I’ve heard of laptop computers….. I’ve heard of portable computers…. I’ve heard of luggable computers. I think this qualifies as a “draggable.” 😂

@theShadowDragon89

3 ай бұрын

Lmfao :D

congrats now put this laptop on your lap

@keithmichael112

3 ай бұрын

Bring it to the Starbucks, set it up

@The_Boctor

3 ай бұрын

Or else the legal team says we have to start calling it a "notebook," instead.

@kloroformd

3 ай бұрын

Don't threaten me with a good time.

@MK-of7qw

3 ай бұрын

Any computer can be a laptop if you are brave enough.

@The_Boctor

3 ай бұрын

@@MK-of7qw Univac would make a pretty good laptop.

Nah you need to find that ISA card Because it’s not the worst laptop in the world without the membrane keyboard

@channelgogrvk

3 ай бұрын

the alphabetical order membrane keyboard at that. absolute trash. would daily drive. 11/10

The blurring of the thermal compound application had me cracking up.

@DuffHuge

3 ай бұрын

Lmfao same

@vacajinjo

3 ай бұрын

Second video today I see this (the other one is from LGR). Why?

@jcreazy

3 ай бұрын

​@@vacajinjobecause people always complain about how others apply thermal paste and it's annoying.

@vacajinjo

3 ай бұрын

@jcreazy Oh I get it, thanks. Once you know the context is funny, without it is just very weird.

@IntegerOfDoom

3 ай бұрын

He still did it wrong! I could tell!

Car batteries aren't meant to run cycles. They're great for giving enormous power for a few seconds, but if you charge/discharge the thing only a dozen times or so, it'll be broken. You need a marine deep cycle battery.

@replikvltyoutube3727

3 ай бұрын

Just let the man cook

@annieworroll4373

3 ай бұрын

Doing this for actual regular use sure. Doing it for shenanigans, a used car battery is perfect!

@HungryManticore

3 ай бұрын

Well, he did mention he was building the worst laptop...

@Daveyk021

3 ай бұрын

I was just going to say the same thing. Lead Acid batteries should not be discharged.

@Daniel-ne2tg

3 ай бұрын

True!

Pico PSU connect directly to the battery. No reason to run a whole inverter just to take the voltage back down to 12v. DC-DC converters to run other parts of the system if needed. Running a setup like this off a standard car battery is going to kill it quick you probably want a deep discharge battery for this application if you want to run it more than a few cycles on the battery. With a SLA deep discharge battery and using DC-DC converts like the PicoPSU you could fit everything including the battery inside the case.

@keithws79

3 ай бұрын

Agree, but swap the SLA for LiFePo4.

@TatsuZZmage

3 ай бұрын

There are full sized Psu that run off 12v problem with them are how ever they are niche and cost almost 1$ usd to the watt on power limit. lol 800$ for a 750 watt

@eDoc2020

2 ай бұрын

Note that a standard PicoPSU and clones put the input 12v power directly on the PC's 12v rail. If you connect a battery this means you can have over 13.5 volts on the 12v rail which may not be desired. Make sure you get one with buck-boost conversion. I have two M2-ATX-HV I was lucky enough to find for $1 each which would work perfectly here.

@masterkamen371

2 ай бұрын

This was my first thought as well, but then I remembered that the goal was to make the stupidest "laptop" ever. You don't power stupid with smart.

@Nukle0n

Ай бұрын

@@masterkamen371 I mean there's no bottom level of stupid so you could power it with a gas generator too, but that's not really the challenge, the challenge is to make this stupid thing portable, and that'd be a lot simpler and less dangerous without the 120v inverter.

This reminds me so much of those "portable TV's" of the 70's 😁 If it's got a handle on it, it's portable.

@eDoc2020

2 ай бұрын

12" and smaller B&W ones are very easy to carry if well-balanced. 1980s portable computers are much less portable.

Love that you blurred out the thermal paste application, that shit ain't safe for KZread. lmao

You got a DC 12 volt line straight out the battery, all you need to do is some PCBWAY shenanigans to down volt to get +/- 12, 5, 3.3, and 2.8 volts DC. Way more efficient (and quiet) than upconverting to 110 AC then back down

0:34 - The new "i'm a professional" wallpaper just dropped!

