I feel ya on the age thing! Although, way back when, I worked with a guy who had "retired" from Digital Equipment (DEC). When I was at university, only the CompSci students could get e-mail addresses, and the web was mostly MUDs and MUCKs. Gopher, Finger and FTP for the win!
"Compaq became known for unexceptional, poor quality..." Trust me I know that one all too well... Bought a Compaq laptop awhile back and not even a few months later the screen data ribbon went bad. Paid a lot of extra money for a warranty from them that was 'Supposed to cover everything!!' Even and I quote "If you were to accidentally throw your laptop down the stairs..." (Yes that is actually what the rep told me...) When trying to use said warranty they basically told us to get screwed and that their warranty doesn't cover basically anything... 'Except' blatant manufacturer defects which they said this wasn't (it clearly was) and that It was instead 'User Damage...' They then tried to sell us a repair for 1,100 which was 300 more than the laptop was worth. Needless to say I am glad they are gone...
This sounds like an America problem. Guess this shit happens when you dont have consumer rights. If that shit was tried in Australia they would be taken to court by our consumer rights watchdog
I've boycotted Sony consumer electronics since 2004 due to their shoddy quality. Laptop screen broke within 7 days on my first laptop (VAIO) and they wanted to charge me double the cost of the laptop to repair it, and I went through 5 replacement MD players because the Sony store would only offer like-for-like replacements. I had a phone in 2005 that broke and, despite living in England, the manufacturer had the audacity to claim that it was damaged by water and wouldn't be repaired without me spending 4x what the phone cost - apparently their moisture detectors were designed in such a way that humidity in the air (such as if it is raining outside) was enough to turn them red. On the plus side, the likes of Compaq, Sony, and Motorola from the nineties/noughties are the reason we demanded better consumer protection and why Dell are sending UPS to pick up my broken laptop tomorrow.
@@crypticsailor to be fair everyone touts risc v and the risc architecture as the thing of tomorrow much like edge computing and how great it is but nobody ever puts their proof where their mouth is. They sound like sham product salesmen, you ask them why risc matters and they give vague promises. Sounds a lot like apple marketing tactics.
I still have a HP Compaq DC5800 SFF that came with Visa and was upgraded to Windows 10 it's still going strong after 11 years of use. Yes I did upgrade it a lot with parts I had laying around but it's still a great computer and still fast.
I have a Compaq Presario CQ57 laptop that originally had windows 7 before I got the free upgrade to windows 10. I initially wasn't too thrilled with windows 10 but I love it now, I just wish I could get a new computer that was made for the windows 10 os because so many apps are now requiring touchscreen and other functions that windows 10 cannot provide on an older computer like mine.
@@emmgeevideo Also mostly forgotten is that the bones of what had just a few years before been the worlds 2nd largest computer manufacturer behind IBM; Digital Equipment Corp. ended up being bought by Compaq. Ken Olsen, the micro-manager founder of DEC refused to believe that PC's would ever be anything more than a toy. When it became obvious even to him that he was wrong, DEC came out with the "Rainbow", a desktop running on CP:M, an OS rapidly going out the window. Of the 2 million they built, about 1.8 million ended up in landfills, never out of the box.
I remember having cleaned school for six weeks in summer vacation to buy a HP41C. But this was when they made still military grade stuff. Since the graphic designers have taken over the company, it's triple hiss, vade retro!
We here in Romania were subject to one of the most weird corruption scandals involving Microsoft. We got really expensive computers for out school labs despite not being able to use them(such as for gaming). I still remember drolling at my schools a64 x2 6000+be with 4 gigs of ram, 7800gt and raptor 10k drives which we used to learn excel and Pascal.
COMPAQ was last seen by me as Black Friday Walmart specials (budget HP models) a few years back. Gateway (or COMPAQ) could make a great comeback in stores such as Walmart as Ubuntu & Linux Mint PC's. Only Dell carries Linux based notebooks online & one has to look deep to find these, usually in the business section.
I LOVED my compaq laptop. The screen was gorgeous, and while the trackpad was horrible, and it was the only laptop I ever had whos hinge snapped in half, I love the front facing speaker design when it’s closed, the IO, and it was just generally great for the price.
@@NoharaLoco-gw8ld Aren't they mostly server focused now? since the enthusiast market exploded they and some other OEM's have really just languished and withered.
Gateway may not have been very aggressive with their business offerings, but they were quite aggressive in the education space in the mid to late 90s. I worked for the IT department of the local public school district between '99 and '01, and unboxed/installed hundreds of Gateway desktops in school computer labs. In fact, I've still got some of their promotional materials from the time kicking around in a cabinet. Good memories from my youth!
You snickering at the fact Sears sold PCs makes me feel old as hell, I remember always combing through the Computer aisles at Sears as a kid, and my family bought their PCs at Sears back then (Packard Bells of course).
my dad bought an Acer tablet once. It's the only one I could find that had a mini HDMI connector but it was unstable as hell... Now I avoid their products. Not that other companies are clean though...
Sears as a proper department store will always be weird to me as I grew up with a "Sears Hometown" that was just the hardware and appliances department.
Yea one of the guys that suckered my parents into getting a Packard bell. I was to young to know better until 2 years later. That's when I started understanding computers more. Years later I would be in shock on how much my parents spent in that hot garbage.
Sweet! I think I had a custom-built 486 back then - possibly the DX2-100, but my memory is foggy. I do recall saving up the $1000 to buy 16 MB of RAM. I'm pretty glad that I never made the goal. What a waste of cash that would have been!
More like Remember Microsoft - They got their @$$ handed to them when they got caught spying on users an selling the information to the US and other governments...oh wait.. never mind.
My family's first PC was a Packard Bell. I remember spending hours playing Rodent's Revenge and Hot Wheels Computer Cars. Also the Navigator was so cool for the time. We eventually replaced that computer with a Compaq Presario similar to the one pictured. To be a kid in the 90s
My first PC was a Packard Bell. I don't remember seeing that navigator. I do remember having a 170 MB hard disk (yes 170 megabytes) and a 486SX running at 25 MHz. I had that back in the '90s but we don't have it any more.
