The Monorail: $999 All-In-One Windows PC from 1996!

It may look like industrial equipment, but the Monorail PC was sold as a low-cost Windows 95 PC for first time computer buyers in the mid 90s! Probably the first desktop with an integrated color LCD monitor, too.

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[eddiemuller]

"Late 90's dial-up wank bank" is a sentence that needs to be used more often.

[YYAT]

Good to know the original owner figured out what the internet is for

[Slaypl]

Monitors in 2019: 90% screen-to-body ratio.
Monitors in 1996: 90% body-to-screen ratio.

[thebasketballhistorian]

After discovering the previous owner's "collection", I would've disinfected the keyboard right away, lol.

[psivewri]

Hearing the windows 95 start up chime always brings a smile to my face :)

[tl]

I'm pretty sure that "adult entertainment" wasn't blurred, it really looked like that in the 90's!

[skuzzyj]

"....over 63 million people are linked by computer to the internet"

This is still technically correct. Which is, of course, the best kind.

[Ava-pqom]

That "internet" thing sounds dope, I should get in on that.

[jonnyc]

For some strange reason this is one of my favourite episodes of LGR. There's just something about it that is charming and enjoyable!

[xxElyonxx]

looks like the old owner took the rail part of monorail a little too seriously

[Lunareon]

"Cost-optimized inferiority" is my new favorite phrase. It describes so many things so perfectly nowadays. xD

[Hellwyck]

"I heard the hard drive's awfully loud"
"It's runs as softly as a cloud!"

[crapisland.]

it's crazy how we went from 63 million to 4.57 billion internet users in the span of 30-so years. thank you mo for reminding me how far we done come.

[starchpile]

That goddamn smeary monitor is like the dreams you have when you're running a high fever.

[CamdenBloke]

It looks like one of those touch screen cash register computers.

[evanredacted]

I was waiting for the Simpsons monorail joke and was not disappointed.

[nslouka]

I'm impressed that they partnered with fedex to determine the size of the machine not to spend too much on shipping and the amount of logistics that went into making the thing, clearly a cash grab built at cost but impressive.

[catfish]

"We want a name without computer buzzwords!"
~a couple years later:~
*Monorail E-Solutions*

[nyodesu]

11:20 Well, I never expected THAT to be in an LGR video!


*"Late 90's Dial-up Wank Bank!"*

[LEANDRO-eqcy]

Mr. new vegas: NCR officials at Camp McCarran were relieved when technical difficulties with its monorail line to the New Vegas Strip proved easy to fix.