Sean "This week we are doing a laptop" Sean's Back "Oh that's great doesn't sound to bad at all".......

please get the keyboard working. thats most of the charm this thing has.

I laghed when i saw the inverter come out cosidering you're converting the DC into AC only for it to immediately get rectified back into DC again. I love it!

Would be even better if using a 12V pico power supply so could connect it directly to the battery, would be even more efficient and would last longer on battery

@adventureoflinkmk2

2 ай бұрын

Thats exactly what i was saying at 2:30

Mount it on your wall and it magically transforms from a laptop into a smart home.

@LouisSubearth

3 ай бұрын

Have it run Casa OS and boom

Seeing the Allen Bradley again and the huge battery. I know this is gonna be a great video 😂

@darkiceywolf2953

3 ай бұрын

Furry

I've always thought it was a bit ridiculous to run a computer, which runs entirely on 12VDC or less, from a battery, which supplies 12VDC, through an inverter, which produces 120VAC from 12VDC, to a power supply that just immediately rectifies and regulates that AC voltage right back down to 12VDC and less. Tell me you're not wasting battery life powering the circuitry of the inverter and the power supply. What you really need is an appropriate boost and buck regulator that can provide a smooth 12VDC, 5VDC, 3VDC from the battery, even as it discharges. I mean, the inverter is perfect for this application -- don't get me wrong.

@Beany2007FTW

3 ай бұрын

The (I think ratified, but not common yet) ATX12V motherboard power standard means soon you'll literally 'be able to' run a computer off a car battery - it just supplies 12v to the mobo and the mobo itself sorts out the 5v and 3v stuff, as I recall.

@thom_lapatate4842

3 ай бұрын

​@Beany2007FTW the 12v supply needs to be rock solid for those to work properly. You'll just need a buck/boost converter of sufficient quality between the battery and that mobo but yeah, that would have been a cleaner solution however for fooling around he did great with what he had on hand

@DavidScheiber

3 ай бұрын

All he needs is a picopsu, it takes care of regulation for 5v 3.3. -5 and -12v rails, just supply it with 12v strait off the battery, the only issue would be depending on the older motherboard used it might need a beefy 5v rail.

@tOSdude

3 ай бұрын

@@DavidScheibercar batteries start at 12.6 and can drop below 11.5 while still providing power. You need 12.0 for a computer.

@tiagokawata

3 ай бұрын

You're trying to make it smarter, I guess you didn't get the "really stupid" point

Looks awesome. If you're sorta kinda serious about making it self contained, maybe replace the mains/ 110v PSU with a DC-DC converter, as used to let microatx machines run off a 12v wall wart, and then stick a couple of deep cycle 6V batteries, as found in an old UPS, in the bottom of the enclosure. Also, mouse and keyboard must go via the front PS2 ports for maximum silly, if you cant make the membrane work. Thanks for the entertaining videos, this is exactly the sort of nonsense we should be encouraging 😂

Sean is truly a gem to the vintage computer community. if anything just for frogfind (well, and the floppy raid video).

2:23 oh hey bubs!

This is the highest form of jank. Congrats on the 100k subscribers!

Hello this is Anthony. It was nice meeting you today at the VCF SoCal I was the guy in the blue jacket.

Excellent Sean. Now you just need an appropriately silly litter or sedan chair for it so that four of your loyal followers can carry it on their shoulders wherever you go.

This cannot be complete without the membrane stuff working!! 😶

I'd be tempted to remove the ATX supply and inverter and go straight to a Pico PSU.

LOL Windows Me. Got to have that lightweight, portable, easily accessible, lightning fast laptop.

@No_True_Scotsman

3 ай бұрын

And only four bluescreens an hour!

This is _extremely_ silly. I'm all here for it.

The level of mad engineer on this channel is staggering. You’re not afraid to think “What is the weirdest, craziest, and probably fire inducing thing that I can create from this jank?” It’s the reason why this is my favorite retro channel. Keep up the awesome stuff my guy.

This is peak 'something you'd find on a early 2000's forum coming from a poster somewhere in eastern Europe'

This was absolutely fantastic! I love the ridiculousness of this whole project had me grinning from ear to ear. Thank you for this!

Since the MLB uses known input power of 12V, 5V and possibly 3.3V... you could skip the invertor, and just lug around a 12V Battery (Lead-acid), 5v (USB Charger) and 3.3 (USB Charger with DC-DC step down) Totally normal computing!

