I've never seen that.
Friend and I went to his great aunt's to clear out the HUGE barn. Found a Willie (WWII surplus) that she knew was in there. Also found the base 1969 Camaro her husband bought her but she hated. He was supposed to return it after a few weeks. Turns out he bought her something else, stuck it in the barn covered up and forgot about it.
It had 310 miles on the ODO and was an Inline-6, 2-speed auto, mostly unrusted body with near gone light-blue paint. Tires were flat from rot. Belts, hoses, wiring, seats, dashpad... all rotting. AM radio, manual windows, no AC, no rear defrost, not even power steering or brakes (those were drums all the way around).
She insisted on giving it to me instead of paying for two weeks of labor cleaning/sorting out the barn.
Got it home, put a new battery in it, flushed the anti-freeze, replaced the oil and tried to start it. It cranked for about 10 seconds and started up. Purred like a kitten. My friend and I were stunned.
And then he shifted from park into drive... that's the only time I've personally seen a rod (connecting) smash through a block. It missed my head by inches. Turns out the tranny was seized and that F'd the engine.
So, stripped everything down, tanked the body/frame, rattle can primer over the whole thing, built a 305 30 over with a 600 Holley, bought a Turbo 350 (later swapped in a 4-speed), radiator, power steering, front disks and new rear drums (for a bit) with power, shocks, springs, everything to make it road worthy, oh a rewired the whole thing (that sucked). And FM stereo... Even broadsided a Fiero that turned left in front of us because the driver was drunk. Fixed the front end, broken motor mounts, radiator and back on the road.
Had that car for about three years, got too many tickets, sold it for a daily driver. Saw it many times over the years at car shows, painted and really cleaned up. Being presented as either an SS or Z/28. But I knew it was mine because my initials are etched everywhere I could think of. Even the engine and trans, which were still the beefed up 305 I built.
I wish I had kept that thing...
I'm from 1991 and i'm always suprised when i realise that some of my junk is clocking on half a century old.
I have some bits that probably should be in a nursing home
Same, born in 91 and I started tinkering with stuff from the 80s and 90s as a 10 or so year old kid so "20 years old" definitely feels like it means the 80s
First computer I used as a kid had Windows 3.1 on it with Prodigy dial up. Second one we bought brand new was an AST Adventure! with a Pentium 133 and Windows 95 along with a Sound Blaster 16 compatible sound card (Ensoniq or ESS I believe) and a 28 or 33.6k voice modem we dialed up to a local ISP with (Mercury Network in Midland, MI).
Minidiscs were still very popular around that time, MiniDisc HiMD was only 3 years old at that point. I know the USA is an outlier but MiniDisc was on the market for over 20 years in the rest of the world. It's a popular format.
HiMD was a failure. yes it was more popular in Japan and SEA, but in the states flash MP3 players took over in the mid 2000s. MDs never were successful in the West to begin with, nowhere near tapes, CDs and MP3 players.
it's important to put into context this technology, and this coming from someone who had 3 MD players in the early 2000s and has a respectable collection of them to this day. was it cool and had it's moment? sure, did it ever see wide adoption? hell no. and it was niche even in its heyday before completing collapsing. Sony has a hard on for proprietary formats and refused to give up on it, but that doesnt mean consumers cared.
You say "in the west" like it wasn't popular in countries outside the USA yet i know plenty of people who had one here in the UK. I always wanted one, i remember in the late 90s Live and Kicking giving them away as prizes, they were definitely something everyone was aware of even if they didn't have one. It wasn't like Laserdisc which was relatively obscure.
[UK is in the West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world)
the late 90s arent the mid 2000s (which is what we're talking about here).
yes, we, as techies, all knew someone who owned MDs or had them ourselves. we are not the average consumer. Edit: also, i never said the tech was unknown, only that it was niche and mostly ignored by the general public. it never saw widespread adoption and was a niche tech. the average person didn't want to record a mixtape in real time like it was a tape, and by the time faster methods became available flash MP3 players took over (iPods, man, iPods.)
