At work our computer admin at the time supplied us with dtk's. From xt clones to the early 386 era. Back then computers were really expensive. Especially the IBM's, hence the popularity of the dtk. They worked well for us and were solid reliable. Seeing this brings back memories. I have forgotton a lot about the early computers now since it has been so long. Amazing how well you remember so much about them. You must play around with this old stuff fairly often.
All your videos make me want to start a new antique computers collection. I've seen so many thrown away in dumpsters, and after watching your videos I regret everyone I let get carried to its land fill graveyard.
I would bet that multifunction board was made by DTK as well. The Oak VGA board may not be fancy enough to support CGA/EGA and Hercules output; many early VGA cards simply offered the 9-pin output as a way to connect an already-VGA-capable Multisync monitor (as likely previously used with EGA) without needing to buy a new 9-pin-to-15-pin cable. And it's been a long time since I've seen that text-only AMI BIOS screen! The only 386 clone I have left has Phoenix BIOS.
For those of you that are showing your computer ignorance, that was Michael Dell's first commercial desktop! I have one, and it has the original version of DOS and Word Perfect 1.0! Runs great!
I had this computer. Bought it in 1991 with 1 mb of ram. Don't remember the price but I upgraded hard drive to 170 Mb for - imagine this - $1,200. (that price I do remember)! I think it maxed out at 5 mb of ram on the motherboard at about $150 a megabyte. Wow. I don't remember how ram I upgraded it to in the end! Thank for the post!!!!
My Aptiva's CMOS battery croaked a bit ago...thankfully, i had a CR2032 handy and the original wasn't the evil, soldered down sort. (Thank you, 1st Mainboard, for not giving your AMD Duron 733 upgrade board a evil soldered down battery!)
My mom and dad used to work in DTK at Taiwan, this computer might be one of the computers shipped from Taiwan at the golden age of computer manufacturing in 1990's. But now the status is replaced by China. DTK still making computers now, but the tranditional Chinese website stopped update at 2000, and you can still see the old stuff still selling online, but I think it just for a memorial of the golden age. www.dtk.com.tw/cindex.html
You can identify the motherboard maker via the string on the BIOS and also, I was curious if you can do a video update on this machine if you still have it as of today to show how the machine is as of today with software ready to go because 386's aside from the 486 and Pentiums are good DOS machines to play with :3
Micronics was a separate company from Micron. Diamond bought them out in 1998 or so. DTK used to be big around here, They had an office in NJ and likely built machines here as a lot of schools used them (they had a state contract). They went out of business years ago, its likely whatever company that is doing business under that marque, purchased the name or was a former division. The unused pads around the CPU are for a PGA socket.
Have you checked their site recently? Looks like they reinvented their selves! My College still had a ton of DTK Pentium IIs running even when I graduated in 2006
I have this same case. What type of size power supply does this take?(mine has no power supply) The XT and normal size AT seem to big and not the correct shape for the back of the case. Is this some kind of weird proprietary Mini XT version that DTK had made just to fit in their case, some kind of XT, Full AT, Baby AT, Frankenstein Power Supply. I want to find one for my Peer 1630 case.
Stacker, X-Tree Gold, Quarterdeck's QEMM386 and the predecessors to some of the latest games still loved by all; Wolfenstein (Battlefield 3, Metro 2033), Sir-Tech's Wizardry (Elder Scrolls series) and Sim City. And we didn't notice that the midi sound files sounded that bad, until X-Wing and some others started using digitally reproduced wave files. DIP switches on modems and such to set IRQ's and DMA's. MEMMAKER, HIMEM.sys /noems and Expanded memory cards! My hair just got 2 shades greyer. lol
You mentioned the leaky nickel-cadmium batteries in the description. I always yanked those out first thing. There was almost always just enough space to solder in a regular coin cell holder. If the keyboard port gets in the way, you can shave a little plastic off of it if you're very careful.
