Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup

[@LGR]

I've posted the upgrade video here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6qvkJRvhqprl8k

[@FacundoNicolasmartinezAndroid]

Lazy Game Reviews this vídeo is awesome congratulations , you work is amazing. congrats from Argentina. the end of the world .

[@mjetektman9313]

Lazy Game Reviews you say that because you dont live in Maranhão, Brasil

[@SpectrumSurvivalist]

What vendor did you buy this from? I was trying to find it but no dice. Can you link it please?

[@jeffspicoli7215]

LOL!!! I just randomly bumped into your video while hopping around KZbin. I was actually working part-time for IBM while attending UT-Austin during the mid-1980s, and I used my very generous 50%-off IBM employee discount in 1985 to buy a FULLY-LOADED PC/AT "Enhanced Model", with 512-KB of memory,. with the matching 80287 math coprocessor pre-installed, the IBM EGA display, an IBM dot matrix graphics printer, an IBM dot matrix color printer, a monitor swivel stand, and the IBM PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure. You can see what the PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure looks like in the link below. It made my PC/AT look like a cool 1980s minicomputer with the big vertical box placed next to my desk while I programmed using Turbo Pascal and Microsoft C during the 1980s: minuszerodegrees.net/5170/cards/5170_floor_standing_enclosure.jpg IBM would later copy this same floor-standing approach for their later PS/2 high-end models: www.google.com/search?q=IBM+Personal+System/2+Model+80&rlz=1C1AOHY_enUS708US708&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjM47Ka357UAhWW0YMKHRwECMUQ_AUICigB&biw=1430&bih=733 The PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure was the predecessor to the later ATX tower cases that are now the norm. Prior to the PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure, all PCs were placed horizontally on the desk with the monitor placed on top of the case. I also still have a mint-condition never used IBM 1.2-megabyte high-density floppy drive still sealed in its original IBM box. The total price for my IBM PC/AT order was about $6400 when I ordered it in 1985, and I paid $3200 after the 50%-off employee discount. The sprawling IBM campus in north Austin where I worked part-time during the 1980s also manufactured PC/AT and PC/XT computers, along with a UNIX version of the PC/AT that ran the Xenix 286 operating system that was licensed and ported by (gasp!) Microsoft to run the 80286 in protected mode. No one nowadays realizes that Microsoft previously developed a UNIX operating system for the 80286 CPU, decades before Linux. I was helping IBM to build PCs and attending UT-Austin at the same time that Michael Dell was building and selling PCs from his dorm room and Dell was advertising in the UT-Austin campus newspaper, The Daily Texan, under his original brand name of "PC's Limited". I see that you have the later IBM Model M keyboard. I am actually still using my earlier Model F IBM keyboard that does not have the function keys across the top. The Model F mechanical keyboard used a very unique buckling spring with a capacitive design, compared to the membrane design of the later Model M keyboards, and the Model F has full n-key rollover, and a lighter crisper louder mechanical key action than the later Model M keyboard that you have. Your RAM does not appear to be piggyback stacked on top of each other. My earlier PC/AT had 512-KB of RAM where two RAM chips were piggyback-stacked on top of each other and then soldered together in order to double the memory density. It looked weird, but it worked. My PC/AT motherboard looks like the RAM is having sex and humping each other with how two RAM chips are paired together with the top RAM's pins wrapped over the bottom RAM chip. I actually am still using my Model F keyboard connected through a USB adapter, 32 years after I received my PC/AT :-) Quality and durability in a keyboard is when you have been using a keyboard for 32 years and all the keys still work with the same satisfying click-clack mechanical sound. I doubt that the modern Cherry MX mechanical keyboards will still have all their keys functioning after 32 years of use. I last powered on my PC/AT during the mid-1990s and it still works with its DOS 6.3. I have been thinking about modifying the case to use a new ATX motherboard. But seeing your video makes me want to keep it in its original condition since its original keyboard also still works. My original IBM EGA display failed long ago, and I replaced it with a Princeton Graphics EGA display that still works fine. Both of my dot matrix printers still work. You may want to see if you can find the PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure simply because it really helps to free up your desk space by placing the PC/AT vertically on the floor. In 1985, I also ordered through the mail a custom-sewn dust cover that fully covered my PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure in thick beige canvas fabric with a stylish dark brown border trim with my initials monogrammed on the front panel. You can see a vintage ad for the "CompuTogs" mail order that I purchased from in 1985 here: books.google.com/books?id=Udw3QWX2LQ8C&pg=PA147&dq=CompuTogs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikyPn32p7UAhVE1oMKHWLfCbwQ6AEIKDAB#v=onepage&q=CompuTogs&f=false No one runs a business like CompuTogs nowadays where you just send them your PC case measurements, and the CompuTogs lady in Illinois sews a stylish slip-on dust cover with your initials stylishly monogrammed on it. I ordered three CompuTogs dust covers at the time - one for my PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure, one for the IBM EGA monitor, and one for the IBM standard-width dot matrix graphics printer. That same PC Magazine page also shows a Cray X-MP, and I also previously did scientific computing on a Cray X-MP and Y-MP supercomputers. Those were good times during the 1980s - working on a fully-loaded PC/AT at home and working on Cray X-MP and Y-MP supercomputers at work. That was also the unconventional way that I was introduced to UNIX during the 1980s - by using the Microsoft-developed Xenix 286 running on the PC/AT and Cray UNICOS running on the Cray X-MP and Y-MP. ENJOY YOUR PC/AT!!! It was the fastest state-of-the-art PC in 1984!! The average smartphone now has more computing power than that PC/AT which had a $5300 price in 1984 and was the world's fastest commonly-available PC at the time.

