I worked at Acer America in San Jose, CA for 3 years in the mid-late 90's and it was a great gig. These "Emerald" and "Charcoal" computers were all the rage because everyone else was selling the old boring beige colored machines. Also, the Acer Aspires in 1996 had "Telephony, built-in". That meant that you could hook your land line phone up to these bad boys and use your computer to make phone calls, fax and answering machines. What a time! Very exciting!
@@BenLindelof And we sold these things to people who didn't even know how turn on a light switch. Man, the phone calls we got on the tech support lines. Drove some Phone Techs to suicide (not really 🤣). We had to teach callers how to use COMPUTER MICE over the phone. Just try to do that with someone who has never used a mouse before. Hair pulling insanity!
My first PC! Christmas 96, I was 10. My dad didn't know how to set up the computer so he woke me up in the middle of the night to set up my gift from "santa" lol. Great memory.
This was my first computer, got it holiday season 1997. My variant was branded aspire 3000 in Colombia, and included a joystick and a subwoofer, and a landline PHONE out of the box. Came with Time Commando and Jazz Jackrabbit, which at the time were mindblowing to me. Thanks!
O tuve una versión moderna de este o tal vez lo actualicé a MMX 166 mhz, la RAM sí recuerdo haberla subido a 64 MB y la VRAM se la llené pero no recuerdo bien, creo que pasó de tener 1 MB a 4 MB igual nunca hubo software que exprimiera el rendimiento, le puse Win2k pero abriendo el IE se consumía toda la RAM así que lo dejé con Win98 y así incluso podía ver ciertas series de TV como Prison Break y Smallville. En mi correo tengo un reporte de CPU-Z que tomé en 2007. Saludos desde Bogotá
Oh daaaamn this was my first computer back in 96! Ah the days playing Hover and Doom and Descent and the Incredible Machine. You know you can just replace that CMOS battery, right?
Omg, this was my first computer as well. Wow. This brings back so many memories. My dad paid around $3,000 for it from Best Buy. That's equivalent to $5,000 today. Insane! The day we went to buy it is still crystal clear in my head, that's how big of a deal it was.
At Acer in San Jose in '95, we made our customers go out buy FORTY-FOUR 3.5" floppy disks to back up their hard drive BEFORE they could even use the computer. It was hysterical! Only took about 2-3 hours of sitting by, baby-sitting the computer, waiting for each floppy disk to fill up, pop it out and insert another one. Rinse and Repeat. 44 Times! Yiiiiiiiiyyyy! The good old days! 😂
My folks had this machine when I started high school in 1997; I ended up taking it over from them for schoolwork, gaming, and socializing over AOL. Eventually it failed; the monitor conked out first and I really wanted to play more modern games so I ended up getting to build a more powerful machine as birthday present in '99 and left this one behind. I always had a lot of nostalgia for this machine, but unfortunately it got lost to the mists of time over the past nearly 30 years. I have its keyboard still sitting around but that's about it. A couple of days ago, however, I somehow managed to find a working one for sale and snatched it up. The eventual plan is to have it next to a replica of the one I built later on; I've really wanted a working reminder of those days so this is a perfect way to do that. :)
We got the tower version of this pc in 1997, I was ten at that time. So many nostalgic memories seeing those details again, the round power button, the weird keyboard handrest and just the design overall. Awesome!
Thank you for this video! I remember seeing these in stores and being intrigued by the darker colors and the trypophobia triggering vent holes. Wish I had one today.
My next door neighbor had this exact same pc. He was kind enough to let my teenage self play some games on it, the most memorable being Tyrian 2000. I was blown away with how awesome games on a PC could be, in comparison to a console, which is all I had ever gamed on prior. That experience lit a fire under me to earn enough to get my own PC to game on, and what a life-changing experience it ended up being. I wish I could find one of these in good condition.
