Boxes of Free Laptops Saved From Recycling!

Today we're looking at some free old laptops that were saved from being scrapped (and becoming e-waste). From Apple, Toshiba, IBM to Acer the variety was quite surprising. Join me as I take a look at these old notebooks :) #free #laptops #ewaste
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[@psivewri]

Hope this video reaches you! KZbin seemed buggy as heck when I uploaded this. Have a good day 🙂

[@saljut9641]

It reaches

[@saljut9641]

Thank you

[@DemeDemetre]

well i saw it

[@rajorshighushkhor2024]

hello, big fan

[@trandinhvietdung9357]

Some guys said that laptops which is older than 12 years old are not worth restoring. Do you agree with that Psivewri? (Me not)

[@jackbarnes5589]

I got an old Powerbook 150 from a friend a few days back. Really cool to use a laptop that is older then me. Amazing how far we have come and yet how little has changed.

[@lukedavis436]

I got a Powerbook 140 from my dad, unfortunately my brother smashed it and I was really upset, luckely the bottom half of the unit still makes a boot chime and I might restore it one day!

[@savnoorsamra3597]

@@lukedavis436 why did your brother smash it

[@lukedavis436]

@@savnoorsamra3597 to put it bluntly he's an entitled arsehole with anger issues, he was feeling angry and decided to take his anger out on the Powerbook which was sitting on a desk at the time, gravity and brittle plastics wasn't very friendly and it effectively shattered, amazingly the LCD survived but the ribbon cable was torn in two

[@SummonerArthur]

I dont get it. Then you what bro?

[@lukedavis436]

@@SummonerArthur i don't understand, after that incident the machine just gathers dust on my shelf

[@MultiWirth]

The Acer Aspire is actually pretty new. It´s a 2017 model and it´s very surprising this got trashed. I have the 17" version Aspire 7 with a i5 7300HQ, GTX1050ti and upgraded it to 16GB DDR4 2400 Dual-Channel aswell as an additional 1TB NVMe SSD (it came with a 1TB HDD and "no OS"). The design is 100% the same.

[@tedarmavan]

It's a shame that 2017 Acer Aspire S13 got abandoned. Heck, there's some people rocking older laptop like me for example, having Lenovo ThinkPad X200 tablet from 2009

[@MTN1601]

*I see lot's of 2017 and 2018 ideapads are trashed and abandoned too*

[@tedarmavan]

@@MTN1601 because they're not ThinkPads

[@MTN1601]

@@tedarmavan but they can help lot’s of people if that laptop still working perfectly

[@tedarmavan]

@@MTN1601 that is my point

[@Dazx-Scotia]

The Amstrad uses proprietary 3inch floppy discs, usually made by the brand Amsoft. They came with an A and B side.

[@jonvincentmusic]

Hitachi made the drive. Amstrad gt a good ideal on them which is why they chose them over the standard 3.5"

[@Anaerin]

Important note: That Amstrad doesn't have a 3.5" drive, it's a 3" drive. Doesn't use the same disks at all. So if you don't have any disks for it, you're going to be SOL I'm afraid.

[@Retrohertz]

The same drive that's used in the ZX Spectrum +3 (owned by Amstrad at that point).

[@kaitlyn__L]

Similar in appearance and form factor to the Famicom Disk System drive and disk, but of course completely incompatible.

[@Retrohertz]

The disks were also used on the Einstein computer. It's not very well known.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@Retrohertz the TC-01? I love the angles on that! Neat to see a left-aligned floppy rather than right-aligned too. Interestingly the floppy disk area actually kinda reminds me of HP’s 70s test equipment computers with their special tape drive.

[@Retrohertz]

@@kaitlyn__L Yep, the TC-01. They were quite powerful machines at the time and we're used by software houses to code/compile games and apps for Z80 machines like the Spectrum and CPC etc.

[@foregonereality]

Would like to see how that Toshiba with Windows 7 performs on Windows 10 with a RAM and SDD upgrade. :)

[@aleksandersats9577]

Why do you want to change it to windows 10. It's legit worse and is only going to slow it down more

[@jltq2031]

Newer OS does not mean is going to be faster

[@tropicalkhan3955]

no just install linux

[@ChartreuseKitsune]

4:30 That "CGA Video Card" is actually an IBM TokenRing card, hence the 16/4 marked on it. Token ring cards normally used a DE9 connector like that with an external breakout cable to the massive token ring connector.

