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30 yr old Hard Drives : Quantum Edition
In this video we're going to be looking at some old IDE hard drives. In this part we're taking a look at 10 Quantum drives and see how many of them will still work after 30 years.
This video is sponsored by PCBway If you want your circuit board design realised and printed, You should check out www.pcbway.com/ Starting Prices as low as 5$ for a 1 or 2 layer design.
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30 yr old Hard Drives : Caviar Edition
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In this video we're going to be looking at some old IDE hard drives. In this part we're taking a look at 16 Western Digital Caviar drives and see how many of them will still work after 30 years.
Somebody gave me a 30+ year old Samsung PC
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Join me as we look into this 30 year old Samsung SPC-3000V computer. Thank you Ben for this kind donation, and shoutout to DasherDeals on eBay for providing the disk images for the sound card : www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=dasherdeals&store_name=dasherdeals&_oac=1&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l161211 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:00:42 - Unboxing 00:02:02 - The exterior of the PC 00:03:01 - The color mo...
To L2 cache or not to L2 cache
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In this video we're going to take another look at our barn find PC, and see how it stacks up against another DX4 100 machine that does have real L2 cache. Enjoy
Unbelievable donation including my videocard nemesis !
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I received the most awesome donation from on of my viewers Chris in Germany ... The retro community is awesome and I am looking forward to digging deeper into these pieces of hardware in the upcoming videos. Enjoy 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:00 - CPUs, intel / and / ibm , 386, 486 , pentium . ..... 00:06:00 - NEC Intel 740 / AGP / 1997 00:06:28 - Cirrus Logic / PCI / 1995 00:06:40 - EONtronics ViRGE...
Did I get ripped off with this PC barn find ?
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I couldn't resist picking up this barn find from a "local" listing. Not knowing what it was, I took a chance and was a bit surprised at what I found. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:24 - First boot 00:01:49 - Look inside 00:03:05 - The CPU 00:03:43 - The BIOS 00:04:30 - Boot cycle 00:05:17 - Hard drive issue 00:07:14 - Disassembling the PC 00:09:07 - The motherboard 00:10:34 - The L2 cache 00:15:08 - Th...
Part 2 of our 1993 MS-DOS / Soundblaster 16 nostalgia
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Time for part 2 !!!! Continuing our journey for 1993 ms-dos gaming with the letter L ! Check out part 1 here : ua-cam.com/video/-ZgkieQ_VQU/v-deo.html This video is sponsored by PCBway If you want your circuit board design realised and printed, You should check out www.pcbway.com/ Starting Prices as low as 5$ for a 1 or 2 layer design. 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:00:23 - Sponsor message 00:00:59...
SoundBlaster & DOS Games : 1993 Nostalgia Part 1
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In this video we're taking a trip down memory lane with our 1993 Compaq 486. We'll add a Soundblaster 16 soundcard and play some games ! Check this link for part 2 : ua-cam.com/video/TYzdJ5thNNk/v-deo.html 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:36 - The Soundblaster card 00:02:30 - Soundcard Installation 00:03:01 - Speakers 00:03:55 - Driver installation 00:05:23 - Alien Breed 00:06:27 - Alien Carnage 00:07:06...
The worst laptop ever produced
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In this video we're going to take a closer look to the worst laptop ever produced : The 1995 AST Ascentia 950N Includes some screenshots from the @The8BitGuy video on AST : ua-cam.com/video/2hdazA-VUf0/v-deo.html 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:55 - Motherboard overview 00:02:09 - CPU 00:03:04 - Bodge Wires 00:04:00 - 8-Bit Guy opinion on AST Ascentia 950n 00:04:45 - Motherboard Capacitors 00:07:52 - CP...
AST Ascentia 950N laptop repair attempt
