I love how you have become a freaking connoisseur of IBM design, documentation, and computers. You seriously sound like a sommelier at points.

@unverifiedbiotic

5 жыл бұрын

Garson! This software package is unsealed! Unsealed I say! Who do you serve here - people or animals?!

@michaelfingers7726

5 жыл бұрын

Anyone who routinely smells the product for "authenticity" is someone I consider to be fairly involved with a product's history and nuiances.... Or insane...

@Atomic_Haggis

5 жыл бұрын

@@unverifiedbiotic I pictured Tim Roth saying your line above!

@miesesomar

5 жыл бұрын

Laptop got back yall! With printer badonk kadonk.

@medes5597

5 жыл бұрын

It's so endearing to see how excited he gets about things. Clint is an absolute sweetheart, like the Mr Rogers of KZread and its so wonderful to see him get so passionate about these old computers.

Film yourself in Starbucks with this.

@irenesilvadeaquino5621

5 жыл бұрын

yeet

@fifaworldcup1994

5 жыл бұрын

@@somecallmesean_ Or The 8-Bit Guy.

@CaptainPanick

5 жыл бұрын

And make sure to print a whole bunch of pages out so people will definitely notice you by the sheer amount of noise alone.

@Pingaheimer

5 жыл бұрын

lol, what do you think would happen exactly. More than likely no one would bat an eye. Only to mock that annoying person who films themselves in public that is.

@darryldee467

5 жыл бұрын

LOL, that's funny. :)

I didn't know IBM was in the Ultra-wide display market.

@kpanic23

5 жыл бұрын

That weird screen size is because of CGA's 640x200 resolution and square LCD pixels.

@BilisNegra

5 жыл бұрын

A plain calculator display is wider still, and not that much inferior resolution wise, if you know what it mean...

@MrDuncl

5 жыл бұрын

The weird screen size was also because a screen twice the size would have been about four times the cost adding $$$$$ to the price. Back when the computer was made a large number of the screens made would probably get rejected due to lines across them like Clint's or similar.

@CampGareth

3 жыл бұрын

@@kpanic23 isn't that a 32:10 aspect ratio? Not far from our 32:9 displays today. I'd love to see a broken one of these gutted and reborn with modern components.

Fill and send that registration card to IBM :)

@sovereignGER

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe he'd get an answer from IBM.

@kevinoakes1870

5 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing as soon as he showed it.

@adithyanair1573

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@Logan-zp8bi

3 жыл бұрын

Lenovo probably throws a lot of those away, I met an old man who couldn't figure out why midi-quality dropped when he switched from his 1990s pc to a win7 laptop. This is a guy who plays music at bars for a hobby and has done it a for a little over a decade

Clint, your channel is slowly becoming a bigger database about IBM PCs than IBM themselves. Very interesting, loved the video as always, thanks for sharing this thing with us

@comradeurod9805

5 жыл бұрын

@Teddy Edd and entertaining aswell

@penfold7800

10 ай бұрын

Hes probably got a vast software and addon boards archive too now.

"It's probably just toxic plastic.." *Does weird, high laugh* uh hu :p

@robertgaines-tulsa

5 жыл бұрын

Eighties electronics had that high tech smell that modern electronics just don't. I think they washed their circuit boards in a non-environmentally friendly solvent or something. They seem to be getting away from that burnt circuit board smell they had after that. In the eighties, you could still smell the high tech goodness even after you had them for a few years by just putting your nose up to it. Magic! So, I totally understand why he's getting some nostril action on that stuff.

@watershed44

5 жыл бұрын

@Robert Gaines Exactly. I've noticed this myself. I'm pretty sure you are right about the most prominent smell coming from the solvent wash used to clean up the PC boards back in the 80s and prior. I like the smell.

@chrisfratz

3 жыл бұрын

Stuff like that is probably why the Christmas clone exists

IBM: "this system will make some business man really happy and successful!" 34 Years latter "Greetings" *10 Print "Farts"* wood grain!!!!

