Its strange how we can fit pcs inside literal toasters that are more powerful than this one, yet this is so much more impressive got to love early tech.
I think the reason why it’s hard to find modern small computers to be impressive is simply because of the existence of our smartphones is enough of a reminder of how small computers are now, not that it isn’t impressive
I think what makes these old machines more impressive is all the physical ports and other hardware they manage to fit on them, nowadays the majority of peripherals are connected with usb ports and micro SD cards are incredibly versatile and even without either of those the infamous cloud magically connects everything through your wifi, it's harder to see just how miraculous our modern machines are with how small, streamlined, or entirely invisible everything is
They did a lot more with what they had available back then. They squeezed every bit of performance out of it. These days a text editor is 100mb to download and uses 200mb of RAM.
@@Karreth Wow, who would've ever thought that technology would advance over time, and standards would change with it. 100 MB of storage and 200 MB of ram is nothing for a modern PC, not that I've ever seen any text editors with those made up requirements, though
I would love to see that thing next to a modern smartphone for scale. It's pretty cool to see the kind of miniaturization they were able to pull off in the 90s!
I use an old "Phone Line Simulator" for my phone line needs. Very handy. Skutch makes one as well as Viking Electronics. Sometimes can be a little pricey. But invaluable for old computers. Believe it or not I use my Skutch to transfer files to/from old PC's. Like a traditional modem connection but with my own phone lines. Phone guys used to use them for testing back in the day.
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez Hrm, I don't know of any tutorials per se, however it's quite a simple process. The phone line simulator at minimum has 2 lines. So if you had 2 phones, plug one in the first jack, then a second in the other jack. The moment you pick up the first phone, it immediately starts calling the second phone without you having to do anything. Now if you were to use 2 computers and 2 modems, simply use any dial-up terminal program and type in the serial command ATS0=1 on the "answering" computer, then type in ATDT on the "calling" computer. They will automatically call each other and make a connection. If it's of interest, I can show you a demonstration.
I have a four line simulator that allows you to dial a customized preset number for each phone line so you can have two or three way calling (or two phones separately calling each other) at the same time and each line even has caller ID, they are quite fun for hooking up old computers and simulating a BBS connection.
8:36 - I like that the phamplet folds as the palm top opens on the picture :) 11:50 - I'm about your age so maybe that's why I understood the phone part without explanation. You showed the port where the RJ11 cable goes and it was enough for me to get what's going on.
Taking calls and cruising the web would have to be done at separate times, unless you could afford to add a second phone line or get one of those fancy mobile telephones
@@offrails VOIP was developed many decades ago and by 1995 it was somewhat commercially available by VocalTec, so it could be done with just 1 line at the time of this machine
@@wisico640 Even visual novel require 1080 to display properly , 720 is a big no no this day. The solution is you can have option, not forced to stand with it :(
I had this when I was in college in 1998. I still remember the face of my classmate when I brought this tiny PC to class for presentation. It can run window 95 and office 95 smoothly and I even have a CD Rom for it.
I have an OBI200 device that creates a home phone line from a Google Voice account. It lets me have a home phone with no monthly cost. I actually spliced it in to the phone lines for my whole house and it still works just fine on all the extensions.
@Mr Guru Thanks to the wonders of VDSL my 80MBit/s internet comes through the phone line installed when the house was built in 1974 (which still functions as a phone line as well).
@Mr Guru Here they call it Fibre to the Cabinet. Luckily the cabinet, looking quite like a traditional Telephones connection cabinet and sat next to one is only about 100m from my house. In a housing estate like this they have been installed approximately every 800m or so. I doubt whether you would get 80MBit/s if you lived 400m from the nearest one.
This is definitely one of those things that I would have thought was cool as a kid or a teenager but in retrospect was incredibly expensive and without severe modification isn't in any way relevant anymore. Only 25 years ago yet it feels more like 50 years as tech has progressed so fast.
Hi Clint! Keep awesome vids going! You are doing wonderful job! As for your question about boot process on 15:00 of this vid, the reason it is displaying Win95 splash screen is because it is part of IO.SYS of DOS 7.0. In other words - this software seem to be just sitting there as last option in autoexec.bat and interrupts the standard boot process of Windows 95 - as DOS part boots, then it runs this toolset and once you click start Windows 95 it just finishes execution of autoexec.bat and continues to boot Windows. :)
@@hrossi3450 i have it i remember got it for my 12 birthday in 2000. He still works but internet are little bad but you can use it! -Greattings from Serbia!
