In my experience neither computers nor women will accept a 3.5 inch floppy.
That’s why we called them stiffy drives. It’s the 5.25inch disks that were floppy.
5.25 inches floppy, but 3.5 inches when hard. Hmm 🤔
Water-cooling?
My cousins has an eMonster PC and I thought that was just the most insanely powerful PC.
You conveniently blocked the part of the sticker saying what they mean by “never obsolete” with the red circle. IIRC, they gave you a massive discount to trade in your computer every 2 years for the latest model, so you were always up to date. Kinda like phones now.
Totally useless red circle too. I guess it was intentionally drawn to obscure the context
I guess it’s just a shit post idk
On lemmy?
Exactly. It was also that trade in program that was their undoing.
Every “trade in and get the latest” has always failed imo.
Either the company ends up being bankrupt. Or the company realizes they really f’d up and the upgrade ends up costing more than had I just bought it flat out on sale.
Source:
I was part of a few of them over the last 10 years. Phones. Tablets. Laptops. Tvs. I did it because I always thought this time, it’ll work out.
Still a total lie to say that this computer is never obsolete.
What’s the problem here? That unit will do all your floppy disc needs until the end of time
The first PC I used growing up was the family e-machine. If nothing else it had good recognizable branding with that E power button design.
Seems like about every pubic US university was selling those back in the late 90’s. So overpriced, even for the time!
pubic US university
Wonder what they teach there
What’s the form factor? ATX?
Rip out the guts and slap in a Ryzen with some SSDs. Troll people by playing Farcry or something equally as demanding on it.
At this point, Farcry probably released closer to that computer’s release than today…
A lot of prebuilts from that era made up their own case dimensions.
Add non standard power supply sizes to the list.
By the time they got rid of the AT form factor found around the pentium and early socket 7 era, motherboard sizes and screw hole placement started following the ATX specifications which meant standardization. Manufactures still sometimes did really dumb shit with case designs but they still do that today. For example I once saw this shitty compaq with the psu right over the cpu so you can’t fit a serious cooler. And those iconic Windows XP Dell Dimensions everyone had were only big enough to fit micro atx motherboards even though the case was basically mid tower sized. I can’t even remember how they made such inefficient use of the space but it involved lots of stupid brackets and screws in idiotic places.
Sleeper builds like that are getting pretty popular actually.
Damn son you got dem AGP graphics! At least that is 1 thing that can be upgraded.
Most of people use computers just for memes and emails, so yea, it is never obsoleted
How you gonna post memes on a machine that doesn’t support modern browser protocols? This thing can’t even load the Google home page or probably any Lemmy/kbin instance.
I have a Nokia NGage with mobile browsing capability and the google homepage still works. I think it’s the only website that still works…
I mean, it’s not like they managed to get AI assistants running on win3.1 or anything…
https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/
People should appreciate old but serviceable hardware. There is nothing about net communication that exceeds what an 566mhz core can do. At that point it’s just a question about porting a TLS/SSL library…
You don’t. You post animated gifs
For context, the emachines “never obsolete” wasn’t referring to this computer, it was a recycling program where you could send your old machine back and get a huge discount on your next one. It was actually a pretty good deal at the time, especially when your average family machine was a lot more expensive than they are today
There were a couple of companies that tried programs like this. PeoplePC was another similar program. You would pay for their services and they would lease you a computer every 3 years.
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I wonder how much of a discount OP can get when they send their machine back?
If it’s in perfect condition, and they valued it based on second hand retrocomputing market prices… probably a nice chunk of cash.
These aren’t super valuable. You can get them for about 200-250 bucks.
How many sales stickers can one machine have?
Manufacturer mandates a certain amount of flair.
no no no no, it’s not a mandate, it’s just that we encourage self expression here in the PC market. You do want to express yourself, right?
Someone remembers Office Space far better than I do! Lol
Don’t worry, you’re a real straight shooter with upper management written all over you.
37 pieces of flair to be exact.
It’s in the contract that technically 15 would suffice, but who wants to be the company that only does the bare minimum?
Cmon that thing will run Linux like a champ!
That’ll make a great Hackintosh!
I’d bet Debian 12 installs like a champ.
if your distro of choice happens to be debian with openbox
It will still run Windows 98 just fine.
Just don’t connect it to the net. Bots will hardlock the machine in less than a second
Can you elaborate on this more?
Is this really an issue? I mean it makes sense with the security updates being non-existent for a long time now, but would bots really hardlock the machine fairly quickly?
I don’t know if it is still the case, but I had an old box that was working in 2015, booted it up and pulled the data I wasn’t sure I had backed up. I wanted to see what would happen so I connected a Ethernet cable to my home router, and the computer immediately locked up. I hard rebooted, and it locked up before even getting through the boot up cycle. I recycled the machine later.
Nowadays the resources required to even bother with a botnet targeting win95 machines would be almost non-existent. That said, I guess someone could be managing something that targets all win32 versions … the internet is weird place
Just like when it was new.
I think we had this exact computer when I was growing up.
Yep I know my grandparents did. Played minesweeper and that cat mouse cheese and wine game like all day.
My emachines etower 566 is my daily driver, am i my alone here? It’s current year, and this thing is still not obsolete.
