Car Boot Flea Market Retro Gaming PC Finds 17th November €20 It's Surprising What You Can Still Find

[@5pr1nk57]

Some good scores there Rich, especially the first AT machine. While nothing epic, I always love it when you find old AT beige boxes, it is after all how I first discovered your channel a couple of years back! 😃

[@davidhollfelder9940]

1st one: I built a few of these back in the Win95 days. Remember the Shuttle Spacewaker?

[@retropcscotland4645]

Hate to say it but I am with the others on this. The fastest Pentium mmx was indeed a 233mhz I own 2 of them one in a super socket 7 platform and the other inside an old IBM laptop running windows 98 second edition. They also made a Pentium II starting at 233mhz in the Slot 1 platform. It's a rare bird the 233mhz mmx socket 7 cpu almost as rare as the AMD k6-3 with L2 cache on die for socket 7. Did make me wonder what would have happened if they had continued making chips for socket 7 with L2 cache on chip.

[@tuxpheedo5665]

yup, i had one!

[@pauldery7875]

Nice car booty finds, but I'm curious. What would someone use these old machines for? Paul, USA!!!

[@g4z-kb7ct]

Retro DOS gaming. The reality is only someone with expendible income who had one as a kid would want it now. Any PC will run older DOS games. I use a Pentium 4 and there are no bottlenecks. Could even use a C2D or i3 or i5. Back in the day people only had low end machines because they didn't want to spend $$$$ on the latest so the experience was always poor, often with slowdowns. People often look at the past with rose-tinted glasses but it actually wasn't that great as far as PC computing power goes. Better to build a more powerful retro PC and then it can run all the retro DOS games at full speed without slowdowns.

[@wernervanniekerk7579]

you did get socket 7 pentium 233 with mmx extensions. (sounds nitpicky..sorry)...Also, thats win98 with active desktop if I'm not mistaken. Was kinda cool.

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

Not when I had my 200MMX you didn't 🙂

[@truthreigns7]

wow win 98, that is cool

[@TheFurrry]

I remember selling those Merc cases, there was a BMW one aswell, had to show tis to a friend who didnt believe me that cases were so tacky back then lol

[@EdsonJrAudioLivro]

Aquele like maneiro e mais um inscrito.

[@romancharak3675]

That Mercedes in NOT street legal with a missing L headlamp !

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

In Gran Canaria that would pass the MOT (ITV test) lol 😅

[@1pcfred]

233 MHz was the fastest MMX CPU. 200 MHz was a step down.

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

No it wasn't when i had my 200MMX the 233 did not exist at that time, otherwise i would have asked for one

[@1pcfred]

@@LearnElectronicsRepair I have a 233 MMX here. Intel lists it on their website too. It cost $594 and the 200 was $200. Which was why a lot didn't opt for it. In 1997 when it came out that was a lot of money. That'd still be a lot of money for a CPU today. Adjusted for inflation that'd be $1,168.25 today.

[@g4z-kb7ct]

5:50 That's the earlier MMX Pentium, it's an older larger chip. I have two here with a built in fan and they are both Pentium 233 MMX and they also made a 266 MMX. 200 is NOT the fastest one.....

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

So many people said this. When I had my 200MMX it *was* the fastest avialable

[@g4z-kb7ct]

@@LearnElectronicsRepair I suppose if you got yours very early just after release sure, but since so many other people said it, they must all be correct hehe! Anyway, when you say something is the fastest you should clarify 'AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE', since it's clearly not the fastest one ever made ;-)

[@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

Heya, 1 more great carbooty

[@johnmay4803]

233mhz was the fastest mmx pal

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

When I had my 200MMX it was the fastest available... that fact is correct. 😉

[@johnmay4803]

@@LearnElectronicsRepair later on they even made a 266mhz pal but only on industrile single board computers. ive always wanted 1 but there exspensive mate sadly

[@bubbafrump74]

Yoh telling me that old craps got some value??? I have a bunch of it!

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

It is very collectable. What do you have, let is all know

[@bubbafrump74]

@LearnElectronicsRepair well, for starters, I have one identical to the one you did first in this video. I'll have to take a look. Is there a way I could just send you some pictures? I started building my own computers in the early 90s and I stillhave everything I ever had and then some. I just couldn't throw it away. I'm not built like that! 😄 I don't need any of it. Just hate being wasteful!

[@winlose3073]

Ok but who buys these things anymore and why? can anyone tell me please?!

[@1pcfred]

Retro collectors. People that want to relive an older simpler time with PCs. Sometimes people need old hardware to support certain custom proprietary software too. It is cheaper to buy the hardware than it is to have the software rewritten. Some old industrial machinery may require old hardware to function too. Again it'd be tied up with obsolete software that wouldn't run on newer hardware.

[@yumits007]

Put gloves maaan 🤮🤮

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

Why? Gloves are a reletively modern invention, mankind survived a long time before thay were invented and come the apolcalypse I'll be doing stuff while you are worried 🤣 about gettng your hands dirty. Wht is the species coming to?

[@Merchb0yy]

hey there, do you have a valid discord link? This one doesnt seem to work for me

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

The link on this video works for me