“I’m not a time traveler” That’s exactly what a time traveller might say.....

@vincentlaterreur8845

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@netsurferx1

5 жыл бұрын

*Wanted* : Somebody to go back in time with me...

@tomyyoung2624

5 жыл бұрын

LCR: Yes yes yes!

@Shadethewolfy

5 жыл бұрын

Tell me your secrets, John Titor...

@CanuckGod

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair, IBM 5100s won't work, they need to be IBN 5100s for time travel... at least if you're in a visual novel, anyway.

I just watch a video of windows being installed and I liked it. What has happened to my life to get here....

@rimmersbryggeri

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe you are an entitled millenial? LOL

@audymaulizar6697

6 жыл бұрын

Good good let the nerd flow through you

@TheTechGuyYT

6 жыл бұрын

rimmersbryggeri how does watching windows get installed make someone entitled

@rimmersbryggeri

6 жыл бұрын

Heard of sarcasm?

@vhfgamer

6 жыл бұрын

I would have to say your life improved.

those wallpapers look like a saved by the bell intro

@caharkness

6 жыл бұрын

Good times when everything looked like a Dixie cup!

@BollingHolt

6 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly, Douglas!!!

@fujitafunk

6 жыл бұрын

I was just about to say the same thing! Haha

@BEdmonson85

6 жыл бұрын

Ahhh! I was just going to ask if anyone was getting any Saved by the Bell vibes from those wallpapers! :)

@Narxes081206

6 жыл бұрын

I said the same thing when I saw it... gosh I'm getting old!

I know you film most of these in a storage unit where you keep your things, but God I can never stop imagining your house to be the most beautifully retro house in existence. Possibly 70s shag rug, wood grain everywhere, beautiful retro computers lined against every wall... That would be a dream house :P

@raven4k998

3 жыл бұрын

hope he never stops paying for that storage unit or you may see it on storage wars

@heyyitsultima

3 жыл бұрын

@@raven4k998 I'm fairly sure he would sell his entire collection or get it in a museum long before he ever let the storage unit just go.

@raven4k998

3 жыл бұрын

@@heyyitsultima one can only hope one can only hope because some of those storage units on storage wars have some pretty cool stuff inside how come they got abandoned so you never know you can only hope for the best

@henrywhyte

8 ай бұрын

And a '76 Monte Carlo in the driveway

its funny how the XP installer looks EXACTLY the same. the blue things before the real installing starts

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, Microsoft held onto that installer for nearly two decades!

@KaitoTriforce

6 жыл бұрын

But they used it only on their NT-Systems. Windows 9x/Me had another installer that looked better than windows xp. They even had mouse support.

@HattmannenNilsson

6 жыл бұрын

You know what they say - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The thing about those text-mode OS setup programs is that they just work and provide you with a handy way to, for example, give the installer additional drivers for your exotic hardware before trying to run the actual installer. I liked that.

@TheTurnipKing

6 жыл бұрын

It's more accurate to say that 9x had it's own installer. Which makes sense, they were trying to show off it's graphical handling chops right from the get-go

@ZiggyTheHamster

6 жыл бұрын

Win9x's installer was basically a stripped down version of Windows 3.1.

I like how the jazz music played more prominently when he pull out the knife

@keithbrown7685

6 жыл бұрын

mac the knife? : )

@tomyyoung2624

5 жыл бұрын

Yes only does!

@JovinRepairs

2 жыл бұрын

"Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone..."

So much nostalgia here - Windows 3.0 was the version I first learned to program. Back in this era the Windows SDK came with a veritable shelf-full of manuals (the Windows 3.0 Programmers' Reference books could also be purchased at your local bookshop - I did exactly that, as well as a copy of Petzold's "Programming Windows".) No fancy IDE here - the whole thing was done using your favourite text editor and the Microsoft C compiler, all running under MS-DOS. Windows 3.0 was pretty flaky too - it was your responsibility as a programmer to get everything just right - or else bring the whole OS down along with your errant application. Naturally it sometimes just fell over for no particular reason too. Happy days...

It felt like yesterday when you built your 486 and now it has 3.0 They grow up so fast........

