Peak 90’s nostalgia: Silverstone’s new beige PC case

[the_matrix_guy]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/pc-...ith-nostalgia/

[scottieb]

I love this.

[William the Third]

*Looks into the sky and thinks about the flash games era*

<pedantic>If that computer was period correct, and not just a case, it would predate the Flash game era by quite a bit.</pedantic>

[SPSheep]

I need to build a new tower (current one is nearly 10 years old) and this looks interesting!

[SignOfZeta]

<pedantic>If that computer was period correct, and not just a case, it would predate the Flash game era by quite a bit.</pedantic>

No joke. Three five inch floppy drives implies zero hard disc and likely not even color graphics. It doesn’t look like something that could play those cool Metallica Napster videos. Most computers that looked like that ran banking software on a green 9” screen.

[Ramfaux]

*looks over at rusty but trusty 20 year old OG antec 900 thats still kicking*

As cool as this is, gotta stick with a real classic. Vintage > retro any day.

[martix_agent]

No joke. Three five inch floppy drives implies zero hard disc and likely not even color graphics. It doesn’t look like something that could play those cool Metallica Napster videos. Most computers that looked like that ran banking software on a green 9” screen.

ehh, i think the windows 3.1 era pc could possibly match this era. Those were using color monitors and had a 386/486 in them. Hard drives, and sound cards were also a thing at that point.

[SignOfZeta]

Things existing and things being in common use aren’t the same thing. In, for example, 1988 the only computers that were guaranteed to have 16-bit graphics and sound were Amiga and Atari. Most IBM PCs in actual use could only make beeping sounds for most of the 80s and had CGA color. Most Macs were b/w.

Windows 3.1 wasn’t available until 1990 and it was mainly sold on 3” floppies. Although I’m sure they also sold it to you on 5” by request. I’d really like to know what user in that year would have 3 nearly obsolete 5” floppy drives and no 3” though, hard drive or no.

Normally having three floppy drives indicates no HD. It was the no-HD power users setup. One for the OS, one for the program, one for saving work. Once you had even a 20MB HD there wouldn’t be much point in having three floppy drives unless you ran a floppy drive duplication service or something.

One of the most punishing setups on earth was the OG Apple Macintosh. One floppy, no HD. You had to swap discs five times before you could get to “It was a dark and stormy night” and once more before you could save it.

[martix_agent]

Things existing and things being in common use aren’t the same thing. In, for example, 1988 the only computers that were guaranteed to have 16-bit graphics and sound were Amiga and Atari. Most IBM PCs in actual use could only make beeping sounds for most of the 80s and had CGA color. Most Macs were b/w.

Windows 3.1 wasn’t available until 1990 and it was mainly sold on 3” floppies. Although I’m sure they also sold it to you on 5” by request. I’d really like to know what user in that year would have 3 nearly obsolete 5” floppy drives and no 3” though, hard drive or no.

Normally having three floppy drives indicates no HD. It was the no-HD power users setup. One for the OS, one for the program, one for saving work. Once you had even a 20MB HD there wouldn’t be much point in having three floppy drives unless you ran a floppy drive duplication service or something.

One of the most punishing setups on earth was the OG Apple Macintosh. One floppy, no HD. You had to swap discs five times before you could get to “It was a dark and stormy night” and once more before you could save it.

I somehow missed all the 5" floppy drives. yea you're probably right about this.

[Tarsun2]

this was before my time but every time i read the thread title, i keep thinking its "Silverstein nostalgia" as in the band and their OG album "18 Candles" which was around the same time.

[vijil]

I love it. Would match with a Lofree kbm combo: https://www.lofree.co/products/lofre...44242489278683

Doesn't bother me that the 5 1/4 inch isn't strictly period correct. It's just all about the vibes man.

I'd really like a similarly themed retro case for my phone, but those are very hard to come by outside of iphones.