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I drooled over all that stuff but couldn't afford it. Now I might be able to afford some of the workstations I coveted as a kid, but they can hardly do anything
by drewzero1 4y ago
I drooled over all that stuff but couldn't afford it. Now I might be able to afford some of the workstations I coveted as a kid, but they can hardly do anything by today's standards. Some of them can heat a room pretty well at least.
- mlyle 4y agoThe stuff I like is from an era where machines weren't too power hungry. Typical supplies were 150W, though not very efficient. The main thing is-- it was all very nice sheet metal; they'd thought about RAS, etc; tantalum capacitors everywhere instead of aluminum electrolytic; etc. Today, machines probably have a much longer useful life than ever before, but are built more cheaply and disposable than before. If you buy a high-end ThinkStation or whatever, you basically get an ordinary PC with a nicer CPU inside. I resented my dad buying a PS/2 when I was growing up because it had poor game compatibility and couldn't run (early) Linux... acquired one for nostalgia and found that it has a whole lot of the things I liked about late 90's Unix workstations inside.