I can't blame you for loving it, I do too. I had no idea these even existed until you did that video on your main channel. Such a cool little computer, can you add the extra RAM? edit: should have waited, cool that someone maxed it out. Apparently an overclock is possible too!
I have a Grandstream VOIP box that I use with a 1940s phone my grandfather had in his workshop when I was a kid. It is a great way to bring some very old tech back to life.
You could use a voip box such as a cisco SPA112 and a free voip service to make a phone line. The SPA112 also has an RJ11 socket you can use the phone line cable you have to connect to it.
I remember the magic jack thingy that let you use your internet as a VOIP phone, long before that was the standard, also long before everyone owned a smartphone (or even a basic feature phone) and phone service was exspensive as hell.
I remember having a PC of this generation, and having a few large apps, too many in fact to all fit on my hard drive at once. But I also had a SCSI port and an external SCSI zip drive. So what I did was dedicate a zip disk for each catagory of application. For example, I installed Corel Draw 6 and paint shop pro to one of them. And a second one was dedicated to programming, with compilors and assembler/editors etc. Because it was a SCSI device it ran almost as fast as my internal system drive.
I'm thinking that he could take the polarisation layer off a different display and use that. I have a brand new unused Toshiba Portege display here that I bought to fix my Portege. It turned out that despite being the same size display the LVDS connector was different. Luckily all I needed to fix the old display was a new CCFL tube so I transplanted that part from the new display which fitted perfectly.
@@craigjensen6853 Yeah, I guess it'd have to be able to be driven by something. There are replacement screens for handheld consoles (like the game boy) that include some compact IC to drive the screen, and then hook up to the existing cable. I'd have to be designed to work in this laptop. I thought maybe they are popular enough that someone out there has made a kit. It might also be possible to adapt an existing kit to work with this screen, but it's kind of an odd size.
I don't know but I have this different level of excitement watching videos exploring old techs like this even though I have no experiences of using them...
10:00 Love the section on page 6-2 where it says: "あれ？おかしいなと思ったあら". IBM Japan sure had you covered when a whole section is titled: "in case you are thinking: huh? this is strange!"
Ya know, I'm not that old but I am really glad that I wasn't born any later. I got to experience the "old ways" for long enough that I still remember using landlines, VHS tapes, audio cassettes, and stuff like that. Where my mid '90s kids at?
I was born in the 80's and I constantly have the same feeling. The experiences in arcades and movie rental stores alone are priceless. Not to mention all the other electronics. Today's tech is more powerful but is has no style. No heart. It's all "here's the next upgrade, slightly better than the last, and in a slightly different rectangle."
For hooking up the phone you could use something like a Cisco ATA (Analog Telephony Adapter), they're usually used in a Voice over IP system for connecting things like analog phones, fax machines, and yes, modems, to a modern VoIP system. The cisco one has two ports, and can be configured to call between the two phone jacks with a fake number Anyways, great video =)
Very cool! Reminds me of a mini version of the DEC 486 laptop I had in high school, with the DSTN screen. There was a DOS racing game I used to play during breaks, I think it was called Big Red Racing. Really wish I hadn't given it away after I finished school. If it helps with the screen, you can definitely get polarisation film that's not too dark, possibly even self-adhesive. It's the kind designed for windows.
If you want to test the landline functionality, you can get a bluetooth to RJ11 adapter. These basically work as a headset to your cell phone and provide a usable landline connection. Ive even used these to dialup into a BBS. For digital purposes you cant get to 28.8-56K speeds (probably from the digital cell phone compression or something) but should work fine for voice.
I don't know anyone who still has a landline. Even many companies don't use them anymore. With mobile phones and fibre internet, an old-fashioned landline is just completely pointless.
Holy moly I am in love with the colors and aesthetics of the manuals that came with the PC110. Delightful. edit: yeah, whoever designed the manuals and pamphlets.... I'd love to see some more things they designed. Once again, delightful.
