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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Here is an excavation and exploration of a long forgotten Compaq Prolinea 575e computer.
Later in this video it becomes readily apparent that AVS Video Editor isn't keeping the audio and video synchronized (informally, the error looks to be around 3.5 seconds by the end of the video). This didn't happen until the video was exported. It played perfectly on the editing/timeline view.
(I will ask Online Media Technologies if they have any suggestions. Out of all the Windows compatible video editors I have tried, their AVS Video Editor is what I've liked the best. I really hope this can be worked out.)
Aaaaaand...apparently, TH-cam fixed the audio sync issues that I witnessed in VLC and Windows Media Player alike while quality checking the final result. How's that for a first, TH-cam making something better?
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I lost it at 38:38. Like... Milk out the nose lost it.
"Remember this screen? Didn't shut down your computer properly?"
"So ScanDisk was going to corrupt whatever was left of your files!"
A perfect example of one of the low-end Pentium machines that the later 486DX4 and 5x86 chips could easily outperform. Many, if not most, 75 MHz Pentium chips were designed for 90 or even 100 MHz operation and were underrated just to have a Pentium to sell at a cheaper price point.
I didn't notice the audio and video drifting too far out of synch, but you already have a solution for that... you just haven't used it yet. ;-)
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Use MediaInfo to check if it's doing something screwy like encoding the video with a variable frame rate.
***** I really enjoy Sony Vegas Pro 12, for all my editing, although me and you make very different videos. Keep up the good work. :)
***** Silly noob... you should be using Linux for video editing! :-P
Stereo Dust Particles haven't you got an lamp Imac G4 still sitting in your garage? Why not edit on imovie on oldschool osx with imovie 04 or 09 :D Would make a fun video.
vwestlife Well, there is a professional video editor called LightWorks that has a version for Linux. Except that a copy costs $500.
If I were your neighbor I would offer to come by and go through that computer basement with you. It would be a blast!
your choice of words and phrases bring a smile to my face. Good video Mr. Bill.
Yeah I love the way he words everything :)
"I wonder if the keyboard works anyway?"
*BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP...*
"Or... not."
"Power saver mode- *WHO CARES ABOUT THAT?*"
LOL That totally made my day.
Your commentary dialog while you are doing your videos is top notch.
HAHA bombed a radioshack
I do appreciate that you take the time to explain a bit about the components in the older computers. I myself am starting as an apprentice in IT so i do know a fair bit about computers, however i am not that familiar with older computer hardware that went into these computers. Keep up the good work :)
TWAIN Drivers for Scanners stands for Tool Without An Interesting Name, Straight up.
Yep. I'm aware of that. :-)
"Relax,chill out, enjoy life a little bit." - UXWBill, 2015
It's a shame that a forgotten room such as the one you mention, we cannot see because internet dunces ruin it for us. I think we're all interested in seeing some of the older gear in there that has been, as you say, long forgotten.
Always the dunces that ruin it for everyone. :(
Also a nice little computer. Was funny to see that lone PCI slot hiding amongst the ISA's. Heh.
Just a minor correction, the Vectra *VE* 5/75 has a 133MHz CPU that has been OC'd to 150MHz.
The 575E is such a nice machine. I used to have a 4/33 but it got chucked out back in childhood, so I recently acquired my own 575E back in March and have been working on it as a little side-project of my own since. Thanks for this video!
wow....that 50 minutes went by FAST!! This was a great video and hope you do end up doing more "Basement PC" videos :)
Sir, I enjoy your extended vocabulary.
21:29 The old P54C Pentiums have ~3.4M transistiors.
Also, FYI, The i386 has 275,000 and the 486DX has 1.2M.
I need a T-shirt with
"Shoulda been thrown away, but you know me" on
I agree. I never want to overclock anything. I did that once about 15 years ago. I blew up the computer. Never again. :)
Thanks for the upload - brings back memories! I certainly ran across many of those Compaq desktops in the late 90's. Totally agree on the desktop themes being best left in the past, as finding anything in a mess of animated cursors and random icons was never a good time.