Ah yeah I remember that. My first PC was a Packard Bell.(Long forgot the model) that had a 486 SX2 processer and Windows for Networking 3.11. Man when I look back, it seems crazy how much more powerful computers have become. I had done a couple of upgrades to it and was able to run Win 95 on it and Sim City 2000. My old Compaq (lol) laptop i got in 98 or 99 ran Win 98 and Netscape Navigator. Good God, remember 56k modems? Jesus I sound ancient, and I haven't even hit 40 yet lol.
My Dad used to work at DEC (Digital Electronic Corporation), "Deck" as it was called in those days. The company was sold to Compaq in 1998. Later, as Linus mentioned HP acquired Compaq itself in 2000s.
Well, the Daewoo brand split into three, the car division was absorbed by General Motors, the truck division was bought by Tata, still selling trucks as Tata Daewoo, and their electronics division is still around, but it's mostly really cheap products now
@@ArthurD daewoo bus became independent owned by young-an hat company. Our state even used to have them in transjakarta buses, type bh115e For firearms, now it's called s&t motiv since 2012
Compaq main line was the Proliant. Expensive servers. I have one that still works with what we thought was a high capacity RAID 5 {6 drive unit} from 1998. I think it cost my company $12,000 US. We had 10 of them. Rev George
Dave J yep notorious for failing hard drives. Forget the mfg but it was a Big 5” drives maybe 100 MB, failed like crazy. Then they screamed because they lost all of their work.
My dad has a Packard Bell netbook from some 2010 or so with the old type Atom we all know and love and 1GB of RAM. He still uses it sometimes, because a hard drive is a hard drive. I'm surprised it still boots into Windows 10 and can open up a photo.
@@gokulbalagopalpayyanur8080 Still not convinced that warrants removing it from the map completely. Maybe make it a different colour or something but not deletion.
I was working in the computer industry when Samsung shut down AST. They did it suddenly and without mercy. One day I was ordering a set of systems for a client, and the next day, the regional sales rep said that he would go out to the shipping bay to ensure my order was on the truck, before heading to the lobby to get in line to be fired. Unfortunately, that order had issues, and our client was a legal firm. We ended up getting sued over Samsung's elimination of AST. I was in the corporate market, and the Compaq's we sold were quite good, and Compaq made it pretty easy for a client to get the exact PC they needed. I sold so many that I had memorized most of the product skus in the phone books they sent out.
I had a emachine, upgraded the PSU and added in a gpu and turned my amd athalon dual core pc into a gaming beast and I sold it, I wonder where my bad boy is
My Compaq presario lasted from 2008 to 2017, went through hell and survived every single time, until I was drunk one night during a LAN party playing AoE with my friends and I spilled a Vampiro Cocktail all over it, the acids from the lemon and hot sauce in the drink slowly destroyed the keyboard, the lappy still works, only the screen and the keyboard died. My first computer was also a Compaq back in 1996 and I had it till 2003. Luckily I now have a 2700X so my days of not being able to game at all are gone.
Tandy -a Leather company produced Computers. Nokia was a Lumber company and produced Cellphones ! Wright brothers produced Bicycles and then produced Airplanes.
I was not prepared, once more, to be reminded of my past youth, please do not take this personally, but I feel compelled to invite you on your way to intercourse yourself. I am vulnerable Never been offended by something I wholeheartedly agree with xD
@@keithmarlowe5569 basically, it was both software and hardware upgrade offerings to guarantee your computer would work past December 31st, 1999. I remember we did nothing to update our windows 98 machine, and the windows 95s we still had lying around the office, despite being filled with apprehension. Nothing happened. Everything still worked on January 1st, 2000. I guess there were scams around
I still have my _Compaq Presario 433,_ manufactured in November 1993. It has a 200 MB HDD, a 33Mhz Intel CPU, 2 MB of RAM, no CD-player, a 1.44 floppy disk drive. Genuine Windows 3.1 on floppy disks and all other programs like Microsoft Works (MS Office light). I even have the original box in which it was shipped. The PC is an "all in one" model with a 14 inch 800x600 resolution monitor, refresh rate 50 Hz. I was so damn proud and excited when I bought it for $1,445...
My first computer was a Compaq. My uncle worked for a tech company and he gave me this used Compaq laptop as a gift when I was 11 - 12, and that was definitely one of the happiest moments of my life. It died back in 2014 only 2 - 3 years later though lol
MikeWard1701 I vaguely recall the same being true here in Australia too, at least as far as the stores themselves were concerned. I believe they used the radio shack branding on some of the products they sold though.
Musical Neptunian I definitely remember the Tandy Electronics stores, but I wasn’t sure if they were Tandy for their entire history in Australia. I’m also positive I saw Radio Shack logos on a number of the products they sold as well.
as a long time Mac user, the last PC that I owned was a Compaq Presario back in the early 2000s, the exact same one shown in this video with the purple and white tower case. It was pretty stylish back in the days, when the first gen iMac got people's attention with its transparent color casing, the Compaq Presario probably got inspired by that.
@M Harris Very successful company. IIRC they were in Lowell MA. The whole town was pretty much Wang. Huge cambodian population. Fun markets and restaurants.
"Yes Sears sold PCs" Sears still sells PCs in the U.S anyways, they still sell everything they can like they did when they started catalogs back in 1908. Sears, Kmart, JCPenney, and nearly every jewelry store, really most big stores from the 1900s to 1970s were the first WalMarts.
Kirinketsu I bought our Photo Studios First Laser Printer, a Canon from Sears because we could put it on the Sears card. Talking about 94. We printed All of our marketing material with it. It made us Money 💰. Then made the mistake of buying a Brother Laser from them. It sucked, had a major design flaw.
1:40 I used to be a Compaq Reseller and have some research I did back then. There was a company caled Digital, they used to manufacture the Alpha Processor. (the DEC Workstation) Compaq acquired Digital and marketed for a while many servers and high end workstations with the Alpha Processor. When Compaq was merged with HP they kept for a short while the Alpha processors and servers till (I asume) the Itanium processor took over the old Alpha Servers..
