Okay, so I know this isn’t 80s/early-90s retro, but hear me out.
I collect old computers, mainly those from the 90s and 2000s. For a while, I’ve been missing a “complete” beige setup. I’ve had the keyboards, mice, computers, and this IBM 2124 CRT (from 1997, still works lovely, great image… and I’ll be heartbroken if it ever packs it in), but not the speakers! Well, fast forward to a few days ago, I find these Harman/Kardon speakers at the thrift store for a few dollars. I brought them home, not sure if they worked or not. Even if they didn’t, they aesthetically fit the scene.
Oh boy. Not only do they work well (and properly - a lot of the times speakers can have screwy volume control), they sound objectively GREAT. I have a Logitech sound bar speaker for laptops that sounds shockingly great, but this is just… so much better. Even without the subwoofer, the sound is full, rich, and heavy. My god, I might move them to my main PC!
As for the Deskpro, it’s been somewhat of a Guinea pig for me. It’s survived a 1GHz PIII upgrade (okay, not that cursed for this one), a PCI GeForce FX-5500 (because I could, works shockingly well), and having Arch Linux shoehorned on it (because I could). Runs Windows 2000, and brings me right back to my childhood. Kinda hard to believe this thing is now 24-26 years old now.