Is it a bad thing that I did a little sing-song "tada!" sound after you clicked shut down? :)
35:20 - I work at a bank and it would bother me if num lock was turned off!
I doubt we'll reach the limits of 48 bit LBA anytime soon, because it can handle a little over 144 petabytes.
I know many people have commented on how your place looks, To hell with them. Its your place. Keep it how you want. There is much worse out there and it is most likely the ones complaining about yours. Don't let them get to you or annoy you. I love your videos and the enthusiasm you put into them. And the Radio Shack bomb line was priceless. My entire place looks like that. I have 5 tvs in the front room alone. 4 are antique, and they all work. I also have 4 tvs in the bedroom, 2 of those are mid-late '70s models. Lightbars, cables, etc... I've got more crap than the electronics section at walmart.
"...in the name of child safety"-- *bottle opens*
You saved me from the boredom of waiting for Windows 8.1 to install 143 updates (~1.6GB download).
To add insult to injury after the 95-th update it logged me off without any warning and continued installing the rest of the updates.
As lacking in polish as GNU/Linux may be at least it handles updates right.
Thanks for posting a new computer video! I was surprised to see Windows 98 running on that machine. I was also surprised to see Windows 98 running so fast on only 32MB RAM!
Cache on a stick!
My "junk" room looks like someone bombed Motorola, Intel, Cisco, Kenwood, and Frys.. Its pretty cluttered in there.
Wow thanks for the look back I remember those days. The hard drive patch for the bios limitations... That and Windows 95 it seemed like I was constantly crashing and reinstalling the bios patch and win 95. 98 was a big step up in stability for me. And Microsoft plus. The cool snake and cat desktop I remember that one too. Thanks for sharing again. And man 32mb of system ram. How did we survive?
Ah yes the Pentium floating point bug. I recall one of the many jokes that did the rounds around that time; How many Pentium engineers does is take to change a light-bulb? Three... one to hold the ladder and one to change the bulb!
hey, man, you're cool, gotta relaxed attitude and your videos are good, maybe just get a cheappo chinese phone for the 4k/hd camera;) but this way is good too, it's got that nostalgic 90s home video feel. cheers)
hey, don't worry bout it, it's your channel) figured you don't wanna spend a lot on a camcorder, and these new phones have really come a long way, got this 150 bucks mi3 with a sony camera module, it's really something else, especially with some good software, plus you know how youtube likes to compress everything especially on the 480p/720p settings
anyway, not trying to sell you anything, just saying) remember that if there weren't people that bought new hardware we wouldn't had the gear we have today))
yeah, I'm not terribly good with people but I like to take photos of them when on the road, so, I'd "sell my aunt" for an optical zoom))) so, I understand what you're saying, a lot of the features will never be implemented on a phone for lack of space and I do understand that a matrix can have so many pixels but it's not about that..
actually I always wondered, how you can make shallow depth look so classy, and can never see a camcorder do that
and yeah, you can't really blame yt, there's so much content uploaded daily, I still can't imagine, where do they keep all that))
I meant a dslr shallow depth against a camcorder
It's a Sony Handycam. The reason is that it's all videotaped instead of digital video.
+uxwbill how are they penalizing people with SD video?
The company I worked in had a bevvy of these machines as the very first desktop computers in customer service. They were barebones machines, ran Win 3.1 and were networked to a billing system using the serial ports and category 3 cabling. The "hub" of the network in turn communicated with the mainframe someplace further north.
A team of techs and myself pulled all the wires and I assembled the little RJ11 jack to serial port plugs. Even though they all were set up with Win3.1 we edited the autoexec.bat to launch the billing system software, a DOS terminal program. A few of us cheated and let Windows launch and would run the terminal in a DOS window. That was when we found out that Solitaire and Mindsweeper were loaded on them too.