I had that Compaq Presario in this video. It worked good and my ex-wife even used it for her job when she occasionally worked from home. She eventually worked from home 100% as an accountant but got her own dedicated computer with updated security.
Like I know here in the UK we have that whole Brexit thing going on (I wish we were remaining), but seriously the whole of the UK and Ireland was missing from the Europe map at 5:42 x_x
@@McVaio They're not manipulating anyone, maybe stop reading the daily mail. And have you seen the UK government? Bunch of useless lying scum, being governed by a dog turd would be an improvement.
@@Locutus Better than the current UK government. Although the EU never governed us. Our government has always had a veto for most things and helped create alot of the legislation in the first place. If you think leaving the EU is going to allow our government to do what they want then you're right it'll be free to take away our rights and allow the rich to pay no tax and sell the NHS to the US and break international law and create a border in Kent and jeopardise peace in Ireland. Gonna be great. Would love to hear about any real benefits.
My first computer was a Leading Edge. Ran on DOS ... 6.11 (I think), had a 5¼" double-din hard disk (256KB I believe), a 5¼" floppy drive, AT keyboard, monochrome (green) monitor connected to a DB-9 port (with a DIP switch for monochrome vs color, and a separate port for each one), and a Panasonic KX-P1160 (something like that) dot-matrix printer. My first Windows PC was a Tandy, but I haven't been able to figure out the model number...
My uncle had a Packard Bell TV he bought in the '60s; it had a good picture and lasted for years. And my first new PC was a Packard Bell, a Pentium 1 I bought around '97. Tried to upgrade the modem from 14.4 to a 33.6, ended up making a pricey call to tech support. I liked the design of the monitor with the attached speakers. When I got another PC a few years later I took the speakers off the PB monitor and continued to use them because they sounded much better than the ones that came with the new PC.
Around 2008-9, Gateway's were the cheapest laptops being sold at Best Buy. I was nearly broke, my old laptop had died and I needed one in a hurry. The Gateways were around $325 which was exceptionally cheap at the time. Nothing else under $500. Cheap AMD processor, 4gb RAM, 250gb HD and a terrible TF display. It was actually not terribly slow and got the job done. What really surprised me is I had moved to Thailand and shortly after my HD died. I took it to a repair shop and the owner, rather than taking the opportunity to screw me for an expensive new HD, told me there was an Acer repair center a few doors down and since it was less than a year old I should check with them. I couldn't believe it when they agreed to replace the HD free of charge. Lasted another 4 years.
@@davidj.7779 I have Sold Computers for a German electronics retail group the past Year. There are still notebooks with the Same specs. AMD A6 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 Memory, 1TB Hard Drive and a terrible Display. They were priced between 325€ and 350€. They Sold Like crazy and I hated every customer who buyed one.
@M Harris There must have been a reason Gateway/Best Buy were dumping them because it wasn't a one-of. My sister and another friend liked mine and subsequently bought the same model for the same price. They were advertised in the Best Buy newspaper inserts which I assume were distributed nationwide. Maybe Gateway was just trying to raise quick cash before they were bought out by Acer.
@@TJayVariable Were they running Win 10? Can't imagine how slow they would run with those specs and today's memory hungry internet content. The customers who bought them are surely suffering.
I use to have a cheap Compaq. It survived military PCS moves to Korea and Japan, but the hard drive started making a loud screeching sound. I replaced it with a 2007 iMac that I still use today.
Yeah i remember repairing quite a few Packard Smells and Compaqs in my day working in a local computer sales and service company. And Sears sold everything almost under under the sun since the companies inception including pre-fab housing and barns also the equipment to fill the barns with.
1:22 - A losing strategy of selling high cost computers when other people were trying to do it cheaply? I remember a garbage company called Apple that used to do that. When did they close down?
My first PC was a Packard Bell. Bought it from a Military PX while over seas. At the time the army was operating on 286 computers with the occasional 386 cropping up i had a Pentium. It introduced me to replacing the cpu with one at a higher clock, over clocking and OEM restore media. It served in many roles and i still have the case, maybe it has a future as an mini-itx based nas.
I was 6 y.o when my father bought us a Compaq Presario 7477 Model and was able to run Starcraft Broodwar and Diablo II smooth but the psu burned out after switching the voltage on it with the red slide one day. A nice rig i am trying to end now. I grew up and managed to buy a new psu and this zombie was able to boot, i couldnt recover the keyboard, the mv540 monitor, the multimedia keyboard and the JBL Platinum Speakears(We had 2 computers by that day and had to donate those components to charities). I still have this 7477 PC and it is old england toffee mode now.
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Linus: "Starting with one of the industries oldest heavy hitters..."
Me: "Compaq."
Linus: "Tandy."
Me: *Double checks video title*
LMAO he definitely had us in the first half!
Funny thing was I also said Compaq, despite the fact that my first PC compatible was a Tandy
Went on bit of a tandygent there
A lot of these sounds like fake companies. Dont sound real at all, linus might just be messing around.
@@samuelevans5750 Please spam your conspiracies else where lol
Oh man, you're making me feel old. I remember alll these.
I feel ya on the age thing! Although, way back when, I worked with a guy who had "retired" from Digital Equipment (DEC). When I was at university, only the CompSci students could get e-mail addresses, and the web was mostly MUDs and MUCKs. Gopher, Finger and FTP for the win!
Then what about me! The desktop which I still have is "COMPAQ" 🙄
@@TheSeniorTaco no one cares
@@benook why did u react then boomer
@@kas-lw7xz boomer is a dead meme
I've got an _Accredited Compaq Technician_ certificate somewhere.
That's got to be at least 20 years old now... [sigh] I'm getting old.
that is pretty awesome
You should wear that at pro shows or hang it on the wall man
Nice! Now with social media, all the (not really aging) techs can swap stories of the goofy online testing processes for Compaq and HP. :D
mid 50s??
LOL! Yeah I have one of those. Also still have the remains of some of the many t-shirts they used to give away in my rag box.
Watched this entire video on a more than a decade old compaq presario cq40.
