pre-2007 computers

[Anonymous No.8731081]

which are your favorites? I just me one of pic related, can't wait for it to arrive.

[Anonymous No.8731116]

Compaq Presario 5000. My parents bought this in 2001 and put XP on it. I was around six years old at the time and it was responsible for fostering my enduring internet addiction. Played some pretty good games on there, too.

[Anonymous No.8731124]

>>8731081
im not an apple guy but i always thought the g3 was the coolest looking desktop

[Anonymous No.8731135]

>>8731124
I've had to smack myself on the wrist to keep myself from buying one of those or an eMac several times in the last few years.

[Anonymous No.8731148]

>>8731081
my grandparents had one of these

[Anonymous No.8731149]

forgot pic

[Anonymous No.8731164]

One's that aren't pure torture to work with, this laptop being the worst one when attempting to install Windows 98.

[Anonymous No.8731183]

I always wanted one of these.

[Anonymous No.8731205]

>>8731183
more like packard hell

[Anonymous No.8731207]

>>8731124
>>8731135
>no expandibility whatsoever
typical nu-apple shit. even the TAM had a PCI slot.

[Anonymous No.8731208]

>>8731207
yeah well all i said was it looked cool

[Anonymous No.8731212]

>>8731207
Yeah, what the other guy said. I just think the all in one with a tube form factor looks cool. There's a reason I don't actually own one

[Anonymous No.8731221]

>>8731081
My white whale. The CRT Vaio line is breathtaking. I've always loved these silver/purple Vaio models. Picrel is the diamond of that line. My friend growing up had a Vaio without the purple around 2003-4.
Picrel was jap only although NA got the aesthetically similar PCV-RX550.
This is peak Y2K, it doesn't get ANY better than this.

[Anonymous No.8731295]

First computer I remember us having was an Acer Aspire (don't remember the model number). Don't remember the amount of RAM, HDD space, or CPU (probably a Pentium). It had Windows 95 on it, with Acer's proprietary ACE desktop frontend. It was bundled with several games on CD-ROM, but I forget what games it came with vs the games we bought in some multipack collection that you find in like a CompUSA type store. I remember we had D/Generation (fun as shit), The Psychotron (always would get stuck at some safe or keypad lock or something. The game would never let you proceed), Commander Blood (which is probably my all-time favorite point & click. Still mad the sequel was French-exclusive and no one has ever translated it yet), Descent (might've been shareware version), Let's Explore the Airport (Humongous Entertainment point & click for kids), MegaRace, Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit (might've been shareware version), Doom (definitely shareware version), some licensed Are You Afraid of the Dark point & click (I remember being scared as shit of one of the guys that was cut in half), Epic Pinball, Crystal Caliburn (another pinball game, but for some reason, the game would never load. To this day, I have never played it), Pac-in-Time (some Pac-Man spinoff. Again, never worked so never played it), Dragon Lore (never worked. Assuming this is either a WRPG or a point & click), Ultimate Domain (never worked. Don't even have a clue what it is supposed to be.), and probably a ton of other shit I'm forgetting.
Then we had a Dell Dimension 8100 (I think), with like 256MB RAM (RDRAM, not even DDR), a 30GB HDD, and a Pentium 4. Windows ME (later installed XP on it in like 2007, but seems like it performed even worse). Don't remember it including any games besides the built-in Windows shit like the Space Cadet Pinball. I remember I got the PC version of Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone, and one of my mom's co-workers gifted me a burnt disc of some chess game called Chess Mates.

[Anonymous No.8731326]

>>8731295
Oh, and I also had some edition of Amazon Trail. Don't remember which, though.

[Anonymous No.8731327]

>>8731081
>I just accidentally the whole pic related
How much did you overpay for that garbage?

>>8731124
Always massively overpriced but some macs were real purdy. Cube and mini were also cute but nearly as gimped at the iMac. Some of the G4 towers were nice, and actually useful. If you get the right model you can get pretty good compatibility with relatively fast speed. Unfortunately Mac gaming was always garbage, so really irrelevant to /vr/.

