This eMachines PC Started a Rock Revolution

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @bobamu
    @bobamu 10 месяцев назад +13

    They weren't kidding when they said never obsolete. lol.

  • @borf42
    @borf42 10 месяцев назад +13

    What a fantastic story! Those radio installs sound like a ton of fun!!

  • @johnps1670
    @johnps1670 10 месяцев назад +3

    Sounds like a station I would listen to.

  • @JamiesHackShack
    @JamiesHackShack 10 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome story! Thanks for sharing it with us.

  • @yourweeklytechupdate
    @yourweeklytechupdate 10 месяцев назад +6

    Ha! That's awesome Aaron!
    Those were crazy times. I loved KTED! How Awesome that you got the old machine and it still has the liners I recorded. You left out that the station was so popular it somehow enabled us to bring Avenged Sevenfold, Saving Able and Buckcherry to perform a concert in the middle of Wyoming! It still blows my mind! I am sure I have the pics we took with the bands somewhere too.
    My show airs on TV in Wenatchee and I will have to talk about your video. I am sure a few people will recognise you.
    We may have to talk about that quad trip we took to the top of Laramie peak more too! To this day that is still one of the most exhausting and hardcore things I have ever done and I had my wife hanging off the back😅😅.
    You should definitely talk more about the box truck too! I don't remember the computer we used but it was a rebuild of some kind as well and we did the tech equivalent of using 2 cans connected with sting to get it talking to the box truck sitting on the hill with this massive FM antenna hanging off the side of a power pole. 🤣🤣🤣 It was so fun and crazy!

  • @WC0125
    @WC0125 10 месяцев назад +10

    Excellent! I love the back story of the machine and your Wyoming radio station construction history. We in the "Wild West" certainly were underserved with radio in many area. After the "license boom" of that time we found ourself with a dizzying array of stations. Definitely more available stations than people per square mile in some far reaches. Thank you for sharing.

  • @OpossumPiper
    @OpossumPiper 10 месяцев назад +1

    Such a cool story! Thanks for sharing this history!

  • @miked4377
    @miked4377 10 месяцев назад +3

    that's one of the coolest story's I've heard in awhile..that's so cool arron that you have that original eMachines computer...building the radio towers ect sounds incredible.....you have done good!! that's for sure!

  • @RetroGamingNook
    @RetroGamingNook 10 месяцев назад +1

    What a great story... Who has not wished they could program a radio station at launch.

  • @Endzs768
    @Endzs768 10 месяцев назад +2

    Oh wow so so many of those albums are a huge nostalgia hit from my teenage years.
    5:17 "and he would go online and basically look up lyrics of songs" ok yes I believe you, he totally wasn't also downloading songs from Kazaa and lime wire 🤣
    Very cool story though, you certainly gained a few points in coolness tonight.

  • @applesushi
    @applesushi 10 месяцев назад +3

    Great video. Your nostalgia made this so personal.

  • @KAPTKipper
    @KAPTKipper 10 месяцев назад +6

    Great story

  • @VK2FVAX
    @VK2FVAX 10 месяцев назад +2

    I love the story and providence of the system. Wonderful video. :) Loved the insight into your past also.

  • @tcindie
    @tcindie 10 месяцев назад +6

    What a fun walk down memory lane. Very cool story!

  • @fattomandeibu
    @fattomandeibu 10 месяцев назад +4

    Great stuff there. Keep on rocking.
    On eMachines themselves, people crap all over them, but it was amazing what an impact they had. Before eMachines, even the cheapest Packard Bell machines were going for at least £999.99, but a year or two after eMachines bust onto the scene and started putting out their value computers the prices of computers as a whole just started tumbling to the point that you could get a decent computer for less than £400. Not saying eMachines did it, they certainly weren't alone, but it's also no coincidence that it played out that way.

    • @f.k.b.16
      @f.k.b.16 10 месяцев назад +2

      The fact this EMachine just fired right up says something. Probably what brought on the stigma was Windows ME and Celeron processors. Oh and the tiny RAM. But all could easily be upgraded for fairly cheap.

  • @BaronVonMutoh
    @BaronVonMutoh 10 месяцев назад +2

    it's great that you'll have that PC to relive a special moment in your life and career. Just needed to bust out that chain at 1:20 to complete the moment

  • @Joemoe228
    @Joemoe228 10 месяцев назад +2

    Aaron! This is so great, I love the history that went behind this. Thanks for sharing, hope all is well!!!

