For context, the emachines "never obsolete" wasn't referring to this computer, it was a recycling program where you could send your old machine back and get a huge discount on your next one. It was actually a pretty good deal at the time, especially when your average family machine was a lot more expensive than they are today

Wow, that computer can run Windows 98? Here I am on Windows 11, not realizing that I'm 87 versions behind.

You conveniently blocked the part of the sticker saying what they mean by "never obsolete" with the red circle. IIRC, they gave you a massive discount to trade in your computer every 2 years for the latest model, so you were always up to date. Kinda like phones now.

What do you mean, this bad boy is probably powering a semi-critical government system somewhere, definitely not obsolete.

Edit: not even joking or shitting on it, there's probably a proprietary software system out there somewhere that a contractor was paid to build ages ago. The contractor is out of business or doesn't support it anymore, but it works perfectly in its one little spot. Also an update is gonna cost a quarter of a million dollars.

I've seen disk chart meters at facilities that are 40+ years old and need a new disk chart every so often. You could replace it with a digital meter, but that won't integrate with the rest of the control panel and a third party took over production of the disks 15 years ago. The system works great and it's unlikely to be updated unless they stop making the disk charts.

Edit 2: the correct term is circular chart recorder

God,the number of these I sold at Best buy....rolling my eyes the entire time...and making absolutely sure the customer understood exactly what that phrase meant in this ultra-scammy context...

Ended up not being able to handle that job. Something about literally full-time debunking of lies printed on everything in sight was exhausting for me.

Cmon that thing will run Linux like a champ!

The "never obsolete" refers to a subscription service, where they would periodically send you updates somehow. LGR has a good video on this.

Holy shit my grandfather had this exact PC up until ten years ago or so lol

What's the form factor? ATX?

Rip out the guts and slap in a Ryzen with some SSDs. Troll people by playing Farcry or something equally as demanding on it.

If it can still play SimCopter, the I have to agree.

This PC has the clocks and it rocks, but it was obsolete before you opened the box.

How many sales stickers can one machine have?

Seems like about every pubic US university was selling those back in the late 90's. So overpriced, even for the time!

Damn son you got dem AGP graphics! At least that is 1 thing that can be upgraded.

This was a computer for idiots even when it came out.

It will still run Windows 98 just fine.

My families first computer was a Goliath of an IBM tower. Similar gross color I believe. If someone came home suddenly when you were wackin' it you had to just unplug it because it took too long to get the porn off the screen and onto something else. It also would give you away at night with it's insane modem sounds when connecting to the Internet.

Reminds me of my first desktop PC.

Intel Pentium II 266Mhz, 64MB of RAM, 2.99GB HDD.

Of course a 3.5" floppy drive was also included, and a CD-R Reader.

I had to purchase a 33.6k modem separately, tho.

I think we had this exact computer when I was growing up.

Most of people use computers just for memes and emails, so yea, it is never obsoleted

Common ig has a Celeron!

It always baffles me when like the old hard drive fit in the RAM of am average today PC. What will it be in 10-20 years, 2TB RAM in an average PC?

antiX linux on a zip drive

Wasn't there a time when it was considered unfeasible that anyone would ever need more than a few kilobytes?

Holy Hell, i'm pretty sure that's fridge kick's doom 2 in at 30fps with a translucent ATX Case Upgrade (￣～￣)

My cousins has an eMonster PC and I thought that was just the most insanely powerful PC.

eMachines were obsolete two years before they were even built.

they just mean, you just need to replace each component and it will be good as new!

you know, motherboard,ram,ps,cpu. those drives prolly work today if you have an ide and floppy headers.. might need some molex power adapters

What's the problem here? That unit will do all your floppy disc needs until the end of time

The first PC I used growing up was the family e-machine. If nothing else it had good recognizable branding with that E power button design.

It's still good for some great retro gaming. Or maybe a server of some kind. So yeah, it's not obsolete yet.

i've got a couple old emachines mintowers here, one was redone with a new (at the time) athlon ii.

solid cases for reuse, just a little tight on space inside and zero airflow intake from the front (across where the hdd bracket is). neither really matter if you're not trying to put in a big video card and use ssd instead of hdd. so i just hang on to them in case i come across something new-ish to put in them.

My emachines etower 566 is my daily driver, am i my alone here? It's current year, and this thing is still not obsolete.

I remember buying an eMachine on credit. It used crazy expensive RDRAM

Lol... Wow. Its a trip to see what we thought we be future proof back then.