"Hey kid, wanna try some DOS?" LOL, you never fail to crack me up, Clint!
@demonsty
Жыл бұрын
i died laughing on that too!
@JenniferinIllinois
Жыл бұрын
Now we know where Clint got his love of vintage computers; random dudes living in his parents' basement. LOL!!!
@lordmuaddib
Жыл бұрын
-- slowly opens the keyboard lid --
@j__r0d
Жыл бұрын
first one's free!
@GuestZer0
Жыл бұрын
I always love these oddly designed attempts at portability. Adds some personality to already then cutting edge tech.
@TheRealCodyCola
Жыл бұрын
I love your KZitem profile picture.
@seanc.5310
Жыл бұрын
Yep. I remember seeing one of these in the wild in the early 90's and being impressed by it even then
@estherstreet4582
Жыл бұрын
Honestly "luggable" is a form factor more people should talk about. I can't fit my steam deck in my handbag, but it's alright to take to a friends' house or on holiday. I bet you could use this absolute unit the same way.
@IanDeMartino
Жыл бұрын
Did not expect to hear LGR's superhero origin story today, but I am here for it. As someone who also was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s, I can say we didn't have weird computer guys crashing at our house. But I do remember my friend's dad having a collection of fascinating old 80s DOS computers in his garage. We only had a Mac at the time, so DOS was a mysterious thing to me. I knew it as the way to play DOOM (on slighly newer PCs than the aforementioned garage computers).
@clavius5734
Жыл бұрын
I got a similar story of a friends dad showing up with a boot filled with old 386’s. He dumped it in the shed where me and my buddy built two decked out machines to play coop doom. Funny how back then old computers were ‘junk’ and given for free, while nowadays everybody wants money. Any case it was before craigslist and ebay, and selling stuff through classifieds was a hassle.
@quadruple_negative
Жыл бұрын
Yep. I was 8 in 1995 when we got a C64 from a garage sale. The set up I had would be worth thousands today where it probably cost less than $100 back then.
@MrDuncl
Жыл бұрын
@@clavius5734 My best purchase in the 1990s was a working Sinclair Spectrum complete with cassette recorder in a purpose made case labelled "presented by the ITC" for £1. The main reason for buying it was that it was at a rainy, outdoor sale and could see it would end up as junk if nobody rescued it. The reason old computers are now valuable is because so many got thrown away. A colleague was quite proud of the fact that he once used a genuine IBM PC AT to repair his car exhaust ! The same thing has happened with cars. My first car was a two door MK1 Ford Escort bought for £900 and sold three years later for £400. It would be worth 50 times that now if I had kept it.
@Brissles
Жыл бұрын
Not much has changed on the Mac vs PC front, then
@amberisvibin
Жыл бұрын
gosh, that 80s car dashboard aesthetic is incredible
@LGR
Жыл бұрын
Petition to bring back computer designs that look like 80s vehicle dashboards! Sign below:
@daemonspudguy
Жыл бұрын
@@LGR signed.
@Francois_L_7933
Жыл бұрын
We definitely need such an attention to detail these days. I really loved the diagonal embossed lines on the back of the keyboard!
@PassiveDestroyer
Жыл бұрын
@@LGR Bring back those 80s dashboards! The cars have LCD displays! We can do it! We have the technology!
@ChadKakashi
Жыл бұрын
@@LGR yep
@brianfleury1084
Жыл бұрын
I worked with one of those between 1988 and 1990. I was developing software for lotteries and aside from using the computer to edit and store programs on its dual 360 KB floppies, but would also use it as a terminal to connect to a mini-computer or use KERMIT to transfer files. The fact that it had an attached printer was an unheard-of option at the time. The monochrome screen was easy to read and it had a good keyboard. I wish I still had mine.
@robertnussberger2028
Жыл бұрын
I wish they still made things like these. I am a word processor / text editor fan, and I would definitely not mind having one as a text editor over a freewrite or a alphasmart.
