavox! Multimedia edition with CDROM and speakers! My first with a VGA monitor! https://www.engadget.com/products/magnavox/headstart/300/