*Papers fly out, onto the floor, milliseconds after opening*.. Clint: "aww, ffffff"..../end scene Let the obsenities flow, my man😂

@toymachine4253

6 жыл бұрын

Paradisium Just like 28 years ago

@WildDiamond07

3 жыл бұрын

LGR: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK Me in shock: Watch your language, Clint. Remember when you called your IBM PS/2 Model 25 a motherfucker?

I just love this stuff! there is just something special about installing fresh windows to PC.

@SuperLumipallo

6 жыл бұрын

This is so special that before I watch this I'am going to make a cup of coffee.

@rahulsawant_pikachu

6 жыл бұрын

installing fresh windows on fresh pc

@lharris428

6 жыл бұрын

I swear it's like a new car smell... only that Windows doesn't smell. Usually I just need an excuse... just one to nuke Windows. Why? Because there's nothing like it. Having a home server helps since everything of importance is on there which makes the only pain point being the re-install of games you can't easily backup.

@AgentTasmania

4 жыл бұрын

Since my new laptop included the disk for W10, I may get to experience that for the first time eventually

@tomyyoung2624

8 ай бұрын

Yes That Serious

Man I like to be greeted when I'm playing your videos. It gives me a sense of nobility.

those crisp pristine floppys are gorgeous reminds me of installing windows 95 back in the day

Man, since I was born in late 2001, I have never experienced retro computers. However, your videos allow me to experience the computers and games that passed me by! Keep up the good work!

You rock my man. This brought back so many memories. THIS WAS MY FIRST WINDOWS AS A KID & I STILL LOVE IT!!!😍

2:55 "So Crispy ... so enjoyable" 3:01 "Aw F*...." LMAO!

Marketing Guy #1: "We need some awesome box art to help sell this thing. Something cool that everyone can relate to." Marketing Guy #2: "I've got it! How about music?" Marketing Guy #3: "Great idea!" Programmer Guy: "But guys, it doesn't even have any sound capability." All Marketing Guys in sync: "SHUTUP NERD!!!"

@aaldrich1982

6 жыл бұрын

Marketing Guys were all Peter Molyneux?

@extragirth64

6 жыл бұрын

oinka720 This makes me want to read Dilbert.

@azraelle6232

5 жыл бұрын

Final panel of comic: Programmer Guy is thrown out the window

Great video like always. Nice seeing the LGR Woodgrain 486 again.

@jacobscarberry4799

6 жыл бұрын

Wavetable Guy we need a Woodgrain Floppy Disc!

@SuperJet_Spade

6 жыл бұрын

Jacob Scarberry I agree

@nilswegner2881

6 жыл бұрын

Jacob Scarberry what is a floppy disc? I only know floppy disks but I have never heard of floppy discs...

@SuperJet_Spade

6 жыл бұрын

DJ Slinus I'm going to guess that "disc" is the alternative spelling to "disk."

@nilswegner2881

6 жыл бұрын

Wavetable Guy but that is incorrect. We refer to disks as the storage media that you hold in your hand, like the metal casing of a hard disk drive or the plastic casing of a floppy disk. A disc on the other hand is the flat material that is inside the floppy disk's casing, that magnetic piece of plastic. What is also referred to as a disc is a CD or DVD because these are handled without a protective casing around them. You can look all of this up on Wikipedia if you don't believe me.

I bet Clint is the kind of guy who reads those user manuals before bed.

Don't even need to wait for the advert to finish before thumbing up. Every video is great. And the background music. Nice. 90s nice.

I'd never have the balls to break the seal on that sucker unless I had another sealed copy.

Great !!! You deserve a degree in IT history !!!

"No, YOU are an Asymetrix Run Time Tool Box," is now my favorite come-back line.

Man, watching him open the package with such soothing music is just relaxing to me. Love the video dude. ❤💻

Everything about this video just brings back so many awesome memories from childhood. Window 3/3.1 was really my first time troubleshooting Windows problems and learning what everything did. Keep up the awesome work LGR, and I am very jealous that I do not have the time to go down these rabbit holes for myself!

The soothing sounds of Clint on a Friday. Life is good!

The return of the LGR Woodgrain 486. That computer is my "LGR Thing" waifu. Clint might do this show alone, but some of his stuff have character of their own. The Woodgrain 486, The rock outside goodwill, the packard bell. Even inanimate objects like the christmas clone have personality.

