I can't belive you got a display out, I couldn't get it to do that no mater what I did. I was able to get a terminal output though. Like I said, the PC was brand new. No user accounts on it or anything, someone just built or bought this and tossed it out 15-20 years later. That computer is honestly my most bizare find, the Compact Portable being thrown out makes some sense but this just doesn't. I would love to see you go over that book, it had so really nice stuff in it which I think you'd love. P.S. Xenia>Tux, I'll take the badass trans fox over the doppy penguin any day ;p

@agy234

Жыл бұрын

Maybe just needed some love from fedex first. Like reverse shipping damage

@sadmac356

Жыл бұрын

Honestly yeah, I can't believe someone just tossed it out like that

@xerzy

Жыл бұрын

in this channel we stan the true Linux mascot 🦊

@RetroReviewYT

Жыл бұрын

@@sadmac356 oh hey! Small world!

@sadmac356

Жыл бұрын

@@RetroReviewYT lol yeah!

I never have to pick through trash to find an MJD video.

@seven7000_

Жыл бұрын

W

Re: “why would someone build a custom computer, open it, then leave it in the box?” I watched a video from another creator where they did a retro unboxing and they’d said they only had the system because they had an automation system (for irrigation, I think?) and they bought *two* so there’d be no downtime if one failed. It never did, hence the pristine new system.

My parents took all my old PCs to the recycling site when they sold their old house :( I remember leaving behind a Frankenstein Packard Bell case which originally had one of those slot loading Pentium 2 233mhz (MMX!) which I somehow managed to upgrade to a later motherboard and processor despite a lot of proprietary case connections and also a self built PC from the early 2000s plus a brand new ATX case from around the same era which I never got round to using

@HeroRareheart

Жыл бұрын

Ohhh that blows. Having to say gokdby to working tech is always hard, even if it's old.

@dangero2000

Жыл бұрын

They did that without consulting you first?

@elektrokinesis4150

Жыл бұрын

aren't parents just the worst sometimes???

@ark9951

Жыл бұрын

Same, my parents had a 90s PC too but they threw it away even when I told them to not to throw it away.

I ran an electrical repair shop for a charity store system until 2006. To test computer stuff, I had a Pentium 2 233 mhz mobo screwed onto the wall above my workbench. Your loose mobo brought back memories!

It's always curious what other people throw away. I've never found anything like this and doubt I ever will.

@HeroRareheart

Жыл бұрын

With enough time in the right areas you will. I just happen to be in a good place for it, hence why I have 19 laptops.

@steriftes

Жыл бұрын

@@HeroRareheart YOOOO THE MAN HIMSELF

@Durkhead

Жыл бұрын

I found a desktop pc in the parking lot at wallmart

@pioneer1131

Жыл бұрын

@@HeroRareheart i have ~5 desktops, 2 of which i just found in the trash. i also found a razer keyboard the other day! works perfectly!!

@captaiawesome2260

Жыл бұрын

It takes time. People don’t throw away computers or computer parts all the time. My advice would be to always check apartments’ dumpsters, as people who live in apartments are more wasteful. I’ve had my best luck at apartments that are in and around college campuses, as college students are the most wasteful and throw away some good stuff. It’s how I built my PC.

I had the exact same PC case. Unfortunately it wasn't in as good of a condition as yours, because the previous owner was a chain smoker and the inside of the case was covered with tar. It is very sturdy and weighs approximately 17.000 tons even when empty.

Tux Racer could be a whole video in itself. Started as an open source game, became a ticket spewing arcade machine, then theres Planet Penguin Racer which went all LibreOffice.

"dictionary word" Michael: What do you mean directory word? 😋

I would absolutely watch you flip through a piece of history like that netscape book! I think it would be interesting to see the types of things people were "astounded" by in the recent past like the 90s/00's. Also to really get an idea of just what was possible back then.