"How does the phone on this computer get a signal?" I think one of the most pointless and fun things I did a while back was taking a backpack full of gear to the coffee shop. Used my laptop to find a good WiFi hotspot, shared that via Ethernet to my Vonage analog telephone adapter, to which I connected another laptop with a modem, and dialed into my shell account. It was super slow (analog modem data over VOIP is shaky at best) but it worked, and made me ridiculously happy.
Technology has happened really fast since computers entered the home some 40-odd years ago. The world wide web had just been invented 30 years ago, the few people who had an online connection mostly used BBSes they called directly. Now everyone has a super computer in their pocket, are always online, and are starting to forget that phones once required plugging into the wall.
I am feeling the same way! A pc-tech enthusiast at the age of 33, and feeling old! Went through so much tech in my life, it is crazy how fast the things are going. An some of the youngsters do not know jack shit!
I remember that PC. I wanted one so badly but it was way too pricy. I can't remember how much it costed but I do remember looking at the price tag and thinking I needed to win the Powerball.
I was wondering about the colour of those buttons when I saw the twitter picture! I know there are at least two different revisions of the keyboard, I am not sure if they were different colours from manufacturing or if it is a coincidence.
I'm pretty sure I watched the original LGR video and I think it's awesome you liked it so much that you bought one for yourself. More people need to know just how long age we had a real smartphone. And that IBM made two different models BEFORE Apple, or even Blackberry and Handspring were even sold on the idea. 💁🏻♂️📱
I remember seeing these in Sunnyvale CA back in the 90’s. Fry’s was in their second location and two surplus places were nearby. One of them importing and selling them Grey Market. Cool machine!
Once again, knowledge makes me feel old. Because I know how a land line phone works and I'm even old enough to have used rotary dial phones in my youth. 😐
I'm 15 and you better believe I've used rotary dial phones. It's crazy to think that some people are completely unaware of the technology that current devices are built off of. I think you need to know where something came from to really understand it.
If there's someone you know who's old enough, ask someone in their 70-90s about how phones worked in the 40's through the early 60's. The old "phone operator" thing was only half the story. My grandparents mentioned that a lot of people in a neighborhood (they did live in a rural area, even then) had some type of system to time when they could use the phone, and if you picked up the phone you could hear your neighbors during their time. Was like a time share for a voice line. o.o I need to ask them about the details again next time I see them. I last heard it probably 20 years ago... it's a good thing to remember how far we've come.
@@DarthKoonstyle that’s called a party line! Everyone who shared it could split the line rental costs amongst themselves. Get it much cheaper to make up for running the wires so far into the country. And yeah there were a whole bunch of etiquette rules for how to share the party line properly.
@@BanCorporateOwnedHouses I’m in my mid 20s too and I sure feel old for having used landlines with dialup, and CRTs, and floppy disks, and non-smart phones. I recently talked with an 10 year old and they’ve never known anything but iPads. Their mother was the same age as me, so I was “really old” to them.
Okay, I'm somewhat of a geek, that's cool. I love seeing the unique form factors that competed in the market. I get them, explore, etc. and eventually face the question. What am I gonna DO with it? So I move them on.
some of your fans where to young to be in the MS-DOS and windows 2000 era including me i was 9 in the year 2000 but i also watch nostalgia nerd and 8 bit guy for me it is to what i missed and where we came from in gaming to how we grown
I would recommend a VoIP adapter like the Cisco SPA112. Then you can make phone calls and even setup your own "ISP" connecting via a modem to your LAN.
11:30 I got to admit that I didn't even think about it having to wired into a phone line in order to make calls… It seems obvious now. While mobile phone technology of the time could theoretically have fit into this package, it was probably way too expensive and complex to do so. Anyway, it says a lot on how I, a millennial, conceptualises what a "phone" is. I was a mere 1 years old when the IBM PC110 first arrived onto the scene.
Cell2Jack will provide dial tone to old land lines. It is a little box you Bluetooth to your cellphone, then it has an RJ11 jack on it. You can make and take calls on any landline phone with it.
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@14:52 it's quite normal that it's showing the windows 95 splash screen. It's loaded through the SYS files when the system is loading (unless you set the logo to 0 in msdos.sys). The IBM menu is probably just a program that is loaded at the end of the autoexec.bat. The owner or manufacturer has probably disabled the actual windows 95 start up (which you can also do in msdos.sys by setting the GUI to 0)
14:19 I love how the slow LCD response makes the personaware startup looks darn smooth
Its strange how we can fit pcs inside literal toasters that are more powerful than this one, yet this is so much more impressive got to love early tech.
