This one is too clean to be the case, but factories usually have a few computers like this.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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That must be a decorative exhaust vent then.
It bothers me that it's being blocked, but the motherboard also has a parallel port, so unless this thing is rocking a Pentium 4 (entirely possible), heat isn't going to be much of an issue.
PS2, VGA and RS232 cables. Takes me back..
My PC has those 😅
Unplugging goes brrrrr.
This is 100% on the back of a Gateway.
it started with a sign that only said "don't unplug the cables" and had to expand as things kept happening
PS/2 port being used? How old is this image?
It could be from today. I've worked at several manufacturing facilities where something like this is hooked up to a huge ancient device with a serial cable because the drivers only exist for Windows XP and the Italian business who made the machine went out of business decades ago.
I suspect this was taken in the early 2000s, though, since the fan isn't caked in an inch of dust and grime yet.
Yeah, this is a very clean PC picture, like new (though one can absolutely still get new mobo’s with legacy I/O ports) so probably not a modern build, just an older pic.
...unzips
PSU in the top, old round keyboard and mouse plugs... I get it, you shouldn't touch anything in a museum.
It belongs in a museum!!
... did they stop putting PSUs at the top?
Always at the bottom these days
My desktop has it at the top, as did the PC I had before it a few years ago. I've seen PCs with it at the bottom, but I've never owned one, so hearing that they're always at the bottom is weird to me.
Here you see all cases with either the PSU in the bottom, or with some in the back when it's a wide case. No where in the top of the case.
Just turn the case around. Problem solved.
Problem solved.
Case closed.
But then your desktop will be upside down on your monitor, as obviously your harddrives will be upside down. Do you have any idea how hard it will be to watch upside down porn?
Just flip your monitors upsidedown.
Modern problems require modern solutions.
Huh, I guess it is more common than I thought. I wonder how I ended up coincidentally only buying cases with it at the top if they're so uncommon.
It may be different with brand specific cases for prebuilds like Dell and Alienware (which is Dell too by the way), but it's never recommended to buy those.
I have an old case that takes a PSU at the top.
I bought a PSU made for being at the bottom, and placing it in their meant giving it the CPU heat in its intake.
It felt like it would burn up any minute.
I took some used aluminium cans, cut them up using expensive scissors (~5x the price of normal scissors, in turn, it won't go bad, cutting plastic boxes and aluminium sheet) and made a frame to mount the PSU on the top, instead of inside the case.
The wires had to go around, making it a partially open case, but it worked. No feeling of imminent fire hazard and the PSU was exhausting air at a relieving temperature.
OMG is that PS/2? 😮
90% of internet in the 90s was hosted like this.
It feels like a loss that this is no longer the case.
It absolutely is
And its mostly the fault of ISPs
What did ISPs change?
They stopped giving people static IP addresses by default, which makes at home self hosting too hard for normies.
Wasn't really static IP, but upload caps and bandwidth limits. And "updated Terms of Service." To your point, they started charging for static IPs or just not offering them for "home" service. In the early days (feeling old yet), self hosting wasn't shut down so much as shared hosting from home. People were running shared web and email hosts from home and ISPs didn't like that added cost and competition, mostly cost. Bandwidth was expensive going over copper exchanges.
Pretty sure normies don't even know what an IP address is.
They never gave people static IPs by default in general. Done did if you were lucky but most didn't. (In the UK at least.) Hence the existence of things like dyndns.
There's always that one guy in the office too...
About 15 years ago I did some work with a large international pharmaceutical company with over 2,000 of offices across the world. There was a laptop in an empty cubicle with signs like this on it. Apparently if it turned off their entire email system would go down.
Props to them for repurposing old hardware instead of tossing it to a scrap yard.
Needs a blinkenlights sign
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
First time I read that was in about '89/'90 in a printed book of computer jokes gifted to me by my then mother-in-law. Still made me laugh. Thanks for the nostalgia hit.
Is that dutch?
no, i am pretty sure it is a mix of german words + made up german sounding words + english.
I liked it XD
Lol, this is 100% Dutch maskerading as German. And it's glorious.
Gesundheit!
So, what they're saying is that the sign needs to be removed before unplugging anything. Gotcha, can do
I had a photo kiosk at an old job that I wanted to put something like that for their USB cables. I swear you touch them during transfer and boom your download = canceled.
So we broke it?