I still have mine. I could never bring myself to toss it. My oldest son used it all the time and sadly he passed away in 2008 when he was 18. I can still picture him AOL chat messaging like a madman, either hitting on the girls or making plans with the guys....
yes, I have a 500mhz model of this machine which looks great .. from the front, sadly I am the reason the back however is butchered, a horrible dremel job when trying to get a standard power supply to fit the opening... it worked, but... yeah, don't do what I did... still a solid machine..
My .02 cents as the original owner of one! That very CD burner was in fact an original build to order option, I had it as a second drive along with the 40X CD-ROM. I can also happily add that at 20 years old, It's still alive and well and living at my parent's house with XP, it's basically used as a print server for an even older parallel HP LaserJet at this point, but fully functional no less with the original EV700 17" CRT. They most certainly don't build them like they used to. One of these days I'll replace it with a parallel external JetDirect and steal my system back to add to my collection.
This is from memory, but it was my very first new computer and as an IT guy, these things are special! Gateway Performance 600, 128MB RAM (I believe you could order up to 256 but it was big $$$), 20GB Hard Drive that I'd like to say was 7200RPM, Nvidia RIVA TNT2 with 32MB, the sound card I'm not sure but I think it was the turtle beach shown here with the digital audio out for the accompanying digital Boston 2.1 speakers, 40x CD-ROM, I want to say it was a 4x4x24 CD-burner whose brand is escaping me (but I'd love to know!), and a floppy drive. The only things I wished it had at the time were a Zip drive (although moot with a CD-Burner unless you had existing media) and a DVD drive. I don't recall if this was just slightly before DVD in a PCs time or if the option just wasn't worth the cost.
I think that's the one I had, after my first Gateway. We had the 17" CRT and the Boston speakers, that I used for a decade of computers. They were the best, but the signal would go out and barely pop back in when adjusting the knob on the back of the bass. I played my PlayStation games on it for higher quality. The last Gateway I bought before they went bankrupt or w/e was a BTX tower.
gosh I remember growing up in a house with 5 other siblings and one computer. It was a nightmare! We would fight for the computer every minute lololol...it was a mess....I remember RODENTS REVENGE , and SKI FREE for the computer. my favorite PC games. you can still find rodents revenge in the App Store , but it comes with a price tag.
I have a gateway GP7-450 and GP7-500, mine has thumb screws. Also with the power supply, my GP7s have been on for 8 and 9 years. They still work flawlessly with no bad/leaking capacitors or other issues.
I have the 15" monitor that went with that set. When my daughter first saw it she said, "that screen is tiny!" Then she saw how deep it was. I think I blew her mind. :)
That was my first PC! I was 21 when i got it and I think I financed it over like 2 years lol. It had a voodoo 3 and I would stay up to obscene times in the morning streaming winamp stations and chatting in yahoo chatrooms lol.
Low quality parts? Are you telling me a I9 2080ti DDR4 32Gb 4080Ghz RAM machine is low quality? These things had a gig of 250Ghz RAM if you paid triple. I think the term you're looking for is "delicate", and these computers were just as-if not more-delicate as the modern standard.
So true.....in the past pc s were pcs bro...not shietty lighting problems gaming problems crashes and all problems from pc s nowadays...the real pc s and real gaming with no problems era was until the 2010...after 2010 the golden era of gaming and technology without problems ended...and a new shiet era started..:(
With all my curent pc s and laptops i had infinite problems specially gpu crashes game crashes bugs etc..in the past i dont remember any problems wtf...why ? Because there was no problems like nowadays!!!!!! Fucking hell
The first computer I ever used was one of these Gateway "essential" PCs. It was the mini tower version though like the one shown in the ad before the video. It also had the Ev700 CRT monitor. I haven't been able to find the same one, but I did find the full size tower like the one in your video. Pretty much the same system I have always liked the slotted CPUs such as the Pentium ii and the early Pentium iii like this. I also have that mouse somewhere. I love that old style Microsoft intellimouse. I still use one on my main PC, although it is the plain Microsoft version, not one with the Gateway logo on it.