@Sakuya727

4 жыл бұрын

I’m sure IBM would be proud 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@y6Iann

3 жыл бұрын

Hey you know what I feel want old computer and old laptop why because 1.nostalgia 2.learn to coding and type command word 3.having fun with it Oya hey you know what I miss my past because in my past it's fun playing around and today it's different because 1. Pandemic 2.everything change

I actually bought one of these from a “catalog” after placing my order over a landline and then waiting almost two weeks for it to show up. I believe it was like $650 in 87 or 88. Sadly he did not show how the printer clipped to the ass end of it. You could knock out your fresh document on dot matrix thermal paper ready to throw in the copier to have it transformed into a real readable usable paper suitable for presentation before the toxic chemicals in the thermal paper could seep into your skin and cause liver damage. It was loud and slow and thoroughly impressive. Yes it did have a battery built in but no hard drive. when doing word processing when you went to edit you would have to put in different disks to perform functions. Even living in San Jose at the time I would break this baby out in public places and everyone would walk by staring at this portable pinnacle of technology in awe.

That LCD is sooooo smeary! Such blurry memories are becoming slightly less fuzzy, I love it!

@MosesKFrost-qn2sm

3 жыл бұрын

I do not like LCD's. I only like Cathode-ray tubes.

CNN: Man Found A 32 Year Old New in Box Computer And Setting It Up For The First Time

@LGR

5 жыл бұрын

Haha! Oh CNN. For context: www.cnn.com/2019/02/17/tech/30-year-old-apple-computer-work-trnd/index.html

@Adamsnadler214

5 жыл бұрын

I loved getting a notification for that on Microsoft news

@robindp

5 жыл бұрын

@@cappaculla That's why we love him. Honestly, would do the same thing.

@thebatter2127

5 жыл бұрын

I actually have a fully functional apple IIe computer in my room right now. My brother got it from someone who was throwing away stuff out of their shed. It's apparently a school computer. Guy had floppy drives, monitor, computer/keyboard itself and even a printer.

@rwdplz1

5 жыл бұрын

Saw that yesterday. I liked how the most reliable computer ever made, they were surprised still worked.

The "writing" you could see in the paper while shining light on the back is the paper watermark. That is how you could tell if a letter was on high bond paper when that was a thing of importance.

@SyeedAli

5 жыл бұрын

I learned a new thing, thanks.

@Tomd4850

3 жыл бұрын

Most likely, it was "Classic Crest Writing", one of the most common watermarked papers...

LGR needs a late night unboxing segment. Candles, red velvet table covering, glass of wine and a satin backdrop while sultry jazz is playing. These unboxings are getting hot! :D Great show as always!

New old stock IBM on LGR? This is what I live for!

@stocco4483

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@justinnewton7366

2 жыл бұрын

Lol we're such nerds... but ya know we make the world turn... without having to restart... lol

can we bottle the perfumes of old computers ?

@davidmcgill1000

5 жыл бұрын

And the insides of VHS sleeves.

@malvage1825

5 жыл бұрын

And then there's me with anosmia :(

@1310up

5 жыл бұрын

I would buy this, for .... weird reason.

@Wattstone

5 жыл бұрын

Eau de IBM

@michaelfingers7726

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidmcgill1000 Ugh my family had/has a small VHS drawer that has the most AWFUL plastic/rubber rotten smell to it that I swear it has had since we bought it. Its nostalgic but also my nose wants to throw up.

I said it before and I'll say it again: This guys enthusiasm is probably the best part of his videos. The love, care, and enjoyment makes it incredible

I have fond memories of these convertibles. I bought a second hand Toshiba T1200 that I used in highschool in the 90s, years after after the things came out. It had a damn power switch to turn on/off the internal 10mb hard drive to conserve battery power. My friends at the lunch table would turn it off while I was trying to play Prince of Persia. Bastards. The display wasn't great but it was still magic to me to be portably computing in the first place. Never seen the removable display before!!! Awesome...