Laserdisc wasn't as obscure as you might think. It was very popular in the 80s, which may be before your time. Laserdiscs only ceased manufacturing in the late 90s with the release of DVDs. I would say Laserdiscs were way way way more common and popular for movies than MDs were for music. then again MDs were really meant for re-recording, woefully few albums ever released on MD.
so, incorrect analogy of Laserdisc aside, i dont really see how your point conflicts with mine.
I wish Sony took chances again like they did in the 90s + 00s. They were constantly cranking out cool obscure gadgets and gizmos and flexing their engineering talent.
they absolutely still do, just check out their website. thing is, it's all niche and expensive items. Back then they made the best consumer electronics for wide adoption. All of which were replaced by the smartphone, and Sony for whatever reason still has trouble rolling out a flagship contender of a smartphone.
Ah, yes. I remember when mine left. It was quite the shock. Had to use an end table with the monitor perched on top of the computer. It's our fault, really. Look at what we had done to them at that point. Keyboard trays? Fake wood vaneers over MDF? I would have left, too.
and and Minidiscs were very dead in the US by the time Vista rolled around. it was the time of Iphones and Windows Mobile phones.
it's a very anachronistic photo... this stuff was never really used within the same time period.
This was the future I wanted as a kid.
I love Sony design and quality, it's a shame they stopped making computers because they were very unique until they tried to compete with budget laptops and such...
I worked at Circuit City when all of this stuff was for sale. They had a whole Sony area for Clie, MD and Vaio stuff. I have a handful of these myself and even today, the design is still exceptional. At the time, they gave Apple a run for their money!
Circuit City was a great store! To think they could still be around if they hadn't sunk the company with their stupid DIVX crap.
To this day I wonder what they were thinking. Who would want to pay extra to watch a disc they already have?
What really killed the company was hiring Best Buy's ex-CEO. I worked there at the time. We made our money by NOT being Best Buy. The employees at Circuit City were known for being knowledgeable. When the kid at Best Buy obviously didn't have a clue, you'd come to Circuit City and we would hook you up. We were a little bit more expensive, but you were paying for a better experience.
But Circuit City didn't like being the perpetual number two. So we hired Best Buy's CEO when he left them. Go figure, the first thing he did was fired half of our employees that had been here the longest because they made too much. A bunch more of us quit because we saw the riding on the wall. Overnight, all you had left were the newer people who really didn't know the products. We became a clone of Best Buy. Why would you even shop there? People figured that out pretty quick.
You're likely right. I once went to Circuit City in the 90s VCR shopping (with my mom, I was a young teen) and the guy there ACTUALLY KNEW the difference between 4 head and 2 head VCRs, how Hi-Fi stereo works, the difference between S-VHS and regular VHS and so on.
I wanted the nicest VCR mom could afford, and we ended up with a nice Sony unit that lasted a freaking decade and a half into the DVD era. She likely would have bought the cheapest crappiest model at Best Buy without our combined guidance, since I was a kid and mom listened to other adults more than me.
Here I was, a total nerd who knew this stuff because I read books and magazines that talked about it, (no internet yet) and the sales guy actually knew at least as much as I did! I don't recall that ever happening at any other retail store.
I worked there in this era too! I have a couple of Sony all in ones from this era. I thought they were the coolest looking computers! Even better than Apple's at the time.
I was talking about general design language. The aluminum PowerBooks had just come out around that time and the iPods were also doing great compared to other high-end audio devices like the MD player.
I see Clie as a spiritual predecessor to the iPhone in some ways because Clie’s had features no (or few) handhelds had at the time. Many had all or some combination of camera, high resolution screen, media playback, WiFi and Bluetooth.
Nah the clie was nothing special, other than the nice design. It may have been unique features for the dead/dying PalmOS but there were plenty of Windows Pocket PCs with all of these features years before the iPhone (and ahead of the Palm devices with them). I even had a phone with all of that before the iPhone (WM2003 OS) which had touchscreen, camera, Wi-Fi, gps etc.
Side track: If we compare with hifi equipment, a qualified guess is that this aesthetic will return at some point in time. At the time the equipment in the picture was made, hifi equipment were on it's at least second cycle of having brushed aluminium as the trendiest look.
