The Monorail: $999 All-In-One Windows PC from 1996!
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Se7enthson
Speaking of finding Pr0n on a secondhand device lol I once bought a 3DS off of Craigslist for my niece for her 12th birthday, Thankfully I went through it before wrapping it and giving it to her because the person advertised that it came with a 32GB micro SD card for extra storage and I wanted to make sure it was clear that way she could use the Nintendo gift card I got her along with it to buy a couple digital games or whatnot and it most def was not cleared. It was kind of disturbing now that I think back on it, not so much that he didn't clear it (I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and maybe he hadn't used it in a few months and forgot what was on there) but the more disturbing part was that it was that disgusting degrading borderline fantasy R--- shit, I am so glad I checked I can't imagine how much damage that could've done to a 12 year old girl seeing that. (I will also add just to ease ppls minds, yes I did clean the shit out of the console and stylus with rubbing alch and a toothbush a few times over lol. Even if I didn't find the Pr0n I would've but especially after lol)
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Speaking of finding Pr0n on a secondhand device lol I once bought a 3DS off of Craigslist for my niece for her 12th birthday, Thankfully I went through it before wrapping it and giving it to her because the person advertised that it came with a 32GB micro SD card for extra storage and I wanted to make sure it was clear that way she could use the Nintendo gift card I got her along with it to buy a couple digital games or whatnot and it most def was not cleared. It was kind of disturbing now that I think back on it, not so much that he didn't clear it (I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and maybe he hadn't used it in a few months and forgot what was on there) but the more disturbing part was that it was that disgusting degrading borderline fantasy R--- shit, I am so glad I checked I can't imagine how much damage that could've done to a 12 year old girl seeing that. (I will also add just to ease ppls minds, yes I did clean the shit out of the console and stylus with rubbing alch and a toothbush a few times over lol. Even if I didn't find the Pr0n I would've but especially after lol)
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Jerry
WOW, I remember when that came out, I thought I should have one but at the time I was a STOA in college and was living on the money that Workers Comp gave me to get re-educated from a Police Officer to Paralegal because of a line of duty accident. I was happy with the obsolete 386 SX with a vga monitor that I had purchased while still on the Job out of Computer Shopper back of magazine add blast. I later upgraded to a 486 and thought I had the world by the arm, man that was a great machine in it's day. Since I was the computer nerd in college having spent a year while waiting for college learning the PC, miles ahead of the normal student, when the word went out that I had upgraded I had people standing in line wanting my old machine I had just upgraded by floppy drive to the NEW Windows 95! Man that was slow on a 386 SX but the gal who purchased it wanted 95. I never did get my Monorail but the dream lived on till today. Thanks for the exploration. I once had a Compaq all in one, that had a CRT and was a nice machine, my sister got that as her first computer when I upgraded.
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WOW, I remember when that came out, I thought I should have one but at the time I was a STOA in college and was living on the money that Workers Comp gave me to get re-educated from a Police Officer to Paralegal because of a line of duty accident. I was happy with the obsolete 386 SX with a vga monitor that I had purchased while still on the Job out of Computer Shopper back of magazine add blast. I later upgraded to a 486 and thought I had the world by the arm, man that was a great machine in it's day. Since I was the computer nerd in college having spent a year while waiting for college learning the PC, miles ahead of the normal student, when the word went out that I had upgraded I had people standing in line wanting my old machine I had just upgraded by floppy drive to the NEW Windows 95! Man that was slow on a 386 SX but the gal who purchased it wanted 95. I never did get my Monorail but the dream lived on till today. Thanks for the exploration. I once had a Compaq all in one, that had a CRT and was a nice machine, my sister got that as her first computer when I upgraded.
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Miroslav
That pounding on the metal case and stomping it on the desk made me LOL for some reason. -
Also, I love this machine. Maybe a little underwhelming HW-wise, but I think they should have stuck with this all-in-one design and try to improve it while reducing the cost, rather than resorting to standard boring grey box PCs. This one would have been perfectly fine for many people needing mainly office apps and internet browser, only to get better over time. They could have been on to something before this type of PC ever became mainstream.
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That pounding on the metal case and stomping it on the desk made me LOL for some reason. -
Also, I love this machine. Maybe a little underwhelming HW-wise, but I think they should have stuck with this all-in-one design and try to improve it while reducing the cost, rather than resorting to standard boring grey box PCs. This one would have been perfectly fine for many people needing mainly office apps and internet browser, only to get better over time. They could have been on to something before this type of PC ever became mainstream.
