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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
Wow, that computer can run Windows 98? Here I am on Windows 11, not realizing that I'm 87 versions behind.
That's going to be a long update.
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.
I guess it's just a shit post idk
On lemmy?
Totally useless red circle too. I guess it was intentionally drawn to obscure the context
What do you mean, this bad boy is probably powering a semi-critical government system somewhere, definitely not obsolete.
Edit: not even joking or shitting on it, there's probably a proprietary software system out there somewhere that a contractor was paid to build ages ago. The contractor is out of business or doesn't support it anymore, but it works perfectly in its one little spot. Also an update is gonna cost a quarter of a million dollars.
I've seen disk chart meters at facilities that are 40+ years old and need a new disk chart every so often. You could replace it with a digital meter, but that won't integrate with the rest of the control panel and a third party took over production of the disks 15 years ago. The system works great and it's unlikely to be updated unless they stop making the disk charts.
Edit 2: the correct term is circular chart recorder
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 companies are making these now ancient parts for now ancient systems, and probably making a killing because nobody else makes them.
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.
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.
The "never obsolete" refers to a subscription service, where they would periodically send you updates somehow. LGR has a good video on this.
Holy shit my grandfather had this exact PC up until ten years ago or so lol
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.
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. Lack of VRAM is the only foreseeable issue.
This PC has the clocks and it rocks, but it was obsolete before you opened the box.
How many sales stickers can one machine have?
Seems like about every pubic US university was selling those back in the late 90's. So overpriced, even for the time!
Damn son you got dem AGP graphics! At least that is 1 thing that can be upgraded.
This was a computer for idiots even when it came out.
Reformat it and upgrade the RAM and it did pretty good.
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.
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.
Most of people use computers just for memes and emails, so yea, it is never obsoleted
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?
Chrome will still eat half of it.
All of it.
My cousins has an eMonster PC and I thought that was just the most insanely powerful PC.
Wasn't there a time when it was considered unfeasible that anyone would ever need more than a few kilobytes?
