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[Solved] Vintage Gateway 2000

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So I was looking through my shed the other day and I found what I believe to be a Gateway 2000. I want to learn more about it but I cant find any info on it. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Here’s a link to an ebay auction with pictures of one.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Gat…

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      When it’s that old, Gateway 2000 is not a specific model.

      The Gateway brand was originally called Gateway 2000 – all of their models were Gateway 2000 something, until they changed the name to just Gateway.

      “History”

      “Gateway was founded on September 5, 1985, on a farm outside Sioux City, Iowa, by Ted Waitt and Mike Hammond. Originally called Gateway 2000, it was one of the first widely successful direct sales PC companies……”

      “It dropped the “2000” from its name on October 31, 1998.”

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatewa…
      ………….

      Since it was started up in 1985 and the name was used until 1998, it could be anything from a XT clone or 286 to a Pentium or PII or PIII model.

      If you look at the zoom in of the back of the case you provided a link to, the FCC ID number is a good clue regarding which cpu the mboard has and what it’s speed is. That particular one has
      FCC ID: HWYMA386-25
      It has a 386 cpu, 25mhz.
      Useless for modern operating systems.

      According to a search here,
      FCC ID Search Form:
      http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fc…

      The times Gateway registered that FCC ID was
      07/18/1990, and 01/03/1991

      The FCC ID number on your case may be completely different.

      If you search on the above site, the date the FCC ID was registered is a good clue – the earliest date is close to the date when the model was first released.

      (If you get no “hits” when you use the entire FCC ID, use the first three letters, and part of the last characters, or just the first 3 letters for many models, and find one in the list close to yours.)

      The Gateway web site
      http://www.gateway.com
      doesn’t seem to have any info about their Gateway 2000 computers, unless, possibly, you happen to have a model that has the same first two letters in your FCC ID number as models listed when you search for support.

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