AC from the wall to charge DC in the battery to run AC in an inverter to a power supply that turns that AC into DC is just perfection

My gosh.. It just occured to me.. I wonder if the inspiration for the character Alan Bradley in TRON came from the company behind this beast of a machine...

That beige bezel is from a rittal control station cabinet. They look like weird beige arcade cabinets. That computer could have been controlling any kind of industrial equipment.

I am all here for silly projects! I'm glad to see the new and improved ME laptops being revived lol. But don't feel too bad, I have put a "bigger-that-intended" dual Pentium II motherboard into a second one of these and I definitely am feeling the Power Supply fitment and cable management pain. Good time! If you really wanted to get carried away, it looks like that DC-to-AC inverter would fit in the bottom of the chassis, allowing you to put the back cover on. Though I'm not sure the fire inspector would approve. Keep up the good work!

You forgot the most important part all luggable PCs had to have - a fancy leather wrapped padded carrying handle.

wow that is amazing screwdriver series sir

I have light trauma from these Allen Bradley IndPCs. we had some at my work where I upgraded the PATA HDD for a PATA SSD, running Windows ME

And here I thought you wanted the ISA slot for period-accurate sound

Blurred out thermal paste to avoid a comment battle 🤣. Love it!

Action retro meets Styropyro

So AC from wall, to DC charger to battery, to AC inverter, to DC power supply? 😂

All the fun of a wall ATM without the cash. I had an XJ it was terrific fun to hack. Cruise control just plugs in with a steering wheel and clockspring swap. The connector under the hood is like an automotive USB. I believe it was early CAN Bus. The light on the dash already has a bulb too. Wasn't able to get the junkyard heated seats to work, probably open in the seat itself. Also rewired a Grand Cherokee seat for the driver's side cutting out the memory module. Oh yeah and a powerlock button inside the cubby hole by the rear hatch. 2 wires all the way forward to the passenger footwell and the switch was from an Explorer rear tailgate area. Scion Pioneer stereo, with aux headphone drilled into the face. Had to cut the dash a little to fit that. It lasted longer than the factory radios, 3 or 4 of them, and it had a key on/off sequence to hack the faceplate to say anything.

For VCF, you could swap the car battery (which, as others have pointed out, aren't really designed for the kind of constant load you're putting on it) for a Li-ion power bank and a DC-DC converter to get 12v.

On no account must you use pixelated heatsink compound! The inter-pixel cooling is abysmal. 😉👍

I work on a some Allen-Bradley devices, we call them HMIs or Human Machine Interfaces. The new ones are completey touchscreen. But I never worked on one as old as that.

2:03 Ah I see the Bubble Bobble version of the GameRoom classics bar top. I have a pair of the GameRoom Classics PVG Tech Neo Geo systems. But I converted one of them into a full JAMMA RGB Pi system. Much better emulation and sound than the original hardware.

Even having seen the thumbnail, I still laughed when you chonked the battery onto the table. This is definitely one of the best stupid-cool projects I've seen in quite awhile.

The casing was made by Rittal, a German manufacturer of enclosements for industrial use.

If you actually want to lug it around, there's converter boards that plug into the ATX motherboard connector and allow you to use a single DC power source to run everything. Change the battery into a LiPo pack and you're golden.

Hahaha the blurring of the thermal paste pattern cracks me up.

DIY but not worried about the Y? Hell yeah ;)

Want to See the Convention, and the Reactions

Can't wait to see it at VCF East! What a wild contraption

haha this looks like Frankenstein, Happy Weekend at all, many greetings from brunswick in germany and please stay safe 🙃

This is about as smart as the AVGN having a gas generator powering a Dreamcast just to have a wrist watch.

A DC-DC power supply might be better? I haven't looked around in a while but do pico-PSUs exist in voltages for this motherboard?

There are power supplies with 12V DC input, as mentioned, you should use one for endurance and for the battery health (since it isn't deep cycle)

8:57 Love that it was running ScanDisk, because of course Windows ME didn't shut down properly. Only way it's safe to shut off is when it BSOD's.

