That’s not '90s; those computers are running Windows XP!
Also, that’s a lot of monitors for two computers (assuming one attached to the laptop), let alone just one. Matrox video card?
There’s a black computer under the desk along with that plywood PC on the desk.
I’m guessing the plywood box with its three optical drives was their Linux home server/netflix ripper and is probably feeding that console output on the top monitor.
I definitely did not spend a bunch of time at a house full of engineers circa 2001 that had a similar setup…
I only think the top drive is optical. The two below it look like removable HDDs. Too pixelized to be certain.
Very fair, but that wouldn’t make me significantly less confident in my guess, LOL. 700MB DVD rips fill up a turn of the century hard drive pretty quick. :-)
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Looks like the laptop is running xp and the desktop is running vista or 7
The plywood computer… Chefs kiss
Love the wooden pc. We should bring that back asap.
They were probably just nostalgic for wood grain electronics.
That Toshiba satellite isn’t fooling anyone, that is straight out of the early 2000s!
WIndows XP running on it isnt fooling anyone either.
Found a slightly higher res version, but our Scandinavian(?) juggler friend here is tough to track down.
Is that a cpu socket on a riser?
Yeah, wtf? Socket 370 to slot 1 adapter.
But whys he got the whole slot ripped out of the motherboard?
I wasn’t sure before but at that resolution it definitely looks like there’s a Pentium 2 and that weird vertical CPU slot they had for a while on the left hand corner of the desk.
Those risers were for Pentium III and Celeron CPU’s.
I’m currently running two modified Tualatin 1.4GHz CPU’s in a 440BX board using two of those slotkets (slot -> socket adapter).
That wooden computer case is Barney Badass!
holy crap, they’ve got a PDA!
I can hear this picture.
I would kill to own this room and everything in it
Funny how pictures like these reduce my nostalgia rather than increase it. I really don’t miss those monitors that were simultaneously tiny and huge. If any could handle 720p, they would have been high end. Moving them sucked, especially any that had a flat screen because they needed a lot more glass to properly refract the light.
And that tiny laptop might have been considered large for the time, too.
Edit: I do like that case, though. It’s probably lacking in air circulation and the components might not be properly grounded, but it looks decent.
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