@gorak9000

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, my dad had one of those for work, it was my first computer. I still have it somewhere, and I think he ended up getting a second one for some reason. I learned all the dos commands on that thing, and used to play indycar racing and lemmings on it! Also typed up and printed many things for school using word 5 for dos, and the HP ThinkJet printer long before most people had computers at home, and the teachers used to not like the fact that I did things on the computer instead of by hand.

flex tape guy: "Thats alot of damage!" Clint: "Thats alot of dos!"

I love these IBM I take care of an elderly gentlemen who worked for IBM almost 40 years. Who helped oversee the installation of the SABRE computer system which was used to track air traffic through the US. He also oversaw the teams that tracked the results of the 1964 Olympics in Japan where he got to be drinking buddies with the son of the emperor. And the subsequent British Olympics where he stayed with one of the ladies in waiting to the queen and her husband. Anything IBM brings back memories which is good due to the fact he suffers from early onset Alzheimer's.

@peachymunmagenta

5 жыл бұрын

I love him and I have never met him!

@garyreardon11

4 жыл бұрын

What a exciting history that man has.

I misread the title as "Setting Up An Abused 1986 IBM PC Convertible" and my heart stopped for a second

I just imagined Clint coming home after a pretty stressful day, collapsing in his old armchair, reaching behind to grab a Model F keyboard, taking a deeeep whiff... Ahhh... much better...

@jacobgutierrez9642

5 жыл бұрын

I think he's more fond of the Model M keyboards.

This was the first laptop I saw in person. My instructor brought hers to class one day. I was in awe of the thing. It was so much smaller than the 286 machines were were learning on.

@peachymunmagenta

5 жыл бұрын

But they had previous computer generation’s tech inside.

I find myself needing to fill my house with old computers after videos like this.

@em84c

4 жыл бұрын

Same. I wish I could afford to collect things like this.

@railedb0x503

2 жыл бұрын

@@em84c yeah i like computers the only computer i used and is using today is a windows 7 i have used a windows 10 but i use my windows 7 just for myself

"That smells fresh" More steve1989 references, *Nice.*

@ZakB96

4 жыл бұрын

Nice hiss

@brandontechnerd

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZakB96 let's get this out on a tray, nice

@asteroidrules

2 жыл бұрын

LGR's unboxing videos are the retro computing equivalent of Steve.

There seems to be some surprising similarities between the PC Convertible and the Apple IIc, especially with the way IBM did the cantilevered monitor stand. (The IIc had an optional LCD screen that looked a lot like the Convertible's as well.)

Sweet! More nostalgia from a time I didn't live in.

@DEMENTO01

5 жыл бұрын

MOOD

@zeno8402

3 жыл бұрын

S A M E

The 8 bit guy must be jealous

@kpanic23

5 жыл бұрын

Double jealous. It's a 16bit machine ;)

@beware_the_moose

5 жыл бұрын

8 bit guy would like a word.

@kpanic23

5 жыл бұрын

@@beware_the_moose He should rather have a WordPerfect...

@zzyzxroad92309

5 жыл бұрын

@@beware_the_moose 1 WORD is still 8 bits too many

@conrad4667

4 жыл бұрын

The 8-Bit Guy acquired it for Clint.

WRONG! It's totally January 4th 1980. The computer knew it all along.

@peachymunmagenta

5 жыл бұрын

Get. This. To. The. *Top.*

@dunnotck1

4 жыл бұрын

We live in a simulation

@babushkablyattv2751

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf are you all talking about

@deformedmau5

4 жыл бұрын

@@babushkablyattv2751 learn what jokes are please

@Her_Imperious_Condescension

3 жыл бұрын

@deformedmau5 Learn how to make them, first.