Hooooooo man!! I think I had a newer model back in Beirut, Lebanon in '97. I remember it having a 166 mHz proc, 32mb RAM, and a 1.7gb HDD. Also, the front of the monitor didn't have all those individual controls but an OSD menu with +/- controls. I also remember the volume knob being different. It was like a dotted sphere that rotated in a socket or smthn like that. Hard to explain that one! :p I also remember it having a phone! It was SO cool and slick. There was a plastic handle on the right of the monitor that would hold the handset. It looked like a carphone in a way. And it would connect to the back of the case where the modem sat. Came preloaded with Win 95 and this ACE software thing where you could have shortcuts for your games and programs. I remember some of the programs and games that came with it. There was the Win95 CD of course. It had the Weezer video clip...umm Buddy Holly! And then there was another video clip of a song called Good Times Bad Times, I think. Also, a bumper car style game. Then I had Lode Runner Monk's Revenge or smthn. There was a Peter Pan animated story with minigames. Hoyle Card games. I remember learning to play Poker then! Ooh ooh! Umm, Microsoft 3D Movie Maker! "I am your amigo Carlos!!" "I don't know, I'm a cheesecake!" "I love cheesecake!!" There were also some useless CDs like Microsoft Money or Works or smthn. There was also a Microsoft game or demo that came pre-installed. Fury 3D I think. There was only one level and I remember the music to be awesome! Minor chords and quite the Middle-Eastern tune in a way. I have flashes of a snake or a cobra as a final boss in there. There was another demo game of a space shooter but cannot possibly remember its name. It was dark and raining I think. And an annoying female AI voice in your ship. I remember you would shoot a pylon or a tower or smthn and it would keep spamming "tower destroyed....tower destroyed..." smthn like that! Ooh! There was a cheesy video that you'd get to play only once. It was on the desktop and it was this welcome to Acer Aspire thing. And she'd keep talking about this Out Of Box Experience and would pronounce it as ooh-bee! This vid was an absolute gem! Thanks for the lovely walk down memory lane! :)
This was my first computer too. I remember that shitty aspire launcher that overlayed windows 95. Tyrian, SkiFree, Hover, Descent, The Pinball demo, jazz jackrabbit... good times.
This is a really cool computer! I got an Acer Aspire myself for gaming, and wanted to see how the old ones looked like for the nostalgia. Amazing how stylish it was for the time!
Acer is my 2nd favorite computer company for making relatively reliable PCs and always giving them a unique design that only THEY could ever come up with.
I had the exact same Acer that is in this video. It was so terrible, I swore I'd never buy another Acer. But I'm writing this on my Acer ConceptD laptop. I know they have a pretty good reputation now, but this particular model was known to have problems. Unfortunately, I did my research AFTER I bought it.
This is my first ever PC back in 95-96 when I was 15 years old, it cost my parents $2500+ and that was really a big money, i had all of these and accessories, and I used it for around 5 years, I played AOE a lot, damn those are a lot of memories, and I still think this PC is one of the most beautiful computer ever. How can you get a new one?
My grandma had this exact computer. I have fond memories of playing Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo and Nickolodeon's Are you Afraid of the Dark. It died abruptly in 2000. Best buy told us it wasn't y2k compliant lol
This was my first new computer in 1995, when I started law school. I used it until 1999 when I got a Gateway 2000 Solo laptop. I loved the looks of that Acer!
Mine came with windows 95, pentium 100mhz, 4mb of ram which we later upgraded to 8mb, a 1mb ATI videocard, 1.2 gb quantum hdd, 4x cd-rom and 1.44fdd. It was my first time seeing cds back in 1996. Original software was harder to come by back then in the Philippines so having the original discs come with the system was really appreciated. I spent countless hours in Microsoft’s 3d movie maker, infopedia, magic school bus. My pc came with thexder, one of microsoft’s flagship games for win95. There was no internet initially so basically as a kid, my world was that box. When the internet came,unfortunately it struggled to load websites a bit because of the slower processor. It did not come with a modem so i had to install a cheap one which unfortunately, cheap ones back then eat up cpu cycles, he ce slowing down the computer some more. I player countless demos of command & conquer and uhm bootlegged copies of dune 2 and doom. We had to replace it with a pentium 3 pc (unbranded) after a number of years.
My brother and I spent some of the happiest time together on this machine as this was our first PC. I will never forget spending hours making stupid animations with “3D Movie Maker”. Great memories.
