Restoring an IBM PC XT-286 from 1986

Cleaning, upgrading, and overall reinvigorating a vintage IBM computer system from 1986! The Model 5162 here is a bit of an uncommon beast at this point, combining the classic case design of the XT with the 286 internals of an IBM AT. Let's fix it!
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[@LGR]

To answer questions about the Hardcard: as expected, it doesn't work. t.co/GK2oUEfzQJ Every single one of them I've come across are in need of various internal repairs. Hopefully I'll get around to fixing mine up someday, but it'll be a time-consuming and fiddly process that I'm not exactly rushing to get involved in, haha.

[@crumpets2123]

Would love to see more on the Hardcard, have never heard of these, keep up the great work.

[@amberselectronics]

I've had a couple that were jammed. I decided to open one of them and see if I could work the bearing loose. I set up a clean booth with filtration, got the cover off, and dropped my screwdriver straight onto the platter. But hey the drive spun afterward.

[@DanielleWhite]

I never knew the name but I dealt with some of the the generic competitor products in college. We had a lab of CompuAdd 286s with them. When I was there they were developing dead spots on the actuator motor and would get stuck if powered off in the wrong spot. While opening the case and moving the end of the shaft was the better temporary solution, we soon discovered a faster one which was probably not the best solution: raise the front edge of the system up about an inch and drop it, which would jostle it just enough to work.

[@ajrhodes3262]

That's actually kind of sad

[@trex70]

Plz scan the Barcode on the backside

[@veraxis9961]

Clint, Some notes about the machine (the rusty one with the leaked battery): This machine belonged to my father, who worked for a law firm in New York. This would be the reason for the disclaimer notice on startup. It was not his personal machine at work-- according to him, computers for every employee was not the practice yet, and he says the machine was most likely used for word processing. As for what the hardcard was originally connected to, he does not know. Later, in about 1991, the firm sold off the machines to the lawyers for use as personal computers, and my father bought his for practice using computers as well as the installation of Word Perfect which came installed on the machine. This was his first personal computer at home. He says that he remembers installing the modem card himself, and using it for some early internet functions like Compuserve and possibly Prodigy. Also, I am bummed that you were unable to try it with the original amber display that came with it. I had hoped to see that, but regardless, my father and I were very pleased to see you were able to boot up the old hard drive. I did try powering up the motherboard once myself, and I did not see any explosions from the tantalums, but if I remember correctly, I think some of the power supply rail voltages may have been reading incorrectly, so I would assess the power supply to be sure. Thanks!

[@Norweeg]

This comment needs to be higher up! Thanks for sharing!

[@DarkWiNKenzo]

that is awesome to actually now know from where the PC came from, i hope you are happy at the fact that this machine got to the right hands, because i am sure that this PC would not be used no longer if someone else had it.

[@ScoopDogg]

thanks for the update and great your Dads still with us. I lost my dad early in 1982 often wish he could see the power today's computers are at

[@ScoopDogg]

@@Norweeg agree : )

[@The_Goose2]

Small world.

[@beware_the_moose]

We should take a moment to appreciate how those rear IO plates haven't changed in design at all since 1986.

[@RiderLeangle2]

Truly a case of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

[@aidancommenting]

Sadly, the same can't be said for Apple

[@draxoronxztgs1212]

Those was I/O's has bin a standard since even on the IBM 5150 from 1981, so for almost after 40 years (if not already) theres no other change than the socket type for the bus and the tech on the card.

[@034G63EVO]

@@draxoronxztgs1212 This makes me feel old. I was born in 81.... lol My first PC was a 286 16mhz when i was a kid, man how time flys!

[@nickwallette6201]

Not for lack of trying. IBM wasn't NEARLY as concerned with keeping things standard as they get credit for. If they had their way, we would've been migrating to MCA around the time this machine was in use, and no doubt would've moved on to three or four other form factors thereafter. In addition to not being overly sentimental about breaking existing standards, IBM also didn't have a real great sense of planning for forward compatibility. The PC's backwards compatibility over the years has been a product of LOTS of hacks (mostly credited to Intel, Phoenix, AMI, Award ... e.g., the A20 gate, virtual x86 mode, transitioning from real to protected mode, and the ever-growing library of BIOS extensions) plus the incredible force of momentum from all the other major and minor players in the market all benefiting from a known quantity to build off of.

[@carslayer]

Hello Clint, I have pretty crappy hearing and so usually watch KZbin with subtitles. I really appreciate all the work you put into captioning your videos, rather than relying on auto-generated ones. The in-jokes (excited chirping, clumsy fiddling, cautious laughter) are a wonderful touch.

[@archygrey9093]

I've just got really crappy laptop speakers lol, any kind of background noise drowns them out. Although working as a baggage handler at an airport for 3 years certainly did no favours for my hearing especially with the crappy $5 hardware store earmuffs they would give us.