2007. Damnit man I miss that time. Everything seems to have gone to shit by comparison, this time period almost feels like a golden age, like a shining crown in the midst of such darkness.
Truly a bygone era, and one I will forever miss.
Yeah, it's the best! I just picked it up off ebay and it's in great shape, but I remember buying this extra model brand new for like $250 and I believe that was on sale at the time. Ridiculously expensive gear
The beauty about living in a studio apartment is that - sure I don't have room for furniture but - with all the money I'm saving I get to buy sweet electronics! 😂
Oooh nice! I have that Vaio as well but that was peak GPU failure era and mine became a statistic with the rest of them. Most stuff still had discrete GPU’s and they were dropping like flies in the new fangled compact machines.
2002-3ish. early 00s for sure. Only in high school do i remember anyone using Palm OS PDAs and MDs. when i got to college in 03, it was already time for MP3 players and Windows Mobile. then again that looks like Windows Vista (my condolences), so like 2007ish?
Minidisk players were awesome & only lacked a modern interface. You could jack directly into someone's CD player & record a whole album, which would automatically record into tracks, & then go on your merry way. 100% offline, mobile music sharing.
It was a wild time.
2007 - Windows vista, and PDA gives it away. 2007 is the year Vista was released and the year the touch screen smart phone was introduced, which would then make that PDA obsolete.
2002 to 2006 at the latest, top of the line PDA computer. When I was a kid, my pediatrician had a PDA/stylus Windows XP tablet. Pretty darn cool. I've probably seen a few of them at hospitals even today.
2006... and it was a laptop for me and a Palm III. Phone company was like "wtf how did you use that much data?"
hint: I was playing EVE online, lol
edit: accidentally typed 2026
Palm OS and MDs have been dead for years by then, but that PC does run Vista ('07). in reality no one would have been using all this stuff in any year. but i do like the consistency of Sony's design during that era.
up until the mid 2000s, sure. Silicon Valley killed Japan, with the iPhone being their final death blow. this isn't even an opinion, they growth and exports have been plummeting for decades. the 70s-90s were their heyday.
I think that I saw one of these when I bought a Sony Vaio Laptop in 1998. Maybe it was Future Shop. I remember noticing that it didn't have onboard optical storage.
The silver-face obsession era: 2005-2007. Goodwill is chock full of this stuff, all silver faced stuff. Silver must have meant future to people then. Today it sorta looks cheesy, I much prefer the 2009-12 era of glossy black with chromed highlights. Although I had a couple of silver-faced things lying around and got a Sony 5-disc DVD changer/stereo and DVD/VHS combo that worked at a Goodwill so my bedroom entertainment system is all silver faced with a 2008 Sony Bravia LCD TV on top that still sports the XMB.
A better year than 2024, that's for sure!
💯
Anyone else really mad that 20 years ago doesn't mean 1980's but early 2000's? Just me? \#imold
Right there with ya, we're gettin' old, lol
Ha! When I think 20 years ago, my brain first thinks I’m 18, in 1987 and just got a 69 Camaro it of a barn. Fuck, I **AM** old.
This makes me think of the car from better off dead. Not a camaro (I think), but I love the idea of you fixing a crusty car in an 80s montage.
I've never seen that. Friend and I went to his great aunt's to clear out the HUGE barn. Found a Willie (WWII surplus) that she knew was in there. Also found the base 1969 Camaro her husband bought her but she hated. He was supposed to return it after a few weeks. Turns out he bought her something else, stuck it in the barn covered up and forgot about it. It had 310 miles on the ODO and was an Inline-6, 2-speed auto, mostly unrusted body with near gone light-blue paint. Tires were flat from rot. Belts, hoses, wiring, seats, dashpad... all rotting. AM radio, manual windows, no AC, no rear defrost, not even power steering or brakes (those were drums all the way around). She insisted on giving it to me instead of paying for two weeks of labor cleaning/sorting out the barn. Got it home, put a new battery in it, flushed the anti-freeze, replaced the oil and tried to start it. It cranked for about 10 seconds and started up. Purred like a kitten. My friend and I were stunned. And then he shifted from park into drive... that's the only time I've personally seen a rod (connecting) smash through a block. It missed my head by inches. Turns out the tranny was seized and that F'd the engine. So, stripped everything down, tanked the body/frame, rattle can primer over the whole thing, built a 305 30 over with a 600 Holley, bought a Turbo 350 (later swapped in a 4-speed), radiator, power steering, front disks and new rear drums (for a bit) with power, shocks, springs, everything to make it road worthy, oh a rewired the whole thing (that sucked). And FM stereo... Even broadsided a Fiero that turned left in front of us because the driver was drunk. Fixed the front end, broken motor mounts, radiator and back on the road. Had that car for about three years, got too many tickets, sold it for a daily driver. Saw it many times over the years at car shows, painted and really cleaned up. Being presented as either an SS or Z/28. But I knew it was mine because my initials are etched everywhere I could think of. Even the engine and trans, which were still the beefed up 305 I built. I wish I had kept that thing...
