IBM Industrial Computer: $10,000 PC from 1985
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- Checking out the IBM 7532 Industrial Computer, introduced in May of 1985 at $6149. Prices only went up from there, easily surpassing $10000 for a decent setup with EGA and a hard drive! It's one monster of a rackmount 286, built for use in professional environments like factories, power plants, and alongside mainframes.
And yep, this is the source of the legendary gray Industrial Model M keyboard!
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Playing Wasteland on a dystopian retrofuturistic industrial computer with a green monochrome monitor from the nuclear department of a public energy service. That's immersion.
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@@nothing-mm8ui good point
Fucking tell me about it
How can a computer be dystopian?
This is President Eden and i'd like to have a chat.
I miss the days when turning on a PC felt like launching an ICBM.
I also miss the days the noise on the ibm PC 5150 keyboard made when you were typing on it.
computers are so quiet and unassuming now. even hardcore gaming beasts show off their power by being... colorful. i know that there is this mechanical keyboard thing that brought retro clickiness to at least one aspect of computing again, but everything else is just bland.
Lols lmao
They did use these for launching ICBMs so you're not far off there.
@@KiraSlith what are you even talking about? US ICBM's has never been so advanced. But last year they were discussing replacing the 8 inch floppy system. 8 inch, not 5 inch. On the other topic, load Winamp Milkdrop up on a Samsung G9 ultrawide monitor and tell me you are not entertained.
For some reason, to me your giving this industrial computer a home and the pleasant task of running games feels like a Grampa who worked hard his whole life getting to putter around his house and play with his grandchildren whilst wearing a comfy sweater.
A great retirement for a great device.
Putter?
I actually worked with a few of those back in the day. Even at that time I was surprised at how little they could do.
@@jamesdavis727 that's not a nice thing to say about grandpa
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That gigantic card (9:15) is exactly what it says it is, it's an old IBM Channel Adapter. It is indeed used to connect a PC to a mainframe's "Channel I/O Architecture" which is the original implementation that IBM engineer Chet Heath then reused to create the Micro Channel Architecture of the PS/2 line. It's a bus designed to connect the various components of an IBM mainframe but that could also be used to connect to anything with the right adapter.
We used this cards to control our machines in the steel factory
So any computer with MCA could talk to IBM mainframes more easily?
@@ronarprefect7709 In a nutshell, not really. As far as I know, the only "PC" that can natively talk to IBM mainframes (and we're talking System/360 here to be era appropriate) would be the 5100/5110/5200 series which are not IBM PCs of the 5150 type by any means. My comment was simply to point out that IBM didn't set out to design a new bus for the PS/2 line, they simply cannibalized the one they already had in their mainframes. To make things worse, they even introduced it in a gimped 16-bit mode so that they could later unlock it to the full 32-bit and call it a major improvement with no engineering involved. In true IBM fashion, the PC division got something original that worked from another division.
We used it to connect to a "A Frame" type product dispenser. IIRC that card lost support in the early 2000's. That computer would not die.
That power switch looks and sounds satisfying as hell.
They were. They really really were. That *thunk* when it's flipped ALWAYS felt good.
I would kill to have that on my home PC xD
It's the same switch my 8180 had... At least it looks the exact same. It feels more like a breaker than a switch lol
Edit : I meant 5150... I keep getting the numbers mixed up because of the damn Platinum 8180 Xeon.
@@jasonblalock4429 When that switch clicked, you knew that your PC had been turned on or off. Much more so than the current soft switches.. That said, I do like to be able to use WOL to turn on my PC while I am in another room..
@@swytchblayd You can do it... not hard to wire in a switch. Probably anyone could do it.
I love the cameo from the thrifts lamp.
Back then, Industrial was the magic word for making things expensive. More so than Gaming these days
Nothing's changed lol
"Enterprise" holds that slot today while in some ways Industrial has gone the opposite direction now that reasonably powerful cheap CPUs can be shoved into a small fanless slab of aluminum case.
