Quite a different system. And nice standard parts apart from the motherboard. Also great seeing you at VCF and I can't wait to see more about the new haul. Content overload!!!
It was absolutely awesome to hang out with you again. I can't wait until next time! VCF Midwest is every bit as legendary as everyone was telling me. Well I've always heard that one should buy in bulk whenever possible. I'm trying to make that concept work for retro computers LOL.
A geek who’s both extremely hot and cute. What an irresistible combination 😍 love these videos! The care you take in repairing these systems which are more rapidly vanishing, preserving awesome tech history whilst making very interesting and entertaining content. Thank you!
Wow!! I absolutely respect you for having more then 400 computers like pc’s & laptops. For me, you’re the biggest collector of computers ever!!! Let’s all clap our hands for this wonderful man having so much computer systems in his collection!!!👏👏 Well done!
Thank you for rescuing another huge amount of computers from being recycled. Not many people can do this in such a large quantity. The more of these things getting a second lease on life, the better. Good for the hobby and the planet.
One of my middle school teachers had a similar system she purchased for her classroom and it sat on her L shaped desk she made from two older teachers desk. Her classroom was a hodgepodge of mis matched furniture and desk other teachers didn’t want anymore. She called it sporadic function design. She was a rather odd person but a great language arts teacher. The it guys didn’t like her too well because she had wrapped the school computers in various loud colors/patterns of contact paper. Most of her furniture was painted in various highlighter shades of green, yellow, blue and pink.
I also remember she drove an old Volvo wagon that she would let her classes paint on it with finger nail polish, everyone including me had a tiny spot assigned to us for our artwork on her car.
She was indeed a character and cool ass person. I sadly just learned she passed away a few years ago after looking her up on Facebook. In my humble opinion the world lost a beautiful soul and fantastic educator.
I remember selling those Acer computers in 1995-1996. Acer referred to the color as Emerald Green. I also recall Acer used purple accent colors as well.
Wow, that was my first PC. Pentium 90, added two more memory sticks and doubled the video memory using a socket on the motherboard. The monitor, which continued with the crazy ventilation holes was somewhere between 12 and 14 inches and had small speakers built in. IIRC the sound card was a SoundBlaster 16. It came with about a dozen software cd's, half of which had to go into DOS mode to run. Eventually added a US Robotics modem, a 25 pin SCSI card and a scanner, and replaced the P90 with an overdrive chip. It was actually a well built, stylish, computer. Good times.
0:21 yeah it looks very nice. 7:45 I can't hear the word "paint brush" without thinking "Guybrush". Threepwood even. Very happy with this PC! Looks great. 21:05 "You take my self, you take my self control"
I’ve a 486DX4/100MHz version of this computer from September 28, 1995. The original 540MB Fujitsu HD is still working with the original OS. I maxed out the memory at 34MB. I also maxed out the cache at 256KB. I still have the original sound card and modem. Acer called this color emerald green. I found it at a thrift store for $3.15 in 2017.
9:40 This is the Humongous Entertainment catalog from 1995. This was when the catalog at the time was known as "Humongous Entertainment Interactive Catalog". It can be seen on games such as Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, Let's Explore the Jungle, Let's Explore the Airport, and Let's Explore the Farm. It's also seen on the 1995 re-releases of Putt-Putt Joins the Parade, Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise, and Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon.
That is, at least, a great looking system. The monitor must be a sight to behold. Seeing that new haul of systems gave me tremors. I would lose several days sleep because i couldn't keep my hands off of them. Very looking forward to looking into them (esp those two old iMacs).
This Acer aspire was my first computer, I got the whole system but my spec was Pentium 133MHz 16mb RAM and 2gb HDD. The missing card would probably be a sound/modem. One thing to note is that these came with their own kinda OS built in its called Acer desktop and its there with a paper airplane icon on the windows desktop...mine also came with tyrian...great game. This takes me back, there was also a tower version of these...this computer really did frustrate me though...the CD ROM was so picky about discs that it would read.
In '97 I worked a local computer shop. We got in a black case, and sold it the day we received it. For a few weeks the guy who bought it would stop in, asking if we received any black keyboards that would go with it.
Can't wait to see the video on that Gateway E-3400 that is in the far left of the final shot by the bottom left corner of the imac G4 screen. Fun little Pentium III based business machines. Just be careful when tearing it down as it's molex plugs like to get a death grip on whatever drive you plug them into and given it's very compact form factor, it's very easy to bust your knuckles open on the case when they do come free.
