Viruses on the IBM 5155 Portable Personal Computer

Not much to say about this one. Seems like Ping Pong, Techno, and Cascade are my go to guys everytime I get a "new" vintage computer and need to test it out. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[@Ukiby3000]

OK that drain virus is the cutest thing

[@Brandonator365]

It's not actually a virus, just a funny little prank tool.

[@zimtheailen1919]

It makes a good joke program

[@DylanFarstveet]

​@@zimtheailen1919 yeah

[@theterdbomb]

I love these older viruses that actually had some thought in them, not just; "Oh look a hard drive! WIPE WIPE WIPE!"

[@A432Hz]

More like, “oh look credit card information! Steal steal steal!”

[@Kardor]

COME ON SWEEP SWEEP SWEEP! IT'S SWEEPING TIME!

[@SurmenianSoldier]

@@Kardor no

[@52.yusrilihsanadinatanegar79]

Oh! An instruction! Let's play games!

[@林虤]

@@KardorDetention for you. VEN VIL U LERN?

[@Cactusman129]

windows/osx viruses: we took your personal information and formatted your entire hard drive enjoy paying for some yacht for a dude in botswana loser dos viruses: hears some neat graphical effects and some cool little digital ants

[@honeyblaze6177]

what's an osx virus

[@Cactusman129]

Honeyblaze osx is a blanket term for mac operating systems

[@honeyblaze6177]

I was joking about there being very little harmful viruses on OS X/macOS.

[@honeyblaze6177]

I was joking about there being very little harmful viruses on OS X/macOS.

[@honeyblaze6177]

I was joking about there being very little viruses for OS X and macOS.

[@therealhardrock]

Apparently the "drain" program was a joke that someone pulled on some office auditors when a window had been left open and rain got inside.

[@tl1882]

@Vineshroom everything before 6:26 were not viruses

[@xander2698]

Source please?

[@therealhardrock]

@@xander2698 KZbin censors and removes my comments that have links in them.

[@therealhardrock]

@@xander2698 It's under the "Computer Stupidities" on Rinkworks.

[@xander2698]

@@therealhardrock thanks

[@HeyLaserLips]

That Drain virus made the best use of an internal speaker I've ever heard. It almost sounded as good as a SID chip. xD

[@danooct1]

I've played cello for ten years, piano for five, and written 8-bit music for 4. "p8ms01bbb8bbb8bbo2" is not any musical notation I've ever seen.

[@sufficientframe]

Sounds like music coding to me.

[@OGuiBlindao]

Its probably basic programming lagnuage music

[@B0wser998]

Viruses back then: Cool effects, jokes, screen manipulation Viruses today: ARRGH GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY TO GET YOUR FILES BACK

[@AuriosCPU]

That is why i had my own collection in the past, just for fun ^^ I had a box dedicated to that lol

[@brdane]

We just witnessed two viruses duel each other. Cascade vs. Techno... Techno merges victorious!

[@irunasoft]

noooo technooo you can doo itttt noOoOo Cascade don't lose!!!

[@BlackScreenProductions125]

The virus foretold the tale of the pig. A being who emerges victorious in even the toughest battles.

[@VrantusOfficial]

@@irunasoft cascade lost. (it was too annoying)

[@leebrandon8495]

YOU IN BIG TROUBLE NOW, BOY.

[@neobree]

And then it was a girl

[@TorinnDerg]

you fucked

[@maustank5224]

FBI OPEN UP

[@EssneceGFX]

Who else could just sit here and listen to him typing and talking for like an hour or so? There's just something about the way the keyboard clicks that makes me feel nostalgia or something. ^-^

[@AndrosynthNuclear]

IBM Model M spring loaded keyboard.

[@CaroFDoom]

***** The joy of spring loaded keyboards... Makes me want to force Razor to make them.

[@blendmaster3456]

Car Of Doom But then they would turn it to crap, somehow

[@CaroFDoom]

ASSympt0te Probably lights that ruin the sound.

[@blendmaster3456]

Car Of Doom or something like chinese sweatshop spring switches that rust up in a week

[@DementedAbsolution]

... I kinda like these viruses because they're not your typical 'wipe everything' type. Like these are creative and fun to look at, maybe a lil bit scary to experience because you're gonna get surprised and worry about what is going on with your computer. Though I don't know, haha

[@12v]

whoa what the heck you're pretty-boy-luxx right? makes sense because I saw gifs of this (on tumblr) linking to it.

