Mesh into administration

Kutter · 2 Jun 2011 at 00:08

Wife used to work at time in the HR dept. She usually had some good stories about credit card fraud by the tele sales wallas. Last time I was at the. Business park they were selling tv's

Pawnless Endgame · 2 Jun 2011 at 00:35

mrk1@1 said:
I thought they had already gone tbh??

This. As with Time and Tiny, hopefully not breaking any rules - all deceased :-)

Helveticat · 2 Jun 2011 at 00:44

Apparently their finances were in a right old mesh (gets coat).

d_brennen · 2 Jun 2011 at 01:00

Helveticat said:
Apparently their finances were in a right old mesh (gets coat).

*gets coat thrown at

Shayper · 2 Jun 2011 at 03:01

I have never bought a pre built system. Always build my own.

Mind you I have only really been into computers for about a year

tigerstyle · 2 Jun 2011 at 06:11

I remember the first £1000 for a 1000Megahurtz deals Time did!

But you got dick all ram to back up that (at the time) amazing Athlon in there

LOAM · 2 Jun 2011 at 09:16

My first PC was by DAN. It was a Pentium 70 that ran at 70htz iirc and had 8 meg of ram. I remember paying about £200 for an extra 8meg and the guys at work were astounded at its potential power. Unreal just thinking how rubbish it was by today’s standards. Cost about £1500 though at the time (1994 ?) and I loved it. Playing screamer and diskworld on it for hours on end.

Greebo · 2 Jun 2011 at 09:47

LOAM said:
My first PC was by DAN. It was a Pentium 70 that ran at 70htz iirc and had 8 meg of ram. I remember paying about £200 for an extra 8meg and the guys at work were astounded at its potential power. Unreal just thinking how rubbish it was by today’s standards. Cost about £1500 though at the time (1994 ?) and I loved it. Playing screamer and diskworld on it for hours on end.

Meh, that was nothing. I splashed out on a Viglen Pentium 60 after almost buying a dx4-100 but deciding Pentium was the future. :confused:

It came with 4mb ram which I upgraded to 8Mb for an extra £200. I paid £300 extra to get a 3x NEC cdrom reader plus another £300 for a hardware hard drive cache card with 4 mb of ram on board. Total cost with a 15" CRT screen was £2000 :eek:

It had Tseung Labs graphics card with 1mb ram from memory.

Added an Orchid Righteous card to it later.

naefeart · 2 Jun 2011 at 10:41

LOAM said:
My first PC was by DAN. It was a Pentium 70 that ran at 70htz iirc and had 8 meg of ram. ...

DAN were big players back then. I think they used to market their Pentium range and 'Dantiums' lol.

Our first Pentium was a Gateway P100 (100 Mhertz). 8MB EDO ram and a quad speed Mitsumi CD Drive (the first CD drive in the household). Silly money back then (1994).

/Rose tinted specs

spudbynight · 2 Jun 2011 at 10:51

HAz said:
next on the list has to be e-machines, awful systems.

My brother bought an e-machines PC a few years ago. It had a sticker proudly proclaiming "AGP Graphics" on the front. He wanted to buy a graphics card for it to replace the onboard crap and found it only had PCI slots - no AGP slots. It had an onboard GPU that communicated over a hardwired AGP bus.

Back in the 80s and 90s there were a wide range of PC manufacturers.

Anyone remember when Viglen used to sell their Genie range? I had grown up with them as a brand when they sold Acorn compatible kit in magazines - them and Watford Electronics.

One thing I love doing is reading old 80s and 90s copies of PCW magazine. Great nostalgia trip.

Deep · 2 Jun 2011 at 11:06

Our first family PC was a Dell one. With a mammoth 13gb hard drive! I remember me and my Brother used to say we'd never fill it up :O My phone has more memory than that!

Then my brother got an Evesham which served him well for many years. Not all those companies were bad, I seem to remember Mesh being very good. Perhaps I was wrong

kae2 · 2 Jun 2011 at 11:07

Some names in this thread that I'd forgotten!

Think we still have the Gateway "Cow skin" boxes in the loft, lol.

Abraham · 2 Jun 2011 at 11:16

HAz said:
Anyone remember TINY and Time pc's? whatever happened to them **** company's?

My mum's last proper PC (now on laptops) was from Time, they'd specced up some mean machine for review in computer shopper or pc pro or similar, massively overspecced and listed at a relatively cheap price.
They never had any intention of selling it, never made it onto their own product listings but after a lot of phone calls I managed to get it out of them, it is just about going a decade or so later but does have to be upside down to work (not sure how my mum discovered that)

ubersonic · 2 Jun 2011 at 11:21

Lucero said:
Mesh were quite possible one of the cackest "bespoke" PC builders of the last decade. Good ridance IMO

Only because Time and Tiny went bust first ^^

bledd · 2 Jun 2011 at 11:25

Abraham said:
it is just about going a decade or so later but does have to be upside down to work (not sure how my mum discovered that)

lol

I'd take it apart and put it back together again

@play · 2 Jun 2011 at 11:36

Well it's fine MESH they've gotton themselves in to!!!!

moss · 2 Jun 2011 at 11:38

Back in the mid to late 90's Tiny PCs were getting awesome reviews in magazines, I remember them regularly being the fastest in group tests etc. I had a P200 MMX from Tiny and it was a great PC, excellent spec (for the time) and well built. Once Time took over Tiny the quality really dropped though.

HAz · 2 Jun 2011 at 11:38

My mate bought a pc from time and it came with anoher persons stuff on it, pictures, user name, personal documents ect ect. Absolute digrace.

Kiyoshi · 2 Jun 2011 at 11:42

One (if not my first) of my own computers was a Mesh. I can't remember the specification, but I didn't have any problems with it.

cotton_flex · 2 Jun 2011 at 11:49

Time, Tiny, Mesh, DAN, Evesham, Viglen, gateway cow print oh the memories.

My first pc was a Tiny!

Looks like only Dell survived and grown.