That Acer system looks pretty sweet. Another desktop form-factor, which I personally seem to prefer. It's fitting to reveal the next project laptop at the end. Acer bought TI's laptop business and continued the Travelmate series, similar to how Lenovo bought IBM's Thinkpad business. That Travelmate 4000m is delightful. My parents had one when I was a kid. I have so many memories maxing it out and getting it to do more than it was initially capable of. * Active Matrix display * Scsi HDD * 20MB Ram (up from 4MB) * ProAudio Spectrum 16 sound card I'm still ashamed I parted with mine.
Wow I didn't even consider the Acer - TI connection. Total coincidence! That's too funny. Seeing that Travelmate in this state nearly broke my heart. It was buried under a bunch of junk in the free pile. There are some bits that I couldn't find, but I hope something can be done for it. Otherwise, it may have to become a 'zombie' laptop.
@@miketech1024 I'll have to double check but I might still have the battery from mine if you need it. I don't remember if the battery case made up one of the four feet on the bottom. Our family TI 4000m was the DX2-50 model but otherwise the same case. It was well loved and still worked when I inherited and ultimately parted with it. The battery was separated because I had intended to replace the cells and never got around to it.
@@miketech1024 It's been a few years but I think there is RAM onboard and one RAM expansion card. We ran ours with the stock 4MB for years before I convinced my parents to get a 16MB module for it. It'll definitely run without the battery... ours was NiMH and when it died, we used it tethered for several years afterward without the battery.
it shows this video was posted 12 minutes ago, but I see comments from 16 hours ago… Weird but anyway I’m excited for this Friday morning video with my coffee while I’m updating my client servers! wish me luck as one of my new clients has MS server 2003 and some of them have NOT been restarted for over two years…
Videos are released early to patrons. Oh my, retiring a couple of Server 2k3 boxes was one of the first tasks I got assigned at a previous job. I will keep you in my thoughts!
@@miketech1024 thanks Mike, most of them have no patches available and we’re moving them into our data centre anyway, but just going threw the motions for billable hours. I did not know you had a Patreon, I will join !
Znowu się czegoś nauczyłem . Jak wyczyścić klawiature , mam aż trzy klawiatury Dzięki za filmik . Pozdrawiam z Polski. I learned something again. How to clean the keyboard, I have three keyboards. Thanks for the video. Greetings from Poland.😊🤗🤔🤝👍
I have vivid memories of walking through a Future Shop (Canadian electronic store) and seeing this exact green Acer computer. It seemed so crazy and outlandish at the time - anything but beige was unheard of.
Cleaning tha ball mouse ,or maaan, this is bring back some memories!!! About that Toshiba laptop - my gess is that it MIGHT be a some kind of control pc for industrial machinery. And about that second haul- please start with full-towers!!!
This brought back some memories. Acer had some unique design language going on in the 90s. A family friend had a later mid-tower Aspire system with a similarly sculpted front panel. The side panels and monitor had the same funky ventilation hole design. It was darker in colour- almost black, but with a hint of teal in certain light. It had an AMD K6 233MHz and SDRAM. I was "tech support" in the early/mid-2000s and it was pretty fun to work on, though the upgrade to Windows XP asked an awful lot of it. It eventually got replaced with a Socket 754 Sempron-based system.
My Mom and Dad both had a TI Travelmate 4000m back in the 90s. Rock solid machines and the TFT active display was so nice to have. They even had the dock, which had a cdrom drive attached to the scsi port on the rear of the machine. I regret letting those go back in the 2000s
Acer had a couple of different teal Aspire machines, there was a matching SVGA monitor in teal which also had speakers and a microphone built in. Windows 95 does NOT like having only 8 MB of RAM :) Glad you enjoyed VCF-Midwest, some friends of mine were there and they said it was quite busy the entire weekend. Your new haul looks like it has some real goodies in it, that Power Mac G3 minitower with the Zip 100 drive and Panasonic CDR drive just has an audio production machine feeling to it. For those not comfortable with a soldering iron or going for an original look the Dallas DS12C887A is still a current product(As are most of the PC/Workstation/Test Equipment NVRAM chips) from Analog Devices/Maxim integrated, they are about $12 new from Digikey. Hoping to one day see you at VCF-East or one of the East Cost computer museums like LSSM near Pittsburgh.
Also, you will REALLY like that Dell branded (IBM and HP sold them too) FD-Trinitron, it only has VGA in most likely but it will sync to darn near anything out there even SGI, SUN, and DEC workstations and it supports Sync On Green you just need the right adapter.
I always wanted an automatic eject 3.5 floppy drive for PC like on Macs. And, while on the topic, there was one 3.5 floppy drive (one of the last to market) that was super fast, 2x or 3x.
This model was my first computer! I got it from a family friend that was upgrading their system. I used to play on it prior to their upgrade and asked if I could have it. It had the matching mouse, keyboard, monitor, and speakers too. I knew next to nothing about computers when I got it so I didn't dare open it up in case I broke it. I lost track of it many, many years ago and I wish I could find it again. Thanks for exploring this one!