I really enjoyed this! My first desktop was a Packard Bell 486 DX-2. These videos really being the memories flooding back!

Currently sitting in MS headquarters watching your video with some fellow old-school Windows peeps. Love it! Keep up the good work, man.

My favorite was my mother opening the very first windows 8 surface tablet my dad got her for Christmas! The funny part was after spending 15 minutes looking for a physical paper user guide she found it saved on the tablet! The best part of reading the digital user guide was even though you've already figured out how to turn on the surface tablet the user guide still had the instructions to turn on said device! Ya I think if I am reading the user guide I have more than likely figured out how to turn it on😆

Goupil was a french computer maker. Goupil is old french for wolf.

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

Well now I really want a French wolf computer.

@erwangleo4193

6 жыл бұрын

Actually Goupil is old french for fox. Nice video, greetings from France ! Et au passage merci mr Bezies pour vos vidéos de test de distros, c'est toujours plaisant à regarder.

@ahmedboukhalfa288

6 жыл бұрын

c'est tres magnifique de trouver des gens qui parle le français

@ordinosaurs

6 жыл бұрын

Unsure if it would run windows, but my favourite Goupil is the awesome and quite rare G4, one of the very few 80186 based computer. And it's one of the best looking PC compatible ever made.

@Aravzil

6 жыл бұрын

Wrong one! It means fox.

I am messing around on my 486 running Win 3.11 as I watch you and am having similar laughs and giggles...nostalgia is a blast sometimes. Just triggers happy memories of people and things I thought I had forgotten.

I love watching the woodgrain 486 go through the incremental updates and upgrades it might have actually gone through back in those days. Even for not having been a PC user at the time, it still conjures up a lot of nostalgia for me. Thanks for another great video, Clint! :)

@keithbrown7685

6 жыл бұрын

It's living history.

Hell yeah! The woodgrain 486 videos are my favourite

Wow, It's at this moment I realize Microsoft hasn't changed its logo font in over 30 years. Now that's a lasting brand.

@UNSCPILOT

4 жыл бұрын

And at this point they probably wouldn't dare try to change it as it would be a net loss

@Toonrick12

4 жыл бұрын

If it ain't broke...

@DragRedSim

4 жыл бұрын

Except they did change it in 2012. Though the previous version (the italic text with the small cutout between the o and s letters) is familiar to many, even today, the logo is now four coloured squares and the company name in grey Segoe UI. This was around the time of Windows 8 and the whole “Modern UI” paradigm coming to the fore.

Great video Clint, I've just installed dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 on a laptop that originally came with xp on it, the nostalgia is absolutely oozing from it, I have no idea why but I share your attraction to old ibm stuff its just so nice to see and use it

Wow, brings back memories. One of my parents worked for Forsyth Computers at the time. Great video.

3.0 is awesome! You need Sim City for Windows 3.0! Let me know if you need that version.. Windows 3.0 was significant by running in protected mode on 286 & 386+ machines breaking the 640kb DOS barrier. This was at the time when OS/2 directed by IBM was the 'future' but DPMI allowed Microsoft to pave their own direction, and dump the IBM partnership and forge their own direction. Now you just need Windows NT 3.1 to show how Microsoft had transformed NT OS/2 into Windows NT! Windows 3.1 added major things like True Type fonts, Multimedia, ODBC etc.. And more importantly, broke the Windows that IBM had bundled into OS/2 2.00. Which of course was a sore point for Microsoft as IBM had blocked them from porting Windows to OS/2 and making Windows the GUI onto OS/2. Even the whole road to OS/2 2.00 was convoluted by IBM, as they had blocked Microsoft from pushing out 386 support way back in 1987. phew.

@absurdengineering

5 жыл бұрын

Jason Stevens Wow: I recall now - the Adobe Type Manager (or something like that) for 3.0 - absolutely necessary to do DTP and laser printing back then. Also: Corel Draw 2. I loved the ability to semi-automatically trace bitmaps and generate high-quality scalable artwork out of them - as a young kid, too. I was in elementary school IIRC.

