Wow, that computer can run Windows 98? Here I am on Windows 11, not realizing that I’m 87 versions behind.
For some reason, I'm doubtful.
Submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 1 year ago
That’s going to be a long update.
TacoThrash3r@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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SuperIce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Patrizsche@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I guess it’s just a shit post idk
SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
On lemmy?
ShustOne@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Exactly. It was also that trade in program that was their undoing.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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 it normally.
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.
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still a total lie to say that this computer is never obsolete.
Knightfox@lemmy.one 1 year ago
What do you mean, this bad boy is probably powering a semi-critical government system somewhere, definitely not obsolete.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
There are some data recording systems on planes designed in the 90s that still use the original designs. Memory cards that are as big as your hand and only hold megabytes worth of data.
Upgrading would be fairly simple in theory, but getting anything approved to be used on an aircraft is an expensive pain in the ass so they don’t want to go through that. They don’t need any more storage capacity either.
So somewhere out there some comapnies are making these now ancient parts for now ancient systems, and probably making a killing because nobody else makes them.
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know for a fact that many hospitals are still running 1970s COBOL on beige servers in the corners of basements that have been taken over by ICU wards. Because I has to maintain that shit amongst the dying. Weird job.
Cihta@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I made so much money on this kinda stuff. And even after all updated they still kept those damn chart recorders. Luckily they were standalone and I guess easier than hitting print.
And most of you would be terrified if you knew what they were manufacturing. Ignorance is bliss, trust.
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
See also: Pennsylvania State Emissions Testing System
Zhao@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I had almost this exact scenario happen with a CNC machine for a very old but profitable niche company. Pain in my ass.
WashedOver@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Seems like this issue is across a few different industries. I had two CnC machine running software on old PC’s with special cards to interface with the drives. One was running in a Dos box while the other was running windows XP. We could never afford any down time so it was fine some old PC’s that can still run this stuff.
Cihta@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know if it’s still there but I once did some work getting a plasma cutter back to operational. OS/2. Not even warp!
Oh it’s a pretty solid OS but i mean, damn.
Parallel port hardware key and everything. I do believe in keeping what works working but at some point you gotta let go because you run out of people that can solve problems with it.
SkidFace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is super true. I occasionally visit a TRIGA reactor that was built decades ago, and a good chunk of the computers critical in infrastructure run comically old versions of windows since software used to operate the faculty was a custom job.
Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 year ago
In my experience neither computers nor women will accept a 3.5 inch floppy.
SapphironZA@lemmings.world 1 year ago
That’s why we called them stiffy drives. It’s the 5.25inch disks that were floppy.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
5.25 inches floppy, but 3.5 inches when hard.
FakinUpCountryDegen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
God,the number of these I sold at Best buy…rolling my eyes the entire time…and making absolutely sure the customer understood exactly what that phrase meant in this ultra-scammy context…
Ended up not being able to handle that job. Something about literally full-time debunking of lies printed on everything in sight was exhausting for me.
LukeMedia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How were they trying to justify that statement?
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 year ago
You bought the computer and paid a subscription to be able to replace the computer with a new one every year or two.
scottywh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I sold a bunch of them used… Lol…
They were basically obsolete the minute they were shipped to stores with the shitty Celeron CPUs, virtually no RAM, and tiny hard drives but people still bought them from me a year later for too much money.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Cmon that thing will run Linux like a champ!
art@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d bet Debian 12 installs like a champ.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
That’ll make a great Hackintosh!
mtcerio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The “never obsolete” refers to a subscription service, where they would periodically send you updates somehow. LGR has a good video on this.
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Click here to download more RAM!!
marker2002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your link seems to be broken; I’ve clicked like 4375 times…
Steak@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Holy shit my grandfather had this exact PC up until ten years ago or so lol
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why’d he get rid of it? Obviously it wasn’t obsolete.
cone_zombie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It obsoletely waa
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I wonder if it’s possible to get a bunch of these, daisy chain the processors, and span hard drives until it can install and run Monster Hunter World.
chic_luke@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You forgot cache distance. That would also critically hinder performance
kadu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I realize the irony of me talking about latency as a concern given my absurd above suggestion, but I think the bus speed would slow dramatically if it only relied on regular RAM.
p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mod parent up.
wsweg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Surely there would be enough latency to make it unplayable, no?
moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I doubt enough of these exist to make an adequate E-Machine supercomputer
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why mhw in particular?
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 year ago
The PC version has probably the worst optimization of any game I’ve ever played. It’s an incredibly lazy console port, framelocked and all.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
This PC has the clocks and it rocks, but it was obsolite before you opened the box.
DakkaDakka@reddthat.com 1 year ago
It’s all about the pentiums baby
psmgx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sleeper builds like that are getting pretty popular actually.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A lot of prebuilts from that era made up their own case dimensions.
Cort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Add non standard power supply sizes to the list.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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 sometimes 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.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At this point, Farcry probably released closer to that computer’s release than today…
recapitated@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If it can still play SimCopter, the I have to agree.
ansiz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seems like about every pubic US university was selling those back in the late 90’s. So overpriced, even for the time!
bearded_zero@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Damn son you got dem AGP graphics! At least that is 1 thing that can be upgraded.
the_seven_sins@feddit.de 1 year ago
It will still run Windows 98 just fine.
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My families first computer was a Goliath of an IBM tower. Similar gross color I believe. If someone came home suddenly when you were wackin’ it you had to just unplug it because it took too long to get the porn off the screen and onto something else. It also would give you away at night with it’s insane modem sounds when connecting to the Internet.
happyhippo@feddit.it 1 year ago
Reminds me of my first desktop PC.
Intel Pentium II 266Mhz, 64MB of RAM, 2.99GB HDD.
Of course a 3.5" floppy drive was also included, and a CD-R Reader.
I had to purchase a 33.6k modem separately, tho.
UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
This was a computer for idiots even when it came out.
Klanky@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I think we had this exact computer when I was growing up.
sirico@feddit.uk 1 year ago
antiX linux on a zip drive
banana_meccanica@feddit.it 1 year ago
Most of people use computers just for memes and emails, so yea, it is never obsoluted.
17s32k@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Holy Hell, i’m pretty sure that’s fridge kick’s doom 2 in at 30fps with a translucent ATX Case Upgrade (￣～￣)
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Wasn’t there a time when it was considered unfeasible that anyone would ever need more than a few kilobytes?
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
My cousins has an eMonster PC and I thought that was just the most insanely powerful PC.
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
eMachines were obsolete two years before they were even built.
PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What’s the problem here? That unit will do all your floppy disc needs until the end of time
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Common ig has a Celeron!
It always baffles me when like the old hard drive fit in the RAM of am average today PC. What will it be in 10-20 years, 2TB RAM in an average PC?
awnery@lemmy.world 1 year ago
there was a point in time, between the mid 90s to the mid-00s, in the U.S., where you could be a very manipulative piece of shit, wthout knowing anything, except how to get these crap computers running again.
actually they probably run some old ass linux fine even now. i hate to see the internals trashed for a junkyard - that trashed computer could be running the junkyard.
that said, i went looking for parts for my car on the internet, at local junkyards. i think they are running the old-ass computers.
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I wonder how much of a discount OP can get when they send their machine back?
jarfil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If it’s in perfect condition, and they valued it based on second hand retrocomputing market… probably a nice chunk of cash.