[Anonymous No.8731337]

>>8731221
This pic is giving me a boaner

[Anonymous No.8731342]

>>8731081

I have never actually owned a pre-built machine. Like a Compaq, Sony, or a Dell. Going all the way back to 1999, almost every PC that I have ever owned, except for the first one. Was custom built by me. I bought my first PC from a local computer store, tat built their own custom PC's. The first PC I ever owned had a Pentium Celeron 466MHz CPU, 64MB RAM and an ATi RagePro 64. I then upgraded that PC to have 128MB RAM, and a Geforce 256. But after that PC, everyone that I owned was custom built by me.

[Anonymous No.8731347]

>>8731081 (OP)

I have never actually owned a brand name pre-built machine. Like a Compaq, Sony, or a Dell. Going all the way back to 1999, almost every PC that I have ever owned, except for the first one. Was custom built by me. I bought my first PC from a local computer store, that built their own custom PC's. The first PC I ever owned had a Pentium Celeron 466MHz CPU, 64MB RAM and an ATi RagePro 64. I then upgraded that PC to have 128MB RAM, and a Geforce 256. But after that PC, everyone that I owned was custom built by me.

[Anonymous No.8731373]

>>8731116
ayyy where my PRESARIO bros at? Got this in sept '01 right before 9/11

came with some fun cd games like NFS porche

[Anonymous No.8731475]

>>8731327
>irrelevant
Who died and made (you) king of /vr/?

[Anonymous No.8731497]

>>8731327
>How much did you overpay for that garbage?
Got it for $200 lol

[Anonymous No.8731507]

>>8731081
Apple II clone we got at Sears.

[Anonymous No.8731529]

>>8731221
i have the boaner too.

[Anonymous No.8731573]

>>8731373
I had the same computer, wasn't bad at all

[Anonymous No.8731751]

>>8731475
>bootyblasted clutist
Cope harder

>>8731497
I wish I could believe you're trolling

[Anonymous No.8731806]

>>8731081
Ergo Brick. 486 version. Size of a ream of paper, which was unbelievable at the time. Intended to use in living room for layback DOS gaming and emulation but couldn't stomach the cost. Ended up buying pizza box 486 that worked fine but wasn't nearly as cool.

[Anonymous No.8731813]

>>8731751
>I wish I could believe you're trolling
how else was I supposed to get one? patrol every goodwill and salvation army in my area for the next 10 years in the hopes that one day I happen to find the exact unit I was looking for? I don't live in an area where old tech like this can be easily found.

[Anonymous No.8731815]

>>8731751
>I wish I could believe you're trolling
how else was I supposed to get one? patrol every goodwill and salvation army in my area for the next 10 years in the hopes that one day I"ll get lucky and find the exact unit I was looking for? I don't live in an area where old tech like this can be easily found.

[Anonymous No.8731858]

>>8731081
Any of the all-in-ones, preferably with built in speakers. A guy used to bring his to trading parties and it was much easier than lugging in standard pc and monitor. His had a TV card and one could watch tv in a resizable window while doing normal computing tasks.

[Anonymous No.8731867]

[Anonymous No.8731930]

>>8731815
>how else was I supposed to get one?
That's a trick question, right?
>I"ll get lucky and find the exact unit I was looking for?
If you were actually luck you'd never find one. They're garbage.

[Anonymous No.8731973]

>>8731573
>>8731373
still use the keyboard as my daily

[Anonymous No.8731987]

>>8731507
Sweet! An Apple //c clone.

[Anonymous No.8731991]

I just bought one of these from goodwill for a new build, but it was missing one of the front case parts and I haven't been able to find a replacement.

[Anonymous No.8732019]

I am unreasonably horny for Vaios.

[Anonymous No.8732020]

>>8731081
those things weigh a fuckton...

