Computer from 1993 Test Drive & Tear-Down, ft. Level1Techs Wendell
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- Wendell from Level1Techs joins us to dive into some of his own computer hardware history, but also to tear-down one of the first handheld computers.
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In this video, we're looking at the Canon Cat computer, the HP 100LX Palmtop PC with 2MB of RAM, a Sharp handheld computer, and talking about Wendell's history with that hardware. He used to do mods on the handheld computers, leading cleanly into a tear-down of the HP 100LX from the early 90s. This gives a good look at some computer history.
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Host: Steve Burke
Guest: Wendell from Level1Techs
Video: Andrew Coleman, Josh Svoboda
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lol its alot like my HP x2 i love it and its garbage all at the same time
So glad you guys are having Wendell on, inredibly knowledgeable dude. Has helped me learn about networking/security and not to get a Smart TV lol. Whenever i decide to make the NAS/Plex Server leap, Level1 is where ill head. Plus they have one of the best new shows in the biz
He just walked in I have no idea who he is
Love the Wendell Collabs. He’s all nerd and can’t help it in a good way.
If you enjoyed this video you may also like the Old Timey Computer Show over on twitch: www.twitch.tv/oldtimeycomputershow
Wendell just shows up at random in nearly every TechTuber's videos at this point.
Chris Frizzell He's basically the Burt Mustin of tech cameos now and you couldn't ask for a nicer guy to do that.
The tech Godfather does what he wants😈
Because he's all-knowing
Not even Tech Tubers anymore. I came home one day and he was just there in my house with a box of tape drives, palm pilots, and cpus and was like "You wanna make a video?"
And I was like "I have a NAS made out of SD cards" and he screamed at the horror of the very concept and fled through my old land-line jack.
I'm frightened and uncertain when he will return.
@@pokeguy742 YMMD thanks!
"Rouge... Its a Nethack-like"
Love you Wendell
Yes, but can it run ADOM?
So about the Japanese on the Sharp
電池ぶた is "battery cover"
ロック is "lock"
使用時 is "while in use"
解除 is "release"
交換時 is "while changing"
So basically it's a lock for the battery cover and it says to keep it locked while in use and to release the lock when you change the batteries.
What, no Romaji? 😉
@@matthewkuhl79
Sure! In order:
denchibuta
rokku
shiyouji
kaijo
koukanji
@@williamwilliams6677 Hell yeah
@@williamwilliams6677 👍
Hearing Wendel through some good audio!!! WOW!!!
lol
Heh.
I love the quote "It's such an elegant experience, even though it's DOS" @ 19:02 Well, you don't hear that every day. I feel like these items are from an era where computer hardware was created more with the intention of being a business tool than a consumer play-thing. Keep it up with the quirky/nostalgia videos. As much as we all love the latest and greatest tech, getting back to your "tech-roots" can provide some great perspective of where we're at today and how far we've come.
Aw, shucks. I didn't realize I'd lose the prestigious "
The perspective on where we have gone won't is nice too.
I think portables have lost a lot of there usability in favor of cramming as many "features" as possible in. While removing "legacy techs" that people want, like say... A headphone jack
Why would I not watch this? 2 of my favorite people on the internet and I have selfies with both of them from LTX19!
And cool old tech on top.
Good stuff guys
What’s up slackers tell Wendell I said hi!
We shall soon have more steak on a cast iron skillet in Taipei again. Or somewhere :D
The slacker has entered the chat.
wendell tron will be here sooner for sure!! Nice vid broski!!
Wendell - "This is a cherished life changing artifact from childhood that I spent an entire summer working for. The plastic has become brittle and it can break easy"
Steve and his Semi-Conscience Hair - "Time for a tear-down!!!"
have teached CAD to new students, its so hard to get them to use commands instead of fishing icons with the mouse for hours.
It's so hard to get into the habit of just using commands slowly but surely ill be able to fully get into said habit.