I used to have a Dtk grafika 486dx2 66mhz. I'm very surprised, dtk used the same AT case from the era of the machine you own all the way into the AMD supersocket 7 era, they just have different face plates. They all have the 3 horizontal 5.25 bays and two vertical 3.5 bays. It was a nice computer, the one I owned, it had alot of room for expansion.
You would be amazed how long cigarette smoke stays in electronic equipment,I found my parents old General Electric clock (gotta be from the 80's) and it still has a hint of nicotine (my father was a smoker,don't become an accountant on wall street) ,to think it has held on for 15 years.
My brother and I once had an old 486 DX4 100 and we attempted to installed a 1.3 Gig Drive. The BIOS took such offense that the computer completely crashed and wouldn't go at all. It took much fiddling around to get it back again.
I did Google some of the chip numbers to see if they were a Dallas timekeeper equivalent. The only one I've not checked is the previously mentioned one with the unhelpful sticker.
Yet another informative video, I nearly forgot about all the older hardware I used to have and use years ago (yes I have been building PC's up for near on 30 years now). O and that furhead needs a cage when you are making a video.. (just kidding).
i have a IBM from 1994 it looks exactly like that computer inside and i had a 66MHz AMD 486 in it i think and 8mb of Ram and a 250mb seagate hardrive it is amazing
Nice system, and for the harddisk you can use a drive overlay program. The biggest harddisk you can install without a overlay is 520MB (1024cyl. 16 heads 63 sectors)
I have the same problem with the battery for my 486 motherboard being dead (or missing?!) I've ordered a similar battery holder for the 4 pin socket, as I'd rather not have to enter the CHS settings every time I want to use it! Interestingly, the manual for said motherboard reckons the VLB slot is a MCA slot! I wasn't expecting a random Furhead to appear!
No offense intended Bill, just noting a bunch of comments unrelated to the content so I made an observation related to my experience with former smokers. I like the vid. Boy did it ever bring back the days when you had to define your drive parameters in the bios. I noticed the empty math co-processor socket. My first PC was a Tandy 386SX. My first build was a 5x86 Cyrix based PC, 133 MHZ with a huge amount of RAM, 12MB! DOS 6.2, I ran X-Wing out of a RAM disk on it. Been hooked ever since.
+Massa902 The smell of burnt or overheated electronic parts is a lot different from that of cigarettes. And as the fan tends to pull air through other openings in the case, it tends to get everywhere pretty much equally.
My first computer was a DTK, though I don't know the model number. I do remember it was a 286 and had a Hercules Graphics card while I had it. (it also had quite a few spelling errors in the CMOS setup, which, fortunately for me, did not require a "setup disk" to access.
+uxwbill well it is an OS that was supplied with the AMSTRAD 1512 which had 512KB of system RAM and had CGA 4 color graphics as well as a special Plantronics mode which gave 16 colors on screen at one time as well as MSDOS the GEM OS was a graphical operating system for the AMSTRAD 1512 and 1640 which had 640KB of system RAM as well both machines used the Intel 8086 processor but no floating point which had to be emulated. AMSTRAD is a contraction of Allen Michael Sugar Trading.
So, at one point you talked about monitors. I've gotta DTK FEAT-5030 with 486dx cpu. I thought I was having a video problem. Could it be that it doesn't work with my newer monitor? What type of monitor will be needed? I'm unaware on this sort of thing.
There's always that possibility, although I would expect that you would still see the various startup messages produced by the computer before it is ready to use. Most monitors will also complain if their capabilities are being exceeded. In case you are not already, I would recommend using a monitor that has an actual analog VGA input. (The typical converters for VGA to HDMI, DisplayPort, or whatever don't actually work all that well.) My guess is that the computer isn't actually managing to start up. You can find this out fairly easily by removing the video card from the computer (assuming it's not built in -- then it gets harder). This should provoke a set of beep code errors from the internal speaker when you turn it on, if it is running. My longstanding recommendation would be to carefully disassemble the computer, look for any damage (especially around any clock battery you may see), and if everything looks OK, carefully clean excessive dust away, after which you should reseat everything. If you have a meter capable of measuring DC voltage, you could also check the power supply. At a minimum, it should be outputting approximately five and twelve volts DC. If it isn't, that's likely the problem.