[Anonymous No.8732130]

Slight topic divergence: Recommend games to play on an XP machine. As long as it's playable on windows xp, release year doesnt really matter.
Hard mode: not already on vsrecommended games

[Anonymous No.8732163]

Macintosh LC with 12" monitor, System 6.0.8.
Super comfy.

(But fuck that keyboard particular keyboard model.)

[Anonymous No.8732171]

>>8731373
I thought it was the coolest thing ever because it had clear purple plastic and you could mount the speakers on the sides of the monitor. Oh, and below the power button was a secret storage space for 4 discs!

[Anonymous No.8732172]

>>8732130
Feeding Frenzy

[Anonymous No.8732513]

Commodore Amiga 1200

[Anonymous No.8732519]

>>8731081
You do realize these have SHIT displays, right? Like utterly unusable for anything besides reading and typing text.

[Anonymous No.8732549]

Not so much a computer as much as software, but I miss trackers as a major thing like you wouldn't believe.

[Anonymous No.8732618]

>>8731221
Why can't they make such insanely beautiful cases anymore?
Everything is just basic glass and mesh shit now.

[based god. No.8732631]

>>8731149
when u consider today that the cheapest phone you can find has 9 times that things hardware or more it really sinks in that this pc was ironic the day it was made.

[Anonymous No.8732637]

>>8731858
Would a TV tuner card even work in the modern age? I found an old b&w TV/radio combo unit in my house one day, but I couldn't pick up any signals on it no matter how I adjusted the antenna. I remember hearing the analog networks were all shut down in the early 2010s.

[Anonymous No.8732652]

>pre 2007 computers

Reading comprehesion. Computers from 2001 to 2007 are not /vr/

[Anonymous No.8733425]

>>8731295
>>8731326
Samefag here. Holy fuck, I actually found the Acer Aspire! Apparently, it only had 1GB hard drive, 16MB RAM, and like a Pentium clocked to 120Mhz.
This pic doesn't show the Acer Computer Explorer frontend/GUI, though. So I'll show that in my next post. Also, this pic appears to be Windows 98 installed, but the one I had was definitely Windows 95

[Anonymous No.8733430]

>>8731164
>slap the install disc(bootable) into the drive
>start setup.exe
?

[Anonymous No.8733439]

>>8731337
What pic was it?

[Anonymous No.8733443]

>>8733439
horsecocks and cp

[Anonymous No.8733450]

>>8733443
Ah I see, replier must have been a Janny.

[Anonymous No.8733456]

>>8733425
So yeah, this was the Acer Computer Explorer (ACE) UI. Except, it was fullscreen, not windowed because it wasn't running in a VM (but I guess it was similar to borderless fullscreen or something, because I could still access the taskbar and Start menu). I never even knew what the regular Windows desktop was supposed to look like until I got that second Dell computer I mentioned. Basically, all the games bundled with the ACE suite would appear in this Games folder, and you would insert the applicable CD-ROM in order to play it. For the games not included, like anything bundled with Windows or anything you installed separately, you would access from the Start menu.
Holy fuck, I am having a nostalgia rush! Thanks for making this thread, OP. Finally remembering forgotten shit from my childhood.

[Anonymous No.8733476]

>>8732652
Was just thinking that. The 2007 timeframe only applies for systems from 2001 or prior

[Anonymous No.8733509]

>can I join the club?

[Anonymous No.8733531]

>>8733430
That only worked with Windows 95 OEM disc. But with 98 SE, 2000 and ME I had constant technical problems like:
>the setup command not working
>install program complaining about lack of space
>ME's boot disk bug with fdisk that prevented me from deleting the partition because of lower case volume label name
and other issues I faced that doesn't come to my mind at the moment.

Windows 95 OEM install disc being the solution was a miracle because I genuinely though it was going to be impossible to install any kind of Windows operating system to that laptop.

Captcha: WDMR0

[Anonymous No.8733538]

>>8733509
idk why the dude isnt using a vga monitor tho

[Anonymous No.8733554]

>>8733531
I've had some weird issues with win98 install disc too but those have always been due to hardware that's too new or just hard drives formatted to something stupid. I guess it can be finicky.

