'At least it ate okay' 'Its also hi on pot, which is probably the reason it ate okay' This is a massive part of why I love your vids Mike 😂 Thank you again! 😊
Happy to hear that the recent life changes have been "all very good and very welcome" -- and it was thoughtful of you to add that footnote. Any day that I see a new upload here is a day with at least one smile in it. :-)
Funny about the DUI doc, I had a computer I got at a garage sale that had a prison record of the previous owner. I couldn't resist looking at it, it had some pretty interesting stuff in it to say the least.
what a cool PCI graphics card. they're pretty rare to come across these days and they're always fun to run as secondary video devices in old computers.
I used one of those rubber Seagate 40 GBs. Also had no issue with it, but I remember it being really loud and really warm. Used it in a modded Xbox for many years.
Those Seagate rubber bumpers are there to reduce handling damage if knocked about or dropped or something, evidently it didn’t really work since they removed it with the Seagate U9 drives. (Which are pretty much just Barracuda 7200.7’s)
Dużo w życiu się dzieje , Mike jeżeli dzieją się dobre rzeczy to super . Czekam na Twoje filmy , zawsze są ciekawe . Czekam na Commodore i Amiga . Pozdrawiam Cię z Polski !🤩🤗😸👍🤝
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A new upload, happy to see. I am always interested with 2000's era PCs as that was the time I started to learn about PC hardware and built my first PC in 2007.
I had one of these exact 52 speed aopen cd rom drives back in the day. Once, one of these golden writable cds exploded inside it when it was near it's max speed. It was annoying to clean, but it still worked afterwards. I think two of the plastic clips that should hold a cd when it's used sideways were broken off.
I have a weak spot for aOpen in general, love the quality of their products, but back in the day when they were big I did not know them - in hindsight, they where awesome and I try to get aopen parts here in germany, but its hard to come by - thank you for the video!
It was hard to find this channel by search here, i never subbed, watched few times by recommendation, but algorithm hidden it and finding it was almost impossible by any word or association. Today algorithm recommended it again, first time in 3 months!
I actually have this same PC that I got from my job about a year ago, it was controlling their HVAC system and all of the coolers and freezers. It has the same 52 speed CD drive and that rubber bumper seagate drive. Although mine has an older motherboard with a celeron and ISA slots and runs 98 SE. Very cool to see a pretty close matching system to mine. Love the video.
My parents had two AOpen systems in HX45 cases. I wish I was old enough to have saved them. I'd like to get one of those cases again someday to move my dual PIII system into, but the price hasn't been right.
42:00 yep. I had a CD with a small crack, tried it in a drive like that and kaboom. Those 52x drives spun so fast. I'd wager the initial issue was because the disk was off the track, the drive tried to eject or do anything, couldn't and just got stuck on itself.
I was installing hp printer drivers on a customer computer and the 52x spun up and the disc exploded out of the drive destroying the drive in the process. There was a really large piece that almost hit me in the face as it flew 30 feet across the room and left a mark in the drywall.
Great jokes, almost the highlight of the video. Socket 478 is my favorite P4 socket. That particular motherboard brings so many memories, they were inexpensive boards so we used a lot of them in new builds and they were very reliable as well. They got a lot of crap back in the day but never had one fail, they weren’t the fastest though. 478 was the last socket I used a lot as I stopped working at the computer just before LGA775 was released.
If you want to get those CD drive belts going again if they struggle to move, boiling them can help make them round and grippy again! It doesn't last super long but in my experience long enough to use a drive in a computer.
6:18 - this is standard on Pentium 4 Willamette chips, nothing out of order. Later - upon releasing Northwood - they have changed this to be more sharp-ish.
I don't think I've ever seen a pc with all of the drive bays fully loaded, interesting. The couple that owned this machine were certainly interesting characters.....
When I was working at my local computer store back in 2007 we had a whole stack of old AOpen CustomPC cases my boss (the owner) told me he got them from ordering them from AOpen's website between 2001-2003. They were sold bare bones with only a 300 or 350 watt power supply inside. I wish I could remember more but that was almost 20 years ago.