[@carslayer]

@@archygrey9093 Haha no way. I'm an aircraft mechanic and that certainly didn't help my earing either

[@Oquadrinheiro]

In my case, I'm Brazilian and I don't understand someone speaking English, but I understand the subtitles

[@_MrX82_]

Totally agree. The quality of these subtitles is very appreciated.

[@awesomeguysuncle]

Adds personality to the video too sometimes

[@InZane94]

Anyone else find old pc noises and old hard disk noises to be highly satisfying?

[@alexsilva28]

Every person that watches LGR does

[@VideoAmericanStyle]

Like just nearly anything following “Anyone else...”, yes, there are many many people who also find them satisfying.

[@glenrea]

Had an Amstrad 1512 and 2 Zenith Data Systems running ST225 and ST238R drives back in the day. That chirping brings back memories.

[@jakemueller7976]

Idk kinda I grew up with Vista and,7

[@luminumlx2604]

i use them to fall asleep, my old 20gb seagate drive failed many years ago and when i go to sleep i plug it in on my bedside lol

[@mikedelyea8336]

I love the sound of that startup. It seems to say "Hang on to your hat, the engines are reaching FULL POWER"!

[@steinbauge4591]

like the takeoff of a propeller driven plane..

[@kennethwelchis4011isbackagain]

I remembered when I heard that startup sound when I was in 1st/2nd grade.

[@Pyjamarama11]

like the ABC Warrior booting-up in Judge Dredd

[@fortherecord1569]

When those two PC's started booting up... I felt like I should hold on to something.

[@bransonstevens5914]

Gotta love ancient PCs that sound like jet engines ready for takeoff xD

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

I'll give you something to hold on to

[@StCerberusEngel]

Hold on to your butts.

[@joonasfi]

@@StCerberusEngel it's a Unix system - I know this!

[@hztm]

Take your protein pills, and your helmet on !

[@IanThatMetalBassist]

I caught that Technology Connections reference at 9:07

[@Fazer_600]

An Excellent Reference - Chef Excellence.

[@MyBlogsTV]

Spaced Invader ayy ashens reference

[@poble]

that brown video was so mindblowing lol

[@TheLeggedOne]

I thought it was an RCR reference

[@TorutheRedFox]

ah yes references

[@donbot5000]

LGR: Starts bashing the battery compartment with the screwdriver. ME: HELL YEAH NOW WE'RE RESTORING!

[@bransonstevens5914]

Percussive Maintenence :)

[@CadillacHobo]

Just a little tappy, tap, tap.

[@rickyrigatoni]

Reconstruction must be preceded by destruction.

[@Jessica-el5yx]

As someone who lives in England, believe me when I say that's the only way to get anything to work in this country.

[@sventobergte845]

@@CadillacHobo This Confuser needs a little tappy tap tap, because all the angry pixies flown out of the Batarieas - AvE

[@timtaylor8305]

My wife is deaf and I watch these with her sometimes, your captions {computer loudly whirls to life} is great!

[@I_am_Allan]

Everyone else: "Gotta wash my dishes in the sink." LGR: "Gotta wash my IBM in the sink, with slow sensual music."

[@DamnedSilly]

The Noir sound track goes with the tobacco residue on the one cover.

[@mctv6486]

i wonder what would happen if you call microsoft tech support about windows 3.1

[@mctv6486]

@Jeffery Amherst im 14 aint got no phone

[@__Mr.White__]

Anybody knows the song at 19:30?

[@aidancommenting]

@@mctv6486 Everyone I know has a phone, but I can understand your point because I actually got a BlackBerry like two years ago, and finally upgraded to an LG. Half my family still uses flip phones.

[@onirtnec183]

Wow. From my birth year. My dad worked at IBM Germany at this time (30 years in all). Bringing home 'old' Computers from there. Sadly he died 5 month ago

[@alphenllc]

I'm sorry.

[@Underwatches]

well, be thankful he did what he could to make you happy!

[@onirtnec183]

@@Underwatches he fully Suceeded ✌💘

[@devent10n]

I'm sorry for your loss. My dad died 13 years ago, & I miss him every day. Much love your way.

[@rugxulo]

Much respect to him for all of his good work. 👍👍

[@Marsc9013]

It warms my heart to see somebody giving a shit And taking care of older hardware

[@wohlhabendermanager]

Yes. So much hardware just got thrown out and left to rot, it always makes me sad.

[@blackterminal]

​@@wohlhabendermanagerso many crt monitors were dumped. Rush to new technology then later people miss what they remember. Human nature.

[@RetroSpector78]

Love how everyone who has them keeps saying how rare they are, and then casually shows 2 of them :) Lovely machines, but prefer the look and feel of the AT. But always great to see an old IBM restoration process !

[@GuybrushThriftweed]

Says the one with also 2 :p

[@eddiehimself]

Check out this lad's channel if you're into old PC restoration videos btw.

