One time my dad bought a big bundle of computer stuff in the 90's from goodwill and we found a floppy that said "do not put me in" so naturally we proceeded to put it in a drive and a screen popped up saying "deleting hard drive in 10 seconds click cancel to abort deletion". When we tried to click on the button it MOVED AWAY FROM THE MOUSE CURSOR! So when it got to about 3 seconds left my dad yelled "PULL THE POWER CORD!!" And that absolutely made us poo a little. But we built a little computer out of the parts we had and put the floppy in the unimportant computer that was clean and let it count down and the screen just flashed "Haha made you shit your pants, love Steve" in a ms spray paint can style font.
I did something very much alike to my dad, only in an ms-dos .bat file. It was just a list of texts asking for confirmation to wipe the drive, and all of them "advanced" and asked for confirmation again. The joke went a bit short, my dad saw the first one and switched the power off! I realized that I hadn't cover all possibilities :P I might have been better with computers, but he was smarter than his teenage son ;)
Ah, you found one of the first virusses, friendly virusses. In the 80's, McAffee saw this in in his office and got a plan: (speak with dark voice) "Let's make real evil virusses and I develop a tool to be able to remove them, $$$$$, WHOWHAHAHAHA!" :-D ;-)
2.0 MB is the unformatted capacity of a 1.44 MB diskette. 2.88 MB diskettes have an unformatted capacity of 4.0 MB and also have the "ED" logo on them, for "Extended Density". However, IBM's floppy drives do not have a media sensor, so you can stick in an ordinary 1.44 MB diskette and format it as 2.88 MB without any problems -- although the data integrity may not be as good as if you used a real 2.88 MB disk. And the 8515 monitor can actually display 1024x768, so it is an XGA monitor, not just plain VGA.
Father of WinRar , 7zip and other similar software for archiving, compressing, decompressing etc files. How else you could manage to put so many stuff in 1.44mb 3.5 floppy or slpit larger files into bunch of smaller files to fit into multiple floppies ehh good those days are over - love huge usb 3.0 flash drives
Lazy Game Reviews Last Friday I just threw out 3 of those exact same monitors that have been sitting in my house 20 - 25 years. Well taken to my local recycling center. They weren't touch screen either. I've got so much old computer garbage around here. I think it yellows because of a flame retardant material in it. I learned that back with Legos and then the SNES.
Lazy Game Reviews The 2.88 MB Drive needs 4 MB Floppies to format a full 2.88 MB, they are not useless in the least however, they generally can recover data from floppies that have been badly kept or that have aged poorly, as you have a few extras maybe you could connect one to the imaging controller for floppies, should cut down on time spent and increase accuracy of the images. I want to see more of the Tubes of RAM btw, I soo need tubes of RAM!
***** Don't know exactly what you mean, but yeah the magnetic coating only lasts for so long, any storage media will age even under perfect circumstances and it is not always directly related to the quality of the media.
Yeah, I always thought everyone was "on their 743rd day of their 30-day shareware trial" because all you had to do was click "I agree" to get past the nag screen.
***** A2 well as registered multiple copies of Winzip I also had registered versions of Pkzip, Lharc ,Winrar, Winace, powerpacker, Zoo, ARC, etc Software licensing for business and development pretty much needed it.
My first Windows computer was an IBM PS/2, but it was different than all of those you had. It actually had a push button power switch instead of the more common flip toggle. It came with a 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drive. The 5.25" was hidden behind a pop open panel which had an additional bay that we later added a SB16 CD drive to when we got our sound card. The monitor was different too, it had black peg knobs behind a flip down panel for brightness and contrast. Oddest thing of all... Even though it was a 486 PS/2, it came with a bunch of PS/1 software. We were the first owner of it, so it wasn't a case of getting the wrong stuff from the seller. We bought it from Radio Shack in the Jackson, MS mall back in 1993.
wow, so unnoticed comment here, with only 2 likes after 4 years. You're definetely someone, who knows the stuff around. Should be honor for him, you've commented. Ty, adding 3rd like. Keep up with good presentations. ;)
The terrorist fired a second warning shot in the air, "I will only say this one more time! People are going to die... unless I connect this 3.11 network! No heroes!" LGR reached into his pocket -- the disk he held for over 10 years. He knew what must be done.
Who the hell types it like that? The old logo is just stylized so it sorta looks like that, but fewpeople are dumb enough to actually type it like so... Doom, or DOOM. What the fuck dude.