Go touch his sack
I think the reason why it’s hard to find modern small computers to be impressive is simply because of the existence of our smartphones is enough of a reminder of how small computers are now, not that it isn’t impressive
I think what makes these old machines more impressive is all the physical ports and other hardware they manage to fit on them, nowadays the majority of peripherals are connected with usb ports and micro SD cards are incredibly versatile and even without either of those the infamous cloud magically connects everything through your wifi, it's harder to see just how miraculous our modern machines are with how small, streamlined, or entirely invisible everything is
They did a lot more with what they had available back then. They squeezed every bit of performance out of it. These days a text editor is 100mb to download and uses 200mb of RAM.
@@Karreth Wow, who would've ever thought that technology would advance over time, and standards would change with it. 100 MB of storage and 200 MB of ram is nothing for a modern PC, not that I've ever seen any text editors with those made up requirements, though
I would love to see that thing next to a modern smartphone for scale. It's pretty cool to see the kind of miniaturization they were able to pull off in the 90s!
Your videos are so calming. It doesn't much matter the topic, I always like watching while I'm working on stressful work at home. Thank you.
I use an old "Phone Line Simulator" for my phone line needs. Very handy. Skutch makes one as well as Viking Electronics. Sometimes can be a little pricey. But invaluable for old computers. Believe it or not I use my Skutch to transfer files to/from old PC's. Like a traditional modem connection but with my own phone lines. Phone guys used to use them for testing back in the day.
Do you know a good tutorial about how to do that?
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez Hrm, I don't know of any tutorials per se, however it's quite a simple process. The phone line simulator at minimum has 2 lines. So if you had 2 phones, plug one in the first jack, then a second in the other jack. The moment you pick up the first phone, it immediately starts calling the second phone without you having to do anything. Now if you were to use 2 computers and 2 modems, simply use any dial-up terminal program and type in the serial command ATS0=1 on the "answering" computer, then type in ATDT on the "calling" computer. They will automatically call each other and make a connection. If it's of interest, I can show you a demonstration.
@@MarkyShaw ok it's a good explanation. I though it was a device made with some microcontroller.
I have a four line simulator that allows you to dial a customized preset number for each phone line so you can have two or three way calling (or two phones separately calling each other) at the same time and each line even has caller ID, they are quite fun for hooking up old computers and simulating a BBS connection.
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez It's easiest to just use Ethernet usb device!
8:36 - I like that the phamplet folds as the palm top opens on the picture :)
11:50 - I'm about your age so maybe that's why I understood the phone part without explanation. You showed the port where the RJ11 cable goes and it was enough for me to get what's going on.
When a Mommy Thinkpad and a Daddy Thinkpad love each other very much.... this is the result
@sunstunner knob aren’t you
What do you have to feed them to cause them to make a baby?
That’s the truth
@sunstunner Isn't it just like in Minecraft?
Apparently the mammy and daddy ThinkPad didn't install propper antivirus software 😂
Could you imagine working from home in the 90s with this workhorse? Taking calls on a headset and cruising the web. Living in the damn future.
Taking calls and cruising the web would have to be done at separate times, unless you could afford to add a second phone line or get one of those fancy mobile telephones
They never said simultaneously ;)
do you remember US Robotic 14400 Modem? That is some excelllent hardware,
If only it got the cool expanding keyboard 😕
@@offrails VOIP was developed many decades ago and by 1995 it was somewhat commercially available by VocalTec, so it could be done with just 1 line at the time of this machine
I wish the GPD Win makers and Lenovo could work together and make a new one of these happen. Surely some anniversary is near.
I mean, GDP makes the GDP pocket, which is a mini laptop
Whoa, retro looks, fixed up ergonomics, modern performance :o
Their new GPD Win just look like a sony vaio UX, Hope they can offer a HD screen version, 720p is useless other than playing EMU.
@@lyh1 at that size it really ain't bad + it helps to get better fps / battery
@@wisico640 Even visual novel require 1080 to display properly , 720 is a big no no this day.
