Quote from: notlist3d on April 06, 2015, 07:12:32 AM

Quote from: transcyberian on April 06, 2015, 05:05:15 AM

Shopping for SP20E's - Is there a way to determine from the Serial Number that it is really an 'E' and not a plain SP20? All of my SP20E's start with 'FL145xx" so I assume numbers higher than that are 'E's". Does this make sense ? Who has a really early 'E' machine that they could check ?

OT: Does anyone remember 'E-Machine' computers, $299 desktops what a POS

I normally use seeing if it says Jackson to tell, but I'm betting your right about a serial number difference.

On the OT:
Yes I do remember those E-Machines. They promised never obsolete... i mean how could a E-machine be obsolete they had AOL on that thing!

Pic of never obsolete sticker they had: http://www.halfdone.com/Personal/Job/Pictures/ScrewUps/Never_obsolete_emachine.jpg (Did not do as image as it was to big and annoying for thread)

I worked pt at a pc shop ..a FEW of these E-machine montherboards folk would put in a tower and try to upgrade etc..most of them you could not do that ...but yeah
to my knowledge .....after a while we would not even work on them...just was not doable...we'd just tell the folks they were shot.....just not in the usual way..emachines were
'shot' from design at birth......

shudder.......