So I live in Fremont so not too far from you! I was surprised to find out that you lived so close in Omaha. So I have a Gateway P3 450 in this same case with very similar components to yours from July of 1999. It was flooded in March of 2019 but I recently managed to clean the motherboard in the sink with water and dawn dish soap then let it dry with a box fan. It still works just fine now just need to track down optical and floppy drives now and figure out how to install Windows 98 SE on it as well. The HDD died as well but I replaced it with an SDHC to IDE adapter. Mine has an Nvidia Geforce2 MX 400 64MB vram in it from 2001. I may also upgrade the cpu to a 600MHz P3 since it's pretty cheap to do so. Thanks for the video.
i remember my grandma had this computer until like 2007 or 2008 lol. however if i remember i dont remember it being too too slow towards the end. must of been a really good computer!
That's definitely the female Commander Shepard voice actress in that gateway commercial :) beautiful computer! I wish I still had our gateway from 99...
This guy named Lesniak kept one of these in his wall locker in the Army. At the time I thought it was weird. The only thing worse was me having Web TV.
Am I the only one to notice the seek test from the HDD in the intro computer is ... An old Western digital Caviar, the seek test made these distinctive noise, they were made from 1 gb to 3.2 gb then the seek test went different. This is by far my favorite sounding HDD seek test 😅 I must be autistic to some degree for sure.
No, I noticed the same. Was a huge fan of WD drives back in the day. I still like them, but nowadays most drives are boring commodity items and don't have as much character.
Were these “Performance” line of gateway PCs their highest end computers at that time? Like for gaming and such? Im assuming the GP7-850 was their absolute best
I had a gateway pc that had Windows Me on it. It was like a small ITX system and had a pentium 3. I’m not able to find it now though looking online. It suffered a power surge and we didn’t know much about computers back then so it ended up in a landfill but I’m looking for info on it now.
I still have this tower (or one thats looks just like it) from 1998 back at my parents house. Unfortunately doesn't work anymore, wont detect any hard drive.
If any of the commenters can help me, I'm trying to pinpoint the Orland Park outlet. It was in a shopping center with Barnes and Noble, *but* I can't decide which store stands in its place: the Justice clothing store or the Nordstrom outlet.
I have that same pc and was trying to restore it is there any browser I can download to access RUclips or any other website I’ve been having trouble with it.
@@GamingRetro yeah I was just wondering if I couild because I’m looking to sell it to a guy and before I sell it he wanted to know if it couild access the internet
I have this exact model for my gaming rig. I'm making it a sleeper PC. Any chance y'all know how to replace the power switch? I have what should be the right wires and a good switch.
The internet before RUclips was like radio before television ..the bad part is nowadays all the garbage you see on TV is on the internet . it was not this way until about 2015
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Totally had one of these and definitely played SimCity2000 on it.
I still have mine. I could never bring myself to toss it. My oldest son used it all the time and sadly he passed away in 2008 when he was 18. I can still picture him AOL chat messaging like a madman, either hitting on the girls or making plans with the guys....
Our first PC growing up, I remember my Dad coming home with this lol.
A gateway was my first home computer.. so many memories..
I like that beige tower. It is pristine considering the age of this PC!
Indeed! I've had my hands on several of these and this is the best one I've come across.
yes, I have a 500mhz model of this machine which looks great .. from the front, sadly I am the reason the back however is butchered, a horrible dremel job when trying to get a standard power supply to fit the opening... it worked, but... yeah, don't do what I did... still a solid machine..
I couldn't agree more
My .02 cents as the original owner of one! That very CD burner was in fact an original build to order option, I had it as a second drive along with the 40X CD-ROM. I can also happily add that at 20 years old, It's still alive and well and living at my parent's house with XP, it's basically used as a print server for an even older parallel HP LaserJet at this point, but fully functional no less with the original EV700 17" CRT. They most certainly don't build them like they used to. One of these days I'll replace it with a parallel external JetDirect and steal my system back to add to my collection.
This is from memory, but it was my very first new computer and as an IT guy, these things are special! Gateway Performance 600, 128MB RAM (I believe you could order up to 256 but it was big $$$), 20GB Hard Drive that I'd like to say was 7200RPM, Nvidia RIVA TNT2 with 32MB, the sound card I'm not sure but I think it was the turtle beach shown here with the digital audio out for the accompanying digital Boston 2.1 speakers, 40x CD-ROM, I want to say it was a 4x4x24 CD-burner whose brand is escaping me (but I'd love to know!), and a floppy drive. The only things I wished it had at the time were a Zip drive (although moot with a CD-Burner unless you had existing media) and a DVD drive. I don't recall if this was just slightly before DVD in a PCs time or if the option just wasn't worth the cost.
