Gotta say, always enjoy the LGR Closed Captions. Thanks. They would take extra time to do. Appreciate them.
@sadmac356
2 жыл бұрын
I always appreciate it when creators add closed captions
@sauskeuzumaki121
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, LGR, I know it may be annoying but please don’t stop doing cc. I am very hard of hearing and auto google cc is quite bad. Your cc is really nice and I like it.
@rhnn9399
2 жыл бұрын
i appreciate the closed caption they working hard for. As an people that use English as the secondary language i really helped by the existence of cc
@FelineBlue
2 жыл бұрын
I have another reason to love captions, I have ADHD and one of the things that causes for me is major issues processing audio, especially speech. Subtitles help me make sure I process the words even when I don't audibly process them. I really appreciate the captions!
@sadmac356
2 жыл бұрын
@@FelineBlue that's actually *exactly* why I appreciate it
@OttoIncognito
2 жыл бұрын
I love seeing the contents of very old hard drives, what software they had, etc. It's like archeology
@MD4564
2 жыл бұрын
its like hddology.
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
You are not alone, very interesting seeing what they were used for at the time. : )
@kuzadupa185
2 жыл бұрын
Its awesome seeing someone have the exact thoughts on old hard drives. Ive always been curious why this isnt an actual "field" that people take part in.
@smugshrug
2 жыл бұрын
The noise the hard drive makes is oddly soft and soothing. It almost sounds like a digital synth-like noise.
@PronatorTendon
2 жыл бұрын
I have an 18tb server grade drive and it sounds like the early 90s
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
@@PronatorTendon Oh man those make a ton of noise!
@Xeddyhime
2 жыл бұрын
That long, long HDD spin-up and the chirping while copying files brought back so many memories. Thanks for that!
@bayuchandrasukma820
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, how I love watching these old PC vids. Made me realize how grateful I should be with what I have, aaand regretted myself for not being born at the time experiencing all that myself. Honestly, might not even be able to purchase them anyway, so here I am. Great vid, Sir.
@jeffreyphipps1507
2 жыл бұрын
Be aware, some versions of PB computers came with a reset in the BIOS. If you unplugged the keyboard, it would check to see if there was a HDD and erase it. During a diagnosis on a machine, a client brought in, we'd find nothing wrong and put DOS back on the machine, etc. When the machine went home, it would erase itself. At first we thought it was the user. We found out that there was a small break in the keyboard wire, and when the computer detected it was "detached" the computer reset. We discovered this only after having the machine in with the keyboard. While it was on, we were swapping the keyboard, unplugged it and it rebooted and reset. Eye opener. No other machine we ever worked on did this at the time. 🤔 We did find a different keyboard anomaly with a Gateway keyboard. The user brought the machine to us sans keyboard, but it worked fine. He said he would type and get random letters. OK, maybe a bad keyboard - bring us the keyboard. Yup - random letters, no - wait - not random. you'd hit a key, then another and the old key became the new key. Programmable keyboard. Flipped it over - sure enough. Flipped a switch to reset and turned it on. Turned it off and set it to "off" (as opposed to "on" where it was programmable). "Off" retained the last settings (in this case reset). Asked if he ever thought he'd ever use that. Emphatic no. Super glued the switch to "off" permanently setting it to the factory settings. (L)users are too nosy. 😁
@und4287
2 жыл бұрын
Automatic hard drive wiping shortcut! Unplug the keyboard to wipe the hard drive.
@KairuHakubi
2 жыл бұрын
@@und4287 the power of malware at your fingertips!
@whackydumdum
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great videos. When ever I need to feel good - I can watch your videos and between your content (always interesting), your voice, and the music you background the video in - it ROCKS! Again, thanks...
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, Scott 👍
@DiceRobo
2 жыл бұрын
All your videos are so great, but I really enjoy these kind of vids where you're just talking through the camera with the sounds of the fans and hard drive. Really gives a kind of "post garage sale let's see if this old pc works" or "dude check this out" feeling
@PXAbstraction
2 жыл бұрын
Oh man, Lazy Susan! They used to use that at my school growing up, on the machines that the admin staff used. What a throwback. I'd love to get a copy of that for the DOS PC I plan to build.
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t know how well it’ll work, but check the video description for a link to all the files from this drive. Including the SUSAN directory :)
@andreasklindt7144
2 жыл бұрын
@@LGR Both Lazy Susan and the green Abilitiy file manager are working just fine in DOSBox. Lazy Susan appears to be useful for large collections of DOS games and software, to get easier access (after the setup...). Thanks for archiving it!