6:06 Fun Fact: The side panel ducting was the result of a pair of standards Intel released in 2001 and 2002: - Thermally Advantaged Chassis (TAC) - Chassis Air Guide (CAG) Of course, Intel being unable to make their Pentium 4 chips run cool, they released these sets of standards to case manufacturers so they could build designs that would help keep the chip cool. TAC mandated that the air flow had to have neutral pressure, with an intake fan at the front and an exhaust at the back (and according to Intel, the exhaust fan had to be at least 92mm in size and provide 55CFM of free air airflow). CAG was a component of TAC and consisted of a side panel with venting and a duct to ensure outside air was specifically channeled through the CPU cooler and heatsink. Intel claimed these standards helped avoid internal temperature rises above 3°C and keep ambient temperature inside the case below 40°C. Intel abandoned TAC and CAG with the switch to the Conroe generation (Core 2 chips), as it was unnecessary by that point and besides, there wasn't widespread adoption from the case manufacturers, both standards were not subsets of ATX and AMD chips didn't require TAC and CAG to run cool and perform properly.

@vwestlife

Жыл бұрын

And then when all of that still wasn't enough to keep the Pentium 4 cool, they invented the BTX form factor, which put the CPU and its massive heatsink at the front of the case, directly behind a huge fan.

You never forget to entertain us Michael keep up the good work man 😁

@Alexander_l322

Жыл бұрын

This comment section ain’t big enough for the both of us…

@insertfunnytimelessjoke3410

Жыл бұрын

@@Alexander_l322 xD

OMG! an in-win box! I remember back in the day when PC towers were all no-name beige cases, and then all of a sudden getting an in-win case was the thing to do!

Oh my god Tux Racer brings back so many childhood memories.

@MattExzy

Жыл бұрын

I just had a flashback of all the hours wasted on it lol

i recently recovered a PC that my dad custom built back in 2004. my dad has always had super powerful pcs. it has 4gb of ram (the max amount xp can handle), LIQUID COOLING ON A PENTIUM 4, a 500w PSU (it had a 450w, but we upgraded it), and equipment for the pc to work as a DVR for...... uhh... reasons i cant say lol (but most of it doesnt work anymore) the pc works well and boots, after we replaced the reservoir, coolant lines, and put some new coolant.

Tux Racer is still available for modern distros and it's been somewhat updated since the olden days. Core gameplay is still identical though.

That Looked so fun . I would have been Lost at trying to reset the Password . Thank's HeroRareheart and MJD for this Most Wonderful Video to Exist , all the toting and Packing and Shiping . Right 0n :) QC

Might be good to see another Donation video Michael. That’s awesome.

Everyday there is a new MJD video, the day automatically gets better

21:30 "And they leave you no room for error. Huh! I guess is pretty appropriate for Linux users, right?". One of the most clever comments I ever heard about Linux.

i'm very good with unix-like system and its always fun to watch people figuring out stuff and congrats.. we all been there at one point and honestly the learning and figuring out stuff in these system to me personally is the most fun way of these kind of systems... now that i know a lot it is freaking boring :(

lmfao "directory word" DICTIONARY 🤣

It's nice to see retro linux content. I hope to see more of it :)

Such a nostalgia trip seeing GNOME 2.x and KDE 3.x there! ❤️❤️❤️

Always Nice to see an Unboxing video! 👍

I used Fedora Core for many years. And the reason why you get a Red Hat logo is because Fedora is built (or at least was built back then, I don't know now) on a Red Hat kernel.

@kbhasi

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking it had a Red Hat icon because Fedora didn't have its own logo mark at the time

"There's actually a warranty sticker on for Megatron Computer." This would be the part in a Transformers movie where Michael discovers the mysterious old bit of tech he found in his possession was actually a dormant fragment of Megatron.

Oh man, that Tux Racer gameplay is bringing back _ancient_ memories of an old netbook I used to have... until I spilled yogurt on it.

I enjoyed the full footage of the Office 97 video and I would absolutely enjoy a video of you just flipping through that book too.

15:30 OMG i used to play this game in my pc, i buyed a Magazine CD Games and it have this game

I'd love to see more linux related videos using this pc, maybe we can name it the free 2000's fedora pc, like the 5$ windows 98 pc, and do a bunch of crazy experiments with it, using linux

As a linux user, I'm happy you tried to figure it out, but there's definitely those out there who are just out to stroke their ego by putting people down even if they've figured out the solution, not that such things are appropriate or productive even if it wasn't figured out. But yeah almost 20 year old distro. Nowadays single user mode tends to ask for the root password though so it would've been more difficult to reset. Would've needed a bootable media to chroot in and fix it.

Tux games are so nostalgic

I recognize the case badge - it's from Main Board Computers in Waltham MA. My company bought PCs from them in my first IT job in the early 2000s. The Internet Archive has captures of their website through about April 2006.