I was looking for this and it seems to be almost forgotten. It's featured prominently in the Sliders series (thank you Peacock for the nostalgia) and I remember always troubleshooting my friends Aspire around 1998 (it was cool and we ran ZSNES and Nesticle emulators on it a lot). It had an odd Modem/Soundcard combo card and at some point I thought you could make real phone calls with it but I never had the time (gaming came first). I personally got a lot of hand me down toshiba's before I built my own in the mid 2000's (and got my own vintage SGI's later on)...but this computer was iconic for the last 5 years of the last millenium (if not the dot com bubble)
Я видел рекламу этого компа в журнале в 1995 году. Но мои бабушка с дедушкой, у которых я вырос, не могли себе позволить такую покупку. Рад за вас всех, кто им владел в то время.
SMRAM is Sysem Management memory, it's just where the BIOS setup is save and is kept active by the CMOS Battory. The memory above that is the system memory, which is 48 Megabytes.
What is the chances I could get a copy of the restore disk? I have one that I just fixed the CMOS issue with a custom new chip. I would cover any shipping and cost. Thank you in advance.
I have pretty much the same rig, but with the vertical tower. Mine is a Pentium 166 with a 1GB HDD and 16MB of RAM. Haven't tried to fire it up in over 15 years. My Dad used to give me crap, saying that i bought it for its style rather than the performance. In some ways he was right. Original cost was over $3000 in 1996, hard to believe.
Had the tower version, parents bought when I was maybe 12? Good memories, seeing the manuals and sounds of it starting up are crazy nostalgic. One issue... around 3:37, you said 48 k... No, that's ~48,000 k, which is 48 Megabytes. The originals came with 8 MB (8MB = ~ 8,000 KB). 48 MB was a lot for a system like this, I wouldn't have even thought it supported anything over 32 MB to be honest!
it had another game about a spaceship that you go in a some kind of maze o puzzle but i don´t remmember the name. do you know how it? sorry english it's not my first lenguage.
Unlikely. The computer in this video was originally installed with Windows 95, but Dan or wheoever had it probably upgraded to 98 at some point, as did a lot of people who were using 95 in 1998. Frankly, I would have kept 95 on there.
I'm really late to reply to this, but this is the 500LB or 575LB. They're really hard to come by, unfortunately; I've been looking for years and only just now came across one. Best of luck with your hunt!
Dan If you still have these discs and can make .iso files of Infopedia and add them to the Internet Archive you would be doing the world a great service! Did this come with the Acer Desktop?
it had a game about a spaceship that you go in a some kind of maze o puzzle but i don´t remmember the name. do you know how it? sorry english it's not my first lenguage.
my mouse pin got broken off in the back of mine and that was the end of my acer. :( i took it apart and learned everything i needed to know about building computers.
@@lanesmerge I'd entertain buying it if you want to sell it. Lots of memories behind the screen on one. When I was a teen I build and sold computers in the newspaper. I received on of these on trade. Love the design.
It has been sitting in my garage for years, let me look at it and post a video of it's current state. Don't know where you are but shipping fee may be expensive. If it means giving it a new home to someone that will appreciate it yes I would consider selling it.
@lanesmerge Awesome. I would surely give it a home. My zip code is 53506 if you want to look into it. I'm in the land of cheese..lol. thanks so much for your time. Really hope we can make a deal.
@@Willitrun440 Sad update I have been looking for that acer for hours I finally asked a few family members and it may have been disposed of a while ago. This is really upsetting for me, I can't really blame anyone as the garage has become the family storage unit and is full of stuff in a very unorganized fashion. If I happen to figure out what happened to it I will message you back.
Dan there is one on eBay in iffy shape, the tower model. Just search Aspire 5120sk. But he wants a bit much for it, and the CDROM is missing the lip. I am having a hard time finding the monitor sadly.
Common m8!! I know you are not a pro etc but really wouldn't you think that the software pack could be worth spending like 10-20 seconds more mentioning (out of your 6 minute video) ?? I was looking exactly for thing thing (because there was a multimedia educational disk for children with a brown bear of some sort that I missed and was looking for so that I can get a nostalgia fix but cant remember the name )
I worked at Acer America in San Jose, CA for 3 years in the mid-late 90's and it was a great gig. These "Emerald" and "Charcoal" computers were all the rage because everyone else was selling the old boring beige colored machines. Also, the Acer Aspires in 1996 had "Telephony, built-in". That meant that you could hook your land line phone up to these bad boys and use your computer to make phone calls, fax and answering machines. What a time! Very exciting!