@IronHeel
2 жыл бұрын
At first, I thought LGR may have found his soulmate named Lazy Susan.
@JAzzWoods-ik4vv
2 жыл бұрын
@@LGR Btw, password might be "You Bi***"(not censored). Opening the "LSLOG.EXE" file on the notepad reveals a bunch of plain text at the end of the file, including that. Although it "could" be part of the programme as some easter egg, it doesn't seem to match anything around it. It might be worth a shot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@nickwallette6201
2 жыл бұрын
@@JAzzWoods-ik4vv Apparently Susan wasn’t just lazy, but also had a foul mouth! :-D
@bitfixer6502
2 жыл бұрын
"Password, is it farts?" Love this. Reminds me of how I used to "version" my files before source control, file_fart, file_fart_2, file_farts_final, etc. Very mature
@bitwize
2 жыл бұрын
Why not do this after version control? I use "fucknuggets" as a branch name when I intend to delete the branch after fooling around.
@vwestlife
2 жыл бұрын
You are correct about the keyboard speed switching on the PB 500. It boots up at 4.77 MHz, and to switch it into 9.54 MHz turbo mode you press Ctrl - Alt - Plus (on the numeric keypad). The LED will then change from orange to green. I think originally it would've come with a small program to do the speed change in software, so you could put it in your AUTOEXEC file. Ctrl - Alt - Minus switches it back to slow speed.
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
I show the program and key commands starting at 20:13! Unfortunately the LED doesn’t change.
@vwestlife
2 жыл бұрын
@@LGR IIRC with mine when I replaced the 8088 with a NEC V20 chip, the LED no longer changed color with the speeds.
@SolidSonicTH
2 жыл бұрын
That NuXT he built had a similar software-controlled turbo setting.
@davidschmidt8195
2 жыл бұрын
I just picked up a PB 500. Any idea what the keyboard combination to get into the Phoenix 2.51A 01 BIOS is? (If any?)
@vwestlife
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidschmidt8195 There is no BIOS setup on XT-class (8088/V20) machines.
@PXAbstraction
2 жыл бұрын
LGR: Flipflops & Termites Edition Lovely pair of systems! I don't know why but those chonky, almost industrial old PC designs I find quite appealing.
@MarkTheMorose
2 жыл бұрын
I think Adrian's Digital Basement has the 'termites' market cornered.
@thesmokingcap
2 жыл бұрын
I love these sorts of videos as you dig up forgotten treasures that have been in storage. They're just fun!
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Love the channel name too, ha
@thesmokingcap
2 жыл бұрын
@@LGR haha, the irony indeed
@JohnDoe-wq5eu
2 жыл бұрын
When I hear the specs on these things I'm always amazed by what consoles were doing at the time. Genesis/mega drive master system or even NES when you see the graphics of a PC like this and then you see those games you realize just how cutting edge consoles of the time were.
@westpointfever905
2 жыл бұрын
"Password. Oh man, is it farts?" Your humor brings out my inner teenager every time! Also, thanks for giving away your bios Password, Clint!
@jeffdeckman
2 жыл бұрын
Hi, Cliff. Love your channel, and I was excited to see you cover the Packard Bell PB 500, which was the first PC I ever owned. I purchased it from Costco in the Los Angeles area in 1989. It came with a Packard Bell CGA monitor, at a cost of $999.00. I can verify that it definitely came with a 30MB hard drive, with the same front face as the one you've got. Amazing that yours still boots up!
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
Oh that's good to know, thanks! It's _Clint_ though ;)
@cc1912
2 жыл бұрын
_Clint Clifford_ has a nice ring to it.
@bobdeinterlace
2 жыл бұрын
Cliffy B.
@rommix0
2 жыл бұрын
@@bobdeinterlace in the place to be
@dougradtke
2 жыл бұрын
Clinty Cliff
@BF4pawntard
2 жыл бұрын
That hard drive noise is absolutely awesome.
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
I agree. I think it sucks when people swap them out for boring flash cards, hard drives can make tons of interesting sounds and some more than others if you know what to look for.
@8bits59
2 жыл бұрын
@@cdos9186 and "failed" MFM/RLL drives like this one are often fixed with a simple low level format. Yet, instead of looking it up, people say "well that's dead", e-waste it, and then install a CF card.
