found today an really nice thread: http://www.tomshardware.de/fotoreportage/94-computer-technik-preisentwicklung.html computers back in the days in germany ... Escom, vobis... in DM -.- ....
Good memories! Look at that nice tower design: http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/PC Fun/pcfun_numero001/PCFUN 001 - Page 067 (1994-11).jpg
And to think of how much money I splurged on getting a Sound Blaster with a proper IDE connector just to get a CD-ROM drive to play MYST. EDIT: *BLINK* Are they? And that is a... No video cable.
Yes, and they are playing coop-mode in word processing! Vintage German computer magazines are a gold mine if you're looking for wacky covers. To anyone who's interested in old magazine covers, computer and console mags - Kultboy is a great German page that specialized on cover scans and has accumulated a very huge database: http://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=kult/kultmags No comment, that's just too easy. ^ you are doing it wrong!! A couple of days ago I stumbled across Playtronic - a magazine from the early 80's that seems to have been a cross-over between PlayBoy and EGM. http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/4517/playtronic.jpg (cover is NSFW!! Tits - Intellivision pr0n ) Magazines like Happy Computer, Power Play, ASM have great covers. Mostly the 80's mags, they used freelancer artists' sci-fi artworks as cover images. A tradition that somehow got lost in the early 90's.
I got a lot of "Happy Computer" and "HC" 1983-1988 from one guy that was about to throw them away,the expensive 386 ad was in a C'T mag from 87.
Ahh excellent, brings back so many memories. I'm glad i grew up around and remember these sorts of computers before we had broadband internet, gigs of Ram gigs storage space and all that.