[@DementedAbsolution]

Omg I didn't know this got posted here, anyways, yeah it's me. Well I saw the melting virus on tumblr and that got me into this stuff haha. I love this channel, this guy has cool virus videos hehe.

[@12v]

Wow! Small internet. I always love running into somebody I know from somewhere else online. Yeah these vids are rad. This is "spamfolder"

[@DementedAbsolution]

Omg! I didn't know it was you haha! This is so cool, like this acc is so different that it camouflages as a random ordinary user on a sea of yt comments but you manage to find it and somehow know that it's me, wow! Really small internet, and now I feel like we're more connected. From twitter, tumblr and now youtube. Really cool yeah :)

[@WCBROW01]

When you said it's spinning the disk I imagined a floppy disk spinning in the drive.

[@gwenynorisu6883]

It probably did?

[@adamsucksatyt]

It's a triangle sine freq. sweep

[@C-Midori]

This was funnier than it had to be

[@grapeyv]

@@gwenynorisu6883 floppy disks are square plates that are stuck into a computer like a usb, it can’t spin

[@gwenynorisu6883]

@@grapeyv... I assume you're trolling? There's a circular bit inside the square case, and that's what spins. Hence "disc" (or "disk", short for diskette, as they were smaller than the enormous hard drives already in use, and spelling that with a C caused confusion)

[@Brandonator365]

Techno attempts to fill up the screen and then it becomes a war between techno and cascade in which techno is stopped by cascade creating walls of text to attempt to prevent techno from destroying cascades beautiful creation of flames of text but then techno resumes in its deadly path annihilating all of the walls of Amber text protecting the beautiful flames at the bottom but then cascade kicks it up a notch by locking in techno between two walls of Amber flames of text that keeps techno stopped for quite a while until the one H remaining at the top of the screen refuses to fall causing a hole to appear in the wall so techno can escape and be free from this sandwich of Amber flames of text so then techno gets to the bottom of the screen and destroys the precious flames of text that were kept safe for quite a while by cascade, and then the text is taken over by techno which makes a massive techno box appear and then cascade gives up and goes away.

[@Stiathirs]

This. Is. Brilliant

[@blendmaster3456]

I love that amber display.

[@gwenynorisu6883]

It's curiously blurry though, isn't it... Generally you expect monochrome screens to be fairly sharp in the horizontal dimension (obvs you can't do much to improve CGA's 200-line vertical rez), because they don't have any dotmasks dividing the surface up into discrete pixels, but this one looks like it might be even less distinct than a typical colour screen. ...um... you _clod._

[@Zizumia]

I bet back when this computer came out, "comm" would have made the user shit themselves xD They're all like "I just got this technology! I don't want to go to prison over it!!"

[@purrfectpwd2541]

TSL (The Software Labs) had a disk in their catalog called "Just for Laughs". That's where I got drain, or something very similar, back in the '90s. There were several joke/prank programs on that disk, but it was all harmless as you say.

[@silentaswang9968]

5:23 - This amuses me for some reason.

[@fmxnn03]

Ahahahahahaha 😂

[@ZacharyBallBananaBoy]

+Silent Aswang Agreed

[@heckstersjr]

High-ho Silver. AWAY!

[@qp9534]

+Silent Aswang This put a big smile on my face when it started

[@adamsucksatyt]

8 - bit William Tell Oveture Finale

[@goofygoober4901]

i like that noise at 0:40

[@Person-fr5md]

Best sound byte ever.

[@SulfuronBGS]

Willy Wonka... "I am now telling the computer EXACTLY what to do"

[@vicr123]

...with a year's supply of chocolate :P

[@Scavenger2665]

so do i

[@dinkyeepy]

that sound is part of the virus there is no water in the drive anyways, if there was water in the drive the computer would not work and, IT WOULD DEFINITELY NOT KNOW THERE IS WATER INSIDE!

[@gamercode100]

The days when virus makers usually wanted to have fun and not hurt anybody.

[@Cascade-tf1ck]

The Comm virus was also a real DOS joke program called TheGag

[@FairPlay137]

The WILLTELL program was more than likely displaying the music data itself on-screen, and was _probably_ written in some form of BASIC? Though the DRAIN program is just genius. The CASCADE virus interfering with TECHNO is also great.