I remember AOpen cases being some of the best as far as quality/durability. We sold primarily AOpen systems back in the day. I remember the AOpen graphics, sound and modem cards were all just rebrands of other products, lol. Ended up getting a couple AOpen systems I plan to restore as well!
I had an Alfa usb wifi adapter back around this era. It was excellent! Used to connect it to a nice directional antenna for some long-ish range connections. Wish I still had all that gear!
And this is why we should strive for positive pressure inside our cases... ... predictable dust ingress. Positive pressure == dust at intake fans Negative pressure == dust EVERYWHERE For the AOpen CD drive, I wonder if that disc was jammed when you got it and it was preventing the drive from initializing, thus flashing the "Paper Jam" light. 🤔 If the mechanism had dropped slightly but got stuck because of the disc, your ejector stick had nothing to hit.
I once got an old XP system, and found it stuffed full of baseball cards. In the floppy drive, in the CD drive, and the case was full of them. I wonder what that kid was trying to do?
I recognized the bottom half of the PSU sticker before you took it out of the case. Something about the yellow warning triangle immediately reminded me of FSP/Sparkle even though I haven't seen one in a long while. I also had really good luck with them. Throughout the naughts, I regularly bought the 350 watt units and kept a couple on hand in case of failure. I replaced multiple dozens of PSUs, but I only encountered one failed FSP.
Yet another amazing and relaxing video Mike! Super interesting AOpen machine. Didn't even know they were an SI but cool PC nonetheless. Keep up being rad man
I've been gone for a few months but glad to know there's a pun in the intro! 4:33 more puns. 23:09 ... damn. 23:16 never mind, mother of all lags! 24:50 in an award-winning plot twist, this looks stuck.
The puns keep on creeping towards the beginning of the videos. Normally I wait in order to lull people into a false sense of security, but this one I could not resist.
hi mike tech im glad your back its been a long time and i got a Acer aspire Z1620 All in one desktop from a friend and i put her pics from her hard drive and pictures to a USB drive and she has the USB drive for her pics and i factory reset the acer and its restored windows 7 but im hoping to upgrade it to windows 11 so yeah im glad your back and that Aopen is a nice custom PC maybe if windows XP can be upgraded to media center edition 2005 SP3
Sold tons of Acer Open stuff. Great oem stuff. Goes along with Mitsumi keyboards, mice, cd-rom drives and floppy drives. I don't remember this case design. But the oem A-open stuff was killer. Great desktop cases if you can find one.
Very cool PC. I had an ABS PC from that era with an AOpen board, but mine had an AMD Athlon XP something or other (Barton) CPU. Windows XP, of course. I recall having both an AGP and a PCI graphics card, and I'm sure I still have them somewhere, though the PC itself is long gone. I used dual 19" CRTs, if you can imagine that. I used that PC from the summer of 2003 until probably 2009, when I bought an iMac. I still have the iMac (Core i7 860), with a SATA SSD where the DVD drive used to be, and though I no longer use it for anything, it does still work.
I'd say kingston are mostly readable if you know what to look for. the previous owner probably upgrade the 2 512MB (usually the last of the model number on the stick is the size) sticks for reasons.
My guess is that AOpen drive failed to work the first time because that network software disk was literally jammed into there. When BIOS queried the drive, it probably had no idea what the hell was going on, so it gave up. And the disk being jammed in there is probably what prevented the tray from sliding out and the emergency eject mechanism from working properly. Once you disassembled it and freed the trapped disk, everything worked fine. Exactly how that disk got trapped in there, I have no idea. Maybe somebody was a bit over-enthusiastic when inserting it, and then just gave up when the thing wouldn't eject (and didn't go so far as to disassemble it to try and free it.)
hi ^^ really loving your videos, they are super interesting, specially how methodically you are doing it ^^ i have a question : i see you often use white lithium grease for floppy drives (and optical drives too iirc), why this type of grease ? i have some drives (mainly optical ones) that would really benefit from some new grease but i'm concerned about plastic on plastic, metal on plastic and metal on metal parts, worried it could not react well or something 😅
If this were a K6-2... That could have almost been my first system from '98. That 52x is the same drive that was in mine, So I'd say definitely an AOpen OEM. I eventually got the same burner. AOpen did start off with very well built computers, though I think their quality began to lack later on.