@@MuscarV2 The Actual title went like DooM otherwise it wouldn't have a long and sharp M there, but people do mostly spell it as Doom or DOOM, but don't judge a person by how they type a title
Don't even know my way around DOS but LGR makes me want one of these classic PCs. At the very least I plan to make IBM Convertable style laptop out of a Raspberry Pi 3, some misc parts, and my 3D printer, probably install Retro-Pi for good measure. Had the Raspberry Pi 3 kicking around for a while so all I really need is a screen, then stuff a 20,000 Mah USB battery in it and it'll run for days
The Hitachi screen at 6:10 was a common thing on Wall Street for displaying market data. Cannot tell if there are two coax connectors on the back but I see a switch for 75 ohm termination. They would have taken RS170 (composite video) over coax from some sort of market data service. With two coax connectors it was possible to daisy chain them and display NYSE ticker on them all over the office. Assuming you had permission from NYSE that is. The last screen in the chain would have the 75 ohm termination switch set and the rest not. Their value is that they were stackable. The hard part was that the New York City building/fire/electrical code prohibits power strips that are not permanently mounted and connected to mains with conduit, so a power user might have a lot of PlugMold attached to his immovable trading desk.
Great video! It was fun going on this adventure with you! I love hauls of stuff! I can't decide what I want to see you cover first. Maybe the touch screen! Also, you say you have a boxed MS Paintbrush? Woah. You mean that our beloved pack-in paint program was originally sold separately? Neat!
I was working at EDS when those new fancy PS/2 computers came in. We had been using AT&T PC 6300s or EDS badged PC clones. Those PS/2 computers with their 3.5" hard plastic floppies were beautiful!
It is awesome how passionate you are about this stuff. I love all your videos, but the excitement in your voice going through this stuff is the best. Seeing all this makes me super nostalgic. My first dos gaming rig was a PS2 I built from a pile of half-gutted machines when I was 13. Guy told me I could have one if I got one working. I spent all night swapping and testing parts and walked away with my first IBM to set up next to my Commodore and Nintendos. Thank you for taking me back to 1991 lol.
Very cool haul. Lots of cool things. That invoice (at 32:14), I put that total through a inflation calculator and in todays money, it would be $15,878.62, completly crazy how expensive hardware was back then.
This is the most nerdy (in the best way possible) video I've watched. I loved how excited you were about this stuff. Just such a great time capsule of stuff!
I cannot wait to see in a few years LGR living in a warehouse full of loot atop his throne of thrift store findings and older modeled electronics and CD cases. Drinking from a cup forged from floppy discs. I am sure that is unhealthy. But the point is novelty.
For some reason I love the old caddy drives. I'd love to refit a caddy drive system to accept blu rays and create some bizzare media system which makes people scratch their heads.
Please let Al Kossow at BitSavers, or someone else capable of doing so, scan all that IBM and Compaq documentation. The archive really doesn't have all that much on the PS/2 systems, and you've got your hands on a motherlode of documentation as well as some very nice machines. Also the Model 60 and Model 80 towers looked a lot like DEC BA23 boxes at first glance.
Seeing your shorts and sandals just on the periphery of the frame from time to time makes me nostalgic for all of the days of my youth spent in my garage working on whatever. I didn't actually do much of that, but it still makes me really nostalgic though.
If you thought the floppy disk version of Windows 95 had a lot of disks, you haven’t seen nothing yet unless you have the floppy disk version of Microsoft Office 97 Professional. I remember I was actually helping install that in high school when I was in 12th grade. That was a 55 disk monstrosity FIFTY FIVE 3.5” floppy disks.
Outside998 Well I did this video, but maybe I should do a more involved one sometime! th-cam.com/video/cZUEoimYy6Q/w-d-xo.html I also did this outtakes video: th-cam.com/video/KHJ-GE4jTCc/w-d-xo.html
Sweet Christmas, Clint. That haul is enough to make any self-respecting retro PC enthusiast cream their pants. Also, was I the only dumb bastard who ever pronounced SCSI as "es-see-es-eye" instead of "scuzzi"? :P
Amayirot Akago I spell out SCSI as well since pronouncing it actually makes me cringe. It sounds so bad to me when it's pronounced rather than spelled out.
15:47 -- Holy nostalgia, Batman! I remember my dad had a Zenith Z-Note laptop back in 1995, and it didn't have a CD-ROM drive, so he bought the floppy disk version of Windows 95. After he installed it on his laptop, he installed it on my computer (at about 7 or 8 at night) and it took until midnight to complete! I was so excited, I couldn't go to sleep but I had to because I had school that morning. :P
i really enjoy your videos. takes me back to when i was 9 and messing around with my first dos computer, already loading unix shells, and messing with any hardware/software that i had my hands on!!!
I dig all your videos about any kind of PS/2, as a PS/2 was my first computer, at least when old enough to appreciate it all. It's what started it for me.
What an amazing haul, man. Needless to say, I'm extremely jealous. Those model 95's are really cool because they have a dot-matrix VFD display on them that can be programmed with software to say various things.
I saw a couple of your videos, but those with the old IBM PS/2 machines just give me chills... In my first company as an apprentice we had a couple of those Model 60 Towers with 286 and 386 CPUs. That was the time when I started to get interested in Computers... what a great time... :)
Retro goodness. I felt like a kid in a candy store with all these old memories of early 90's hardware flooding back to me whilst watching. Feel the retro. BE the retro. ...Execute? The retro? I don't know. But all I do know after watching this is I'm proud to remember what even half of those things were, much less most of them. Thanks for the nostalgia rush!