"Industrial" is still expensive, and has its place, right next to "Automotive". Wouldn't want your heavy machinery to malfunction due to EMP from a large motor knocking out the controller. Or to have a substation exploding due to several kilovolts filtering through to its 5V electronics. Or for your autopilot to crash due to a GPU getting unseated from its PCIe slot thanks to vibration. Or just plain "everything dying" due to overheating because factory.
P.S. "Gaming" isn't making things too expensive. "Apple", on the other hand…
Industrial, military, professional, enterprise and yes gaming are all words used today for that sort of thing. Although in today's context it seems to be "cheaper to produce but looks expensive." I straight up avoid products with any of these claims. If someone feels the need to say "Military grade tech" I get the impression the marketing team didn't have many positive things to say where as good products brag about very specific things.
Playing OG Duke Nukem on a 1980's industrial computer connected to a monitor from a nuclear facility... Just sounds freaking awesome!
Sounds like the perfect advertising b-roll for a Steam re issue of the original games by Embracer Group who aquired 3D Realms and the Dukes current owner Gearbox.
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I’ve actually repaired computer equipment in the data center in Salem. I’m not surprised the equipment was that clean. I think the most ominous thing was all of the evacuation signs near and around the town.
When the sirens go off on Tuesday instead of the usual Wednesday tests. lol
Most "real" data centers are clean like that. I worked in an office building with an olllld data center, and even the old machines from the 80's and 90's that were never cared for had very clean cases. I visited a few other offices with data closets off a hallway or in a room corner and those were a different story, lots of dust... but real data centers with the big chillers and filtered air, it's like a time capsule. Maybe some yellowed plastic if they were under flourescent lighting 24/7.
Dude! When you said the Nuclear Department of the Salem New Jersey Power plant I was freaking out, what a small world. I work there currently! Very cool!
should he worry about radiation? lol that would sound like it could be a Simpson's episode!
@@squirlmy the plant hasn't had any accidents so I reckon he'll be alright lmao
I was also surprised to hear it mentioned!
Same! I'm thinking, "wow, that's right down the street!"
Run dude. 2 Westinghouse reactors built in 77... Westinghouse sucks at everything they build.
I’m just here to say that the lighting in this video’s thumbnail is absolutely gorgeous. That is all.
Eee ooo.
Thank you, Christian! I took a little extra time experimenting with the lighting for this video so I'm glad it didn't go unnoticed.
@@LGR it's hard to not notice the lack of shadows casted from all objects ;D
6:18 live the dream
@@LGR yea it looks really good
Wouldn't want to drop that solid beast on your foot 😅
Bye bye foot
@@appalachianexploration5714 Bye bye floor under your foot, for that matter.
@@azraelle6232 if floors broke that easily houses would not be safe to even step inside lol
Don't worry, the computer will survive it :-)
Ah Psivewri, seeing your videos I am not surprised you are subbed here
Is anyone else, like, incredibly impressed at how well those little foam filters did their job?
The whole system seems very well-preserved for ~35-year-old industrial equipment. I suspect that it wasn't used very often, or for very long. Also, it was probably in a clean environment to begin with, what with it being in a nuclear facility and all.
that kinda depends on where they have been :P they -can- turn into biohazards rather quickly lololol
@@Nighterlev mv
we need more coverage of these commercial/industrial pcs , they’re so interesting!
Agreed! I've wanted to see a video on this machine for years and got tired of waiting for someone else to do it :)
@@LGR wow a response from the great highness himself! i’ve found sgi machines super interesting for example. the amount of specialised engineering is insane! i highly suggest you have a look into intel itanium platforms. pretty interesting stuff !
@@LGR Have you or anyone else done a playlist of your Commercial PC's you've covered like the Terminal video and the IBM PS/2?