If you want to re-bond that broken plastic chip as cleanly and strongly as possible, *forget glue.* Get some *acetone*, line up the part with the crack and practice seating it in one motion. Then put just a dab of acetone all along the "crack face" (the inside edge of the plastic where it broke). You want enough that it wets the entire surface but doesn't run and drip. I used to put it on both edges, but found this to be unnecessary. Give it a sec or two then stick it in the crack. Hold it for a minute or two and it should be bonded perfectly. You want to do it in one move because depending on the size of the crack and how much acetone you put on it may bond instantly or you may have to hold for a couple of minutes. Either way, you don't have much time to set and adjust it once the first parts touch. I've done this with lots of broken off parts in vintage plastic and when you get it right, you can't even see it unless looking really close. Even if you don't get it lined up perfectly and can see or feel the crack's edge, it's still a perfect bond. *Unlike glue, it will be as strong as the plastic around it* (I suspect with brittle, aged plastic, sometimes maybe stronger). As far as I know this only works with ABS and ABS-like plastics. The good thing is that ABS is very common in consumer goods and I'm like 90% sure that broken part is ABS. ABS dissolves in acetone so applying it to the edge melts it just a bit. When you press it in the crack it'll spread to the other edge, the two edges' polymers co-mingle and once the acetone is gone (it either absorbs into the rest of the plastic or just evaporates away, I'm not sure) it's like one part again. BTW acetone is one of the safest and least toxic solvents available to consumers so don't let anyone scare you off with warnings of scary "nasty chemicals". It's not like benzene or something.

@osgeld

5 жыл бұрын

yea but solvent welding (I use sci grip 4) wont do squat once you apply glue so you have to scrape it clean which makes the gap bigger, I cringe whenever I see someone glue ABS or similar plastic willy nilly "oh check out this NOS blah blah blah" snots 99 cent superglue all over it, yep that will hold for about 8 seconds

@urdnal

5 жыл бұрын

@@osgeld Well at least here he used Gorilla Glue CA gel. It'll be fine. I just think solvent welds are better when possible.

@galaxynova9276

5 жыл бұрын

@@urdnal and osgel, I think he was joking

I would still contact IBM and kindly ask them for a screen replacement or repair. With this occasion, I would fill out the warranty card.

@kpanic23

5 жыл бұрын

Since IBM sold their Laptop and PC business off, I guess you would have to contact Lenovo. Sounds like twice the fun :)

@cool3865

5 жыл бұрын

@@kpanic23 i doubt that since Lenovo only got the Thinikpad brand, stuff like this IBM laptop would still be property of IBM

I'm waiting for LGR to setup a new abacus in a box that has been sealed for 30,000 years :D ;) Would make a great April Fools Day video....just sayin'

@RhinoBlindado

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha that would be awesome

@suborbitalprocess

5 жыл бұрын

Let's see if he can play Duke Nukem 3D on it

@U014B

5 жыл бұрын

Or make one out of LEGO bricks?

@robertkosinski2105

5 жыл бұрын

@@suborbitalprocess If anyone could play Duke Nukem on a abacus it would be LGR :D

@peachymunmagenta

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Kosinski yes

I love the smell of DOS in the morning

“You got the goods?” “Yea, yea...” *snorts some fresh toxic plastic oder from IBM tech*

8:37 -- *Exactly* what I sound like after sniffing new computer parts. Seriously though, great video and find. I've never had the pleasure of unboxing and setting up this model, but hope to one day!

@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka

5 жыл бұрын

8:22 is the moment when Clint sniffs the keyboard !

@watershed44

5 жыл бұрын

@Robin Persaud Geek level 10+.... love it.

@gamerxt333

5 жыл бұрын

keyboard sniffer

Yay! Coffee, LGR, Relax.

@warwagon

5 жыл бұрын

Never has a truer word been spoken

@gambitgambles

5 жыл бұрын

YES

@golfer0925

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely

I was born in Oct, 1986... This machine is high quality :-)

I love seeing LGR excited about various stuff He's just so genuine

Breaking News: LGR manages to somehow get another brand new computer from the stone age

@tomyyoung2624

5 жыл бұрын

Yesbody takes a chore from 30 years ago and makes it entertaining quite like LGR

@jim1174

5 жыл бұрын

It looks like a great computer And I am sure It must have cost a fortune too.

@AgentTasmania

5 жыл бұрын

Computers are indeed made of rocks. Various silicates and metals go into them.

@iBoy2G

5 жыл бұрын

I think he has mastered time travel.

Nice. I love those old keyboards. They don't make portable keyboards with full keys like those anymore.