I still vividly remember the first time we installed Windows 95. When it first booted, It was like watching the future emerge before my very eyes. Then the startup sound played… 7-year-old me was completely captivated.
That chassis style of Dell Trinitron has got to be my absolute favorite! I have a 17" in great shape here that goes with my Windows XP setup. Nice save!
I had a couple of these. I Trash picked one in the early 2000's complete with Monitor and all. I credit it for getting me into the hobby. Decent for their time. Real lookers especially the Black one with matching monitors. My High School Library had these same machines. I remember the frustration going from Middle School Mac's to High School PC's lol
I'm just watching all your videos after finding your Vectra video and ai have to say, you seem to be hella lucky to have all your Dallases socketed. All mine were soldered and were a pain to get out, even with a vacuum desoldering station. Great video as always, waiting for some of the older older systems 😁
20:21 Nice tie-in with the main subject of the video, a TravelMate laptop made by TI, before TI's notebook division was bought almost 3 years after by, well, Acer. Still in use today, that laptop lineup name rivals ThinkPad in its longevity, though we might say it feels more... mundane?
It was great to meet you as well! I definitely plan to make VCFMW an annual trip. Next year I'll probably have to bring a truck because there was just so much I wanted...
It would be interesting to have seen you test the battery in that Dallas RTC. I pulled one from an ALR Business/VEISA 386/486. I drilled it with the intention of modifying it, then tested it at 3V still.
I did actually test it off-camera. It was at around 300mv. Don’t know why I didn’t record it this time, but I did so for System 1 in this video: th-cam.com/video/Cnp4CX9-jeo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LI_rXnDX0Q0DmSYF
Those Aspire with the bundled monitor were quite the sight back then, I remember asking my dad every time to get one each time I saw them on a local computer store but we went with a boring looking Epson PC :( Also, I remember that version of the MS Entertainment Pack! I spent hours and hours playing skifree and rodent's revenge.
God, I remember when the retro game store an hour from me had an under $5 pile of old consoles and stuff. Neat to see VCF has a free pile. If I ever go to one, I have an old ThinkPad i series that was broke during shipping that is surely worthwhile in parts lol.
Wow that Acer is so cool! I love the way it looks. Glad you could get the esc key repaired. I’m looking forward to the repair on the broken laptop. It will take me back to the shell of a laptop you transformed into a working laptop. Your skills blow me away. I knew you couldn’t attend an event without bringing something back. I like the mouse that attaches to the 486 laptop. Anything you have that is 486 related reminds me of the 486 rebuild you did when you were 8. I hope to see the 486 laptop in person. I missed your video last week but looking forward to the content based on the room full of computers you acquired this time.
I had an Acer just like this one about 20+ years ago *with* the matching monitor, but I didn't keep it for long. Nice find in the free pile at VCF Midwest! It was great meeting you there, but my only regret was not taking a selfie with you. (I was the vendor with a handful of PCs for sale on a table and pictures of clone boards taped to an Apple monitor.)
So sorry I missed you at VCFMW, would have liked to have talked to you more. We might switch venues for next year, hoping you can make it out again. Love your content. Do you keep everything that you fixed from the giant hauls, or do you find ways to disseminate them back to other collectors?
Thanks! I'm going to try my best to get back out there next year. I'll definitely participate in the TH-camr's roundtable then. Adrian asked me if I'd like to participate this year, but I chickened out. At this time, I haven't shipped out anything from the hauls. That is going to have to change very soon as space constraints weigh. I'm also going to have to raise funds for the next e-waste haul. Rest assured these systems will make it into the hands of people who love them.
Watching your latest video has become one of the first things I do when I get home from work on Fridays. It's effectively sofa to TH-cam to MikeTech, on the double. Keep up the great work, and thank you.
It seems we suffer from the same illness: Love of '90s laptops! So excited to see you tear into the next e-waste haul! Absolutely loving these videos. Thank you!
The very first complete system I ever bought brand new (opposed to used or putting something together out of hang-me-downs from the 386/486 era in all the years before it) was from this same line of Acer Aspire, I opted for the tower. Remember seeing this exact desktop model displayed next to the slightly more expensive tower, same monitor mouse & keyboard, and the tower being better value. If you bought the tower you got the matching speakers that hung off the side of the monitor for free, 24mb RAM (weird number, I know.. 3x 8MB) and a larger 1.6GB disk.. Was a very good looking system for its day I will give it that! I recall both versions on display coming in two different colors; This greenish teal color, and a darker blander graphite sort of color. Now this is pushing over 25 years ago and can't remember exactly if this is true or not, but I THINK these were one of the first OEM systems to hit the market in the US preinstalled with Win95 before it was even a available to the public for purchase, and if memory serves, this and the price are why I bought the Aspire. Couldn't have been more than $1,900 honestly can't remember what the prices were. Was a "meh" computer at best. Not terrible, but certainly not bad, couldn't be beat for the money. The hardware itself was fine.. On the other hand, Win95-A it came with was an unmitigated disaster, an absolute shitshow if I'm honest and back in those days you had to pay for the updates & fixes, at the time those diskettes were NOT free! It was at least a year if not more before anyone started sending out bug fix diskettes for free. Coincidentally this was the first computer I ever ran Linux at home with.