I would like to see more offered on ebay, an LGR video might do it. Granted, you can buy a pentium and 486s now, but they're priced higher than equivalent PCs, I guess in hope there's industrial factories actually buying them as replacement pieces. Yeah, I'm not interested in an actual video on it, just if it helps bring prices down, or makes the older stuff more available, anyways.
@@squirlmy That's a thing in commercial/industrial applications. Dudes will buy legacy hardware because their current configuration works and modernizing one thing may result in having to modernize an entire line that they really don't want to bring down.
That channel adapter card is definitely for connecting to a System/370. It's the key component of the IBM 8232 LAN Channel Station. Depending on if you ordered the model 001 or 002 LAN Channel Station, you got either 1 or 2 7532 Industrial PCs with the channel adapter card, a CGA card, and a choice of host network adapters (MAP, Token Ring, Ethernet, etc). The purpose was to act as a bridge between the System/370 and one or more non-SNA LANs to allow desktop PCs to connect to the mainframe with the appropriate software. Considering how common a need this would have been, I'd be willing to bet most 7532s that you find will have this card, since most of them sold were probably sold as part of an 8232 purchase.
You know a computer fan means business when it's made of solid cast aluminium.
Lets not pretend LGR isn't more excited about that glorious wooden case.
It really ties the room together.
It doesn't suit this pc, I was actually mad when he put it in that rack. It looks so beautiful like it was on its own.
In fairness that is a pretty amazing case.
incorrect,his excitement for the wooden case is equal to his excitement for the computer
I keep expecting the top to flip open to reveal a record player.
I live vicariously through Clint. This is case is so metal
No clearly its wood!
Me too man, I would love to have one, but also wouldnt know what to do with it. I mean c’mon it doesnt even run Doom
So metal that would be a sin not to slap a Slayer sticker
Heavy metal
@@clavius5734 não jnnjku9nnonj
Came across one of these recently running a very old SCADA System for conveyors in a bailing wire mill. They are pretty bullet proof.
“My inner Trent Reznor fantasy”
...you know, that is way more accurate than it had any right to be.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to play music and run as many fans as possible.
This thing is giving off strong 'Fallout' vibes, what with the green coloured screen. The fact that it also came from a nuclear power station is just so fitting!
I was going to comment on that...
Ha, I said the exact same thing. Honestly, Clint should keep the green color. I love it and it fits so well.
...ever hear of "influence"?
Green monochrome monitors was the standard for decades.
I would not be surprise if this is the same one used in the military to launch nuclear warhead.
This is like something you would see in an 80s scifi film
This is the ultimate way to watch space odyssey on 7 floppy drives
The IMSAI 8080 is peak late 70s/early 80s Sci-fi aesthetic
Alien vibes for sure
Yeah
@@peterkeleher Alien was very cassette futurism. More like the beta version of the cyberpunk genre.
I still have the Compaq 386/33 with 16mb RAM and THREE external MFM drives 300mb each. Monsters. About $13,000 each, new. We had to have 3 of 'em.
That keyboard cover gave me some unwanted nostalgia of early 2000’s school computer lab.
I love how vintage electronics preservation has become intrinsically tied to vintage electronics entertainment.
Shit you used to be able to get for $30 before TH-cam now costs $500, shit sucks man
Yeah, with all this newfound exposure I'm not particularly thrilled with market values on most old things these days. But, it's a by-product of viewership and it's out of LGR's control.
Also just inflation and gradually increasing scarcity
@@sameash3153 This. Been wanting to find a totally broken system to use the chassis as a sleeper, and I still like the aesthetic of the classic 90s PCs 20 years after the fact. Sadly, everything in the used market that I have found has been jacked up to prices that I can't justify. Especially with how much more work I'd have to do to make it functional (labor, buying tools, etc). I'm lucky that I was able to keep my Model M from middle school and was able to refurbish it before everyone and their mother's dog wanted one.
