The Rare eMachines eOne's Even Rarer Box
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2022
- I've been fortunate enough to receive the box and manual for the elusive and infamous eMachines eOne! It was a rare all-in-one computer that intentionally mimicked the Apple iMac G3 in 1999 and it's rare enough on its own. The box and instruction book though? Oh yeah, this is the good stuff.
Here's my video on the eOne over on LGR: • eMachines eOne: 1999 A...
I feel like a box unboxing is exactly the kind of content blerbs was made for
I just spent 8 minutes watching a man unbox a box, So yea I'd say my life is going pretty good right about now
Only Clint could make an unboxing of a box entertaining. Kudos.
I came here to say the same thing 😃
So meta to unbox a box. But I can see why this is so exciting! It completes the whole package!
I heard you like boxes, so we put a box in a box.
Yesterday I spent 20 minutes listening to old computer sounds, today I spent 10 minutes watching you unbox a box.
I love LGR.
Honestly same my guy. Honestly same.
And I'm still trying to work out a good windows 98 build for some sweet sweet retro PC gaming
I worked at Best Buy when we had this computer on the end cap in the computer department. Yes, it was setup and we did sell some of them.
Nice!
@@LGRBlerbs Former CompUSA guy here.. it was on an end cap there too.. lol.
Woah, he even covered the entire floor with woodgrain.
I remember working on an eOne in someone's basement around 2000 while doing tech support housecalls during our ADSL roll-out at the telco I worked for. I can imagine the computer's box sitting on a pile of clutter on a couch, near the stairs. I had no idea that 22 years later I'd be watching a video about that box.
This just shows how good LGR is... he manages to make an 8 minute video about a cardboard box and it's still enjoyable to watch the whole thing
So much top grade blerb content this week, first the 20 minutes of hard drive sounds, and now a box unboxing. Clint is definitely confident in knowing exactly what we want to see. Its a beautiful thing
I don't remember the eMachines boxes, but I remember going to a Gateway Country store shortly after the rebrand from Gateway2000, and seeing all the new Holstein patterned boxes. I think I may have also had a plush Gateway cow as a kid, not sure on that.
Still have my Gateway cow from when my mom bought a PC from them in like 2000
I remember gateway setup a store front here in Muncie, Indiana, in the late 90s or early 2000s and I don't think it ever opened, they painted it all up and had a sign up, but I think they decided to exit direct to consumer retail before it was able to open.
@@brandonupchurch7628 I was only 4 at the time, but I still have flashes of memory from being inside that store and seeing all the cow-print boxes and signage. The place was dimly lit from what I remember, but it still felt welcoming. Cows were my favorite animal as a kid and I had so many cow stuffed animals, I wonder if that had anything to do with it
@@brandonupchurch7628 We had a Gateway store here in Augusta, GA(yes where the Masters is played before anymore ask), and I remember going with my aunt to help her buy one of their now rare as hens teeth 850Mhz AMD Athlon Slot A desktop systems(there only AMD model till ACER bought them out), and surprised me by ordering me one minus the monitor so I could do my school work. I loved that machine, and even upgraded it to the rare 1Ghz AMD slot A Thunderbird CPU , and maxed out the RAM, using it will into the early 00's. Wish we still had those machines but her's died with a motherboard failure taking out the system, so I sold it for the useable parts on eBay to help fund her next computer, and mine was given to my sister so my nieces, and nephew would have something, and one of them ended up killing it with kool aid about 6 months later🤦♂
The Holstein spotted cow boxes definitely came in the Gateway2000 era. AFAIK, they just changed the logo on the boxes when they rebranded.
"I'm going to make an 8 minute video about a retro box... yes, a box!" - LGR
"Sorry to inform you that your box warranty has been voided because you pulled the original tape off and used your own." - eMachines Support
I like it when you bring us a computer so rare that the box alone warrants it's own video a few months later XD
I never thought I'd be watching a video of an unboxing of a box, yet here we are and I'm also here for it.