My ThinkPad doesn't have a floppy drive, but it *does* have a parallel port. Does that make it at least an honorary "real computer"? :P
Can you make a video talking about your core 2 duo computers, specifically the dell optiplex computers shown at parts of this video?
Radioshack bombed themselves... how times have changed
I never thought about older PC power supplies blowing up. is that common? Great, now I'm going to have to add that to the list of things I'm scared to plug in. I can't stand unexpected loud noises :p
i guess i have a couple real computers because some of my oldest DESKTOPS have floppy drives
I had that Panther Wallpaper in Windows ME but i was only a young kid in 2001 so excuse my stupidity LOL
How do you keep all that stuff in your head? I have problems when I have to put a sentence or password from one page to another and copy/paste is disabled.
I think I watch this video about four times a year.
Just thought I'd let you know... That opening shot of the computer...
I'll be having nightmares for the next week at least. Thanks.
;)
Yes! This should be informative :D It is horrible that a lot of Motherboards I have looked at lately are removing PS/2, Floppy, and IDE connectors :(
Always love the story about the wind up clock. Miss these old videos!
When I saw that there was a CD in the CD drive I knew exactly what that Icon was for.
Fun game for the time and it would have ran on that PC quite well.
For the most part, I think of thumb drives as 3.5 floppies on steroids.
The good old days.... I have a Packard Bell Legend 125 system that i upgraded multiple times and its compatible with the new components and runs as fast as a jackrabbit i must say.
This is a really cool video. I love the knowledge you have of old hardware. I think that PC probably did come with Windows 95, and was later upgraded to 98.
First, a UXWBill computer video. If that was not enough, it is almost an hour long!!!!!
Percussive Maintenance is the best kind of maintenance.
The original pentium transistor count is 3,100,000
Awesome video ! I remember the ddo software, and i almost cry when you speak about all the forgotten video card manufacturers, like WD, Tseng Labs, Chips & Technology, Trident, S3, Cirrus Logic, 3dfx and many other one ...
A friend of mine had one of these when I was like 9 or 10 - was an interesting machine.
this was a fun walk down memory lane.
The original 72pin FPM SIMM in my Mac Performa was a 4MB IBM stick, I thought that was weird.
It has a 60ns 32MB SIMM now, so it is a good bit quicker.
In some of the early Power Macintosh line, you'll also sometimes see PowerPC processors fabricated by IBM. So it's not impossible to think that Apple might have used memory modules built by IBM as well, perhaps as a second-source arrangement.
I really enjoy these videos about where you talk about older computers ;)
"I've screwed it up. I didn't plug the power cord in".
Wow! That was a blast to the past! As cheesey as those Windows '98 Plus! themes looked, I have to say that they have some cool backgrounds, and I especially love that Jungle background it had on there with the black panther, snake, and whatever other animals that were in that wallpaper.
Just wanted to give you a big 'thank you' for your videos :) Extremely interesting stuff.
As always, Bill, I love your videos. This one is great. I had a system like this. It was one of my first systems in fact
I would absolutely love to see someone call up Intel and tell them they have a FDIV bug Pentium and want it replaced. I really want to see what Intel would do, but the reaction of the person working the phone at Intel might just be priceless.
i love the vids :D!!!!!!!!!!!!
my windows 8 Toshiba laptop has Intel graphics I prefer nividia for graphics my gaming PC has a nividia graphics
Thats pretty interesting!
Re Matrox - I (still) have a HP "dc5100" small form factor computer (running Linux Mint 17 and Bunsenlabs Linux, and XP), for which I once bought a PCIe x1 videocard by Matrox, but I did not get it to work. "P690 LP", it says.