That entire haul is awesome, but a registered copy of WinZip might be the modern Holy Grail. I've heard whispers of its existence over the years, but I always laughed it off. "Who would register WinZip?", I always said. "That would be like actively seeking out and using an AOL trial disk." Leave it to LGR to put to rest the greatest mystery of our generation.
Finally got around to watching this vid. So much drool. Got a wide smile on my face when you said that you've once installed Win95 from floppies, and that was the last time. Same here dude. :D That's one of those "once in a lifetime" experiences, at least hopefully.
24:40 Oh how I like to have this processor! I collect old CPUs and that's a real rare one! So much good stuff in this video, I can't count it! Your're a real lucky guy LGR!
Thanks for the video. It was worth watching. You are so lucky to have all that stuff. I wish I lived close to come take a look at that treasure.Keep up the good job buddy.
My guess based on bezel (which obviously is not the best way to identify a drive) is that your full height drive might possibly be a Micropolis drive. As for the handle, all I can say is retro LAN party. :D LOL But what a nice collection.
Very cool and interesting stuff you got there. Brings back memories of my early days of computing. I've always liked how the IBM's systems looked back then. My first computer (stand alone/and on my own) was a Radio Shack TRS 80 model 16 with two 10 inch floppys , built in display, And 10 megabyte external hard drive. 512 or 640 megabits of ram and running Unix/Zenex . I got this system for free from family member and remember hearing it was 16 thousand dollars when purchased new. I also tinkered/programmed with the Commodore pet until I got frustrated running out of system ram. But my favorites when even younger was the Texas Instruments Ti 99 4a with voice synthesizer box, tape drive, And external floppy drive all hooked up using a tv . I also Used cartridges and I had the extended basic one as well. Loved the games for that system. Also loved the Apple 2: C, D, GS models. I remember in computer lab seeing an apple 1 made from wood mostly. Great times back then. Thanks for putting this video out there :)
@@spearPYN im currently 28 about to be 29 so i love watching things like this! I have some old computers ow my own such as the Amstrad home office PC6400 HD20 and the Tandy 1000 SX, also guys could somone please get in contact with LGR about the tandy 1000 sx please! he said in a few videos back that he needs one and i would be happy to donate it to him! Thank you :D
COVER ALL OF IT!!! Man I love the old school look of the PS/2 Computers from IBM, I have been watching the computer Chronicles and I'm very interested to see you vids on the PS/2 PC
Lazy Game Reviews That is simply amazing, usually people want that money for a single PS/2 model 60. I do suppose people do cut deals for those who respect the machine in question. He knew it would have gone into good hands.
25:45 -> That's a tray loader! I recognize those things from a distance now. Some call them the "fake" tray load since there's no flash bezel, but they were common on early Mac G3's (the ones with the silver fronts) Oh man, those wonderful little drives are troopers until the front bezel jams.
I love this channel. I didn't have old school computers as a kid but our school did. Seeing older big grayish computers gives me the warm n fuzzys. Reminds me of going to computer class and playing games or going on neopets.
By the way, my mother used to work for IBM back in the day, so for me to say i love IBM products is an understatement. also, lots of records at IBM were kept that neat. you also might like to know, we used to have an old, what is it, 12 inch i think, hard disk platter hanging on our laundry room wall. so yeah. IBM stuff is just plain cool!
Have I told you taht I absolutely love haul videos like this? If this was about Lunchtime tomorrow, I'd pause order some food, wait for it to arrive and then unpause.
Just throwing another idea out there, Clint. Seeing all this PS/2 stuff made me remember the IBM "PS/2 It!" commercial from 1986. Don't know if it's the incredibly catchy tune, but that commercial always puts a smile on my face. Maybe someday you want to cover old computer commercials/catalogs. Just hearing the specs and prices alone is amusing to a modern audience!
Thanks for sharing this haul Clint, Was really neat to see documents and receipts from the original owner of some of this stuff and see all the magazine cut outs he had, was like stepping into a time machine back when not just everyone had computers. And that physical copy of win zip made me laugh, This guy must of been really keen on owning his software legitimately!
Excellent video! The length of the video kind of gave me a pause, but it was worth every minute I invested in it. Well done, LGR; this is one solid video. B-)
watched beginning to end. You always say these things are conversation pieces. I don't think I could ever leave your house because the conversation may never end! haha
One time my dad bought a big bundle of computer stuff in the 90's from goodwill and we found a floppy that said "do not put me in" so naturally we proceeded to put it in a drive and a screen popped up saying "deleting hard drive in 10 seconds click cancel to abort deletion". When we tried to click on the button it MOVED AWAY FROM THE MOUSE CURSOR! So when it got to about 3 seconds left my dad yelled "PULL THE POWER CORD!!" And that absolutely made us poo a little. But we built a little computer out of the parts we had and put the floppy in the unimportant computer that was clean and let it count down and the screen just flashed "Haha made you shit your pants, love Steve" in a ms spray paint can style font.
ancient trolling
I did something very much alike to my dad, only in an ms-dos .bat file.