I don't know if that power supply is silly and unwieldy enough...could you use Compressed-Air Energy Storage, or perhaps a treadmill driven by a small ungulate?

you find this amusing because silly shenanigans like this are absolutely amusing

I chuckled through this whole video.

I believe they make ATX power supplies that take a 12V input, so you could bypass the inverter :)

I would love a case like that to throw a server into, even if i have to replace the lcd.

2:24 Bubbles jumpscare

This is a Cyber-Deck on steroids.. Love it!

I would use some detachable monitor speakers but great video!

This truly puts the Lug in luggable!

This build reminds me of a bit of computer humor that was circulating in the late 1980s or early '90s about a fictitious Burroughs portable mini or mainframe system. It was basically a mock advertisement that compared the made-up Burroughs machine against its major competitors at the time, which, if I remember correctly, consisted of an IBM mainframe, a VAX, and an IBM PC (per the "ad", of course). The fake ad included a feature comparison table, as was customary at the time. My favorite entry in that was "Fits in a briefcase: IBM Mainframe - no; VAX - no; IBM PC - no; Burroughs - yes*" and in fine print, under the table: "* Large briefcase required". Your build is funnier, though, because you actually made it real! I'd be interested to know how long it runs on a charge.

My nose favourite part of DIY is the why, as long as "not" is swiftly followed up after it

this pc is cursed! installing ME is basically a war crime lol

How long does it go on a full charge? 😅

Just get yourself a hand truck and you've got an awesome mobile gaming setup! 🤣👍

this is peak Action Retro right here rofl

Using a PicoPSU would run just from the 12V of that battery - no converter needed.

Waiting for the ultra-portable IBM System/360 netbook from ca. 1970.

Babe wake up, action retro uploaded…

The ULTIMATE Luggable!

I loved the blur on the thermal paste application lol

@snowdog993

3 ай бұрын

X Marks the spot!!!!

You should try manually modding windows 98 se by swapping out it's version of ms dos from windows Me

Hilarious! Where can I get on the waiting list for one of these? 😂😂

We want the over 18 version with the thermal paste

So, how long did it last on one charge? :)

i think you could easily upgrade that to using a DC-DC atx power supply, and grab a few ryobi 18+ lithium packs to run it. the dc converter must allow up to 24v for that battery to work though, otherwise you're stuck with probably 12v only, and not a wide range of inputs. i use a 180w dc-dc atx psu on my beige g3 desktop. runs perfect as long as you switch the jumper on the board to "ATX" or "PS2" mode. amazing that apple built that into their first g3 boards... maybe influence from IBM on that one...

You're living my dream, bro

Powered a modern laptop off of lead acid & an inverter once. It lasted just as long as the laptop's internal li-ion & when the lead acid tipped over, it was bad.

HAHAHA. This is why I watch Action Retro. Thanks man.

I used computers just like these at a machine shop I used to work at in Aston, they ran windows NT! Now that I am a software developer, I want one of these so I can take my remote work to the coffee shop!

I REALLY wish I could find that machine or just the case. Oh the fun I could have with it...

Aaaw, that Power VR Card ^^

2:30 why do that when you can have a pico atx power supply and directly hook it to the car battery

You could get a picoATX PSU, and not need the inverter

anyone know of a vintage computer event near Minnesota?

Yet another coincidence, I just ordered another batch of vintage Allen-Bradley carbon composition resistors from the electronic bay website for my "vintage clock" project. I also just received some carbon composition resistors made by TE Connectivity, which I believe is the company that bought the Allen-Bradley electronic component business, so in a way those resistors are also Allen-Bradley resistors. Sadly it looks like they're ceasing production of their carbon composition resistors (they're made in the UK, so you can thank Brexit for that) in favour of those boring modern film resistors. So after something like 70 years of production, Allen-Bradley carbon composition resistors are finally being resigned to the annals of electronics history.

10:00 HEY! I have those speakers! XD

I've scrapped several bad PanelViews over the years. Wish I'd taken the time to repair them repurpose them. Employees would have had a great time with these... Well, still have 2 that were just replaced as they were running Windows XP. Might have to "improve" them.

I love this channel

I'm here asking myself why you didn't just use one of those 12v psu's. Would use a lot less power than that transformer there

maybe if you can make a few Li-Ion battery packs to stuff into the chassis and mount the charger in there also

I love the "official" Windows ME disc ;)