Imagine, rolling into Starbucks ordering your favorite coffee/Lattes and waiting on it playing with your 35 year old computer while everyone else is on thier MacBook/Chromebooks with their cute little WiFi connections 🤣🤣

I don't know if you have much Brazilian fans, but I love your videos! Seeing you reviewing games and computers of my childhood it's awesome, and your acid humour makes it all even more fun! Keep the good work! Cheers 😁✌️

These IBM computers were so unique. It’s sucks that they had to exit the PC business, I hate Lenovo with their new laptops.

@nilswegner2881

5 жыл бұрын

Yup Lenovo has kinda destroyed what once was the best line of laptops ever made. I still have my IBM T43p from 2006 and it's a lovely machine and a real Windows XP workhorse to say the least. On the other hand I have a Lenovo T410s which is from around 2011 and this thing already has some broken plastic parts and thermal throttles a lot. I'm glad it has a real ThinkPad style keyboard though and not one of those crappy chiclet keyboards you find on the T430 and upwards which feels like you are typing on a stone brick or something

@Markimark151

5 жыл бұрын

DJ Slinus I had a Lenovo laptop that had a terrible screen. Their built quality for those screens is bad, the screen went blank, they had to fix and replace my Lenovo. Those cheap keyboards are like ripping off the MacBook keyboards.

@nilswegner2881

5 жыл бұрын

@@Markimark151 yup changing the keyboard is the most stupid decision Lenovo ever made. Ripping of an already terrible keyboard to make it even worse seemed like a great idea to them when they designed the T430. The screens at least on my ThinkPads are not the worst but from a built quality perspective I can definetly relate to what you said. On my T400 the screen flex cable broke twice. The first time it broke I took the whole unit apart and changed out the broken cable for a new one which cost me roughly 25 dollars. The second time it broke I didn't even bother and just removed the screen entirely. Now it works great as a "halftop" computer connected to an older but still great 1280 * 1024 LCD Monitor.

@Markimark151

5 жыл бұрын

@DJ Slinus I despise when companies try to focus on style over functionality. I want LCD screens that are reliable and comfortable keyboards.

@GeirEivindMork

5 жыл бұрын

@@nilswegner2881 I beg to differ. I've used thinkpads since my first one in 1997 and my current T470s is as awesome as any IBM made thinkpad I've had. The plastic has an amazing feel, feels as or more solid than any of my previous thinkpads (still owns a few older ones) despite the thinness, it has user replaceable batteries and is serviceable. No glued everything closed everything crap as many others do. The chicklet keyboard is wonderful as well. The one I had plastic bits break off was the first 365x I had, my IBM ThinkPad A22p got graphical errors after just four years (pink lines on the screen, gpu failure). The bad thinkpads are those super cheap ones.

A time capsule! Congratulations!!!

I know next to nothing about old computers and what I do know I learned from LGR but there's something incredibly zen about the videos on this channel that instantly mellows me out. The perfect channel to grab a cup of morning coffee and watch with breakfast before all the shit you gotta do during the day starts and I don't even eat breakfast!

Those springs in the 3.5" drive have been under tension for..... decades! That sound of the disk ejection gave me happy tingles.

Closed, it looks exactly like my nebulizer.

could the line on screen be corruption due to where you connect the screen to the unit?..have you tried cleaning out the contacts there dude?

@adventureoflinkmk2

5 жыл бұрын

Possibly the solder needs re-flowed in the screen? Was gonna say missing lines is a common problem on old DMG game boys and that's how you fixed it

@Galerak1

5 жыл бұрын

I thought this as well, maybe a dodgy connection

@johnfrancisdoe1563

5 жыл бұрын

adventureoflinkmk2 Reflowing entire devices is not the panacea that some people think. If it's a bad panel to PCB connection, it may just be the zebra strips, which (if used in this model) are held in place by their rubbery springiness, not solder.

@cnick6

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not 100% positive but if memory serves the line is by design. I want to say this was a limitation at the time but I do not recall the technical details.