[@anthonybrunotheodd]

Lazy Game Reviews I prefer the EGA monitor on the AT rather than the PS2 because it seems to mathces the AT's "Ethos" if you will. I don't know that is just my opinion. I'm fasinated by old IBM computers mainly because both my Grandparents worked on old IBM computers that took up an extremly LARGE room starting the 60's. I think they we're called "Main-Frames" I can't rember. My Grandmther was one of the first female computer programers. My Grandfather was an electrical engineer that worked for American Eletric in New Jeresy they would soon be called Belltone. He even made little games for the family Commodore 64.

[@robertesensee3494]

IBM was my first job ever. I worked at the plant in Austin, tx in 1990 and 1991. I ran geothermal testing on the motherboards in a geothermal chambers. It was interesting working in that lab.I left there in 1991 and started working at a DELL. Dell was a very small company at the time. We used to see Michael Dell walk around in tshirts and shorts. He even helped us build systems and chatted with us. I built Tower units and helped with the laptops. The Laptops were giant suitcase units and black and white screens. Weighed a ton and were 286 units. Good times! LOL!

[@GenderSkins]

Hey Robert I worked at the IBM Plant in Austin, Texas back in 1993. The Department I worked in was ECAT. So I actually built, all the parts that was in his computer. Sad thing is I bought my ex, a 486 SX from Dell. And I remember my supervisor telling me, you could buy parts for any computer IBM made directly from IBM all the way back to the first computer IBM ever made. I still remember that Dinosaurs of a machine I ran, that placed the majority of the components on the boards. And that we had one socket, that had an S pattern to the leads, that the machine hated placing as it could not see the leads as the part was so small.

[@electromechanical4109]

IBM Boulder 1982-86. My first job.

[@metaljew4456]

Ted dibiasi You opened this can of worms you antisemitic POS. Keep your HATE to yourself we have enough of this in the world.

[@zettavevo]

actually i do care about the computer dw

[@MarkChambersCantSwim]

“It feels so fresh - it smells fresh, it smells new! It smells… oh my word.” LOL that was the most enthusiastic keyboard unboxing in the history of the universe.

[@ЧамупатиХиран]

"Cuz its a model M"

[@tHiNk413]

"You night have to give me a moment" totally got me!

[@davidbanan.]

Of course, ITS A BRAND NEW IBM KEYBOARD, if you've typed(keyword) on one you would understand they really are wonderfull

[@auberrydarren32]

OMG I read this as he said it!!!

[@djonex1683]

*PC* : 'Enter the current date' *LGR* : 03-16-2017 *PC* : WTF!?!?!?

[@adampotts8839]

So true😂

[@eclecticreader961]

I own a IBM laptop that will tell me an "error" occurred when I attempt to type in the present day, time, and year. It doesn't accept the entry and refers back to it's default setting of July 17th, 1997.