It was just a list of texts asking for confirmation to wipe the drive, and all of them "advanced" and asked for confirmation again.
The joke went a bit short, my dad saw the first one and switched the power off! I realized that I hadn't cover all possibilities :P
I might have been better with computers, but he was smarter than his teenage son ;)
People in those days were so creative and playful with the computers... nowadays the only hacks I see just trying to wipe your bank account.
Ah, you found one of the first virusses, friendly virusses. In the 80's, McAffee saw this in in his office and got a plan: (speak with dark voice) "Let's make real evil virusses and I develop a tool to be able to remove them, $$$$$, WHOWHAHAHAHA!" :-D ;-)
Those types of jokes were very popular in the late 90s / early 2000s, there were entire websites dedicated to them.
2.0 MB is the unformatted capacity of a 1.44 MB diskette. 2.88 MB diskettes have an unformatted capacity of 4.0 MB and also have the "ED" logo on them, for "Extended Density". However, IBM's floppy drives do not have a media sensor, so you can stick in an ordinary 1.44 MB diskette and format it as 2.88 MB without any problems -- although the data integrity may not be as good as if you used a real 2.88 MB disk. And the 8515 monitor can actually display 1024x768, so it is an XGA monitor, not just plain VGA.
that is super vga
Super VGA is 800x600
A QL got 3.2 MB fron the ED disks
YEAH TALK DIRTY TO ME
Kaminishi Technically SVGA starts at 640x480x256. All the good games in 1996-1998 were SVGA and ran in 640x480.
Those 38 minutes passed really damn fast.
HELLO ROBERT.
***** I knew you'd watch people like LGR :3
JOHNNY GAT Sure, if you're a filfy' little casul
***** Glad to hear it :D
Awesome! I mean for you guys. The POV made me sick and bailed out after 5mins.
ah the rarest of beasts, a registered copy of winzip
honestly that's the first time i've ever seen one.
+sans
I knew of a public school that bought a physical copy of Photosop Elements for every computer in the computer room. What a bunch of sheep!
Krasnaja Zvezda i bet they felt baaad when they realized they didn't need so many
I was shocked to
ever heard of google?
Father of WinRar , 7zip and other similar software for archiving, compressing, decompressing etc files. How else you could manage to put so many stuff in 1.44mb 3.5 floppy or slpit larger files into bunch of smaller files to fit into multiple floppies ehh good those days are over - love huge usb 3.0 flash drives
If the shaky-cam is giving you motion sickness, try this version of the video:
th-cam.com/video/1dqdoCTrMBw/w-d-xo.html
Lazy Game Reviews Wow this is the first time where I see youtube's "shaky footage fix" work!
Lazy Game Reviews Last Friday I just threw out 3 of those exact same monitors that have been sitting in my house 20 - 25 years. Well taken to my local recycling center. They weren't touch screen either. I've got so much old computer garbage around here. I think it yellows because of a flame retardant material in it. I learned that back with Legos and then the SNES.
Lazy Game Reviews cover all!
Lazy Game Reviews The 2.88 MB Drive needs 4 MB Floppies to format a full 2.88 MB, they are not useless in the least however, they generally can recover data from floppies that have been badly kept or that have aged poorly, as you have a few extras maybe you could connect one to the imaging controller for floppies, should cut down on time spent and increase accuracy of the images. I want to see more of the Tubes of RAM btw, I soo need tubes of RAM!
***** Don't know exactly what you mean, but yeah the magnetic coating only lasts for so long, any storage media will age even under perfect circumstances and it is not always directly related to the quality of the media.
Dude, this haul is absolutely epic. I wish I had the space/money to collect stuff like this. Absolutely amazing just to watch you sift through it all.
Winzip in a registered physical copy? Incredible! That kind of thing was more like a myth back in the days.
Yeah, I always thought everyone was "on their 743rd day of their 30-day shareware trial" because all you had to do was click "I agree" to get past the nag screen.
***** A2 well as registered multiple copies of Winzip I also had registered versions of
Pkzip, Lharc ,Winrar, Winace, powerpacker, Zoo, ARC, etc
Software licensing for business and development pretty much needed it.
Redhotsmasher I remember that it was possible to "reset" the trial period with a quick change on system clock and reinstalling it.
I'm glad you got a kick out of reading tech manuals, gives me hope some dude 30 years from now will find my software tech guides and nerd out lol
My first Windows computer was an IBM PS/2, but it was different than all of those you had. It actually had a push button power switch instead of the more common flip toggle. It came with a 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drive. The 5.25" was hidden behind a pop open panel which had an additional bay that we later added a SB16 CD drive to when we got our sound card. The monitor was different too, it had black peg knobs behind a flip down panel for brightness and contrast. Oddest thing of all... Even though it was a 486 PS/2, it came with a bunch of PS/1 software. We were the first owner of it, so it wasn't a case of getting the wrong stuff from the seller. We bought it from Radio Shack in the Jackson, MS mall back in 1993.
