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
205What 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
61God,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.
40Damn son you got dem AGP graphics! At least that is 1 thing that can be upgraded.
12My 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.
9My cousins has an eMonster PC and I thought that was just the most insanely powerful PC.
7Holy Hell, i'm pretty sure that's fridge kick's doom 2 in at 30fps with a translucent ATX Case Upgrade (￣～￣)
7What's the problem here? That unit will do all your floppy disc needs until the end of time
6The 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.
5there 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.
5It's still good for some great retro gaming. Or maybe a server of some kind. So yeah, it's not obsolete yet.
4i've got a couple old emachines mintowers here, one was redone with a new (at the time) athlon ii.
solid cases for reuse, just a little tight on space inside and zero airflow intake from the front (across where the hdd bracket is). neither really matter if you're not trying to put in a big video card and use ssd instead of hdd. so i just hang on to them in case i come across something new-ish to put in them.
3I remember buying an eMachine on credit. It used crazy expensive RDRAM
2My emachines etower 566 is my daily driver, am i my alone here? It's current year, and this thing is still not obsolete.
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