The solution is you can have option, not forced to stand with it :(
blerbs are like the crunchy bits you find at the bottom of a bucket of popcorn chicken
🤐
Mmm, yes *pls*.
Hey bro you gonna eat those blurbs?!
Popcorn chicken?
So tasty.
-Where is the SIM card?
-I feel too old for this.
I need one of those in my life. It's so cyberpunk...
I had this when I was in college in 1998. I still remember the face of my classmate when I brought this tiny PC to class for presentation. It can run window 95 and office 95 smoothly and I even have a CD Rom for it.
I have an OBI200 device that creates a home phone line from a Google Voice account. It lets me have a home phone with no monthly cost. I actually spliced it in to the phone lines for my whole house and it still works just fine on all the extensions.
@Mr Guru Thanks to the wonders of VDSL my 80MBit/s internet comes through the phone line installed when the house was built in 1974 (which still functions as a phone line as well).
@Mr Guru Here they call it Fibre to the Cabinet. Luckily the cabinet, looking quite like a traditional Telephones connection cabinet and sat next to one is only about 100m from my house. In a housing estate like this they have been installed approximately every 800m or so. I doubt whether you would get 80MBit/s if you lived 400m from the nearest one.
9:09 Somewhere in Japan, a tiny little asian man is so thrilled that somebody finally noticed.
This is definitely one of those things that I would have thought was cool as a kid or a teenager but in retrospect was incredibly expensive and without severe modification isn't in any way relevant anymore.
Only 25 years ago yet it feels more like 50 years as tech has progressed so fast.
Hi Clint! Keep awesome vids going! You are doing wonderful job! As for your question about boot process on 15:00 of this vid, the reason it is displaying Win95 splash screen is because it is part of IO.SYS of DOS 7.0. In other words - this software seem to be just sitting there as last option in autoexec.bat and interrupts the standard boot process of Windows 95 - as DOS part boots, then it runs this toolset and once you click start Windows 95 it just finishes execution of autoexec.bat and continues to boot Windows. :)
You know how there are little miniature displays of tents to show you what a tent looks like? This looks like a laptop miniature display! 😄
I love embarrassing my kids by sticking my head in those tents and saying "I don't think we will all fit" anytime I see one :-)
That's the best description of this thing I've ever heard!
@@PMcDFPV solid dad joke, I like your style 🤣
Those are just tents for small dogs and the fairy folk... lol
@@tra-viskaiser8737 that's exactly what I thought as a kid - the sample mini tents are dog tents
The laptop... IT IS SO TINY!
Its a cute little laptop
Cute (;_;)
Love that laptop is so tiny I'm eight and I feel like I should have it
@@hrossi3450 i have it i remember got it for my 12 birthday in 2000. He still works but internet are little bad but you can use it!
-Greattings from Serbia!
Smol boi
I can't blame you for loving it, I do too. I had no idea these even existed until you did that video on your main channel.
Such a cool little computer, can you add the extra RAM?
edit: should have waited, cool that someone maxed it out. Apparently an overclock is possible too!
I have a Grandstream VOIP box that I use with a 1940s phone my grandfather had in his workshop when I was a kid. It is a great way to bring some very old tech back to life.
You could use a voip box such as a cisco SPA112 and a free voip service to make a phone line. The SPA112 also has an RJ11 socket you can use the phone line cable you have to connect to it.
A Raspberry Pi with 3CX would be an easy solution. It's free if it's on a LAN.
Cathode Ray Dude (on TH-cam, has a web site he linked too) put up a great tutorial on doing that recently with no voip service required
I remember the magic jack thingy that let you use your internet as a VOIP phone, long before that was the standard, also long before everyone owned a smartphone (or even a basic feature phone) and phone service was exspensive as hell.
Oh man I love this stuff...because I didn't have to freaking pay for it! Precious cargo!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THESE EXPERIENCES!!!
XLink bluetooth gateway will let you plug it in and use it as a phone, the XLink will link to your modern cell phone with bluetooth.
Hey what does you phone run for an OS? "Windows 95"
Still by far one of my favorite small computers I've ever seen. Love the form factor a lot.
I get a rush of nostalgia every time I hear the win95 startup music.
