• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Funny how pictures like these reduce my nostalgia rather than increase it. I really don’t miss those monitors that were simultaneously tiny and huge. If any could handle 720p, they would have been high end. Moving them sucked, especially any that had a flat screen because they needed a lot more glass to properly refract the light.

    And that tiny laptop might have been considered large for the time, too.

    Edit: I do like that case, though. It’s probably lacking in air circulation and the components might not be properly grounded, but it looks decent.

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    4 months ago

    That’s not '90s; those computers are running Windows XP!

    Also, that’s a lot of monitors for two computers (assuming one attached to the laptop), let alone just one. Matrox video card?

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        4 months ago

        I’m guessing the plywood box with its three optical drives was their Linux home server/netflix ripper and is probably feeding that console output on the top monitor.

        I definitely did not spend a bunch of time at a house full of engineers circa 2001 that had a similar setup…

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          4 months ago

          I only think the top drive is optical. The two below it look like removable HDDs. Too pixelized to be certain.

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            4 months ago

            Very fair, but that wouldn’t make me significantly less confident in my guess, LOL. 700MB DVD rips fill up a turn of the century hard drive pretty quick. :-)

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      I wasn’t sure before but at that resolution it definitely looks like there’s a Pentium 2 and that weird vertical CPU slot they had for a while on the left hand corner of the desk.

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      4 months ago

      Is that a cpu socket on a riser?

      Yeah, wtf? Socket 370 to slot 1 adapter.

      But whys he got the whole slot ripped out of the motherboard?