Fun times!
@@BenLindelof And we sold these things to people who didn't even know how turn on a light switch. Man, the phone calls we got on the tech support lines. Drove some Phone Techs to suicide (not really 🤣). We had to teach callers how to use COMPUTER MICE over the phone. Just try to do that with someone who has never used a mouse before. Hair pulling insanity!
My first PC!
Christmas 96, I was 10. My dad didn't know how to set up the computer so he woke me up in the middle of the night to set up my gift from "santa" lol. Great memory.
This was my first computer, got it holiday season 1997. My variant was branded aspire 3000 in Colombia, and included a joystick and a subwoofer, and a landline PHONE out of the box. Came with Time Commando and Jazz Jackrabbit, which at the time were mindblowing to me. Thanks!
Win 95, pentium 133mhz, 16mb ram, 2gb hdd, 33.6 kbps
O tuve una versión moderna de este o tal vez lo actualicé a MMX 166 mhz, la RAM sí recuerdo haberla subido a 64 MB y la VRAM se la llené pero no recuerdo bien, creo que pasó de tener 1 MB a 4 MB igual nunca hubo software que exprimiera el rendimiento, le puse Win2k pero abriendo el IE se consumía toda la RAM así que lo dejé con Win98 y así incluso podía ver ciertas series de TV como Prison Break y Smallville. En mi correo tengo un reporte de CPU-Z que tomé en 2007. Saludos desde Bogotá
Oh daaaamn this was my first computer back in 96! Ah the days playing Hover and Doom and Descent and the Incredible Machine. You know you can just replace that CMOS battery, right?
Omg, this was my first computer as well. Wow. This brings back so many memories. My dad paid around $3,000 for it from Best Buy. That's equivalent to $5,000 today. Insane! The day we went to buy it is still crystal clear in my head, that's how big of a deal it was.
At Acer in San Jose in '95, we made our customers go out buy FORTY-FOUR 3.5" floppy disks to back up their hard drive BEFORE they could even use the computer. It was hysterical! Only took about 2-3 hours of sitting by, baby-sitting the computer, waiting for each floppy disk to fill up, pop it out and insert another one. Rinse and Repeat. 44 Times! Yiiiiiiiiyyyy! The good old days! 😂
My folks had this machine when I started high school in 1997; I ended up taking it over from them for schoolwork, gaming, and socializing over AOL. Eventually it failed; the monitor conked out first and I really wanted to play more modern games so I ended up getting to build a more powerful machine as birthday present in '99 and left this one behind.
I always had a lot of nostalgia for this machine, but unfortunately it got lost to the mists of time over the past nearly 30 years. I have its keyboard still sitting around but that's about it. A couple of days ago, however, I somehow managed to find a working one for sale and snatched it up. The eventual plan is to have it next to a replica of the one I built later on; I've really wanted a working reminder of those days so this is a perfect way to do that. :)
That was our first computer, and I still have it, but I haven't turned it on in over 20 years. Thanks for the walk down memory lane 😊
We got the tower version of this pc in 1997, I was ten at that time. So many nostalgic memories seeing those details again, the round power button, the weird keyboard handrest and just the design overall. Awesome!
Thank you for this video! I remember seeing these in stores and being intrigued by the darker colors and the trypophobia triggering vent holes. Wish I had one today.
Wish I still had mine! Good memories. Loved this PC
My next door neighbor had this exact same pc. He was kind enough to let my teenage self play some games on it, the most memorable being Tyrian 2000. I was blown away with how awesome games on a PC could be, in comparison to a console, which is all I had ever gamed on prior. That experience lit a fire under me to earn enough to get my own PC to game on, and what a life-changing experience it ended up being.
I wish I could find one of these in good condition.
My first PC back in 1997. Its design and sound was awesome.
