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In 1989/1990, Gateway had a chance to really sit on top of the computer market ... and then their quality just went downhill ..

My first computer that I bought was around Labor Day 94. It was a Packard Bell with a 420MB hard drive and a 486 DX/2 66 MHz processor(monitor and printer included) from a Circuit City for around $1200.

The second one was from an ad in the Computer Shopper.

That was my first computer also..I also purchased it around the same time from the same place. That thing lasted a couple of years, I actually still have the monitor.

Cost me an arm and leg back then, mine came with 16mb ram. I remember upgrading the ram to 64 and it costing me a couple hundred bucks... technology sure has come down an incredible amount in the past 10 years.

Probably another factor in Gateway's retail failure. Look for the Apple stores to follow. They wont be able to sustain it with their market share being so little, whats it now 6%?