[@remycbautista4811]

My ATARI Computer AC "WHAT IS THE CURRENT DATE" Me "10 6 2019" AC "SYNTAX ERROR"

[@memertarian2434]

PC: say sike right now

[@nadunwijesinghe965]

I don't even know if it knows what "WTF" means.

[@bluewater82]

One thing a lot of folks don’t realize is that those of us old enough to remember actually getting one of these actually reacted much the same way he did. Back then computers weren’t lining store walls and smartphones in every pocket. The late 70s and 80s were a time in which personal home computers were still rare. Most people didn’t have one but knew a friend or had an uncle that had one. Only about 1-in-10 households had a personal computer in the 80s. To have one of these and open one up was a mind-blowing experience.

[@iamgermane]

Expensive too! This thing probably went for $2500 or so. Maybe more since it is IBM.

[@CuriousKL]

I learned computer programming on an IBM 360 series computer. It was 6 feet long 36 inches tall and had to be kept in a very cool AC room to keep it from overheating. It had 16K memory. The input device was a punch card reader. You would sit a write a program on a input sheet, sit down to the punch key typewriter. Then run the cards thru the reader. It would run to a point and usually error or stop code due to typo error typing up the cards. My first program was a payroll data sheet. Not much they could do, but this is where it all started for me.

[@bluewater82]

@@CuriousKL That's really cool. My mother used to work at Digital (Digital Equipment Corp) in the late 70s/early 80s and she had told me stories about those giant computers that took up whole rooms.

[@joedeshon]

I set up a couple of dozen of these things in the 1980s. And you're right. Every time even then it was like a religious experience. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

[@mikerzisu9508]

Let me guess, at a school?

[@mikeerickson4750]

I may need to re evaluate my life situation, since I'm up at 2:00 AM watching a guy who sounds like Duke Nukem sniffing a 30 year old keyboard.

[@lukethom1567]

Mike Erickson get a life! Who am I kidding it's 2:30am I'm no better XD

[@b0ooo0t]

Mike Erickson i know right xD I just thought the same. And it's already 6 o'clock.

[@TheCgOrion]

Mike Erickson All of you should get a life (3:48am here).

[@projectdedux4843]

Mike Erickson its 2:04 AM for me 😂

[@laharl2k]

5:54 here, had to stop building a 3d printer to watch this :3

[@birdbrain4445]

I love how genuinely excited he gets by stuff like this; pure elation over something so nerdy, devoid of any cynicism or sarcasm. It's refreshing, and it makes me smile. Good video, as ever!

[@Sirdiggar]

Man there is something so special about older hardware and operating systems. The fonts, the sounds, the UI, the way it all works. It's hard to explain but it's so damn good.

[@brianm2881]

It feels a lot more solid, substantial and stable. There's also a satisfaction in making this old stuff work because you were very much involved in the process. To say modern tech is vastly more powerful (this laptop I'm typing on, for example) would be a terrific understatement, but what modern tech does lose out on is that they feel much more like an impersonal, mass-produced appliance.

[@kwc0435]

@@brianm2881 and everything is so simplified too, I liked how back in the day doing something as simple as loading from a floppy drive means needing to use commands n shit

[@RoiDatBoi]

Get you somebody who looks at you the way Clint looks at a pile of unopened IBM boxes

[@jubjub15]

Nakatomic 😂😂😂

[@user-se8nh3yu1e]

Damn

[@kevsbear]

WoW .... nice to see the ibm computer Brings backs lots of memories for me I’m a truck driver here in Scotland I remember going to the factory and picking up the computers We used to take them to Birmingham in England and that’s were they checked over before being send out to the costumer The monitors where also made in Scotland .... we were the main hauler for ibm many years ago we stored them in our warehouse and I remember putting the U.K. plug cable into the boxes through the carry handle hole so not to open the boxes I also remember we used to handle the processor codes for the cpu ..... they were in an envelope put into a container I.e truck container.... this little envelope on the floor it was the sealed and we drove it all the way up to Gourock ..... it could not be posted or travel by a courier company as they were not insured..... I also remember having security guards follow us in days got by to make sure everything went to plan..... And I now believe the site at gourock is now Amazon Now there you go a little bit of history for you Best wishes Neil

[@ChekhovsGun]

kevsbear Thank you for sharing!

[@sailorellie8310]

That’s a really neat little piece of history you were a part of!