It's wonderful to see so much love and enjoyment of these old machines. Thank you for expressing it so well.
wow, so unnoticed comment here, with only 2 likes after 4 years. You're definetely someone, who knows the stuff around. Should be honor for him, you've commented. Ty, adding 3rd like. Keep up with good presentations. ;)
23:40 Thank you for the image in my mind of you reading that whilst taking a dump, lol.
Winzip guy Terry. He has to become a meme now.
Also that 90 had an arcade folder. I so wanna know what's in there!
your passion for retro computing is contagious.. and brings out all the memories from my past often.
The terrorist fired a second warning shot in the air, "I will only say this one more time! People are going to die... unless I connect this 3.11 network! No heroes!"
LGR reached into his pocket -- the disk he held for over 10 years. He knew what must be done.
dollores un muy hi school we made a network with coaxial cable 1993
An unexpected laugh appears.
The first thing that came in my mind: DooM Multiplayer
Who the hell types it like that? The old logo is just stylized so it sorta looks like that, but fewpeople are dumb enough to actually type it like so... Doom, or DOOM.
What the fuck dude.
@@MuscarV2 The Actual title went like DooM otherwise it wouldn't have a long and sharp M there, but people do mostly spell it as Doom or DOOM, but don't judge a person by how they type a title
No its DooM, and sometimes dOOm
@@MuscarV2 geez man.. chill.. who cares?
Why is it spelled in zoomer font?
These are my favorite kinds of videos from you. Ughghhh thats such a good haul
***** Thanks, glad you enjoyed!
Don't even know my way around DOS but LGR makes me want one of these classic PCs.
At the very least I plan to make IBM Convertable style laptop out of a Raspberry Pi 3, some misc parts, and my 3D printer, probably install Retro-Pi for good measure.
Had the Raspberry Pi 3 kicking around for a while so all I really need is a screen, then stuff a 20,000 Mah USB battery in it and it'll run for days
Awesome lot Clint, nice to see these classic machines fired up and appreciated!
The RAM tube is really adorable, I never seen something like that
38 minute LGR episode? Thanks, Man! It truly is the 'motherlode.'
The Hitachi screen at 6:10 was a common thing on Wall Street for displaying market data. Cannot tell if there are two coax connectors on the back but I see a switch for 75 ohm termination. They would have taken RS170 (composite video) over coax from some sort of market data service. With two coax connectors it was possible to daisy chain them and display NYSE ticker on them all over the office. Assuming you had permission from NYSE that is. The last screen in the chain would have the 75 ohm termination switch set and the rest not. Their value is that they were stackable. The hard part was that the New York City building/fire/electrical code prohibits power strips that are not permanently mounted and connected to mains with conduit, so a power user might have a lot of PlugMold attached to his immovable trading desk.
Great video! It was fun going on this adventure with you! I love hauls of stuff! I can't decide what I want to see you cover first. Maybe the touch screen!
Also, you say you have a boxed MS Paintbrush? Woah. You mean that our beloved pack-in paint program was originally sold separately? Neat!
SheepyTina It was indeed, and since most people don't know that I look forward to showing it!
Lazy Game Reviews Yes please, I would love to watch a review of that.
Yes . Microsoft tried to convert you in the earlier days of the religion.
These days Microsoft just rams it down your throat.
I was working at EDS when those new fancy PS/2 computers came in. We had been using AT&T PC 6300s or EDS badged PC clones. Those PS/2 computers with their 3.5" hard plastic floppies were beautiful!
I don't trust that unbranded mysterious hard drive, LGR. You might have a creepypasta in the making.
It is awesome how passionate you are about this stuff. I love all your videos, but the excitement in your voice going through this stuff is the best. Seeing all this makes me super nostalgic. My first dos gaming rig was a PS2 I built from a pile of half-gutted machines when I was 13. Guy told me I could have one if I got one working. I spent all night swapping and testing parts and walked away with my first IBM to set up next to my Commodore and Nintendos. Thank you for taking me back to 1991 lol.
Very cool haul. Lots of cool things.
That invoice (at 32:14), I put that total through a inflation calculator and in todays money, it would be $15,878.62, completly crazy how expensive hardware was back then.
Not crazy, it was extremely expensive to make.
That is why there was a market for the Amiga, ST, and even things like Typewriters with built in Floppy Drives.
This is the most nerdy (in the best way possible) video I've watched. I loved how excited you were about this stuff. Just such a great time capsule of stuff!
I cannot wait to see in a few years LGR living in a warehouse full of loot atop his throne of thrift store findings and older modeled electronics and CD cases. Drinking from a cup forged from floppy discs. I am sure that is unhealthy. But the point is novelty.
I agree 100%. Isn't he a lucky bastard though?
I WANT THAT STUFF!!!
And everything Wood Grain except the walls!!!
Nuclear bomb goes off.