@@uxwbill I get one sort of quick beep on startup. I can hear the hdd running as well. The battery area looks clean-ish. It's the old Dallas type and I can imagine it gave up the ghost long ago. I just dont know anything about this old thing. It was my first computer when I was like 10 lol. Found it in my parents storage building. Just for nostalgia's sake I'd like to get it going.
That beep, if it's coming from the system speaker, is probably a good sign. If it were me, I'd clean the system up first (blow the dust out, if there is any) and reseat all the expansion cards. That may be all it takes. Beyond that, it'll take some troubleshooting. Simplify the system configuration as much as you can. If it works with the bare minimum configuration, add one piece back at a time and test it. When it fails, you've found the problem. The Dallas modules do run out of battery power, but as the battery is totally sealed in potting compound, it doesn't leak. It also helps that the battery is not a rechargeable type. You can carefully cut those modules open, disconnect the battery and solder in an externally located one. It's not for the faint of heart or inexperienced, though.
@@uxwbill I did in fact take everything apart and clean it. The mobo itself looks mint. The VGA card looks like it's okay, but the metal seats did appear to have corrosion on them. I did not clean them yet but did reseat it. Only had 1 more old school internet card that's completely trashed. The pc was on its side for years and looks like rats got in there and did their business. This did not make a difference on the video issue. The one beep is still chiming on startup though. I dont know if I should try a different video card or not since I cant locate a cga monitor for sale anywhere. It's a shame really. I did see a label on the hdd though, it's got DOS 6.2 loaded on it amd possibly Win3.1. May have to be back burner project for now.
Hopefully you'll have a breakthrough and it'll come back to life. I would definitely simplify the configuration as much as possible, maybe consider removing everything but the motherboard and video card? Anything that looks as though it has been damaged should definitely be removed, as it may damage other parts of the computer. Hopefully that hasn't already happened. Assuming "CGA" isn't a typo, you won't want to use a CGA video card or monitor. It would be an enormous step backwards in that computer's graphics capabilities and any software that operates in a graphics mode would probably need to be reconfigured. Windows 3.1 in particular did not ship with a CGA driver -- it was an optional download from Microsoft's BBS at the time.
Bill did you ever find that DDO software for the Bios? I wanted to place a larger drive in my old Window 2000 computer and couldn't get it to work, i guess it's too large. I serched all over the net for some DDO software, seems it's no longer avialable.
I've looked and looked and looked and I can't see anything that looks like a battery, or that there was ever a battery mounted on it. There's the BIOS and a chip directly next to it with a sticker on the top. I may try and remove the sticker to get the part number. This is the third motherboard I've tried and this is the only issue with it!
Ooow it reminds me of one of the machines i had many many years ago. You may find the holes around the cpu were for the socketed version, i had a machine like that, it could do with a 387 math co-pro i think (my memory has faded a bit). Not quite enough speed/memory for win 95 to work i suspect. So its fdisk/format/sys c: from a boot disk and same dos installed, scandisk/chkdsk to check if ok then windows 3.1 possibly?? Furrhead, i would worry about him bill, lol :-)
Yuck, few things are nastier to a computer than smoking. Funnily enough, the reset button my my 386DX sticks as well... in fact I had to stick a piece of tape to the button and pull on it to pop it back out. Fortunately ctrl-alt-del works well enough most of the time. I've got to solder together a battery solution on that machine as well; I'm going the CR2032 battery holder route. Those barrel batteries are a menace; luckily I got to it before it caused any damage. Anyways excellent video!
ok. well this is called a canon innova media mt 9140. it is a ir port on the front and made for win95 it says. think it has a pent 200 maybe. it is interesting. i think i have a picture of it maybe.