[@ryugatsuchiya9018]

thats so cool!!

[@DavidOrtiz-vi5zh]

Cheers mate. Cool history.

[@jessicacole8404]

*Greetings from Texas, and thank you for sharing that bit of history. I imagine you saw quite a few Interesting things as a truck driver and learned a bit about all of the industries*

[@LGR]

For those of you wondering more about the warehouse this IBM AT came from, here you go. What an incredible sight in the modern day. :) twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/845340798174580736 His Ebay seller name is "shopofc." EDIT: no longer selling

[@spazda_mx5]

Madness! :)

[@hannocoetzer8763]

This is damn best unboxing I have seen in my entire life .. ah, the time when things were simple and customers(us) were kings

[@Clay3613]

Are they still for sale?

[@joshsamuelson1793]

Very entertaining and interesting video. I remember the days when the computer actually had to be understood to be operated.

[@artisticsumo6381]

Im happy for you, man!

[@expectproblems]

Your hunt for The Key was one of the most tense moments of this video.

[@TranceHistorian]

🤣🤣🤣

[@zenkim6709]

I literally screamed at my screen: The box! It's gotta be in the box!! CHECK THE BOX!!!

[@FrankConforti]

The first game played on this PC was NOT CDMAN it was the “Quest for The Key” developed exclusively by IBM.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

IIRC the keys were supposed to be taped to the back of the machine

[@raoul3016]

I love how he's having a massive nerd-gasm.

[@jamesmuthiani5680]

I thought he was gonna fvck the keyboard

[@badger47-n3c]

@@jamesmuthiani5680 Pump your brakes kid, gotta romance that kind of keyboard. That model is litterally THE single best model/brand of keyboard ever made.

[@jamesmuthiani5680]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 right @@badger47-n3c so I've heard. Used to have of these at my old school.

[@milesbailor5019]

@Dr Psychedelic nice name

[@mercenarycorruption1821]

Declip me daddy LGR xD

[@doodsalot270]

you KNOW it's old when it doesn't say "made in china"

[@retroman3075]

and its the reason the computer still works!

[@PoisonedAl]

Yeah because it was built in Scotland in the 80's. So it wasn't built by communists but work-shy communists.

[@morpheusdreamer]

In Greenock there is still an IBM railway station en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_railway_station Although the plant has been demolished now the station is still called 'IBM'.

[@Patchuchan]

True they don't make them like they used to. What's funny now with Moore's law slowing down it actually would be desirable to have a computer built to last vs one that falls apart after three years.

[@laharl2k]

Patchuchan my 1055T had been runining for more than 7 years now 24/7. PSU failed at just short of the 5th year, luckily it was under warranty but so far not even a single disk of my raid has failled nor shows any sign of going old so far. Its just a matter of building the pc with good components. (assuming they exist, unlike with many things nowadays)

[@zackmagee7077]

I need to find a girl that loves me the way LGR loves Model M's.

[@analogaudiorules1724]

To bad these days, a woman like that doesn't exist, lmao. I don't think such a chick ever existed at all to be honest.

[@wphanoo]

Women don't like you, they like what you can provide for them

[@CoxTH]

Such pure love doesn't exist between humans. Never ever.

[@ms-dosguy6630]

@@CoxTH Well you just crushed me lol

[@lithium84]

CoxTH Yes it does

[@am1frigider]

hello man. i come back to this video every time i`m sad. the pure joy and happiness in this video is soul enhancing. sorry i dont usually like or dislike videos, i just subscribe and latch on. i felt the need to leave a comment after 3 years + on this video, witch i saw in the first days of posting. it`s inspiring how great content is not 10 guys + full production team. it`s a nice guy, that shows us nice cool stuff. p.s. your trift stories. i just love the crap out of them. mostly because im from easten europe and you live in a different part of the world, but you also like cool stuff like me. thank you man ! hope you`ll read this ...some time ....

[@mancramps]

clint is the best

[@theformer1337agent]

i- ok

[@Spunney]

good comment :)

[@richardhall9815]

21:18 Professional Graphics Array Fun fact: The PGA was designed by Curtis Priem (later cofounder of NVIDIA), who joined IBM after graduating from my school, RPI. He donated our current performing arts building, and I got to shake hands with him last fall at our concert with Josh Groban!