Great video. I’m one of those die-hard HP200LX users. Used mine daily until about 2004. It was souped-up, double-clocked and 32MB RAM upgrade. I even sent it into Thaddeus computing in the early 2000s to get the keyboard replaced. I still have it, but alas I threw away a bunch of the accessories over the years - things like a double-slot PCMCIA expander, an Ethernet card and a modem card. I even had one of those suction cup acoustic telephone modems for emergency use while traveling. I wrote tons of C programs on this machine, including an utility to interface the phone book with a Rex-3. Great memories, now I gotta go dust it off and see if I can still boot it.
I love Wendell so much. In a way he reminds me to one of our IT instructors from "vocational school"*. He'd have so many stories & cool devices from back in the day, despite what some other students may have felt bored about; to me it was a joy almost every single day. You never really know what interesting details would come about even if the goal of that day was to cover a chapter (or several) of things like cpu sockets (their types, implementations, iterations, etc.). Memory (self explanatory, I won't make this extra long by expressing what would be in several pages of a textbook lol).
Back to Wendell, I'm not much of a software guy but I can appreciate his patience & ability to elaborate on things that may have otherwise simply been overlooked. Hardware-wise, have to love the fact this man made mods & overclocked such tiny hand held devices, as Steve mentioned the word Enthusiast I don't think you can come any closer to a real example of an OG like Wendell! :)
*(really just a fancy way of saying an accelerated course/program for CNST. With the intent that you also graduate along getting your A+ certification... But after that ofc you will undoubtedly find your niche that you wish to specialize in IF you truly love the world of IT and don't just do it for a paycheck.)
2:32 Physics class project : Nuclear magnetic resonance sensor. Me: Mind Blown
When Wendell said that, I pictured the Resonance Cascade scene from Half-Life 1, lol.
I love little dives into forgot things like this and the stories people have about them. Iike the BMCP6 is something that the person probably forgot about but is now something that stands out to a person who they never met
I mean, it's practically illegal to dislike Wendell
I thought Wendel was holding his new phone that he had pre-ordered and I was excited for him.
I know! It had me fooled.
DELAYED AGAIN 😣 soon tho
i like Wendel and level1 techs. im glad he's shown up a few times here and there. to top it off, i love old hardware from the era i lived through.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Love the HP LX teardown. I have a few of these - I was one of the folks who followed the modding scene closely. I was bummed the backlit screen never became viable. I used one of these as portable dev workstation from 1992-2003-ish? Still have a stack of various PCMCIA cards to go in it. Good times!
Love the colabs! Especially with someone like Wendell!
Always a blast to see vintage tech like this!
You guys gotta have AkBKuKu over some time
Wendell absolutely nerding over old tech is always worth a watch
Seeing "older" tech like this is always awesome. It is awesome to see how technology has evolved, both for the good and bad.
First time I have seen another human being outside of my immediate family mention (let alone own) a word processor.
I started to doubt my memory that such a thing existed.
11:10 stacking memory you mean that thing has proto HBM!
A great video for us old timers. Thanks Steve & Wendell for the walk down memory lane :-)
This triggered the early tech nostalgia hard. Damn, now I want another retro handheld PC. I had the Casio Cassiopeia and loved it.
Thanks for this guys, love seeing old tech being reviewed.
Prince of Persia and Zork, some serious throwbacks! :D
Awesome history lesson from Wendell, glad to see this content!
"this is for the engagement". There, we got you, Steve.
Engagement challenge!
This was super cool! I love these videos on old tech. Gonna have to dig up my Palm Tx and relive the good old days.
This was an amazing video and had a nice dose of nostalgia for old school devices.
I personally love the dive into older cool tech. I always heard about Wendel, but he seems awesome. I'm going to sub right after this.
*For the engagement. And, because y'all are great.*
Awesome video. Love the old tech and Wendell is the man.