My favorite 478 socket... but why here PC133 RAM? Very early motherboard? Weird because GPU using PCI unlike AGP. 1 year ago I found 478-Socket PC inside the... dumpster! :), now it works very well. 16:18 I thought Seagate HDD date code means XX(year), XX(week), X (weekday), isn't it?
Just last week I found an AOpen PC at the local thrift store. I couldn't tell from the outside it was anything special other than it's beige color so I rolled the $10 dice on it. Imagine my surprise when it had an Asus P5A Socket 7 board! It also had a crunchy WD Caviar 6GB running Windows XP with only Office and 3 separate virus scanners on it. it ran like molasses I tell ya!
I trust you dealt with that malware accordingly? : ) I'd throw all 3 of those gd scanners off of that system. Virus scanners have a way of making viruses (viri) look good.
@keithbrown7685 Of course, I went with a 95 OSR 2.5 install that had a lot of driver issues. I just wanted to do something different but apparently old reliable 98SE to the rescue yet again!
It's very nice to see a hard drive in these e-waste systems, as that makes Mike's job a whole lot easier, but still, let this be a lesson: remove your hard drive before tossing the PC or else it may just end up in a MikeTech video where your programs and files will be exposed to all LOL
I remember starting with a CD rom and getting an LS120 that was only for like a year I don't know if they are even available for replacement And then getting a DVD drive and then a DVD RW The craziness of having a 100 MB removable storage, and then the CDRW 650 MB I still remember 64 MB USB sticks I can't remember if there was anything smaller But I definitely remember 64 and 128 256 512 and 1 gb I also remember in 1995 the 10 MB CF cards Now, finding a 1gb or 4gb is not easy I just don't remember what we were using a 64 MB USB stick for But with the 1.44 MB floppy and 120 MB LS120, 64 MB USB is not unusual We used to have a lot less file size back then And moving a bunch of files like the install files for windows 95, a 64 MB USB stick would be a good idea I don't think win98 was much bigger than 64 MB for the install files And I know I had an MP3 player that was 128 MB, I think I bought it from Radio Shack. It is mind-blowing to think how fast we have jumped from a computer running off 360k floppy drives to 1.2 MB to a 10 MB hard drive and that was big back in 1983 40 years from 10 MB to 10 TB Just 😮 WOW
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'At least it ate okay' 'Its also hi on pot, which is probably the reason it ate okay'
This is a massive part of why I love your vids Mike 😂
Thank you again! 😊
Happy to hear that the recent life changes have been "all very good and very welcome" -- and it was thoughtful of you to add that footnote. Any day that I see a new upload here is a day with at least one smile in it. :-)
Yasssss I've been missing your videos!!
I wasn't expecting a pot/munchie joke in this video. Nevertheless, I'll be chuckling to myself about it in the days ahead.
Me2
That was hilarious
glad to hear that they were positive life changes! your videos are perfect evening relaxation content
Oooh a Friday morning off with the kids AND a MikeTech video?!?!?! YES!!!!
Funny about the DUI doc, I had a computer I got at a garage sale that had a prison record of the previous owner. I couldn't resist looking at it, it had some pretty interesting stuff in it to say the least.
Missed your videos. Hope all is well and can't wait for the next chapter.
you love to see it :3
i love these aopen computers, glad to see you tear into this one!!
A MikeTech video makes my being at work much more tolerable.
@MikeTech
Welcome back Mike good sir! We've missed you!!
