FREE: PC100 - 256MB

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Wow! Haven't seen any PC100 ram for a LOOONG time!

I imagine so! The last time I looked at PC100 ram I had just taken it out of an old 80486 (I think) and replaced it with PC133!

The difference being that PC100 ram talks to the memory bus at 100Mhz, and PC133 talks to it 33Mhz faster.

No, I was building my own pc's for sale, and never sold prebuilt ones. It was the prebuilt stuff I was competing with. In fact, if I'm correct, I was doing that before Dell became a big company. Before they were sold in Best Buy, I think they made their name by building their own branded PC's that they shipped out in a black splotched white box, designed to look like the side of a black & white cow. I was aware of this because the advertised in "Computer Shopper", a magazine often found UNDER the magazine rack, originally printed on newspaper stock, was always at LEAST 1 inch thick, and who's contents were 1% computer 'newsish' stories I could never finish when I tried, and 99% ads for zillions of wholesale products and wholesalers. In fact, there was no way I could have started my business without that magazine.

Then they eventually got big enough to start their own chain (which if I remember correctly was Best Buy) and managed to start selling computers w/monitor & keyboardI for $500. Which was less than what people like me could buy the parts for, and didn't even include labor or a profit for us!

Though the only two things I'd swear to was the cow colored boxes, that company becoming a brick and mortar store, and driving independent computer stores out of business. The only thing I remember not supporting that it was Dell, is a vague recollection that the company went out of business. Though I remember them (whoever they were) having a great reputation for support.

But I can't be sure.

Gateway! OK! I don't have any of the old Computer Shopper's left, and that question has been literally bugging me for years! Thank you! :-D