@@brikthor Older the better, I guess!
Bruh I have the same exact laptop but I'm watching this on my phone cos that thing is really slow now
@@xmikeox ikr, I have an old Compaq prsssario cq61 here, it's been here for more than 11 years still working really well!
My pres. Laptop from 2005 or 6 just like blackscreened on me idk if it's the bios or what ina get a Adapter tho n flash it see if I can fix it😂
I have another laptop: my compaq presario cq56!!❤
Linus: "Where are IBM laptops?"
Me: Lenovo.
Wh... Whattt?
@@eemeli7093 thinkpad
@@Ordlnary_Gamer this comment section is weird
Man I remember seeing all those brand PCs as a kid. Feelsold man.
"Compaq became known for unexceptional, poor quality..."
Trust me I know that one all too well... Bought a Compaq laptop awhile back and not even a few months later the screen data ribbon went bad.
Paid a lot of extra money for a warranty from them that was 'Supposed to cover everything!!' Even and I quote "If you were to accidentally throw your laptop down the stairs..." (Yes that is actually what the rep told me...)
When trying to use said warranty they basically told us to get screwed and that their warranty doesn't cover basically anything...
'Except' blatant manufacturer defects which they said this wasn't (it clearly was) and that It was instead 'User Damage...'
They then tried to sell us a repair for 1,100 which was 300 more than the laptop was worth. Needless to say I am glad they are gone...
consumer stuff, the business stuff was quite good, at least until HP got their hands on it.
This sounds like an America problem.
Guess this shit happens when you dont have consumer rights.
If that shit was tried in Australia they would be taken to court by our consumer rights watchdog
I also had a bad experience with Compaq.
Warranty issue here too. Bought extended warranty. When HP purchased Compaq, they no longer honored my warranty.
I've boycotted Sony consumer electronics since 2004 due to their shoddy quality. Laptop screen broke within 7 days on my first laptop (VAIO) and they wanted to charge me double the cost of the laptop to repair it, and I went through 5 replacement MD players because the Sony store would only offer like-for-like replacements. I had a phone in 2005 that broke and, despite living in England, the manufacturer had the audacity to claim that it was damaged by water and wouldn't be repaired without me spending 4x what the phone cost - apparently their moisture detectors were designed in such a way that humidity in the air (such as if it is raining outside) was enough to turn them red.
On the plus side, the likes of Compaq, Sony, and Motorola from the nineties/noughties are the reason we demanded better consumer protection and why Dell are sending UPS to pick up my broken laptop tomorrow.
videos i would like to see:
1. risc-V vs ARM vs x86 instruction set
2. li-fi and what happened to it ?
th-cam.com/video/4iaIQROGwZw/w-d-xo.html
@B3ro1080 thanks
@@crypticsailor to be fair everyone touts risc v and the risc architecture as the thing of tomorrow much like edge computing and how great it is but nobody ever puts their proof where their mouth is. They sound like sham product salesmen, you ask them why risc matters and they give vague promises. Sounds a lot like apple marketing tactics.
@@trw8777 that so lol
i was talking about more like which seems to have more chances of being prevelant in future technologies.
@@crypticsailor not really but that may be a good idea XD
I still have my Compaq pc from 2009, and it's still working fine, it Originally had windows xp, then windows 7 ultimate and now it has windows 10.
Can it run Netflix?
@@netx421 I do not have a Netflix account, I use torrents
I still have a HP Compaq DC5800 SFF that came with Visa and was upgraded to Windows 10 it's still going strong after 11 years of use. Yes I did upgrade it a lot with parts I had laying around but it's still a great computer and still fast.
I have a Compaq Presario CQ57 laptop that originally had windows 7 before I got the free upgrade to windows 10. I initially wasn't too thrilled with windows 10 but I love it now, I just wish I could get a new computer that was made for the windows 10 os because so many apps are now requiring touchscreen and other functions that windows 10 cannot provide on an older computer like mine.
@@shreysaini7800 you know that is unsafe af?!
At 2:22 I still have my Compaq Presario complete with its whopping 7GB Hard drive, and believe it or not, IT STILL WORKS
"where are they now?"
part of HP.
I worked at HP back then... We used to say “Compaq bought HP with HP’s money.” Compaq leadership took over the HP PC business.
Many Compaq tech stayed @ HP. (Proliants, laptops, desktops)
@@emmgeevideo Also mostly forgotten is that the bones of what had just a few years before been the worlds 2nd largest computer manufacturer behind IBM; Digital Equipment Corp. ended up being bought by Compaq. Ken Olsen, the micro-manager founder of DEC refused to believe that PC's would ever be anything more than a toy. When it became obvious even to him that he was wrong, DEC came out with the "Rainbow", a desktop running on CP:M, an OS rapidly going out the window. Of the 2 million they built, about 1.8 million ended up in landfills, never out of the box.
I remember having cleaned school for six weeks in summer vacation to buy a HP41C. But this was when they made still military grade stuff. Since the graphic designers have taken over the company, it's triple hiss, vade retro!
@M Harris I still have my z210 and my zbook 14 running with me. I just can't avoid looking 4 HP as the main brand for laptops and workstations
Linus: Remember COMPAQ? - Where Are They Now
Me: well apparently my school bought them
Tarik Karamehmedović we had 5 classrooms full of those blue pieces of garbage.
Made for windows xp, refitted with an intel core duo...
Yeah my primary school in Canada also had these
Sounds like a fake company, like Linus made them up just to troll us.
We here in Romania were subject to one of the most weird corruption scandals involving Microsoft. We got really expensive computers for out school labs despite not being able to use them(such as for gaming). I still remember drolling at my schools a64 x2 6000+be with 4 gigs of ram, 7800gt and raptor 10k drives which we used to learn excel and Pascal.
abc defg i mean, your school didn’t have to buy them. Also, you’d expect every school to have some kind of IT-guy who checks on these kinda things
5:41 wow that's an extreme aftermath of Brexit on that map
lol
This is the brexit we asked for, literally moving away from the continent. Bwexit means bwexit
Blimey, is there something Boris isn't telling us? (well, obviously lots but geez, that's quite a rise in tides)
And they took Denmark with them.