It gives me terrible flashbacks
I remember having a PC of this generation, and having a few large apps, too many in fact to all fit on my hard drive at once. But I also had a SCSI port and an external SCSI zip drive. So what I did was dedicate a zip disk for each catagory of application. For example, I installed Corel Draw 6 and paint shop pro to one of them. And a second one was dedicated to programming, with compilors and assembler/editors etc. Because it was a SCSI device it ran almost as fast as my internal system drive.
With all the focus on palms these days, I'd love to see a review or at least a blerb on the HP Journada. Loved that thing...
I'd be interested to see you cover the replacement of the polarization filter. Maybe there's even a replacement TFT out there?
I'm thinking that he could take the polarisation layer off a different display and use that. I have a brand new unused Toshiba Portege display here that I bought to fix my Portege. It turned out that despite being the same size display the LVDS connector was different. Luckily all I needed to fix the old display was a new CCFL tube so I transplanted that part from the new display which fitted perfectly.
@@MrDuncl I think you can just buy the polarization film in sheets and cut it. I've seen other youtube videos where people do that on other devices.
@@craigjensen6853 Yeah, I guess it'd have to be able to be driven by something. There are replacement screens for handheld consoles (like the game boy) that include some compact IC to drive the screen, and then hook up to the existing cable. I'd have to be designed to work in this laptop. I thought maybe they are popular enough that someone out there has made a kit. It might also be possible to adapt an existing kit to work with this screen, but it's kind of an odd size.
That AdLib tracker song was so kickass!
Reminiscent of Commodore 64 games music.
Lovely little machine, I'm glad you managed to get one of your own!
I am shocked, shocked I say, that you didn't try to run doom or duke on it.
Because I already did in the LGR video about it!
@@LGRBlerbs Is there a U.S. version of this machine with higher specs?
@@the_expidition427 Nope, this was a Japan only device.
@@Skiptrac3 Is there something similar to it?
@@the_expidition427 There are modern devices such as the GPD Win lineup of ultra-portable Windows devices. But nothing from the Palm Top line.
I don't know but I have this different level of excitement watching videos exploring old techs like this even though I have no experiences of using them...
Wow, with this, you can use an SD card camera attached to a PCMCIA adapter to take photos and upload the mid-90's laptop selfies to a BBS!
Damn son! You some 90s influencer??
Pcmcia cameras were made the Canon CE 300 Dos only or the Canon 30T (which works under windows)
10:00 Love the section on page 6-2 where it says: "あれ？おかしいなと思ったあら". IBM Japan sure had you covered when a whole section is titled: "in case you are thinking: huh? this is strange!"
7:21
Left: "Utility Diskette 1"
Right: "System Install Diskette"
8:41 Upper left corner: "Actual sized diagram"
I’d love to see an LGR longplay of any kind on this awesome little computer.
When he is saying it's so small when he is shooting the screen. And I watch it on a 4k 55 inch TV and I am like it's huge whatcha talking about! 😂
I'd have to say it's about the size of a USB floppy drive.
That short little midi loop at the end is a BOP tho
"Oh no, I failed the young'uns." No LGR, no, we failed you.
Ya know, I'm not that old but I am really glad that I wasn't born any later. I got to experience the "old ways" for long enough that I still remember using landlines, VHS tapes, audio cassettes, and stuff like that. Where my mid '90s kids at?
I was born in the 80's and I constantly have the same feeling. The experiences in arcades and movie rental stores alone are priceless. Not to mention all the other electronics. Today's tech is more powerful but is has no style. No heart. It's all "here's the next upgrade, slightly better than the last, and in a slightly different rectangle."
Born in 96 here and I already feel old. Had all of those too.
This thing is so cool.
For hooking up the phone you could use something like a Cisco ATA (Analog Telephony Adapter), they're usually used in a Voice over IP system for connecting things like analog phones, fax machines, and yes, modems, to a modern VoIP system.
The cisco one has two ports, and can be configured to call between the two phone jacks with a fake number
Anyways, great video =)
I'm still discovering "new" Sierra On-Line games
9:12, glad I'm not the only one that loves little details like that!
I’ll be honest, despite my parents using a landline I almost forgot they exist
Very cool! Reminds me of a mini version of the DEC 486 laptop I had in high school, with the DSTN screen. There was a DOS racing game I used to play during breaks, I think it was called Big Red Racing. Really wish I hadn't given it away after I finished school.
