Fond memories. I was the editor in charge of that cover story and wrote several sections. I still remember personally inspecting the innards of the 165 machine

Fond memories. I was the editor in charge of that cover story and wrote several sections. I still remember personally inspecting the innards of the 165 machines that the team exhaustively tested in the lab. The effort we all put in to produce more than 60 data-heavy print pages for a single story was brutal, but seeing the physical magazine that got delivered to more than a million subscribers was tremendously satisfying. It was an amazing time for the industry. Processors kept improving by leaps and bounds, decent graphics and "multimedia" (which we take entirely for granted today) were rapidly becoming a reality, and software was getting more interesting by the day. To put the timing in context, it was about a year before the Netscape IPO and emergence of widespread visibility of the World Wide Web. PCs were still a costly investment. The Dell machine that was one of our Editors' Choices cost over $3,000. For that -- about $5,000 in today's dollars -- you'd get a 90-MHz Pentium processor, 16MB of RAM, a 1GB IDE drive, and a 15-inch CRT monitor driven by a graphics card with 2MB of RAM. Compare that with, say, the phone you carry in your pocket every day...