Yo this might be off topic, but may i ask for the sauce of your profile pic? 👀
Such sweet sounds! If you ever need a wood case in the future I’d be glad to collaborate. It’s what I do! Great stuff as always!
Yo men! You have some decent stuff on your channel I can't lie. I hope you will get in touch with Mr. LGR ASAP :D Good luck and now make something more! :) Greetings from Poland.
At least you would probably use box or dovetail joints and not just for planks put together poorly as they did huh loll not hard to beat.
I'm _always_ needing another wood case.
Absolutely down to collab sometime!
Commenting like this is a good way to get more subs
@@LGR very trash pc. Lol
I remember someone saying that one day computers will fit into the palm of your hand.
But that's crazy talk.
Check the steam deck.
@@theentirestateofalaska.4983 Why are you mentiong the Steam deck?
@@zoomer8367 Yes.
This might seem very expensive, but in my experience the hardware cost isn't very significant for these types of computers because the whole implementation cost is usually very high with most of it spent on man hours, it's more important that the quality is very high and the mean time between failure is well documented. Also it's quite common for industrial hardware that the supplier/manufacturer must guarantee service and spare parts are available for at least 20 years, especially for government and military contracts.
The green screen and the fact that it came out of an actual nuclear power plant only heightens the Fallout aesthetic :)
Why so dramaticaly, it was my normal daily driver Amstrad back in 1990 with Locomotive Basic!
What I love most about your videos is that you turn something I have no interest in (a random computer from the late 80’s or so) and turn it into something I want to know everything about. That my good sir, is a testament to your talent and passion. And I thank you
Thank you Clint, love your content. So cool to get a glimpse of technology’s progression
My dad has been with Big Blue since '81. That bootup sounds like my childhood.
Industrial environments can be pretty tough on PCs - in the late 1980s I did a service call on an Olivetti M24 that had lived in the office of a textile mill - inside it looked less like a computer and more like a giant furball.
I pulled apart an old 486 desktop that was used in a print shop right up till 2015, the boards were jet black from ink dust and shit lol, sadly it didn't survive the cleaning.
I donno, humans being around machines en masse can be harmful to machines too. I used to work at both a casino and a Dave & Buster's. In the Dave & Buster's it was especially bad because for security of profit reasons, they had to shred the used tickets to avoid them being reused. All the paper pulp that made up the tickets was the same crap used for phone books and newspapers and that crap blew friggan _everywhere_ in the arcade. We had to wipe the whole place down every night.
Then there was the casino. Yeesh. At least once a year, we had to do preventative maintenance cleanings on the machines. It was a rolling calendar, but even after 6 months, some of the slot machines would get so loaded with dust... let me explain where that dust comes from. Human skin dies. Human skin flakes off. Human skin flies in the air. Human skin gets sucked into case fans of slot machines...
I know. _Gross!_
It especially sucked because we couldn't clean the CPUs out because they were security sealed by the gaming board. We couldn't break the seal tape that was over the locks, so the CPUs themselves would get absolutely LOADED with dust. Same with the GPUs inside the cases. Some machines - Like the Bally Technologies games - were sooo badly designed , they were already choking because of lack of airflow. The dust killed those machines faster than anything else. To imagine, all that dust from a bunch of blue hairs playing the penny slots. When it was still legal to smoke inside buildings in my state, I heard it was even worse. Industrial? I don't doubt at ALL those environments were bad, but don't knock the disgusting presence of human bodies in a small space.
@Jeff Guse you do realise that you found the one very specific application where face masks wouldn't work but in almost every other application they work right? Last time i checked, not every material behaves like graphite
Like unless you are reffering specifically to people wearing masks when working with graphite, you are completely in the wrong here, and maliciously ignorant to boot
Where I work we have 8 Dell Optiplex XE desktops in our production/testing area. They were designed for high-heat environments and came with a metal mesh filter that slotted into the bottom of the front panel. I usually try and clean things at least once per year, and those are so easy! Just pop the filter, vacuum it off and pop it back in.