If it helps with the screen, you can definitely get polarisation film that's not too dark, possibly even self-adhesive. It's the kind designed for windows.
Agreed📼
If you want to test the landline functionality, you can get a bluetooth to RJ11 adapter. These basically work as a headset to your cell phone and provide a usable landline connection. Ive even used these to dialup into a BBS. For digital purposes you cant get to 28.8-56K speeds (probably from the digital cell phone compression or something) but should work fine for voice.
Nice video as always Clint!
When you learn LGR doesn't have a landline 😲
I don't know anyone who still has a landline. Even many companies don't use them anymore. With mobile phones and fibre internet, an old-fashioned landline is just completely pointless.
Nice way to get my Monday going
I want that music at the end that was awesome!!!
Me too! What is the name of the Adlib Tracker II track you played, Clint?
Holy moly I am in love with the colors and aesthetics of the manuals that came with the PC110. Delightful.
edit: yeah, whoever designed the manuals and pamphlets.... I'd love to see some more things they designed. Once again, delightful.
What song is that at the end? Giving me awesome nostalgic vibes from my Amiga 500 days =D
"How does the phone on this computer get a signal?" I think one of the most pointless and fun things I did a while back was taking a backpack full of gear to the coffee shop. Used my laptop to find a good WiFi hotspot, shared that via Ethernet to my Vonage analog telephone adapter, to which I connected another laptop with a modem, and dialed into my shell account. It was super slow (analog modem data over VOIP is shaky at best) but it worked, and made me ridiculously happy.
What an incredible thing to do.
Neat little computer! And that music at the end should be available on iTunes! Maybe it is?
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This feels like an ancient GPD model, it looks so funky
Who knew feeling old would happen in mid-30s?
Technology has happened really fast since computers entered the home some 40-odd years ago. The world wide web had just been invented 30 years ago, the few people who had an online connection mostly used BBSes they called directly. Now everyone has a super computer in their pocket, are always online, and are starting to forget that phones once required plugging into the wall.
You can start feeling old in your early-to-mid-20s!
i'm just shy of 30... and oof
I am feeling the same way! A pc-tech enthusiast at the age of 33, and feeling old! Went through so much tech in my life, it is crazy how fast the things are going. An some of the youngsters do not know jack shit!
I remember that PC. I wanted one so badly but it was way too pricy. I can't remember how much it costed but I do remember looking at the price tag and thinking I needed to win the Powerball.
I was wondering about the colour of those buttons when I saw the twitter picture! I know there are at least two different revisions of the keyboard, I am not sure if they were different colours from manufacturing or if it is a coincidence.
I'm pretty sure I watched the original LGR video and I think it's awesome you liked it so much that you bought one for yourself. More people need to know just how long age we had a real smartphone.
And that IBM made two different models BEFORE Apple, or even Blackberry and Handspring were even sold on the idea. 💁🏻♂️📱
If you leave that laptop unattended, the bomb squad will arrive and probably try to disarm it🤯
One man’s high pixel response time is another man’s free motion-blur
That "Yeah" after you said "Paint Shop Pro" sounded like a Frank West impression.
I remember seeing these in Sunnyvale CA back in the 90’s. Fry’s was in their second location and two surplus places were nearby. One of them importing and selling them Grey Market. Cool machine!
Once again, knowledge makes me feel old. Because I know how a land line phone works and I'm even old enough to have used rotary dial phones in my youth. 😐
I'm 15 and you better believe I've used rotary dial phones. It's crazy to think that some people are completely unaware of the technology that current devices are built off of. I think you need to know where something came from to really understand it.
Clint is in his 30s. He's used them too haha. I'm in my 20s, and have used them.
I'm happy about the move to smartphones.
If there's someone you know who's old enough, ask someone in their 70-90s about how phones worked in the 40's through the early 60's. The old "phone operator" thing was only half the story. My grandparents mentioned that a lot of people in a neighborhood (they did live in a rural area, even then) had some type of system to time when they could use the phone, and if you picked up the phone you could hear your neighbors during their time. Was like a time share for a voice line. o.o
I need to ask them about the details again next time I see them. I last heard it probably 20 years ago... it's a good thing to remember how far we've come.
