Gateway Astro: 800 All-In-One PC from 1999!
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(Really do miss the friendly Gateway cow box logo popping up from the Celeron 400A 440ZX micro-ATX motherboard based refurb PC that was the very first PC I ever brought back in 2003.
Date: 2022-10-21
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Brandon
Having grown up in North Sioux City with parents that both worked for Gateway, I always love to see coverage on anything Gateway related, but to see the Astro? The very computer that raised me? You are doing god s work here XD I don t remember the exact details, but Christmas 1999 they gave the employees free Astros, so my parents had two, one for me and my brother, and one they gave to my grandparents, while my parents enjoyed their high end Gateway tower with all the bells and whistles. So many memories using the Astro, Age of Empires was indeed one I played tons, as well as classics like the Madness games (Midtown, Monster Truck, Motocross, etc, Re-Volt, Road Rash, Rollercoaster Tycoon, the vast library of Humongous Entertainment games as well as other edutainment titles, I could go on and on and on. My mother recalls finding me up in the middle of the night with a carton of ice cream on the Astro at age 2 or 3 on multiple occasions, you couldn t keep me away! My father thought the Astro was junk and that they were hard to repair, maybe other issues apart from the battery popped up? Or he was just spitballing, who knows. He got rid of my Astro without telling me one day in 2010, and it took me 10 years of off and on searching to find another, never letting this one go!
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Having grown up in North Sioux City with parents that both worked for Gateway, I always love to see coverage on anything Gateway related, but to see the Astro? The very computer that raised me? You are doing god s work here XD I don t remember the exact details, but Christmas 1999 they gave the employees free Astros, so my parents had two, one for me and my brother, and one they gave to my grandparents, while my parents enjoyed their high end Gateway tower with all the bells and whistles. So many memories using the Astro, Age of Empires was indeed one I played tons, as well as classics like the Madness games (Midtown, Monster Truck, Motocross, etc, Re-Volt, Road Rash, Rollercoaster Tycoon, the vast library of Humongous Entertainment games as well as other edutainment titles, I could go on and on and on. My mother recalls finding me up in the middle of the night with a carton of ice cream on the Astro at age 2 or 3 on multiple occasions, you couldn t keep me away! My father thought the Astro was junk and that they were hard to repair, maybe other issues apart from the battery popped up? Or he was just spitballing, who knows. He got rid of my Astro without telling me one day in 2010, and it took me 10 years of off and on searching to find another, never letting this one go!
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Old
It is crazy to think about how Gateway went from the DOMINANT PC manufacturer to vanishing all together in just a few years. From TV advertising, mail order catalogs, to big box stores they were the name you thought about when thinking about PC computers.
One thing I would love to see reviewed one day is one of Gateway media center computers. They were YEARS ahead of their time and they marketed a computer with big CRT/TV's that were supposed to go in the family room. Kind of like smart TV's about 20 years before there even was such a ting. I remember seeing them in a Gateway catalog and thinking that would be really cool.
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It is crazy to think about how Gateway went from the DOMINANT PC manufacturer to vanishing all together in just a few years. From TV advertising, mail order catalogs, to big box stores they were the name you thought about when thinking about PC computers.
One thing I would love to see reviewed one day is one of Gateway media center computers. They were YEARS ahead of their time and they marketed a computer with big CRT/TV's that were supposed to go in the family room. Kind of like smart TV's about 20 years before there even was such a ting. I remember seeing them in a Gateway catalog and thinking that would be really cool.
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Stormerbuzz35
I often find myself watching these videos and feeling a nostalgia for a time I'll never have back. From when I would go to my mom's house on school holidays and we would play for hours on the ancient pc in the kitchen she had been gifted by a friend. I wish I had the kind of money to try building an old machine myself, if only to gain confidence to do a new one, but I have no idea what I would do with the thing once it's built as I have very limited space. As it is, my tower stands on the floor with my table having barely the room for a mouse and keyboard side-by-side.
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I often find myself watching these videos and feeling a nostalgia for a time I'll never have back. From when I would go to my mom's house on school holidays and we would play for hours on the ancient pc in the kitchen she had been gifted by a friend. I wish I had the kind of money to try building an old machine myself, if only to gain confidence to do a new one, but I have no idea what I would do with the thing once it's built as I have very limited space. As it is, my tower stands on the floor with my table having barely the room for a mouse and keyboard side-by-side.
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Tom
Yay! New video, just been in store bought a small soda and a little snack, was just pepearing to sit down, and was thinking what to see while enjoing my friday snacks. really hoped for a new LGR video) Seriously lgr is what ive been looking forward today especially as my relxing friday show with snacks) and I see a weird cool looking gateway in thumbnail) Oh. finished wathcing. now what to do. think I will watch again, looking more closely at details, specially at background, wish Clint would do a tour video sometime, the new place looks amazing)
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Yay! New video, just been in store bought a small soda and a little snack, was just pepearing to sit down, and was thinking what to see while enjoing my friday snacks. really hoped for a new LGR video) Seriously lgr is what ive been looking forward today especially as my relxing friday show with snacks) and I see a weird cool looking gateway in thumbnail) Oh. finished wathcing. now what to do. think I will watch again, looking more closely at details, specially at background, wish Clint would do a tour video sometime, the new place looks amazing)
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Jason
Oh, my dog. The Dis-Astro! I did tech support for Gateway starting in 95, did it on the phone until about 98, when I went to work in one of the Country Stores. These. systems. Pretty much, if it was a hard drive issue, we could swap them. If not, we replaced the whole system, swapped the hard drive over, and had about 3 different serials we had to flash, or else things wouldn't work right. And, for being mostly filled with air, they weighed about an elephant and a half.