As always, awesome.. now back into your time machine and review either windows 1.0 or 2.0 please :)

man i just adore this stuff! there is something Nostalgic about a fresh Install of Windows to a 486 PC!!!!! LGR your Content is watchable all day long

Woow...1990 has truly come forth with those backgrounds and color schemes. I love it! These classic versions of Windows show just how much we take modern technology for granted these days. Simple things like a calendar and Solitaire were considered huge selling points back in the day, and now? Eh, they're just there. How awesome it is that we can still enjoy these old computers today!

Flashbacks!! Actually, Windows 3.0 came preinstalled on IBM PS/2 PCs. I did buy Windows 3.1 upgrade from my local Egghead Software store. Oh yeah, I had to buy Stacker since my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC's 30 MB HDD was tiny! :(

@JeffDeWitt

6 жыл бұрын

I bought my first copy of Windows (3.1) at the IBM PC Outlet Store , and it was much cheaper than anywhere else. If I remember right Microsoft was requiring PC makers to buy Windows licenses for every PC they built whether it had Windows installed on it or not. So IBM had a lot of extra Windows licences.

@dieterhrabak4947

4 жыл бұрын

Stacker, and with the release of 6.2 version of MSDOS, it became an integral part of MSDOS, under the name of doublespace.. Stacker is still a better one's though..

I LOVE Windows installs!!!

@keithbrown7685

6 жыл бұрын

I like them, only if they went well... if they went well.

Great video. It seems like yesterday when I had my first real office job and I was so excited to finally work with 3.1 for the first time. Time moves too quick.

Your Channel is amazing, man! I love your smooth calm voice, the reviews of computers from before even I remember using computers, and its all so smooth and high quality production value!

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

"Quotes are cool." - LGR, 2018

I like the striptease bar music in the background while watching the unboxing ritual

You look so genuinely excited by all this that I started to feel really amazed too

Ah memories. I am so glad I stumbled upon this channel. Takes me back to better times in my life, simpler times in our society, and a more adventurous time in computing.

I guess "Hot Dog Stand" was a Windows 3.1 exclusive.

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

It was indeed

5:41 nice hiss

LGR you always do good things for my mood. Appreciate the videos and your demeanor. Thanks!

Woah! You're getting close to 1 mil LGR!

LGR confirmed SERN mercenary

@mebradhen

6 жыл бұрын

He's FB

You should send off the registration cards to see what will happen...

@gooberboy69420

Жыл бұрын

Good idea!

Man, I particularly love these '486' LGR things :) I find them most satisfying and agreeable. Being in Australia its a treat to wake up on a Saturday morning to a new video.

So many memories of Windows 3.0. We jumped from a 5150 to a Compaq 386 with Windows 3.0 back in the day. I don't think I have seen those backgrounds in 25 years, so you delivered a 1-2 nostalgia punch with those. I actually typed some papers using Write (yes... Write). I remember printing italics on some words for one assignment and actually impressing my English class. Yes - people getting excited about the use of italics on a printed assignment. Thanks, LGR. I only wish we could have seen the 3.0 splash screen - which takes up the whole screen unlike Windows 3.1.

You should read the entire windows manual on camera just for the lols.

@toymachine4253

6 жыл бұрын

They should put that on Audible.

@kh-ro5su

6 жыл бұрын

dragon_blade in the duke voice, no less

@simontay4851

6 жыл бұрын

That would take months.

@keithbrown7685

5 жыл бұрын

I've got months. : )

Yeeeaahhhhh

@DanielM

6 жыл бұрын

ЗВЕРЬЕ , и ты здесь? Круто, чо)

@zguyofficial6206

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

I just wanted you to know that your videos have helped me a lot in a very hard time in my life dealing with depression. You can't even imagine the positive influence that that you've had on me.... I just wanted to say thank you.

I used to love the large user guides. I remember when MS Office came in a massive box (on 3.5" disks) with huge manuals for Word, Excel & PowerPoint. To this day I remember the smell of the print and there is a single journal published in my country that smells exactly the same. Brings back memories... I read them all cover to cover way back in 1991!

