AHH, those good old hard drive and floppy drive sounds, I remember playing Kings Quest on a PS/2 computer with a monochrome monitor in the late 80s early 90s, so much fun. really enjoyed that video Tommy. keep up the great work.
Dont stress out about the hard drive. They are as reliable as a cardboard canoe. The fact it worked as well as it did is amazing. I do know someone is making a special XT-IDE to replace the hard drive, but i havent heard any updates in a while.
Hi Tommy, Great machine the PS/2 Model 30. I have one in my collection for a while now. Nice to see you again. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands
That model 30 was my first computer. It had the orange power switch, 640k ram, 20 mb hdd and the 8mhz 8086. The floppy was only 720kb and it came with pc dos 3.30. It also had Mcga graphics, not Vga. The later model 30 with the white switch had a 286, vga graphics and 1.44mb floppy drive.
very good video tommy! you did a great job with this machine...i had fun watching and trying to learn some things from you....i am more of a japan hardware collecter and game player..but i like what you do as well....
@@Arcticretro yes i saw the video! that is a really cool msx you have!i love the msx and the msx+2and last but certinaly not least! the panasonic turbo r!!
You know Tommy, every picture I've ever seen from Norway is beautiful. I challenge you to open a video with Norway at its worst. I'm glad I did not grow up in Norway because it looks so beautiful I'd think everywhere else was a real downer. :) Alt for Norge?
Challenge accepted! Today is gray and wet. I could go to the garbage landfill next time :) Alt for Norge is the King's official "quotation". And it's also a reality show here in Norway
@@Arcticretro Ha! I can't wait! I'm sure it will look totally picturesque if at least for the background. I grew up near Newark New Jersey and we had a dump called Fresh Kills Landfill. It was as tall as a pyramid in Giza. :)
Try high heat to soften the red glypt jamming up the power supply screws. Your heat shrink hot air gun will do the job well. You can get coin cell holders cheap so in the future you can easy swap out the cmos battery. @7:30 the MS-DOG 3.3 appears to be Y2k ready but DOG 6.22 is not. Interesting.
Interesting extra speed on the CheckIt. Is this machine running on a fast Toshiba 8088? Did I read the system check page right that it has a 8087? All that VLSI and DIMM memory modules seems to be paying dividends in system performance. I wonder if those VLSI chips are doing a lot of memory management for the CPU.
@@Arcticretro Oh! A full up 8086 and not the runt 8088 that explains some of the excellent performance. I would love to see a 80186 perform one of these days. Those were advertised all over back in the day. It had some '286 features in it. Would have made for an interesting PC XT.
That HDD sounds like a stepper motor HDD. Low-level formatting these often gets rid of those bad sectors. Unfortunately the controller is an IBM special so it's probably not even possible to low-level the drive. PCTools has a diskfix program which tries to revive drives sector by sector. I'm not sure if it needs any of the PCTools libraries or can run standalone, but I remember having a boot disk which had scandisk and diskfix (and CheckIt) on it.
for the floppy cable thing, I think if you get a set of headers, and a little piece of protoboard in between, that'd make a short and sweet adapter, like, leave one row of hole in between the headers for jumping things around Not sure if clearance could be an issue though
That's exactly what I did for my PS/2 and it works like a charm. I used a right angle header, so the cable is parallel to the PCB and clearance is not an issue. There is also a project on GitHub to make a PCB version. Just be aware that using a real floppy (usually) requires 1k pull-ups to 5v on 5 of the lines - index, track 0, write protect, read data and disk change. The Gotek is obviously fine without the pullups.
You can use the LABEL command to change the label on the drive to something you can type on your US keyboard. If you can get your hands on an old copy of Spinrite, that might help revive those two hard drives but I agree with the other commenters that they are probably very near their end of life.
Nice to see a PS/2 on the channel. I was lucky enough to find a model 55SX recently.
Very nice!
Great Nostalgia. I remember dad unboxing this beast and setting everything up!
Nice :)
AHH, those good old hard drive and floppy drive sounds, I remember playing Kings Quest on a PS/2 computer with a monochrome monitor in the late 80s early 90s, so much fun. really enjoyed that video Tommy. keep up the great work.
Thank you :-)
Dont stress out about the hard drive. They are as reliable as a cardboard canoe. The fact it worked as well as it did is amazing. I do know someone is making a special XT-IDE to replace the hard drive, but i havent heard any updates in a while.
Ok, thanks!