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ZKH
i'd say pretty much every ne2000 clone card popular at that time would fit. by then they pretty much all already dropped the aui port and only came with 10base-2 and 10base-t on them and as such most were not even half height. basically all of those rtl8019 based clone things. any will do really. if you went to a computer shop around those days to get 'just any network card and i need it now' you came home with a bunch of those. and most would fit just fine. just. why would you want your ethernet cable to come out the side of your monitor: P
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i'd say pretty much every ne2000 clone card popular at that time would fit. by then they pretty much all already dropped the aui port and only came with 10base-2 and 10base-t on them and as such most were not even half height. basically all of those rtl8019 based clone things. any will do really. if you went to a computer shop around those days to get 'just any network card and i need it now' you came home with a bunch of those. and most would fit just fine. just. why would you want your ethernet cable to come out the side of your monitor: P
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macshune
Fun fact: somewhere around '98 or '99, my local computer shop (-Computer Renaissance-) got tons of Monorail keyboards in stock and my friends and I were soon all rollin' with Monorail keyboards that we'd picked up that store for $2/each. Weirdly, for the last 20+ years, I just thought it was a brand of keyboard that I hadn't seen since the '90s until this video. TURNS OUT, there was a whole computer, too: )
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Fun fact: somewhere around '98 or '99, my local computer shop (-Computer Renaissance-) got tons of Monorail keyboards in stock and my friends and I were soon all rollin' with Monorail keyboards that we'd picked up that store for $2/each. Weirdly, for the last 20+ years, I just thought it was a brand of keyboard that I hadn't seen since the '90s until this video. TURNS OUT, there was a whole computer, too: )
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Sprinkles
I work as a pentester now but when I was 17 I worked as a senior programming analyst for a marketing and security firm and my idiot boss bought these for all clerical staff. I almost had an it guy quit
Edit: sorry it was the HP clone of this model, called Net vista. When all our keyboards were ps2, we didn't even have USB keyboards and we didn't get any with the machines I'm surprised they turned on
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I work as a pentester now but when I was 17 I worked as a senior programming analyst for a marketing and security firm and my idiot boss bought these for all clerical staff. I almost had an it guy quit
Edit: sorry it was the HP clone of this model, called Net vista. When all our keyboards were ps2, we didn't even have USB keyboards and we didn't get any with the machines I'm surprised they turned on
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Bruce
That screen! Oh how I do NOT miss those old LCD screens of back then. I remember some portable pocket TV's had those, before they switched to TFT type LCD's. I mean, I know TFT kinda sucks. but these. good lord they are awful. It's like a 15hz refresh rate. Worse yet. the pixels take forever to clear themselves out. Boy how technology has really improved since then!
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That screen! Oh how I do NOT miss those old LCD screens of back then. I remember some portable pocket TV's had those, before they switched to TFT type LCD's. I mean, I know TFT kinda sucks. but these. good lord they are awful. It's like a 15hz refresh rate. Worse yet. the pixels take forever to clear themselves out. Boy how technology has really improved since then!
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Andrew
Oh man. Ugh! I was given 1 of these brand new when I went to college back in 97 and it was slow as balls, even by 1997 standards. Yea, it worked for the programs I used for school back then, but I went out and got a Windows 98 Thinkpad as soon as they came out. Pricey, but a HUGE upgrade! Lol.
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Oh man. Ugh! I was given 1 of these brand new when I went to college back in 97 and it was slow as balls, even by 1997 standards. Yea, it worked for the programs I used for school back then, but I went out and got a Windows 98 Thinkpad as soon as they came out. Pricey, but a HUGE upgrade! Lol.
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Acid
-I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and by gum, it put them on the map! -.
So much tech with the right idea, just executed slightly ahead of its time causing awkward compromises and a -just missed it- price point or featureset. Like the Handspring/Treo guys.
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-I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and by gum, it put them on the map! -.
So much tech with the right idea, just executed slightly ahead of its time causing awkward compromises and a -just missed it- price point or featureset. Like the Handspring/Treo guys.
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T3CHTR0N1X
That chime brought me back, had windows 95 on my first pc, I had the compaq armada mini laptop with 192mb ram, Loved the OS and all the great features with apps like paint, word, games, dial up connection and more it really felt like the world at your fingertips at the time.
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That chime brought me back, had windows 95 on my first pc, I had the compaq armada mini laptop with 192mb ram, Loved the OS and all the great features with apps like paint, word, games, dial up connection and more it really felt like the world at your fingertips at the time.
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