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Oh, my dog. The Dis-Astro! I did tech support for Gateway starting in 95, did it on the phone until about 98, when I went to work in one of the Country Stores. These. systems. Pretty much, if it was a hard drive issue, we could swap them. If not, we replaced the whole system, swapped the hard drive over, and had about 3 different serials we had to flash, or else things wouldn't work right. And, for being mostly filled with air, they weighed about an elephant and a half.
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Myllz
We had a Gateway Country store close to where I grew up. My friend and I were in our early teens when it opened up and we would walk there once in a while to see the new computers. They had a few computers setup with internet access and printers that you could use freely. We would find guitar tabs online and would print them out to take home. We'd literally walk out with like a ream of paper we had printed guitar tabs on and nobody in the store ever cared, haha.
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We had a Gateway Country store close to where I grew up. My friend and I were in our early teens when it opened up and we would walk there once in a while to see the new computers. They had a few computers setup with internet access and printers that you could use freely. We would find guitar tabs online and would print them out to take home. We'd literally walk out with like a ream of paper we had printed guitar tabs on and nobody in the store ever cared, haha.
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TheSteelRodent
Gateway and eMachines never existed in this part of Europe, so can't say I've seen these machines before. Never even seen that powerMac before despite going past a Mac store every day on my way to college around that time. Think AST and Dell were the only American brands that were really able to get a reasonable market share here as even Apple struggle to sell their computers before Mac OS X
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Gateway and eMachines never existed in this part of Europe, so can't say I've seen these machines before. Never even seen that powerMac before despite going past a Mac store every day on my way to college around that time. Think AST and Dell were the only American brands that were really able to get a reasonable market share here as even Apple struggle to sell their computers before Mac OS X
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Talon
me and my brother almost got suckered into a 2000 gateway at the store. He was freshly 18 and the sales person was telling us it was basically free since my brother had new credit, obviously we had no idea that it would cost money. It was only 1 year interest free or some shit, but they always made it seem like it would be literally no money paid to them for over a year.
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me and my brother almost got suckered into a 2000 gateway at the store. He was freshly 18 and the sales person was telling us it was basically free since my brother had new credit, obviously we had no idea that it would cost money. It was only 1 year interest free or some shit, but they always made it seem like it would be literally no money paid to them for over a year.
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snipe3687
omg I had one of these back in the day! someone gave me one as a trade in 2001 or 2002? Needless to say I had NO interest in it and passed it on since I couldn't really do much with it.
EDIT - I commented too early. DAMN that storage room is AMAZING. I was going to say i'm jealous but I think the correct word would be inspired to get my stuff organized.
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omg I had one of these back in the day! someone gave me one as a trade in 2001 or 2002? Needless to say I had NO interest in it and passed it on since I couldn't really do much with it.
EDIT - I commented too early. DAMN that storage room is AMAZING. I was going to say i'm jealous but I think the correct word would be inspired to get my stuff organized.
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Christopher
Lol, I have basically the portable equivalent of this, a Gateway Solo 1150cs. :P
I got it for 40 and spent over 200 restoring it. The screen in it was sold as brand new but still gets lines in it, go figure lmfao. I even managed to find the original manual though, which is WAY thicker than you'd think a manual for a y2k era PC would be.
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Lol, I have basically the portable equivalent of this, a Gateway Solo 1150cs. :P
I got it for 40 and spent over 200 restoring it. The screen in it was sold as brand new but still gets lines in it, go figure lmfao. I even managed to find the original manual though, which is WAY thicker than you'd think a manual for a y2k era PC would be.
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BEL
When I was 12, I remember wanting the weird shaped all-in-on Compaq Presario (4766) in 1996 so bad but we couldn't afford it. My parents were trying to find a solution (avoiding credit, it brings me tears thinking about it. Finally and hopefully we never bought this shit. :)
I had my first no-name microcomputer in 1999.
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When I was 12, I remember wanting the weird shaped all-in-on Compaq Presario (4766) in 1996 so bad but we couldn't afford it. My parents were trying to find a solution (avoiding credit, it brings me tears thinking about it. Finally and hopefully we never bought this shit. :)
I had my first no-name microcomputer in 1999.
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SHODAN
Seems like it was wrongly marketed tbh, I don't see this as a general purpose home computer as such but in libraries and offices for internet usage and word processing and even then I doubt Gateway would be in the position to provide enterprise level support to the companies that bought such machines at the time.
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Seems like it was wrongly marketed tbh, I don't see this as a general purpose home computer as such but in libraries and offices for internet usage and word processing and even then I doubt Gateway would be in the position to provide enterprise level support to the companies that bought such machines at the time.
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Stephen
Gateway once had a store here in Asheville NC and it was the place where I bought my first computer they did have an ASTRO there at one point after I bought my Gateway computer made me mad that I didn't wait a little while longer to get it but I was so excited about buying a computer for the first time
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Gateway once had a store here in Asheville NC and it was the place where I bought my first computer they did have an ASTRO there at one point after I bought my Gateway computer made me mad that I didn't wait a little while longer to get it but I was so excited about buying a computer for the first time
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Jeffrey
You can tell by the windows 98 SE era that keeping any MS DOS compatibility in the drivers for the sound card is basically a afterthought. The creative SB Live cards were reverse compatible to the SB 16 only if you loaded the DOS TSR driver in Windows 98 that recreated the expected inputs in software.
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You can tell by the windows 98 SE era that keeping any MS DOS compatibility in the drivers for the sound card is basically a afterthought. The creative SB Live cards were reverse compatible to the SB 16 only if you loaded the DOS TSR driver in Windows 98 that recreated the expected inputs in software.
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