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
@@8bits59 Very annoying when people really don't know what they're doing, expecting things to work perfectly without at least some effort to get it to work again like old hard drives. I've literally had drives with bad sectors before that went away after I did a FULL format, or even a couple of those really helps refresh the sectors on the drive that was sitting for years and years. People are very lazy unfortunately so they assume if a quick format doesn't fix the problems, time for a replacement of some sort without even trying a full format once or a couple times. I've found that if the drive seeks fine and is able to show up, very good chance it will work great after a couple formats if needed.
@midimusicforever
2 жыл бұрын
I am amazed how fresh the plastic on the VX88 looked!
@thesteelrodent1796
2 жыл бұрын
the harddrive sounds surprisingly healthy, especially for an RLL disk. Very few of those still around that work properly
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
They don't seem very common to begin with, and it seems like generally MFM drives either last longer or are easier to find. Not sure though but from my experience MFM drives last a really incredible amount of time if it isn't a CMI lmao.
@Caseytify
2 жыл бұрын
I have one that works. As LGI pointed out, the beige faceplate this one has is unusual.
@dainipeagram4837
2 жыл бұрын
oh man, that HDD sound was a throw back to my Amiga A500 days with the HDD plugged into the side :D
@jamesleung2450
2 жыл бұрын
Always a good day when Clint uploads!
@theandroids6796
2 жыл бұрын
So... I just watched an ad. Not for any reason but, the ad break was timed so well with a scene fade and change, that I had to let it play just to see how it would come back from the ad. It was beautiful Clint. If I had KZitem on an old wood grain set, it would have been just like old TV.
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
I edit in and manually place ad transitions so it feels seamless, hehe
@PenguinDT
2 жыл бұрын
I'll always get nostalgic with Packard Bell, as my first PC was one of the multimedia systems of theirs (a 486 SX). It was pretty killer for its time - and I should still have it in storage.
@denis2381
2 жыл бұрын
GayAnalDildo
@cyrollan
2 жыл бұрын
@@denis2381 yes.
@denis2381
2 жыл бұрын
@@cyrollan I am glad that you are agreeing with my statement.
@TheNostalgiaMall
2 жыл бұрын
Of course I approve of this.
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
Naturally!
@ruadeil_zabelin
2 жыл бұрын
Oh man I love laplink. It's saved me so many times with my old computers. Great stuff
@nicwilson6587
2 жыл бұрын
We need a t-shirt with ‘The Tic-Tacs have already exploded’ on it
@plazmasyt
2 жыл бұрын
Man that PB500 sounds exactly like what I expected an 80’s PC to sound like as a kid with that hard drive beeping and booping away as it reads, I love it!
@St0rmcrash
2 жыл бұрын
I love this whole saga of the Samsung made Turbo XT clones. It's amazing how all the budget PC builders were competing against each other with nearly identical machines all built by the same OEM. That said I love these quirky little Turbo XT clones, with their odd turnkey solution bundled software, and how they remained viable on the bottom end on sale into the early 90s and based on this one in use for years after that. You'll never see a single model/spec sold for so long now, and it took until this past decade for PCs to get to where you could use the same one for 5-10 years comfortably without needing replacement again
@squirlmy
2 жыл бұрын
I'm confused on what you mean by "needing" replacement. It was advances like Windows 3.1, which needed a 386, and later in the 90s the need for games that used powerful video cards (and web dev). The original 8088, 8086s were really meant to last ten years. Intel even made Aboveboard 286 and 386 cards to extend the lives of the original generation of PCs. It was increasing graphics capabilities, which drove ordinary consumers to replace them more like every two years. I mean, from a software perspective, getting the latest M$ Office and latest version of Windows that I guess made a "need" for replacements. Hardware-wise, the first gen was certainly capable of running DOS and DOS software perfectly well for that long, including the "perfect" word processor, WordPerfect for DOS 5.1. Obviously, the ones here are still working fine today, over 30 years later! I don't know where you get the idea that's a recent development. I guess since everything moved to online and in the browser?