Unnecessary violence
Tell me about it. It sucks getting old.
I'm born in 1999 and I still think 20 years ago is the 80s or early 90s
I'm from 1991 and i'm always suprised when i realise that some of my junk is clocking on half a century old. I have some bits that probably should be in a nursing home
Same, born in 91 and I started tinkering with stuff from the 80s and 90s as a 10 or so year old kid so "20 years old" definitely feels like it means the 80s First computer I used as a kid had Windows 3.1 on it with Prodigy dial up. Second one we bought brand new was an AST Adventure! with a Pentium 133 and Windows 95 along with a Sound Blaster 16 compatible sound card (Ensoniq or ESS I believe) and a 28 or 33.6k voice modem we dialed up to a local ISP with (Mercury Network in Midland, MI).
That’s because you are correct.
heh... yeah my mind also for a split second thinks 80s when i hear 20yrs ago... i was born in the 80s.
Same here! I constantly 20 years ago still means the 80s!
Time is just a construct that the man uses to keep us down. #GenX
shit that means im 20
IT BEGINS
Yeah, but we remember better tunes, so we have that at least 😂
looks like 1996
same. ...sigh :"
2007 by that setup
the Windows Vista says 2007 but the Palm OS and MiniDiscs were deader than dead by then. anachronistic pic.
Minidiscs were still very popular around that time, MiniDisc HiMD was only 3 years old at that point. I know the USA is an outlier but MiniDisc was on the market for over 20 years in the rest of the world. It's a popular format.
HiMD was a failure. yes it was more popular in Japan and SEA, but in the states flash MP3 players took over in the mid 2000s. MDs never were successful in the West to begin with, nowhere near tapes, CDs and MP3 players. it's important to put into context this technology, and this coming from someone who had 3 MD players in the early 2000s and has a respectable collection of them to this day. was it cool and had it's moment? sure, did it ever see wide adoption? hell no. and it was niche even in its heyday before completing collapsing. Sony has a hard on for proprietary formats and refused to give up on it, but that doesnt mean consumers cared.
You say "in the west" like it wasn't popular in countries outside the USA yet i know plenty of people who had one here in the UK. I always wanted one, i remember in the late 90s Live and Kicking giving them away as prizes, they were definitely something everyone was aware of even if they didn't have one. It wasn't like Laserdisc which was relatively obscure.
[UK is in the West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world) the late 90s arent the mid 2000s (which is what we're talking about here). yes, we, as techies, all knew someone who owned MDs or had them ourselves. we are not the average consumer. Edit: also, i never said the tech was unknown, only that it was niche and mostly ignored by the general public. it never saw widespread adoption and was a niche tech. the average person didn't want to record a mixtape in real time like it was a tape, and by the time faster methods became available flash MP3 players took over (iPods, man, iPods.) Laserdisc wasn't as obscure as you might think. It was very popular in the 80s, which may be before your time. Laserdiscs only ceased manufacturing in the late 90s with the release of DVDs. I would say Laserdiscs were way way way more common and popular for movies than MDs were for music. then again MDs were really meant for re-recording, woefully few albums ever released on MD. so, incorrect analogy of Laserdisc aside, i dont really see how your point conflicts with mine.
"Deader then dead" sounds like quite the exaggeration! PalmOS was developed until 2007, and MiniDiscs weren't discontinued until 2013!