Massive bonus points for the "blink and you'll miss it" cameos of Dave Murray's Planet X3 when describing the problem with the monitor, a game specifically designed with different video modes in mind including monochrome, which Dave talks about in his "Making Of" videos.
I've recently bought one of these on german eBay, listed as broken but complete with original hard disk, 720kb FDD and fully loaded with expansion cards (also with the front door yours is missing :) ). I also got the service documentation for it in those neat folders which can be used as reading stands, I'm sure you'd love them.
While I was restoring it (the problem turned out to be just one of the tantalum caps on one of the expansion cards), I was really surprised by how little information there was on those monsters in the retro community. And now I see your video entirely devoted to it! It is really great that you have brought this beast of a computer to a wider audience. In the end, it really is nothing else but 5170's beefier twin, but it is so much cooler ;) I'm really jealous of that monitor you got for it!
Funny how this channel always makes me feel amazed and excited like when i started to discover computers in the early 90s... Thanks Clint for the nostalgia feels.
I'm now imagining racks of these things in a weird parallel universe where we have a DOS based cloud computing system.
We already have that, it's called Fallout
"In a world where telegraphs beat telephones, there is only DOS."
While not quite DOS, a lot of cloud computing system has Linux in Console mode as its OS.
@@ZX3000GT1 A lot? I'm pretty sure it's over 90%
Novell NetWare would like to have a word with you.
Worked in a a few factories as a teen with model + Model M condoms installed in their PCs. That made me strangely nostalgic for a couple jobs I hated at the time
Your videos are always super well done. Thanks for all the uploads and for sharing your collection.
Hey Clint! I just had few beers and I'm binge watching your older videos (ofc commenting under newest one - not that drunk!;-)). Just wanted to say thank you for your content and work. Stay safe and healthy! Greeting from Poland - fellow 86 boomer ;-)
Why am I getting visions of Homer Simpson playing games on this while he is supposed to be working.
No any key 😐
@@notreallyasloth also because this PC is only a few years older than the Simpsons and was likely in service at some nuclear power plants around the world when the Simpsons made their debut :)
He'd give up if the game had any sort of copy protection, except it's a code wheel with pictures. Would probably take up half his shift, but he would eventually figure it out.
where's the any key?
Can't forget the drinking bird
Y Y Y Repeatedly presses Y 😂😂😂😂
7:02 - the sound in virtually every scene where any kind of big lights are being turned on
Ah yes, the sound of "contactors".
I love how you put it in that commissioned wooden enclosure. Would have looked right at home in its day, reminds me of old amplifiers too!
Got on to your channel through watching Nostalgia Nerd - Love your content, just got your self another sub. I was 4 when this computer came out. First PC was a commodore 64, then Amiga 500, then a 486 whitebox (IBM compatible) and it has laid a career in tech for me.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
I love robust industrial engineering like this. A 20 year old computer that looks like it's been through hell but still does it's damnedest to keep running has personality, in my opinion, especially if it has quirks like that monitor. It's like a knackered old workhorse that refuses to lie down and die.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
If the horse still pulls, don't turn it to glue!
Sounds like my car
I love that warm, dark-grey more than the retro-beige, if I'm being honest.
It's a mighty pleasing look, no question.
I say, is that standard ocean grey or standard military grey?
Yeah looks way cooler. I always hated the beige color most computers used until 05-10 just very gross looking. It always looked like it was sorta dirty.
It doesn't look like it would age as much as a lighter plastic.
@@Zoroaster4 because brown is really dark orange, the yellowing creates a different (often uglier)shade of brown- instead of the yellowing of white and cream-colored electronics.
I love seeing videos on these older systems - my family's first computer was a 286. Thanks, LGR!
glad you're up and posting stuff again!
wait I was thinking of the 8-bit-guy
14:12 it really is incredible how long this menu format has survived. You still see it today in word text format.