Edit, I might have added more RAM at the time, really can't remember if 24 is what it came with or if that's something I added. I only remember the number 24. And that seems a little high for an off the shelf machine at the time short of asking the store for more than what it came with standard. It was Comp USA and I'd financed the whole thing so I imagine they added it??
@@miketech1024 FWIW I'm pretty sure the desktop and tower both came with a Sound Blaster, that's noteworthy now that think about it, was one of the selling points
Aha thats the original Aladdin M1451 chipset, it could support a 66Mhz bus and 1Gb of RAM, it was available for the Pentium 60/66 as well. It only has Async L2 Cache however.
This was basically my first computer, IBM 100mhz PR120 cpu, 8mb of ram, 4x cdrom, and a 2gb hard disk. i do miss that case, sorta wish i never got rid of it. BTW if you want to restore it to factory after replacing that dying hard disk, someone has uploaded the ACE Restore CD on internet archive. It did come with Descent, Jazz Jackrabbit, Tyrian2000 and i think a few other games. (well they where all demos, however i think the Tyrian2000 had a special ship just for the Acer Demo)
Quite a different system. And nice standard parts apart from the motherboard. Also great seeing you at VCF and I can't wait to see more about the new haul. Content overload!!!
It was absolutely awesome to hang out with you again. I can't wait until next time! VCF Midwest is every bit as legendary as everyone was telling me.
Well I've always heard that one should buy in bulk whenever possible. I'm trying to make that concept work for retro computers LOL.
@@miketech1024Yeah i hear that a lot, when it comes to ewaste places, you have to buy the lot, otherwise they dont want to sell to you.
This channel has rapidly become one of my comfort channels :D Your videos are excellent :D
Thanks!
this channel is one off my favourit or as we say in swedish "favorit kanal"
FINALLY you did part of a video in tank top :P
Next vid, no tank top 😏
There was no way I was changing out of gym clothes in this heat LOL. Summer lasts until mid-December here in this part of Florida.
@@miketech1024 understandable. Stay hydrated ❤️
A geek who’s both extremely hot and cute. What an irresistible combination 😍 love these videos! The care you take in repairing these systems which are more rapidly vanishing, preserving awesome tech history whilst making very interesting and entertaining content. Thank you!
Side note, please be careful having those giant guns around those innocent PCs! 💪
Mike, forgive me, but those guns of yours are very distracting in a good way. Looks like your workouts are working great everywhere on you. Woof!
Handling old hardware requires big guns, those machines can be heavy!
Man, you are living my dream. Despite being born too late to experience the era in full, PCs of the 90s are absolutely fascinating to me.
We are watching history, one that is just as important as anything else from our past. In a way, to watch this, is to time travel.
Dude, you are living my dream. I had to let go of all my old computers when I married and looking back, I should have stayed with the computers.
Another e-waste haul? With macs? Yessssssss! Cannot wait!
Wow!! I absolutely respect you for having more then 400 computers like pc’s & laptops. For me, you’re the biggest collector of computers ever!!! Let’s all clap our hands for this wonderful man having so much computer systems in his collection!!!👏👏 Well done!
Thank you for rescuing another huge amount of computers from being recycled. Not many people can do this in such a large quantity. The more of these things getting a second lease on life, the better. Good for the hobby and the planet.
One of my middle school teachers had a similar system she purchased for her classroom and it sat on her L shaped desk she made from two older teachers desk. Her classroom was a hodgepodge of mis matched furniture and desk other teachers didn’t want anymore. She called it sporadic function design. She was a rather odd person but a great language arts teacher. The it guys didn’t like her too well because she had wrapped the school computers in various loud colors/patterns of contact paper. Most of her furniture was painted in various highlighter shades of green, yellow, blue and pink.
I also remember she drove an old Volvo wagon that she would let her classes paint on it with finger nail polish, everyone including me had a tiny spot assigned to us for our artwork on her car.
She sounds like quite a character!
Sounds like a cool ass person
She was indeed a character and cool ass person. I sadly just learned she passed away a few years ago after looking her up on Facebook. In my humble opinion the world lost a beautiful soul and fantastic educator.