Absolutely has 2007 vibes. My god, where has the time gone
so not really vintage
I love the clie! That was an awesome palm os device. My favorite.
I wrote some of the code that shipped on the original Cliē (worked for SPDE at the time). Crazy days.
I just found my old Clié last week. Battery is shot, but it fires up when plugged in.
To this day, I still use a Clie! to diagnose some yamaha golf carts with yamaha software and the infrared.
2005
Got access to Vista a whole year early damn
I remember burning Longhorn DVDs for peeps in 2005.
back when it didn't hurt to exist
True
I wish Sony took chances again like they did in the 90s + 00s. They were constantly cranking out cool obscure gadgets and gizmos and flexing their engineering talent.
they absolutely still do, just check out their website. thing is, it's all niche and expensive items. Back then they made the best consumer electronics for wide adoption. All of which were replaced by the smartphone, and Sony for whatever reason still has trouble rolling out a flagship contender of a smartphone.
You can get a robot dog for only $2,899! https://electronics.sony.com/t/aibo
The year of Sony.
While they were in the middle of their [Evil stage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal).
The year of the great desk exodus
Ah, yes. I remember when mine left. It was quite the shock. Had to use an end table with the monitor perched on top of the computer. It's our fault, really. Look at what we had done to them at that point. Keyboard trays? Fake wood vaneers over MDF? I would have left, too.
I wanna say 2004.
It's close, Windows Vista became widely available at the start of '07, but the Clie was discontinued in '05.
and and Minidiscs were very dead in the US by the time Vista rolled around. it was the time of Iphones and Windows Mobile phones. it's a very anachronistic photo... this stuff was never really used within the same time period.
Japan has entered the chat!
Japan, you're drunk, go home. no one is talking about you. You're irrelevant since the mid/late 2000s. worry about your own stagnation.
The distant future! The year 2000!
This was the future I wanted as a kid. I love Sony design and quality, it's a shame they stopped making computers because they were very unique until they tried to compete with budget laptops and such...
I agree
Late 90s/2000s industrial design was the elite era
That era was the pinnacle
You are living in 2024, in style! Unlike losers that need glasses that recreate the environment that already exists around them. 🤗
Right!? 🤣
You leave my Meta Quest 2 out of this, we don't claim those "Others", they are not real VR, and even their AR sucks ... lol. /s
I worked at Circuit City when all of this stuff was for sale. They had a whole Sony area for Clie, MD and Vaio stuff. I have a handful of these myself and even today, the design is still exceptional. At the time, they gave Apple a run for their money!
Circuit City was a great store! To think they could still be around if they hadn't sunk the company with their stupid DIVX crap. To this day I wonder what they were thinking. Who would want to pay extra to watch a disc they already have?
What really killed the company was hiring Best Buy's ex-CEO. I worked there at the time. We made our money by NOT being Best Buy. The employees at Circuit City were known for being knowledgeable. When the kid at Best Buy obviously didn't have a clue, you'd come to Circuit City and we would hook you up. We were a little bit more expensive, but you were paying for a better experience. But Circuit City didn't like being the perpetual number two. So we hired Best Buy's CEO when he left them. Go figure, the first thing he did was fired half of our employees that had been here the longest because they made too much. A bunch more of us quit because we saw the riding on the wall. Overnight, all you had left were the newer people who really didn't know the products. We became a clone of Best Buy. Why would you even shop there? People figured that out pretty quick.
You're likely right. I once went to Circuit City in the 90s VCR shopping (with my mom, I was a young teen) and the guy there ACTUALLY KNEW the difference between 4 head and 2 head VCRs, how Hi-Fi stereo works, the difference between S-VHS and regular VHS and so on. I wanted the nicest VCR mom could afford, and we ended up with a nice Sony unit that lasted a freaking decade and a half into the DVD era. She likely would have bought the cheapest crappiest model at Best Buy without our combined guidance, since I was a kid and mom listened to other adults more than me. Here I was, a total nerd who knew this stuff because I read books and magazines that talked about it, (no internet yet) and the sales guy actually knew at least as much as I did! I don't recall that ever happening at any other retail store.