Nice to see you back Cutie!
what a cool PCI graphics card.
they're pretty rare to come across these days and they're always fun to run as secondary video devices in old computers.
Radeon 9250 128MB in a Socket 7 Here! A bit better than My tseng Labs ET6000 I build it with!
“Too bad that NIC is in that fan’s face. “
This made me laugh harder than it should have.
I used one of those rubber Seagate 40 GBs. Also had no issue with it, but I remember it being really loud and really warm. Used it in a modded Xbox for many years.
That feeling when watching old videos to get a new one after it finish! 😘
Those Seagate rubber bumpers are there to reduce handling damage if knocked about or dropped or something, evidently it didn’t really work since they removed it with the Seagate U9 drives. (Which are pretty much just Barracuda 7200.7’s)
Dużo w życiu się dzieje , Mike jeżeli dzieją się dobre rzeczy to super . Czekam na Twoje filmy , zawsze są ciekawe . Czekam na Commodore i Amiga . Pozdrawiam Cię z Polski !🤩🤗😸👍🤝
Na początku myślałem, że jakaś kosmiczna istota zamieściła komentarz. Potem zdałem sobie sprawę, że to facet z Polski. Dobrze, że był link do tłumaczenia. Mój czytnik ekranu naprawdę dobrze się bawił, czytając oryginalne słowa. Haha. Witamy, jak zawsze, na forum MikeTech dla szalonych geeków.
I save these videos to watch while I'm screwing around my old computers. Makes for good company while fixing up older tech.
For the compound under the north bridge heatsink, I have found that Goo Gone works really well.
Using a Northwood P4 into 2010 is diabolical!
A new upload, happy to see.
I am always interested with 2000's era PCs as that was the time I started to learn about PC hardware and built my first PC in 2007.
I had one of these exact 52 speed aopen cd rom drives back in the day. Once, one of these golden writable cds exploded inside it when it was near it's max speed. It was annoying to clean, but it still worked afterwards. I think two of the plastic clips that should hold a cd when it's used sideways were broken off.
Whoa! I was just going through your old videos. There was a few I missed. Glad to see you made it through the storm.
LOL, that might be my old computer. I had some fun bookmarks. Stay out of the yahoo IM temp files. You will grow up real quick.
I have a weak spot for aOpen in general, love the quality of their products, but back in the day when they were big I did not know them - in hindsight, they where awesome and I try to get aopen parts here in germany, but its hard to come by - thank you for the video!
Love that I get to start my weekend with a new Mike video!
I didnt appreciate how good and well built those aopen cases were, back then. I had an hx45. Wish i still did! 😢
HE'S BACK!
It was hard to find this channel by search here, i never subbed, watched few times by recommendation, but algorithm hidden it and finding it was almost impossible by any word or association. Today algorithm recommended it again, first time in 3 months!
I actually have this same PC that I got from my job about a year ago, it was controlling their HVAC system and all of the coolers and freezers. It has the same 52 speed CD drive and that rubber bumper seagate drive. Although mine has an older motherboard with a celeron and ISA slots and runs 98 SE. Very cool to see a pretty close matching system to mine. Love the video.
He’s back
My parents had two AOpen systems in HX45 cases. I wish I was old enough to have saved them. I'd like to get one of those cases again someday to move my dual PIII system into, but the price hasn't been right.
I’ll keep an eye out for one!
42:00 yep. I had a CD with a small crack, tried it in a drive like that and kaboom. Those 52x drives spun so fast.
I'd wager the initial issue was because the disk was off the track, the drive tried to eject or do anything, couldn't and just got stuck on itself.
I was installing hp printer drivers on a customer computer and the 52x spun up and the disc exploded out of the drive destroying the drive in the process. There was a really large piece that almost hit me in the face as it flew 30 feet across the room and left a mark in the drywall.
I thought that only happened on Mythbusters
Well you're still lucky. You could've been hit in the eyeball by some kind of random plastic shrapnel.