@@CheshireTomcat68 Why do you think we wanted new aircraft carriers with no planes, we're going to use them to tow our nation elsewhere!
COMPAQ was last seen by me as Black Friday Walmart specials (budget HP models) a few years back. Gateway (or COMPAQ) could make a great comeback in stores such as Walmart as Ubuntu & Linux Mint PC's. Only Dell carries Linux based notebooks online & one has to look deep to find these, usually in the business section.
I LOVED my compaq laptop. The screen was gorgeous, and while the trackpad was horrible, and it was the only laptop I ever had whos hinge snapped in half, I love the front facing speaker design when it’s closed, the IO, and it was just generally great for the price.
Which model did you own/have ? 🤔
My Dad's Presario laptop running Windows ME still boots up fine to this day.
thats the only thing he can do today with it
Boot
wait
close
@@mikec.8604 haha true
S. Baldrick that’s cute.
lies. ME never booted fine. i mean... it was ME.
@S. Baldrick, windows Me? 😳
"dude, your getting a dell" those where the days.
I still have my Dell, spent over 1k on that bastard
The original "It's free real estate".
Dell fired and then Sued that guy.
Dell, it's great for porn.
@@NoharaLoco-gw8ld Aren't they mostly server focused now? since the enthusiast market exploded they and some other OEM's have really just languished and withered.
I feel old considering I have had all of these brands at some point.
Gateway may not have been very aggressive with their business offerings, but they were quite aggressive in the education space in the mid to late 90s. I worked for the IT department of the local public school district between '99 and '01, and unboxed/installed hundreds of Gateway desktops in school computer labs. In fact, I've still got some of their promotional materials from the time kicking around in a cabinet. Good memories from my youth!
You snickering at the fact Sears sold PCs makes me feel old as hell, I remember always combing through the Computer aisles at Sears as a kid, and my family bought their PCs at Sears back then (Packard Bells of course).
"Gateway is still around as a low-cost Acer brand"
Huh, and here I was thinking PCs couldn't get any cheaper and shittier than an Acer...
That's why it's under the gateway brand ;)
Yeah, acre has a bit of a shitty reputation...
my dad bought an Acer tablet once. It's the only one I could find that had a mini HDMI connector but it was unstable as hell... Now I avoid their products. Not that other companies are clean though...
You forgetting about E-Machines???
My school swapped from hp laptops to acers, the trackpads give me arthritis, even more so than hp ones did
It almost felt like a sponsor segway when you started talking about Tandy lol
Segue
@@tn0wl361 what
@@CocoMark segueway
@@CocoMark It's segue. Segway is one of those 2-wheeled platform things.
swagaway
I was a computer salesman at Sears, in the “Office Center”, back in 1990.
Sears as a proper department store will always be weird to me as I grew up with a "Sears Hometown" that was just the hardware and appliances department.
I was a computer salesman at CompUSA back in 2001 - hated it. My manager was always making me sell those damn platinum warranties.
You look old bro
Yea one of the guys that suckered my parents into getting a Packard bell. I was to young to know better until 2 years later. That's when I started understanding computers more. Years later I would be in shock on how much my parents spent in that hot garbage.
Sweet! I think I had a custom-built 486 back then - possibly the DX2-100, but my memory is foggy. I do recall saving up the $1000 to buy 16 MB of RAM. I'm pretty glad that I never made the goal. What a waste of cash that would have been!
Man, I never thought a video about all those long gone early 90s computer brands would make me feel nostalgic.
Same. 😊😄
Worked at Compaq for 17 years - left right after they bought Digital. Great times. 🙂
I had a packard bell, bought one in 2009, lasted me till 2019, tough machine.
Till when like last month?
What?
Toshiba laptop from 2009 still going strong
@@MiniRockerz4ever hmm I always wonder why old laptops work till now and these latest 0 figure laptops stop working in a year
@@MiniRockerz4ever Toshiba Tecra S10, I had it from 2009 to 2019.
Techquickie in 2029: Remember Intel? - Where Are They Now
plot twist Nvidia becomes a monopoly in the cpu market
@@SingleTheShot 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Too big to fail, #pan_am
@Voltaic Fire I think going back to Risc processors could break their neck, if they fall behind the demand.
More like Remember Microsoft - They got their @$$ handed to them when they got caught spying on users an selling the information to the US and other governments...oh wait.. never mind.
My first computer was COMPAQ .it's still in my garage. Those old days.... !!!
mine was tandy
You should see if it still works
Actually i tried few months ago.. it's not opening.. 😔
I have a portable in my basement.
Seeing Packard Bell Navigator gave me a surge of nostalgia.
I'm still rocking a Compaq pc
I'm running one of their keyboards
Ur parents must be proud
I'm using it too..my desktop and cabinet...7yrs gone
Me too, my parents bought a Compaq laptop for work but two years later they gave it to me.
@@gnmn My condolences. :P
'Where are they now?'
At my school *duh*
That's actually pretty funny
lol
I was thinking third world country lmao
Do you still use Netscape Navigator?
@@williamkeltner5119 no lol we use ie 😭😭😭
Me: yeah someone is going to tell me about Compaq
Linus: Tandy
Me: hold up
I really appreciated this video having owned all of these when I was younger. Especially the nod to PB Navigator
Thank you!
My family's first PC was a Packard Bell. I remember spending hours playing Rodent's Revenge and Hot Wheels Computer Cars. Also the Navigator was so cool for the time. We eventually replaced that computer with a Compaq Presario similar to the one pictured. To be a kid in the 90s
God I remember playing Half Life on a Compaq. Yikes
Im old.
Yikes.
Yeeks....
*FLEX*
I played WoW on my Compaq, was pretty good at the time. I'm too spoiled by lightning fast responses from my current PC to go back though.
How about Pong on an Apple II? I am way older!!
Huh. So two major computer companies had "Packard" in their name. Who would've thunk it
thunk? are you trolling
or this is some big brain flex im not prepared to see
thought = correct but too normal
ThUnK = wrong but BIG BRAIN
I always thought it would be a good name for men's underwear. Packard.