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In this video we're going to see if we can repair a 1995 AST Ascentia 950n laptop. This video is sponsored by PCBway If you want your circuit board design realised and printed, You should check out www.pcbway.com/ Starting Prices as low as 5$ for a 1 or 2 layer design. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:26 - Sponsor message 00:01:02 - The working laptop 00:02:42 - AST Ascentia marketing 00:03:50 - Windows ...
Adding the NE2000 to my Compaq 486
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In this video we're going to be adding a real Novell NE2000 card to our Compaq 486 machine and hook it up to our NAS device. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:50 - NE2000 Card 00:02:30 - NE2000 Manual 00:03:49 - IRQ and IO address config 00:05:33 - Oh oh ... hard drive failure 00:10:53 - Compaq ms-dos 00:11:19 - Installing Microsoft Network Client 3.0 00:13:51 - DHCP config and issues 00:17:06 - Copying s...
Why is my Pentium 4 so slow ?
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In this video we're going to be looking at why my Pentium 4 is so slow. 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:58 : The hard drive benchmark 00:05:29 : The BIOS 00:06:54 : The Exterior 00:07:42 : The Exterior 00:08:55 : The hard drive 00:10:34 : The motherboard 00:13:00 : The CPU 00:13:47 : The Drivers 00:15:36 : The hard drive benchmark part 2 00:16:31 : Intel Active Monitor 00:17:22 : Upgrading the Intel BIOS ...
Compaq DeskPro 286e
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In this video we're going to be taking a look at this nice Compaq DeskPro 286e. #compaq #286 #retrocomputing #vintage #retro Enjoy
1993 PC using 2023 Asustor NAS
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In this video we're going to be hooking a 30 year old machine to a modern Asustor NAS and look at the configuration and security challenges involved with that. We'll be exploring several aspects of the SMB protocol, including different dialects / versions / protocol negotiation, user authentication and guest access. Many thanks to Asustor (www.asustor.com/) for providing me with the unit. I'm s...
30yr old Compaq Prolinea 4/50
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In this video we're going to take a look at this 30yr old Compaq Prolinea 4/50 #intel #486 #retrocomputing #vintage #retro
I'm back... and I brought some Compaq friends.
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I'm back... and I brought some Compaq friends.
3DFX Voodoo5 that wasn't meant to be for me
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3DFX Voodoo5 that wasn't meant to be for me
Dell OptiPlex gets multimedia upgrade
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Dell OptiPlex gets multimedia upgrade
Dell OptiPlex GS Pentium 133MHz
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Dell OptiPlex GS Pentium 133MHz
Toshiba T1910CS 1994 Laptop
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Toshiba T1910CS 1994 Laptop
Easy fix for this broken Pentium 200 MMX
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Easy fix for this broken Pentium 200 MMX
Did I buy a working 286 that doesn't need repairs ?
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Did I buy a working 286 that doesn't need repairs ?
Received the most weird "PC"
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Received the most weird "PC"
Exploring the hard drive of this 30yr old PC
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Exploring the hard drive of this 30yr old PC
How we did email 30 years ago
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How we did email 30 years ago
I bought a 35yr old PC for 30 EUR
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I bought a 35yr old PC for 30 EUR
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 - Email like its 1998
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Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 - Email like its 1998
Synology DS918+ Bricked / Blue LED of death.
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Synology DS918 Bricked / Blue LED of death.
Microsoft Mail History Part 1 (1988-1997)
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Microsoft Mail History Part 1 (1988-1997)
A look at the Unisys Pentium 75MHz
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A look at the Unisys Pentium 75MHz