Hooooooo man!! I think I had a newer model back in Beirut, Lebanon in '97. I remember it having a 166 mHz proc, 32mb RAM, and a 1.7gb HDD. Also, the front of the monitor didn't have all those individual controls but an OSD menu with +/- controls. I also remember the volume knob being different. It was like a dotted sphere that rotated in a socket or smthn like that. Hard to explain that one! :p
I also remember it having a phone! It was SO cool and slick. There was a plastic handle on the right of the monitor that would hold the handset. It looked like a carphone in a way. And it would connect to the back of the case where the modem sat. Came preloaded with Win 95 and this ACE software thing where you could have shortcuts for your games and programs.
I remember some of the programs and games that came with it. There was the Win95 CD of course. It had the Weezer video clip...umm Buddy Holly! And then there was another video clip of a song called Good Times Bad Times, I think. Also, a bumper car style game. Then I had Lode Runner Monk's Revenge or smthn. There was a Peter Pan animated story with minigames. Hoyle Card games. I remember learning to play Poker then! Ooh ooh! Umm, Microsoft 3D Movie Maker! "I am your amigo Carlos!!" "I don't know, I'm a cheesecake!" "I love cheesecake!!"
There were also some useless CDs like Microsoft Money or Works or smthn. There was also a Microsoft game or demo that came pre-installed. Fury 3D I think. There was only one level and I remember the music to be awesome! Minor chords and quite the Middle-Eastern tune in a way. I have flashes of a snake or a cobra as a final boss in there. There was another demo game of a space shooter but cannot possibly remember its name. It was dark and raining I think. And an annoying female AI voice in your ship. I remember you would shoot a pylon or a tower or smthn and it would keep spamming "tower destroyed....tower destroyed..." smthn like that!
Ooh! There was a cheesy video that you'd get to play only once. It was on the desktop and it was this welcome to Acer Aspire thing. And she'd keep talking about this Out Of Box Experience and would pronounce it as ooh-bee!
This vid was an absolute gem! Thanks for the lovely walk down memory lane! :)
Tyrian is the name of the space shooter. There was also Asteroids. And maybe MS Hellbender.
Thanks for reminding me about the phone!
This was my first computer too. I remember that shitty aspire launcher that overlayed windows 95. Tyrian, SkiFree, Hover, Descent, The Pinball demo, jazz jackrabbit... good times.
Loved Tyrian as a kid, and now I play it on pc and on my PS Vita from time to time.
This is a really cool computer! I got an Acer Aspire myself for gaming, and wanted to see how the old ones looked like for the nostalgia. Amazing how stylish it was for the time!
Acer is my 2nd favorite computer company for making relatively reliable PCs and always giving them a unique design that only THEY could ever come up with.
I had the exact same Acer that is in this video. It was so terrible, I swore I'd never buy another Acer. But I'm writing this on my Acer ConceptD laptop. I know they have a pretty good reputation now, but this particular model was known to have problems. Unfortunately, I did my research AFTER I bought it.
This is my first ever PC back in 95-96 when I was 15 years old, it cost my parents $2500+ and that was really a big money, i had all of these and accessories, and I used it for around 5 years, I played AOE a lot, damn those are a lot of memories, and I still think this PC is one of the most beautiful computer ever. How can you get a new one?
My first ever PC too, same colour and everything. I bought this the week England were in the knock out stages of Euro '96. Happy days!
My grandma had this exact computer. I have fond memories of playing Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo and Nickolodeon's Are you Afraid of the Dark. It died abruptly in 2000. Best buy told us it wasn't y2k compliant lol
This was my first new computer in 1995, when I started law school. I used it until 1999 when I got a Gateway 2000 Solo laptop. I loved the looks of that Acer!
Thanks for that trip down memory lane. It was also my first computer.