It is an IBM H3171-a2 171 mb 984 cyl 10 heads 34 sec/T Do do i use 84 or what number, It also has no clock battery, so it won't detect the harddrive automaticly for me, it has a 486SX 25 mhz and running MS DOS 6.0 Windows 3.11 It's very hard to get it booting up from the HDD
Ok i will try that thanks! I think it needs a 3.6 V because when i install a 3 volt cr3220 battery, it says that the battery state is very low on the power on self-test. and also it only works one time
I have a computer with ISA slots, and I need a slow modem for my linux dial in server. ( it only gives a login prompt, so speed does not matter) so, I need a slow modem for authenticity.
My friends got an old computer. I really don't know anything about it, since it's not mine, but it just sits in his basement. All I know is that it has a turbo button, And takes a long time to start up, The boots win 2k, and it you leave it running for about a half hour an alarm starts going off in it. Does anyone know what the alarm is? I'm thinking it's overheating or something.. But if you know, please let me know!
Yop DTK... Now its an Austrian company... company is still active in europe... they actually build their own computers! I own a lot of their computers. Computers are like custom build only power supplies have dtk label. Keyboards... made in china :D
Hey uxwbill nice video i didnt expect to see Seth Rogen come on in the video LOL Furry i think you said his name is. He looks like Seth Rogen alil bit too me. Made me laugh
Guy's almost as bad as Tony Randall and Larry Hagman were about the "tobacco" thing. Nothing more "holier than thou" than a former smoker. Did somebody count how many times he mentioned the evil weed? ROTFLMAO! Fun vid otherwise. Cool way back machine of the old 386 days.
I have a 286 I put together many many years ago that has a DTK NEAT 286 motherboard in it. Check the vid on my channel out if your curious. ;-) I recently upgraded the CPU from a 16 MHz to a 20 MHz Harris 286 CPU.
At work our computer admin at the time supplied us with dtk's. From xt clones to the early 386 era. Back then computers were really expensive. Especially the IBM's, hence the popularity of the dtk. They worked well for us and were solid reliable. Seeing this brings back memories. I have forgotton a lot about the early computers now since it has been so long. Amazing how well you remember so much about them. You must play around with this old stuff fairly often.
Nice Bill. Your vintage computer videos rock!
Yet another great vintage computer video!!! Thanks so much for the upload bill can't wait to see the next
Man you have such interesting gadgetry. I love vintage stuff like this even though im pretty young. 22 years of age.
Furhead reminds me of the guys I used to work with at AT&T. I worked in the Construction Dept. and they were a wild crazy bunch of guys.
All your videos make me want to start a new antique computers collection. I've seen so many thrown away in dumpsters, and after watching your videos I regret everyone I let get carried to its land fill graveyard.
My first ever PC was from DTK - and I had NEVER any of problems with its hardware.
I would bet that multifunction board was made by DTK as well. The Oak VGA board may not be fancy enough to support CGA/EGA and Hercules output; many early VGA cards simply offered the 9-pin output as a way to connect an already-VGA-capable Multisync monitor (as likely previously used with EGA) without needing to buy a new 9-pin-to-15-pin cable. And it's been a long time since I've seen that text-only AMI BIOS screen! The only 386 clone I have left has Phoenix BIOS.
For those of you that are showing your computer ignorance, that was Michael Dell's first commercial desktop! I have one, and it has the original version of DOS and Word Perfect 1.0! Runs great!
I had this computer. Bought it in 1991 with 1 mb of ram. Don't remember the price but I upgraded hard drive to 170 Mb for - imagine this - $1,200. (that price I do remember)! I think it maxed out at 5 mb of ram on the motherboard at about $150 a megabyte. Wow. I don't remember how ram I upgraded it to in the end! Thank for the post!!!!
Love the comic relief. Keep up the good work.
My Aptiva's CMOS battery croaked a bit ago...thankfully, i had a CR2032 handy and the original wasn't the evil, soldered down sort.
(Thank you, 1st Mainboard, for not giving your AMD Duron 733 upgrade board a evil soldered down battery!)
Awsome random Furheaddedness
My mom and dad used to work in DTK at Taiwan, this computer might be one of the computers shipped from Taiwan at the golden age of computer manufacturing in 1990's. But now the status is replaced by China.