[@expresstech3416]

》Don't touch the keyboard《

[@inwencja2009]

I will. -.-

[@herotroll1]

lol

[@herotroll1]

jckosnow and smash your computer

[@inwencja2009]

no

[@inwencja2009]

k

[@TheSHJGaming]

I love how you still go on past the character limit. I admire your pertinence.

[@_gavimations]

I love the clickety clack of your keyboard!

[@JoeMariaa]

He uses a type of keyboard commonly known as a mechanical keyboard

[@Liam9787]

He uses an old IBM keyboard. That's just what they sounded like.

[@thegeforce6625]

IBM model F XT.

[@lafcursiax]

Oh, cool! My grandmother had one of these computers back in the '80s, and I remember running WILLTELL.EXE

[@danem2215]

Unlikely since it came out in April 1990

[@lafcursiax]

@@danem2215 Well, she still had it in the '90s, so that's probably what I'm remembering

[@Keanu2000X]

That moment when you realize this Computer inspired Fallout's terminals

[@_ben.]

Just realized

[@blasebermea3493]

it was actually the commodore pet models.

[@hamiltonporter9101]

How? This computer is very, very wide, unlike a terminal in Fallout

[@_ben.]

Hamilton Porter the text and the font etc.

[@fyrewyre_]

Actually, if any DOS computer was for FO4's terminals, it's the Compaq Portable. The text is green on the Portable.

[@l14873]

Every kid when opening the Birds program: MoM dO yOu WaNt To HeAr BiRdS cHiRpInG?

[@lmnk]

1:46 - Some old DELL laptops (such as Dell Latitude D600) actually have a "Key Click Sound" option in BIOS, which does exactly the same! I sorta miss this thing on my current computer, to be honest.

[@hyvahyva]

I love those drain.exe sounds :D

[@branislavakoncarevic5383]

"i like doing directory listings" Danooct1, June 2012

[@fabian999ification]

That's an awesome computer.

[@soski7200]

dos viruses: here’s a cool light show, but we’re still screwing up your computer. windows viruses: want to see hot babes? lolz no data for u until u pay me.

[@BlasterTheGuineapig]

*touches keyboard*

[@veryberrysaber]

Please do not touch the keyboard

[@Fyralism]

Danielle Labianca Touches keyboard

[@nightshademagia]

TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TE-Don't touch the keyboard. TECHNO TECHNO...

[@ilt255]

*touches keyboard again*

[@nightshademagia]

TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO Don't touch the keyboard. TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO

[@Traumaqueenamy]

Okay, that is neat! I got Wargame vibes in the first part. The cascading reminded me of rain. Also, love hearing tunes from vintage computers. All the beeps and bloops.

[@iyokan7979]

The drain sound sounds like someone took Insertion Sort and put it to sound

[@gwenynorisu6883]

There's actually a video somewhere on YT of someone comparing sort algorithms by converting their activity to musical notes. It's quite cool to listen to and hear how they go about sifting through the data, and actually getting the gist of it quicker and more easily than following the action visually.

[@StimpyThe1]

Kudos to whoever wrote the subtitles on this video, made me laugh quite a few times!

[@yet0another0account]

I wish all computer viruses were like this... they would appear outta nowhere, give you a quick laugh and then leave, without damaging the computer

[@SparklingVenom]

... As a person who WASN'T living when this was out, and this lead up to the amazingness we have today, then this woulda been a star-trek prop, and in the way that it's like that, i appreciate how computers have grown up. As a fact, i do enjoy booting up a virtual machine of MS-DOS and seeing what they had, and consodering it to what i have. Think about it. That computer (Or tablet) that you used to post the comment is a star-trek prop to the 70's.

[@THEtechknight]

the 5155 is notorious for having frozen bearings in the disk drive. You have to get a gear/hub puller, and pop the spindle hub off and either relubricate the roller bearings, or just replace them with new ones. They are sealed roller bearings.

[@JazzyHamster_ar]

"I like doing directory listings" - danooct1 Transcendental quote

[@alexriesenbeck]

I remember the Drain program!! Wow Dan! This is some cool vintage memories

[@cannon9009]

7:23 3rd virus from the last BUT MARIO, JOSHI'S COMPETING!

[@Zylstra555]

These are the funniest closed captions.

[@Mario9501_]

I don't know why but the amber CRT is just relaxing to me.

[@CC-iu6sx]

0:39 Am I the only one that died of laughter at this part?