I remember selling those Acer computers in 1995-1996. Acer referred to the color as Emerald Green. I also recall Acer used purple accent colors as well.
Man I wish there was a place like this mystical Franklin E-Waste where I live!
It's like watching Henry Cavill slide the case open, pardon my thirst 🥵
That 2nd haul has some gems for sure. especially that Presario 5000 and Mac G3. I think I saw an IBM Aptiva in there as well. Can’t wait to see them.
It is indeed an Aptiva!
I remember being jealous of my neighbor system like this back when I was a youngster.
Wow, a blast from the past when Acer made well designed and robust computers...
Wow, that was my first PC. Pentium 90, added two more memory sticks and doubled the video memory using a socket on the motherboard. The monitor, which continued with the crazy ventilation holes was somewhere between 12 and 14 inches and had small speakers built in. IIRC the sound card was a SoundBlaster 16. It came with about a dozen software cd's, half of which had to go into DOS mode to run. Eventually added a US Robotics modem, a 25 pin SCSI card and a scanner, and replaced the P90 with an overdrive chip. It was actually a well built, stylish, computer. Good times.
0:21 yeah it looks very nice.
7:45 I can't hear the word "paint brush" without thinking "Guybrush". Threepwood even.
Very happy with this PC! Looks great.
21:05 "You take my self, you take my self control"
I’ve a 486DX4/100MHz version of this computer from September 28, 1995. The original 540MB Fujitsu HD is still working with the original OS. I maxed out the memory at 34MB. I also maxed out the cache at 256KB. I still have the original sound card and modem.
Acer called this color emerald green.
I found it at a thrift store for $3.15 in 2017.
9:40 This is the Humongous Entertainment catalog from 1995. This was when the catalog at the time was known as "Humongous Entertainment Interactive Catalog". It can be seen on games such as Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, Let's Explore the Jungle, Let's Explore the Airport, and Let's Explore the Farm. It's also seen on the 1995 re-releases of Putt-Putt Joins the Parade, Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise, and Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon.
That is the only correct way to write a date, I wish everyone used that format YY/MM/DD
Mike's back !! Great vid as always bud. TEAL - Hmm...
Mike is such a cutie pie. I just wanna scoop him up and squeeze him.
Glad to see the return of the rubber ducky
Things just weren't getting as clean without him!
ALi is Acer? Did not know that. You learn something new every day!
That is, at least, a great looking system. The monitor must be a sight to behold. Seeing that new haul of systems gave me tremors. I would lose several days sleep because i couldn't keep my hands off of them. Very looking forward to looking into them (esp those two old iMacs).
Looking forward to seeing the macs
This was my first experience with Humongous games. I have fond memories of the airport
I can tell you that the Toshiba T1960CT will need a couple capacitors replaced, as I also have a T1960CT and it has the exact same problem.
Humongous was software for kids--Fatty Bear, Putt-Putt, Spy Fox, lots of others. Pretty entertaining games for little kids.
This Acer aspire was my first computer, I got the whole system but my spec was Pentium 133MHz 16mb RAM and 2gb HDD. The missing card would probably be a sound/modem. One thing to note is that these came with their own kinda OS built in its called Acer desktop and its there with a paper airplane icon on the windows desktop...mine also came with tyrian...great game. This takes me back, there was also a tower version of these...this computer really did frustrate me though...the CD ROM was so picky about discs that it would read.
I remember seeing these at sams club in the 90's and man they looked great. I always wanted one.
What a vision in Teal! Teal was everywhere in the 90's. I loved teal, and still hope that it makes a comeback some day!
Exactly and Maroon or however you call this dark red cherry colour.
In '97 I worked a local computer shop. We got in a black case, and sold it the day we received it. For a few weeks the guy who bought it would stop in, asking if we received any black keyboards that would go with it.
Can't wait to see the video on that Gateway E-3400 that is in the far left of the final shot by the bottom left corner of the imac G4 screen. Fun little Pentium III based business machines. Just be careful when tearing it down as it's molex plugs like to get a death grip on whatever drive you plug them into and given it's very compact form factor, it's very easy to bust your knuckles open on the case when they do come free.
Very Stylish. Not just a beige box.
That Acer system looks pretty sweet. Another desktop form-factor, which I personally seem to prefer. It's fitting to reveal the next project laptop at the end. Acer bought TI's laptop business and continued the Travelmate series, similar to how Lenovo bought IBM's Thinkpad business.
That Travelmate 4000m is delightful. My parents had one when I was a kid. I have so many memories maxing it out and getting it to do more than it was initially capable of.
* Active Matrix display
* Scsi HDD
* 20MB Ram (up from 4MB)
* ProAudio Spectrum 16 sound card
I'm still ashamed I parted with mine.