DTK still making computers now, but the tranditional Chinese website stopped update at 2000, and you can still see the old stuff still selling online, but I think it just for a memorial of the golden age.
www.dtk.com.tw/cindex.html
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You can identify the motherboard maker via the string on the BIOS and also, I was curious if you can do a video update on this machine if you still have it as of today to show how the machine is as of today with software ready to go because 386's aside from the 486 and Pentiums are good DOS machines to play with :3
Those ozone generators are very good at killing odors.
Micronics was a separate company from Micron. Diamond bought them out in 1998 or so. DTK used to be big around here, They had an office in NJ and likely built machines here as a lot of schools used them (they had a state contract). They went out of business years ago, its likely whatever company that is doing business under that marque, purchased the name or was a former division. The unused pads around the CPU are for a PGA socket.
Have you checked their site recently? Looks like they reinvented their selves! My College still had a ton of DTK Pentium IIs running even when I graduated in 2006
Oh gotcha
I have this same case. What type of size power supply does this take?(mine has no power supply) The XT and normal size AT seem to big and not the correct shape for the back of the case. Is this some kind of weird proprietary Mini XT version that DTK had made just to fit in their case, some kind of XT, Full AT, Baby AT, Frankenstein Power Supply. I want to find one for my Peer 1630 case.
That Turbo button really acts like a forced induction switch.
Stacker, X-Tree Gold, Quarterdeck's QEMM386 and the predecessors to some of the latest games still loved by all; Wolfenstein (Battlefield 3, Metro 2033), Sir-Tech's Wizardry (Elder Scrolls series) and Sim City. And we didn't notice that the midi sound files sounded that bad, until X-Wing and some others started using digitally reproduced wave files. DIP switches on modems and such to set IRQ's and DMA's. MEMMAKER, HIMEM.sys /noems and Expanded memory cards!
My hair just got 2 shades greyer. lol
You mentioned the leaky nickel-cadmium batteries in the description. I always yanked those out first thing. There was almost always just enough space to solder in a regular coin cell holder. If the keyboard port gets in the way, you can shave a little plastic off of it if you're very careful.
you shouldn’t directly solder to batteries
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Never said I did. :)
@@Jerkwad152 you said you soldered in a coin cell battery.
@@jessihawkins9116
No, I said I soldered in a coin cell _holder_ .
@@Jerkwad152 no
I used to have a Dtk grafika 486dx2 66mhz. I'm very surprised, dtk used the same AT case from the era of the machine you own all the way into the AMD supersocket 7 era, they just have different face plates. They all have the 3 horizontal 5.25 bays and two vertical 3.5 bays. It was a nice computer, the one I owned, it had alot of room for expansion.
You would be amazed how long cigarette smoke stays in electronic equipment,I found my parents old General Electric clock (gotta be from the 80's) and it still has a hint of nicotine (my father was a smoker,don't become an accountant on wall street) ,to think it has held on for 15 years.
What that guy did looked like something my father would do.
macronix also used their designs in stuff like nintendo cartridges, some ps2 bios chips, atari jaguar games and some other stuff.
The pads around teh CPU look like where a socket would usually go.
My brother and I once had an old 486 DX4 100 and we attempted to installed a 1.3 Gig Drive. The BIOS took such offense that the computer completely crashed and wouldn't go at all. It took much fiddling around to get it back again.
I did Google some of the chip numbers to see if they were a Dallas timekeeper equivalent. The only one I've not checked is the previously mentioned one with the unhelpful sticker.
Yet another informative video, I nearly forgot about all the older hardware I used to have and use years ago (yes I have been building PC's up for near on 30 years now).
O and that furhead needs a cage when you are making a video.. (just kidding).
I keep many 40 Mb - 500 Mb Drives around just for 386 or 286 finds - sweet older Computer :) QC
According to the BIOS string, 1277 indicates the the board manufacturer to be Trangg Bow.
i have a IBM from 1994 it looks exactly like that computer inside and i had a 66MHz AMD 486 in it i think and 8mb of Ram and a 250mb seagate hardrive it is amazing
Nice system, and for the harddisk you can use a drive overlay program.