[@DemeDemetre]

The Vaio is cool looking. I cant wait for the dedicated video

[@TheSpotify95]

Glad to see that these laptops will (hopefully!) find a new home - much better than being thrown away. It's amazing hat people nowadays will throw away, and even if Windows won't work on a laptop like this (due to the OS'es being unsupported), you could probably find a lightweight version of Linux that will run OK and make these devices fine for general usage. Of course, I'd focus mostly on the laptop with Windows 7, adding more RAM and an SSD - as that looks the most hopeful of the lot. Also - love the look of some of those really old retro machines - how times have changed! Hopefully they can be restored, as old machines like that are quite collectable!

[@lukedavis436]

Yup, I usually look around for old laptops being thrown away from schools and the like, I found some really cool stuff, like my Lenovo 3000 N200

[@lukedavis436]

A tip for the Toshiba Tecra....i purchased a special Parallel port plug which is wired up in such a way that it erazes the Bios password on most old Toshiba Pentium II laptops... It worked a treat on my Sattelite 4000CDS!, I highly recommend seeing if you can buy one off of ebay!

[@matthewgarside4703]

I have that exact IBM ThinkPad R52 shown at the beginning but with the fingerprint reader. I love using it just because its almost as old as me. Plus, it's surprisingly still quite quick when running Windows XP.

[@danatmonst3594]

Best OS ever 👌

[@RetroPC]

It's so cool how that E-Waste recycler sends you laptops! Where I'm at, it's a real struggle to find vintage computer equipment but I do have a handful of cool retro laptops I like to work with.

[@Epimetheus--]

Same here man, I cant find these old computers and laptops. You should visit an e-waste recycling centre and hope they give you a laptop or computer.

[@ShoelessJP]

That old iBook is awesome, I hope to see a future upload about it of upgrading it as such.

[@aaaaplay]

Those HP laptops were very common in NSW primary schools around 2005-2008. They tended to use HP laptops and IBM/Lenovo desktops for years. Before that HP and Optima were very common.

[@CesareVesdani]

This is a fantastic box full of laptops. I agree with you on salvaging them and restoring them to the full brim of functionality.

[@SP-mw4kl]

Perfect, right when my school break started

[@TechThatYT]

lol same

[@trandinhvietdung9357]

Same

[@angelr.9927]

Same

[@Zebra_Paw]

Core 2 Duo equipped laptops can definitely be used for basic tasks today. The password can be removed by removing the BIOS battery for a long enough time.

[@TropicBlaze]

I'm watching this on an old Sony Vaio laptop, just had the fan cleaned and thermal paste changed, running better than ever, I definitely think old tech should be given a second chance at life rather than be thrown out, before I got it this laptop was just sitting with a bunch of parts laptops ready to be thrown away, I'm glad to be giving it a second, even third life instead. Love your work mate.

[@mindinversions4487]

Good haul! I look forward to seeing the restos on some of these laptops, especially the older ones, if you choose to tackle them!

[@OmegaWolf]

I love old laptops from 1995 - 2013 there was something so cool about windows vista, windows 7, windows 98 and windows xp laptops.

[@MrLurchsThings]

The Amstrad is a fantastic machine and worth the time restoring. Putting a Gotek in to replace the 3” disk drive (which will need at minimum new belts) is probably the easiest mod for you look at given you probably don’t have disks etc.

[@pujaastika]

I'm so glad to watch your video again and again! I'm a huge fan of old gadgets like these in your videos. I have some stocks of old gadgets including powerbooks, laptop with IDE drives came from XP era, even a transistor radio haha...Hope I can create videos like you do, sooner or later, because it's interesting to talk about old things

[@wocko1]

Many of those machines would at least make you a few bob on eBay as they are collectors items, and that Acer was a score, you could easily sell that on Facebook. For that old Toshiba, there is a trick with the parallel port to clear the BIOS lock.

[@schakoska]

1:10 Oh the R52. When I was 12 (2011) I got one from my dad and I used to play Minecraft on it on Win XP. That was a good laptop. I remember carrying almost everywhere and watching YT, drawing in paint and creating documents in Libre Office. I even managed to run my own MC server for my friends. Gosh memories. I still have it now with Lubuntu because XP was barely usable after a few years. I think I still have the old XP HDD somewhere.