Also 1 of the best cars back in the day. (rival to Rolls Royce)
@@keifermatthew You're overthunking it.
"Packard Bell navigator"
*LGR having Vietnam flashbacks of The 955*
I still have a Packard bell pc at home.
*Druaga1 having big nostalgia bombs of the Legend 100CD*
LOL.. I still have this CD from my first computer. Good times....
My first PC was a Packard Bell. I don't remember seeing that navigator. I do remember having a 170 MB hard disk (yes 170 megabytes) and a 486SX running at 25 MHz. I had that back in the '90s but we don't have it any more.
Ah yeah I remember that. My first PC was a Packard Bell.(Long forgot the model) that had a 486 SX2 processer and Windows for Networking 3.11. Man when I look back, it seems crazy how much more powerful computers have become. I had done a couple of upgrades to it and was able to run Win 95 on it and Sim City 2000. My old Compaq (lol) laptop i got in 98 or 99 ran Win 98 and Netscape Navigator. Good God, remember 56k modems? Jesus I sound ancient, and I haven't even hit 40 yet lol.
The mom & pop computer shop I worked at in the 90s was a Packard Bell service center. We picked up lots of recovering Packard Bell customers.
My Dad used to work at DEC (Digital Electronic Corporation), "Deck" as it was called in those days. The company was sold to Compaq in 1998. Later, as Linus mentioned HP acquired Compaq itself in 2000s.
I feel like it's a little sad we don't have so many brands out there anymore.
But don't we tho?
Daewoo, what happened to them?
PCs, cars, ships, fridges.
They were Samsung before Samsung, but even more.
Well, the Daewoo brand split into three, the car division was absorbed by General Motors, the truck division was bought by Tata, still selling trucks as Tata Daewoo, and their electronics division is still around, but it's mostly really cheap products now
@@LouisSubearth there's also a bus division and a military vehicle division which went nowhere. It's still there.
Also a firearms division that is doing just fine.
In my country 1/5 of taxis is still daewoo lol cant forget them
@@ArthurD daewoo bus became independent owned by young-an hat company.
Our state even used to have them in transjakarta buses, type bh115e
For firearms, now it's called s&t motiv since 2012
5:43 No UK map in Europe
Hmmm...
Brexit is more serious than we thought
ideal world
Compaq main line was the Proliant. Expensive servers. I have one that still works with what we thought was a high capacity RAID 5 {6 drive unit} from 1998. I think it cost my company $12,000 US. We had 10 of them.
Rev George
ah, good ol' Packard Hell. whenever I walked into a customer's office and saw them, my first thought was "uh oh!"
Dave J yep notorious for failing hard drives. Forget the mfg but it was a Big 5” drives maybe 100 MB, failed like crazy. Then they screamed because they lost all of their work.
@@cruikshank Quantum.
Picard Bell
I threw one out a 14 story window once
My dad has a Packard Bell netbook from some 2010 or so with the old type Atom we all know and love and 1GB of RAM. He still uses it sometimes, because a hard drive is a hard drive. I'm surprised it still boots into Windows 10 and can open up a photo.
omg seeing that old packard bell program brought back alot of fond memorys from 1995. thank you linus
My Packard Bell served me well through my high school years.
@@SPLIFiTeD omg u telling me i had mine for like 5 years it ended up half outside the case but still used daily i learned so much from that machine
Memorys of what capacity?
5:43 LTT must take brexit very seriously
At least everyone was being sold up rather than bankrupt.
Mostly for their patents and licences probably.
OMG! You're like a rapper
Ahh damn, the UK was missing on your map of Europe altogether!
All blame goes to Brexit. :D
@@lialialia1 thats what they get for leaving the socialist economic bloc
Yeah, what's that about? UK hasn't ceased to exist (yet), why wasn't it on the map?
@@MjRDutch because he was talking about Europe
@@gokulbalagopalpayyanur8080 Still not convinced that warrants removing it from the map completely. Maybe make it a different colour or something but not deletion.
I was working in the computer industry when Samsung shut down AST. They did it suddenly and without mercy. One day I was ordering a set of systems for a client, and the next day, the regional sales rep said that he would go out to the shipping bay to ensure my order was on the truck, before heading to the lobby to get in line to be fired. Unfortunately, that order had issues, and our client was a legal firm. We ended up getting sued over Samsung's elimination of AST.
I was in the corporate market, and the Compaq's we sold were quite good, and Compaq made it pretty easy for a client to get the exact PC they needed. I sold so many that I had memorized most of the product skus in the phone books they sent out.
Linus: "Speaking of hard to find"
Everybody else: "A Barber"
My barber left the country 2 years ago and I haven't gotten lined up/faded since then. *nothing was the same*
You missed eMachines !!
That's bottom of the barrel right there, they were bought by Gateway which ironically themselves were later bought by Acer lol
I had an eMachines netbook that was less shitty than it had any right to be. Damn that evil 1024x600 resolution though.
Nobody misses eMachines. Fuck those things were garbage
@@ayumuchan3541 there's always a bigger fish 🤔
I had a emachine, upgraded the PSU and added in a gpu and turned my amd athalon dual core pc into a gaming beast and I sold it, I wonder where my bad boy is
My Compaq presario lasted from 2008 to 2017, went through hell and survived every single time, until I was drunk one night during a LAN party playing AoE with my friends and I spilled a Vampiro Cocktail all over it, the acids from the lemon and hot sauce in the drink slowly destroyed the keyboard, the lappy still works, only the screen and the keyboard died. My first computer was also a Compaq back in 1996 and I had it till 2003. Luckily I now have a 2700X so my days of not being able to game at all are gone.
I still have my Compaq laptop from 2011 😩🥰
I miss emachines
Like you miss the plague
I still have a 20 inch emachines LCD monitor that still works great
@@adamgrant1787 Me too
@@kja9881 I only use it for a test monitor when I'm working on a computer since it don't have HDMI only VGA but it still works.