  • @f.k.b.16
    @f.k.b.16 10 месяцев назад +5

    Completely underrated channel!

    • @jakolama
      @jakolama 10 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah

  • @JohnKiniston
    @JohnKiniston 10 месяцев назад +2

    I hosted a shoutcast internet radio station way back in the day, I ran it on an early ppc Mac running Linux, the Mac was a discard from elsewhere.

  • @dan.henderson632
    @dan.henderson632 10 месяцев назад +2

    Amazing story Aaron. Thanks for telling it.

  • @x_voxelle_x
    @x_voxelle_x 10 месяцев назад +1

    I had an eMachines when I was a child, and I certainly didn't hate it. It carried me through my middle school years. I wanted to try and wake it back up from the closet I shoved it in but it seems it has something wrong with the mainboard because it freezes and becomes unresponsive at the BIOS splash screen. Alas...

  • @daghtus
    @daghtus 10 месяцев назад +2

    Imagine broadcasting Pearl Jam: Yellow Ledbetter. FCC would file a complaint your broadcast was incomprehensible.

  • @CecilTheDarkKnight234
    @CecilTheDarkKnight234 10 месяцев назад +1

    oh wow this is so damn cool and I never thought a simple computer could run an entire radio station. I just hope that you're able to make an archive/backup of the hard-drive.

  • @JohnKiniston
    @JohnKiniston 10 месяцев назад +3

    I love the story about the radio sites! I’d love to hear more like this.

  • @jjohnson71958
    @jjohnson71958 10 месяцев назад +1

    loved this emaches desktop pc w the front panel blue colbalt led lights

  • @BilisNegra
    @BilisNegra 10 месяцев назад +2

    So, that awesome radio story is part of what you do OUTSIDE your geeky life?

  • @davidflynn6920
    @davidflynn6920 10 месяцев назад +3

    Aaron, thank you for a fascinating glimpse into your career. All of these videos are great, you are a fantastic storyteller, and the depth and breadth of content on this channel is unmatched.

  • @sdsck
    @sdsck 10 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks so much for the trip down memory lane…impressed by all the work you’ve done previous to your current endeavors….great show then I’m sure…..definitely great show now !!!

  • @brad3042
    @brad3042 10 месяцев назад +4

    In the video, I noticed the call numbers for a Plattsburgh station. Is this Plattsburgh, NY? I've been volunteering my time as a DJ for WRUV 90.1FM for 15 years now. However, I was always making mix tapes of my favorite music as a teen and recorded a demo for WITR (RIT radio) years before I became a DJ at WRUV.

  • @derekbeeson7928
    @derekbeeson7928 10 месяцев назад +2

    Too cool to see this, I remember when kted 100.5 went on the air!

  • @gwenaelgueheneuc8243
    @gwenaelgueheneuc8243 10 месяцев назад +1

    I love this trip to memory lane. Pretty cool !

  • @AddieDirectsTV
    @AddieDirectsTV 10 месяцев назад +2

    Nice!
    And of course now I'm curious what all stations you've worked on! (I currently work directing news in Minneapolis.)

  • @SomePeopleCallMeWulfman
    @SomePeopleCallMeWulfman 10 месяцев назад +2

    Very interesting!

  • @Chriva
    @Chriva 10 месяцев назад +2

    Family 6, Model 8 ought to be a Pentium III Coppermine so it's likely been upgraded too :)

    • @Pasi123
      @Pasi123 10 месяцев назад +1

      The Coppermine based Celeron's are also Family 6, Model 8

  • @Pikaroth
    @Pikaroth 10 месяцев назад +2

    Awesome story and photos! Great video and piece of history!

  • @BollingHolt
    @BollingHolt 10 месяцев назад +1

    Very neat story!

  • @drumboy02
    @drumboy02 9 месяцев назад +1

    what a cool story!

  • @patrickcollins118
    @patrickcollins118 10 месяцев назад +1

    that's my computer! I also changed the CD rom too and I have two extras power supply for it .👾

  • @orincat10
    @orincat10 10 месяцев назад +2

    you should image it.

  • @tpcdude
    @tpcdude 10 месяцев назад +2

    good show! something bout the .. kicks the lamas ass

  • @MrDarchangelomni
    @MrDarchangelomni 10 месяцев назад +1

    I subscribed because God has heard.

  • @yourweeklytechupdate
    @yourweeklytechupdate 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the trip back in time! I mentioned it on TV back in Washington state along with a dude who had fun with a 200 watt laser! 😆 ruclips.net/video/Q7m7wOhWwII/видео.html