[@jeyendeoso]

5:51 i am definetly looking! 👀

[@MINI_91]

The R61 is the exact model I had in my high school years. I kinda regret getting rid of it, but thanks for the memories.

[@tedarmavan]

You can buy a T61/T400 just for nostalgia sake. These machine are perfect combination between ol' school styling and today's usability (as long as it have intel GMA iGPU anyway, as NVS140M/FX570M on T61/p is prone to failure), whereas Radeon on T400 isn't compatible with windows 10/11 - no problem on Linux

[@surfer4185]

Really happy to see these laptops getting some use!

[@NoIntention2003]

Looking forward to your next videos on these devices

[@windowsxpnt2347]

quick tip about the amstrad, there are 2 ways to get it working, 1. buy the official amstrad monitor (they came in green mono or colour) as the computer was designed to plug into the monitor for power and video or 2. get 3rd party alternatives that let you use the computer without the official monitor

[@zackaboy1236]

I love these kind of videos, where you look at multiple computers, please keep up the good work Mr. Psivewri

[@thatLion01]

I really enjoy what you do. Really amazing cause and KZbin video amazing video production , script etc. Keep up the great work!

[@danatmonst3594]

I'm still rocking a (fully functioning) Tecra M5. The dock that goes with it allows for so much extra expansion when not on the go. I love it. I have a second one with it's dock, who's screen died but still totally usable with an external monitor. Changing to an ssd makes them so zippy! Sad that you dissed the Tecras. The wifi switch can get temperamental, requiring a dismantle to clean up the contacts and while irritating, I've only ever had to do it twice. I bought both 2nd hand and have given them both good long lives 🥰

[@kresky]

Always interested in re-purposing devices especially PC's and laptops. All my laptops in my home are re-purposed, either from eBay or old work business machines where it becomes cost inefficient for them to take back. So, like you I do a clean up and add extra RAM and replace the drives and they perform even better than some of the new laptops sold by retailers costing 2x or 3x more. Keep up the dumster diving and wish more people would do the same.👍

[@kenfuller9907]

Not 3.5 inch on amstrad. 3 inch. I understand Sir Alan Sugar got them cheap :)

[@lefteris.adamou.1]

5:56 you can unlock it by enter safe mode and go to users and find the specific user and pres remive password

[@brandonupchurch7628]

That's probably not a CGA Video Card in the Toshiba Luggable, that's a 16/4 Token Ring network adapter if that label is correct.

[@_RedsTech_]

Started my PC journey with the ThinkPad R51! Ati Radeon 9000m graphics and a fantastic keyboard! Installed windows 7, upgraded the cpu and ram, and used it for some time :)

[@justinpooters]

The "Hey, No looking" killed me 😂😂😂

[@perdomot]

Love seeing these old pieces of tech. One thing I'd like to see when these laptops are restored is how a copy of Linux with its lighter system resource needs would work compared to Windows. Used to have an old Dell laptop with Mint XFCE on it and it worked very well. Really interested in your opinions on how other operating systems might work for older tech.

[@Rivenworld]

Good to see you again man, missed your videos... Loving the Thinkpads with PROPER keyboards lol.

[@CharlesBluTheXPicturesInc]

Upgraded The 1st ThinkPad R61 Upgrading The 2nd ThinkPad R61

[@mobiletransportvideo]

I had acquired the 6128 amstrad from my brother. The 6128 is supposed to include a colour monitor where you plug the curly cord from the 6128 into the monitor and that provides power. The disc drive is a 3” drive. I can’t remember what I done with the software from the 6128 because the monitor failed. It was a CRT monitor.

[@BilisNegra]

2:20 Not 3.5" but 3". And belt operated. The belt will have melted, don't expect the drive to work until you clean it and put a new belt on it. And source one of those disks, of course.

[@kollectormairu6881]

Awesome that u saved them, keep up the good work!

[@dantoti657]

I still use one of those exact Thinkpad models with an ssd running windows 10. It works fine for web browsing, email, and KZbin. they really are tanks!!

[@bryo4321]

Brood war in the disk tray is a nostalgia hit omg

[@GraveUypo]

that 386 one. damn. that was the first laptop i've ever touched. at my 3rd cousin's farm. i remember the screen was so bad it wasn't possible to play games in it. as a kid i still spent hours playing with it and dreaming of owning one.