Hi Tommy, Great machine the PS/2 Model 30. I have one in my collection for a while now. Nice to see you again. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands
Hey, thanks!
Very nice video. Until now Ididn't even know, that an IBM 8086 machine exists. Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
That model 30 was my first computer. It had the orange power switch, 640k ram, 20 mb hdd and the 8mhz 8086. The floppy was only 720kb and it came with pc dos 3.30. It also had Mcga graphics, not Vga. The later model 30 with the white switch had a 286, vga graphics and 1.44mb floppy drive.
Great :)
Nice video, thanks ❤
Thank you too!
I had this Beast, thanks for the video :)
Thanks for watching!
very good video tommy! you did a great job with this machine...i had fun watching and trying to learn some things from you....i am more of a japan hardware collecter and game player..but i like what you do as well....
Thanks 👍 Japan hardware sounds interesting. I have one Japanese MSX machine
@@Arcticretro yes i saw the video! that is a really cool msx you have!i love the msx and the msx+2and last but certinaly not least! the panasonic turbo r!!
You know Tommy, every picture I've ever seen from Norway is beautiful. I challenge you to open a video with Norway at its worst. I'm glad I did not grow up in Norway because it looks so beautiful I'd think everywhere else was a real downer. :) Alt for Norge?
Challenge accepted! Today is gray and wet. I could go to the garbage landfill next time :) Alt for Norge is the King's official "quotation". And it's also a reality show here in Norway
@@Arcticretro Ha! I can't wait! I'm sure it will look totally picturesque if at least for the background. I grew up near Newark New Jersey and we had a dump called Fresh Kills Landfill. It was as tall as a pyramid in Giza. :)
The cinet keyboard is no way age approptiate 😊 it has the windows key 😊 Does not matter but just making a point. Very nice video.
Yes, you are right. Thanks :)
Try high heat to soften the red glypt jamming up the power supply screws. Your heat shrink hot air gun will do the job well. You can get coin cell holders cheap so in the future you can easy swap out the cmos battery. @7:30 the MS-DOG 3.3 appears to be Y2k ready but DOG 6.22 is not. Interesting.
Ok, thanks!
Interesting extra speed on the CheckIt. Is this machine running on a fast Toshiba 8088? Did I read the system check page right that it has a 8087? All that VLSI and DIMM memory modules seems to be paying dividends in system performance. I wonder if those VLSI chips are doing a lot of memory management for the CPU.
It is certainly a 8086 and no 8087. I did not notice that in the Checkit
@@Arcticretro Oh! A full up 8086 and not the runt 8088 that explains some of the excellent performance. I would love to see a 80186 perform one of these days. Those were advertised all over back in the day. It had some '286 features in it. Would have made for an interesting PC XT.
That HDD sounds like a stepper motor HDD. Low-level formatting these often gets rid of those bad sectors. Unfortunately the controller is an IBM special so it's probably not even possible to low-level the drive.
PCTools has a diskfix program which tries to revive drives sector by sector. I'm not sure if it needs any of the PCTools libraries or can run standalone, but I remember having a boot disk which had scandisk and diskfix (and CheckIt) on it.
Ok! Thanks for the insight!
I am a little curious about that IBM PC/XT badge on your monitor…!
I had if for a long time. I got it from someone. Nothing particular.
I flipped a PCjr once I found on a curb.
Nice!
for the floppy cable thing, I think if you get a set of headers, and a little piece of protoboard in between, that'd make a short and sweet adapter, like, leave one row of hole in between the headers for jumping things around
Not sure if clearance could be an issue though
Thanks, yes I'll try something else. This was the quick solution :)
That's exactly what I did for my PS/2 and it works like a charm. I used a right angle header, so the cable is parallel to the PCB and clearance is not an issue. There is also a project on GitHub to make a PCB version. Just be aware that using a real floppy (usually) requires 1k pull-ups to 5v on 5 of the lines - index, track 0, write protect, read data and disk change. The Gotek is obviously fine without the pullups.
@@Arcticretro Fair enough hehehe :)
You can use the LABEL command to change the label on the drive to something you can type on your US keyboard. If you can get your hands on an old copy of Spinrite, that might help revive those two hard drives but I agree with the other commenters that they are probably very near their end of life.
Thank you so much!
Keyboard command in dos
Keyb sv for Sweden
Man I wish My mom didnt trash my 5150 & 5160., stupid drunk lol
I had a PS2 about 20 years ago, but I didnt care for the Case setup so I traded it off
Oh, sad