One of my favourite things about that PC. I am sorely tempted to hunt down a Compaq Presario 5000 or 7000, just to have it, but I’ve heard they have shoddy capacitors and are generally pretty supbar pieces of kit.
I had a Compaq Presario 5000 back in the day. Got the Compaq monitor and speakers to go with it and the salesperson at Circuit City even convinced me to buy a printer! It had a CD-RW drive and I was the coolest dude in the neighborhood. Everyone would knock on my door with lists of music they wanted me to download and burn to a CD for them. I tried to explain that with my AOL dial-up service a single mp3 would take a few hours and if someone picked up the phone it was all over. Of course no one ever listened to me.
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Bit late to this party, but this is where I differ from a lot of people. I can’t honestly say I liked ANY version of Windows. When Win95 was released, within 6 months is why I found Linux because I was actively looking for SOMETHING as an alternative as I was already “done” with Windows nightmares. Win98 cemented in my mind that I needed to find something other than Windows to use (Still on a WinModem until year 2000). Although to be fair I never really used XP heavily, as I had already started switching to linux full-time by it’s release. I DID use it on my primary desktop for games, though.
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That’s a really clean setup. Do you stream?
Thanks mate, trust me it looks worse than those photos suggest. I need to tidy it up 
The mic and webcam are mainly for work since in my last job we had been working from home since like March. I do have a headset mic but I was getting so many complaints about people not hearing me that I got that dedicated Yeti. The secondary/tertiary purposes for it were for maybe eventually doing some podcasts/video tutorial series as well as streaming. I do stream once in a blue moon but it wasn’t the primary reason for the setup I got.
Also had one of these Presario, albeit a desktop rather than a tower, I think it was 2xxx something, with a 1st generation Pentium, and of course the classic side-mounted speakers.
Good computer, still runs with original hardware, added RAM, and “hardware” overclock, but ridiculously overpriced back then.
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Is that a hot-swappable cat rack in the bottom left? 
Can’t really tell from the image, but it looks like it would only fit a small or medium-sized cat-unit.
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Obviously the filters failed miserably at controlling cat hair - perhaps a cat-astrophe is inevitable? Or some sort of cat-aclysmic failure… 
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That is actually a drive cage from another case. It’s nice because it has a backplane with power and sata connectors on it. You can just pop the drives in and out. It holds 4 x 1Tib ssds. Maybe a kitten could fit 
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I was referring to the space on the left of the drive-rack.
For reference this is how a hot-swappable cat-rack looks like (this one suports large cat-units) 
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