[@dixon1e]

One day at IBM Boca Raton in the early daze, we went to see the engineer working on the software for this board, Bob. By now in our young careers we’ve gone from developing the DOS programs on green screens through CGA, EGA and now PGA. Bob showed us the unbelievable graphics. Then, the inevitable Playboy centerfold, the one with the hat. Yes, the world worked like that, even then.

[@lastmoh1989]

I showed this to my dad , and he was giggling with nostalgia . And he was like "What a legend this man " , Talking about you

[@jameshansen1903]

Keyboard has been in a box for 33 years, finally gets to come out, first thing that happens some guy rubs his face all over it.

[@gordlord561]

That's the LGR way lol

[@Rubysh88]

The unspeakable things i'd do to it.

[@Spleen_Wort]

He’s putting his scent on it.

[@camotech1314]

Definitely marking his territory lol 😂

[@richh9241]

I worked for IBM fixing these things (IBM Servicepoint), PC XT's, AT's, and the PS/2's. They were a joy to work on. I can remember two of the part numbers - 72x8523 (PS/2 1.44 Mb Floppy drive) and 72x8498 (PS/2 CMOS Battery). Happy days.

[@jfedele35]

I was legit nervous it didn't come with a key. Literally on the edge of my seat until you found it.

[@Jamisonarts]

Joseph Fedele 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rootbrian4815]

...there is always the dremel/grinder method to get it open, or the lock-picking. ;)

[@goldfox7116]

"High Capacity" - 1.2MB those were the days.

[@tomypower4898]

Gold Fox7 oh crap yes hi capacity disks

[@brad30three]

Remember when you first got a (gasp) VGA graphics card???

[@tomypower4898]

Yes one!

[@Perktube1]

We are so spoiled.

[@leother0luunead667]

careful cuz one day that too will be small and obsolete and likely brake down first this old IBM we're seeing here was built to last especially last long cuz its never been used until this video

[@kicks7587]

Here is a man sniffing his keyboard.... I respect it.

[@zuzoscorner]

a techgasm lol

[@8bits59]

*nerdgasm

[@dudebro8856]

the g80 3000 is kinda midend. Got one myself but there are better options like Das Keyboard. It has a steel plate and feels much more solid than the g80. But still the g80 is kinda awesome. Got one with the black linear switches.

[@jimfixespixels]

It's exactly what I would've done. I still love new computer smell, but it just isn't the same as it was. The day I cracked open the anti-static on the mobo for my 386 motherboard. man. I'll never forget that smell.

[@cush8057]

everyone sniffs their keyboard when they take it out of the box, if they deny, they lie. i think its law somewhere. it mite only be a little one...but we've all done it. admit it people....ADMIT IT...respect the sniff. ahem, sorry.

[@Lurchi_der_Lurch]

at 18:20 the power supply printing says "Made in W-Germany" Germany was divided into West und the communist East Germany , Reunification between these two took place at Oct 3rd 1990, D-7742 St Georgen has the old german 4 digit ZIP Code, the 5 digit ZIP code was introduced mid 1993 (needed because of reunification)

[@jonasgrill1155]

I love the noises old computers make when they boot up! It sounds like a jet engine mixed with the THX movie sound.

[@makethingsbetter]

Later models the fan got faster with the turbo button too! So much fun 🤩

[@lookbovine]

23:40

[@chmarr]

greenock .... i worked in that plant from 1987 - 2007 i bet i was on the assembly line that built that monster :D :D

[@andrewhamop6665]

OwO

[@silasmcgee3647]

SoDaftMinecraft first time I’ve seen that particular face typed out in this comment section

[@andrewhamop6665]

@@silasmcgee3647 lol

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

r/thathappened

[@RBeeMedia]

Marsipan Marsian Honestly, what’s not to believe ? People who are watching this are into computers. If he worked at IBM, chances are he is into computer and is following this channel, you know ?

[@WongGame727]

What’s your nerd level?? Umm... I smell keyboards.

[@Terra101]

I always keep my IBM Model M in bed so i can get hard smelling it when im having sex with my wife. LOL JK I have no wife..

[@Galactis1]

I ALWAYS smell the inside of new electronics, dvd cases, blu ray, video games, DEFINITELY new hardware. I LOVVVVE the smell.