@nickwallette6201
2 жыл бұрын
@@squirlmy Once the 386s got down to reasonable prices, things moved pretty quickly. A 486 was SO much faster, and especially with VLB slots for the HDD controller and video, the difference was stark. A couple years after that, the Pentium made Win95 viable. You could (and I did) run it on a 486, but you felt the weight. Particularly if you didn’t have enough RAM. The Pentium II brought 3D games and multimedia apps to the forefront. The Pentium III made lots of CPU-bound applications possible (CAD, games, pro audio and photo and video stuff...) The P4 (once DDR chipsets showed up) handled XP better, along with office and web applications. The Core 2 breathed new life into web and media playback. The Core i-series made 1080p playback possible (without relying on hardware acceleration.) So yeah, I would say the recent few gens were when the pace slowed enough that major productivity milestones were few and far between. Before that, 5 years was the difference between fast and dated. 5 years now is still a perfectly good computer. The big progress markers now are ray-tracing and video encoding. If you’re not into either, an early i5 is still functional.
@St0rmcrash
2 жыл бұрын
@@squirlmy I was really referring to business and entry level use cases that were the drivers for sales of these machines. Tasks like basic word processing to replace the typewriter, or to do basic payroll, accounting, or inventory management, and basic gaming like card games and classic arcade ports. These really were entry machines for beginner users As you said complex gaming and the GUI finally taking off with Windows 3.0 kicked off the upgrade treadmill that the internet continued. But even in the 95/98 era if you weren't online and the copy of Office or whatever you had for basic users could still last in service for way longer than the gamers and other more demanding users
@charlesswansonii9319
2 жыл бұрын
Man, when you showed off some Silpheed 25 minutes in I got this big goofy grin. Silpheed is an underappreciated classic DOS shmup and I think it doesn't get enough attention these days.
@pkimbrel
2 жыл бұрын
Let's just take a moment to appreciate how well Commander Keen was written to run that well on an 8088.
@thracian
2 жыл бұрын
man your desk lamps are something else.im sure you found them in goodwill for a decent price too.so jealous.
@Gato._.Cristo
2 жыл бұрын
These videos of yours never fail to cheer me up after a bad week
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
May your weekend be a bit better :)
@Gato._.Cristo
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@ahha6304
2 жыл бұрын
*GREETINGS AND WELCOME TO LGR THING* intensifies
@Novalight2550
2 жыл бұрын
Ah, the sound of old harddrives.
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
It seems like stepper motor drives in particular made the most noise, and the most interesting noise. I only have a ST-157A for a stepper motor drive and it is so sweet to hear the noises from it. Old drives are like a relic from the past at this point, with unfortunately many models extinct that probably sounded even cooler than this one.
@Eos_Galvus
2 жыл бұрын
My first PC was a Pacjard Bell from Best Buy around '97, so I'm always delighted to see more Pack Bells getting the love they deserve... So I'd absolutely be up for more videos on these -- bring on the Retrobrite, baby!
@Bussman47
2 жыл бұрын
I love the "Outroduction" chapter title
@MontieMongoose
2 жыл бұрын
Password, is it farts?
@BollingHolt
2 жыл бұрын
18:31 DAMN I miss when hard drives sounded like that.
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
It is quite amazing that now you don't even know they are in the computer lmao, old drives make a ton of noise, I miss that sound too.
@BollingHolt
2 жыл бұрын
@@cdos9186 I know, right? Even the mechanical disks are nearly silent. Soon, they too will be gone in the name of solid state devices :/.
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
@@BollingHolt Yeah seems like solid state really is a big hit now but technological progress is always evolving. I love those 80's and 90's drives, they make so much noise. Not so much today.
@ms-dosman7722
2 жыл бұрын
LGR and Turbo XTs. My two favourite things.
@NelsonMurad
2 жыл бұрын
Os videos de LGR sao fantasticos. Mas o cenarios e ambientes são magníficos. Nostalgico, elegante e agradável de ver! Valeu !!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@dan3a
2 жыл бұрын
Tantalum fireworks are one of the things I fear the most now, after an *explosive* experience with my Compaq Portable II
@OVERKILL_PINBALL
2 жыл бұрын
old hard drive noises are so satisfying :)
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe someone should make hard drive asmr that has some old drives laying around : )
@TedSeeber
2 жыл бұрын
I used to play Crystal Caves in Hercules with an EGA emulator, so yes, quite possibly.
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
I've never tried that on an 8088! Seems plausible here. One would imagine the performance would be abysmal though!
@fgoogleinthea7475
2 жыл бұрын
My parents either donated old pcs to local schools or threw them away. Commodore 64 donated to local school (they didn't use it). Tragedy.
@Baygul318
2 жыл бұрын
Tantalum pops - “Uncle Owen, this R2 unit has a bad motivator!”
