@@RetroTechChris Yeah it is I never had ms dos back in the day my friend did was really cool to see Alone In The Dark and Doom.Seems like PCs back then were so expensive
In a long-ago job, I deployed a few wireless networks with DOS clients using pre-802.11 Proxim RangeLan cards. I think top speed was around 1Mbs. The DOS machines ran 3270 emulation connecting to the patient record/billing system. The machines were on carts and used in ERs. The idea was when a seriously injured patient, for example from a bad auto accident, was brought in patient registration could go to the ER room to capture the patient info and record any billable events. Usually this was done after the fact and based upon the memory of the medical staff. This led to billable items being missed. Unsurprisingly this didn't really work. Medical staff would kick the patient registration people out, patient registration would forget to plug the carts in to recharge and anytime someone used the leaky microwave in the breakroom signal would be lost. These systems were usually abandoned within months. We would recommend against installing the systems pointing out the non-technical issues, but every hospital thought they were going to be the ones to make it work.
Pretty fancy wireless setup Chris! Also like that most systems still appear to have original hard drives in them, those are getting hard to come by & people just go straight for the CompactFlash cards.
Nice! I have an IBM ThinkPad 380XD that's still running the Win2K install it had on it when I got it years ago. I should pull it out and get some multi-boot of DOS/Win on it, it supports DOS pretty well too
I'm impressed you have sufficient Aironet cards to connect them all - I'm finding that 802.11b cards are becoming harder to find. I wish I'd picked some up 10 years ago! Gonna do my best to produce a similar video, but with Toshibas and WaveLAN instead :)
@@geekwithsocialskills Sweet! Sounds like fun. I wish I had an active retro computer group in Montgomery to do things like that! Maybe it's time to relocate LOL.
High School ?? the night doom shareware was released we had 5 people with 14.4k modems download each of the 4 disk images at midnight, then as each person had there floppy they drove to my house and we had it up and running by 2 am Next thing you know it is 830 all the kids are up and we are still trying to finish level 2 - we all realised we should have been at work and rang in sick There was a bug in level 3 or 4 exit - but 4 man lan doom with co-axial cable all over the dining table was up and running :)
Hey there! Basically the only way to get rid of that is to run at a higher resolution (in Windows, etc.), or with the right display driver, you can scale nominally the text modes in a DOS window under Windows using FN+t. Hope that helps
@@RetroTechChris thanks Chris, I Just installed OS/2 version 2.0 (oh yes 😄) do you perhaps know how to change resolution or which drivers to install ? Regards Rolf
@@florsretep not really sure, but you will want 800x600 resolution. These machines have a Cirrus Logic video chip, can't remember the model offhand.. GL-5446 perhaps?
Hey Chris, how do you find these laptops? I lost my Pentium 133/ESS Fujitsu as my car was impounded after a cross-country move where there was nothing I could do to recover it. Over $7,000 of my personal belongings were tossed out, including the Roland sound canvas SCP-55 pcmcia card I shelled out $600 for. I was just wondering if you knew an easy way to find a comparable replacement. Is there a model of this laptop that has both a Pentium 133 in speed, as well as a 640 x 480 TFT screen? The only flaw of my Fujitsu was the screen was 800 x 600, but 75 MHz of these lower-end Compaqs is a bit too choppy for the DOS games I like. The 120mhz 5000 model you listed may be good enough, but it appears to be uncommon, and I'm curious on if it will divide evenly "turbo wise" for correct speed on older games.
Yikes! I'm really sorry to hear that. As far as how I get these, the running joke is that these damn things just keep appearing here. But I usually get them on eBay. If you are on Facebook, join our Compaq LTE and Armada Owners group, sometimes members will sell things there as well! Regarding the 640x480 with a Pentium 133, any model LTE 5000 can take any processor. The LTE 5000 does have a 640x480 model, but with a Pentium 75. If you find a processor card, you can swap it in!
@@RetroTechChris well it is optimistic to know you can swap the CPU. Unfortunately, I'm unable to make a Facebook account, so I guess I'll just keep eBay hunting. I'm definitely not going to be that guy to ask you to part with any of yours haha. I get what it's like to have something you love - no amount of value offered can convince us to part with nostalgia. Some things are priceless. XD
@@RetroTechChris I have one last question while I wait for a listing on eBay to appear... Do these laptops launch the DOS Megaman X port correctly? I remember that game in particular flashing an error code if your system RAM was greater than 32 mb. There may be other games like this, but this is the one that I experienced.
