I still have my 1989 motherboard-- 386, 1 megabyte of RAM, 80MB hard drive... I remember booting it up for the first time and DOS reporting only 640K of memory and calling them up to wonder where the rest of it went. They were very nice about explaining it to me over the phone.
(...hah, I still have the letter confirming my order. "We welcome you as a Gateway 2000 customer and have a good day!" Nostalgia2k for the cow boxes!)
My dad bought a 386 DX-20, 4 MB of RAM, 80 MB hard drive, from the original "Computers from Iowa?" ad in PC Magazine. I finally sent it to the recyclers about a year and a half ago. (The only old computer I kept was a TRS-80 model 1 level 2.)
Gateway 2000 was such a great company in that era.
(...hah, I still have the letter confirming my order. "We welcome you as a Gateway 2000 customer and have a good day!" Nostalgia2k for the cow boxes!)