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @manw3bttcks
    @manw3bttcks 2 години тому

    One of the neat things about that box was they put RedHat stickers in the box. So I would put the sticker over the windows sticker on my laptops

  • @henrikgustav2294
    @henrikgustav2294 4 години тому

    Can we do cga + vga?

  • @bretthagey7916
    @bretthagey7916 14 годин тому

    It was a beast; I wrote a ton of code on one.

  • @kikovski
    @kikovski День тому

    please can you to share a infected img floppy file?

  • @miguelque9102
    @miguelque9102 5 днів тому

    I think there's a revision A04 bios still available on Dell's website.

  • @tresderan10
    @tresderan10 5 днів тому

    but isn't better to use an emulator on a new machine? lie laptop?? i guess pretty much yes.. why buying this impossible to carry stuff.. we have such many advancements .. laptop with incredible screens. it's a wast of plastic and tech.. anc especially once you do commodore than why nor amiga.. and al of the software made for the commodore.. ???

  • @EternalxFrost
    @EternalxFrost 7 днів тому

    The longer PCI slots are PCI-X slots. It was mainly used for some high end graphic cards, IDE / SCSI controllers (and towards the end of its lifespan, SATA as well). It was also specified for both 32 and 64-bits (hence why it was used in DEC workstations - DEC Alpha CPUs being RISC x64) and also removed the bus limitation of PCI bus frequency, being limited to 66 MHz, and extended it to 133 MHz. So in short, the PCI-X bus was a 64-bit, 133 MHz extension of the PCI bus. Important to note that PCI-X supported both 3.3 and 5V cards.

  • @wololo10
    @wololo10 7 днів тому

    Benchmark 3dmark2001 please

  • @wololo10
    @wololo10 7 днів тому

    Wow I had a pentium III with a GeForce 2 Ti too, good times

  • @achimreiske1964
    @achimreiske1964 7 днів тому

    hey, you pulled my old pc out of the trash?

  • @davel4030
    @davel4030 7 днів тому

    Curious, why do both the alpha and Pentium power sockets have the same header format?

  • @empty128
    @empty128 9 днів тому

    PIII 1400-s?

  • @CRSolarice
    @CRSolarice 10 днів тому

    Cool video except the plug that references a $4.00 set of screwdrivers that a certain company will charge a person $49.99 for. I mean I have a Stanley screwdriver with changeable bits that I use for all of my computer related work and it was the best $9.99 that I ever spent almost 30 years ago. (The set of tools that "whoever fix it" charges 49.99$ cost me absolutely nothing when I got it for free after buying some car parts at autozone (it even has sockets as well as screwdriver bitsl). So don't make someone else wealthy since you can buy the same tools at 1/10th the price that this company sells them for. Unless you need some sort of validation to recognize that you are an amazing person who can fix things that have screws holding it together. eye fix it is taking advantage of people who seem not to realize that when you use a screwdriver you should hold it in the same hand that you write with. Seriously, if you are inquisitive and intelligent enough to be taking apart a hard drive then you certainly are intelligent enough to realize that you shouldn't pay extortion level prices for a set of screwdrivers; instead make a donation to your favorite charity or something... You will feel more 'special' afterwards. (I really do like this video because it shows the type of ingenuity that all humans posses and that a couple of unusual screws aren't going to suppress). My hat is off to the author.

  • @robertsteinbach7325
    @robertsteinbach7325 10 днів тому

    This IBM PC showed the world what was to come from the other vendors.

  • @antssaar863
    @antssaar863 11 днів тому

    First thing is, what type of P4 is it? :D There's QUITE bit difference between willamette, northwood and prescott. Also soc 423 vs 478 and sdram vs rdram vs ddr. Willamette on 423 can easily suck behind P3 coppermine (oc) or tualatin. It was mostly thanks to bad socket design (soc 423) and weird motherboard issues/lack of good boards.

  • @superpoon16
    @superpoon16 12 днів тому

    wow i'm impress my218play do the same blue light blinking just answer my curious thank you very much for make nice in-detail video. look forward to your next one.

  • @davidmonaghan958
    @davidmonaghan958 13 днів тому

    Loved them

  • @10WA
    @10WA 13 днів тому

    I had a Pentium III 900mhz, kingston 512mb ram, PNY Geforce4 ti 4600, Maxtor 80gb hhd I built in I think 2001 and used all the way till 2006. Even then it was starting to struggle with some games but overall for daily use it was still plenty fast. I think for a while I had it overclocked to 1 or 1.1ghz with the Asus board I had.

