.. of 98! * $5,000 CRT widescreen monitor * Pentium II, 300MHz processor * 128 MB of SDRAM * Wave Table/3D sound (rocking CANYON.MID) * Addtronics tower case with eight drive bays and five cooling fans * Asus LX motherboard with ultra-wide Adaptec SCSI adapters * Seagate Cheetah 9.1 GB and 4.1 GB hard drives (10,000 RPM!) * Plextor 32x CD-ROM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huyzCJvS6UQ And to compensate .. one of today : Alienware Area 51 ALX * 1200 Watt power supply * NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI Motherboard - includes PCI-Express 2.0, DDR3 Memory, and Support for Intel 1600MHz FSB * Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 3.2GHz 12MB Cache 1600MHz FSB * 4GB Corsair Dominator Overclocked Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz * Triple 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 * 1TB (2 x 500GB) SATA 3Gb/s 7,200RPM 2 x 16MB Cache * 500GB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200RPM 16MB Cache (storage drive) * 4x Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner (BD-RE, DVD±RW, CD-RW) * Dual High Performance Gigabit Ethernet Ports * High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio * Logitech G15 Keyboard * Razer Lachesis 4000dpi Laser Gaming Mouse * Liquid cooling system http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=1485 omg, we came a long way :) (and in 1988 is was the Apple ][c who was stelaing the show http://images.google.com/images?q=apple%20iic ) -Kenny -- ================================================================== Kenny Billiau Web Developer Tel:+32 (0)9 331 36 95 fax:+32 (0)9 3313809 VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM kenny.billiau@psb.ugent.be http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be ==================================================================