Systemax PC Infomercial from 2000
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Came across this at the end of a tape that I was digitally archiving. Thought it would be an amusing bit of point-in-time PC marketing. Back in the earlier era of Systemax, not too long after their take-over of TigerDirect.
Holyshit! It comes with a search engine preloaded!!!
At the time this commercial was made, I was working in Systemax tech support at their call center in Fletcher, Ohio. Their PC systems were terrible.
Can confirm, had a Systemax Tiger that was slow, janky, and the hard drive inevitably failed.
the legend that is MEL ARTHUR
I know... the only guy who could get me to buy shitty computers or useless bloatware
8:35 The big "your kids will use it for homework" ploy. I don't think anyone has ever used a computer for school. Ironically, the purchase probably compromised the kids learning and served to be an anti-homework tool.
telling your parents age of empires is a history lesson
It was because of this TV ad my Dad called and purchsed this whole bundle.
This was the first computer my family ever bought new, I still have a handful of the software sitting around
This is the dope who sold me the MagicJack!
My parents got me this and through the years of upgrading to play games and replacing failing hardware, the only thing left of it that was original was the tower case. So up to like 2009, there was this Frankenstein patchwork pc with a tower that read the original stamping in bold "Systemax: The World's Most Powerful Home Computer"
600MHz holy fuck that's a flashback.
Thank you for the share!!!
was gonna buy, saw it had windows me. Saved my money.
This guy makes me want to spend $999 on this old ass machine.
I remember seeing this commercial when I was nine. I love computers but the only computer I had was one of those toy VTEch
I had the same VTech computer too, if I remember correctly, it had a lot of games and stuff on it.
I got my first computer at the goodwill clearance store in 2000 . 9 bucks and only 2 years okd
yeah it had a lot of educational stuff in a couple of creativity games.
If you weren't there to live the experience of surfing the Internet and dealing the with bloatware of the late 90s, you really have no idea the depths of the depravity..
Not gonna lie, I really want this old computer and all that old software.
I hope at least some people who bought this kept all the documents and software, that's history
@@professorpenne9962 I completely agree! I gotta believe there's some 60 or 70 year old out there who bought this off this infomercial and never upgraded their computer. Probably never used any of the software either.
I have about 50 of them still in box complete from when I bought an old abandoned computer store for my software business. They were…okay. Not great. They play old games well.
@@fmachine86 Wow. A bunch of old Systemax computers? Lol
@@velvetpilot2008 Yeah. I think the old man was a dealer.
6:20 "we have never gone that low on any system you have seen here before"
I call BS, as my mom paid just under $1,200 for one of these "Ultra" PCs in sept 1998. She bought it at a "Mom and Pop" computer shop . she even got the rebates, and got $200 back (so, yeah, $999 after rebate)
It had a intel Celeron @433 mhz , and windows 98. It originally had 32 Mb of RAM, which we later upgraded to 256MB .
15" viewsonic monitor, canon printer and scanner, and many CDs , including one called "New PC essentials " I still remember playing "Mowing Maniac" and "Roof Rats"
Mowing Maniac and Roof Rats are from something called After Dark Games that you can still download online
I’m 20 years behind. I should bought this system in the early 2000’s.
Had one, with a 667 P3
is that Danny Harmon at the beginning there? Distant Signal? love that guy
I bought a athlon slot a 600mhz tower pc with 256 pc100 memory and one 20gb and a 10gb slave hard drive with cd burner and zip drive for 9 bucks in early 2002 at the goodwill
When the webcam came around is when cam sites came around. ;)
Look at porn!
Can I run BF 1?
TigerDirect
64mb of RAM. Damn that's alot!! I would of been sold if it was Pentium 3 running at 600Mhz..
the entire package: $1199.99. include $1000+ software package which reduce the effective pricing less than $200.00 for the computer. good deal yes. reliability not too sure
now you can buy 64gb of ram and someday thats gonna look like 64mb