LGR: That weird glitch with the install disk reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask you, though you may have covered the topic in the past... Correct me if I'm wrong, but are we not rapidly approaching [or have already passed] the projected maximum usage life for media like those 3.5" [and 5.25"] disks? I am aware that proper storage of such media can extend their lifespans but still, at some point they will all become unusable. VHS tapes, etc...included as well. And of course, the better the original storage medium quality, the longer they may last, yadda yadda yadda... Given your...ahem...collection, do you / have you proactively taken steps to personally archive those priceless original disks using modern methods? Or are you relying on other, public archive sites to hopefully capture and maintain those things for eternal public consumption? I ask because I too have a small [probably a couple of hundred game disks and such] and probably around 100 VHS tapes that I need to make time to digitally archive...pretty soonish I would think. Maybe a 2018 episode on best practices to handle this sort of thing? :) cheers!

@Lan-Fo

6 жыл бұрын

Joe Satchton he archives everything he has, he made a video or two about it

@jayhill2193

6 жыл бұрын

Clint saves everything he gets on floppies and if one fails one can rewrite them. This has of course a limit too since the magnetic disk will wear down at one point so, if nobody has the idea to produce new floppy disks, they will become nothing more than delightful shelf attractions.

@joesatchton212

6 жыл бұрын

+John Hill: Thanks. :) But I see a couple of problems with writing magnetic floppies to new floppies - they're still going to go bad within his lifetime as you mention. Then there's the time issue to copy and in his case, the sheer number of floppies involved. He'd need an army to get it done in a reasonable amount of time, not to mention the equipment. :) In my case, I'm probably gonna burn floppies to IMG files on DVD with a decent folder structure. Eventually. Same with the VHS tapes, though I may purchase a dedicated VHS to DVD burner and just do one or two tapes a day. For me, even worst case scenarios for DVD lifespan [using Taiyo Yudens only of course] should outlast me on this planet. Clint's case is fascinating as he is amassing a priceless historical archive and as he says, he'd love to share it with us all one day. I was just wondering what his long term strategies might be given the ever shortening lifespan of those magnetic floppies.... cheers!

@Chaos89P

6 жыл бұрын

Joe Satchton I think it's best to keep them on some sort of server just in case. I intend to also rip a few VHS tapes I want kept onto my computer as well. "Saving image files onto your computer isn't piracy, it's 'archiving'!"

@GreyFox2000

6 жыл бұрын

I just assume his collection exist outside space-time.

The huge stack of disks is cool. At the same time could you imagine installing a modern game with them? Lol

@MaddTheSane

6 жыл бұрын

Considering that most AAA computer games nowadays are multiple GBs big, You could recreate that experience by backing them up onto DVDs and installing from there.

@hblaub

6 жыл бұрын

My experience with less then 6 MBit: See big AAA game on Steam with free weekend, click on it, wait for it to suck and extract some files... then countless hours watching download progress bars going up and down (depending on Steam servers)... then one hour before end, maybe start playing ;-)

@hblaub

6 жыл бұрын

Or: Buy that great game finally getting cheaper on two DVDs, install them completely, then register them online, then wait for some crap to load, then "Needs updating", see that more than whole game is downloaded again. --> floppy changing back in the old days = waiting for Internet loading rollercoaster today

That background, colour scheme and wonderful woodgrain 486 combination absolutely made my day! So responsive and straightforward too, Windows 3.x is just lovely.

Just lovely, I expect eagerly that update for some glorious sound 😁

1990, you say? I'd have been still using my Amiga 500, with two floppy drives and 1MB of RAM. 2 years hence, an Amiga 4000 with a 170MB hard drive takes its place. I didn't get a PC until late 94/early 95 as I recall. Pentium 75, 8MB of RAM, 500MB HDD, DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, Soundblaster 16 and a CDROM drive. Happy times.

@abadenoughdude300

6 жыл бұрын

That's almost the same config as my 1st PC except I had a 850MB disk and no soundcard. It was excellent, worked perfect for like 8 years, with the only thing breaking was the CDROM, and I was driving the machine hard. Happy times indeed.

@Azuris190

6 жыл бұрын

Hehe "I used" a C64, well my father used it, i was 2 years old and startet playing a little bit on them :) It tool some years, until we've got our first PC with win 3.1.