@Xray1281
2 жыл бұрын
Love these kinds of videos. These old computer videos are what got me to sub to this channel. That and the thrifts. Keep up the amazing work. Hope your day is going wonderfully.
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@RHampton
2 жыл бұрын
I owned two Packard Bells. The first was my 386, and the next was a Pentium. Lots of great times were had adding cards and playing with dip switches or those little jumpers. Not to mention all of the time spent on dial up. Thanks for reviving some memories.
@KayhanAyar
2 жыл бұрын
I have a packard bell vx88 . it has a hard drive and works perfectly :) It's really hard to find these kinds of machines in Turkey. And it can be expensive
@xliquidflames
2 жыл бұрын
They were still using that thing in 1996! Wow. I was nuking haxorz on AOL2.5 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups in 1996 on my Packard Bell Legend.
@JaredConnell
2 жыл бұрын
Yup i was punting everyone back then
@MrDuncl
2 жыл бұрын
If it was being used for business purposes and still met the requirements why not ? Some people (like my Father) was running his Engineering Consultancy using one of those Brother Typewriter with a built in flippy drive back then.
@savagemadman2054
2 жыл бұрын
We used to have a secondary system that looked EXACTLY like the VX88, NEC V40 and all. I remember it had a quirk where "ctrl-alt-delete" did nothing, figured it was custom firmware for use in a hospital. Ours had 768k of RAM and a ~30mb HDD. Was a whopping $20 CAD, surplus from a closing hospital. Parents bought it in maybe 1992 or 1993. Decommissioned in about 97, trashed in about 99.
@creatorTWin
2 жыл бұрын
Man, that hard drive sounds glorious to me - I know it’s not the healthiest sound in the world for a hard drive but it brings me back to when I used to tinker on $20 garage sale computers, having a lense into the past of technology when thing’s weren’t all documented online like today.
@JoeSurprentis
2 жыл бұрын
Ahh the LGR we know and love. Thank you!
@BlackWolf42-
2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely LOVE the sound the old ST-225 made when accessing. It was a soothing tone - I'm sure you know exactly what I'm sayin'. That newer HDD in that machine is WAY too fast to be as soothing as my beloved ST225.
@martin1b
2 жыл бұрын
Love listening to the HDD. Reminds me of the good ole days AND computers in Half Life.
@midbc1midbc199
2 жыл бұрын
The noises of a 1970's sci-fi spaceship bridge computer purring away as it swaps data
@startedtech
2 жыл бұрын
For a varta barrel battery that's amazing shape 😅
@danielton9577
2 жыл бұрын
My first computer (that I didn't have to share with the family) was a PB 500 my dad got from a rummage sale. It came with a 40 MB ST-250R, and I think the manual mentioned that it could come with either two floppy drives or a hard drive. We actually had the manuals and disks it came with and I remember being confused that the manual made lots of references to Samsung. The angry beeps are caused by the motherboard DIP switches not matching the video card (CGA or mono). My video card just had a color/mono switch on the video card rather than DIP switches, and in monochome mode, it actually did Hercules, not just MDA.
@bobsmith3085
2 жыл бұрын
PB500 was my first computer.Father justified it to my mother by saying he could do his taxes on it which he did. Still remember being mad cause i wanted a Genesis that Christmas. It was Glorified word processor , UNO , Drug Wars and Carmen Sandiego machine. First PC games i ever played were Dino Lost in bedrock and Bad Blood in CGA @ like 5fps. Got Dos Mega man at the flee market and it was a slide show. Later we got prodigy and some how i signed my dad up for some fantasy baseball thing and got him charged $99 bucks for a one year sub. Good times.
@syretia551
2 жыл бұрын
Felt like I was watching Adrian's Digital Basement for a bit... I enjoyed this lol
@CheshireTomcat68
2 жыл бұрын
Came here for the flip flops and termites. Disappointed... :-(
@SmeddyTooBestChannel
2 жыл бұрын
I have never heard a hard drive that sounds like the one at 18:53 in my life. It's like some ambience from Half-Life 1 but real!
@ronkemperful
2 жыл бұрын
Great video! My second experience with a Windows PC was with a 486 Packard Bell in 1994. Running Windows 3.0 and 8mb of ram, the PB was a huge step up from my old Epson 386dx that took 11 minutes to cold boot. It had some useful software to make the interface more user friendly. Still, it took six minutes to boot, and it was pitifully slow even compared with my lowly Mac LC 2.