He's in a warehouse yelling " I can fix that. "
20:54 - WinZip....You’ve hit the jackpot!
For some reason I love the old caddy drives. I'd love to refit a caddy drive system to accept blu rays and create some bizzare media system which makes people scratch their heads.
I'm so envious right now, I've never come across a working one, you've got to love your ps2s, powered by the mighty windows 3.1!
Very cool haul of stuff would love to get my hands on one of those old IBM systems one day.
Awesome dude! I miss getting awesome hauls like that. I was happy I got my Kaypro running tonight, but this blows it away, lol.
Please let Al Kossow at BitSavers, or someone else capable of doing so, scan all that IBM and Compaq documentation. The archive really doesn't have all that much on the PS/2 systems, and you've got your hands on a motherlode of documentation as well as some very nice machines.
Also the Model 60 and Model 80 towers looked a lot like DEC BA23 boxes at first glance.
LGR never does archive anything. It's a real shame.
Yep, just hoards and makes videos. Then the price of everything we find skyrockets. It would be nice to document and help folks that donate.
Cover all of it please, I love to hear you talk about everything no matter how rambling it gets :P
Having a handle like that on top of the tower seems like an ingenious idea. Why don't more computers have that? It seems like it'd come in handy.
Sixtyfour215 It really is brilliant, and sturdy as hell.
Wow, that was a really quick response. XD
And yeah, It seems that it'd make carrying them much easier.
Lazy Game Reviews Bonjour. Thats all i have to say.
Very nice. Also love the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 music in the background. :)
Holy hell, that's an awesome haul!
Dude, what a score; you hit the jackpot! Awesome stuff there! Gotta do an oddware about the touch screen.
"See this handle? It makes moving these around easier" *proceeds to lift computer by edges, completely ignoring the referenced handle*
rofl
7:35 that VGA touch screen monitor, there were dozens of them in the Rotterdam library back in the days..
"Yellow Computers are ... not happy computers." lmao. We love you, LGR!
Seeing your shorts and sandals just on the periphery of the frame from time to time makes me nostalgic for all of the days of my youth spent in my garage working on whatever. I didn't actually do much of that, but it still makes me really nostalgic though.
That one copy of WinZip has kept the company afloat this whole time
not really, since Corel bought WinZip a long time ago
If you thought the floppy disk version of Windows 95 had a lot of disks, you haven’t seen nothing yet unless you have the floppy disk version of Microsoft Office 97 Professional. I remember I was actually helping install that in high school when I was in 12th grade. That was a 55 disk monstrosity FIFTY FIVE 3.5” floppy disks.
I think you forgot to edit out 11:46-12:15, LGR.
Great video, and congrats on the new equipment!
Vasconium Hehe, whoops. Well there's a peek into the behind the scenes of filming an LGR episode! Cursing and terrible camera angles :P
Lazy Game Reviews Can we get a making-of some time? ^^
Lazy Game Reviews I too walk around in my house without pants.
Outside998 Well I did this video, but maybe I should do a more involved one sometime!
th-cam.com/video/cZUEoimYy6Q/w-d-xo.html
I also did this outtakes video:
th-cam.com/video/KHJ-GE4jTCc/w-d-xo.html
Lazy Game Reviews
Cool!
Absolutely amazing haul man, I've watched your videos for years now, I've never felt more jealous.
Sweet Christmas, Clint. That haul is enough to make any self-respecting retro PC enthusiast cream their pants.
Also, was I the only dumb bastard who ever pronounced SCSI as "es-see-es-eye" instead of "scuzzi"? :P
You weren't the only one...here in Germany we always referred to SCSI as Ess-Tse-Ess-Ee..yeah, gotta love us Germans!!!
I also spell out SCSI instead of pronouncing it
Amayirot Akago I normally say Scuzzy, but when talking to someone who has no idea what SCSI is, then I spell it out or both.
Amayirot Akago I spell out SCSI as well since pronouncing it actually makes me cringe. It sounds so bad to me when it's pronounced rather than spelled out.
Amayirot Akago
I always said it as "scusi" like some sort of non-existent Italian word.
15:47 -- Holy nostalgia, Batman!
I remember my dad had a Zenith Z-Note laptop back in 1995, and it didn't have a CD-ROM drive, so he bought the floppy disk version of Windows 95. After he installed it on his laptop, he installed it on my computer (at about 7 or 8 at night) and it took until midnight to complete! I was so excited, I couldn't go to sleep but I had to because I had school that morning. :P
34:02
Lgr: "Same monitors used on cash registers and stuf-"
Floppy disk drive: "shut up!"
Lgr:"classic"
i really enjoy your videos. takes me back to when i was 9 and messing around with my first dos computer, already loading unix shells, and messing with any hardware/software that i had my hands on!!!
That model 60/80 power supply is huge!
***** awesome he even has the documentation for it :D
I dig all your videos about any kind of PS/2, as a PS/2 was my first computer, at least when old enough to appreciate it all. It's what started it for me.