[@PilkScientist]

yeah, but every time that happens and they restore it, there's one less now

[@LGR]

Hey, thanks for watching @RetroSpector78! Your own 5162 videos were an inspiration to finally tackle this project.

[@RetroSpector78]

LGR I am humbled sir .... glad you got it up and running. Nice machines. I have a garage full of these types of projects that I want to finish up one of these days. Like you said in the video, it sometimes takes a lot of time to get these things done, but through the magic of editing it always seems like this was just a quick 20 minute project ;)

[@bitwize]

Oh, man. Hearing that CRT ring when he powers up the monitor... it's like wince-stalgia.

[@UNSCPILOT]

as a kid who grew up threw the early 2000s, I am starting to miss the sounds of CRT I wonder if I can find a functioning one somewhere in my area, even a small one would work...

[@blackterminal]

​@UNSCPILOT Get one. Nothing like having at least one near you.

[@DenSporetrix]

"Hey Alexa, i've decided to that your name is now Flerpelnerp" Flerpelnerp: D:

[@tomypower4898]

Sporetrix disk failure in the old pc version

[@derpsakry4464]

its one way to stop viewers alexas go off

[@glaucorocha1281]

not sure, but this may well be an old english word for some weird middle-age concept.

[@carrollmontgomery]

"A lot of these are made by Kraft". They missed a huge opportunity by not manufacturing the Mac n' Cheese PC.

[@DavidWonn]

Kraft also missed an opportunity later in the mid 1990s with the Macarena. Then again, that might’ve extended the lifespan of that particular song, so perhaps it was for the better that they didn’t.

[@ThePilgrums]

Yeah, Project Blue Box got scrapped. A real shame...

[@richkawaiipikachu]

@@DavidWonn There was a sceensaver called "Macaroni" where a hole bunch of animated macaroni dancing to the tune of Macarena.

[@DavidWonn]

richkawaiipikachu I was unaware this existed. I suspect its popularity peaked around the time of the song ('96?)

[@summerlaverdure]

the Macintosh n' Cheese

[@RetroRynn]

"Hey newer computer, can you tell me the time and date so I can tell it to this older computer?" Flerpelnerp: "yes"

[@erik365365365]

Ryan is that an amazon echo he is using or is the a google nest?

[@BaneMcDeath]

I was like ????? I want to know what that is as well. Did he say 'hey affordable nerp?"

[@jnbsp3512]

Not affordable nerp, Flerblenerp

[@harakiwi]

What's my purpose? Tell me the time!

[@macrophage6311]

Subtitles: [Classy Computer repair music]

[@retropuffer2986]

needs this: [sound of fingers sexily caressing vintage computer hardware]

[@cinnerthecinnamonroll5578]

This Genre exists?

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

Love Caption Eastereggs on videos. Watched a video where it was english but Australian related and had the aussie lingo as an option lol

[@ferhound]

Wtf with the subtitles!

[@jeyendeoso]

[nervous chuckles] [chill reassembly beats] [windows utopia startup sounds] these captions today are golden. i dont know why my were on, but im glad they were.

[@smbcollector]

I don't even have a particular interest in computers, but I find a lot of your content satisfying, especially this one.

[@padawanmage71]

"What day is it? I honestly didn't know.." You and the rest of us, Clint.." =P

[@desther7975]

I woke up thinking it was Saturday already. Good thing I work at home!

[@Tinker001]

@@desther7975 Doesn't EVERYBODY these days?

[@aidancommenting]

Technically, it's already Saturday.

[@glossymouse7712]

Scott Miller No. A ton of people are “essential workers” and cannot work from home. For example what if you work at a store, how will you work from home?

[@teemofie]

When I was 10/11 I came home from school to find my dad sat in the living room surrounded by these machines. Not a one of them worked! He gave up and gave me a screwdriver and let me have at it. It took me a week of guesswork, stripping and swapping parts before I finally had 2 working machines! And I joined the PC master race and left my poor old Amiga to rot.

[@aaabatteries9948]

when you were 10 u fixed computers? Get out of here you were probably still eating your own boogers.

[@teemofie]

AAA Batteries When I was 6/7 I was programming in basic writing basic loops (and I tiny bit of assembler on 8 bit machines in the UK) I wouldn’t call what I did a “fix” I just swapped parts back and forth until I managed to get 2 working! It was rare for my father to let me loose with a screwdriver as I’d gotten an original game boy for Xmas a year or so before and took it apart on Boxing Day! 😂 So I was banned from screwdrivers! In the UK in the 80s computer literacy program was HUGE we got taught basic in Junior school (from 5-11 years old).