@mardus_ee

3 жыл бұрын

+Nick Carrigan | I recall an early Pentium Toshiba Satellite notebook (32 Mb RAM, Windows 98, pithy CPU) that had a 800x600 color LCD stacked together from two almost-discreet panels. If I'd encountered that IBM portable in its time, or even just a few years later, I'd still be in awe, and the "defective" line would be seen as "by design".

Whoever I sold my old IBM 700c PS/2 laptop to back in the late 90's...... I WANT IT BACK! Man do I miss the old technology. Something different about it compared to today. Great Video Clint! Look forward to that video of its History. Thanks!!

Your channel makes me so happy. You are putting the knowledge you gained out there for everyone by being passionate and letting that drive you. keep it up man, brings a smile to my face.

This is going to sound like Tmi but having this play in the background helped me stay relaxed for a nausea spell, lol. Thanks Clint! For real though, what a fascinating little computer!

@makaylaserniotti1474

5 жыл бұрын

@@coolL9457 ok?

adjusting for inflation you can say you own a $6000 computer

@matthewmlodzienski453

5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't even be close to the most expensive computer he's reviewed, and I think some of those were thousands of dollars back in the day and not inflated! And to think, back then they'd be outdated within months

@AgentTasmania

5 жыл бұрын

@@matthewmlodzienski453 The SGI Indigo graphics workstation he looked at once would have been worth something like 40 grand in 1993 dollars. For true PCs, the PS/2 Model 90 XP at ~$18 000 for 1990.

@booboo699254

4 жыл бұрын

I had a (company paid for...) PS/2 P70 386 portable around '90. That was an US$10,500 computer at the time, just to put into perspective.

Your enthusiasm for this is infectious! I love watching these videos. 😊

i bloody love that intro. its SO DAMN CLASSY

Holy cow! early again! Time to get a cup of tea and have a sit down to watch some more LGR goodness.

@NicoTheSourceGuy

5 жыл бұрын

Even though I was not born in the 80's and 90's, I do enjoy learning about some of the companies that I heard growing up going back all the way back to the 80's and 90's. I sorta wish I got to experience the 90's and get to use Windows 95, Windows 98, and all that good stuff. But I gotta say, Tea, Breakfast, And LGR at the same time, Man. I am eating breakfast right now and LGR definitely fits the mood when you wake up.

he didnt even attempt to run DOOM on it??

@amado4249

4 жыл бұрын

Attempting to run DOOM on this computer will put you in a MOOD.

@travis1240

4 жыл бұрын

That would be difficult to even fit doom on a 720k floppy. 3-demon was the closest thing to doom that would run on one of these. It's 3d pac man.

@travis1240

4 жыл бұрын

@Sammy Smith 2d castle Wolfenstein would run, but no way on wolf 3d

@ShenLong991

4 жыл бұрын

@@travis1240 Commander Keen could work

@almightygeck4121

3 жыл бұрын

If it has a CPU, It can run DOOM - somebody on the internet

Your videos are awesome; it's super fun to just sit back and relax for 20 minutes and watch someone just get super excited over something. Love the channel, and especially the oddware and unboxings. Keep up the great work!

I just love that new LGR Logo! Well done, sensei!

I remember this one. Someone I knew a while back had one of these with a busted A Drive, the B Drive worked with some discs but not the DOS it came with. The convertible monitor was also no good so it was used with a VGA monitor (I believe the convertible monitor had burned out - it displayed nothing). It was mainly used as a word processor and spreadsheet keeper. It also reeked of sulphur since it was exposed to chemical reactions in a lab for over ten years. A familiar smell that is far more suited to wood than plastic, lol

Ah, dinner time candy! Clint, if you come to Turkey, concact me. There is a saying here, "welcome him as kings". You will be a 'guest king' :D

I love this device. Great video! Thank you for sharing this with us!

Awesome. I most enjoy vintage computer building and demos on this channel!

I hope you plan to donate your mint condition machines to a museum some day.