@brianfleury1084
Жыл бұрын
@@robertnussberger2028 The 8086 processor was faster than the 8088 on most PCs at the time. Having a built-in screen, even a monochrome one, was great at the time, and you could even adjust the viewing angle. Those were the days of Kermit, 2400BPS modems, Xterm, and all GUIs were character-based. I wrote PC assembler for the Sharp and used word processors to edit higher-level languages, transfer them to the host (or used the host editor interactively), and then compile and test there. Those were the days.
@rcmero
Жыл бұрын
There's something oddly soothing with watching Clint clean up an old computer like this. It's almost like an ASMR.
@raerae1630
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking he should start a sub-channel of computer cleaning ASMR, maybe even with jazz playing in the background.
@Dilo22
Жыл бұрын
You must be new here
@fandarzelig
Жыл бұрын
Almost?
@demonsty
Жыл бұрын
@@raerae1630 NO! NO MUSIC IN ASMR! IM fooking so sick of "light ambience" background mus oh i quit!
@DryPaperHammerBro
13 күн бұрын
Hey Lemons!
@FatNorthernBigot
Жыл бұрын
Luggable was such an 80's word that suited the tech of the time. A modern equivalent might be "bingeworthy".
@Gary_Hun
Жыл бұрын
You mean it's not a 21th century fun dig at stuff deemed portable by 70s/80s people, but an actual term used with a straight face?
@thewiirocks
Жыл бұрын
@@Gary_Hun A *semi* straight face. Companies tried to sell these computers as "portable" and likened them to things like large briefcases. The market somewhat rejected this idea of "portable" and referred to them as "luggable" instead. I can recall hearing the term at least as far back as the mid-90s after laptops had appeared. I suspect it goes back all the way to the (very brief) heyday of these things.
@MrDuncl
Жыл бұрын
They were the sort of thing JR Ewing would have taken to a business meeting (or maybe got Bobby to carry for him). Let's not forget there was a time when a Motorola Brick sized cellphone was the ultimate Yuppie status symbol.
@Brissles
Жыл бұрын
I like the term luggable
@AtomSquirrel
Жыл бұрын
Or pocketable
@peepopalaber
Жыл бұрын
man, i love the pc-7000 and the display dimensions, the sexy tilt, robust build... the whole form factor ... beautiful. still hope to find one for myself. i remember that the father of a friend had the system mounted in a custom build cradle in his car, he drove through whole germany, measured radiation etc near nuclear power plants and used that beauty to document the readings. pretty slick, i was in awe as i saw that as kid, that was something straight from the future.
@drunkbillygoat
Жыл бұрын
I just had my first heart attack and I'm laying in bed at the hospital and I'm going through so much of your Playlist. It's really helping me fight my boredom.
@Jenisonc
Жыл бұрын
It's amazing this didn't blow up. It seems like everything you could want in '85 for a traveling business cat.
@conpa18dany
11 ай бұрын
I have this amazing piece of computer history sitting protected in my closet. I got it from eBay years ago. How much do you think these go for now days?
@waynepedley5395
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Woody, for enabling Clint to share this with the rest of us!
@ChristopherCLindner
Жыл бұрын
This is my first PC, the one I learned to code BASIC on! I have so many fond memories of this weird little thing. I'm glad you got one to review :). Oddly, I recall having a version of Round 42 that worked well on this machine. Were there different releases of that game? And yes, I too had weird strangers show up to my house with obsolete PCs as a child. What a time.
@demonsty
Жыл бұрын
how did u find out what you needed (BASIC interpreter program) and where or who did you find it or where to find it at?
@thebonefish
Жыл бұрын
Pairs flawlessly with the Michael Douglas Phone
@RegularJohn53
Жыл бұрын
I love how you talk about the technical specs and possible gaming when you make videos. I'm more into the gaming than the technical stuff but I just love how these two balance out each other in every video.
@YourHex
Жыл бұрын
What a neat machine, I love seeing old school "portable" units like this, also that Jeremy Jahns "Good time no alcohol required" gave me a laugh, good stuff.
@EpicLebaneseNerd
Жыл бұрын
you know you are a hopeless nerd when the part about cleaning the old pc soothes you and amuses you to no end...this is ASMR for us tech geeks.