@@DarthKoonstyle that’s called a party line! Everyone who shared it could split the line rental costs amongst themselves. Get it much cheaper to make up for running the wires so far into the country. And yeah there were a whole bunch of etiquette rules for how to share the party line properly.
@@BanCorporateOwnedHouses I’m in my mid 20s too and I sure feel old for having used landlines with dialup, and CRTs, and floppy disks, and non-smart phones. I recently talked with an 10 year old and they’ve never known anything but iPads. Their mother was the same age as me, so I was “really old” to them.
The grandfather to the GPD Win Max.
19:33 I swear I heard Master Chief in that little sentence 😂
It's supposed to be Duke Nukem. LGR loves doing Duke impressions, and was even hired to do a voice over in the video game Gas Guzzlers.
OMG YES !!!
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These mini IBM laptops are amazing
@24:41 more LGR Synth??
Some times ISPs provide routers with an analog jack for voip. What's the music at the end of the video.
Okay, I'm somewhat of a geek, that's cool. I love seeing the unique form factors that competed in the market. I get them, explore, etc. and eventually face the question. What am I gonna DO with it? So I move them on.
i mean if it was new i would use it until it died. love the size
some of your fans where to young to be in the MS-DOS and windows 2000 era including me i was 9 in the year 2000 but i also watch nostalgia nerd and 8 bit guy for me it is to what i missed and where we came from in gaming to how we grown
the techno at the end sounds sort of like Strong Bad's techno song.
The system is down
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I would recommend a VoIP adapter like the Cisco SPA112. Then you can make phone calls and even setup your own "ISP" connecting via a modem to your LAN.
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Man oh man these things are amazing.
I'm here for the music
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11:30 I got to admit that I didn't even think about it having to wired into a phone line in order to make calls… It seems obvious now. While mobile phone technology of the time could theoretically have fit into this package, it was probably way too expensive and complex to do so. Anyway, it says a lot on how I, a millennial, conceptualises what a "phone" is. I was a mere 1 years old when the IBM PC110 first arrived onto the scene.
I love how even into the more modern generation of ThinkPads you still have the IBM mantra of "business computer? Put a phone in it!"
Wow... Hover... Man you bring me back... Gees I feel old too now
"where does it get a signal" lmao
Cell2Jack will provide dial tone to old land lines. It is a little box you Bluetooth to your cellphone, then it has an RJ11 jack on it. You can make and take calls on any landline phone with it.
Am I the only one who gestures back to Clint when he salutes at the beginning of a Blerb? 😂
Greetings
yes
I haven't done that yet, but I do bow to Doug Marcada on Forged in Fire
You should make a backup of the compact flash card.
Ah, so this is why you were looking for a Japanese release of Duke 3D!
Immediately began looking for that quick start pamphlet, need that for my wall!
"Where's the SIM card?"
Oh no. It's setting in.
Could you please add a link to the music you play at the end of the video, if possible?
I knew he’d be getting one of these after watching the original video lol i would if i could. neat little machine
3:49 was Peter Griffin when he mad
Lol
I spy a crack in that Paintshop Pro installation~
DSTN display. MIDI sounds. And of course Win95. Memories of my younger days.
This is the '90s equivalent to the GPD Win.
I think an asus eeepc is similar in body size too. I have one and I have sent an offer on one of these, hopefully I get to buy it
I had Windy95, but I've never heard of Hover. New video idea?
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24:40 can someone Tell me the Name of this Tune?
Agreed
Great small machine, I love hardware from IBM.
Woah man, where did you get it, love this stuff, big fan btw
Wow one year of blerbs, I remember just seeing 10 to 20 people looking at the channel description and now it's over 6 MILION VIEWS,
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@14:52 it's quite normal that it's showing the windows 95 splash screen. It's loaded through the SYS files when the system is loading (unless you set the logo to 0 in msdos.sys). The IBM menu is probably just a program that is loaded at the end of the autoexec.bat. The owner or manufacturer has probably disabled the actual windows 95 start up (which you can also do in msdos.sys by setting the GUI to 0)
With all those cables coming out of it, it looks like it's on life support.
I go crazy seeing miniature versions of things, and I'm loving this tiny laptop. lol