@@mikemassino Actually, eMachines in the mid 2000s we're pretty decent. My first computer was a eMachines and still like the day I bought it.
I remember playing The Sims on my Dad's Compaq computer.
Muppet
HP bought and killed COMPAQ. That was my last windows laptop haha.
Edit: still boots wtf
I think i had their disc player..
did they make a disc player?
I still have COMPAQ laptop with win 7 and it boots
I still have a compaq desktop running windows vista still boots but is very slow
@@keifermatthew If they made a portable disc player, I bet it was very compaq...
Emachines has a fun story. Could have included them in the Gateway segment.
I used to have a Compaq laptop and I played wow on it at literally 5 - 9 fps. Took me a good year to hit level 40.
Tandy -a Leather company produced Computers.
Nokia was a Lumber company and produced Cellphones !
Wright brothers produced Bicycles and then produced Airplanes.
My family's first computer was a Compaq.
I played medal of Honor on it.
me to
Played the original call of duty on mine lol. Than I gotta eat on x1300 pro and oh boy lol
I remember when everyone would run to the computer lab so they wouldn't get stuck on the crappy old gateway in the corner.
The video title should have been: *Remember COMPAQ? This is it now. Feel old yet?*
I was not prepared, once more, to be reminded of my past youth, please do not take this personally,
but I feel compelled to invite you on your way to intercourse yourself. I am vulnerable
Never been offended by something I wholeheartedly agree with xD
You don't know Tandy, you're not that old.
It's crazy that I once owned HP Compaq and later, a Packard Bell laptop.
I had a Compaq monitor. I had the one with the cat snout buttons and a round rear-end. It was a tank. Very reliable!
Lots of topics for this series:
- mainframes
- cpu architectures
- operating systems
D U M B T E R M I N A L
Harvard got replaced by Von neumann
Me using a COMPAQ laptop in 2019 :......:
be proud of it you have a different thing lmao
If it's still running well, maybe you can sell it for high price to a collector and then buy a new one? I didn't think Compaq laptops still exist.
Anyone else read that Gateway advert? "Year 2000 compliant" Oh the memories!!
Kids these days don't know about the y2k scare
@@keithmarlowe5569 basically, it was both software and hardware upgrade offerings to guarantee your computer would work past December 31st, 1999. I remember we did nothing to update our windows 98 machine, and the windows 95s we still had lying around the office, despite being filled with apprehension. Nothing happened. Everything still worked on January 1st, 2000. I guess there were scams around
I still have my _Compaq Presario 433,_ manufactured in November 1993. It has a 200 MB HDD, a 33Mhz Intel CPU, 2 MB of RAM, no CD-player, a 1.44 floppy disk drive. Genuine Windows 3.1 on floppy disks and all other programs like Microsoft Works (MS Office light). I even have the original box in which it was shipped. The PC is an "all in one" model with a 14 inch 800x600 resolution monitor, refresh rate 50 Hz. I was so damn proud and excited when I bought it for $1,445...
My first computer was a Compaq. My uncle worked for a tech company and he gave me this used Compaq laptop as a gift when I was 11 - 12, and that was definitely one of the happiest moments of my life. It died back in 2014 only 2 - 3 years later though lol
FYI: Tandy never used the Radio Shack brand here in the UK.
MikeWard1701 I vaguely recall the same being true here in Australia too, at least as far as the stores themselves were concerned. I believe they used the radio shack branding on some of the products they sold though.
@@ianweber9248 They were called Tandy Electronics in Australia. I bought my first chess computer from Tandy.
Musical Neptunian I definitely remember the Tandy Electronics stores, but I wasn’t sure if they were Tandy for their entire history in Australia. I’m also positive I saw Radio Shack logos on a number of the products they sold as well.
I'm still using one of compaq's keyboards every day
They really don't make 'em like they used to...
No they don't, it's a solid keyboard and I really like it, everything works on it, it's crazy
@@travishawkins3745 I know, man. I wish I still had my old HP Keyboard from the early 00's.
I remember all these brands. I am so old.
Yeah, good memories. Never had any brand names though, knew from the start that for 100% compat you needed a no name clone.
"Where are they now?" --- I still buy leather goods from Tandy! I love the place!
as a long time Mac user, the last PC that I owned was a Compaq Presario back in the early 2000s, the exact same one shown in this video with the purple and white tower case. It was pretty stylish back in the days, when the first gen iMac got people's attention with its transparent color casing, the Compaq Presario probably got inspired by that.
@5:37 when he pans over to Europe and the UK has already been deleted.... Too soon man, too soon. 🤣
By geography UK IS Europe and always been. No one can cut it off continent only because of Channel.
We have compaq computers at our school and everyone hates them.
Shank Adams yeh I use my iPad but most people have to use them. When you scroll on anything the whole screen refreshes and it’s awful
5:42
Europe after the Great Brexit War, 2020 colourised
Yep - where casualties will be some beaten up politicians and a bunch of migrants suffocated in closed lorries.
OOF
we had 2 compaq's growing up and we loved them. We thought they was good computers until HP bought them.
In the nineties my wife had a Wang, really, computer called Wang. It was a large one.
reassignment surgery is common these days...
@M Harris was it a nice wang
@M Harris lol yeah
Ooo. I remember those. She had one at home, though? I thought of them more as office PCs
@M Harris Very successful company. IIRC they were in Lowell MA. The whole town was pretty much Wang. Huge cambodian population. Fun markets and restaurants.
"Yes Sears sold PCs"
Sears still sells PCs in the U.S anyways, they still sell everything they can like they did when they started catalogs back in 1908.
Sears, Kmart, JCPenney, and nearly every jewelry store, really most big stores from the 1900s to 1970s were the first WalMarts.
Kirinketsu I bought our Photo Studios First Laser Printer, a Canon from Sears because we could put it on the Sears card. Talking about 94. We printed All of our marketing material with it. It made us Money 💰. Then made the mistake of buying a Brother Laser from them. It sucked, had a major design flaw.
Thing is, they're on the brink of extinction.
The only time Sears sells a computer in store today is when the store closes.
Note that the Tandy leather company is still going strong.