This reminds me, I should ask my parents if they still have the Vic-20 box. they had blankets in it last I saw. always made me chuckle to see that box. Imma ask today.
@@Burger_pants I don't think the word "scam" means what you think it means! You could call it a "fad" or "risky investment", "mania" or even a "bubble", but "scam" requires criminal intent on the part of the seller. If the market goes crazy and people take advantage, it's not a "scam". I've become a bit sensitive to this because of people trying to dis bitcoin, and other people actually running crypto scams. There is a big important difference.
@@squirlmy there might actually be a scam involved; check out Karl Jobst's video on Watta.
That is so cool. When I found an NES deluxe set box my wife was puzzled why I would care so much about cardboard. It completes the set!
I'm also puzzled.
@@Burger_pants I prefer playing retro games without all those retro annoyances.
@@kyoudaiken Which is fine.
I ran a Tandy dealership in the 90's/2000's - we got 3 of those pieces of junk to use as POS machines and for stock control. They could barely manage that. All had Celeron cpus and it showed.
Not a "One" but my first PC was an eMachines with a 366 Mhz Celeron, an upgrade from my Macintosh LC II with a 40 Mhz processor. It's always interesting to hear things from a different angle, "This thing sucked!" And me with fond memories of that hunk of junk.
I had an eOne back in the day. It was a piece of crap like how most eMachines PCs were and a noisy little bugger. The disk that came with it just had drivers on it and wasn't an actual restore disc if I recall. It ended up going to an electronics recycler a few years ago when I had to downsize my collection. Looks like I should have tried to sell it instead. I'll take a look and see if I still have the disk somewhere and get back to you if I do.
I never thought I'd watch a box restoration but here we are. You're probably the most qualified candidate to do it.
Awe... What a beautiful sight. ☺️ One giant step towards completion. Thank you for blurbing this with us.
The box really ties everything together.
Congratulations on acquiring this box.
Seeing that box made a childhood memory so clear. Loved the thing. Not the best you could've had in 99 but for a kid it was something out of the future.
Ah, memories. I remember stocking (and removing) these at CompUSA.
Oh my gosh, Clint you can't do this, you can't just remind me that my perception of time is as ruined as it is by casually mentioning that you haven't rewatched your eOne video in years.
I always forget how cool boxes can be. My grandmother has a box for the Sony DV-2400, which isn’t even available for sale in working condition on eBay!
I have an eOne, along with the original keyboard and multicolor power cord! No mouse though. I've never seen what the cardboard box looked like until your video - what an awesome find!
It’s so nice that it all comes together
I've never cared to keep boxes for anything but it is interesting to see when it's something so rare
We need a retrospective on the netbook era also ie 2007-2012ish before tablets ruled the world! 😊
I'd gladly loan LGR mine as an example of what a tuned up Netbook could be lol
man those Atom cpus were really shitty, mine was overclocked and it could run GTA san andreas at a relatively decent fps
@@NaCh0Ox same sort of GTA Vice City. The atom on mine stock was 1.6ghz I bumped it to a even 2.0ghz
I don't think tablets DO rule. I think it still goes to full sized laptop, IE: Macs.
Most had to deal with the infamous GMA graphics, but I remember having one with a dedicated Nvidia ION2, which was unfortunately stolen 😕
I definitely remember a friend of mine (Brady) got an eMachine for when we went away to college. I managed to convince him and another friend he met at college (Sean) to start playing Tribes and we had our clan called BHD (Bat Hair Day lol). If I remember correctly, it was a bad horror film that was out around that time and the trailer had bats and the announcer made a fabulously bad pun about having bad hair (because bats in those days were notorious for attacking your hair).
I watch that video every month or so, I love it so much! I'd love a follow up on it with more of the accessories together. This looks like something we would have gotten back in the day had it not been pulled from shelves.
O wait, it's thursday and this is a Blerb. That means we probably getting more LGR goodness tomorrow.
We need more cats on LGR.