@TheCongressman1
Жыл бұрын
This is the most pleasing formfactor of the portables of the era that I have seen, what a fantastic design.
@stevehurleydesign
Жыл бұрын
"Hey kid, wanna try DOS.." gave me a good chuckle on this Friday
@headcrab4090
Жыл бұрын
I have been depressed for some years. I am outdated, gritty, no allure. I should just observe myself as a system and work at cleaning up the basic stuff that worked. As traits of personality. Thank you Mr for reminding me. Fixing stuff is therapy.
@PeterGerrish
Жыл бұрын
I’ve missed a good PC cleaning video with smooth jazz.. so calming and satisfying
@aserta
Жыл бұрын
Sharp had such a great understanding of form. This looks cool even today.
@KoenOnbekend
Жыл бұрын
Great video Clint, excited to see this thing featured on the channel. I got a bargain on the Sharp PC7100 with built-in hard drive and the optional printer a few years ago. Fun stuff to play around with.
@MrBURSHAK
Жыл бұрын
Lightning fast vcr repair! A man of class I see :) always fun to see a favorite channel of mine on another favourite channel haha
@bookipzee
Жыл бұрын
i think i could watch some good 20-30 minutes of just Clint cleaning old computers while having these nice jazz tunes in the background
@phillipev
Жыл бұрын
Man, I needed a calming video, and one featuring 80s tech is even better. Thanks, Clint, you saved my day!
@Halb_Wert_Zeit
Жыл бұрын
I love that you show us how you clean tech. It's somewhat calming AND something we all do but barely see online
@trulyinfamous
Жыл бұрын
I have always loved your choice of music in this videos. This video is no exception.
@RAMChYLD
Жыл бұрын
Also, pro tip: if you have the CGA add-on card, then you can play Those 160x100 modified text mode graphics games. I had mine configured with the onboard display as MDA while the CGA card is connected to an external Sharp TTL CGA Color display (yeah, it can totally support that use case). Good times.
@LouisIsGo
Жыл бұрын
Just saying: if you want to feature more sections of cleaning up old hardware, I would not be mad about it at all. Watching you spiffy up this beautiful beast was absurdly soothing
@DanielMReck
Жыл бұрын
12:53 Bouncing Babies with that display ghosting only enhances the challenge! This is a really neat device. I grew up on the first Compaq Luggable (er, "Portable") and have always enjoyed these early forays into "easily" transportable machines. So glad that you are the LGR you are today, Clint!
@NaoPb
Жыл бұрын
The thing I love the most is the review itself, not the system. Quality video as always LGR, thanks! And I too remember the strangers handing me even stranger computer equipment that molded me into what I am today, haha.
@loughkb
Жыл бұрын
Yet another classic machine that I used to work on when I was a service tech at Computerland in the late 1980s. Thanks for the memory blast.
@runonce
Жыл бұрын
Looks amazing! Loved your childhood insight.
@brandonbajc2084
Жыл бұрын
3:35 zeiss lens wipes!! I use these on EVERYTHING! I especially love cleaning thermal paste off with them and while doing so, I think about how Zeiss is the ENTIRE reason we have the advanced processors of today! Zeiss makes the lithography machines that make all of our fancy chips. They are probably the most important company in the computer industry.
@CatsT.M
Жыл бұрын
The way that folds out is real nice, especially that leaning screen. Is a nice baige box.
@cosmostheprotogen
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for including the cleaning process in the video!
@captainahab3146
Жыл бұрын
I actually really appreciate that you put the cleaning section in here. It satisfied some deep, dark section of my mind
@marlonthemarloncorp.kreuze3921
Жыл бұрын
i never knew i was this hardcore a nerd until i found myself happily watching clint clean some obsolete 80s hardware thank you clint!
@theconfusingwords
Жыл бұрын
Oh that design is magical! Wow! Thanks for sharing this!
@charlie_nolan
Жыл бұрын
The unexpected origin story was great. That's how I got intro retro tech as well, people giving me old stuff, or sometimes literally finding and fixing trash.