@baroncalamityplus
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, just what my mood needed. Except now I want to buy another XT clone again....
@QuaaludeCharlie
Жыл бұрын
Billy Core would Love this Video , guess He's seen it by Now , We are fb friends so sometime I'll send it to Him . Cool Video :) QC
@gazjones3549
2 жыл бұрын
I don't even need the closed captioning but still use it because I appreciate the pure fucking effort involved in doing so. Points awarded.
@bjn714
2 жыл бұрын
Based on the FCC ID lookup, the VX88 was produced by Goldstar (of Lucky-Goldstar, aka LG fame).
@harz426
2 жыл бұрын
WAIT, the password isn't "FARTS" for everyone's PC's?!?! I don't even know who I am anymore.
@JohnKelly2
2 жыл бұрын
The sound of that hard drive takes me back. My first pc in 1990 had that same drive. Seagate had a factory in Oklahoma City at that time, so they were the dominant drives around here.
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
Seems like Seagate completely crushed Control Data's hard drive business unfortunately. Everyone gave the middle finger to Control Data lmao.
@Vexatious00111000
2 жыл бұрын
Im going to need a 10 hour version of that seagate's soothing noises
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
Wish I had one that sounded that nice lmao. Good old stepper motor.
@UMinecr
Жыл бұрын
i acctualy have the matching monitor for the 500, found it in my college's dumpster lol, sadly it had no pc with it
@DragonBane299
2 жыл бұрын
That moment of Zen feels like its something straight out of System Shock
@TWX1138
2 жыл бұрын
The Packard Bell PB500 was my first computer. It was a price club special that my dad bought, 640K RAM, 30MB hard disk drive, 5.25" floppy disk, with an ATI 8-bit ISA video card. I added a 2400 baud modem and 3.5" floppy. So some did come with a hard disk drive. Turbo mode was by a keyboard command, but I don't remember how to do it at this point. maybe ctrl/alt+ and ctrl/alt/-? I think that both the floppy and the hard disk are not original in the PB500, mine were the darker gray and contrasted with the beige of the case. That training software came with a thick book, and I can cite that software and that book at teaching me how to use DOS, setting me off on my IT career path.
@ChinatownGhoul69696
2 жыл бұрын
The pb 500 reminds me of my leading edge model d
@Markimark151
2 жыл бұрын
I want to get a Packard Bell computer to play those obscure DOS games, especially those Super Mario DOS games that got a limited release. There were also Brøderbund games I want to play but are only playable on floppy disks!
@jovial1338
2 жыл бұрын
Seagate may be force be with you. Lovely sound and flashing LED from HDD.
@brendanhoffmann8402
2 жыл бұрын
I had an old Wang 386 SX... I bought it from a pawn shop in the big city with money I had left over after a trip in 1996. My friend had a 386 DX 33 upgrade so I'm not sure if I paid him for it or not but he was a great friend.
@bills5271
2 жыл бұрын
I've used Laplink a few times. A friend had a pb with a single card the had sound printer and serial on it.
@mesterak
2 жыл бұрын
Very nice coverage of these systems. I hope you get the other one working after replacing those caps. I look forward to seeing you review that system as well.
@meatpockets
2 жыл бұрын
My first PC was a Packard Bell Legend w/ a 75Mhz Pentium + Win95. Makes me wonder if that was a clone box or not.
@nickwallette6201
2 жыл бұрын
That was a very different Packard Bell from the late 80s / early 90s. Also, by then, _everything_ was a clone. Even IBM’s remaining PC entries (like Aptiva) were rebadged clones. I don’t think you can even call it a clone anymore, because what would they be cloning?
@smithincanton
2 жыл бұрын
Pure bliss listening to the hard drive access.
@thenormanfair
2 жыл бұрын
I heard "TSR" more times in this video than I have since the 80's. Thanks for making me feel old
@CandGoods
2 жыл бұрын
Those Darn Tantalums, coming this fall on CBS!