If you are planning to store the actual machine inside this box make sure you add some padding to the bottom. You see, it originally probably came in styrofoam linings and that takes and distributes the weight of the machine. Without that the weight of the machine just presses on some points or alond edges of the machine's case that can easily wear out or poke the box. And another thing, maybe you could look into reinforcing the carrying handle hole part, it looks torn on one side and if you were to lift the box while the machine is inside it's guaranteed to be ripped.
Hi Clint, do you have a list of missing game manuals, back issues of magazines etc etc that you're on the look out for? I know I have boxes of stuff and would love the chance to help complete/round out your collection.
The best way to reach Clint would be twitter, he does his best to read all of his messages there.
I did telephone tech support for those! By contract (with the call center), we were required to get the caller's name, address, phone, and serial number of the machine, and then ask if they were wanting a replacement machine or a refund (about 80% of the retail price). No actual tech support, just replace or refund. That contract didn't last long at the call center I worked for, about 3 months if I remember correctly.
Clint, you tease us with your cats and yet we never see them.......heartbroken 😂
The box is always important! Cool to see it for a machine so rare!
"It's a box in a box!" Actually, somebody made that song back when Dick in a Box was popular. I remember Keith Olbermann interviewing the singer and the girl who played her in the music video. Times were simpler then.
You can make your own foam with those expandable foam bags they sell. you have to like set your eOne like up a bit on something in that box and let the bags expand around it, it will make a perfect mold of it inside the box. They use it for like weird shaped engine parts and stuff.
Now you just need to find the serial numbered machine that goes in it.
🎵 🎶 *Reunited and it feels so good* 🎵 🎶
For the amount of money Apple II boxes are going for on ebay, I'd say that kind of matching and antique "integrity" no longer applies.
Cool! Perhaps you could use some of those Instapak things to make your own packaging and store the actual PC in it?
Past me: "Unboxing videos sound lame."
Present me: "I'll eat my toast and drink my coffee as I watch someone unbox... a box."
Looking forward to the LGR e-machines Re-Boxing video!
One of the strangest videos I have ever seen. 😄
LGR actually made an unboxing video of a box. 😂👍
Clint you are the best. 😎✌
No one unboxes boxes like Clint.
No
One.
If you did this unboxing of a box on boxing day in boxer shorts the internet would explode.
Internet archive has eone recovery disc dumps Clint, relatively recent additions over the past two years, probably due to your first video.
Thats really cool that you found that it's nice when things come together like this
"... incredibly rare!"
"Can you believe noone bought this?"
I'm a PC user since day one and the iMac made me jealous. I only knew one person who had one and I thought it was awesome. The all-in-one design was what did it for me. If I could've bought an eOne when they were introduced I would have.
Love your video 🙂
Nice box man. It's strange, this very afternoon, I became the proud owner of some OEM disks of Windows Server 2003 and when I glanced over at my purchase, the box had gone. My wife told me she had put it in the recycling - complete with all the Microsoft "pain of death" (for copying) threats on it. I recovered it and it is fine thankfully !
Your wooden floor looks amazing.
I still have my eMachines from college 566ir and it still works
I don't have any of the old computer boxes, I wish we still had a Gateway box
I wonder what Boxnard529 would thing of this box unboxing. I'm sure he'd appreciate the rarity of the box itself, a great collector's item.
We need an LGR cats thing
Where else can you go to on the internet to find a video about an empty cardboard box. Fantastic
On your original video someone called ‘letsseewherethisgoes’ mentions that they have the original CDs that came with the system. Might be worth reaching out to them?
I bought an eMachines One from Circuit City. I wish I still had it.
I can see why that eOne box is quite rare: it was the computer that got eMachines in a lot of big trouble with Apple for mimicking that company's iMac G3.
Yup, Mac was suing them. I worked at emachines/gateway fresh out of highschool as my first full time job. They actually shipped quite a few of them.
NICE BOX REVIEW
That is a nice box :)
OMG Clint. You've got a cat or cats? It should be featured in your videos. After all, cats do rule the interwebs.
that is so cool. Hope you get the inside polystyrene next.
I remember seeing eOnes for sale at Sam's Club.