5100. . . Dammit, John, nobody's going to get that reference without google. What are you doing?! (Great video as always

@Tehstroyer

6 жыл бұрын

I guess Steins;Gate made it recognizable among weebs at least.

@tammysilverwolf1085

6 жыл бұрын

Very true, and man what a great series. :)

The camera shake when you plop the manual down is so perfect.

I have been looking for a KZread channel about retro PCs for years, and I finally found it! Great!

This bad boy needs After Dark installed on it. Screen savers - they save screens!

An Unboxing of Windows 3.0... It can't get anymore LGR.

Happy Friday Clint, man i love your videos.I was a late starter with windows as my first pc os was win 98, awesome to see earlier versions.

Amazing videos, love to watch your channel! Keep retro-ing!

Don't think you got that past me. I heard that Stein's Gate reference!

@SpeedySPCFan

6 жыл бұрын

I was just about to comment on it too but you beat me to it. That reference was veeeery subtle

I was just wondering when a new 486 video was coming!

I love seeing old technology used today great upload Jack from UK

More great nostalgia trips from LGR. Thanks! If you really want to go down the old windows rabbit hole when you move on to 3.1/3.11, perhaps explore the differences between vanilla Windows and it's much improved cousin Windows for Workgroups. WfWG had great stability and 32bit file access, disk cache that really improved performance on good 486 hardware. There was also 32bit networking for which the product was developed for (In office environments) but that was rarely used on home computers. WfWG became popular for home computers late in the 3.1x era for being just an overall better version of windows. I just dug up the old home computer we had from that era from the parent's basement. Mid tower, 486 DX2/66, VLB Cirrus Logic Video and VLB disk controllers. 4 megs of memory. Came with WfWG 3.11. Gonna get the old girl back up and running.

_Jazz for your soul_

Any chance you could upload those Asymetrix Toolbook/DayBook demo disks somewhere? I don't see any 3.5/720 images of v1.0 in the usual places.

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

Here ya go: archive.org/details/AsymetrixRuntimeToolBook

@gaiaweylyn

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks!

I just love your videos man.

bro that was a box the whole time! @18:51 I had been staring at that the whole video like, geeze that is a little computer over there. The quality of the video and of the image on the box just made it for sure look like a miniature PC over there. The way the desk featured on the box lined up with your actual desk, color and angle is just idk, crazy.

I was going to suggest dual booting a Linux from the same period... but apparently that came out a year later!

I have a question: How did software development on DOS and old Windows look? I know how it was in the C64 days (line editor) and I obviously know how it works today, but I have no idea how it looked in the DOS era. Could you maybe look into that, please?

@osgrov

6 жыл бұрын

You had both kinds, really. I used Borland C++ which had an IDE. It was quite neat, I enjoyed that. Mostly I used the Watcom C/C++ compiler though, because it was just more heavy metal. Those are the programs you see that uses that DOS/4GW extender (so you could run 32-bit code with full memory access in DOS). This was bundled free with Watcom, and it worked very well. :) I forgot the name of the editor I used though, but from the mid-90s something I've been a big fan of UltraEdit.

@ZiggyTheHamster

6 жыл бұрын

Back then, I wrote apps in Visual Basic. Some of my current coworkers were using Delphi back then. This would have been right on the precipice of the 32 bit era. In the 286/386 era, people would have been using various C++ IDEs or QuickBasic (not QBASIC).

@shroomie108

6 жыл бұрын

I was gonna say visual basic or c++ mostly c++ if memory serves me right. In windows 3.1 or 95 days i was such a nerd in school i almost took classes at compusa to learn to program c++ , but i didnt. I only taught myself to build computers and than html but i am thinking of learning to program.

@heyyitsultima

6 жыл бұрын

DOS development also could consist of assembly, I believe most early DOS programs were written this way until more standardized languages came out. Considering how long DOS ran, there are a lot of different ways people got their workloads done in it and it's honestly one of the most impressive OS's to me because of how long it was able to run while still remaining exceedingly simple in design.