@HeroRareheart

Жыл бұрын

Waltham is prety close to shere I am so this is a logical orign.

I'd love to see videos of you going through old tech books!

What I find cool is the amber-brown/amber-gold motherboard! There probably are a lot of them out there, but it’s pretty cool to see a different color other than green (in my opinion).

michael is such a good tech youtuber keep up the good work!

omg the icon pack is full nostalgia

Lol as you mention grabbing your ifixit kit im like, 'oh are they sponsoring?'. Got my answer like 3 seconds later. Lol but you're right, they should sponsor you lol

watching you experience Tux Racer for the first time was rather entertaining LOL

7:24 love that my modern framework laptop's bios look litterally the same

I remember playing TuxRacer in the ComputerLab of my school back in 2005… you can do massive jumps if you ignore the fish and just go for the bumps 😄😄😄

It could of been a PC built by a shop which the owner never picked up or they went under and it became lost dead stock.

Big ups to Rareheart for sending it your way! Man, this was fun. It's like a look back at typical desktop Linux way before I was even aware of it, speaking of Linux on the desktop. Yeah, screw the neckbeards We don't like them either. But honestly, I would've just paused recording to try and look online after way more tries, that is. And yes to the book reading, vids like this already have an ASMR Bob Ross feel

Fan ducts like that were common in the s478/s775 era

Nice time capsule! All it needs is a decent AGP card. The Slot 1 motherboard is a Biostar M6TBA, version 1. It has 100 MHz FSB support, but the multiplier goes to 5.5x max. Faster Pentium 3s would probably work with some modding.

@whoam2784

Жыл бұрын

It's a good machine for testing Windows 2000 in 2022-2023. I can bet it can run smooth with a opera version for html5

Flip through the book Michael, you know you want to. Do it!

Great Video! 👍 Time to install UwUntu Os in this PC...😂😂

Nice computer not sure why people are complaining a lot of this stuff your doing is not easy!

Ok, i've learned more linux commands from this video than everything i learned in my whole life. Thanks, Michael!

I love your content so much!

I'd also love to see you flip through the art book

At 6:14 there you showed the tunnel over the CPU fan, saying you never seen it before. My first PC, a NeoPC A123 (good luck finding anything about it online) has this. It came with a schoolarship edition of Linux, or something along those lines, a Motorola modem card, 512MB of DDR2 RAM and an Intel Celeron 420, plus an 80GB HDD and a DVD read/write drive. The machine itself is from around 2008. I still use that computer with Windows XP, with many of the software you showcased on your channel. Just wish I could upgrade its RAM, a friend sent me DDR2 sticks but they got lost in the mail and I cannot find them locally.

Wow, that was a wave of nostalgia for Linux as it was back then! I lived in KDE 3 for everything back then!

Booting Red Hat to single user will mount the root filesystem read-only. That's what caused the errors, because you weren't allowed to write to disk. Easiest way around it is to remount / as read-write. Not a Linux elitist, but I wanted to pass that along in case you run into this in the future. Awesome video as usual, Michael.

Awesome video, Michael!

This is a excelent video, MJD!

That gaming was crazy I love it!!!

you should do a video about the Katana Desktop Environment! it's a modern fork of KDE 4 with tons of patches, quality of life improvements and security updates.

Intel® Desktop Board D865GBF/D865GLC A good board, look it up. Its the last chipset with official 98 support, also an excellent xp board. The i865 is the best board for 98, can run a 3.2G cpu & 2g ram with the R Lowe patch. I Have an ASRock version with that setup. The slot 1 is a BIOSTAR M6TBA also a good board, supports coppermine in some revisions

Would love to flip through some old books with you

It would be interesting to see if the update works or try to update it without uninstalling

The computer is cool, but that "New Media" book is just sensational.

@HeroRareheart

Жыл бұрын

I will miss that book, but I'm happy to pass it on to someone else.

Hi Mike great video 😀

I love it anyway since there's no personal information on it I can get a disk image to play around with?

Amazing!

Never heard of it but it is very vintage

When it’s a Sunday and you get a micheal video, it’s a perfect day.

i used to play tux racer a lot.. as our school PC was linux and they allowed us to do that it used to be pretty fun.. old memories revived

Having played with RH from back then and earlier, I have a certain affinity for it and Fedora and CentOS. I played Tux Racer a lot, and there are keys for speeding up, slowing down and jumping, you just have to figure out how they're bound and/or change the bindings. I had a lot of fun making and editing maps for it, they were simple gray scale height maps. Back then I thought that game was huge, it was like 10mb, but I also started with a 10gb hard drive. It's kind of a shame what happened to Jasmin.