It's amazing to see where tech as some from, also to see how dependent we have become on certain technology. Love videos like this!
This was really cool, thank you for sharing fellas!
Looking at that Canon computer reminds me that I still have two laptops from '94 '95 that still worked running DOS and Windows '95. I always get a kick from seeing my co-workers reactions when they check them out. Especially because most of them are Software Engineers.
I really do miss the slide out keyboards, maby with the phones like the LGv50 and motoZ we can get mods that allow for that feature. I really would not mind a chunkier phone for that added utility
I love this kind of stuff. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks to Wendell for a look at the bleeding edge of years gone by.
I love seeing old tech especially when it still works. Kind of makes me regret not keeping some of my own older tech. At the time when you replace something old you don't really care about it but when you look back later you kind of get a nostalgic feeling about the older stuff you had.
Thanks GN and Wendell for something different and a look at where technology came from.
This was really an enjoyable watch! It was like watching an old dude explain how he got started on computing and showing us the goods. You can really tell some devices were built with excellent user experience/interfaces when there's this level of user loyalty. I got access to a computer in 1994-1995 via my secondary school and to think this dude was rockin' such a portable beast in early 1990s would have blew the mind of young me!
"Rogue... It's a nethack-like"
EXCUSE ME
The term "spudger" is acceptable.
I miss physical keys on phones :(
Waste of screen space, plus sliding phones are wicked.
Glad you mentioned just commenting for engagement... will do from now on!
Nice walk down memory lane here Steve and Wendell, thanks!
I ran a HP Journada 720 for many years. I used it mostly as a SSH client for IRC.
I had both wifi and GPRS cards for chatting both at home and on the go.
I really like these extra different episodes. It's super cool. Get LGR, 8bit guy, or Technology connections on here.
my Father used one of those HP Palmtops for a lot of years. i was pretty jealous of such a thing for quite a while because yeah, it was incredibly efficient and practical to make your life easier and faster to manage.
Nice to see a blast from the past...thumbs up.
Great video guys, it trowed me back in nostalgia memory lane all the way to the second part of the '80's when we used to "download" games through FM radio broadcasts for Commodore 64 on magnetic tapes. Remembering my fathers Texas Instruments PDA (Personal Data Assistant) with 64Kb memory (yes 64000 bytes for OS and memory for storage of up to 1500 contacts) from the beginning of the '90's, before Pager tech and when Radio Talkie/Walkies (with ranges up 30~50 Km) was still a thing, before Mobile was even invented. Man those ware the days when tech was roughed and build to last for 20+ years and would go obsolete in less then a year, now tech is refined and build to last at most 2~3 years but with all the incremental 4~5% advances with "Next-Gen" products you probably could still use it in 20 years if it survives daily use.
This is awesome , thanks Steve!
Please do more retro videos every now and then. I enjoy them from your perspective.
Wow, thank you for the look back at the cutting edge of Tech. Brought back lots of fond memories. I agree about the mouse. Has it uses but a bit slow then Keyboard. Take care. Cheers!! 👍
I think that this is a great topic! Thanks!
Ayyy very nice video! Old machines are my jam!
I remember back around 93-95 seeing a handheld computer like the first one shown in this video that I really wanted my dad to get me for Christmas. I didn't get it though but this video did bring back memories of oogling it in some shop lol
Even laptops were a dream.
I bet Lazy Game Reviews would love to get his hands on some of those.
I had a HP 200lx a few years ago. I have changed the crystal in it, so it became what we call ''DoubleSpeed''. Yes, it is actually an overclock.
You should do more oldschool hardware content like this as it is fascinating to learn about old tech!
Before the bombs dropped in 2077.
Sweet history lessons. it's awesome seeing how far thing jump. I remember the palm and this stuff give me the nostalgia feels. the cat could great to learn shorthand.
10:00 Props to you Steve for not taking a correction personally! I know there are other Techtubers who would borderline publicly shame someone for trying.
