I miss early 2000s LAN parties.
I was the idiot that always brought the full tower and the biggest 14" CRT.
It was stupid, until people realized that I had brought all 1000mhz.
Leave some pussy for the rest of us...
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I still regularly go to LANs and sometimes host them. But have to fly to most of them. Some still have that 2000s charm.
I can SMELL this image ❤️ Stale pizza, sweat mixed with dusty air, the smokers who just got back in, food trampled into the floor, empty beer cans…
The ravers had warehouse gigs but we all ended the same - bleary eyed and smelly people having the time of their lives, regrettably packing it up and reentering the real world. I miss LAN parties.
ThinkGeek or somewhere used to sell one of these things that also had staps to carry it on your back. I always wanted one, but at the same time I didn't have any friends who also had PCs to have anywhere to take it for actual LAN parties. I'd just join them at the game cafe that used to be here. Used to carry around a usb drive with my configs for games I played at home because the cafe computers would always just get reset to defaults.
I'm actually curious... What are these called? I want one for boxes this shaped.
The one I had was called a GearGrip Pro.
I got myself one of these sexy little boxes. Holds a full ATX board, 2 5.25 bays, 2 hot swappable 3.5 bays, and two internal 3.5 bays.
Coolermaster HAF XB Evo. Really wish they'd do a redesign of it to remove a bunch of vents that don't have dust covers. That and some better cable management
Modern version:
Some SFFPC cases even have handles.
That's an A4-sfx right? What's the bag you're using?
Not mine, sorry. It's a random example from the internet.
I had that Dan case…got tired of trying to find gfx cards that fit and keeping everything cool.
Just went open frame and I’m much happier…and has a handle.
Now I could slap a 3090 on it…and it’s still relatively small. Larger than the Dan of course.
Unironically, what is that kind of strap called? I have a (much smaller) PC begging for one.
Searching "PC tower carrying strap" brings up numerous options on Google. Looks like you can pick one up for ~$20.
I, too, want to know what that strap is called... For a friend
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Weird, I was just thinking about my PC strap that I have no idea where it went.
I think I used it more for taking parcels to the post office than I did my PC tower. The thing was surprisingly useful.
Why the parallel cable tho?
Pc-to-pc direct communication via parallel cable was a thing. I had completely forgotten about it
DVI or VGA monitor cable maybe?
Might be a serial cable for null modem play
Printing scores?
That's how old the picture is.
I had one of these…
The matching case was like 48 pounds straight out of the box. Then you had to put a computer in it. Just the front door on the case was like 10 pounds of aluminum. That strap made that beast way more manageable. I still have that case in the basement. It was just too ridiculously solid to get rid of.
Now I have a gaming computer I can shove in a backpack. Computers have come a long way.
So what did you do for the screen?
Woah! That's sick!
Geargrip! They sponsored one of our LAN events back in the early 2000's. Great stuff.
I still have mine :) I still use it every few years, though just for moving the pc to a new appartment, it's been forever since I was on a LAN party... Though mine is the basoc model, without the attachments for keaboard and cables
I still have this GearGrip beauty somewhere amongst my circa 2000 LAN Gear. LPANE for life
If I wanted a portable MS-DOS PC I'd either build one using PC-104 in a smaller case or I'd just build myself a WeeCee.
