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…
NEVER OBSOLETE
Submitted 10 hours ago by Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c05ed2e9-4166-4d17-97c5-b0d5755473d9.jpeg
Comments
Ydna@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Sleeper PCs are an art form
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Where’s the radiator?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
kamen@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
How’s airflow?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Is the floppy drive hooked up? I have a floppy drive in my modern machine.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 23 minutes ago
You need to get with the times, grandpa. Get yourself a Zip drive.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I haven’t seen an FDD header on a motherboard since my P6T (with an i7-920). And even then, it wasn’t worthwhile to use it.
Do you have a usb-fdd adapter? Or just a USB internal floppy drive?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Take me back. I don’t like it in the future…
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 50 minutes ago
Encarta was absolute fire back in the day, seriously
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I know a guy who can take you back for $120
dontsayaword@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Even when these first came out you had to know it was silly
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
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 had to pay shipping both ways, and be out the use of your computer while you did it! So I don’t imagine almost anyone took them up on the offer - meaning that really it was a carefully crafted almost-scam.
That said, their machines were very competitively priced even without the deal and really disrupted the incumbents, making them good value machines even if you didn’t take them up on the “never obsolete” offer.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
viewsonic made some damn fine CRTs…
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Mitsubishi Diamondtron or Sony Trinitron. That’s where the good stuff was.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
iirc Silicon Graphics crts were actually trinitrons after 92-3. of course a 21" crt weighed fuck all lol
titanicx@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Fuck yes. My first PC. It got me into It when I needed to fix the hdd when Windows 2k crashed.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
Where is the lie
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I be there’s a Linux distro that would run on it.
elvith@feddit.org 7 hours ago
There aren’t many i386 distributions anymore, but you should still have some selection, I think
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
AntiX runs great on my Pentium 3 rig.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Looks pretty obsolete to me. I bet it can’t even play my wavpack collection.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
If i have money i’d buy it just for the old time sake.
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I still have two of these towers in my collection.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 24 minutes ago
Never say never. The Ship of Theseus is never obsolete as long as regular maintenance occurs