The biggest harddisk you can install without a overlay is 520MB (1024cyl. 16 heads 63 sectors)
Love these things! Subscribed.
I have the same problem with the battery for my 486 motherboard being dead (or missing?!)
I've ordered a similar battery holder for the 4 pin socket, as I'd rather not have to enter the CHS settings every time I want to use it!
Interestingly, the manual for said motherboard reckons the VLB slot is a MCA slot!
I wasn't expecting a random Furhead to appear!
No offense intended Bill, just noting a bunch of comments unrelated to the content so I made an observation related to my experience with former smokers.
I like the vid. Boy did it ever bring back the days when you had to define your drive parameters in the bios. I noticed the empty math co-processor socket.
My first PC was a Tandy 386SX. My first build was a 5x86 Cyrix based PC, 133 MHZ with a huge amount of RAM, 12MB! DOS 6.2, I ran X-Wing out of a RAM disk on it. Been hooked ever since.
Didn't look like the turbo LED was working when ya hit the button. Reversed, perhaps?
The smoke smell can hide in a power supply. smell that psu first.
+Massa902 The smell of burnt or overheated electronic parts is a lot different from that of cigarettes. And as the fan tends to pull air through other openings in the case, it tends to get everywhere pretty much equally.
+uxwbill Oh,. So the whole thing would be smelly then, yeah? I wonder if Tar builds up inside a case as well
+Massa902 Yes, and yes it absolutely does.
My first computer was a DTK, though I don't know the model number. I do remember it was a 286 and had a Hercules Graphics card while I had it. (it also had quite a few spelling errors in the CMOS setup, which, fortunately for me, did not require a "setup disk" to access.
what about a 5/4" hard-drive and DEC GEM DESKTOP that was for the AMSTRAD 1512 and 1640.
+DAVID GREGORY KERR What about it? I have no idea of the context to which your question applies, or even what you're asking!
+uxwbill well it is an OS that was supplied with the AMSTRAD 1512 which had 512KB of system RAM and had CGA 4 color graphics as well as a special Plantronics mode which gave 16 colors on screen at one time as well as MSDOS the GEM OS was a graphical operating system for the AMSTRAD 1512 and 1640 which had 640KB of system RAM as well both machines used the Intel 8086 processor but no floating point which had to be emulated. AMSTRAD is a contraction of Allen Michael Sugar Trading.
So, at one point you talked about monitors. I've gotta DTK FEAT-5030 with 486dx cpu. I thought I was having a video problem. Could it be that it doesn't work with my newer monitor? What type of monitor will be needed? I'm unaware on this sort of thing.
There's always that possibility, although I would expect that you would still see the various startup messages produced by the computer before it is ready to use. Most monitors will also complain if their capabilities are being exceeded.
In case you are not already, I would recommend using a monitor that has an actual analog VGA input. (The typical converters for VGA to HDMI, DisplayPort, or whatever don't actually work all that well.)
My guess is that the computer isn't actually managing to start up. You can find this out fairly easily by removing the video card from the computer (assuming it's not built in -- then it gets harder). This should provoke a set of beep code errors from the internal speaker when you turn it on, if it is running.
My longstanding recommendation would be to carefully disassemble the computer, look for any damage (especially around any clock battery you may see), and if everything looks OK, carefully clean excessive dust away, after which you should reseat everything.
If you have a meter capable of measuring DC voltage, you could also check the power supply. At a minimum, it should be outputting approximately five and twelve volts DC. If it isn't, that's likely the problem.
@@uxwbill I get one sort of quick beep on startup. I can hear the hdd running as well. The battery area looks clean-ish. It's the old Dallas type and I can imagine it gave up the ghost long ago. I just dont know anything about this old thing. It was my first computer when I was like 10 lol. Found it in my parents storage building. Just for nostalgia's sake I'd like to get it going.