Wow I didn't even consider the Acer - TI connection. Total coincidence! That's too funny. Seeing that Travelmate in this state nearly broke my heart. It was buried under a bunch of junk in the free pile. There are some bits that I couldn't find, but I hope something can be done for it. Otherwise, it may have to become a 'zombie' laptop.
@@miketech1024 I'll have to double check but I might still have the battery from mine if you need it. I don't remember if the battery case made up one of the four feet on the bottom. Our family TI 4000m was the DX2-50 model but otherwise the same case. It was well loved and still worked when I inherited and ultimately parted with it.
The battery was separated because I had intended to replace the cells and never got around to it.
It is indeed missing the battery. It's also missing the RAM expansion card. Do you know if the system will boot without it?
@@miketech1024 It's been a few years but I think there is RAM onboard and one RAM expansion card. We ran ours with the stock 4MB for years before I convinced my parents to get a 16MB module for it.
It'll definitely run without the battery... ours was NiMH and when it died, we used it tethered for several years afterward without the battery.
it shows this video was posted 12 minutes ago, but I see comments from 16 hours ago… Weird but anyway I’m excited for this Friday morning video with my coffee while I’m updating my client servers!
wish me luck as one of my new clients has MS server 2003 and some of them have NOT been restarted for over two years…
Videos are released early to patrons. Oh my, retiring a couple of Server 2k3 boxes was one of the first tasks I got assigned at a previous job. I will keep you in my thoughts!
@@miketech1024 thanks Mike, most of them have no patches available and we’re moving them into our data centre anyway, but just going threw the motions for billable hours.
I did not know you had a Patreon, I will join !
And we got some shade of Teal...
It looks like it tastes like mint. I have confirmed from outside sources that it doesn't though.
@@miketech1024 🤣🤣🤣
You're living my dream lol Love the videos. I search thrift stores looking for old PC's to fix
I'm glad someone thinks to give the keyboard a rubber duckie while it gets a bath!
Znowu się czegoś nauczyłem . Jak wyczyścić klawiature , mam aż trzy klawiatury Dzięki za filmik . Pozdrawiam z Polski. I learned something again. How to clean the keyboard, I have three keyboards. Thanks for the video. Greetings from Poland.😊🤗🤔🤝👍
Vintage Computer Chad delivers yet again.
I have vivid memories of walking through a Future Shop (Canadian electronic store) and seeing this exact green Acer computer. It seemed so crazy and outlandish at the time - anything but beige was unheard of.
we all start with the ball too, mike
Cleaning tha ball mouse ,or maaan, this is bring back some memories!!!
About that Toshiba laptop - my gess is that it MIGHT be a some kind of control pc for industrial machinery.
And about that second haul- please start with full-towers!!!
Cleaning the keyboard in watery soap with a rubber ducky, that feels like a nod to Odd Tinkering maybe? Great video!
Mike should totally do some squats with those heavy PCs.
Well-made machine, and well-cared for in its time ❤
This brought back some memories. Acer had some unique design language going on in the 90s. A family friend had a later mid-tower Aspire system with a similarly sculpted front panel. The side panels and monitor had the same funky ventilation hole design. It was darker in colour- almost black, but with a hint of teal in certain light. It had an AMD K6 233MHz and SDRAM. I was "tech support" in the early/mid-2000s and it was pretty fun to work on, though the upgrade to Windows XP asked an awful lot of it. It eventually got replaced with a Socket 754 Sempron-based system.
That case is gorgeous. And it has a lot of speed holes :D
My Mom and Dad both had a TI Travelmate 4000m back in the 90s. Rock solid machines and the TFT active display was so nice to have. They even had the dock, which had a cdrom drive attached to the scsi port on the rear of the machine. I regret letting those go back in the 2000s
Acer had a couple of different teal Aspire machines, there was a matching SVGA monitor in teal which also had speakers and a microphone built in. Windows 95 does NOT like having only 8 MB of RAM :) Glad you enjoyed VCF-Midwest, some friends of mine were there and they said it was quite busy the entire weekend. Your new haul looks like it has some real goodies in it, that Power Mac G3 minitower with the Zip 100 drive and Panasonic CDR drive just has an audio production machine feeling to it.
For those not comfortable with a soldering iron or going for an original look the Dallas DS12C887A is still a current product(As are most of the PC/Workstation/Test Equipment NVRAM chips) from Analog Devices/Maxim integrated, they are about $12 new from Digikey.
Hoping to one day see you at VCF-East or one of the East Cost computer museums like LSSM near Pittsburgh.
Also, you will REALLY like that Dell branded (IBM and HP sold them too) FD-Trinitron, it only has VGA in most likely but it will sync to darn near anything out there even SGI, SUN, and DEC workstations and it supports Sync On Green you just need the right adapter.