It was nice getting to see gtk2 fedora. It actually looks pretty polished for the era. Save that install don't install anything over it. Get a new drive if you want to do that.

@HeroRareheart

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't get it to run properly no mater what I did, couldn't get it to output the GUI properly. I COULD use a keyboard shortcut to get a terminal output though.

@SimonQuigley

Жыл бұрын

Ehh, just download an old iso and install it in kvm if you care about it

@lejoshmont2093

Жыл бұрын

@@SimonQuigley I don't overwrite the original drive. I suspect it has been modified a little. Surly it didn't come with that many programs originally?

@SimonQuigley

Жыл бұрын

@@lejoshmont2093 then just image the drive into a file and attach the file as a drive to kvm

Tuxracer what a classic, I played that on windows xp a lot in the day 😅

You not having seen a CPU cooler duct on a case before makes me feel old lol

Thats really cool! Didn’t expect Linux to be installed on there!

@no-xu3eo

Жыл бұрын

This computor were in trash bescause of that

@1FireyPhoenix

Жыл бұрын

@@no-xu3eo I mean.... It's not like Windows wasn't on store shelves during that era.... Actually now that I think about it, I think there are?

Was expecting the computer to be a whole lot more complicated, seeing as though the box implies it's the Vim computer

@GunnerSiIva

Жыл бұрын

It’s just the safe shutdown thing that is complicated.

@generallyunimportant

Жыл бұрын

vi is like a million times harder than vim.

I had a similarly spec'd Dell Dimension 4700 back in the day. Same 2.8GHz Pentium 4 but with DDR2 and a Radeon X300. I regret throwing it away.

Seeing the tux racer menu gave me nostalgia man

@muzscaly_main

Жыл бұрын

Me 2 bro

dude is a legend, he made this in my bday

That build is an absurdly good build for a late Win98/XP dual boot setup if you throw in a decent AGP card (that has drivers for 98SE). However, I think it'd be better off if you at least kept an image of that old fedora install. I use a similar type of system with a different board with the same chipset, it's rock stable and shreds anything in 98SE with ease while having enough power to handle the vast majority of XP era games.

8:00 When you are the computer guy and only speaks in binary "Wdym it's based on a directory word" Something is wrong, I can feel it

Damn, even before the firefox !! I CANNOT imagine a Linux distro without firefox.

aw man i miss the blue curve theme :(

a real chad installs linux from scratch, arch linux or gentoo on it gentoo sound the best i can't wait how long it will take it install with the compile from source part

That would be great for 2006 Hackintosh stuffs

What a vintage PC, installling Linux, Windows NT 4.0, 98, 2000 or XP on a separate hard drive on this PC would be great, so the PC still has Fedora 👍

Trinity Desktop was and still is my favorite, simple, fast, friendly and stable .

I just love these videos. You should try to install Windows xp on it.

TUX RACER, I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU SHOWED THIS GAME THAT I SEARCHED FOR 10 YEARS.

6:08 Looking at that circle shaped vent, is that the fan vent for the Pentium 4 Prescott CPUs?

I had that book at one time

Michael, you are the best!

I would be curious to see you try and run some updates on this thing. See how it performs pre & post updates.

@Aeduo

Жыл бұрын

Not sure if the update servers would even still be up. Could put something newer on it but a lot of the most supported linux distributions are 64 bit only. A modern 32 bit one should work depending on how much RAM is in there.

@mattig89ch

Жыл бұрын

@@Aeduo they might not be. Still, would be interesting to see if its possible or not.

I would love some close up, page flipping mjd asmr

TuxRacer 1.1 first (only) commercial version, opensource versions still exist, but Sunspire studios doesn't. TuxRacer's available on the internet archive

Nice!

Looks like Fedora Core 1 but with the 2.6 kernel, the original owner was a man of culture.

Make part 2 for the compaq please

That V is just straight out of Vim

Tux: "You didn't advance, you m-" He: "oh no yeah we need all of them (start saying the universal BlueT slogan). that ONÉ screwed me up"

good job!