[Anonymous No.8733801]

For me, it's PCem

[Anonymous No.8733824]

>>8731991
This looks sick, is it a case? Can you fit modern components in it?
>>8732637
Likely not. Depending where you are, they are not transmitting on the old signals anymore.
>>8733538
Because based Dreamcast had a VGA adapter and some games could be played in semi-HD 20 years ago.

[Anonymous No.8733918]

>>8733439
It was a light purple Sony Vaio desktop with a couple of nice speakers, an orange LCD screen on the tower and a remote, presumably for use as a hi-fi setup. Not sure why it was deleted

[Anonymous No.8734074]

>>8733918
/vr/ jannies are that retarded, huh?

[Anonymous No.8734080]

>>8733918
been seeing a lot of bs deleted posts the last few days i think they're using some new AI moderation

[Anonymous No.8734365]

>>8733918
>>8734080
Yeah, I was wondering the same. It's strange because the other Vaio >>8731867 is still there.

[Anonymous No.8734416]

>>8731116
>>8731124
>>8731135
Style over substance garbage.
Same marketing that sells RGB prebuilds nowadays

[Anonymous No.8734419]

>>8734416
>wahhh wahhhhhhh wahhhhh WAHHHH WAHHHHHH WAHHHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.8734426]

>>8734419
Likely how you sounded when these computers were new zoomer

[Anonymous No.8734439]

>>8734426
I wonder if anything you've ever posted is conducive to conversation. Or is it just incessant bitching and complaining so people will give away the (you). Someone likes something you don't like so you just cry about it. Who is the zoomer? Sad thing is I can probably agree with your point of view, and STILL agree those look cool. Sad.

[Anonymous No.8734508]

>>8731124
I just bought one recently and they are. I thought they were too "kiddy" as a kid, but I was also a fucking retard. They're great.
Typically not a Mac guy, but it's been fun going back and playing with some games I missed out on.

[Anonymous No.8734786]

>>8734439
His pov may have had merit 20 years ago, but now I cannot imagine what flavor of retard could possibly give a shit. Damn near any older hardware is style over substance at this point. It's not like you're going to be doing any 4k gaming on your 1999 custom build. Most things can be emulated. It's a stupid non-argument and the dude just wants (you)s because hes a degenerate dopamine addict.
>fuck these things
>why
>because 20 years ago people didn't realize how mediocre the hardware in them was! zoomerzoomerzoomer!
Insanity.

[Anonymous No.8734787]

>>8731081
Sleeker than any apple product.

[Anonymous No.8736158]

>>8734787
the spectrum is cheap garbage.

[Anonymous No.8736293]

>>8732163
>The old rainbow apple logo
>Arrow keys arranged horizontally along the bottom
Really takes me back. I can't believed I used to play games with those arrow keys

[Anonymous No.8736301]

>>8734416
I'll give you that for the Macs, but you might be retarded with regards to the Presario. That thing was genuinely a very good computer

[Anonymous No.8736312]

>>8734074
>>8734080
>>8734365
I'm guessing that the person who posted it got banned for something else and all of their posts from that day were deleted indiscriminately. Anyways, here's that post if you don't wanna bother hunting it down:
>My white whale. The CRT Vaio line is breathtaking. I've always loved these silver/purple Vaio models. Picrel is the diamond of that line. My friend growing up had a Vaio without the purple around 2003-4.
>Picrel was jap only although NA got the aesthetically similar PCV-RX550.
>This is peak Y2K, it doesn't get ANY better than this.