You deserve much more subs buddy.
This shit was around when I was high school. Damn, I'm old lol
I still have that exact LCD monitor on my upstairs computer. Works great to this day!
OLD IS GOLD MAN. I LOVED IT.
I have the gateway destination pc xtv-450. Great vintage gaming computer / old school home theater.
I think that's the one I had, after my first Gateway. We had the 17" CRT and the Boston speakers, that I used for a decade of computers. They were the best, but the signal would go out and barely pop back in when adjusting the knob on the back of the bass. I played my PlayStation games on it for higher quality. The last Gateway I bought before they went bankrupt or w/e was a BTX tower.
Great video and a lovely machine.
gosh I remember growing up in a house with 5 other siblings and one computer. It was a nightmare! We would fight for the computer every minute lololol...it was a mess....I remember RODENTS REVENGE , and SKI FREE for the computer. my favorite PC games. you can still find rodents revenge in the App Store , but it comes with a price tag.
RIP Gateway
also, one day the beige pc will return and RGB will be tossed to the trash
I have a gateway GP7-450 and GP7-500, mine has thumb screws. Also with the power supply, my GP7s have been on for 8 and 9 years. They still work flawlessly with no bad/leaking capacitors or other issues.
I have the 15" monitor that went with that set. When my daughter first saw it she said, "that screen is tiny!" Then she saw how deep it was. I think I blew her mind. :)
My first PC was Pentium 3 with 128 MB RAM ohh man how i wish to go back to those days.
That was my first PC! I was 21 when i got it and I think I financed it over like 2 years lol. It had a voodoo 3 and I would stay up to obscene times in the morning streaming winamp stations and chatting in yahoo chatrooms lol.
Computers were built like tanks back in the day. Today their made with cheap, low quality parts. What a shame.
Low quality parts? Are you telling me a I9 2080ti DDR4 32Gb 4080Ghz RAM machine is low quality? These things had a gig of 250Ghz RAM if you paid triple. I think the term you're looking for is "delicate", and these computers were just as-if not more-delicate as the modern standard.
So true.....in the past pc s were pcs bro...not shietty lighting problems gaming problems crashes and all problems from pc s nowadays...the real pc s and real gaming with no problems era was until the 2010...after 2010 the golden era of gaming and technology without problems ended...and a new shiet era started..:(
With all my curent pc s and laptops i had infinite problems specially gpu crashes game crashes bugs etc..in the past i dont remember any problems wtf...why ? Because there was no problems like nowadays!!!!!! Fucking hell
The first computer I ever used was one of these Gateway "essential" PCs. It was the mini tower version though like the one shown in the ad before the video. It also had the Ev700 CRT monitor. I haven't been able to find the same one, but I did find the full size tower like the one in your video. Pretty much the same system I have always liked the slotted CPUs such as the Pentium ii and the early Pentium iii like this. I also have that mouse somewhere. I love that old style Microsoft intellimouse. I still use one on my main PC, although it is the plain Microsoft version, not one with the Gateway logo on it.
I had a 13, 15, and 17 inch CRT monitors overtime.😊
So I live in Fremont so not too far from you! I was surprised to find out that you lived so close in Omaha. So I have a Gateway P3 450 in this same case with very similar components to yours from July of 1999. It was flooded in March of 2019 but I recently managed to clean the motherboard in the sink with water and dawn dish soap then let it dry with a box fan. It still works just fine now just need to track down optical and floppy drives now and figure out how to install Windows 98 SE on it as well. The HDD died as well but I replaced it with an SDHC to IDE adapter. Mine has an Nvidia Geforce2 MX 400 64MB vram in it from 2001. I may also upgrade the cpu to a 600MHz P3 since it's pretty cheap to do so. Thanks for the video.
i have a small gateway collection and a set of the boston acoustic speakers and they do sound good
I was just given one of these complete mint for free. Love this machine to death. It's in a better place now in someone's retro setup :)
i remember my grandma had this computer until like 2007 or 2008 lol. however if i remember i dont remember it being too too slow towards the end. must of been a really good computer!
My sister used to work as an engineer for Gateway. Long time ago.
The word “vintage” and the year 2000 do not belong in the same sentence. My god I’m so old.
