This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
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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:
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The image is the ~~Precision~~ Dimension 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.
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).
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
We did this too lol.
The one in the pic says Dimension 2400 on it.
Yeah, I mean to say Dimension and typed Precision. My bad.