[@teemofie]

AAA Batteries And just for the record, nothing says you can’t fix a computer and eat boogers... they even make a good mini stressball when installing dos for the 28th time because I’d messed up my autoexec without backing it up and didn’t know how to fix it! Hahahahaha

[@marciomaiajr]

@@aaabatteries9948 Back in the 80's it was common for kids to learn programming early on. When I was 8 I took Basic classes and I cant forget it because the teacher asked us to draw a swastika using the Basic line draw commands. Lol...

[@SpearM3064]

@@aaabatteries9948 That was not as uncommon as you think. I was programming in assembly language when I was 10.

[@itaybron]

One of these days were going to witness Clint restore a mainframe

[@jayhill2193]

and have them print out "farts" on punch cards

[@NostraDavid2]

@@jayhill2193 I can already hear him giggle.

[@nickwallette6201]

Probably AkB.. Tech Tangents first. :-)

[@colombianguy8194]

Do you already checked courious marc channel?, if not, he and his GENIUS friends restore an IBM 1401, a Xerox Alto, and the Apollo guidance computer.

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

THAT'S THE SOUND!!!! I've been looking for a video of a HDD that sounds like that for AGES! That's exactly what my XT sounded like, I DEEPLY regret selling it.

[@ThommyofThenn]

that lgr finger point greetings is just so cozy

[@RetroSpector78]

Is it just me or is it simply amazing how this 35+ year old tech just switches on and continues to just chug along. Besides the odd tantalum cap exploding or hard drive failing, most of these old IBMs simply work after setting them up again. Even with these old MFM hard drives I’ve had a decent success rate. Great pieces of engineering.

[@thomasneal9291]

MFM drives were like tanks. I could often get ones that were ten years old going again no problem.

[@redmage777]

Computers in general don't wear out from age so much as they become obsolete. The Hardware of most computers if will continue to work so long it isn't subject to unreasonable abuse. Software may need to be reinstalled and unfortunately some of the media it is recorded on does degrade...

[@zdanee]

Sectors are so big on those you can drill a hole in the platter and tell the head to just go around and all you loose is 1 bit of data.

[@zdanee]

@@redmage777 That's mostly true to old equipement that doesn't require cooling, since the most usual failing point is the solder, and when something heats up to 90C then back down to 20 several times a day for years and years, that will kill the joints after a time. So your new shiny Macbook Pro will be in the garbage in a decade tops, while these machines will still work just fine.

[@RetroSpector78]

@@redmage777 There were some periods like the early nineties (first gen leaky electrolytic SMD caps) and late nineties (bad quality / cheap leaking / bulging electrolytic caps) that gave PC manufacturing a bad rap.

[@gentuxable]

LGR turns on two IBMs Whole city: Did the light just got dimmer or is it me?

[@rwdplz1]

My IBM 5150 actually will not run on GFCI circuits

[@jackkraken3888]

Where we're going we don't care about TDP.

[@awilliams1701]

can't be any more power than my 2014 volt takes.

[@KiraSlith]

Amusingly, at the chip level old computers actually run more efficiently power-wise than the average desktop i5. It's just the awful power factor and efficiency of the power supplies that pumps up the power draw.

[@JohnDavidDunlap]

Ironically, they use less power than modern PC's

[@xxoanna603]

I'd love to hear more about those Hard Cards and (hopefully) see one in action in a future LGR Video or Blurb!

[@TheLegoPerson]

Me too!

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

*BLURB* *MAUUUUUUUU*

[@benh.635]

Would be fun to try sticking an SSD in one of those Hard Cards. Not really anything practical, but would certainly be fun if possible! :3

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

@@benh.635 right!

[@benh.635]

@@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo In a way the Hard Card does live on with the ISA cards that can hold CF cards and such

[@bw4593]

I really kind of miss that old chunky power supply switch. Something so satisfying about flipping those switches and hearing the humm and clicks and beeps of these old PCs coming to life ❤

[@johnpriceuk]

IBM build quality in the 80s was just something else, talk about 'over-engineered' !!

[@UNSCPILOT]

Honestly I crave some over engineering in modern gear, so many things feel flimsy or underwhelming to hold, or break themselves internally due to shooty parts that die from normal usage

[@donk2c]

LGR: does literally everything That one panel: *bro I’m outta here*

[@carnivorebear6582]

That will be fixed with a good tug and the adhesive that follows

[@Walczyk]

huh that panel was fine by the end?

[@ctwilli0950]

Gen Z memers, no one will understand...

[@TheLegoPerson]

Wahoo! I love watching these classic computers get the love they deserve, restoration videos are always welcome!

[@konstantingrujevski7358]

Yea!

[@zanite8650]

I really like when he replaces the older parts with shiny new ones. E.g. the screws for the floppy disk drive.

[@TheLegoPerson]

@@zanite8650 me too! It's very satisfying

[@taya86334]

I love it when the panel keeps falling down

[@SpearM3064]

It looks like someone had merely hot-glued it, and over time the glue dried up and wouldn't hold the panel in place.