That beep, if it's coming from the system speaker, is probably a good sign. If it were me, I'd clean the system up first (blow the dust out, if there is any) and reseat all the expansion cards. That may be all it takes. Beyond that, it'll take some troubleshooting. Simplify the system configuration as much as you can. If it works with the bare minimum configuration, add one piece back at a time and test it. When it fails, you've found the problem.
The Dallas modules do run out of battery power, but as the battery is totally sealed in potting compound, it doesn't leak. It also helps that the battery is not a rechargeable type. You can carefully cut those modules open, disconnect the battery and solder in an externally located one. It's not for the faint of heart or inexperienced, though.
@@uxwbill I did in fact take everything apart and clean it. The mobo itself looks mint. The VGA card looks like it's okay, but the metal seats did appear to have corrosion on them. I did not clean them yet but did reseat it. Only had 1 more old school internet card that's completely trashed. The pc was on its side for years and looks like rats got in there and did their business. This did not make a difference on the video issue. The one beep is still chiming on startup though. I dont know if I should try a different video card or not since I cant locate a cga monitor for sale anywhere. It's a shame really. I did see a label on the hdd though, it's got DOS 6.2 loaded on it amd possibly Win3.1. May have to be back burner project for now.
Hopefully you'll have a breakthrough and it'll come back to life. I would definitely simplify the configuration as much as possible, maybe consider removing everything but the motherboard and video card? Anything that looks as though it has been damaged should definitely be removed, as it may damage other parts of the computer. Hopefully that hasn't already happened.
Assuming "CGA" isn't a typo, you won't want to use a CGA video card or monitor. It would be an enormous step backwards in that computer's graphics capabilities and any software that operates in a graphics mode would probably need to be reconfigured. Windows 3.1 in particular did not ship with a CGA driver -- it was an optional download from Microsoft's BBS at the time.
Comments on the IBM 8303-HUE???
it's a fake apple:) (we in the netherlands call pears a peer and an expression: compairing apples with pears (compairing two totally defferent things)
i cant remember what os was that computer when my friend have it.. but wasnt os2 or dos/windows :D
is Oak tech still in business? or did they go out after this era of vintage computing?
So far as I know, all that's left of Oak Technology is a "non practicing entity" that sues people for supposedly infringing on their patents.
This should be your intro for the computer video
Last week I had an IBM XT go bang on me, and send out distress flaires. Quite entertaining, but sad to see it die. So, looking for a new motherboard.
Hey Bill, where did you buy that Furhead? What brand is he? I want one. Do you know the model year on it?
Bill did you ever find that DDO software for the Bios? I wanted to place a larger drive in my old Window 2000 computer and couldn't get it to work, i guess it's too large. I serched all over the net for some DDO software, seems it's no longer avialable.
i have it
short ceiling or tall furhead?
Believe it or not due to the type of plastic used in production it did yellow due to UV rays from the sun and even the lights in the room.
I've looked and looked and looked and I can't see anything that looks like a battery, or that there was ever a battery mounted on it. There's the BIOS and a chip directly next to it with a sticker on the top. I may try and remove the sticker to get the part number.
This is the third motherboard I've tried and this is the only issue with it!
would an old computer like this run hot?
What was that air purifier briefly shown?
when does furhead's album come out?! lol
you should use that furhead part as an video intro ;ddd
Ooow it reminds me of one of the machines i had many many years ago.
You may find the holes around the cpu were for the socketed version, i had a machine like that, it could do with a 387 math co-pro i think (my memory has faded a bit).
Not quite enough speed/memory for win 95 to work i suspect.
So its fdisk/format/sys c: from a boot disk and same dos installed, scandisk/chkdsk to check if ok then windows 3.1 possibly??
Furrhead, i would worry about him bill, lol :-)
going to use that modem? I really need one.
you ever seen a canon computer? i have one but can't find anything on line really. also furhead is funny.
also it had a turbo button and i used to make solitaire run really fast
Yuck, few things are nastier to a computer than smoking. Funnily enough, the reset button my my 386DX sticks as well... in fact I had to stick a piece of tape to the button and pull on it to pop it back out. Fortunately ctrl-alt-del works well enough most of the time.
