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[spaceman]

Its the new aesthetic
beige monoliths are coming back

 

[FelixDeCat]

Roflumilast cream 0.3%, for topical use only.

 

[brianmanahan]

beige can not come back fast enough! i loved it.

when i get a house i'm going to have an old computer temple and set up my beige commodore 64 and maybe get a compaq presario like the one i loved

 

[WilliamM2]

I retired my biege beauty 4 years ago. I still have the (empty) case in the basement. I grew attached to it after using it for 19+ years.



Now I have a white case, black is boring.

 

[Red Squirrel]

All my systems are currently in my server rack, so I tend to go for black/rackmount. But I do kinda miss the old beige PC towers. Those cases were also built like tanks, and weigh like one.

I totally love the idea of setting up a computer lab with old PCs, have different era PCs with respective OSes. I would do something like a Win3.11 machine, 95, 98, 2000, XP. Then other vintage ones like a Commodore 64 and such. I may need to add a 3rd storey to my cabin build. Nostalgia room in a finished attic space would be pretty awesome.

 

[lxskllr]

I'd like to have a dark brown case. Everyone bitched about classic Ubuntu's brown theming, but I thought it looked understated and elegant, without being 'yet another black'.

 

[WilliamM2]

All my systems are currently in my server rack, so I tend to go for black/rackmount. But I do kinda miss the old beige PC towers. Those cases were also built like tanks, and weigh like one.

I totally love the idea of setting up a computer lab with old PCs, have different era PCs with respective OSes. I would do something like a Win3.11 machine, 95, 98, 2000, XP. Then other vintage ones like a Commodore 64 and such. I may need to add a 3rd storey to my cabin build. Nostalgia room in a finished attic space would be pretty awesome.

It wieghs 25 lbs empty. Antec SX800, one of the heaviest at the time.Hard to believe, but my Fractal Define R6 actually weighs MORE, at 27 lbs empty.

I had access to many of these at work, and swapped some parts. When I first got it, it had a floppy holder:

 

[lxskllr]

I think I might have one of those cases in the basement. It was a P3 based server.

 

[WilliamM2]

I used to upgrade constantly in the early 2000's, technology seemed to move faster then.
I think this one started as anAthlon 1Ghz. Then a faster Athlon, a P4, a Core2Duo, Core2Quad, couple i5's. Last build in it was a i5 6600K (pictured).

 

[Iron Woode]

I retired my biege beauty 4 years ago. I still have the (empty) case in the basement. I grew attached to it after using it for 19+ years.
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Now I have a white case, black is boring.

I have nearly the same case sitting in my room collecting dust. Except mine doesn't have a clear side panel.

 

[WilliamM2]

I have nearly the same case sitting in my room collecting dust. Except mine doesn't have a clear side panel.

Back then, you had to put in your own clear panel.