+uxwbill -You make entertaining, funny and fascinating videos - all such old hardware (some of which I remember from days bygone). Keep 'em coming :)
Why I don't like branded systems:
1. Power supply! They are not designed for more than the original parts.
2. Motherboard support, like the dc5100 from HP which has a crippled x16 slots
3. Driver support, only for the OS they come with. Good luck upgrading
4. Price, you don't really spend less on buying branded PCs compared to good self builds from smaller vendors using standard components.
This machine looks like it would be good for somebody who wanted to play MSDOS games. All those ISA slots are most useful for such a machine, and it should be fast enough for all but the latest games of the DOS era. I presume the speaker output could be redirected to the sound card. The single PCI slot could be used for an early 3Dfx accelerator, although again the CPU (even if upgraded) might be a bit underpowered for those latest DOS games. But for the pre-3D era it would be quite good.
It's a bit disappointing that the jumpers offer no apparent option for a 66MHz bus mode, and as you mentioned in the video, the RAM is a bit slow.
That chipset is interesting. Odd that the chips are made by VLSI instead of Intel.
I hated ISA PnP. I really preferred the jumpers, jumper based ISA cards just worked as they were told. I found ISA PnP to be a constant battle and pain in the neck. PCI PnP was better, but it took some time for me to be convinced due to my terrible experience with the ISA variety.
I have a couple socket-4 Pentium 60 CPUs, of which at least one if not both have the FDIV bug. I truly wonder if Intel could still replace those ancient things. I suppose they'd be more likely to offer some common socket-7 chip.
It's funny how socket-4 ended up being such a dud. With all the upgrades that came available for 486 boards, they ended up surpassing any socket-4 Pentium and for much less money.
The system in the video seems slightly primitive compared to most common mainstream Pentium machines, so I think it must be one of the earliest socket-5 systems. It really represents when the Pentium platform was hitting it's stride and becoming mature and practical.
+uxwbill Where can I find a similar dell keyboard? I have a similar one, but it's missing keycaps... I would appreciate a answer.
New Sub! That made me laugh with the cleaner lol. I like you already! Love the old PCs so a fellow 90s PC lover I will sub and watch your videos!!
The Prolinea 575e was my first computer. It was barely used when I got it.
wow you do have lots of great computer gear and I enjoy tearing down and building new towers as well and to me like you it is fun to build them and fix and troubleshoot them . great video as always thank you for posting this video
COMPAQ VIDEO MEMORY BD BOARD 004827-001 FOR 1995 DESKTOP COMPUTERS i just found 2 of them
Hey! Can you do a overview of the Compaq Deskpro EN, because my Grandfather gave me one and I think that a review of that gotta be awesome, thanks!
Blech to those who cannot take a joke. Of course you know a short definition of a computer is a device that does mathematical calculations at high speed. So go ahead and keep saying "real computers have a floppy drive" if you like!
matrox is now a AMD OEM iirc
I remember see this Desktop at Elementary and Middle School that I used to play games two on Educational games by Edmark, and it's originally installed Windows 95.
And for 98, I love that because I do enjoy play games like Freddi Fish games, Top 20 Solid Gold, etc where they have the best picture quality on PC so I really love that 98 better than 95. =)
Person coming out of the woodwork here, in regards to your speech about old computers not using more power to do the same job at 25 minutes in.
Just to play devil's advocate, have you considered modern non-tower style computers? For example the raspberry pi which runs off just 5 watts and, despite lacking PCI slots, have capabilities that surpass most computers from before 2006. For your specific example of NAS, fancy expensive modern routers have USB ports on the back which allow you to have a NAS for the power cost of just running the hard drive (or an even lower power usb stick, which by the way, should have more capacity than any IDE hard drive that could attach to an older system).
I share your love for old computers, and it makes me happy to see an old computer doing the job that it was built for decades after it was manufactured, but saying that they don't use more power isn't really accurate.
Love your videos, love you,
sincerely, HamburgerExplosion
I have a Compaq desk-pro Pentium 133 system that also uses EDO memory! Witch is very surprising.