Thank You for doing this collaboration!
Heck yeah on the phones with keyboards! My first smartphone (PDA Phone) was a PPC 6700. Then went to HTC Mogul, then the Touch Pro. They all had fantastic keyboards. I was loading apps on my phone WAY before people had any idea what that was. :D
More videos with Steve and Wendell! You make a great couple!
I'm going to start calling my monitors addressable RGB.
LOVE THIS TEAMUP!
Tech Jesus and Tech Godfather doing some actually cool tech reviews
Amazing video!
Damn - I remember the LX100/200. Thanks for showing it off!!
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!
I would love to have Wendell as a friend. We'll be talking about computers back in the 90s for days.
This brought tears to my eyes... I too started with a nice little hand-held from Sharp.... ahhh, the joy I recalled when I bought my first Sharp Zaurus....
Love the oldskool tech videos!
Love videos like this
2:31 what the hell kind of physics class did Wendell take?! That wasn't in any college physics class I took
In electronics engineering might be
I love these videos the revisit old hardware. My first computer was a Sinclair zx80. I built it from a kit and was amazed that it had 1KB of memory. It would be nice to have an in depth video on the technologies we have today and contrast where we have been and where we are going with all of this technology?
I remember wanting one of those Sharp devices back in the day. Never bought one though.
Really great stuff, I love this kind of content! There are many handheld devices that pre-date the HP device. For example, I have an original Poqet PC which is an XT clone that gets 100 hours on a pair of AA batteries. Of course, the HP apps and their integration into their 'dashboard' is far superior to anything before it (and a surprising amount after it).
I am BMC (P6). I am happy you did not find the embedded backdoor chip installed in the factory at my nation state masters' behest. All your docs are belong to us.
More videos like this please!
that content is awesome ahah I would crave for more but it's okay!
A friend had one of the HP handhelds; I wrote an option calculator for him. The cut down version of Lotus-123 didn't have a Log Normal Distribution function so I had to use a numerical approximation with as few float operations as possible. I miss the days of squeezing performance out of hardware - I have to play with microcontrollers to get the same buzz today.
i love this old stuff. i have an old compaq portable 486c that i still tinker with. :)
I watched because I'd watch mostly anything from two very interesting presenters. I love tech - even the old stuff.
Yay I had both of those awesome trip down tech memory.
13:33 Slide out keyboards on PDA's and smartphones is something i miss to this day. There is not an on-screen keyboard that actually works properly
16:08 My very first computer had a copy of Rogue on it. I was only 8 when I got and never did really understand what to do in Rogue (i never did get a manual for it)
Man, this brings back memories. I remember getting the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100 when I was in college and tinkering endlessly with it. I still regret selling it a decade later..
As a guy who used a palm pilot (and even carried the portable fold up keyboard for it) all through middle school, this was cool to see
Sweet. Would have loved to play with those bits of tech.
I love this type of content.
I attended prep and boarding school (in England) with students from China and Japan, and every single one of them had devices like these for (what mostly seemed to be) translation. But my favourite one was a student from Japan who had a colour Sharp device (form factor of the HP one in this video but colour screen). Edit: This was in 1996-99 for prep school so quite early for a colour touch screen.
Yes the Game Gear was a big deal for that reason also.
I've got an HP 200LX which I love messing around with, although it needs some touching up at this point.
I'd love more videos like this!
I had one of these hp's and loved it.
One could definitely see wendel guiding tours though his own museum of early technology one day.
Gotta say, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Always enjoy all of your guys videos, though some can be a little wordy, not to mention any names (coughSTEVE) .lol . Thx gentlemen!
definitely digging this episode of wendell's nexus. more, please :D
We had a version of that 100XL branded 'Psion' and used it to collect asset data in the field for a utility in the early 2000's.
This is for the engagement but I did greatly enjoy this video.
I'd like to see more of Wendell showing Steve old hardware. This is pretty cool.