Jesus, man! That's a lot of stuff. Maybe you should try building a coffee table out of all those hard drives.
What an amazing haul, man. Needless to say, I'm extremely jealous. Those model 95's are really cool because they have a dot-matrix VFD display on them that can be programmed with software to say various things.
***** Haha, that's one of the first things I wanted to try with that display.
Oh wow! Corel Draw! Now that takes me back. And an honest to god licensed WinZip! Great stuff!
JackKenton That registered WinZip is worth its weight in gold, haha.
I saw a couple of your videos, but those with the old IBM PS/2 machines just give me chills...
In my first company as an apprentice we had a couple of those Model 60 Towers with 286 and 386 CPUs.
That was the time when I started to get interested in Computers... what a great time... :)
Did you try building a fort with all the PS/2 stuff afterwards?
...I should
Lazy Game Reviews You can use the SCSI drives as ranged weapons.
Lazy Game Reviews
I never get tired of saying PS/2 monitors were the best.
THANK YOU MAN!
lizardizzle Lel
lizardizzle The tubes of ram are arrows for bows.
Great video! Old hardware is always fun to mess around with. Also, using Jazz Jackrabbit music gets you a huge thumbs up from me. :)
Did CPUs used to come in tins to seal in the freshness?
tristikov Haha, I have no idea, but I love that tin.
tristikov Lol
The idea of a CPU in a tin is crazy - they usually come with all sorts of protective covering to prevent static damage.
A special version was released in foam padding a tin.
When I saw the tin I went "o yeah."
You haven't seen these?
TUBES!!
Props to the donator and/or original owner/operator. Awesome. Even the stuff that most people would just throw away. I love that.
The Pro Printer is "The Paper" from Homestar Runner, back from the grave!
Retro goodness. I felt like a kid in a candy store with all these old memories of early 90's hardware flooding back to me whilst watching. Feel the retro. BE the retro. ...Execute? The retro? I don't know. But all I do know after watching this is I'm proud to remember what even half of those things were, much less most of them. Thanks for the nostalgia rush!
That entire haul is awesome, but a registered copy of WinZip might be the modern Holy Grail. I've heard whispers of its existence over the years, but I always laughed it off. "Who would register WinZip?", I always said. "That would be like actively seeking out and using an AOL trial disk."
Leave it to LGR to put to rest the greatest mystery of our generation.
Robert Seale I have gotta make a full video on WinZip now, haha.
I hear people used to order AOL floppies just so they didn't have to pay for blank floppy disks LOL
Finally got around to watching this vid. So much drool. Got a wide smile on my face when you said that you've once installed Win95 from floppies, and that was the last time. Same here dude. :D That's one of those "once in a lifetime" experiences, at least hopefully.
19:27 I'm sorry, but I can't stop thinking about Vinesauce whenever I see the old Norton cover now. xD
"PROTECTION"
24:40 Oh how I like to have this processor! I collect old CPUs and that's a real rare one! So much good stuff in this video, I can't count it! Your're a real lucky guy LGR!
8:50 "Listen to the bytes, man!" =)
Thanks for the video. It was worth watching. You are so lucky to have all that stuff. I wish I lived close to come take a look at that treasure.Keep up the good job buddy.
My guess based on bezel (which obviously is not the best way to identify a drive) is that your full height drive might possibly be a Micropolis drive. As for the handle, all I can say is retro LAN party. :D LOL But what a nice collection.
Great vid, man and super nice haul! Your passion for this stuff is infectious!
Hey Clint, when are you gonna do a follow up on any of this? I'm really curious
You bet! Not sure what form it'll take, but more PS/2 stuff is planned.
Lazy Game Reviews
sweet! I can't wait
Very cool and interesting stuff you got there. Brings back memories of my early days of computing. I've always liked how the IBM's systems looked back then. My first computer (stand alone/and on my own) was a Radio Shack TRS 80 model 16 with two 10 inch floppys , built in display, And 10 megabyte external hard drive. 512 or 640 megabits of ram and running Unix/Zenex . I got this system for free from family member and remember hearing it was 16 thousand dollars when purchased new. I also tinkered/programmed with the Commodore pet until I got frustrated running out of system ram. But my favorites when even younger was the Texas Instruments Ti 99 4a with voice synthesizer box, tape drive, And external floppy drive all hooked up using a tv . I also Used cartridges and I had the extended basic one as well. Loved the games for that system. Also loved the Apple 2: C, D, GS models. I remember in computer lab seeing an apple 1 made from wood mostly. Great times back then. Thanks for putting this video out there :)
Dude old HDD's and floppy drives when out of their tower are so metal.
GamerGuy1157
Oh man all old tech is metal
13:18 - damn, you scored some serious keyboards there, man. :) IBM Model M - the mother of all keyboards!
I'm reporting this as 18+, it's straight-up hardcore nerd porn.
its rather 40+...younger generation wont find this interesting at all...
@@spearPYN i'm 14yo and i'm a big fan
@@spearPYN And I am 18.... I am a fan about Nerd stuff since decades....