[Anonymous No.8736523]

This thing was a nightmare of a multimedia PC that genuinely didn't work under its default OS of Win95, and they never developed Win98 drivers for shit like the LCD touch panel, but it was a weird beast and ours and I have a soft spot for it

[Anonymous No.8736625]

>>8731149
>never obsolete
HAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.8736646]

>>8736625
If you read the smaller print the idea was that you could supposedly trade the thing in every few years. No idea if that was ever a thing anyone ever managed to do

[Anonymous No.8736656]

>>8736646
Kinda like how phone plans are nowadays. "Finance this phone over a two year contract, and after the first year, you can upgrade to the new model and start over the plan"

[Anonymous No.8736882]

>>8736656
Something like that would have made much more sense for PCs back in the 90s than for anything else, really.

[Anonymous No.8736890]

>>8731081
I know you think this is soooo aesthetic, zoomy, but no one in their right mind would want to use a retro flat panel.

[Anonymous No.8736916]

>>8731164
works on my machine

[Anonymous No.8736947]

>>8736625
While a 500mhz is far from the "never obsolete" mark, I'd borderline say an HT P4 with a gig of RAM is. I'm still able to browse with MyPal + XP on it. It ain't great, but it works. If I were insane enough I could daily drive it.

[Anonymous No.8737038]

>>8736882
Just would've been a bitch to migrate your data to the new machine in the pre-ubiquitous internet, pre-USB storage days. But then again, I guess back then, most games and stuff ran off of the floppy/CD-ROM, and installs weren't really necessary.

[Anonymous No.8737053]

>>8737038
>would've been a bitch to migrate your data
Not if you had one of these bad boys.

[Anonymous No.8737059]

>>8737053
I, for one, didn't even know zip drives were a thing back then until after they were already obsolete.

[Anonymous No.8737064]

>>8736916
Lucky

[Anonymous No.8737073]

>>8737064
you got the XE3?
It's weird to me that yours can't take Win98, since that's what it is made for and came pre-installed on them

[Anonymous No.8737079]

>>8737073
Yes its the XE3 model. It did successfully install both 98 and 2000 before I blanked out the HDD. But after I wanted to install 98 again, that's when it suddenly went full retard mode and gave me tons of trouble.

[Anonymous No.8737084]

>>8737079
weird
hope you can get it going, it's a nice machine

[Anonymous No.8737128]

>>8737084
I did get it working after going through all that hassle by installing 95 first, then Me.
Only problem is that I have to wait for the laptop to run out of batteries if I attempt to shut it down through normal means.

[Anonymous No.8737196]

>>8737059
They did last just five years or so.

[Anonymous No.8737221]

>>8737196
Guy that had the Acer Aspire here. I was like 5 when I got that computer. I probably didn't find out about zip drives until just randomly finding an article on them on Wikipedia when I was in high school.

[Anonymous No.8737424]

>>8733824
Yes, any MicroATX board will fit. A lot of folks in Japan have posted rebuilds. Here's a picture of one of the messier ones.

[Anonymous No.8737462]

Guys, please stop making me want to buy a new AC adapter for my P4 Dell laptop so I can dust it off and see if it still works after all these years. I'm already working on refurbishing a laptop, I really should not drop money on another one.

[Anonymous No.8737474]

>>8737462
For such an old system you could get away with a cheaper power supply. It depends on how badly the thing was overclocked by intel though. I stick with laptops from that era as they take up less space. I also recently fixed an old laptop and had to take the whole thing apart to clean off the completely solid thermal paste. Literally took hours rubbing with a Qtip because of the direct die cooling and I didn't want to risk damaging it

[Anonymous No.8737543]

>>8736625
Depends what you're using it for. If you use a computer just for a word processor, email, ftp, or whatever, then it isn't obsolete.

[Anonymous No.8737546]

>obsessed with 95-XP era hardware and CRTs
>have approximately 0.5 square meters of space for all of it

[Anonymous No.8737561]

>>8731973
I do the same lmfao, I got from an old presario my dad had when I was a kid, it's a bit yellow tho

[Anonymous No.8737590]

>>8737424
Nice! Where can you find this kind of cases? Japanese Yahoo auction?

