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Looks pretty obsolete to me. I bet it can’t even play my wavpack collection.
Well I mean it’s true if you also belive trigger’s broom in only fools and horses is still the same broom.
Probably only older people from the UK will get the reference. Sorry.
No need with the “older” there, mate.
I use that case for my work computer! It has a ryzen7 and RTX 2080. I had to hack the front USB to connect it with a modern mobo header, but it works…
How’s airflow?
Is the floppy drive hooked up? I have a floppy drive in my modern machine.
Sleeper PCs are an art form
Where’s the radiator?
Right here, next to the fan:
Does your fan not have its front shield or is it just a bad angle? If it doesn’t I’d suggest you put it on, from experience those fuckers can break skin.
It doesn’t, no. I accidentally put it on crooked when assembling it and bent it when trying to correct my error to the point that just taking it off was the only logical solution.
This one doesn’t break skin, though. In fact, my cats have accidentally gotten their tail into it several times and reacted with only slight annoyance.
To put it another way: a toddler could stick their head into it and not cry when it hits them, it’s THAT good at stopping gently when it encounters resistance 😁
Take the upvote and gtfo ;p
Damn, I don’t know what it is, but your house looks completely Danish.
It’s an apartment, but it’s not so weird that it looks completely Danish since it IS completely Danish. As am I 😁
How could you tell?
Fuck yes. My first PC. It got me into It when I needed to fix the hdd when Windows 2k crashed.
Even when these first came out you had to know it was silly
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think this was a programme where they would upgrade/replace your setup for free every year or so.
That’s right. There’s an insightful blog article if you want to learn the full story.
You could get your PC upgraded for $99 if you also bought 24 months of dial-up Internet service through them. But you also had to pay shipping both ways, and be out the use of your computer while you did it! That seems so inconvenient I imagine almost nobody bothered. eMachines certainly expected people wouldn’t, making the whole thing little more than a carefully calculated marketing tactic. And it worked.
That said, their machines were very competitively priced even without the upgrade deal, and it really disrupted the incumbents, making them good value machines even if you didn’t take them up on the dubious “never obsolete” offer.
Take me back. I don’t like it in the future…
I know a guy who can take you back for $120
viewsonic made some damn fine CRTs…
Mitsubishi Diamondtron or Sony Trinitron. That’s where the good stuff was.
iirc Silicon Graphics crts were actually trinitrons after 92-3. of course a 21" crt weighed fuck all lol
Weight aside, those took a lot of space too. Almost every CRT from that era was put in a desk corner, swivelled sideways, forcing you to turn sideways too - and many of those were 15-17". Now imagine 21…
at one point I had a 17" (no name) and a 21" view sonic on the same desk bench, connected to a dual p2 (tyan mobo) machine I built running windows 2000, the first os I used that supported multiple monitors. our engineer custom designed the benches out of steel square tubing and laminate wood, they were great.
Where is the lie
I be there’s a Linux distro that would run on it.
There aren’t many i386 distributions anymore, but you should still have some selection, I think
Yup there’s still Debian support.
AntiX runs great on my Pentium 3 rig.
If i have money i’d buy it just for the old time sake.
I still have two of these towers in my collection.
