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Gateway was involved in my first college computer, too, but not in the standard way. In 1998 I worked at a mall RadioShack, and there was also a Gateway store a
by incanus77 4y ago
Gateway was involved in my first college computer, too, but not in the standard way. In 1998 I worked at a mall RadioShack, and there was also a Gateway store at the other end. I was able to get one of their credit cards, then went home and used it (upon recommendation from a coworker) to buy a custom-built PC from a company called Midwest Micro. 266 P2, 64MB of RAM, 6GB Seagate drive, SoundBlaster AWE64, and a CD-ROM. Came with Windows 98, soon replaced by Red Hat 5.2, my first foray into Linux. Served me well, upgraded it along the way, and I still have the case next to me today, with a P3, 1GB of RAM, 20GB of disk, DVD burner, 3.5 and 5.25" floppies, and running the latest FreeBSD. Great bridge machine for retrocomputing work.