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This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Wasn't that called the optiplex, or something similar? Pretty sure I had one myself.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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~~ Dimension model which was the consumer version of it.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

You’re real close to the “capacitor of death” models there. GX270s failed like a motherfucker.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

We could swap those boards out and in like a fucking NASCAR pit crew.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Between the capacitor plague and the tin whiskers from the phaseout of lead, hardware from that era failed constantly.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

We somehow avoided that, luckily.

I had the pleasure of getting sold a cheap power supply though. It was rather fascinating to learn that, indeed, even burning hardware can still provide sufficient power to play games (for a few seconds).

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

We did this too lol.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The one in the pic says Dimension 2400 on it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I mean to say Dimension and typed Precision. My bad.

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