[@xhivo97]

I'm thinking of starting a project that would make a universal motherboard to bring life to dead or outdated laptops. I'm not sure however if that would be recycling or if it would just be generating more e-waste. Any thoughts on this? The motherboard would talk to laptop displays, keyboards and trackpads directly and have a pi compute module or some similar SBC. Things needed to convert a laptop would be 3d printed mounting brackets for I/O ports, which I've decided is best since you only print the ones you need locally for cheap, a few standard 18650 cells, the main PCB itself and a compute module. One thing that makes me not want to do this at all though is the horrible screens on many older laptops, but then again I go on ebay and see a lot of laptops that have an OK screen but slow-ish CPU with very little battery life.

[@DecibelAlex]

not a bad idea

[@MESYETI]

4:12 laptops like this are the kind of ones ive been wanting (an old laptop with a floppy drive)

[@MrBloodsucker27]

thanks for sharing the details of the hack. working perfectly fine with me

[@da1otta]

I used to have just such a Schneider (Amstrad) CPC 6128. It was my second computer as my first one was a 48K Speccy. I like the way you use a painted Crocodile Dundee knife like Dave does only more colourful :)

[@siahretire630]

Watching your videos why I love older laptops

[@tantaf123]

We have been blessed with another amazing tech video from the man himself. I am a huge fan of your channel Psivewri. (I wouldn’t have known that eucalyptus oil existed without this) 😅😅

[@tantaf123]

no, scam

[@Shadow__X]

My dad had an amstrad CPC when he was a child, this is my first time seeing one

[@nikolaszisoudis8408]

5:43 i have one of these. It survived my dad's car accident. Both my dad and the laptop holding up to date

[@Sb129]

Nice finds to be sure, especially that one with it's dock, can't believe it is just thrown away.

[@Trusteft]

The CPC 6128 has a 3" drive, not 3.5. One of the first computers I used for programming back in the 80s. Loved it even though I never owned one. You are going to need the pairing monitor for it as it gets its power from that.

[@arandomcat8346]

5:31 i have a acer nitro 5 from 2018 that has that same sticker, so that acer isn’t that old

[@dannkettle4106]

I used one of those silver Toshiba laptops during college. It was completely underwhelming, slow, hot and dim. Felt way slower than a 2.4 Ghz should have been, even with Ubuntu 6.10 on it.

[@ifgstop5630]

With Windows XP most of the time when it's password locked you can hit F8 at startup and go into safe mode go into the administrator and delete the password most people don't think to put a password on the administrator account in safe mode. So therefore you kind of don't have to install Windows in a way, as when you get into the operating system after removing the password you can open up command prompts and simply put in command codes that could completely reinstall Windows as a clean installment. Those functions were only access through command prompts but now they're more accessible in newer operating systems.

[@dezhocob]

5:48 "Hey, no looking!" LOL

[@RedstoneMiner18]

I wish i could get some old laptops.... it would be cool to work with them, but we dont have such e-waste businesses where i live... :/

[@jakewynn]

I presume you made the background music yourswlf. I really like it!

[@slavboii420]

Oh boy do I love these videos. They are so refreshing yet familiar everytime! Looking forward for the future videos! I hope you have a great day and thanks for this vid :)

[@AA-dq7fl]

hey psivewri i like your videos very much so i decided to buy your membership and now i am a new member of your channel

[@megatronskneecap]

Why does this guy give me an Australian vibe of Luke from LTT

[@psivewri]

I'll take that as a compliment ;)

[@megatronskneecap]

@@psivewri Do! I think you're a pretty chill guy. No issues here.

[@berkant_k]

I love the ThinkPad R31!! I've once put a bluray drive in one

[@aiel23]

the design on those thinkpad are timeless.

[@blaknift]

The t3200sx has a native VGA output on the back, but the bios is very picky about 2 model numbers of Connor hard disks. Could be a ide card with a serial controller on board, machine has 2 Isa slots

[@LouisianaBurns]

I love this show called “Another Video”!

[@paulb4uk]

Some great machines the amstrad cpc uses a belt for the disc drive and will most likely need replacing be careful as their is a metal pin that can fall out .