Great jokes, almost the highlight of the video. Socket 478 is my favorite P4 socket. That particular motherboard brings so many memories, they were inexpensive boards so we used a lot of them in new builds and they were very reliable as well. They got a lot of crap back in the day but never had one fail, they weren’t the fastest though. 478 was the last socket I used a lot as I stopped working at the computer just before LGA775 was released.
8:41 Does anyone see the baby with a mustache? Or is it just me? This video takes me back to one of my first builds. Good stuff!
If you want to get those CD drive belts going again if they struggle to move, boiling them can help make them round and grippy again! It doesn't last super long but in my experience long enough to use a drive in a computer.
6:18 - this is standard on Pentium 4 Willamette chips, nothing out of order. Later - upon releasing Northwood - they have changed this to be more sharp-ish.
I don't think I've ever seen a pc with all of the drive bays fully loaded, interesting. The couple that owned this machine were certainly interesting characters.....
When I was working at my local computer store back in 2007 we had a whole stack of old AOpen CustomPC cases my boss (the owner) told me he got them from ordering them from AOpen's website between 2001-2003. They were sold bare bones with only a 300 or 350 watt power supply inside. I wish I could remember more but that was almost 20 years ago.
I remember AOpen cases being some of the best as far as quality/durability. We sold primarily AOpen systems back in the day. I remember the AOpen graphics, sound and modem cards were all just rebrands of other products, lol. Ended up getting a couple AOpen systems I plan to restore as well!
Yay! Another Miketech video! Great stuff as always Mike 👍🏻 Glad things are getting better for you. Look forward to your next uploads. Cheers 🍻
The obvious problem with the CD reader was the fact that the disc had traveled behind the tray. It probably was blocking the door from moving.
Only thinking about your channel yesterday and behold, you return Mike, yeah ! 09:22 😂😂 very good! Hope you're enjoying your life changes :)
caked more like baked bro
Eddy naughty naughty ;)
Those Seagate date codes were in the format of YY:WW:D, so that one is from October 21st of 2002
I had an Alfa usb wifi adapter back around this era. It was excellent! Used to connect it to a nice directional antenna for some long-ish range connections. Wish I still had all that gear!
The disc was likely what was keeping the drive from opening. The computer was likely inverted at some point and it dislodged the disc from the tray.
zip drives are amazing.
glad I kept mine. handy for backup of important data
Ah, I was missing your puns, and the sounds of the sacrificial drives. I love your nod to EEVblog Dave Jones' rubber baby bumpers!
I had forgotten the sound of a high speed cd rom drive sending a disc to the moon; sounds like gaming in the 90s to me.
Zip drives also came in a 750Mb variant near the end of their run.
And this is why we should strive for positive pressure inside our cases...
... predictable dust ingress.
Positive pressure == dust at intake fans
Negative pressure == dust EVERYWHERE
For the AOpen CD drive, I wonder if that disc was jammed when you got it and it was preventing the drive from initializing, thus flashing the "Paper Jam" light. 🤔 If the mechanism had dropped slightly but got stuck because of the disc, your ejector stick had nothing to hit.
Yeah it was most likely jammed. Only explanation I have for it going from pure anger to working flawlessly.
I once got an old XP system, and found it stuffed full of baseball cards. In the floppy drive, in the CD drive, and the case was full of them. I wonder what that kid was trying to do?
I recognized the bottom half of the PSU sticker before you took it out of the case. Something about the yellow warning triangle immediately reminded me of FSP/Sparkle even though I haven't seen one in a long while. I also had really good luck with them. Throughout the naughts, I regularly bought the 350 watt units and kept a couple on hand in case of failure. I replaced multiple dozens of PSUs, but I only encountered one failed FSP.
hi welcome back missed your videos
Yet another amazing and relaxing video Mike! Super interesting AOpen machine. Didn't even know they were an SI but cool PC nonetheless. Keep up being rad man
aww yiss
missed you bro
Love it, Mike! Thanks as always for sharing your treasures!
I've been gone for a few months but glad to know there's a pun in the intro!
