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I was thinking the same thing, as we got a 486 dx2 66 from gateway 2000, complete with a faulty quad speed cd writer, ms office and encarta. And of course… the

I was thinking the same thing, as we got a 486 dx2 66 from gateway 2000, complete with a faulty quad speed cd writer, ms office and encarta. And of course… the cow box. But this was ordered over the telephone from adverts I kept up to date with in computer magazines and the moment the dx2 66 was the best price (the 100 was the silly price one) I got my parents to pull the trigger and buy it. Happy times circa 1993.

jen20 3y ago
Wow, a CD writer at the time a 486 was still a reasonable proposition must have cost more than the machine itself!? We had one of the earliest CD writers in the UK, paired with a Pentium with MMX, and the writer price was still comparable to the rest of the machine put together!