[@leontechtalks]

I have a Toshiba Satellite C75D-A7370 that I’ve used since 2013, and all I’ve had to do is upgrade it to an SSD. It’s got a Radeon HD 8400, so it works perfectly fine with most games I play. And… it can play BeamNG… It originally ran Windows 8.1, but it was downgraded to windows 7 by me. Then I decided to upgrade it to 10, then 11. It’s been through quite a lot. It’s a quite larger laptop, and weighs a lot. It’s got a 17.3 inch screen. It was my first computer to, and it’s obviously been a good one.

[@ray.upside-down]

Congrats now you have content for the whole year

[@garyreardon11]

Great video as always. And I think those laptops would make great linux projects.

[@tedarmavan]

Some IBM/lenovo ThinkPad is great notebook for linux, VAIO and acer as well, not so sure about hp compaq

[@iuliupaltinean6072]

Please start the restoration series with that Sony Vayo😍🥰

[@LogicFreedom]

The Toshiba T3200 would make a really cool sleeper/lan build.

[@TheChipmunk2008]

Those amstrad 6128s sometimes use a proprietary 3 inch drive

[@asanaya94]

SAVE THEM ALL!!! They are all very cool!! The Evo is definitely a trooper!!

[@Borrovnicca]

a lot of content, i cant wait !!!

[@neoprint]

Hey mate, couple of things: The Amstrad is a 3" disk drive, not a 3.5". Secondly, the T3200SX unfortunately is only usable for parts. The screens are basically unobtainium (gas plasma, it's not an LCD) and the hard drives are whitelisted in the BIOS and it won't POST with anything other than a Connor hard drive. I believe there is a custom BIOS that'll let you use other disks but mine still works perfectly so I've not needed to do so.

[@RRareGaming]

:(

[@911delorean]

5:40 I really love this generation of HP laptops.

[@cmiksche]

These IBM Thinkpad's are the equivalent to Nokia phones. My dad worked at a IBM subsidiary and his Thinkpad's from the early 2000s still work without any issues.

[@MTN1601]

I have 2 thinkpads which is trashed and I picked it up for free, t43 and t60, the t43 is high-end and t60 is low-end but the t43 has broken screen and missing hdd while the t60 has faulty inverter and hdd included but then dead after

[@TheBasementChannel]

That ibook is in great shape.

[@EzwanRohman]

That Starcraft CD itself is a gem of its own !

[@Beholderost]

that was really one good and real australian knife, Mike Dundee would be proud

[@shravankashyap9437]

I have a similar Sony viao and only installing a ssd i am able to use it pretty well for most of my basic tasks

[@famousfighter2310]

Cant wait for more videos on these laptops

[@nextaire]

The Compaq at 8:06 looks like it has been used by HowToBasic. Actually the HP Compaq nx6120 was featured on a HowToBasic video!

[@dionelr]

Woah. I still have an IBM Thinkpad R52 in a box somewhere. Great machines back in the day.

[@DxDeksor]

I don't think that's a CGA video card in the old toshba, that FCC mention and the "16/4" is to me a sign that it is a token ring network card of some sort

[@Omegaclover]

i love think pads i used to have one and it lasted around 5 years befor the motherbored gave up

[@galah_pie]

babe wake up there's a new Psivewri video

[@LinuxinaBit]

7:28 It might have disk encryption or a locked bios?

[@thefattmish]

Great vid my man

[@namataken]

can't wait for upcoming videos!!!

[@Caapslocks]

I’m happy those laptops got saved instead of just rotting and recycled.

[@danatmonst3594]

Does the victorian site have a website, for those of use in australia to browse?

[@dextermaneclang5294]

Excited to see the Acer and Sony Vaio get restored. 😇😇

[@Kohreku]

That Toshiba 8000 is incredibly nostalgic to me, being a slightly older equivalent to the shitbox I used in primary school for a few years. If the Toshibas are too bland for collectors, I'd happily take one. That personality-free grey plastic and offbrand green TrackPoint hit me harder than hearing music I listened to daily in that time.

[@lbsiuk]

Damn, same. We had Satellite Pro L450s in primary school, and indeed they were dog slow. But nostalgic.

[@Kohreku]

I had a Tecra with Windows 2000 at a time (2006-2009) where my school had G3 iMacs and some Dell Optiplexes, and absolutely no idea how I wound up with something so outdated as my thing to do schoolwork on to bypass my horrible handwriting. Learned to use emulators due to not being able to run much more on it.