5.25" PC Drive Bay Speakers & Subwoofer from the 90s 

lmao I didn't even think of that! That's hilarious. Probably not a big deal these days, but would have been devastating to contemporary hardware. What were they thinking!?

omg!!! me too!!!

Just play Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation." lol

@@subtledemisefox im sure they were thinking something along the lines of, if we sell enough of these, we can go into data storage aswell and have a heap of repeat customers 😂

It'll be fine, I ran karaoke nights for years with the hard drive being exposed to vibrations from 18" and 15" subwoofers and never suffered a drive failure. I doubt that little system can do much damage

Absolutely true! On the other hand, also customers did not really know what tech was useful or not. So even a crappy product could break even and the company behind it did not go bankrupt.

The 90s were an era where anything was possible.

True, and it definitely went on into the early 2000s and even peaked in the early 2000s in some aspects. It's similar to the video game industry imo and part of me just misses when companies would take risk on weird things.

Absolutely but we also had gotten to the “why not?” Eta from the “how?” And “why?” Era

I think it actually started with the late 70s, where suddenly things were possible that used to be big, bulky, nerdy and unreliable. Those was the era of early "home" computers, although they weren't called that yet, the time of the first foray into the digital era, with equipment considered absolutely stone age by todays standards. But it was really the 80s where things get their priming. The 80s were an amazing time, where the future knocks at the door every day. Computers became regular household items, everything from living to entertainment suddenly got the big boost, you had crystal clear music on a plastic disk, could carry your music around in "tiny" cassette players, you had computer power at home like the big systems had just a decade earlier, even mobile phones or world wide computer connections already showed up. It was the time of the future. Granted, the 90s were when things finally got into full gear and max steam ahead, that was the era of the internet, where the computer finally was ubiquitous and showing its full potential. But it already started in the 80s, both were great decades to be alive 🙂

You looking at my future video list? ;)

@@LGR Man now i really want that video

I had an FM radio card with an old mid 90s Packard Bell PC and the tuning software was pretty impressive from what I remember. I'd defo like to see you try out one or two of those LGR...

Okay

I remember all the towers at my high school in the mid ‘00s had similar units installed, but in black.

The real question is how many of them had gum Jammed in the hole.

@@mrskwid1 gum, paper clips, bits of paper, pencils, pennies…

You are lucky to have a P2 ! I had a 8086. Maybe years before :)

@Higgs Bonbon Sounds like you all made pretty good use of those machines! We didn't have dedicated computer workshop hours during highschool and I don't think we really made anything worth of note with the computer lab there other than research for the other classes. The biggest thing I can recall is learning what Wikipedia was from this one chemistry teacher. Fortunatelly, I already had a computer with an internet connection at home by then, so I could learn some useful skills by myself.

I was losing my mind that he didn't use that subwoofer jack. I kept thinking that he'd remember and actually use it. Alas, he didn't and I'm disappointed.

Yes!

This is 100% correct. The "sub" being pressed against the bottom metal plate is not allowing it to do anything, I had one of these as well and it was actually not bad in my 4 bay case. I had the sub at the top and my DVD-CD burner down at the bottom. It was not as good as my Logitec with a 10" floor sub by a long shot but in my dorm, where space was limited, it was good enough for playing MP3s and watching DVDs in a small space. WinAmp was pretty helpful in getting the most out of it till about 85% volume.

since you had once of these, was that swivel intended or is his just busted?

@@OtioseFanatic mine was a solid front piece.

@@OtioseFanatic mine did swivel, but it was much tighter and didn't flop like that. Maybe a foam/rubber washer inside that broke down over time.

@@BlackHoleForge I'm starting to think there was more than one version of this. I've read other comments here and on reddit, and it seems to be a split of people who had one that swivels and ones that were fixed.

The Pop Air only has one drive bay, I think it has to be for a BluRay drive. So woefully limited.

@@CptJistuce the reg and xl have 2x 5.25 spacing in the front

@@Richard_Hu Good to know!

This was one of those comments you read right at the point in the video where it comes up.

If the speaker units had enough shielding. Otherwise they'd wreak havoc on the CRT, causing all kinds of crazy anomalies & color distortion.

@@TortureBot thin lron plate should cover it

It should be relatively trivial to find an old 4-bay case, if one wanted to do just this for whatever reason...

@@Mick_92 I still have my old beige 6-bay full-tower from almost 20 years ago.

that would be amazing

With a magnetic shield, no real problem. Hard drive are not so sensitive in fact. You really need to put a strong magnet close to them before seing damages. Someone made a video about it, don't remember where.

Yes but if you’re playing Janet Jackson you deserve what you get.

@@nalinux it was Brainiac75 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pXITrgRkT5k.html He used a massive magnet and even then needed quite some time to kill it.

In theory it's great! In practice? Yeaahhhh.. Lol

Nothing really. That's what.

It was the sound card driver being initialised.

Have you checked out the video that Clint talked about where he tested an amber CRT? Though that did take up the whole front, not only two 5.25 bays... I really want something like that amber monitor (either to put in the case or as an external monitor)...

I bought an X-Fi card that came with one of those. Still got it. The actual card is providing sound in Mum's machine as my previous motherboard included the X-Fi chip built in, so I gave her an upgrade over the SB Live she was using before. Now I've got wireless digital headphones that take a TOSLINK output straight from the motherboard, rendering the matter of a sound card a moot point. Also, my current board is PCI Express only, so I can't use the old X-Fi card with it, anyway.

Yes, if you play Janet Jackson.

Topical reference.

Luckily, it doesn’ barely works (by design?) so your disks will operate without disturbance

it is about the same setup in every notebook- it will be fine