@@spearPYN im currently 28 about to be 29 so i love watching things like this! I have some old computers ow my own such as the Amstrad home office PC6400 HD20 and the Tandy 1000 SX, also guys could somone please get in contact with LGR about the tandy 1000 sx please! he said in a few videos back that he needs one and i would be happy to donate it to him! Thank you :D
Chris Hansen shows up
COVER ALL OF IT!!!
Man I love the old school look of the PS/2 Computers from IBM, I have been watching the computer Chronicles and I'm very interested to see you vids on the PS/2 PC
This is beautiful. Out of curiosity how much did all this cost?
$300
+Lazy Game Reviews $300 for hardware and software worth $100,000, not bad ;)
Lazy Game Reviews
That is simply amazing, usually people want that money for a single PS/2 model 60. I do suppose people do cut deals for those who respect the machine in question. He knew it would have gone into good hands.
+Lazy Game Reviews Worth it. I see single 386s going for $150+ on EBay. What's up with that?
+Lazy Game Reviews HOLY CRAP
25:45 -> That's a tray loader! I recognize those things from a distance now. Some call them the "fake" tray load since there's no flash bezel, but they were common on early Mac G3's (the ones with the silver fronts)
Oh man, those wonderful little drives are troopers until the front bezel jams.
Did you ever get around to reviewing that pressure sensitive touchscreen monitor? I would be really interested if you do that as an Oddware episode.
Not yet, still planning to
+Lazy Game Reviews PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! I refuse to research it until you do an 'LGR-Oddware' Sooooooo come on!! ;)
Please?
He did a video on it recently. It was an LGR Oddware one
24:17 The piece of plastic belongs to one of the Model 60 or 80 machines it looks like.
How you gonna do it? How? You gonna PS/2 it!
fountainhead The solution is IBM! The solution is IBM!
I love this channel. I didn't have old school computers as a kid but our school did. Seeing older big grayish computers gives me the warm n fuzzys. Reminds me of going to computer class and playing games or going on neopets.
The only issue was when the video ended....
I never thought I would see you here before. Are you gonna do more "and having played" videos soon?
Got a review of Alien Rampage next week
By the way, my mother used to work for IBM back in the day, so for me to say i love IBM products is an understatement. also, lots of records at IBM were kept that neat. you also might like to know, we used to have an old, what is it, 12 inch i think, hard disk platter hanging on our laundry room wall. so yeah. IBM stuff is just plain cool!
What does it mean about my sanity if I enjoyed watching a 40 minute video around 2:00 in the morning about someone looking through old computer stuff?
Have I told you taht I absolutely love haul videos like this? If this was about Lunchtime tomorrow, I'd pause order some food, wait for it to arrive and then unpause.
Those Model 60 cases would be awesome for a sleeper mod, putting like a 6700K, 32GB RAM, SSD and such in =)
Just throwing another idea out there, Clint. Seeing all this PS/2 stuff made me remember the IBM "PS/2 It!" commercial from 1986. Don't know if it's the incredibly catchy tune, but that commercial always puts a smile on my face. Maybe someday you want to cover old computer commercials/catalogs. Just hearing the specs and prices alone is amusing to a modern audience!
this is genuinely one of the best videos i have ever watched on yotube
this is going to become more and more important as old computers keep being retired. thanks for your work.
So, when does the museum open?
Tuesday at four.
Thanks for sharing this haul Clint, Was really neat to see documents and receipts from the original owner of some of this stuff and see all the magazine cut outs he had, was like stepping into a time machine back when not just everyone had computers.
And that physical copy of win zip made me laugh, This guy must of been really keen on owning his software legitimately!
Haha, legit WinZip is still one of the most exciting things here to me!
That playstation 2 sure looked different back in the days : )
Excellent video! The length of the video kind of gave me a pause, but it was worth every minute I invested in it. Well done, LGR; this is one solid video. B-)
Are you both pantless and wearing pink slippers? I admire your fashion sense and will make sure to take inspiration from it.
Noticed pants now, but I'll just forget I ever saw that
I love your enthusiasm. It's contagious.
Can it run witcher 3? I heard a potato could run it but wasn't to sure!
Wreck-ItGamer
Yeah, they should be yble to do so, but only very very slowly ... and in text-mode only.
Frank Schneider Ultra settings text-mode? Running Windows 98 beta?
Wreck-ItGamer
nope, Taligent and a windows emulator on top
Frank Schneider Ahhh. Ok thanks m8 for the help
! Just burnt Wither 3 to my floppy disk!
Wreck-ItGamer
I hope you used the 8'' floppy discs (Not sure if anyone remembers these) to save some space.
watched beginning to end. You always say these things are conversation pieces. I don't think I could ever leave your house because the conversation may never end! haha
Warehouse speaker: "Welcome at Clint's Warehouse, enjoy free coffee at the IBM ground floor."
I love watching you geek over floppy disks. I don't know what the significance of anything, but I feel your excitement.