@@RetroTechChris sounds good. Oh and just a tip so you don't hurt your ears... Search up the "MegaMan X Better Music Mod" before you play. It's a creation of mine I'm very proud of, but deleted all videos on my channel after going through some life stuff. I'm sure someone made a mirror of it somewhere. Either way, I don't recommend playing with the default music. They weren't very good at MIDI composition.
Very cool post My friend 😊😊
Thank you! Pretty amazing what can be done in MS-DOS!
@@RetroTechChris Yeah it is I never had ms dos back in the day my friend did was really cool to see Alone In The Dark and Doom.Seems like PCs back then were so expensive
Yea... PCs used to cost a fortune. Oh how times have changed... well unless you want one of those fancy $10k+ Macs. LOL.
@@RetroTechChris That's true haha I saw some expensive modern laptops like a diamond laptop 😺😺
In a long-ago job, I deployed a few wireless networks with DOS clients using pre-802.11 Proxim RangeLan cards. I think top speed was around 1Mbs. The DOS machines ran 3270 emulation connecting to the patient record/billing system. The machines were on carts and used in ERs. The idea was when a seriously injured patient, for example from a bad auto accident, was brought in patient registration could go to the ER room to capture the patient info and record any billable events. Usually this was done after the fact and based upon the memory of the medical staff. This led to billable items being missed. Unsurprisingly this didn't really work. Medical staff would kick the patient registration people out, patient registration would forget to plug the carts in to recharge and anytime someone used the leaky microwave in the breakroom signal would be lost. These systems were usually abandoned within months. We would recommend against installing the systems pointing out the non-technical issues, but every hospital thought they were going to be the ones to make it work.
That's insane! Yea, I guess the plans like this don't always work out! Good case for doing a pilot program first.
Fun way to kick off doscember! I didn't know wireless was old enough to be DOS compatible, always assumed that was a Windows 95 era thing
Same here! Great video!
@@dave4shmups thank you, glad you enjoyed it!!
Great video Chris! Love your LTE collection, impressive!
Thank you! These are fun little machines!
Chris, Just learned of your channel from Matt@retrobits. Glad I found someone else local with a slight x86 habit like myself.
Oh nice! We do have a DC Area Retro Computing group on Facebook, you should join up if you are on there!! We should get together.
@@RetroTechChris I'll look for it. Thanks!
Pretty fancy wireless setup Chris! Also like that most systems still appear to have original hard drives in them, those are getting hard to come by & people just go straight for the CompactFlash cards.
Thank you! Yea, I try to keep the drives around, at least until they fail! Thanks for watching!
Outstanding stuff Chris! Man I would kill for a modern laptop in one of those LTE cases.
Thank you! Yea, that is a super cool idea!
Great video!! Love the chunkiness of the old laptops..lol Happy DOScember :)!!
Oh yeah! Thanks for watching!
Ha! Great fun Chris! Happy Doscember!
Thank you!!
Nice! I have an IBM ThinkPad 380XD that's still running the Win2K install it had on it when I got it years ago. I should pull it out and get some multi-boot of DOS/Win on it, it supports DOS pretty well too
Oh yeah, that would be perfect for #DOScember!
AWESOME Laps!
Thank you! I love them. Thanks for watching!!
4:41 is taking multi player gaming to another level.
Haha, yea! I thought about grabbing some family members to assist, but couldn't bring myself to reshoot the clip, so in it went 😂😂
Бальзам на мою душу ретрограда ❤❤❤
This video is a cure for my retro love heart ♥️
Thx man 🎉
You bet! Thanks for watching!
I'm impressed you have sufficient Aironet cards to connect them all - I'm finding that 802.11b cards are becoming harder to find. I wish I'd picked some up 10 years ago! Gonna do my best to produce a similar video, but with Toshibas and WaveLAN instead :)
Haha, yea, I bought a huge lot of them at one point!
I got a few too from Microsoft and 3Com but don't work anymore
Great stuff there Chris!
Thank you! Happy #DOScember
DANG I miss my old Doom LAN parties from high school.
Right? Great memories there!
@@geekwithsocialskills Sweet! Sounds like fun. I wish I had an active retro computer group in Montgomery to do things like that! Maybe it's time to relocate LOL.