Me too, friend, me too.
That's definitely the female Commander Shepard voice actress in that gateway commercial :) beautiful computer! I wish I still had our gateway from 99...
Back when pc s were you know..pcs...no shietty lightning no problems no stres no game problems or crashes etc....i miss those times :(((
I remember these computers literally crashing all the time. I don’t mind the lack of LED lighting, though.
This guy named Lesniak kept one of these in his wall locker in the Army. At the time I thought it was weird. The only thing worse was me having Web TV.
Ha, nice. I probably would have been that guy.
Perfect for chatting in AOL chat rooms
Watching this on an Intel i7 9th gen in 2020!
I'm watching on a Q9550
Am I the only one to notice the seek test from the HDD in the intro computer is ... An old Western digital Caviar, the seek test made these distinctive noise, they were made from 1 gb to 3.2 gb then the seek test went different. This is by far my favorite sounding HDD seek test 😅 I must be autistic to some degree for sure.
No, I noticed the same. Was a huge fan of WD drives back in the day. I still like them, but nowadays most drives are boring commodity items and don't have as much character.
Were these “Performance” line of gateway PCs their highest end computers at that time? Like for gaming and such? Im assuming the GP7-850 was their absolute best
I'm the same way with older computer matching up what you would have gotten
It's quite satisfying!
Y did you put a commercial for the essentials when its a performance?
Never quite understood why Gateway placed the drive bays like they did in their cases
nice classic
i remember those from the brick store gateway used to have
I had a gateway pc that had Windows Me on it. It was like a small ITX system and had a pentium 3. I’m not able to find it now though looking online. It suffered a power surge and we didn’t know much about computers back then so it ended up in a landfill but I’m looking for info on it now.
I guess I am old enough as I had owned a gateway pc before lol.
i still have mine
Put the links from where you bought everything
one voodoo 4 4500 put in and perfect :) long time ago i use this computer but one think i not remember fix a max memory upgrade this 384 or 512mb?
I still have this tower (or one thats looks just like it) from 1998 back at my parents house. Unfortunately doesn't work anymore, wont detect any hard drive.
I think 20 GB was on the higher end for PCs from 2000. The more reasonable size would be 4-8gb probably.
Had the gateway 1000 with dual viewsonic 21in monitors
If any of the commenters can help me, I'm trying to pinpoint the Orland Park outlet. It was in a shopping center with Barnes and Noble, *but* I can't decide which store stands in its place: the Justice clothing store or the Nordstrom outlet.
use dxdiag from the run prompt to see more detailed info about the PC. 600 mhz P3 - Katmai or coppermine?
I have that same pc and was trying to restore it is there any browser I can download to access RUclips or any other website I’ve been having trouble with it.
On your vintage PC?
@@GamingRetro yeah I was just wondering if I couild because I’m looking to sell it to a guy and before I sell it he wanted to know if it couild access the internet
What games came with this pc bundle!?
Oh yeah I spent hours on weekends there lol
I have this exact model for my gaming rig. I'm making it a sleeper PC. Any chance y'all know how to replace the power switch? I have what should be the right wires and a good switch.
I frost IBM PC clone 386 SX Gateway back in 1990.
Dang nice pc set up i have a Premio windows 98 pc with intel celeron in it but i need help to revive it
So many drives. Cdrom, floppy disc, cdrw
Why don't you show us the use of it. More interesting than the outside
Bruh this guy looks just like Eric Wareheim, cool video tho
The internet before RUclips was like radio before television ..the bad part is nowadays all the garbage you see on TV is on the internet . it was not this way until about 2015
I have that same pc right in my closet
I have a gate way pc it’s my brothers it’s not that one but it’s pretty similar to that one but he said he could run Minecraft on it so yeah
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can it run windows 10?
not good! it's better suited for Windows 98
What about windows 11 ?
I have the pentium 2 Version that was made in 98
Great for retro gaming I suspect!
How many gb the storage is
I have this tower pentium 3 733mhz
When i have it
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Thank you sir!
give it a 3com network card or a wireless card
I love old builds, but I cant stand the HDD slowness.
Put a cheap SSD there, it will unleash the potential of the machine.
But can it run Crysis?
you mean can it run Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 Arena
Using an LCD for this computer even back in the day I would consider a down grade.
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i prefered them to toshiba laptops.