4:33 more puns.
23:09 ... damn.
23:16 never mind, mother of all lags!
24:50 in an award-winning plot twist, this looks stuck.
The puns keep on creeping towards the beginning of the videos. Normally I wait in order to lull people into a false sense of security, but this one I could not resist.
This video is great. Really enjoy watching your videos, even if the jokes sometimes make me groan in disbelief.
The Kingston RAM label has "KVR133XZ54C3/512". Means 512MB of PC133.
Great to see a new video!
Omgggg
Yes!!!
New amazing content😊😊😊
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nice good older pc
hi mike tech im glad your back its been a long time and i got a Acer aspire Z1620 All in one desktop from a friend and i put her pics from her hard drive and pictures to a USB drive and she has the USB drive for her pics and i factory reset the acer and its restored windows 7 but im hoping to upgrade it to windows 11 so yeah im glad your back and that Aopen is a nice custom PC maybe if windows XP can be upgraded to media center edition 2005 SP3
made me laugh a lot, good times while taking a dump in the morning - cheers!
Sold tons of Acer Open stuff. Great oem stuff. Goes along with Mitsumi keyboards, mice, cd-rom drives and floppy drives. I don't remember this case design. But the oem A-open stuff was killer. Great desktop cases if you can find one.
YES NEW MIKE TECH
Cool retro PC video!😊
Very cool PC. I had an ABS PC from that era with an AOpen board, but mine had an AMD Athlon XP something or other (Barton) CPU. Windows XP, of course. I recall having both an AGP and a PCI graphics card, and I'm sure I still have them somewhere, though the PC itself is long gone. I used dual 19" CRTs, if you can imagine that. I used that PC from the summer of 2003 until probably 2009, when I bought an iMac. I still have the iMac (Core i7 860), with a SATA SSD where the DVD drive used to be, and though I no longer use it for anything, it does still work.
Wow, two 19” CRTs? Your desk must have been begging for mercy.
34:23 I think one of those website icons is orange with black... I wonder what logo that would be considering he had to blur it!
I love a good A-broken cd-rom drive because if the 56x ones weren't exploding your disks they certainly weren't reading your disks.
That machine would have been through hell, going on the scorch mark on the CPU socket at 6:03. I was surprised it worked!
Probably from all those spicy websites Eddy was visiting.
I'd say kingston are mostly readable if you know what to look for. the previous owner probably upgrade the 2 512MB (usually the last of the model number on the stick is the size) sticks for reasons.
Great video
12:00 googone melts that pink bubblegum stuff also you should get some thin foam tape or just use electrical tape.
Learn somethng new everyday always thought that the P4 was DDR RAM, never knew there were SDRAM ones
DUI Defenses 😳
My guess is that AOpen drive failed to work the first time because that network software disk was literally jammed into there. When BIOS queried the drive, it probably had no idea what the hell was going on, so it gave up. And the disk being jammed in there is probably what prevented the tray from sliding out and the emergency eject mechanism from working properly. Once you disassembled it and freed the trapped disk, everything worked fine. Exactly how that disk got trapped in there, I have no idea. Maybe somebody was a bit over-enthusiastic when inserting it, and then just gave up when the thing wouldn't eject (and didn't go so far as to disassemble it to try and free it.)
Could be. Might have also been roughed-up during its sordid past as an e-waste article.
aopen is basically a sub brand of acer that was made for acer to sell parts on the retail market separate of there pre built machines.
I think next time Eddy chucks a computer system, he should strongly consider erasing his files lol.
Bro was so busy clearing his browsing history, he forgot to sanitize his bookmarks…
@@miketech1024 I think, sometimes, when people go walking down the net's darker alleys, there is weed involved...or alcohol...or both.