Excellent camera shots in all your vids. Always gorgeous and a pleasure to watch.
I also really appreciate you going to the hardware store to get security bits, instead of trying dremelling them out in a weird fashion.
Thank you! I tried a few different things with the lighting in this one, pretty happy with the results.
Keep enjoying your style. Very cool. And industrial cozy 70s-80s vibe is very satisfying. And the whirring of it firing up is AWESOME. thank you sir.
you are the ONLY you tuber who care to translate the measurement to metric! you have NO IDEA how it makes a diffrence! you are real awesome, AND your videos are real treat! thank you!!!!
"Aaaand that means removing the two security bits..." **8-bit guy scary flashbacks** "A quick trip to harbor freight and a bit driver took care of that" Now that's classy way of showing how it should be done. You are such a nice human being Clint.
Ah yeah, the time when he just drilled and dremeled the crap out of some security torx screws.
Tbh, I never got the outrage on that one, just because something is old doesn't mean it's worth preserving and these doggon stupid "security" screws that want you to buy otherwise not needed tools can gtfo in my humble opinion. Replacing them with proper Philips screws was an upgrade.
@SteelRodent Yeah, that was completely unnecessary and I feel like he did it just to get a rise out of people.
@@mikemorrisonmusic he actually turned off comments on the video and removes comments mentioning it so i dont think it was to get a rise out of people
@@jetaddict420 That kinda doesn’t surprise me. I like the 8-bit Guy’s videos but he’s always been a little bit weird about criticism and negative comments. He doesn’t seem to take it very well. You can hear him talk about negative comments a lot more in his older videos.
@SteelRodent I believe I used a dremel to remove the rusty/corroded bolts in my XT 286 repair video! It's a great tool for certain situations.
CRT issues seem like an exellenct collab opportunity with Adrian in his Digital Basement...
If he was anywhere nearby I'd absolutely be banging on his door asking for help.
Unfortunately we couldn't be farther apart on opposite ends of the country.
If you let fedex handle it you will be left with only the G.
@@LGR if it helps at all, it's probably a stupid simple fix if the blue gun isn't outright dead. It can be a cold solder joint somewhere in the circuit for the blue gun. Just start at the neckboard and work your way back with some good magnification. I've fixed a bunch of monitors with this exact issue thar way, and only one was the gun actually being dead. In a way it's a good sign that no blue at all shows rather than a weak blue output
@@LGR I have worked a few times with industrial color monitors from IBM and all of them were wired internally for monochrome orange operations only with several shades of intensity with the blue channel signal going nowhere on the board probably why you don't have the RGB spectru
I'd love to take a look at that monitor. CRT's are WAY EASIER to fix than flat panels. I'd check the board that plugs into the very back of the CRT electron gun. It's usually a bad POT or a poor soldering connection from the POT to the PCB.
Had two different PC monitors ages ago. One was a Proview that had all sorts of issues with that PCB on the back end. Bad solder joints at the POTS being one. And of course all the TV's we had, and I'd usually get someone asking me to fix their tv because I was ..."that guy" lol.
I don't like messing with LCD flat panels. Not many user serviceable parts inside. Micro sized parts connected to digital IC's,. Aside of the power supply board... replacing the entire boards are the easier options instead of trying to diagnose those things.
I have been watching your videos while studying for the past 5 years, u basically helped me get through highschool and part of university lol. Thanks clint :)
Me too but Middle School thru highschool
I put LGR videos on when I can’t sleep and I fall asleep almost immediately. Not to say you or your content is boring. You’re just so relaxing to listen to.
I remember those keyboard covers. I always hated trying to type through them.
Especially when they were yellowed, crunchy, torn, and sticky
Pretty sure that cooling fan inside is made of cast aluminum. That PC is no joke!
