![]() ![]() Microsoft finally pulled the plug at the Windows Engineering Conference in 1998 when John Frederiksen, lead project manager for thin clients acknowledged the phase-out process. They decided to make something their customers would use. IBM dropped out of the project before the first NetPCs came out. The sub-$1,000 computer was a great idea that would work better today than in 1997. NetPC would work with Compaq, Dell, IBM, HP, Acer, Gateway 2000, Mitac, Misubishi, NEC, Pionex, and Groupe Bull computer companies to make the first group of NetPC computers. All Games > Action Games > Gravity Oddity. Microsoft and Intel unveiled the system at the PC Expo trade show. Installs would be handled via the Internet, therefore, no personal software could be installed. Cases were sealed so nobody could get inside to reconfigure the computer. No CD drive, no floppy disc and limited disk space. A disk-less computer that got all information, including install – from a corporate server or the Internet.īasically, these would be similar to thin clients or “Dumb terminals” for work computers. Subscribe! Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More Compaq Deskpro 4000N – the first NetPCġ997 – Several computer companies banded together to help create the NetPC. ![]()
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