@Rafa-fc9rh
Жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful machine, great design. I love the way screen looks and works and overall aesthetic
@ZemiousKatarn
Жыл бұрын
This whole computer reminds me of every Sewing Machine I've ever used. Kind of makes me want to use something similar in a nature based creative space.
@shawn4820
Жыл бұрын
I've gotta say - the different intro music is a real jam. Loving it.
@ctcards2636
Жыл бұрын
I love when ya see a sticker or something like that velcro you removed and you see how new it looks under that. Crazy. :-)
@PaulKostrzewa
Жыл бұрын
I'm super jazzed to see this, I have one and I LOVE it! I daydream about the day I find the CGA add-on for it...
@Krunkwizard
Жыл бұрын
What a gorgeous piece of technology. You describing it as having pizazz made me laugh. This was quite a treat to watch, more 80s portables please!
@Chris-uh1qr
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic please more of these late 80's early 90's portable machine, they are my favourite machines. Customers would have been really impressed rocking up with machines like these. Keep up the interesting content.
@MrDuncl
Жыл бұрын
I would suggest a Toshiba T3100 with the orange Gas Plasma display. That was my first PC picked up used for £100 back in about 1994.
@j-fharbec379
Жыл бұрын
Great video. One of the best things of your channel is the music tou choose for your videos. I don’t know how you do it but it’s always appropriate and I just love it. You should release a music compilation some day.
@retropuffer2986
Жыл бұрын
I love all the unique shapes and sizes "portables" were during this time period.
@LatteLover
Жыл бұрын
Now this is an elegant looking luggable, Clint! Kudos for the addition!
@TheFragility
Жыл бұрын
"Keys clack with light dissatisfaction" These closed captions are gold
@dheisey1014
Жыл бұрын
For real. There was always someone giving kids weird out of date computers in the 90s
@LGR
Жыл бұрын
It’s true.
@marccaselle8108
Жыл бұрын
My dad's friend in 1993 gave me a Atari 800 computer, I wish I still had it
@Christophercles
Жыл бұрын
@@LGR Did people in the U.S just have dudes come to live in the basement?
@Uhhhh_uhhh
Жыл бұрын
Man your video are so nice and relaxing Also very informative and entertaining They're perfect for sleep or genuine information and entertainment
@Indrid__Cold
11 ай бұрын
This kind of video is more exciting than a high school reunion. I taught myself DOS and talked my way into my first technology job with only that one qualification.
@aaronsnowden6311
Жыл бұрын
Love the light jazz during cleaning and great video.
@yamigekusu
Жыл бұрын
When it came to hardware, 80s era Sharp was awesome. Had one of their old Microwaves for a very long time before the turntable motor finally tanked in 2016 (I think my dad got it in '86-'87 a few years before I came into existence). The computers from that era were also pretty neat looking
@techdistractions
Жыл бұрын
Ah nice to see you’ve joined the Sharp luggable club :-) That RAM expansion is very easy and relatively cheap. You can get over 700k of conventional memory :-) and even run windows 3.0 in real mode on something like a go-tek
@LoremonX
Жыл бұрын
As someone born in 1990 and raised in a very country state. I have never seen 96% of the things on your channel. Probably why I enjoy it so much.
@msiller
Жыл бұрын
Hi Clint! Regards from Mexico! Love your content!!
@jenniferhaar7934
Жыл бұрын
Im checking in for the first time in a long time...good on you dude! seems like you are living your best life!!
@ynotplay
Жыл бұрын
What a nice computer. I actually really like the form factor. What a quirky little thing. I'd get a few hours of fun just playing old games. Thanks for another great video. 👏
@UwUSanime
Жыл бұрын
ugh! your videos just get better and better!
@CgPallaeon
Жыл бұрын
That Enter key is hilariously huge and I WANT IT.
@Krynis
Жыл бұрын
a family friend (who is still in our circle) not only gave me my first PC of my own, he walked me through building it from parts he had, helped me build my second as well and was always helping me figure things out and showing me the latest tech, these days I try to do the same for my nieces and nephews.
@howaboutsomesoyfood
Жыл бұрын
I love how back in the 80s, portable just meant it had a handle on it. also, it's 6 AM where I live and I'm watching a man clean a nearly 40 year old computer. worth it
@emirvmendoza
Жыл бұрын
It's 11 PM where I live and it's nice to end the day with this.