Great content! Keep up the awesome work!!!
i think what i like most of all about this guy is he writes his scripts out (and adlibs of course) and probably rehearses it. i find myself watching some of his videos for his voice. i appreciate the work you put into these @LGR sir
"Sadly, it's time in the nuclear department has taken its toll." "Some kind of freakish mutation?" "No, that part is just because it's from Jersey."
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Toxic avenger reference?
The sound of the boot sequence is glorious and reminds of the hums of my Amstrad PC1512
I literally emitted a sound similar to that of Ron Swanson getting his shoes polished when I saw that thumbnail. DAAAAAAANG THAT'S FIIIIIIIINE
I love it! 😍 You are the best, LGR!
That noise you made at 5:47 is going to haunt my dreams for a while
now I want to see you point a geiger counter at it :)
3.6 roentgen. Not great not terrible.
@@wut6922 Truly the chest x-ray of EGA monitors.
It didn't come from Three Mile Island. Nuclear power stations have so many checks, a woman visitors uranium doped glass jewellery once set off the exit alarms at one.
@@MrDuncl lmao i wouldve freaked out
Love your videos, mate Cheers
I know diddly squat about retro computers, and only slightly more about modern ones. But all the same, this channel is fascinating, and I'm loving every minute if it!
Based on that alarm clock it looks like you've been working with it for about 7 hours. Dedication
Working for one. Checking out games for six, although I suppose that is part of Clint's job.
The FAA kicks in the door shouting "do you have a license for that airpl.. oh, false alarm boys, back to base! Hut hut hut!"
We were supplying and configuring an industrial PC for a client, after hearing the fans we named it Concorde (when they were still flying)
Ha ha ha! I came out of surgery three days ago and decided to watch some LGR for soothing entertainment. I was laughing so hard at your play on words and that little beer in the small cube! I had to take some breaks to be able to watch the whole video without hurting. XD Keep up the good work, and thanks for the quality entertainment!
Happy to hear it :)
Wishing you a speedy recovery!
w0w at the 15:40 mark i thought that was the tesla truck at first! lol - love your videos broham brings back so many memories!
"My Trent Reznor fantasy" what a beautiful phrase Clint.
@1:58 ... that woodgrain alarm clock 😎
Man, you are really, *really* enjoying your new clock. This is like, the third video I spotted it in.
I WANT THAT SWITCH FOR EVERYTHING!
It is so satisfying... anyway have a nice day 😉 and have a good Easter!
- "Wait, did you bring protection?"
- "Oh, yes!" - *Puts keyboard-condom onto the table*
- "Oh, so you have a Model F in your pants? Marry me!"
Is that a keyboard in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?
@@ianmiller6040 "Of course it is. Do you wanna get connected to my PS/2 cable?"
@@ThomasNimmesgern Please socket my DEC!
What protection do welsh people use? Wellies..
I've bought old computers from industrial environments before and they all seem to have a huge ISA card that nobody knows what it does.
The channel adapter is most likely industrial control. Sensors and activators for different parts of the area it was in. It might have worked on part of an assembly line that needs to send power along with it's control signals.
Which probably cost more than the rest of the computer altogether. P.S. You have just reminded me of an environmental chamber we had that used an uncased PC motherboard inside and ran it's software directly from a floppy disc (there was no hard drive). It's replacement used XP embedded, and a repair cost about £3000 when one of the specialist cards failed.
Due to this video, I’ve subscribed to LGR.
It made me happy. 🦊
it's so cool how you love these old vintage computers!! I would love to sit a play with one and learn how to play them enough to enjoy them like you do, but I would like you sitting right beside me to teach me these things!!! You are so smart with these old computers!!
I love how it looks inside - all those clean shiny slabs of thick IBM sheet metal!!
This is awesome! Also love seeing the lamp/alarm clock that you found on LGR Thrifts!
I was thinking "That needs nice woodgrain panels on it to disguise the rack mount". Ten seconds later you reveal the custom cabinet. Absolutely fabulous.