  • @johnvanwinkle4351
    @johnvanwinkle4351 14 днів тому

    Great video and fix on the drive with the bad capacitor.....grin

  • @johnvanwinkle4351
    @johnvanwinkle4351 14 днів тому

    I enjoyed the nostalgia of this video. If I can access older drives and find something of interest, I will image the drive. Then I write zeros, or low level format them then see if I can install at least DOS or Linux on them.

  • @dominikschutz6300
    @dominikschutz6300 14 днів тому

    Maybe necroware could make a L2 cache module 😊

  • @DerekWitt
    @DerekWitt 15 днів тому

    My first non-gaming console computer was a TRS-80 Model III. :) It had 64kB RAM (could have been 48 probably) and 2 5.25" 360kB floppy drives. I had an external amplifier connected to the cassette port. I once wrote a Wheel of Fortune-like game in BASIC with a Z80 assembly routine for sound. The code was probably an eyesore. I was just 14 years old. I liked using LDOS much more than TRS-DOS. I had the Model III in 1988. Yeah, rather late in the life of the Model III. Dealing with the primitive graphics and sound (or lack thereof) was so much fun!

  • @ppp3435
    @ppp3435 16 днів тому

    P4 with 256 cache and 400 MHz bus + SDR memory = extraordinary garbage. Thou, I'm glad that playing with drivers helped a bit.

  • @user78405
    @user78405 16 днів тому

    you know something funny, i starting to believe all this drama between novell vs sco unix that i am starting to believe entire time people didn't realize sco unix is not unix at all entire time ...its early version of novel suse linux booting up early sysv init system...i don't think novel copy anyone , it seems sco unix copy suse linux platform and call it sco unix

  • @Pinionfreefire
    @Pinionfreefire 17 днів тому

    Bro is soo cooked he showed his serial number

  • @nbagoats4819
    @nbagoats4819 18 днів тому

    Good times. reminds me of my first PC. A Packard Bell 486 SX, which was basically a over clocked 386 using the 386 motherboard but the ability to hit 486 processing speeds. Still wasn't as powerful as a 486DX machine. I also had a TV card that came installed in the unit which was super rare at the time. Logitech speakers with a 14 inch Packard Bell monitor in which they upgraded it for free because of compatibility issues with the TV card. There were some issues with all of that and I think it was under powered as it being a 486 SX machine opposed to being a more powerful 486DX.

  • @ahmedsleem867
    @ahmedsleem867 19 днів тому

    thanks >>>Can i get Gakken mykit 200 manual ?

  • @dpkpraba
    @dpkpraba 20 днів тому

    Pure nostalgia games 😍😍. I played that overdrive, Skyroads, Tetris and Vroom.. Some of the games here shown i didnt played it due to limited time use of computers. Also you forget to show that Popular Dangerous Dave game.

  • @dpkpraba
    @dpkpraba 20 днів тому

    Thanks for reviving those golden memories ❤. I did remember my brother had one creative blaster sound card for windows 98 machine and especially had that creative sbs speakers. Being a millennial kid i remember playing epic pin ball, f1 grand prix and Labyrinth game was mind blowing in that 90's decade..

  • @MagicGladiatorMandrake
    @MagicGladiatorMandrake 21 день тому

    back in 2003 i use to install this Redhat 5.2 in a intel 486. it took me 5hours to install it. you need to know all the brand of you hardware esp. the Video Card.

  • @diegosilang4823
    @diegosilang4823 22 дні тому

    By 1996, most PC are Soundblaster compatible. Imagine back in the early days of multimedia PC.

  • @mbwoods2001
    @mbwoods2001 22 дні тому

    I still have this Compaq Prolinea 433s, upgraded to a dx2-66, SB AWE64 soundcard, and cd-rom drive, running DOS 6.2 and win3.11!

