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High end computing workstations. I mean these are machines that look like your traditional desktop, still made because it allows you to beef up things, unlike a laptop. This aint new really. In the 90s people were throwing out their old PC so often, that you could get last years model for next...

I'm interested in taking a look.

It's hard to explain nostalgia fads...

I think so! I just saw new polaroid cameras at sam's club.

If those are original standoffs, they are taller than I would expect. I see the expansion board propped out by the standoffs leaving less space to a card installed in the next slot over. That makes installation with the plastic shield present more important so as to not scratch up the backside...

I have a modern one... Yes carpet can get nasty to deal with. Wonder if I should put hard floors in my next house.

Something tells me the people making / buying this don't have a desire to have real serial ports. But maybe if you want to use the idc connector with a breakout that's a bit awkward for a little hand held, maybe it can be done? If there aren't integration bugs in the quickly designed motherboards.

Apparently intel! ;) Although I think it's just a misprint. I was expecting more of 1.2M. Pretty sure it was in '92 my grandmother bought a 486 system with 5.25" HD capable drive as an upgrade path. They were still being sold new... and I understand, the media was quite cheap then.

Still seems like oem copies for machines intel sold, if you wanted to add in windows I guess, based on what the additional pictures show. These boxes prominently display intel, and they even have the intel eula. I'm not sure why one would want to bundle a specially manufactured branded full box...

Intel certainly made and sold machines. After all they made motherboards, so it wasn't all that hard to pull together a PC after that. I don't believe they ever sold them in retail outlets. But they sold them to businesses. The ones I have are pretty generic, so I'm sure they sourced things like...

It's probably just an OEM copy that they bundled with their machines. Intel made and sold generic machines for a while. I'm not sure the timeframe, but I am not aware of that far back.

Yes. In the first message, I wasn't too sure if quark was still around as an embedded product. Since you said it was not, I went and checked, but then I also remembered the 32-bit core for the ME so I shared that. So if Intel really doesn't sell 32-bit at all, they do still have the ability to...

They did sell quark for embedded applications outside of their own designs. The original question I answered was how late can you get x86 32-bit cores after Pentium 4.

Well quark might have died, but you never know where the pesky 32-bit core might still show up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Hardware

Intel Atom was sold in 32-bit only variants even later. But it does seem like Intel still sells 32-bit x86 for the embedded applications. I think they are all loosely derived from the Pentium M. So the Pentium 4 was just the NetBurst era, and x86 32-bit really does continue to live on. My...