I am so amazed to watch these videos, everything is so, so interesting !
I love how dedicated you are to your very personal tech aesthetic
"Big, loud, and kinda ugly"
I think you just wrote me a new tagline. 😂🤘🏻
Thanks for the video. It reminds me of a system I worked with for a few years. The computer was a stock IBM PS/2 model 80, but its monitor was the industrial version of the IBM 8514 display. A 16" screen operating at a fixed 1024x768 resolution (and requiring IBM's 8514/A adapter card in the PS/2).
The most noteworthy part of it is that it was big, square and heavy. A tempered glass sheet bolted over the screen, black case and loud fans with filters. Unfortunately, I can't remember its product number after all those years (I was using it in 1991) and web searches have so far not been fruitful.
Loved the video!
I've got a couple of 5160 XT units in the attic and on high days and holidays I fire them up for old time's sake!
The older of the two systems is a floppy-only monochrome job, and even has the cassette interface, I've "upgraded" the other to EGA, along with a 30Mb MFM full height Winchester and along with an IBM serial mouse, can run Windows 3.0 in a truly pedestrian fashion!
Regarding your monitor, you've probably got "dry" electrolytic capacitors, but you probably know that already, the great joy with this sort of kit is that the components are easily replaced with cheap generic items - you'll also know to be very wary of the high voltage lines on the CRT!
FWIW I also have an IBM AS/400 9404 B20 with expansion unit!
The lamp alarm clock from one of your thrifting ventures definitely goes with your aesthetic choices.
WHISPER QUIET, YOU HEAR THAT SON? CUTTING EDGE!
The look of that PC is awesome 👌 Utter beast! Would be amazing to use it as a case for a modern PC.
You have a exploding pen!s
Great video Clint! I live in Salem County NJ, and have actually toured that nuclear plant a few times from my science classes in high school, and a friend's dad was a reactor operator. It's in Lower Alloways Creek, and owned by PSE&G who operates 2 Westinghouse reactors there, Salem 1 and 2. Outputs about 2,000 MW of electrical energy and has been the biggest employer in the county for at least a decade, after DuPont Chemical started their layoffs, and Anchor Hocking Glass shut down the Salem factory. They have a nuclear program with the community college. Also, Bruce Willis worked there!
The content, the setup for this content, the way you improvise when something's off in the setup and the subtitles... I cannot appreciate this enough, LGR!
I know right? Clint often puts light humour in the subtitles which is kind of a bonus too.
Those start up sounds take me straight to my childhood days of late 80's and even early 90's :')
I love you getting that beautiful case for it!
That retro power switch is so satisfying I am seriously considering having a switch like that on my next PC.
Thank you for not premiering this. I want to be able to experience all of this Metal
yeah premieres are, as the swedes say, "skitbajs"
not only it doesn't say how long the video is but if you're hyped for it and by the time the premiere starts it's already too late, you're either asleep or busy
Yeah, I just made masterpiece for all of the world's newspaper nerds!
@@pchound5962 My brother is wearing the other one...
but it's dirty!
funny to see u here
The lamp/alarm clock from the Thrifts episode is looking pretty good here. Humble as it is, it doesn't go unnoticed, even beside such a rare PC as this!
Your production quality is ridiculous and when you add that stellar editing you end up making videos better than anything TV ever gave us.
Oh, man. A few years ago I found an IBM 7544-002 display unit in a garage of NGO I work in (we've had quite a bunch of IBM machines in the early 90's, when the curtain fell and kind folks from IBM Germany shipped us some). I was kinda puzzled - I've googled, but never found a thing about it. Never knew about these industrial IBMs - we never quite got them here in Russia :) Thanks for that, man. Great video. Maybe when everything around calms down I'd ship this 7544-002 unit to you. And for now - I'd try and resurrect my old IBM 5155.