OOOH i cant wait for your mac videos
I always wanted an automatic eject 3.5 floppy drive for PC like on Macs. And, while on the topic, there was one 3.5 floppy drive (one of the last to market) that was super fast, 2x or 3x.
I had one back in the day... I want one again SO BAD... mine was a Pentium 120MHz... The sound card was a Crystal if I recall correctly!
Being told to wait for the end grinds my gears. Then I got to the end and was filled with joy. Keep on truckin!
Nice Odd Tinkering reference!
This model was my first computer! I got it from a family friend that was upgrading their system. I used to play on it prior to their upgrade and asked if I could have it. It had the matching mouse, keyboard, monitor, and speakers too. I knew next to nothing about computers when I got it so I didn't dare open it up in case I broke it. I lost track of it many, many years ago and I wish I could find it again. Thanks for exploring this one!
Mike, your content and delivery is stellar. Keep up the good work.
Good condition and cleanliness for being from 1995, other than the popped Esc key.
I remember getting a family pc in 97, and being impressed at how much advanced win95 seemed 😂
I still vividly remember the first time we installed Windows 95. When it first booted, It was like watching the future emerge before my very eyes. Then the startup sound played… 7-year-old me was completely captivated.
oooh sunflower imacs!
Imagine future archeologists looking at our devices like this.
That chassis style of Dell Trinitron has got to be my absolute favorite! I have a 17" in great shape here that goes with my Windows XP setup. Nice save!
I had a couple of these. I Trash picked one in the early 2000's complete with Monitor and all. I credit it for getting me into the hobby. Decent for their time. Real lookers especially the Black one with matching monitors. My High School Library had these same machines. I remember the frustration going from Middle School Mac's to High School PC's lol
I'm just watching all your videos after finding your Vectra video and ai have to say, you seem to be hella lucky to have all your Dallases socketed. All mine were soldered and were a pain to get out, even with a vacuum desoldering station. Great video as always, waiting for some of the older older systems 😁
20:21 Nice tie-in with the main subject of the video, a TravelMate laptop made by TI, before TI's notebook division was bought almost 3 years after by, well, Acer. Still in use today, that laptop lineup name rivals ThinkPad in its longevity, though we might say it feels more... mundane?
That hard drive deceived you by 'acting' clunky by then passing without any actual bad sectors. Looking forward to the many many videos to come!
Mike! It was great meeting you at VCFMW. Hope to see you again next year.
It was great to meet you as well! I definitely plan to make VCFMW an annual trip. Next year I'll probably have to bring a truck because there was just so much I wanted...
By connecting new battery to RTC you should disconnect the old one. Otherwise there is a risk that the old battery wil drain the new one.
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🎵"Rubber duckie, you're the one/You make bath time lots of fun" 🎶
Replenishment!!! I wish I had room for all those systems in my house. 👍
It would be interesting to have seen you test the battery in that Dallas RTC. I pulled one from an ALR Business/VEISA 386/486. I drilled it with the intention of modifying it, then tested it at 3V still.
I did actually test it off-camera. It was at around 300mv. Don’t know why I didn’t record it this time, but I did so for System 1 in this video: th-cam.com/video/Cnp4CX9-jeo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LI_rXnDX0Q0DmSYF
I have the Blockbuster CD! Found it on eBay a few years ago! It's exactly what you think it is, a movie catalog on CD-ROM.
Nice! I bet there's some delicious '90s nostalgia on that disc.
Those Aspire with the bundled monitor were quite the sight back then, I remember asking my dad every time to get one each time I saw them on a local computer store but we went with a boring looking Epson PC :( Also, I remember that version of the MS Entertainment Pack! I spent hours and hours playing skifree and rodent's revenge.
God, I remember when the retro game store an hour from me had an under $5 pile of old consoles and stuff. Neat to see VCF has a free pile. If I ever go to one, I have an old ThinkPad i series that was broke during shipping that is surely worthwhile in parts lol.
I hope you can find a matching monitor for that system! Pretty nice condition I say!
Wow that Acer is so cool! I love the way it looks. Glad you could get the esc key repaired. I’m looking forward to the repair on the broken laptop. It will take me back to the shell of a laptop you transformed into a working laptop. Your skills blow me away. I knew you couldn’t attend an event without bringing something back. I like the mouse that attaches to the 486 laptop. Anything you have that is 486 related reminds me of the 486 rebuild you did when you were 8. I hope to see the 486 laptop in person. I missed your video last week but looking forward to the content based on the room full of computers you acquired this time.