@Wok_Agenda
2 жыл бұрын
I found the exact same case but with a 386 inside and a goldstar logo
@baconmecrazy8128
2 жыл бұрын
My very first desktop computer was a packard Bell 511. It had a 486sx processor, 8MB's of RAM, an 80MB hard drive, and a 3.5 floppy drive. It also had an extra chip slot for a math coprocessor, which would change it from an SX to a DX. I tried to adding a math coprocessor to it later on, but the chip I bought wouldn't fit the slot (had one extra pin), and I never got a chance to find another one (no internet back then plus there was a severe lack of competent computer stores in my area). I ran Windows 95 in compressed mode on it for about year. After that, I upgraded the BIOS chip so that I could bump the RAM up to 16MB and also so I could put in a larger hard drive and a CD-ROM Drive (player only). Shortly after that, I bought a US Robotics 14/4 single line modem and ran a BBS (WildCat v3) on it for about a year. Good times!
@OffGridAussiePrepper
2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see u do component repairs on these pc's, cleaning and a total strip down and clean every bit of debri or dust and have a close look at the PCBs to see if theres any corrosion. The psu's too, see if theres any swollen caps in there, rebuild them suckers back to the way they were in their glory hole days :)
@Korium84
2 жыл бұрын
Heck yeah man, do a retrobrite on it. It's killer what you have that you've simply forgotten about.
@caviar_dreamz
2 жыл бұрын
The moment of zen was nice, it reminded me of Star Trek. You should make a ASMR with the random noises of all your computers.
@LGR
2 жыл бұрын
I've got a couple of videos like that over on my other channel. Here's one: kzitem.info/news/bejne/xomE166KsHqaqIo
@radman999
2 жыл бұрын
Great way to start my morning, thanks Clint!
@SockyNoob
2 жыл бұрын
I love how you can find even two extremely similar machines and all the Samsung clones unique and interesting and manage to make enjoyable videos about them. Never stop or change, it's always awesome seeing a video of yours pop up on my feed.
@OniSamaGin
2 жыл бұрын
Paganitzu: Romancing the Rose.. Been a long time..
@Choralone422
2 жыл бұрын
Love me some old Packard Bell machines! My first PC was a 486 DX2 66 Mhz based PB Legend 420. I think that was the first model they offered with that particular CPU. Cost my parents a small fortune as they had to finance the thing! While it wasn't a perfect computer by any means I learned so much using and upgrading it in part because of its limitations and the cost cutting PB did on the hardware side.
@SammyRenard
2 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna sound so silly D: I remember you mentioning sometimes getting rid of stuff you don't use anymore, so if you ever wanna get rid of the PB 500 someday, I'd love to buy it from you (and I'm also canadian so... double whammy! I think) cuz it reminds me so much of an old computer I foolishly passed on so many years ago as I was just getting into retro computing... P.S.: as it happens, the hard disk card I salvaged from my dead epson equity II also has that black plastic tab thing! I wonder if they're the same model?
@tg9754
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, I use to have a Tandy 1000 that resembled those Pc's... same 1/2 height hard drive and floppy also. That really brings back memories. That's where I learned Basic, Pascal and other languages.
@nulious
2 жыл бұрын
I have a Seagate ST225 on a shelf behind my PC. It came out of an PCXT clone my parents got around 84-85. I used it until 94 when it finally died of old age.
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
Sad that yours died but there are plenty of working vintage drives out there to find. Most of them hold up pretty well, unless it is a Rodime or CMI as those do not like to work for long. The failure rate of the ST-225 is very small from what I have seen, extremely solid drives.
@NaoPb
2 жыл бұрын
Great video once again Clint. Interesting bracket on that hard drive card. I hope that it can somehow be duplicated using 3d printing or something, because I can see that becoming very usefull.
@pitsnipe5559
2 жыл бұрын
Way cool! My first computer was a Packard Bell. Got the 20 megabyte hard drive, the salesmen said I’d never need that much storage.
@williamwilson480
2 жыл бұрын
That happens with old computers back in 2004 our family was given a old computer and then I guess this guy worked in taxes and had a bunch of people's social security numbers😳so we gave it to a Shriner and he destroyed it luckily we wound up with it and did the right thing just think of it went to someone shady🤯
@shesagoodgirl
2 жыл бұрын
oh how iv missed the noise of old HDD's spinning up
@cdos9186
2 жыл бұрын
There are plenty of videos other creators uploaded if you look, I'm only one of them out of others. There are many particular drives that sound extremely interesting spinning up, they all have their own distinctive sound to them.
@MD4564
2 жыл бұрын
I love watching caps and resists explode, watched a few on BigClive's channel, but year defiantly a sign of caps needing replacement, probably wouldn't hurt to do near by ones.
@jonasga
2 жыл бұрын
Really sad, maybe even a bit mad, that the password was not farts.
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