[@tomypower4898]

Edward Cai oh yees! is diet

[@hotlavatube]

I'm reminded of when my dad powered up an old full-height scsi hard drive he was testing. It sounded like a prop plane starting up. Womp womp womp womp womp whirr whirr whirrr...

[@nikebafe]

Really brings up the memories.. my first computer but with monochrome screen.. Mother bought it for my 11th or 12th birthday, i remember i couldnt get sleep cause of excitement and in the morning straight from bed switching big red button and browsing through Norton Commander playing games like Prince of Persia, Eagle, Street Rod and others. Eventually i start to neglect school and mother locked PC lock and hide keys but i found the way to open it with the casing of a pen. Tnx Clint for your effort reviving those childhood feelings.

[@vwestlife]

The slow but musical-sounding Seagate ST-225 is one of the most reliable hard drives ever made. But the huge, clunky ST-4038... not so much. I don't think I've ever come across a fully working one. They draw so much power that they like to burn out resistors on their circuit board.

[@douro20]

I have a ST-4096 and it works very well. It took a few power cycles to get it to unlock the first time but it hasn't given me any trouble ever since.

[@KameraShy]

Still have my ST-225

[@douro20]

@@KameraShy I have one as well. It is in storage along with the mating controller.

[@jamesmcdonough854]

The hard disk bring back memories of working a lab full of those machines in the early 1990's I recall playing karateka and doing lotus 123 and Word Perfrect.

[@kingneutron1]

WordStar and COBOL ;-) / still kinda miss 123 // but not their blasted copy protection

[@jamesmcdonough854]

I recall the college I worked for the early 1990's. At that time people were doing COBOL and asembly Language for y2k. I used 8088's. with No hard drives. if you used 5 1/4 inch floppy drives hard disks were not as available back then. You were not guaranteed to have a hard disk in the computer that you were sitting at. Networking was rare too. You tubers who own vintage systems today have really pimped them out. If you were lucky you had a hard drive. A good chunk of that time you eather had cga or hurcules graphics and two 360k floppy disk. I do recall using a pc Jr network in the middle school Library . I regret I wasn't able to do COBAL

[@aidancommenting]

I dunno if this counts as vintage, but I'm in the midst of building a retro gaming system. As of now I've got an ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition motherboard, an Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 4GB DDR2, and a GT730 (I didn't have anything better and thought I'd at least get decent graphics.) I just lost a hard drive tho, granted it had a long ten years of life. Bought a new one and threw Windows 10 Pro back on it (I was dualbooting with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS before the drive died) and I'm currently setting up all my VMs again.

[@aidancommenting]

Forgot to mention I also threw a Creative Sound Blaster PCI CT4810 in there. Not sure what model it is, only reason I installed it in the first place was because my Windows 98SE VM was feeding me errors with the sound driver.

[@MrJest2]

I ran a software QA lab for a famous but now defunct company. There's nothing like those sounds....

[@ctre97]

That little Windows Movie Maker cutaway music made me laugh pretty hard

It's from Utopia Windows sound scheme (included first with Windows 95).

[@CaveyMoth]

LGR's editing has improved significantly

[@nerysk3255]

The final result is incredibly satisfying. It looks brand new.

[@TheSnoopyclone]

I watch these old build and repair videos and glad we’re no longer there. You needed documentation for everything and it was cumbersome.

[@StevenIngram]

It never ceases to amaze how fast Planet X3 is on just about anything under the sun. LOL

[@Birdassasin]

>vid starts with subtitles on >*classy computer repairing music* ....okay, I chuckled at that

[@Mad3011]

13:22 I like that this has become a meme

[@raggededge82]

When the Beck graphic appeared I cracked up

[@thinygamer9408]

Where is that sound actually from though? I've definitely heard it before

[@poble]

B E C K

[@Mad3011]

@@thinygamer9408 It's a default Windows sound. The joke is a reference to Clint's previous video.

[@Schwarzorn]

I almost cried. Hahaha

[@ecarter2747]

This brought back so many memories of my IBM XT 8088 as a teenager (which I really wish I could have held on to, but life got in the way). A very impressive restoration. Loading "Wheel of Fortune" was the icing on the cake.

[@DarkestAngel2ndCh]

We have such compatiable all around hardware that is so fast and plays everything... Watching the older hardware and seeing all it took to get it running, the cords, the cards, the connections, all the floppies, even some machines used special ram, it's just so fascinating to watch the process of getting these older machines to run proper

[@FoxyLittleNuggets]

The sound of that keyboard brings back so many memories from working on one in my office back in the lat 80s! You could use that keyboard as a bat'leth!

[@e.s.l5861]

David Coulter hahaha your comment was appreciated by all the alpha-nerds watching It sure made me chuckle

[@clackmannan]

I still use on a daily basis :)

[@aCivilServant]

I use the IBM Model M keyboard as shown in the video as my daily driver. Really good IBM quality.