  • @novel886
    @novel886 22 дні тому

    Modern computers are like consoles, install the game and go. Everything that made the magic in the early days of computer gaming is missing.

  • @geisontm
    @geisontm 23 дні тому

    Hello! I'm from Brazil and this PC just arrived in stores!

  • @Cheeze_isLIFE
    @Cheeze_isLIFE 23 дні тому

    Really enjoyed this video. I still remember how excited I was when I managed to save up and bought a SB AWE32 in the mid 90s. That was the best sound card you could get at the time….

  • @fraktalfabrik
    @fraktalfabrik 24 дні тому

    Why did we abandon those high key keyboards? They were great

  • @wel40
    @wel40 25 днів тому

    I had a 486 and was addicted to "Aces over The Pacific" and "Aces over Europe".

  • @phobos2k2
    @phobos2k2 25 днів тому

    I was so addicted to Dune II back in the day! At the time, it just checked all the boxes for me. Really great!

    • @Oldschoolgamerdad
      @Oldschoolgamerdad 18 днів тому

      Dune 2 was amazing so many memories and the music intro was so good!

  • @qdbefsj
    @qdbefsj 26 днів тому

    Awesome video! I'm 43 years, so, don't need to say too much. However, it brings back a lot of good memories, which made me emotional. My first one was an 386-SX 22Mhz, then, 486-DX2 66, then, 486 DX4-100 32MB RAM (a real cannon, for that time :) Thanks!!

  • @StaffyDoo
    @StaffyDoo 26 днів тому

    Damn it! Four years later, but I made it here 🙋‍♂️🐧 This was awesome, thank you!

  • @lpseem3770
    @lpseem3770 26 днів тому

    No way. You're back! I still use pata drives for an old Fostex recorder and swap them as they go. I'm working on some interface to use solid state memory.

  • @keroppikeroppi6572
    @keroppikeroppi6572 26 днів тому

    First 16bit sound card : audio spectrum 16

  • @norwegianblue2017
    @norwegianblue2017 27 днів тому

    Until Windows 95 came out, I preferred my Commodore Amiga.

  • @ButilkaRomm
    @ButilkaRomm 28 днів тому

    What was the new power supply? Where did you get it?

  • @OPAdmiral
    @OPAdmiral 28 днів тому

    Quest for Glory 4 was very bad. QfG 3 was MUCH better.

  • @kenc8411
    @kenc8411 28 днів тому

    My first PC was an Intel 8088, 128K RAM, dual 5.25" floppy, no hard drive, boots into BASICROM if no DOS disk. Ran games on Hercules/PC speaker. I've been through it all. Such memorable experiences. Thank you for this video.

  • @user-zi8cu2mn4o
    @user-zi8cu2mn4o 28 днів тому

    As a 8 year-old kid I began gaming on a 386 pc in 1994 in South Korea. Those old days were really beautiful and I thank my parents very much for giving me a life.

  • @ricksmith7631
    @ricksmith7631 28 днів тому

    im curious, this is from back in 93, why is the date code on the creative chip say s94, this chip was made in 1994, i checked.

  • @The-Great-Brindian
    @The-Great-Brindian 28 днів тому

    ah the days when one had to tinker with autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get games to just about run 🙂 Fortunately my first pc was purchased in nov 94, an XPS Dell Dimension P90. If I knew that I'd purchased my first pc during a time when they'd beef up in specs at astonishing speed in that decade, I'd have WAITED a bit longer to get a PC. Within a year my P90 was being easily out classed by cheaper and more powerful rigs. Still, I loved configuring my PC to squeeze out every last bit of power I could to get games that otherwise would not run in default mode. Memories. 😀

  • @super-8
    @super-8 28 днів тому

    Can you Re -tune the world clock ? So, that the old times goe's again true ?