Unlike Coleco...
I've actually walk past one of their stores before. I even have a picture of it
Where is my Tandy leather PC?
Linus: where is Compaq?
Me: HP.
1:40 I used to be a Compaq Reseller and have some research I did back then. There was a company caled Digital, they used to manufacture the Alpha Processor. (the DEC Workstation) Compaq acquired Digital and marketed for a while many servers and high end workstations with the Alpha Processor. When Compaq was merged with HP they kept for a short while the Alpha processors and servers till (I asume) the Itanium processor took over the old Alpha Servers..
I had that Compaq Presario in this video. It worked good and my ex-wife even used it for her job when she occasionally worked from home. She eventually worked from home 100% as an accountant but got her own dedicated computer with updated security.
Like I know here in the UK we have that whole Brexit thing going on (I wish we were remaining), but seriously the whole of the UK and Ireland was missing from the Europe map at 5:42 x_x
Yeah? You like being manipulated by the Big EU Government?
@@McVaio They're not manipulating anyone, maybe stop reading the daily mail. And have you seen the UK government? Bunch of useless lying scum, being governed by a dog turd would be an improvement.
@@nekogod You really think the EU is better to govern us??? Live in Europe, and enjoy the benevolent, trustworthy, beautiful government.
@@Locutus Better than the current UK government. Although the EU never governed us. Our government has always had a veto for most things and helped create alot of the legislation in the first place. If you think leaving the EU is going to allow our government to do what they want then you're right it'll be free to take away our rights and allow the rich to pay no tax and sell the NHS to the US and break international law and create a border in Kent and jeopardise peace in Ireland. Gonna be great. Would love to hear about any real benefits.
We just gonna gloss over and not talk about the e-machines
where are they now: radioshack, sears, blockbuster
My first computer was a Leading Edge. Ran on DOS ... 6.11 (I think), had a 5¼" double-din hard disk (256KB I believe), a 5¼" floppy drive, AT keyboard, monochrome (green) monitor connected to a DB-9 port (with a DIP switch for monochrome vs color, and a separate port for each one), and a Panasonic KX-P1160 (something like that) dot-matrix printer.
My first Windows PC was a Tandy, but I haven't been able to figure out the model number...
My uncle had a Packard Bell TV he bought in the '60s; it had a good picture and lasted for years. And my first new PC was a Packard Bell, a Pentium 1 I bought around '97. Tried to upgrade the modem from 14.4 to a 33.6, ended up making a pricey call to tech support. I liked the design of the monitor with the attached speakers. When I got another PC a few years later I took the speakers off the PB monitor and continued to use them because they sounded much better than the ones that came with the new PC.
"a cheaper acer" I thought crapass Acer's were the cheap models lol my god they must be bad
Around 2008-9, Gateway's were the cheapest laptops being sold at Best Buy. I was nearly broke, my old laptop had died and I needed one in a hurry. The Gateways were around $325 which was exceptionally cheap at the time. Nothing else under $500. Cheap AMD processor, 4gb RAM, 250gb HD and a terrible TF display. It was actually not terribly slow and got the job done. What really surprised me is I had moved to Thailand and shortly after my HD died. I took it to a repair shop and the owner, rather than taking the opportunity to screw me for an expensive new HD, told me there was an Acer repair center a few doors down and since it was less than a year old I should check with them. I couldn't believe it when they agreed to replace the HD free of charge. Lasted another 4 years.
@@davidj.7779 that's freaking wholesome
@@davidj.7779 I have Sold Computers for a German electronics retail group the past Year.
There are still notebooks with the Same specs. AMD A6 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 Memory, 1TB Hard Drive and a terrible Display. They were priced between 325€ and 350€. They Sold Like crazy and I hated every customer who buyed one.
@M Harris There must have been a reason Gateway/Best Buy were dumping them because it wasn't a one-of. My sister and another friend liked mine and subsequently bought the same model for the same price.
They were advertised in the Best Buy newspaper inserts which I assume were distributed nationwide. Maybe Gateway was just trying to raise quick cash before they were bought out by Acer.
@@TJayVariable Were they running Win 10? Can't imagine how slow they would run with those specs and today's memory hungry internet content. The customers who bought them are surely suffering.
I remember names like Micron and Midwest Micro/Infotel (Before they were bought by Systemmax) among others.
Micron still big in the semiconductor world
Linus, that small man with gigantic talents and skills. We love you
I use to have a cheap Compaq. It survived military PCS moves to Korea and Japan, but the hard drive started making a loud screeching sound. I replaced it with a 2007 iMac that I still use today.
Yeah i remember repairing quite a few Packard Smells and Compaqs in my day working in a local computer sales and service company. And Sears sold everything almost under under the sun since the companies inception including pre-fab housing and barns also the equipment to fill the barns with.
Linus Tech Tips: remember compaq?
Me: *looks over at my gaming pc built inside a compaq case*
Also me: yep, totally remember
It's in my box along with all my other trash that doesn't work.
*hoarder???*
@@SpoilerAlert__ nah, was planning on fixing one day but never got to it
1:22 - A losing strategy of selling high cost computers when other people were trying to do it cheaply? I remember a garbage company called Apple that used to do that. When did they close down?
My first PC was a Packard Bell. Bought it from a Military PX while over seas. At the time the army was operating on 286 computers with the occasional 386 cropping up i had a Pentium. It introduced me to replacing the cpu with one at a higher clock, over clocking and OEM restore media. It served in many roles and i still have the case, maybe it has a future as an mini-itx based nas.
I was 6 y.o when my father bought us a Compaq Presario 7477 Model and was able to run Starcraft Broodwar and Diablo II smooth but the psu burned out after switching the voltage on it with the red slide one day. A nice rig i am trying to end now. I grew up and managed to buy a new psu and this zombie was able to boot, i couldnt recover the keyboard, the mv540 monitor, the multimedia keyboard and the JBL Platinum Speakears(We had 2 computers by that day and had to donate those components to charities). I still have this 7477 PC and it is old england toffee mode now.
Loving the up-to-date map of Europe..! 😂😂😂