High School ?? the night doom shareware was released we had 5 people with 14.4k modems download each of the 4 disk images at midnight, then as each person had there floppy they drove to my house and we had it up and running by 2 am
Next thing you know it is 830 all the kids are up and we are still trying to finish level 2 - we all realised we should have been at work and rang in sick
There was a bug in level 3 or 4 exit - but 4 man lan doom with co-axial cable all over the dining table was up and running :)
@@georgemaragos2378 Started playing Doom in middle school, but we still had LAN parties through my senior year, 1999. Good times!
I feel like we may have found the same vendor on eBay that had like 300 of those aironet cards
Haha, yea I have purchased these from a few different folks, but I think I have purchased from that vendor too!
Hi Chris, great video! I have a lte 5100 but I still have black bars at the sides and top, bottom. How do I get rid of them? Thanks! Rolf
Hey there! Basically the only way to get rid of that is to run at a higher resolution (in Windows, etc.), or with the right display driver, you can scale nominally the text modes in a DOS window under Windows using FN+t. Hope that helps
@@RetroTechChris thanks Chris, I Just installed OS/2 version 2.0 (oh yes 😄) do you perhaps know how to change resolution or which drivers to install ?
Regards Rolf
@@florsretep not really sure, but you will want 800x600 resolution. These machines have a Cirrus Logic video chip, can't remember the model offhand.. GL-5446 perhaps?
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Thank you! Thanks for watching!
imo, those were the best Compaq laptops
I am quite fond of them!!
I'm shocked you found packet drivers for those
Pretty cool, isn't it? Yea, packet and NDIS2!! And there are ODI drivers as well.
Hey Chris, how do you find these laptops? I lost my Pentium 133/ESS Fujitsu as my car was impounded after a cross-country move where there was nothing I could do to recover it. Over $7,000 of my personal belongings were tossed out, including the Roland sound canvas SCP-55 pcmcia card I shelled out $600 for. I was just wondering if you knew an easy way to find a comparable replacement. Is there a model of this laptop that has both a Pentium 133 in speed, as well as a 640 x 480 TFT screen? The only flaw of my Fujitsu was the screen was 800 x 600, but 75 MHz of these lower-end Compaqs is a bit too choppy for the DOS games I like. The 120mhz 5000 model you listed may be good enough, but it appears to be uncommon, and I'm curious on if it will divide evenly "turbo wise" for correct speed on older games.
Yikes! I'm really sorry to hear that. As far as how I get these, the running joke is that these damn things just keep appearing here. But I usually get them on eBay. If you are on Facebook, join our Compaq LTE and Armada Owners group, sometimes members will sell things there as well! Regarding the 640x480 with a Pentium 133, any model LTE 5000 can take any processor. The LTE 5000 does have a 640x480 model, but with a Pentium 75. If you find a processor card, you can swap it in!
@@RetroTechChris well it is optimistic to know you can swap the CPU. Unfortunately, I'm unable to make a Facebook account, so I guess I'll just keep eBay hunting. I'm definitely not going to be that guy to ask you to part with any of yours haha. I get what it's like to have something you love - no amount of value offered can convince us to part with nostalgia. Some things are priceless. XD
@@RetroTechChris I have one last question while I wait for a listing on eBay to appear... Do these laptops launch the DOS Megaman X port correctly? I remember that game in particular flashing an error code if your system RAM was greater than 32 mb. There may be other games like this, but this is the one that I experienced.
@@Zuon94 I can try it out tomorrow and let you know!
@@RetroTechChris sounds good. Oh and just a tip so you don't hurt your ears... Search up the "MegaMan X Better Music Mod" before you play. It's a creation of mine I'm very proud of, but deleted all videos on my channel after going through some life stuff. I'm sure someone made a mirror of it somewhere. Either way, I don't recommend playing with the default music. They weren't very good at MIDI composition.
whatabout on DOS desktops?
Sure! They can be networked too.
if you have storage issues I can get one lte5000 :)
Haha, yeah.. I have collected up quite a few of these. Oh man, have I ever. Thanks for watching!
speaking about DOS networking - have you ever tried the serial server by lantronix uds-10? or something BBS related?
@@seekyouI think I did something similar! I set up a BBS server in the past over ethenet. There is a channel video somewhere on it in the backlog!