@varahunter68
Жыл бұрын
@@emirvmendoza same
@WinterInTheForest
Жыл бұрын
People were tougher in those days
@dunhunger
Жыл бұрын
Love the Lightning Fast VCR Repair sticker! RLM are awesome!
@ThommyofThenn
Жыл бұрын
Always nice to get some sensuous restoration in a video i thought was just going to be discussing specs. Hot action!
@bobpowers9862
Жыл бұрын
1985. A cool bit of kit, for sure. I was working with my dad, in our business back then. I had an original IBM pc, from 1981, that had been upgraded several times by 1985. I have no memories of this thing, though, it would have been handy. Nice video.
@ryanburke716
Жыл бұрын
I had one of these on my display at VCF East in 2022, with the factory hard drive add on and thermal printer. There were two hard drive add ons for the bottom, one with the ISA slots and one without, the one I have just adds a 10mb MFM hard drive, and about 15lbs to the carry weight!
@steelerfaninperu
Жыл бұрын
That story took a real hard left turn there and I enjoyed the whiplash. Fascinating.
@MrDuncl
Жыл бұрын
Sharp were ahead of everyone else with their displays for a decade or two. In Dixons (a camera and electronics shop) I recall seeing amongst all the laptops with dreadful "Dual Scan" displays a Sharp laptop with a good looking TFT display.
@TheChowitzer
Жыл бұрын
There's just something strangely calming about watching you clean old computers to cool jazz.
@xClunky
Жыл бұрын
Love the Lightning VCR Repair sticker on the workbench. Rich Evans is smiling somewhere. And then you hit us with the Jeremy Jahns reference.
@gregd3227
Ай бұрын
I had one of these computers in college. The printer that came with it was amazing for its time. It was a thermal printer that printed true letter quality text; much better than dot matrix printers. The entire set up fit perfectly on my little dorm room desk.
@fuzzix
Жыл бұрын
Back in the mid 80s my dad brought me to his work (he was an electrical engineer working on national broadcasting infrastructure at the time) and they had one of these (or something remarkably similar) set up on a desk, complete with printer. I was fascinated, though had no idea how to use the machine. Someone ran 'COPY CON LPT1' for me and I entertained myself there for hours. A fun memory. Cheers!
@realzneo
Жыл бұрын
A dream machine in 1985!! Thank you for another great video!!
@flummox3d
Жыл бұрын
That "Good time, no alcohol required" caught me off guard, I just finished Jeremy Jahns's Plane review :D
@robwaters8848
Жыл бұрын
"It's a great time, no alcohol required!" - I love the Jeremy Jahns reference 😅❤️
@otakuribo
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my first "computer," a Brother electronic typewriter that had a smeary LCD display like that and saved to floppy disks 💾💕 As a kid, I wrote so many dumb little short stories to share with my friends on that thing.
@dastroyer6070
Жыл бұрын
Oh man, I had one of these. My friend saw a lady down his street throwing away 2 of these so he kept one and gave me the other. Mine powered up but the A floppy drive was jammed while the B was non-functional. Ended up selling it off in the end cause I couldn't do anything with it, but aesthetically it's a beautiful machine.
@The_ZeroLine
Жыл бұрын
That bath was so relaxing. I agree it’s pretty awesome looking.
@AlexValliMusic
Жыл бұрын
"Hey kid, wanna try some DOS?" LOLOL Best line of the year so far
@melterofsnowflakes
Жыл бұрын
All the "old" 8088 and 286 class machines I should have kept. Thanks for keeping these machines going.
@DaveGuerreroTijuana
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this little beast Clint
@peterjszerszen
Жыл бұрын
When you pressed that tilt button, it was boss. Soft eject too. Quality.
@darploin5071
Жыл бұрын
That compact portable computer that came out in 84. My sisters and I always joked it was a collaboration between Compaq computer and Samsonite luggage. Have an excellent weekend
@RonaldBradycptgmpy
Жыл бұрын
It definitely wasn’t just you. My first ever computer was an IBM with a green mono chrome screen, and CGA graphics. My first color computer was attendee 2000 with EGA graphics, I love the good old DOS days. This video really took me back down memory lane.
