Came across this at the end of a tape that I was digitally archiving. Thought it would be an amusing bit of point-in-time PC marketing. Back in the earlier era of Systemax, not too long after their take-over of TigerDirect.
My parents got me this and through the years of upgrading to play games and replacing failing hardware, the only thing left of it that was original was the tower case. So up to like 2009, there was this Frankenstein patchwork pc with a tower that read the original stamping in bold "Systemax: The World's Most Powerful Home Computer"
8:35 The big "your kids will use it for homework" ploy. I don't think anyone has ever used a computer for school. Ironically, the purchase probably compromised the kids learning and served to be an anti-homework tool.
6:20 "we have never gone that low on any system you have seen here before" I call BS, as my mom paid just under $1,200 for one of these "Ultra" PCs in sept 1998. She bought it at a "Mom and Pop" computer shop . she even got the rebates, and got $200 back (so, yeah, $999 after rebate) It had a intel Celeron @433 mhz , and windows 98. It originally had 32 Mb of RAM, which we later upgraded to 256MB . 15" viewsonic monitor, canon printer and scanner, and many CDs , including one called "New PC essentials " I still remember playing "Mowing Maniac" and "Roof Rats"
I bought a athlon slot a 600mhz tower pc with 256 pc100 memory and one 20gb and a 10gb slave hard drive with cd burner and zip drive for 9 bucks in early 2002 at the goodwill
@@professorpenne9962 I completely agree! I gotta believe there's some 60 or 70 year old out there who bought this off this infomercial and never upgraded their computer. Probably never used any of the software either.
I have about 50 of them still in box complete from when I bought an old abandoned computer store for my software business. They were…okay. Not great. They play old games well.
the entire package: $1199.99. include $1000+ software package which reduce the effective pricing less than $200.00 for the computer. good deal yes. reliability not too sure