[Anonymous No.8737621]

Its design has aged shockingly well

[Anonymous No.8737746]

>>8737561
>an old presario my dad had when I was a kid
Stop making me feel ancient.

[Anonymous No.8737942]

>>8736523
it looks like a gorilla

[Anonymous No.8738004]

>>8737474
>For such an old system you could get away with a cheaper power supply. It depends on how badly the thing was overclocked by intel though. I stick with laptops from that era as they take up less space. I also recently fixed an old laptop and had to take the whole thing apart to clean off the completely solid thermal paste. Literally took hours rubbing with a Qtip because of the direct die cooling and I didn't want to risk damaging it
It's more I want to finish my current project. I've heard that the capacitor plague effects P4 boards pretty badly, so I really should checkI it before it possibly gets worse though. Intel did some black magic when they stuffed a desktop CPU into a laptop though, not to mention the laptop hits heat levels that are pretty unhealthy. Laptop is solid as a rock at least.

[Anonymous No.8738023]

This was my first PC, mostly played Hover3d and 3d movie maker on it. Had 256 MB of ram and a Pentium II processor, IIRC.
Later we'd get a Dell Dimension 2400, which eventually I'd put a graphics card in to play Half-Life 2

[Anonymous No.8738063]

Compaq Presario 4505
I think it came with a copy of Virtual On otherwise I have no idea where that game came from, my parents didn't buy me games unless it was either my birthday or if I did well in school so it must have been some kind of promotion.

[Anonymous No.8738071]

>>8738063
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.8738852]

>>8737590
They are more plentiful in Japan, but they occasionally appear on ebay. There's one there right now but he guy is asking $400, which is pretty crazy for a 17 year old machine.

[Anonymous No.8739016]

[Anonymous No.8740515]

[Anonymous No.8740608]

>>8734416
For the iMac and eMac's intended use case? Absolutely not. Intentionally easy for children and boomers to use at a "reasonable" price. eMac even had a Trinitron, so it's not too bad to look at.

[Anonymous No.8740639]

[Anonymous No.8740769]

>>8740639

[Anonymous No.8740786]

>>8737053
*fails on your*
heh, nothing personal, data hoarder

[Anonymous No.8740915]

>>8731081
a 486 or anything using Pentium III

Anything Voodoo to go with it

[Anonymous No.8741762]

>>8731081
Favorites by look are definitely the FM Towns with its front facing CD-ROM drive, the dual-tower Sharp X68000, and pretty much any NEC computer of the day. Of the ones I've used, I have grown very fond of my 286-12>386DX-40>486DX4-100, Pentium MMX 233, P3-1400, Athlon XP 3200+, Athlon X2 4600+, and i7-2600k.

>>8733425
One of my cousins had this green PC. I think it was a K6 processor. I recently discarded the keyboard and mouse last year (had no use and no storage space, did not get the computer/monitor).

[Anonymous No.8741852]

>>8731149
>designed for Windows 96

Wait, what?

[Anonymous No.8742815]

>>8738071
My first family PC. Still have it, tough little machine.

[Anonymous No.8743403]

>>8737038
>Just would've been a bitch to migrate your data to the new machine in the pre-ubiquitous internet, pre-USB storage days.
Not wrong. I did this several times back in the day, sometimes with a giant stack of floppies, sometimes with a null-modem cable I crimped myself, using a program called FastLynx. Then I tried to do it from a Windows 98 computer to a newer machine and FastLynx, being a DOS program, lost all the long file names.

[Anonymous No.8744145]

>>8736646
Compaq had a similar sort of deal for leased machines in the early-mid 90's. People got regular upgrades and it all worked out pretty well until performance when up and price went down and people could get an off brand machine that was better than what they were leasing for 3-4 months of lease payments.

>>8737038
lmao. You just pulled the drive out of the old machine and put it in the new one. If you were a fucktard who didn't have a separate drive for programs and data you'd have to copy shit but still easy as fuck. If you wanted to copy over a LAN you didn't need "ubiquitous internet". The "L" stands for local.