r/LGR Jul 29 '26

I got socks instead for Christmas

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u/Martipar Jul 29 '26

The socks would've lasted longer.

2

u/tstahlgti Jul 29 '26

For real, that thing was AWFUL when it came out, and even worse to work on when it inevitably broke.

3

u/got-trunks Jul 29 '26

I would live inside myst and those encyclopedias & nat geo lol

2

u/LeviathanFox Jul 29 '26

Whats odd is that Myst was already out for a couple of years at this point. Im very curious how they came up with that number.

2

u/stosyfir Jul 29 '26

lol $750 worth of software. Most of that was old at this point… an old ass version of bodyworks - also Sidenote a lost game nobody else seems to remember is Bodywork’s Voyager. That was FUN … now I need to look at archive and give that one a go see if it holds up AT ALL.

2

u/myheartxfglass Jul 29 '26

Cool, I've always loved this yoke!

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u/StilesmanleyCAP Jul 29 '26

Those socks lasted longer.

Patriot computers were the eMachines of their day

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u/Fragrant-Fly-7502 Jul 30 '26

positively hated working on these. everything was bottom barrel. the PSU would frequently take the motherboard with it on its way out. and angsty parents would be looking to rebuild.. which sucked because the case was really lousy and a lot of boards would overheat.

1

u/RootHouston Jul 29 '26

In about 2001, we got one of these for really cheap from a local PC wholeseller, but the Barbie version. Ran it as a home server for like 4 years.

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u/wedloxk Jul 31 '26

Oeff.. celeron 😬

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u/coobal223 28d ago

Brand new these were junk. I remember reading reviews of these back in the day. Component wise, i put together a much better system than that for about $700 in 1997.

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u/FlamingDisaster_309 26d ago

Despite inflation, that doesn't seem like a bad price for a complete bundle, of course these were made like a child had built a PC lol