[@clementpoon120]

the lines shown by the William tell overture program is actually the midi output.

[@Cascade-tf1ck]

The Drain virus is actually a real DOS joke program called SystemOK

[@izzyint]

Cascade1704 why

[@Firestorm2900]

I saw a variant of that drain program once, although it focused on the C: and looked a bit more fancy.

[@allenwalker50]

i like the horse racing sound at 6:00 >w

[@NALTOdeluxe]

Okay, I want that Comm virus. That legit feels like a legit movie scene. Or at least, I’d like to know how to code something like that myself

[@slipk0rvayne17]

aww i wish you could have showed off the "brain" dos virus. that was one of the first ever to be created. great video though keep it up man

[@fireinthesky4982]

Did you film this in a cave or something?

[@rebelfleettrooper9881]

The Batcave.

[@mihaelkYeah]

Cascade: DOS ASMR.

[@gedeseptian704]

TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TECH *don't touch the keyboard* TECHNO TECHNO °○

[@score6142]

5:24 my favourite childhood song

[@coolguy02536]

This is so soothing for some reason...

[@pelman]

dos virus payloads are always beautiful i swear to god especially drain

[@TeamSilvertail]

The sound this virus makes is just top notch. 👌

[@fragglet]

The drain program is a classic. It's not even a virus or anything harmful at all, just a silly joke program, but for some reason modern virus checkers STILL have it on the list of patterns they scan for.

[@khadijwahran882]

The thumbnail of the video looks like fire...

[@rachelrpl]

Love the amber screen.

[@zUltra3D]

The captions are so good

[@kaangaming9296]

Again, that viruses fucks up the Computers, Virtual Computers... *EVERYTHING...*

[@SlashCrashWallop]

I know these aren't fluently viruses but they're pretty darn cool.

[@smellthel]

Most of these aren’t even viruses. They are just cool.

[@wkwmenen]

If it was 5100 you would be able to travel in time

[@nooblangpoo]

Hououin Kyouma If danooct was the one using the computer and not Daru, Sern would've been just filled by viruses.

[@AdamantLightLP]

indefinity I knew I'd find comments like this XD

[@starinq]

The "Bugs" program is pretty neat, and I with I had known about it before

[@perrycave]

Me: "Hey can I use the aux cord?" Friend: "Yeah sure but don't play trash" Me: 10:16

[@smellthel]

Drain was freaking awesome

[@iMiseryExe]

I think I would do the Drain program all the time, I just find it so entertaining! XD

[@bekindtotheonesthatyoulove4894]

The Department of Defense one scared me a little, even though it was probably fake. I just don't want to know what would happen to your computer if you did manage to hack into there

[@Colorfusion1]

Loads of creative viruses covered in one video.

[@FennecTECH]

can i have a copy of that DRAIN file? i wanna have it in my collection well can i have all of those :O drain birds bugs and the DOD one and willtell i wanna have em on my computer

[@Neubulae]

They are HARMLESS so you want them, right?

[@FennecTECH]

yes :D i want them :D im also cocllecting virusses

[@Neubulae]

***** Harmless Virus will cause some "little" problem: Maybe your computer cannot run that because it's too "big" LOL :D

[@FennecTECH]

xD

[@FennecTECH]

im a linux user and i intend to make a virtual virus testing system

[@Angel-ho6fw]

how did you get ambulance and techno working? i got a copy (dont ask me) but they dont work

[@Angel-ho6fw]

never mind got them to work

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Looks like Williamtell’s lines it displays are either chords or Assembly code.

[@functionatthejunction]

Old School Hackers: Beat me at this shadow game and Ill restore your computer. Modern Hackers: ME INKRIPT FUILES GIBE ME MUNNY HUURRR DUURRHARD DRIVE GO BRRRR

[@danooct1]

then turn up the volume?

[@permanentlyabandoned]

danooct1 I scrolled down very far to find a comment by you

[@xskydevilx]

Brings back memories..

[@SonicTheJackrabbit]

DAT PC SPEAKER

[@skwiekiecraftnl3802]

That's one off the most creative viruses ever...but my favourite is still the Apple DOS virus :D

[@mrturkey23]

12345? That's amazing! That's the same combination I have on my luggage!

[@TinyFoxTom]

3:30 SILENT ALARM ACTIVATED! SILENT ALARM ACTIVATED!