@rajvinder89

5 жыл бұрын

He's said in the past one of his goals is to open one I think.

welcome back to an LGR THING

Clint you sniff that computer and DOS book like you are sampling a fine wine. I love it. Nothing beats the smell of a brand new IBM computer! Especially the books that came with them, the Guide to Operations and DOS books always had this unique smell to them that was quite intoxicating, at least to a geek like me! Glad its still working, even though it was never used, who knows how it was kept the last 30 years or so. Im suprised the floppies worked as well as they did. Keep up the good work!

We were never wealthy enough to see a machine like this in action in it's prime, I have been waiting 30 years to see what the fuss was about. Well worth the wait, thank you! Related: I smell 'new' old components too, the nostalgia it envokes is everything. Keep on sniffing!

Old technology is the best

this video is pure edutainment.

@Bl00dwerK

5 жыл бұрын

Did you watch The Weekly Planet this morning?

@ghoststudios3694

5 жыл бұрын

@@Bl00dwerK no why?

I was searching for a brand-new unboxing of this specific model. NICE WORK!

There's just something so incredibly satisfying about watching and hearing you unbox, unpack, and install old computer parts. I can't place why.

there is nothing better in this world that opening something that is like over 20 + 30 + years old and brand new aaaaaaaaaaaa + the smell

I desperatly need the boot discs for this system i have one but no discs for it and have had a hard time finding them online.

@AscendedBeyond

5 жыл бұрын

Send him an email. If he has the time he might shoot em back to you.

@sandromartins20

5 жыл бұрын

Send him an email and I'm commenting to up your comment.

@donbot5000

5 жыл бұрын

Already did and he got me taken care of. Becaue he is boss

@darkblade3897

5 жыл бұрын

I like chicken nuggets

@4jp

5 жыл бұрын

Vetusware has images for both disks.

This is a thing of beauty. Truly is a joy watching you unbox and start this baby up, Clint!

Great video I love seeing these old computers.

Those sweet skcm browns

@LGR

5 жыл бұрын

Lovely tactile Alps switches, ahh.

Where TF are you finding boxed 35 year old computers? And can you hook me up too?

@override7486

4 жыл бұрын

@Sir Nicholas D WAT. There is plenty of NOS hardware on the market. Question is what price are you happy to pay for it.

Ahhh the memories these videos bring! My dad worked for IBM and we always got to keep the machines after they upgraded. My first PC was an XT and it still works to this day! I’ll always remember at five years old, my dad and I didn’t play catch, or fish, or ride bikes. We were glued to the wonderful green screen! Pirates of the Barbary Coast is still one of my favorite games.

I love how excited you get with unboxings. I would be as well, especially with a computer as old as this having never been used.

Ahhhh vintage computer noises. I fired up a P3 Win 98 laptop last week and my fiance thought I had cranked up the Dyson. From the other room she goes "thanks for vacuuming babe, but I already did." Oh no my dear, just an old pentium machine.

Microsoft should release Donkey for Windows 10

@Chaos89P

5 жыл бұрын

What I'd do (and this is because I have BASICA and QBasic on my computer via DOSBox) is that I'd load the program and punch in LIST. Now, I don't have a modern BASIC interpreter, yet, but there's plenty available. What you do then is, depending on how DONKEY.BAS is coded, it could be as easy as loading it up with a Notepad. A while ago, I was trying convert an Apple ][ BASIC game into an MS-DOS format until it got a little annoying. I may have to figure out some other way to decode.

@johnfrancisdoe1563

5 жыл бұрын

Chaos89P Older Apple systems used CR between lines instead of CRLF or LF like other systems. So using a basic tool like perl to fix that is a good first step.

@Chaos89P

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnfrancisdoe1563 I don't know exactly how to use perl, honestly.

Another great vid, Clint. You're the best, as always

I've been binging on these the last few days and the excited, delighted laugh every time he plays with old tech is my favorite thing

damn. That's what you call a convertible!

I drive a 1986 Pontiac Trans Am.

@Kz-ds8gb

5 жыл бұрын

Neighbor had one . So many dead bugs on it lol.

@poolboyinla

5 жыл бұрын

Here is mine kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6uaxMGidtnSc5c.html

@md_vandenberg

5 жыл бұрын

I owned a '79 Trans Am. Looked awesome, was slow as shit.