[@andi]

There's really nothing better than a 37 minute LGR video on a Friday :D

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

Amen brother

[@devent10n]

I wholeheartedly agree

[@ToTheGAMES]

There is. Even LONGER LGR vids! Or more than one! Not that I'm complaining, though. ;)

[@MrMix_92]

I agree ! 😁

[@mkelly0x20]

> 30 Minutes Later [Windows ME Music] heheheh

[@ketonblaziken]

With a couple frames of BECK

[@fredcommandeur8809]

I think that piece of music was a fragment of tetris 4000 by starting a level, then you hear that same music part.

[@Braven9975]

Oh my goodness, I hate to say it but I do miss the sounds that your machine is making, it reminds me of the old days when computers were very simple. Thanks Clint!

[@JesseDylanMusic]

I had a 286 in 1991 or 1990. I didn't realize how outdated it was. It had a 256-color, 320x240 graphics card. I can't remember how much RAM it had, and the hard disk was hilariously small, like less than 50MB. I was going to say it was only 24MB, but that can't be right. A guy at the software store legit laughed in my face and said, "That's a dinosaur!" when he found out it was a 286. The store clerk got mad at him! That same store clerk tried to help me install a SoundBlaster in that machine, but we never could figure out why it wouldn't work. Ah, memories. Thanks, LGR! And thanks to nice workers at Waldensoftware for putting up with pre-teen me!

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

Back in the day, my friend played that version of Wheel of Fortune so much, he knew all of the answers as soon as they appeared. I think there were only a about 200 puzzles.

[@dan3a]

flat head screw : disintegrates LGR : Ok let's take the allen driver Allen part of the screw : *DISINTEGRATES*

[@suborbitalprocess]

LGR with the angle grinder: You're coming off. _That's not a request._

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

@Marginally Sapient Cactus It wasn't on and it's already survived decades of neglect so I don't think it would've hurt to drill through the old screws, as in some cases it will create less mess than a dremmel

[@qwave54]

@@suborbitalprocess [scene missing] Okay, we'll take that off later.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

he could also just disintegrate the rest of the screw.

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

@@HappyBeezerStudios the rust extended to the bottom case so he's gonna have a bad time removing the power supply

[@EuniMatt]

I used to own an old 286 machine.. Was a Boat Anchor, and I spent a LOT of time upgrading when new technology was available.. 720K 3.5" floppy drives, and we all at that time used to dial up Bulletin Board systems and spend hours talking (basically following threads) and typing up phone lines. Brings back old memories, I wonder what I eventually did with it.. I really don't remember, I know I had it when I was newly married in 1994.. I think I had a 40MB MFM drive too.. I can remember a 9600 baud modem, and then the 14400. Funny now that we have at least 10 generations in the palm of our hands now. 8 GB RAM and 256GB Storage in a handheld device.. those were the days. And YES. I am that old...

[@johnnylochs6704]

@LGR The subtitles are fantastic “Chill assembly music” “whirs loudly to life” great stuff!

[@rastusbojangles]

that hard drive looks like it would survive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere

[@catriona_drummond]

I had one of those exploding at me a few days ago. Tantalum capacitor...

[@kingneutron1]

I remember replacing the original 20MB disk on my 286 clone with 100MB - probably paid over $120 for it back in the day I. Jones: " IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM! "

[@MrJest2]

Old Seagates are the bomb. I swear they will run forever if you treat them nice.

[@randywatson8347]

It could kill an elephant.

[@Filip_Phreriks]

@@kingneutron1 What did you need so much capacity for?

[@eumoria]

"Hey Flerpelnerp" ...excuse me? :::Flerpelnerp Answers:: ...k

[@troyBORG]

how do you set that up?

[@stevenA44]

@@troyBORG Yea I'd like to know what that is and how to do that as well.

[@Grimm-Gaming]

@@stevenA44 Google home lets u call it whatever u want vs Alexa wont listen to anything you ask.

[@stevenA44]

@@Grimm-Gaming Well, looks like I'm going to have to get me a Google Home then! My Alexa is dumb as hell sometimes! LOL

[@Grimm-Gaming]

@@stevenA44 Same thats y i disabled it on my Sonos soundbar

[@macro820]

"I like the way it snaps." Spoken like a true killer

[@aidancommenting]

Not to mention the way he chuckles in every video, lol

[@tiamat_023]

there's something therapeutic (maybe it's just nostalgia) about watching your vdeos. My dad was a small business PC guy back in the late 80s and early 90s. I used to help him build PCs all the time -- as well as working on my own. I remember my custom 286 fondly =).

[@xyz360400]

Have you ever considered a career in painting? I just watched you rinse off two old IBM cases in a bathtub and I was absolutely enthralled the entire time thanks to the mellow music and your soothing voice and occasional quips. LGR+ASMR=BLISS!