Mine came with windows 95, pentium 100mhz, 4mb of ram which we later upgraded to 8mb, a 1mb ATI videocard, 1.2 gb quantum hdd, 4x cd-rom and 1.44fdd. It was my first time seeing cds back in 1996. Original software was harder to come by back then in the Philippines so having the original discs come with the system was really appreciated. I spent countless hours in Microsoft’s 3d movie maker, infopedia, magic school bus. My pc came with thexder, one of microsoft’s flagship games for win95. There was no internet initially so basically as a kid, my world was that box. When the internet came,unfortunately it struggled to load websites a bit because of the slower processor. It did not come with a modem so i had to install a cheap one which unfortunately, cheap ones back then eat up cpu cycles, he ce slowing down the computer some more. I player countless demos of command & conquer and uhm bootlegged copies of dune 2 and doom. We had to replace it with a pentium 3 pc (unbranded) after a number of years.
My brother and I spent some of the happiest time together on this machine as this was our first PC. I will never forget spending hours making stupid animations with “3D Movie Maker”. Great memories.
I was looking for this and it seems to be almost forgotten. It's featured prominently in the Sliders series (thank you Peacock for the nostalgia) and I remember always troubleshooting my friends Aspire around 1998 (it was cool and we ran ZSNES and Nesticle emulators on it a lot). It had an odd Modem/Soundcard combo card and at some point I thought you could make real phone calls with it but I never had the time (gaming came first).
I personally got a lot of hand me down toshiba's before I built my own in the mid 2000's (and got my own vintage SGI's later on)...but this computer was iconic for the last 5 years of the last millenium (if not the dot com bubble)
Я видел рекламу этого компа в журнале в 1995 году. Но мои бабушка с дедушкой, у которых я вырос, не могли себе позволить такую покупку. Рад за вас всех, кто им владел в то время.
my first PC.... still working fine with pentium 100 and 8 MB of RAM
beautiful design, even for today
spent a lot of my childhood on this green machine
SMRAM is Sysem Management memory, it's just where the BIOS setup is save and is kept active by the CMOS Battory. The memory above that is the system memory, which is 48 Megabytes.
This was my first desktop that my dad got me and it reminded me of the mirc days....
HEY DAN C! You just need to wait a half hour or so for it to boot from the floppy! 😂😂🤣🤣
Our families first computer
One of those models included a black joystick and a phone, as far as I can remember.
Hey, can you archive the restore disks for this?
What is the chances I could get a copy of the restore disk? I have one that I just fixed the CMOS issue with a custom new chip. I would cover any shipping and cost. Thank you in advance.
Had this PC...loved it!
install Win 95---
Sounds like a dead quantum you got in that!
Hey Dan, Did you ever get your aspire working?. It would be awesome if you could do a another review showing its software suite.
That was my first real computer too! It lasted till 2002
I have pretty much the same rig, but with the vertical tower. Mine is a Pentium 166 with a 1GB HDD and 16MB of RAM. Haven't tried to fire it up in over 15 years. My Dad used to give me crap, saying that i bought it for its style rather than the performance. In some ways he was right. Original cost was over $3000 in 1996, hard to believe.
in 1996 i used this pc, to call home. It has phone dialer via internal modem.
Had the tower version, parents bought when I was maybe 12?
Good memories, seeing the manuals and sounds of it starting up are crazy nostalgic.
One issue... around 3:37, you said 48 k... No, that's ~48,000 k, which is 48 Megabytes. The originals came with 8 MB (8MB = ~ 8,000 KB). 48 MB was a lot for a system like this, I wouldn't have even thought it supported anything over 32 MB to be honest!
Hello good day!! My question is from where I can download the Cd recovery. Windows 95 acer aspire 3000 thank you
i have the same question , did you find any sir ?
was my first computer, and also came with Time Commando game that was my first game ever on a pc, and still working was a very good pc.
Same!
it had another game about a spaceship that you go in a some kind of maze o puzzle but i don´t remmember the name. do you know how it? sorry english it's not my first lenguage.
That was the best keyboard I've ever had
Did this computer always come bundled with 98? We had it when I was little and I thought it was Win95 but I guess I'm remembering wrong.
Unlikely. The computer in this video was originally installed with Windows 95, but Dan or wheoever had it probably upgraded to 98 at some point, as did a lot of people who were using 95 in 1998. Frankly, I would have kept 95 on there.
ours had 95
Mine came with Win 95, but I upgraded to Win 98 Second Edition.
That was my first computer back in 96, I would love to buy it again. What's the model number?.