😂🤣
don't see many of those heatsink clips that are not cable tied in place these days.
hi ^^ really loving your videos, they are super interesting, specially how methodically you are doing it ^^
i have a question : i see you often use white lithium grease for floppy drives (and optical drives too iirc), why this type of grease ? i have some drives (mainly optical ones) that would really benefit from some new grease but i'm concerned about plastic on plastic, metal on plastic and metal on metal parts, worried it could not react well or something 😅
Thanks! White lithium grease is best for metal-to-metal contact. For plastic stuff, silicone is best because it’s pretty inert.
@@miketech1024 thanks a lot ^^
so i suppose silicone is best for metal/plastic too ? (like on the rails of the optical bloc on a optical drive)
If this were a K6-2... That could have almost been my first system from '98. That 52x is the same drive that was in mine, So I'd say definitely an AOpen OEM. I eventually got the same burner. AOpen did start off with very well built computers, though I think their quality began to lack later on.
Mythbusters did an episode about exploding discs in those fast drives too!
Well I heard they can get so fast, they bust through the drive and cut people's hands off!
Don't mind me, I'm just sitting here talking to the dog on the wallpaper.
My favorite 478 socket... but why here PC133 RAM? Very early motherboard?
Weird because GPU using PCI unlike AGP.
1 year ago I found 478-Socket PC inside the... dumpster! :), now it works very well.
16:18 I thought Seagate HDD date code means XX(year), XX(week), X (weekday), isn't it?
Sadly my Sony DVD Rw rom blew my final fantasy disc up 😭 Do you have any AT case's I can have ?
Just last week I found an AOpen PC at the local thrift store. I couldn't tell from the outside it was anything special other than it's beige color so I rolled the $10 dice on it. Imagine my surprise when it had an Asus P5A Socket 7 board! It also had a crunchy WD Caviar 6GB running Windows XP with only Office and 3 separate virus scanners on it. it ran like molasses I tell ya!
I trust you dealt with that malware accordingly? : )
I'd throw all 3 of those gd scanners off of that system. Virus scanners have a way of making viruses (viri) look good.
@keithbrown7685 Of course, I went with a 95 OSR 2.5 install that had a lot of driver issues. I just wanted to do something different but apparently old reliable 98SE to the rescue yet again!
@@BurritoVampire Good man! In a world full of people doing wrong, you did right!!
Do some more laptop videos!
Having an un-password protected admin account that you can use to remove the password on the other passworded account is pure genius.
l337 h@x04
Nice
@MikeTech
What do you do with all these PC's once you refurb them?
He packs them with dynamite and then annihilates them. The refurb is kind of like getting your last meal on death row, you know?
I either keep or sell them (currently to patrons only). Eventually there will be an eBay store.
6:42 007 ADOLF. Wtf Kingston.
28:44 Nice document name.
It's very nice to see a hard drive in these e-waste systems, as that makes Mike's job a whole lot easier, but still, let this be a lesson: remove your hard drive before tossing the PC or else it may just end up in a MikeTech video where your programs and files will be exposed to all LOL
I remember starting with a CD rom and getting an LS120 that was only for like a year
I don't know if they are even available for replacement
And then getting a DVD drive and then a DVD RW
The craziness of having a 100 MB removable storage, and then the CDRW 650 MB
I still remember 64 MB USB sticks
I can't remember if there was anything smaller
But I definitely remember 64 and 128 256 512 and 1 gb
I also remember in 1995 the 10 MB CF cards
Now, finding a 1gb or 4gb is not easy
I just don't remember what we were using a 64 MB USB stick for
But with the 1.44 MB floppy and 120 MB LS120, 64 MB USB is not unusual
We used to have a lot less file size back then
And moving a bunch of files like the install files for windows 95, a 64 MB USB stick would be a good idea
I don't think win98 was much bigger than 64 MB for the install files
And I know I had an MP3 player that was 128 MB, I think I bought it from Radio Shack.
It is mind-blowing to think how fast we have jumped from a computer running off 360k floppy drives to 1.2 MB to a 10 MB hard drive and that was big back in 1983
40 years from 10 MB to 10 TB
Just 😮 WOW
I did have a cdr explode and shatter into little pieces in a drive.