[@xyz360400]

I must also add that the sound of that machine powering on, THAT is what powering up a computer should sound like! It sounds like it has a frickin' engine in there with a powerful jet turbine and it's getting ready to take off. I wish my laptop sounded like that powering on. I am not impressed by these super powerful, super tiny, way too quiet machines with all their silent lights. Give me an old gray metal shell, tons of loud fans and the quiet hum of power coursing through my machine any day. It's much nicer to listen to than some annoying blower card or coil whine on a GPU and it just fades into the background as soon as you launch any game (especially since most games from the time used more highs/treble in their *beeps* and *boops* which kinda made gaming on these old rigs feel like playing in an arcade, the hot, smoke filled room bathed in the beeps, boops, blips and booms of the games being played with the quiet hum of the cabinets' cooling fans and CRT whine caress the sounds of the games).

[@JL3001]

Laughed out loud @ the Windows Me noise and the Beck graphic from that CLASSIC movie used at 13:23.

[@drew8235]

3:41 My actual reaction when anything goes wrong on my computer.

[@christopherlange4475]

ibm was probably using overstock of xt cases up to make these "bargin" 286's

[@LGR]

That's a popular theory, actually! It's never been proven though.

[@c128stuff]

@@LGR I was at IBM in the late 80s, on the PC (or by that time mostly PS/2) side of things. Nobody there has ever been able to explain this one to me.

[@gwgux]

Hearing multiple IBM computers humming along at the same time brought back fond memories of the computer lab in grade school for me. Only thing that's missing is lots of keyboard typing and dot matrix printer printing.

[@raywood8187]

That was my first PC. I bought a used one in 1991 and it had the same chirpy hard drive. I added memory to get it to 1 MB but it was always a battle with the 640k hi mem and a lot of fiddling with autoexec and config.sys to get the peripherals to work and I was running Windows 3.1. It taught me a lot and I built my own computers ever since.

[@demonic477]

when you started both of the systems it sounded like the job center I went to in the early 90's . that unmistakable back ground drone from the power supply's would fill a room fast when you had ten IBM's going at once

[@saturn580]

That hard drive needs to put out a mixtape. 🔥

[@HoLeeFuks]

The power up sounds is so nostalgic i actually miss these sounds like the floppy chatter.

[@UNSCPILOT]

makes me want an effects unit for my new system to just pretend to be an ancient computer, HDD noises, startup and all

[@ggezlol-]

Clint "I have two of them" I would expect nothing less sir

[@FCHenchy]

There's something really pleasing about the physical restoration.

[@boatofcar3273]

You could do nothing but restore PCs for time and I would continue to be a Patron. Thanks as always Clint.

[@KerwinmusicNL]

It's 2 in the morning, and I am watching Clint wash his cases in the sink.

[@Lee01Mr]

Aaahhhhh a relaxing video with a cup of tea, thank you Clint!

[@CMDR_John_Crichton]

12:06 "Hey Flurblenurp, what time is it?" "It's 11:08"

[@Veezyjung]

A fine name for an AI assistant.

[@Taken_Alpha]

I couldn’t tell if it was the Google Assistant or Alexa, probably Alexa though because you can change the wake word on it unlike Google

[@redpup6931]

@@Taken_Alpha Definitely Alexa

[@mattparker9726]

AAHHHH! The soothing sound of smooth jazz, and LGR building a 286. Nothing better!

[@fullis]

Thanks @LGR i have had XT 286 for 2 years now waiting for project. Now i got it from storage, hit dos bootdisk in and gsetup. everything was working like charm after that... Now waiting for new cmos battery.

[@AkosJaccik]

Ah, HDD Instant Type 2. The good stuff.

[@amberbutitta7261]

7:58 That's a re-badged AcuMOS AVGA card! Good performers, those! Also, they derive their clock from the ISA bus clock, so they're somewhat overclockable. One of the fastest 16-bit ISA VGA cards made.

[@JovinRepairs]

I was just thinking this same thing. I have an AcuMos in my ISA video card inventory.

[@Stolkie1337]

Can I just say that every time one of these videos gets released my hearts skips a beat of happiness and excitement. Something that feels normal and like home in times that absolutely nothing is normal 😂

[@3dlabs99]

And of course the algorithm suggests "Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR]" after watching this ... it just LOVES that video

[@AFishNamedBob]

WOW Hearing that Wheel of Fortune start-up music instantly took me back to being a kid!!! Thank you for that.

[@RegularCars]

I am excte

[@adamsymborski1520]

Somehow Im not surprised XD

[@vemcomachines9634]

wut

[@synthdog2819]

mr regle

[@urbanweekendwarrior7238]

They come in light brown on lightest brown ONLY

[@sagnost]

yes

[@davidewhite69]

unbelievable the prices fetching for these, thirty two years ago my work sent fifty of them to the tip when we got brand new 386s, if only we kept them, we'd be rich!