I'm really late to reply to this, but this is the 500LB or 575LB. They're really hard to come by, unfortunately; I've been looking for years and only just now came across one. Best of luck with your hunt!
Dan If you still have these discs and can make .iso files of Infopedia and add them to the Internet Archive you would be doing the world a great service! Did this come with the Acer Desktop?
The Acer Computer Explorer? I believe this one did. I know I'm not Dan, but still.
Este también fue nuestro primer computador. Aún lo tengo en casa de mi mamá.
De casualidad tendras el CD de Respaldo AcerFacil tambien :P
Hola, de donde eres? no la vendes? yo tenia una igual
Hola, la vendes? estoy buscando una
I had this exact computer, same colors even. It would have been OK, but the CD-rom never lasted more than two months. I replaced it several times.
Can someone share the game and program cd that came with this computer?
it had a game about a spaceship that you go in a some kind of maze o puzzle but i don´t remmember the name. do you know how it? sorry english it's not my first lenguage.
This was my first desktop, and really miss it
my mouse pin got broken off in the back of mine and that was the end of my acer. :( i took it apart and learned everything i needed to know about building computers.
Ooooooh, the nostalgia!
anyone got any advice on how to connect the keyboard to modern day computers and laptops?
Find a USB to PS/2 adapter.
Anybody else here have one of these for sale? These have to be one of the rarest and most desirable high end 90s PCs.
This and the Toshiba Infinia
Mi infancia 😭
We got this for like 800 in early 97, my first computer. Duke3d and porn memories 😂
what is the name of this computer
Very cold this Acer Aspire. Do you sell me?
Hey, great job! Could you upload the recovery software? I'm trying to get mine working as well, but I don't have the CD's =(
If you want just go onto archive.org and search it up. I did the same just make sure to say old
my firts computer after
20 years wel find us
I had this one years ago
Wanna sell it
I still have it but it will not boot the hard drive is not working properly i tried running spin rite but it never fixed it
@@lanesmerge I'd entertain buying it if you want to sell it. Lots of memories behind the screen on one. When I was a teen I build and sold computers in the newspaper. I received on of these on trade. Love the design.
It has been sitting in my garage for years, let me look at it and post a video of it's current state. Don't know where you are but shipping fee may be expensive. If it means giving it a new home to someone that will appreciate it yes I would consider selling it.
@lanesmerge Awesome. I would surely give it a home. My zip code is 53506 if you want to look into it. I'm in the land of cheese..lol. thanks so much for your time. Really hope we can make a deal.
@@Willitrun440 Sad update I have been looking for that acer for hours I finally asked a few family members and it may have been disposed of a while ago. This is really upsetting for me, I can't really blame anyone as the garage has become the family storage unit and is full of stuff in a very unorganized fashion. If I happen to figure out what happened to it I will message you back.
My first ever computer
Iska wairing settings batae and open the computer
i'm gonna cry
Would love to have one of these again if anyone has one they want to sell
Do you still have this Acer? Would you be interested in selling it?
Dan there is one on eBay in iffy shape, the tower model. Just search Aspire 5120sk. But he wants a bit much for it, and the CDROM is missing the lip. I am having a hard time finding the monitor sadly.
The monitor goes on the “mini tower”.
Fue mi primera compu
i still have this pc!
Do you want to sell it? I am looking for one of this
I have an old updated win 7 acer pc
Es su tiempos era la mas elegante computadora que existía
I had the same one
Acer Aspire ASP-16-DT 1998
Classic
Sounds like a bad hard drive
My first PC, are you interested to sell this?
Needs new HDD
I had one at the time, now that I remember the thing was butt ugly.
Common m8!! I know you are not a pro etc but really wouldn't you think that the software pack could be worth spending like 10-20 seconds more mentioning (out of your 6 minute video) ??
I was looking exactly for thing thing (because there was a multimedia educational disk for children with a brown bear of some sort that I missed and was looking for so that I can get a nostalgia fix but cant remember the name )
th-cam.com/video/2-5AmuhoTXk/w-d-xo.html
i have that computer it boots and runs SLOW
Tommy Brown its 20 years old! Lol of course
Do you want to sell it?