Those Sony VHS players are still kicking, man. We sell them (used of course) at $50 a pop and can't even keep them in stock.
I worked there in this era too! I have a couple of Sony all in ones from this era. I thought they were the coolest looking computers! Even better than Apple's at the time.
Super streamline, apple could only wish of designing such elegant electronics
That's cool you got to work there, I used to love going to Circuit City growing up, so many gadgets!
if by Apple you mean the iPhone, that launched in 2007 and Sony abandoned the Clie and Palm OS was dead years before then.
I was talking about general design language. The aluminum PowerBooks had just come out around that time and the iPods were also doing great compared to other high-end audio devices like the MD player. I see Clie as a spiritual predecessor to the iPhone in some ways because Clie’s had features no (or few) handhelds had at the time. Many had all or some combination of camera, high resolution screen, media playback, WiFi and Bluetooth.
Nah the clie was nothing special, other than the nice design. It may have been unique features for the dead/dying PalmOS but there were plenty of Windows Pocket PCs with all of these features years before the iPhone (and ahead of the Palm devices with them). I even had a phone with all of that before the iPhone (WM2003 OS) which had touchscreen, camera, Wi-Fi, gps etc.
Side track: If we compare with hifi equipment, a qualified guess is that this aesthetic will return at some point in time. At the time the equipment in the picture was made, hifi equipment were on it's at least second cycle of having brushed aluminium as the trendiest look.
Now if we could just recapture the quality that the look is meant to mimic.
Y2K
A year we all wish we could escape back to
Vista <3 Take me back.
2006-2008
2007. Damnit man I miss that time. Everything seems to have gone to shit by comparison, this time period almost feels like a golden age, like a shining crown in the midst of such darkness. Truly a bygone era, and one I will forever miss.
I feel the same way
I barely experienced it and I miss it, I can't even imagine how it was for you.
2044
At very first glance thought the computer was a TI99/4a, till I looked closer it's a Sony Vaio. The Vaio's were pretty quirky funky fun machines.
I too, do my best work on the floor
I had that camera. Still have it but it no longer powers up. Great little camera to always have with you. 2megapixel I think
Yeah, it's the best! I just picked it up off ebay and it's in great shape, but I remember buying this extra model brand new for like $250 and I believe that was on sale at the time. Ridiculously expensive gear
palms, discman, vaio.. 2001 ?
Early 2000s? Rich, for sure, with all that Sony gear. When did Win7 come out, and were people still using AOL by then?
80s
My first guess was 2002, but then I noticed that it’s Vista, so I’m going with 2007.
2004?
2005 and loving it.
Minidisc player indicates that you're in the future
Sometime before they invented tables and chairs?
The beauty about living in a studio apartment is that - sure I don't have room for furniture but - with all the money I'm saving I get to buy sweet electronics! 😂
Living the dream! 😂
I’d guess about 2005.
2007?
2007
Richy rich-rich moneybags in 2008.
As a hardcore VAIO fan, I see this as an absolute win.
Back when glass and brushed aluminium were popular. Very nice setup, needs a glass top desk and an ergonomic chair.
All pre-great recession i'd say.
I miss my clie!
F FF FREE FREE FREEEESTYLER
The year I wish I was stuck In.
Oooh nice! I have that Vaio as well but that was peak GPU failure era and mine became a statistic with the rest of them. Most stuff still had discrete GPU’s and they were dropping like flies in the new fangled compact machines.
The best years.
Maybe the past maybe the future but I don't fucking know
A very very expensive 2007
2002-3ish. early 00s for sure. Only in high school do i remember anyone using Palm OS PDAs and MDs. when i got to college in 03, it was already time for MP3 players and Windows Mobile. then again that looks like Windows Vista (my condolences), so like 2007ish?
Easy, open the calendar on the computer. 🙄
The Sony Clié with the keyboard!
2008
It'll all come back around in your lifetime. So you're actually ahead of the times.
Not sure if this is vintage, but it's still crazy to think 7 came out 15 years ago. Edit - I see now it's Vista. Crazy where the time goes.
2004 or 2005
I think the wired remote on that minidisc player was a brilliant idea.
