Hi, I'm Matt and I like tech stuff!
Since 2010 I've run Tech Made Easy, a UK based tech blog and KZread channel with the goal of providing information on how to get the most from your tech!
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Old video helping me in 2024 thanks yo
Quick question, I have created and mounted the array but I have no write permissions. I tried to use chmod to fix this but no luck. Any tips?
Nice all American
can you do it by connecting with the internal usb to the pc mainboard?
Thanks, FME Retro...! Your guidance in this video made the installation of a new 1TB Gen4 SSD and 32GB RAM (both by Crucial/Micron) so doggone easy! Your caution about unhooking the Battery was a good reminder. Your step-by-step video presentation was engaging and spot-on for what I need to do to upgrade one of our two Lenovo Legion 16 Laptops. I'm still tinkering with settings to get the performance we want, but at least the upgrade went smoothly and everything WORKS. Thank you kindly...
Thankyou so much, but i wanna ask what happens when you combine 1 piece of 16 gb and 1 piece of 8 gb, same brand, so it totals to 24 gb, is that fine?
If you want really pocketable, check out Sony's UX range - I actually used one back in the day, for developing Pascal software. It was quite usable when docked, not so much on the train due to the miscule screen and keyboard. Like the U1/101, the UX also has a 1.8" parallel ATA spinning hard drive, now available cheaply as an SSD from AliExpress and easily upgraded. My absolute favourite though was the Sony P-series - super small, insanely high-res screen, a keyboard you could actually type on and again, readily upgradeable to SSD. And the killer feature - it had a lanyard loop! The P-series had an Atom processor and shipped with Vista making it unusably slow. After installing a super-light version of XP however, amazingly responsive and I still use mine with an XP-only photospectrometer (the UX280 is an ornament in a drawer). If you ever need cut-down XP Acronis images for the UX or P-series, let me know..
The GPD Win Mini is exactly this with modern specs. It even has the lanyard holes!
Thanks brother for the help I have the model which can be be upgraded upto 12gigs
If you still have that malfunctioning gpu you showed at the beginning of the video odds are you can get it working by replacing the thermal paste and if it has them pads as well. Also if you know how to solder or have someone who can do it for you replacing all the capacitors is always a great idea for such an old device. Also check solder joints are good they may have cracked. If so they should be pretty easy to reflow them.
Thankyou, video is very simple and easy to follow. Helped me a lot!!!
Is rex apart of the brotherhood or something? he was my only companion and they let me in
Seller probably set it up, played with it a bit, then put it up.
Gaming PC ie gta v etc.. lol
I'd use it as a serial terminal on the rack, connected to some servers just in case I need to log in to a server in person in the rack, sort of like a kvm. Or perhaps a terminal (linux or bsd) so that I can run ssh.
Would love to see u connect some sensors and some motors to this cards and at least try to make something similar then what this was originaly used for
13:43 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵
You need to mount one in that rack of yours to host a retro webserver with FTP. Then just use the screen ad a running statistics for the activity. That would be cool
I fear it might actually pull the rack off the wall 😂
Just get an unnecessary big floor rack like me 😅
Rip out the still quite expensive PICMG SBCs grab some quite cheap ATX compatible backpanes and install them in regular desktop cases for dos gaming.
Industrial Cacodemons! Nice hack, and I love how the machine is built. Professional electronics does the thing for me.
Probably the most solid PC I’ve ever worked on, which is great until you need to dismantle it to look into why the screen isn’t working properly!
earned new sub❤
Awesome video ! this is a great fun thing to do answering the now age old question "Will it play Doom" Another great channel is 'Buy it Fix it' he did the same thing and installed Doom on a portable ultrasound baby scanner !.....cheers.
We have a '90s or 2000s vintage medical USG at our local hackerspace, and it looks like it runs its proprietary software under DOS. I once opened it up, got to the CRT section no problem, but the control & data processing electronics part seems almost impenetrable. Last time I tried getting in, I failed - I just saw no way in. Keri on, try again...
Over clock it...😁
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All those old free desktops would be hundreds where I live...
Who said it was free?
