Unfortunately, the speakers are a bit ropey.ĬHANCES OF YOU GETTING ANY WORK DONE Good. For audiophiles there’s the “pocket mixer” utility which combines outputs from CDs, a microphone, digitised sound sources and Midi instrument files and the Pocket CD player which lets you program favourite music tracks. The bundle of programs provided is comprehensive, with everything from Works to a typing tutor, atlas, encyclopaedia, zoological reference work and games including Star Wars, Zork, and chess. Poor socket labelling and an oldfashioned looking monitor don’t do it any favours either. An enormous box, but with no real advantage in terms of card or drive installation space. Wondering what I can get for Rs 120,945 today.įEATURES 208Mb hard disk, 8Mb RAM, five slots, Media, Vision soundcard BEST FOR Reasonably well-specified for the price and is a nippy performer. Īnd some PCs sold in 1996 (Click on images for a better view). These costs are typically 10% of VSNL’s corporate rates, for distances up to 50 kilometres (30 miles). Leased line rates only include what VSNL charges for bandwidth – the physical link will have to be paid for to the telecom provider – the DoT. Dial up users have a total of 250 hours to use up in a year and 512 kb disk space. Professionals only get shell accounts, the others can choose SLIP or PPP. VSNL’s rates for internet service in 1995:Īll prices are flat annual rates (in Rs). What is interesting is not the advances made in technology (that is expected) but the drastic fall in prices. Though we were taught BASIC as a part of an optional computer course (additional computers fee was charged) and I along with a friend would also visit the city campus of the university in order to expose ourselves to this newly emerging world, I don’t remember much from what I did or learned then (apart from GOTO 10) Things have changed so much.Ĭhanced upon a few interesting bits from those days of shell accounts and 8 MB of RAM. As for me, I was still in school and a very few friends (whose parents could afford it) had a computer that they could call personal. It was only the year before that the Indian public got access to the internet. The adverb ‘only’ doesn’t exactly fit in right here.
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