@w.p.958
Жыл бұрын
This was very nostalgic in a good way. I never used one of these lunch box type computers, but my friends did. I also started on an 8086 with DOS 3.0 and dual 5 1/4 floppy's (no HD).
@turbinegraphics16
Жыл бұрын
I got the amstrad ppc 640, its fun to see what kind of stuff will work on these things. Even early 90's stuff will work if you have enough ram. Even stuff that runs slow is fun to see, jill of the jungle has a totally different look on these old lcds.
@RogueNationVideos
Жыл бұрын
digging the new BGM!, also, this computer looks a little like a boombox!
@BloodWraith777
Жыл бұрын
12:44 "Hey kid, wanna try some DOS?"
@kebab_hill
Жыл бұрын
I love these sorts of designs, they really have a special design
@timmooney7528
Жыл бұрын
A co-worker used a Z-171 while in college in the 90's. Her basic use was reading email via BBS. We were working on a Y2k project and one of the offices we stopped at had multiple 171's in storage.
@gingerman5123
Жыл бұрын
My dad had one of these when I was a kid. We also had the printer accessory. It was some weird thermal transfer ink IIRC. He ended up not being able to find ink and wrote Sharp. They sent him like 12 of whatever the ink was. It was a great quality printer. 7:45 Ah, there's the printer!!
@bobfromsoireegames4309
Жыл бұрын
You have outdone yourself, Mr LGR Sir!
@netsurferx1
Жыл бұрын
I have one of these also! Spotted it in a thrift store circa 1998-'99 for about $7. I admittedly thought it was a boombox until I saw the floppy drives on the side.
@Eos_Galvus
Жыл бұрын
You are not wrong about friends or family with old, hand me down, weird and wonderful old computers everywhere you look! My parents had a couple they were friends with whom owned an original Pac-Man arcade and Macintosh when I was but a wee little gremliung, not even 5, back in '89, and earlier. We'd make road trips and flights to visit Phoenix AZ and to occupy myself sometimes I'd ask to play their NES, but my favorites were the Mac and Pac-Man. The Mac had this interesting RPG game and a slots game on it - And this was an 80's Max, black and white, power on the back left side, so one of the first 2 models - and this was an Arcade Cabinate, set to Free Play, and I got to play it. I loved this cool stuff. My uncle eventuaLLy gave my geandmother an old Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS machine too, and after my grandpa died. When we kids visited, we'd all father at her computer and print things with her print studio program, happily coloring our creations with crayons and socializing. I played a LOT of Chip's Challenge on that thing. I'm still livid that when my grandmother replaced the machine, my parents said I couldn't have her old DOS machine... After she said yes. Still, the memory and joys of old computers.
@sacamentobob
Жыл бұрын
Wow Clint, what a machine. I never knew they (manufacturers) made such cool portable PCs in 1985 - I personally got into PCs in the late 80s but only with desktops, and only saw such portables in pc shows circa 1990-1991. This machine was way ahead of its time I must say considering how portable it was.. Im not surprised though since Japan was already quite far ahead in tech than most of the world.....
@JDonahue79
Жыл бұрын
Amazing how tech went up in leaps and bounds since then, with a third pillar being a handheld PC that has the ergonomics of a handheld gaming device. By the way you should try to get your hands on a Sperry UTS-30 computer terminal, featured in the movie Jumpin’ Jack Flash.
@derekvance9944
Жыл бұрын
This just popped up in my feed and I was pleasantly surprised. I don't know if it's the same model but back in Scotland a friend of mine borrowed a computer very similar to this from college in around 1987. From what I remember it looked very similar to this as the keyboard did protect the screen. I can remember that we played one game from I believe a floppy disc. The game allowed you to pick 2 groups of warriors and have them fight each other. I thought it might have a historical context so you could have native Americans fighting General Custer as I'm sure I can remember watching arrows being fired across the screen and you would gradually see the forces becoming decimated.
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