Before Best Buy carried/sold Apple computers and their other products, they sold that eMachine Macintosh clone. Best Buy didn’t sell many of them either, even though the eMachine rep would push us (computer department employees) to sell it as the ‘best’ of both worlds - a cheap, inexpensive Mac clone that - with VM installed - could double as a fully functioning Windows PC. It was a neat idea at the time, but anyone who came in wanting a Windows-based PC would balk at it. I believe we sold one or maybe two of those machines a month, if we were lucky. Mostly Apple/Mac enthusiasts would buy the thing.
Welcome to an LGR Reboxing video...
"Maybe I'll have to get the cats in here" Excuse me, Mr LGR, the Internal Revenmew Service has just informed me that you're overdue a large Cat Tax payment...
This is LGR and welcome to me unboxing of a box.
The ultimate unboxing.
First uboxing of a box that I’ve ever watched
We had one of those machines. It was cool. Wonder if it's still in storage now??
I keep product packaging just for purposes like this video. I still have my family's Nintendo 64 and Nintendo Wii box in top shape.
That's just cool.
Hey LGR, does the previous owner of the box have a eMachines eOne as well? I would like to get one!
I stuck around because cats were mentioned.
No cats in this video. :(
What kind of floor is that I like the way it looks.
Hey Clint, I may have asked before, but do you have any digital watches you wanna cover?
cats!!!)))) an asmr type video with ur cats would be amazing, mayby like the one with the harddrive sound or AT one, just have a computer running with some spinning disk or whatever, but with ur cats there, would be amazing... ofc cats not easy to film, but I don't know if they around any of ur computers, but if they are, a video with computer and cats walking around or laying on it. I have such nostalgic memories for our cat when growing up, walking on the computer keyboards whenever we used it...cats are awesome!!)) btw how can a video about opening a box to reveal another box be so entertaining... awesome!)))
Clint posts a 20 minute video on the noises two Quantum hard drives make during data transfer and thinks we won't care about what's in this box. Hehehe...
You have nice floors. Are they hardwood? Would like to see your cats.
I wonder if you could "fake" new foam packing with plastic bags and expanding foam? I've seen a few videos of it being done. I'd want to test it a few times on less rare kit first :-)
Maybe even make a fake box of the same volume first.
Ahh I'm glad it was addressed, I was wondering if that was bacon tape :)
The sender knows you well about the wood grain and is funny 😄... Enjoy the cardboard box🐱
I had an eMachines, but it wasn't from Apple. Great little computer.
Welcome to LGR Blerbs, where you can watch a de-un-boxing video.
I could listen to Clint make a sandwich... Oh Wait....
I sat here and watched someone unbox a box...
I'm actually kinda sad that Apple actually sued Emachines over this and won their copyright infringement case. Such a cool all in one computer.
The entire concept of software being covered by copyright at all was 1983 Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp. Franklin put out a clone of the Apple IIe and simply used a direct copy of it's BIOS. The earlier examples of companies imitating IBM's BIOS, IBM settled because they didn't want to take the chance of losing (or having software and firmware with very limited copyright). I believe Franklin lawyers argued that only human-readable text was covered by copyright, so machine-readable text or code wasn't covered. So, Apple legally defending it's IP is nothing new. They've sued many, many companies and people, and put huge amounts of investment in law firms and "innovation" into legal protections. Always have.
3:31 YOU HAVE CATS?!
I have to know... Did the cats like the box???
Also great video! I love the woodgrain tape
That wood grain duct tape is surprisingly expensive lol.
The woodgrain tape made me laugh.
ok I think we need a blurb of you plugging in the eone and using the actual keyboard and mouse
Can we what see LGR Cat thought of the box please?
Class today we won't be going to The Box Factory but instead we will be going to The Box Factory.
The eMachines brand is a venerable one, perhaps because of my own bias towards the brand. Very good XP machine, and it even came with Bejeweled! Now that I think of it, it was probably a secondhand computer itself.
Off topic. Love your flooring. Is it laminate?
It is!