[@Exponaut_R-01]

What would have been really funny is if techno finished filling the screen then the low health tone from Pokemon played

[@hyvahyva]

Techno actually sounds pretty badass here too

[@D3ADCHANNEL1116]

10 hr version of cascade? i think ill do one thats looped

[@SATOTEHDOOD]

A> ---SYSTEM ERROR--- Water detected in drive A Standbye while water is drained..... Spin dry cycle starting System OK now.... You may proceed.

[@gwenynorisu6883]

OK, I'm going to be *that guy:* these are all nice little display hacks and/or stress relievers/timewasters that a bored or frustrated office worker might occasionally run _by choice_ on their computer, much like the "eyes", "graffiti", "shoot the screen" or desktop pet utilities of GUI based machines, but... where are the *viruses?* All of these you had to deliberately load in by typing their name and most of them look like they were hacked together in GWBASIC over the course of half an hour. The William Tell one even prints the actual BASIC music command lines to the screen as it goes. Maybe you might even manually sneak one onto a coworker's machine by copying it to their system disc then putting a non-echoed load command into their Autoexec.bat (if their machine even _had_ one - the sudden running of which when it didn't have one before being a dead giveaway), but that would still be an entirely non-destructive joke or prank and not something that would happen automatically. Virii spread autonomously from disc to disc, either worming their way into a disc's bootsector (where they can cause havoc simply by just being there, though the trick is to replace it silently and without disrupting its core functionality even whilst injecting your own extra code), or attaching themselves to programs that you're deliberately running already. With no way to avoid running them without using a virus cleaner once they're resident in your computer's memory or on your main boot disc / attached to a program you run all the time. Usually with destructive side effects (intentional or accidental), or at least causing far more annoyance than amusement... e.g. the old Siren, Slow, Melt and Cookie Monster examples, which would variously play a loud police siren noise from the speaker at random, cause your system to gradually and inexorably slow down until it eventually halted completely, cause the image on-screen (more effective with graphic displays of course) to gradually distort and "drip" downwards, or occasionally and randomly halt everything with a pop up prompt demanding "give me a cookie" and not relinquishing control until you typed COOKIE ... and this is before we even get on to Michaelangelo, Worm, and all the original old school data-trashing viruses that didn't even do anything irritating but tolerable like that, but simply shat all over your floppies and hard drives and whatever happened to already be stored on them). Yes, it's pedantic, but, seriously, get the terminology right before anyone less experienced starts copying you. They're fun "toys", widgets, or even "pranks", but they're not viruses.

[@stephaniehutchens3222]

boy you must be fun at parties

[@RinsaVuIIer]

The Drain virus is very creative.

[@andresbravo2003]

Amber screen really looks impressive.

[@OrangeShellGaming]

Fun fact: That 'comm' is more commonly know as a BAS script known as 'The Gag', it seems your version has the last message changed to remove the credits. And there is no correct access code, no matter what you type it will always tell it's the wrong one. ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/dos/RbbsInABoxVol1No2_640/files/010Z/THEGAG.ZIP-contents/THEGAG.BAS This is the original source code as found on Google

[@bulldoggin12]

willtell.exe was actually my favourite.

[@DeenHoward]

>>Don't touch the keyboard

[@Brandonator365]

》Don't touch the keyboard《

[@Brandonator365]

Oh that's real nice.

[@shannonharvey8300]

Those viruses look funny, and fun lol.

[@Enigski]

That comm file has potential to be used in a kickass neo-80s movie, man.

[@stiggleywiggley8242]

idk why but techno sounds so GOOD on this computer's speakers

[@CatCraftYT]

Arrgghh I was trying to read the directories in the beginning thinking they were big text...

[@bekindtotheonesthatyoulove4894]

Same

[@perkele8012]

That Song At somewhere in The 5 Min Mark reminds me of The "Presidents Song" from Animaniacs.

[@Jmax4383]

0:39 Normal People: Weird noises People who watch color sorting videos: I recognize that noise

[@cambridgeport90]

Back when you could play a friendly prank on a friend or associate and you both would get a kick out of it. I'll bet authors of nondestructive malware back then weren't able to get in trouble. I sort of wish we could go back to the days when we were all nice to each other, and not trying to steal each others data for our own financial gain. Well ... the criminals are, anyway.

[@maximumrisk2004]

Okay, these programmers where geniuses. This would have been hillarious to see as a kid.

[@JasperFoxo]

im ngl the spider on your pfp got me lol