12MHZ V20 XT clone, not an 8088 but something else.

An overclocked V20 running at 12MHZ on an 8088 system board with 640 KB RAM Sound, VGA and other features that sets it aside from the rest of the beige boxes out there.
This is the very first in a series of upcoming videos featuring vintage
computer systems, their components and their history/significance

[@drjacovanniekerk]

This was very well done. I can tell you now that if this is the quality you produce AND you can put something out once a week, you'll be at 1000 subs before the end of the year. Narration is spot-on, can listen to your calm, relaxing voice all day. Keep at it and well done!

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

Amazing restoration

[@alastorgdl]

My first computer was almost exactly that system: V20 at 12MHz but WITHOUT HDD. It just had 512KB of RAM and two 5 1/4" floppies: one for DOS and Turbo Pascal/Turbo C compiler, the other one for source/object files I miss that system

[@chaoticsystem2211]

That font is special too...

[@Markhoss]

How interesting is it that the older the hardware is the more interesting it is let alone knowing that before hardware/software had limitations so technicians needed to use they're best expertise to solve problems and although its something I'll never understand well I appreciate how much they had to do just for us customers to have fun. If you compare that to nowadays the reason the hardware is not as fun anymore is that the creators of nowadays generalize it too much and dont put thy're maximum in based exactly on those limitations that decades ago those existed, don't get me wrong modern PC's are fun too but it'll never beat the soul of retro.

[@BuildItnow]

Awesome Intro!

[@fra4455]

Great restoration

[@georgemaragos2378]

Wolfenstein 3Dis the shareware game that spawned my generation into updating from CGA/EGA to VGA , then constantly spend more $$$ on better video card Also hard drive, my original 40G ide, would work, then you come up to a corner and the combination of a 286 and early ide would see you pause / stumble for a few seconds while it loads up the rest of the map for you to explore in the next few minutes It was good to watch this, my first PC was a 512 commodore PC10 with 2 x 360 floppy, it was sold and then replaced by a XT Turbo clone - this was the first of my 2 yearly upgrade cycle until pentium 4 days where it tasted almost 10 years As much as i use DosBox the odd time, i am putting together a thin client as a early dos machine Regards George

[@QuintinLourens]

Very nice

[@serinavanaarde4112]

love tour content

[@andrewmiller-vanaarde9005]

Love it

[@johnsavard7583]

Yes, I remember the NEC V20.

[@riaancoetzee100]

Awesome

[@ocsrc]

I remember these

[@flama12333]

Could you dump the bios and take mainboard pictures?

[@rallyscoot]

XT on 12Mhz makes no sense.. And playing 286 games on it. Most of the 286 games runs to slow on that 12Mhz XT clone in my experience, XT machine is for the earlier dos gaming which runs on MDA / CGA / EGA 1980 till 1988 And a 286 12MHz for the more advanced dos games from 1989 till 1992/ Best speed for XT is 8Mhz (so you can de-turbo it to 4.77Mhz or a 8086 10Mhz. 286 on 20 or 25Mhz doesnt make any sense either, because most of that period software needs a 386 anyway.

[@Zankuho]

Wolf3D? Isn't that game requires 80286?

[@reviveityoutube]

It did , but someone recently modified and compiled it to run 8086/8088s forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/wolf3d-hacked-for-8086-8088-cpus.17472/

[@CandyGramForMongo_]

18ns? I don’t think so…

[@reviveityoutube]

80ns :) @ 0:47

[@CandyGramForMongo_]

@@reviveityoutube Still sounds too fast for the vintage, but not crazy if it has been replaced. Of course almost nothing in that box belonged there, so I’ll believe it. 😝

[@reviveityoutube]

@@CandyGramForMongo_ Well it is a hot rod build. The case originally had a 80286 8MHZ budget board in it that was too severely damaged by the VARTA battery. It basically 'ate' its way through the board's copper ground plane and killed most of the surrounding ICs. So it is a downgrade from the 286 but it a fun a little system to play with :)

[@serinavanaarde4112]

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