@DisplacedGamers

6 жыл бұрын

Most of the responses have already mentioned it, but check out Turbo/Borland C++ for DOS, Turbo Pascal, and even QuickBasic 4.5. The real estate for those development environments was quite small. You could double your line count from 25 to 50 but had to weigh it against the fact you might be using a 13" monitor. Those were different times

Thank you LGR. Quality content as always :)

This was delightful to watch :)

@Myspinex3

6 жыл бұрын

Triple M you watch lgr too?!

I miss proper manuals. Now a days it's just electronic manuals. If you're lucky you can actually get a proper manual as a PDF, but more likely than not, the PDF downloadables are just auto-generated from the on-line documentation that is perpetually in an inconsistently out-dated state. With that said, though, Microsoft's documentation is usually quite excellent. It's leaps and bounds above pretty much all other software developers these days.

@hblaub

6 жыл бұрын

For me, the manual of my home computer (I think it was an old XT machine) had a part about Basic which I read many times again and again while experimenting. Yeah, it was a time customers actually cared about manuals and chose one computer that brought a translated, well-thought one with it.

@HattmannenNilsson

6 жыл бұрын

I've got an old three-ring binder with the MS-DOS 3.2 User's Guide and Reference. That was a fantastic recourse for learning how useful DOS batch scripts can be. Now, of course, I use SS64's reference, but that manual was the thing that made me aware that batch scrips could be used for much more than just setting an environment variable before launching a programme. And I'm still learning just how sophisticated you can actually get with just a .cmd script and Windows' built-in command-line utilities. It's probably one of the most hands-on useful things I've ever learned that really is useful in my job.

@rameynoodles152

6 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I wouldn't care a bit if the manual is electronic only. All I care about is that the product ACTUALLY HAS a proper manual that tells you everything you would ever need to know. These days, the "manuals" are just a small pamphlet to tell you only the most basic of the basics, and it's usually in more than one language, so if it's 3 pages, then the actual manual is probably 1 page, translated into 2 other languages.

Think of all the people put out of work when computer software stopped coming with 600 page manuals ;-)

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

There were literally dozens!

@toymachine4253

6 жыл бұрын

The lumber industry took a major hit.

a pleasure to watch! lol at the music theme on the box

Great video, I look forward to upgrading to 3.1.

Please fill out and mail the registration stuff and see if you get a response.

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

Tempting.

@wolvenar

6 жыл бұрын

LGR Maybe make a good copy of the registration papers and the try?

@wolvenar

6 жыл бұрын

That would make an interesting extra video. Would be amazing to see, IF there was a response.

@Adamsnadler214

6 жыл бұрын

8bit guy did it, the card just got returned

@AlexAtGuilford

5 жыл бұрын

Wes, I had that same thought. I suspect a "end of life" support letter.

"I could admire this packaging all day, but I'm itching to get inside" That's exactly what I said to my wife to seduce her when we met! But seriously, another cool video by LGR! You're the man ;)

Love these old school videos. Never used this or seen it frankly lol nice vid

Another *masterpiece* from my favorite vintage technology youtube channel 👌

What are the main differences between 3.0 and 3.1?

@kimontui

6 жыл бұрын

Multimedia engine and sound support.

Hey Clint do you ever send in the registration cards for companies that are still around? Someone might get a laugh at getting a registration for Win 3.0

@mvl71

6 жыл бұрын

SuperDarly You might even get a free upgrade to Windows 10!

So awesome.Thanks for doing this

Clint, I gotta admit, yours are the videos I just thumbs up even before they make it into the 1st minute.

Why everything that was so boring and annoying for me back then is so interesting now? I hated Windows 3, but how stylish it is from 2018!

@tomyyoung2624

5 жыл бұрын

lgr: yes,yes,yes!

No, this is not "absurd" documentation. This is how each and every operating system should be documented for people who don't know how to use a computer. This is a fantastic effort, I didn't know Microsoft was so respectable back in the early nineties! I guess Ballmer is to blame for most of the crap that we got afterwards, hehe.

@douglascouchot3430

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, but then book stores like Barnes@Noble and third party guys wouldn't make $20 - 30 bucks a pop selling the same information we used to get in the box.

Oh man, you're living the dream, my dude. I have a sealed OEM copy of 3.1 and several sealed OS/2s waiting for the day to be unleashed on a fresh vintage machine...if only, if only...

I just love when he makes videos of his 486 custom built desktop