Anyone else here ever have a Acer Aspire from 1995?
Posted by xXZer0c0oLXx@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 17 comments
Posted by xXZer0c0oLXx@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 17 comments
Surm3nag3@reddit
For anyone feeling guilty about falling in love with the style of these PCs back in 1995, know that you were in the company of people of great taste … why? If I’m not mistaken this look may have been the product of none other than world-renown Master designer Hartmut Esslinger and the Frog Design company of 1980s Apple fame (think Mac SE and the Apple //c).
I also had one of these (the tower) and it served me well for many years of coding and internet browsing over modem and later DSL 😅
peppermintfatty@reddit
I had one and I loved it! Which I could find one to buy. You can barely find pictures of them.
Significant-Camel677@reddit
I have one still in the box you can email me at pdoyle2028@gmail I know the post is a couple years old but hey you never know
WindowsHat3r@reddit
I did, not personally, my grandparents had it as their computer and i was the main one to use it. Because it had awesome games on it, Jazz Jackrabbit, Duke Nukem, Pinball, Astroids and many others I cannot remember! :D
Grips001@reddit
My first computer. My pop purchased it for me in the summer of '95. It came with "Let's Explore the Airport" with Buzzy the Knowledge bug, and that bundled in Acer Desktop Alternative.
Certain-History-9663@reddit
My first ever PC. Acer Aspire 5000E. Still remember the spec! Intel Pentium II 333Mhz, 64 MB RAM, ATI Rage GPU with 4 MB VRAM 😅
Thanks for putting this up here, was trying to find a picture!
xXZer0c0oLXx@reddit (OP)
I the tower version of that setup you had...Chrismas 98. Had incoming on it which was really awesome but parents took it back as it was acting up. Glad they did. Ended up getting a ibm aptiva with 350mhz p2 128mb ram and a agp slot(that was a big deal back then) with a riva128zx
shes_my_baby@reddit
Hi everyone, I have an acer aspire with windows 95 still in original condition. Forest greenish in color with matching keyboard and mouse. The only thing i don't have is the monitor. I really have no use for it so if you guys are still interested in finding one, lmk.
xXZer0c0oLXx@reddit (OP)
is it a tower like in the picture ?
SuperSixBravo44@reddit
Omg I had this exact PC, it was my first.
However what a terrible internal design it was. The Riser board caused nothing but serious issues, the whole mother board held back the 166MMX chip in it the supplied EDO Ram was horrendous and the 1mb ATI card was also nerfed due to the riserboard taking up IRQ's.
I bought mine from micro anvika in Tottenham court road London for about £980.
It was billed as the PC to play Pod racer on and the coming MDK games. I had so many issues with it in the end I binned it and bought a gateway 2000 PC with a 200MMX.
Yes lovely to look at but heidous inside.
xXZer0c0oLXx@reddit (OP)
Played the hell outta this computer as a kid. Had Jazz the jackrabbit and Tyrain for game bundles also endless hours of mechwarrior 2 on this beast.
MoMPunkt@reddit
Same for me, that was the first computer my family had in 1997 and it was used 99.9% by me playing games 😉
I would love to see and use one again for nostalgia...
schlobalakanishi@reddit
Acer Aspire suddenly popped into my mind and a quick Google search led me here. I never had that computer, but I did dream of having one. I played Sid & Al on that PC at my friend's house. Good times.
FlirtyFetus@reddit
My first "real" computer as a kid. I had the horizontal model, but I adored that thing. One of the LGR videos where he's sifting through that giant warehouse, you can see a glimpse of one.
xXZer0c0oLXx@reddit (OP)
I saw that video. I finally found one a year and half ago. Definitely a blast from the past. All the Jazz the jackrabit,Descent,Tyrian I can play with my hearts content.
ResidentPessimist@reddit
I remember seeing this in the computer store back in '94-'95 - that one particularly is the desktop version (the CPU is at the bottom of the monitor). I even tried to do the math of saving a part of my student allowance and selling it to my mom (I am a HS student back then) but given the sooper expensive price of this PC back then I calculated it would probably take me around 17 years to pay it. Fun times.
... And now I am in the lookout in the interwebs to find one and hopefully restore it. I saw in YT some guys are even able to buy from the thrift shops in the US, but unfortunately I am not in the US right now.
xXZer0c0oLXx@reddit (OP)
Ya they were expensive, up to 2700 I remember. I finally found a tower about a year ago and been enjoying it since. I wish you luck in find the desktop... It sucks every year goes by, it gets harder to find these.