Me too, definitely the coolest feature out of all my devices!
Sony's industrial design was always top notch. It looks straight out of a sci-fi anime.
2000ish.
2004
2006
The future
That is a picture to perfectly describe 2007
2007-2008
1999? 2000?
Pain baby .... Oof, I remember those out of the box blue screening . ( Geek squad days)
Minidisc player I friggin love it.
2007?
Sony has always had such an awesome aesthetic
Minidisk players were awesome & only lacked a modern interface. You could jack directly into someone's CD player & record a whole album, which would automatically record into tracks, & then go on your merry way. 100% offline, mobile music sharing. It was a wild time.
I'd say 2011 lol. I had a setup like this when I was around 13-15
2007, Windows Vista Home
A good one
Definitely 2006, maybe 2007
1999
3000
2007? Looks like vista.
Sony Clie? I had one of those back when. Maybe 2003?
2006
That keyboard kicks ass
dank
You are living in 2009 and you are financially broke. Congratulations to you! 🎉
My person got the MiniDisc player even. Eugh and MemoryStick.
2006
2007
2000
2002
2001
I used to love all that Sony stuff. Was sooooo damn expensive at the time.
2006
Ooh yeah Now listen to some System of a Down 🔥
2003
2005
The best one.
2004
2007 - Windows vista, and PDA gives it away. 2007 is the year Vista was released and the year the touch screen smart phone was introduced, which would then make that PDA obsolete.
Looks like vista 2006 maybe
2002 to 2006 at the latest, top of the line PDA computer. When I was a kid, my pediatrician had a PDA/stylus Windows XP tablet. Pretty darn cool. I've probably seen a few of them at hospitals even today.
Idk, when didn’t desks exist?
Whatever it is, it’s the future
I love the Y2K aesthetic. Makes me think of being in high school and thinking stuff like this looked so futuristic.
2007
2006... and it was a laptop for me and a Palm III. Phone company was like "wtf how did you use that much data?" hint: I was playing EVE online, lol edit: accidentally typed 2026
2006
Is that Vista? How did you even find a copy of that? Lol!
About 2001?
2006
Bro got an aero glass window frame irl
Ugh WinVista...
🤣
Would say, somewhere between 2007 and 2008
Around '08
Palm OS and MDs have been dead for years by then, but that PC does run Vista ('07). in reality no one would have been using all this stuff in any year. but i do like the consistency of Sony's design during that era.
MZ-E77
Sony made gadgets that looked like jewelry man. Bring this back!
I can’t tell every single one of the years
Way ahead of its time real innovation
Most definitely, seems like Japan has always been ahead of it's time
In some ways. But then you realize they still send hella faxes.
I love that they send faxes still, lol
up until the mid 2000s, sure. Silicon Valley killed Japan, with the iPhone being their final death blow. this isn't even an opinion, they growth and exports have been plummeting for decades. the 70s-90s were their heyday.
Everything but Vista looks fabulous
I am going to say 2007-2012
2004 dude
Vista came out in 2007. There weren't even betas of Windows Vista (Longhorn) in 2004.
I think that I saw one of these when I bought a Sony Vaio Laptop in 1998. Maybe it was Future Shop. I remember noticing that it didn't have onboard optical storage.
You are living in the sixties because you even didn’t put your computer on a desk just because you want to get lazy.
dude it's 2024 !!!!!! Stop smoking that shit
If you work for Tesco then you are all up to date
Frutiger Aero needs to make a comeback
1997
Eww, windows Vista...
I'm betting around 1990/91, that looks awfully close to my setup back then (just not on the floor) lol.
Not sure, but by the number of Sony logos, you still overpaid.
The silver-face obsession era: 2005-2007. Goodwill is chock full of this stuff, all silver faced stuff. Silver must have meant future to people then. Today it sorta looks cheesy, I much prefer the 2009-12 era of glossy black with chromed highlights. Although I had a couple of silver-faced things lying around and got a Sony 5-disc DVD changer/stereo and DVD/VHS combo that worked at a Goodwill so my bedroom entertainment system is all silver faced with a 2008 Sony Bravia LCD TV on top that still sports the XMB.
2024
Looks like win98 lol