I had an Acer just like this one about 20+ years ago *with* the matching monitor, but I didn't keep it for long. Nice find in the free pile at VCF Midwest! It was great meeting you there, but my only regret was not taking a selfie with you. (I was the vendor with a handful of PCs for sale on a table and pictures of clone boards taped to an Apple monitor.)
Those vents seriously activated my trypophobia
Great job! Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands
Vanessa Williams owned this same computer in the movie Eraser. About 25 minutes in
So sorry I missed you at VCFMW, would have liked to have talked to you more. We might switch venues for next year, hoping you can make it out again. Love your content.
Do you keep everything that you fixed from the giant hauls, or do you find ways to disseminate them back to other collectors?
Thanks! I'm going to try my best to get back out there next year. I'll definitely participate in the TH-camr's roundtable then. Adrian asked me if I'd like to participate this year, but I chickened out.
At this time, I haven't shipped out anything from the hauls. That is going to have to change very soon as space constraints weigh. I'm also going to have to raise funds for the next e-waste haul. Rest assured these systems will make it into the hands of people who love them.
Watching your latest video has become one of the first things I do when I get home from work on Fridays. It's effectively sofa to TH-cam to MikeTech, on the double. Keep up the great work, and thank you.
The oldest computer can be traced back to Adam and Eve.
It was an apple but with extremely limited memory. Just 1 byte.
..And then everything crashed.
I reckon the date code on the back of that Acer translates to November 21, 1995.
enjoy your archeology videos Mike - just wish they where a bit longer
Thanks! I hope one day I'll be able to spend all of my time doing stuff like this.
So glad I found your channel! Love your content!!!!
It seems we suffer from the same illness: Love of '90s laptops!
So excited to see you tear into the next e-waste haul!
Absolutely loving these videos. Thank you!
You so lucky. Nice haul.
The very first complete system I ever bought brand new (opposed to used or putting something together out of hang-me-downs from the 386/486 era in all the years before it) was from this same line of Acer Aspire, I opted for the tower. Remember seeing this exact desktop model displayed next to the slightly more expensive tower, same monitor mouse & keyboard, and the tower being better value. If you bought the tower you got the matching speakers that hung off the side of the monitor for free, 24mb RAM (weird number, I know.. 3x 8MB) and a larger 1.6GB disk.. Was a very good looking system for its day I will give it that! I recall both versions on display coming in two different colors; This greenish teal color, and a darker blander graphite sort of color.
Now this is pushing over 25 years ago and can't remember exactly if this is true or not, but I THINK these were one of the first OEM systems to hit the market in the US preinstalled with Win95 before it was even a available to the public for purchase, and if memory serves, this and the price are why I bought the Aspire. Couldn't have been more than $1,900 honestly can't remember what the prices were.
Was a "meh" computer at best. Not terrible, but certainly not bad, couldn't be beat for the money. The hardware itself was fine.. On the other hand, Win95-A it came with was an unmitigated disaster, an absolute shitshow if I'm honest and back in those days you had to pay for the updates & fixes, at the time those diskettes were NOT free! It was at least a year if not more before anyone started sending out bug fix diskettes for free. Coincidentally this was the first computer I ever ran Linux at home with.
Edit, I might have added more RAM at the time, really can't remember if 24 is what it came with or if that's something I added. I only remember the number 24. And that seems a little high for an off the shelf machine at the time short of asking the store for more than what it came with standard. It was Comp USA and I'd financed the whole thing so I imagine they added it??
Thanks for the info! I had a feeling this was quite an early machine for shipping with Win95.
@@miketech1024 FWIW I'm pretty sure the desktop and tower both came with a Sound Blaster, that's noteworthy now that think about it, was one of the selling points
I got a Dell Vostro 200 Slimline for about $20. Includes a monitor and keyboard. It looks almost unused. Still has the Windows XP sticker.
Aha thats the original Aladdin M1451 chipset, it could support a 66Mhz bus and 1Gb of RAM, it was available for the Pentium 60/66 as well. It only has Async L2 Cache however.
How in the hell have I Never Seen this!?!
I release videos to Patreon members prior to public release.
@@miketech1024 lol I meant the PC in General, Im an 80s/90s Nerd, Never seen this Box Before. Really Cool Find!!1
This was basically my first computer, IBM 100mhz PR120 cpu, 8mb of ram, 4x cdrom, and a 2gb hard disk. i do miss that case, sorta wish i never got rid of it.
BTW if you want to restore it to factory after replacing that dying hard disk, someone has uploaded the ACE Restore CD on internet archive.
It did come with Descent, Jazz Jackrabbit, Tyrian2000 and i think a few other games. (well they where all demos, however i think the Tyrian2000 had a special ship just for the Acer Demo)
I'm excited to see the video where you restore that busted Toshiba!
the only thing missing is a monitor in the same style
and in general, the design of the computer is impressive, as it was at that time