[@GzeeBRII]

Dad always asks me: "Why do you have so much computers?" Dad will never understand the pleasure in making then race against each other. The only race where the slower gets the prize

[@SoKette]

"Of course this 20 year old can run 5 miles ! But what about this 103 year old grampa ?" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@normanhomer9186]

I started my computing life with a Color Computer 3 back in the 80's. I eventually moved up to a 286 machine a lot like the units you used in this video. Man does this bring back memories. I stepped up through the processors by building PC's on the XT and AT chassis'. So many advances in computers have happened since the 80's that it is mind boggling. I'm in my 60's now and still try to keep up with the DIY PC community. It is becoming a dying art because PC's aren't the driving technology for most of the computer systems in the world today. Keep up the good work and I will keep watching.

[@daveinthailand]

Great video, my first PC my mate showed me this PC and I offered him my Amiga as a swap he looked at me like I was stupid he agreed and ran out of the house with my Amega I was more than happy because I always wanted a PC and you could get more pro packages wow this brings back memories I think I would love one now for nostalgia

[@thejackal007]

Now every time I hear that sound at 13:23, I think of that goofy video with the kid crawling through the tube (and Beck).

[@vault4287]

Same 😂

[@yuanchiwang]

The profile picture finally comes alive.

[@joerig96]

Damn 1991, remind me a lot of my middle school years, playing those late 80s - early 90s dos pc games with 286 IBM compatible machine 😎✌️

[@mrhuaso]

I'm sure one day professors around the world will how LGR's videos as the perfect storytelling: Intro, problem to solve, problem being solved, problem solved, happy image (2 ibm booting up) for the audience to take home. It's just... ahhh wonderful

[@Ferg13]

I just started watching your videos not to long ago. This one so far is my favourite. I’ve been into computers since 2000. Self taught. Can be very frustrating at times but in the end if it all works out. That’s the reward. Love seeing these old pc’s still living. Keep up the awesome job. I still have lots to learn. And over learn lots In little time I’ve began watching your videos. And I’ll keep watching as king as you out then out there.

[@technodaz]

People call me mad for having a room of "old crappy electronics" , until I remind them last time someone got involved I threw out things that are now selling on ebay for hundreds. I threw away graphics cards years ago that I cry about now, never again. Also if anyone wants to buy a Radeon 9800 series in 10 years hit me up as I have 11 of them all working :D

[@bitelaserkhalif]

Don't forget to check capacitors of electronic stuffs They tend to cause problem if it bulges

[@jeffm2787]

Been there and done that. Problem is most people collect stuff and never actually sell it. The concept if I hold on to it a bit longer it'll be worth even more, years go by and it ends up in the bin.

[@windfire5380]

Definitely agree on the throwing away old hardware. :( I miss most my old Voodoo, Voodoo 2 and Voodoo 3 3000 video cards. I loved those--I honestly don't remember what I ever did with them. I may have literally thrown them in the garbage! :(

[@technodaz]

@@windfire5380 I did exactly the same thing with them eventually, regretted it almost instantly but thought back then , sure when will I ever need that again , emulation is good but ....I would kill for my old 486 to play tie fighter again, just not the same emulated.

[@jayhill2193]

And another tech horder was born :D But seriously tho, there's so much stuff one would never think will get valuable, both money and personal wise, so clinging onto some of it doesn't seem wrong to me. Just make sure it doesn't take over you living space.

[@aquilux-vids]

For that rusted case, look into getting some evapo-rust. They've got a liquid you can immerse things in and a gel you can spread. Does a great job of dissolving away iron corrosion and at least the liquid can be used more than once.

[@swiftfox3461]

"Computer loudly whirs to life" is probably the coolest sentence in existence.

[@smorfnimda]

It's like ASMR. Sit back relax and watch LGR restore and old computer.

[@RealMillenniumGroup]

Nothing like classic computing. I shed a tear or two when my PC XT failed to power up a few years ago.

[@Starfals]

24:10 sounds like a Black Mesa laboratory (from Half-Life lol)

[@srredfire]

Immediately what I thought as well

[@SteamsDev]

Starfals Oh yes, totally.

[@bojanatanaskovic2465]

Nice catch! Maybe they literally took the sound from the IBM?

[@HAZARDOUS88]

Nice catch indeed!

[@MondySpartan]

Sounds more like the one heard in its remake counterpart Black Mesa.

[@rsp6549]

The Navy bought 10's of thousands of those. I remember them well.

[@TheKreAt0r]

Soon as video start, hears first LGR Foods music. Gets confused as to why I'm hungry, except looking at vintage pc

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

Teasing us hardcore

[@Gwalothion]

Oh boy... the sound of these machines booting up is just... ugh... *so* good. Almost sounds like the good old THX-sound in cinemas back in the day.

[@CRACKBONE7317]

I've never seen one of these in person, but seeing it in your sink and next to your arm really shows how massive this thing was.