I've got to solder together a battery solution on that machine as well; I'm going the CR2032 battery holder route. Those barrel batteries are a menace; luckily I got to it before it caused any damage.
Anyways excellent video!
ok. well this is called a canon innova media mt 9140. it is a ir port on the front and made for win95 it says. think it has a pent 200 maybe. it is interesting. i think i have a picture of it maybe.
@ 3:00 I thought you were going to IPL an IBM mini-computer
can i buy my own keykeeper
xbox i had also smelled like smoke. took apart and cleaned. still took awhile to go away.
I can't find the Lzone on my ibm 171 mb harddrive, i can find the Sectors and heads and cyl but not the Lzone
It is an IBM H3171-a2 171 mb
984 cyl 10 heads 34 sec/T
Do do i use 84 or what number,
It also has no clock battery, so it won't detect the harddrive automaticly for me,
it has a 486SX 25 mhz and running MS DOS 6.0 Windows 3.11
It's very hard to get it booting up from the HDD
Ok i will try that thanks!
I think it needs a 3.6 V because when i install a 3 volt cr3220 battery, it says that the battery state is very low on the power on self-test. and also it only works one time
It does detect the drive but it shows that it is an 163 mb drive :/
It worked, thank you uxwbill you have saved an old computer!!
Well it just so happens that it booted from the hard drive, but it only did it once! I just dont understand why it wont boot anymore
I think i have on of those mouses you were talking about
neat. great video
They're now Dubai based and manufacture tablets.
That's almost certainly someone who is just using the name, with or without permission.
I have a computer with ISA slots, and I need a slow modem for my linux dial in server. ( it only gives a login prompt, so speed does not matter) so, I need a slow modem for authenticity.
The pentium pro I am getting is a dtk branded computer.
I have several of that same multi-IO card.
My friends got an old computer. I really don't know anything about it, since it's not mine, but it just sits in his basement. All I know is that it has a turbo button, And takes a long time to start up, The boots win 2k, and it you leave it running for about a half hour an alarm starts going off in it. Does anyone know what the alarm is? I'm thinking it's overheating or something.. But if you know, please let me know!
Ahh yes. The "Turbo" button.
did i miss a commercial???
but some fabric softener sheets in the case. Gets rid of the nicotine smell.
holy crap look at that modem lol
Yop DTK... Now its an Austrian company... company is still active in europe... they actually build their own computers! I own a lot of their computers. Computers are like custom build only power supplies have dtk label. Keyboards... made in china :D
Lol,Bill.I coulda told you that you had a "screw loose" a long time ago :P.....lmao
Did you know you have your own youtube channel?
Strong Bad could check his email on this PC...
Q: Why on earth would a video about a 386 PC clone be of any interest.
A: Because UXWBill made it.
:)
oh furhead
i see why you call him Furhead.
Hey uxwbill nice video i didnt expect to see Seth Rogen come on in the video LOL Furry i think you said his name is. He looks like Seth Rogen alil bit too me. Made me laugh
Guy's almost as bad as Tony Randall and Larry Hagman were about the "tobacco" thing.
Nothing more "holier than thou" than a former smoker.
Did somebody count how many times he mentioned the evil weed?
ROTFLMAO!
Fun vid otherwise. Cool way back machine of the old 386 days.
3:45 lolwut ???
make more computer videos there are know new ones
turn it into a hacked nintendo my strange sibling did he also plays doom on it lol wbs
has fur head ever hit is head on the ceiling lol
I have a 286 I put together many many years ago that has a DTK NEAT 286 motherboard in it. Check the vid on my channel out if your curious. ;-) I recently upgraded the CPU from a 16 MHz to a 20 MHz Harris 286 CPU.
so htat's what AMD stands for!!!
use a used cell phone battery
Too late.....
3rd!
:-)
computers haven't changed...