Ha ha thats classic bill, yep it does need power :)
Compaq 2nd ide port, bloody pain in the bum, "special" yep there special allright lol.
Im much the same as you but with any version of windows, all the fancy bullshit is switched off, basic menus and basic mouse pointer, no themes!!, no silly sounds.
As i came from the dos days i like simplicity, yes im simple lol im sure you were thinking that :-D.
i like a quiet o.s that just runs my programs, no arguements like vista/w7... give when you try to run a new program, just run the dam program without annoying me, i am the bloody admin so get on with it!! ha ha :-D.
When you talked about video chips i thought about my first pc, an xt class machine called Elernex, it had an unusual cga/ega card marked Video7, it gave me ega on an old cga monitor, it was deluxe in those days lol, it also had a nec cpu that run at double speed if you had a small dos util to instruct the cpu "Fast mode" lol, oh the speed :).
Some one seems to be slightly "ticked" off in this video! haha I get tired of people even considering core 2 duo based pcs to be ancient when the joke is on them! I am watching this video perfectly fine with a T7700 Core 2 Duo!
MaxinMaytrix Core 2 Duo CPU's are still awesome CPUs! (Core 2 Quad was even better!)
***** Exactly! Core 2 Duo CPUs ran XP, Vista, and 7 blazing fast!
MaxinMaytrix I got dell optiplex 780 with a 3 GHz core 2 duo, sadly I bought the wrong power supply
My t7200 struggles a bit with 1080p on TH-cam but otherwise it really surprises me.
I was only joining into the simple conversation, no need to be rude.
For 1996, that machine was crappier than the average Packard Bell! At least they shipped machines with more than one PCI slot and a real Intel chip set (that could support 66Mhz bus speeds). Needless to say, such a machine from that era wouldn't be a keeper for me. There are better Socket 5 machines out there.
I'm also curious about how messy this mess room is.
At 5:20 I kind of was expecting a whole bunch of spiders jumping out and running off :)
5:30 - so, no spiders :)
Second video of yours that I've watched, and I must say I'm subscribed. Thoroughly enjoyed this extremely informative video. Thank you for taking the time to go into so much detail, while making it interesting at the same time. Really enjoyed it, and hope to see more videos like this in the future. Take care.
You look a lot like a young Andy Hertzfeld, the guy who used to work with the original Mac team back in the day.
windows 3.11 for workgroup was a great OS back in the day, a great break out over 2 or DOS and 98 wow
i had the model that came before this one, it was made around 1994, it came with 3.1 as the original with no CD Drive.
I miss the early days of computers. Things were way more diverse, challenging, interesting, and fun in the 80s and 90s.
Why do all of these youtubers that show old tech, all look like they film in a dark hole in the midwest?
Love your videos btw
(palindrome) a word or phrase that is the same whether you read it forward or backward, such as “noon” or “not a ton”
Wow! I remember being given three of these in around 2001 by my father from the company he worked for. I remember stripping all three and building one good one out of the parts.
excellent video.thanks for takeing the time.keep up the fine work.....
38:00 I Laughed too hard. Excellent overview of this machine! :)
I chuckled at how it sounded like you were blowing off some dust right at the beginning of the video LOL.
maybe the cleaner bottle is uxwbill safe rather than kid safe :p
Considering that uxwbill is mentally about ten years old, it's probably both!
omg at the beginning i thought that the video was from 2008/2009 XD.
Omg I want it soooo bad
I am a huge fan of older computers
I have a 99 gateway and I love it
i like your vids its cool keep up the good work. just sub on your channel. :)
so miss this... i had one too but did it away when i bought and build my first own pc.... :(
I have 2 Compaq ProLiant 1600 servers you can have!
hey, i was wondering what the optiplex model is on your pool table next to you in the video?
I used to have an old Compaq computer that has Windows 98 on it when I was in school