@Chris_WG

5 жыл бұрын

@@poolboyinla I love the car! Very cool to see one up and running and looking so good. Brings back some great memories of the 80's. Cool video - I subscribed :) Cheers! Edit: I just noticed it said you quit making videos. Do you video blog anywhere else?

@poolboyinla

5 жыл бұрын

@Chris WG. Thanks for subscribing. I actually have some very interesting videos coming up on this channel. I did recently start a 2nd channel, but I don't promote it to my audience of this channel because it is very different and I am more uncensored there about certain topics. As for my car, I absolutely love it. It's funny how 3rd gen Firebirds are kind of rare these days and you almost never see them in good condition like mine. Despite it being such a popular car in the 80's, it seems largely forgotten and younger people have never seen a nice one. It is wild because when people see mine, a lot of people think it is some new futuristic car or that it is some exotic car I imported from Europe.

Clint thank you for the smiles!!! I love this type of content!!! Thank you sir.. and you love the smell!!! FYI my fav video of yours is the 386 build!!!

What an amazing piece of history! Thanks for sharing, Clint!

The screens on those things are the worst. Worse ghosting than a Gameboy. Love the design though

@Copper20

5 жыл бұрын

Sega Game Gear had more ghosting to me.

@radracer2033

5 жыл бұрын

@@Copper20 I had the one with the "better" screen and it was pretty much impossible to see anything moving on the screen. Games are pretty much impossible

Nice convertible but can it run Loom EGA?

I think it is amazing that a machine, which was produced more that three decades ago and have never been powered up since then works perfectly (...or at least works to some degree, after a bit of tweaking) when powered on for the first time. Consider all the moving parts still working, all of the magnetic readers etc. Amazing!

I set one of these up for a client in 1986. Ah, the warm memories of working in the College computer lab. No network, no internet, just Wordperfect and a printer. Always had to unjam the printers. That's what I mostly did in the library.

You should so take that to a starbucks. Sit right next to someone with an imac. Ask them what they are working on. If they start to tell you cut them off. Say your working on a novel and start rehashing some John Hughes movie, see if they get the reference.

@ayne222

5 жыл бұрын

He could even print a page of his book for them to see

I am here looking for an IBM 5100

The modular design is crazy modern. Some of the ideas from this would work great with a laptop/phone design.

I *love* how the keyboard lifts into a more comfortable typing position when you open the screen!

13:23 “That’s a lot a DOS” That’s what she said

Power supply looks kinda like the old 360 brick power supply

The song of the keyboardist just so satisfying. And the screen looks really cool in fact.

I had, and still have, a later-model PC Convertible with a backlit screen - I always found it very pleasant to use, thanks to the screen, the exceptional keyboard (brown Alps switches!), and the wonderfully sensible design, despite the 8088 CPU which was a little long in the tooth even in 1986. Just lovely execution by IBM overall. Thanks for spotlighting it.

74 people who disliked have no idea about computers lol

Speaking Of DOS, I have a story from 2005. So I was 3 in 2005, and I found this mysterious machine as what I called it, I powered it on and it booted to Windows 98, I was 3 back at that time, So I was used to Windows XP, But anyway, I found what looked like a copy of Doom II, It was very early in the morning, So I was thinking to my self that if I launched the game, Mom and Dad would be upset, So I just turned off the computer and when I told my parents years later in 2017 about the story, They did not remember having a machine with Windows 98, So, Yeah. I forgot about that story years ago and remembered the story in 2017. Just wanted to share a story with everyone's favorite retro KZreadr. Hopefully this story made you have at least a small chuckle, Sincerely ~ Tropicalbeachfan2004 himself

@DanaTheInsane

5 жыл бұрын

Tropicalbeachfan2004 You make me feel like I’m 1000 years old…

@sismofytter

5 жыл бұрын

Me2 🙂

@Leonartist

5 жыл бұрын

It might have been a past life memory.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets excited about this stuff.

I got to have a play with one of these about 20 odd years ago when someone asked me to fix theirs up for them. Amazing piece of kit. You should totally fill out that registration form and see what IBM make of it