{"id":1069,"date":"2014-08-11T10:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T15:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2014-08-12T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T15:19:07","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-micron-millennia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1069\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-micron-millennia","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Micron Millennia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/micron_millennia_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/micron_millennia_small.jpg\" alt=\"Micron Electronics Micron Millennia P120 PC clone advertisement - 1995\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Ah, the beige box era.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What could $6,410.55 buy you 19 years ago? (That&#8217;s $4099 adjusted for inflation.)  Well, if you picked a Micron Millennia, you could get a 120 MHz Pentium CPU, 32 MB of RAM, a 1.6 GB hard drive, a 17-inch monitor, a 4X CD-ROM Drive, a SoundBlaster 16 sound card, 2MB 2D graphics card, a minitower or desktop case, a Microsoft mouse and keyboard, Microsoft Office, and Windows 95.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of stuff.  And yet most people&#8217;s smartphones today pack far, far more power and functionality than that in a pocket form factor with a 10 hour battery life.  It&#8217;s all about integration, baby.  More functions in fewer, smaller chips.  I love it.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From ComputerLife &#8211; October 1995, rear cover]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Tell us about one of your beige box PCs from the 1990s.  Who made it, and what did it have inside?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the beige box era. What could $6,410.55 buy you 19 years ago? (That&#8217;s $4099 adjusted for inflation.) Well, if you picked a Micron Millennia, you could get a 120 MHz Pentium CPU, 32 MB of RAM, a 1.6 GB hard drive, a 17-inch monitor, a 4X CD-ROM Drive, a SoundBlaster 16 sound card, 2MB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}