@@TechMadeEasyUK Sorry I meant in the clip of facebook marketplace haha
Ah I see! Yeah quite often they’re not really free, they just want you to make an offer
@@TechMadeEasyUK ah yes classic. The plague that has taken over marketplace unfortunately
I used one back in the day and they were seriously woeful. The screen was unreadable and the battery life from its huge stack of consumer batteries was mesured in mins.
Completely agree, by modern standards (and even those of the time for much more expensive devices) it's woeful. I'd suggest at it's price point though it did fill a certain niche
From the days when HP meant quality, engineering excellence and bugger the price.
Wow, what a machine. Great video
Bewdy, spent far too many hours playing Doom, and Wolfenstien before it
I had to sack a guy once for doctoring a PC controlled KUKA robot. He was boerd and installed Quake and ran it in Windows 98. It worked pretty well considering and I was impressed with his skill. However The policy left no room for compromise regarding unauthorised access and modification. He even had it running in tandem with the Robot and was using the pendant.
I remember we used to have a small closed network in one of our workshops for building networking devices. Management never suspected that we’d also installed Quake on all of the machines and weee having LAN parties at lunch
Put into a rack? 😊
There’s always one….
those are computer units that ran CNC machines, probably from the 80s 90s . most likely a Lathe or Mill. the X Y Z settings would be on a pendant or another panel
This brought back lots of memories. Is there a place to hook up a serial mouse? There are many 74ls parts on these boards. You can imagine what happened in 1974 when the date of manufacture code had a 74 in it.
There are two serial ports, one on the SBC and another via a header. I connected a mouse up and it worked a treat with a driver loaded in DOS
This video is great 👍🤝
This comment is great!
Action retro did this a year ago.
That’s cool. Sean did a great job, I really enjoyed his video.
Simpsons did it!
Nice looking machine.
I remember the day Steve Jobs died. That very day I had just jumped ship from iPhone to Android. I felt terrible, and eventually went back. And, if you haven't already, watch "The Pirates of Silicon Valley", about Steve, Wozza, Bill and Paul in those early days. Cracking movie.
i had a 640. I think I got it from Curry's. It was the best (and the worst) thing ever😂
Cool. I'm trying to see what I can get going on a late '80s optical time domain reflectometer built around an Intel 8088 machine running DOS 3.1. It has a floppy, a RAM disk and a green CRT, definitely its best feature! It's a portable device (well, luggable) and is laid out internally very similar to your machines.
Reminds me of Action Retro kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKN2xcSwZrLdhdY.htmlsi=IV6cpGPKRbBr6qo-
"What do I do with them?" Uuh obviously you start a steel refinery and manufacturing plant
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@@TechMadeEasyUK or take them to a Lan party I guess
These would be great self-contained LAN party machines if I could fit a headphone jack somewhere
@@TechMadeEasyUK doooo it
Good god, until you were standing next to them I assumed these were like a quarter the size they actually are
That’s the rub, I’m actually 3 feet tall
For once youtube has recomended me a Good Low view Recently uploaded video. subscribed for more.
Awesome, thank you!
jeez i watched this whole video thinking it had thousands of views and didnt even realise until i scrolled down at the end. Quality video!
Comments like this make it all worth it, thank you!
4:03 I worked in automation for steel mills for a few years. You don't use any PC to directly control any industrial process. That is what PLCs are for (programmable logic controllers). PCs are often used for SCADA systems (visualizing the state of your process, send commands to your machines, show faults, gather and archive data, communicate with other systems and such stuff)
I was hoping someone in the know would chime in and help explain what these are for 😁 that’s really interesting, thank you
Manufacturing equipment often uses computers like this. E.g Samsung Pick and Place machines and ovens on PCB assembly lines.
Brilliant video and welcome back! DOOOOOOOM! I thought you did really well playing on the vertical keyboard...
Glad you popped up on my KZread, that was nice and interesting video.
Really glad you enjoyed it, that's why I do it :)
can i know the maximum bus speed for 8 gb this laptop support
My Sony Vaio UX has a much smaller keyboard. The U101 is just large enough to be still useful.
I picked a U101 recently and i'm very happy with it. Old games run great thanks to dosbox. Duke3D runs a little slow though. I have converted alot of movies and music video clips to 720x480 and they play great nice and smooth. The battery still fully charges too. I have the IDE to CF adapter and a CF card running XP.
Thanks
Thank you!