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minus-squareAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoI’m exactly that old. Edit: The PC in the image is a bit anachronistic. This is the workhorse we’re all thinking of:
minus-squareKrackalot@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoWasn’t that called the optiplex, or something similar? Pretty sure I had one myself.
minus-squareAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoI had an Optipex from that era too. It was “horizontal” but could also stand vertically. It was the business model. This one, but beige: The image is the Precision model which was the consumer version of it.
minus-squarekbotc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoYou’re real close to the “capacitor of death” models there. GX270s failed like a motherfucker.
minus-squareoleorun@real.lemmy.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoWe could swap those boards out and in like a fucking NASCAR pit crew.
minus-squarekbotc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoBetween the capacitor plague and the tin whiskers from the phaseout of lead, hardware from that era failed constantly.
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoThe one in the pic says Dimension 2400 on it.
minus-squareAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoYeah, I mean to say Dimension and typed Precision. My bad.
minus-squareBakerBagel@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoWe use to flip the light gray flap all shift in computer lab in middle school. When we got bored with that, we figured out how to pop out the Dell logo and flip it upside down
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThat or the ol’ tan cased dinosaurs. The gray Dell helped me through many-a “100 Games!” disc…
minus-squareFrostyCaveman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoDell Dimension 2400. My family had the entry level model, and it still absolutely destroyed every prior computer we’d had performance-wise
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I’m exactly that old.
Edit: The PC in the image is a bit anachronistic. This is the workhorse we’re all thinking of:
Wasn’t that called the optiplex, or something similar? Pretty sure I had one myself.
I had an Optipex from that era too. It was “horizontal” but could also stand vertically. It was the business model.
This one, but beige:
The image is the Precision model which was the consumer version of it.
You’re real close to the “capacitor of death” models there. GX270s failed like a motherfucker.
We could swap those boards out and in like a fucking NASCAR pit crew.
Between the capacitor plague and the tin whiskers from the phaseout of lead, hardware from that era failed constantly.
The one in the pic says Dimension 2400 on it.
Yeah, I mean to say Dimension and typed Precision. My bad.
We use to flip the light gray flap all shift in computer lab in middle school. When we got bored with that, we figured out how to pop out the Dell logo and flip it upside down
That or the ol’ tan cased dinosaurs.
The gray Dell helped me through many-a “100 Games!” disc…
Dell Dimension 2400. My family had the entry level model, and it still absolutely destroyed every prior computer we’d had performance-wise