Fujitsu Ergo Pro x453 PC - CH01: Inspection & Breakdown
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- In 1993-94 I worked at the British computer manufacturer ICL in Reading, England. ICL made their own range of higher end PC's and I was a fan of their industrial design.
Now, I finally have my own ICL PC, except... it's a Fujitsu PC. In this video we will look over the PC and see IF it survived shipping and what will be necessary for me to get it to a usable state as a late 90s gaming PC.
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I worked at a local council in the UK and like most they were an ICL house. Worked on all the DRS kit from DRS 300, 3000, 6000, the desktop M series and the Ergo Pro line (as well as ICL VME on Series 39 mainframes). Also the TeamServers which were intel servers and Sparc for the bigger ones. Blast from the past. Keep up the great videos.
Ah yes, the SPARC servers, I had forgotten those. I remember seeing them in the office once or twice. Our floor was Intel dominated. I sat in the area where the sales people and account managers worked. They were mostly targeting the British Gas's, British Telecom size companies. On the 2nd or 3rd floor, there were a bunch of Unix people, and I guess they would have been using the SPARC machines.
I once asked them to provide for me some graphics and icons from their UI and a discussion between two of them that was worth of the IT Crowd broke out. It was about 10 minutes long, and they considered sending the files via this server, converting to that protocol then telnetting into another server and so on. It appears putting the files on SOME kind of floppy that was compatible with a PC was not an option. TWO TOTALY SEPARATE WORLDS, it was nuts! :)
Thermal compound was a late addition, it was quite common back in the days not to use any
Yeah, its funny eh, it seems so automatic now, but I suppose that phased in during the 2000s, as cooling performance became more and more critical.
I had the Indiana system back in the 90s.
The Indiana, not heard of those before. A black case, kind of similar to the Ergo Pro, yeah, really cool looking machine. You know, ICL had some great stuff back in the 80s as well. I bought a 386 tower, weighed a ton, was a server I think, it had full length ISA cards, each with maybe 512k or 1mb ram on them. Gave it to a friend, who almost immediately sold it for cash, der...
Sadly, this Ergo Pro is currently broken, but Im working on it, so the next video in this series will have to wait until that works out, or does not. Its a VERY hard repair, as the ICL/Fujitsu machines are relatively rare, so no schematics, no BIOS's to download. VERY tricky....
Great video✌
Thanks for watching!
@@RetronautTech thanks