[@johnr2630]

Hahaha

[@Al13n1nV8D3R]

I smell $1000+ graphics cards! Don't judge!

[@benalderton3627]

a keyboard worth more than your car haha

[@kingneutron1]

It's like watching a kid on Christmas morning, in 1988 :^). So much fun!

[@Rottenation]

This video has 2 million views. You've been seen smelling a keyboard 2 million times.

[@Davidzz137]

*smacks* NOICE

[@tacticalmatt7030]

he sniffed it twice so 4 million times.

[@zinababdelmonem1597]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you right

[@zwz.zdenek]

Actually, I had to rewind to that point around 10 times. So it's much more than that!

[@elhugeo]

By now it has dried crusty jizz drops.

[@The8BitGuy]

That was cool to see it boot up to BASIC the first time you powered it on. Since all of my experience has been with IBM compatibles, they never had BASIC in ROM like that.

[@LGR]

Aye, BASIC in ROM is always a nifty thing indeed :)

[@Charky_Creations]

A wild 8-bit guy appeared!

[@HappySlappyFace]

OMG SENPAI NOTICE ME!

[@Phrenotopia]

Yeah, that was quite the revelation! Also... OMG The 8-Bit Guy is here!!! Put my patronage to good use already! ;-)

[@MrChrharry]

Is it just me.. or does it say this message was from 5 days ago? Also.. Omg 8 BIT GUY!!...Love your Videos

[@NegaDash1]

Man, I'm not into the retro computer hobby, but just hearing your giggling and exitement during the video is just contagious. I couldn't help but getting exited and smiling at your joy too. It just reminded me when I was little and got super hyped for getting a new toy on christmas

[@Featherogue]

Same! Not a collector either but I love seeing Clint happy lol

[@Quakeinc14]

This was the PC my pops brought back in 92. My first journey into computers. Now my career is in IT. It all started with this unit.

[@alandouglas8939]

Great video!! It brings back loads of memories for me. I worked for IBM New Zealand back in the day and I was the technical specialist for the Personal Computer range. In fact the first IBM PC AT into New Zealand was addressed to me and I got to do the unpacking for the first time.. I remember commenting: "No one will ever fill up that hard drive". Who knew? Yup, no mouse port! The first IBM PC's with mouse ports where the PS/2 range released in 1987.

[@brotharobmusic]

Alan Douglas time flies my friend, time flies!!!

[@kneehighspy]

great video! I worked for computerland from 1987-1991 and i remember unboxing and setting up tons of those at's and xt's. the styrofoam is actually glued to the top and bottom panels and usually opens properly (styrofoam sticking to box top and bottom) when new, but being almost 30yrs i am sure the styrofoam has failed :) looks like your unit was probably setting in a hot warehouse at one time. the units only came with one com port / parallel card. we installed customer ordered video cards, memory boards, had drives, tape backup units, additional 5 1/4" floppy or 3 1/2" floppy and whatever accessories the customer ordered. the at's usually came with 512k ram (256k dram chips doubled stacked on one another). dos as also sold seperately. it was always nice installing a brand new 5 1/4" full height 5mb hard drive that weighed 5lbs by itself. you had to low level format hard drives first to mark bad sectors then format the drive for the operating system. we always included spinrite (hard drive low level formatter and bad sector utility). video brought back tons of memory, thanks!

[@Astroniimous]

Mike Danick Neat comment, thanks for the info! Quick questions​: Did you ever upgrade the 512k ram for customers? Also, did you have customers buy PCs specifically for gaming back then?

[@kneehighspy]

Sonicman to go above 512k you need to add an expanded memory board, the expanded memory board will take you to 640k of extended memory then what ever is left becomes expanded memory. say you add a 1024k (1mb expanded memory board) that takes you to 640k extended memory and 896kb of expanded memory. back then we didn't have customers asking for gaming pc's, but that is the when gaming was mainly done on the apple II (IIe, IIc, IIgs) or the C64 and Amiga which computerland didn't sell. the computers we sold (IBM, Compaq, hewlett packard, packard bell and digital) mainly businesses. ega graphics were the main boards we sold, then vga and evga once they arrived. really didnt sell many of the ibm and compatibles or macs to home users, mainly we sold to business, back when sneakernet was the only major networking sharing. also back then alot of the hard drive controllers had low level formatting options built into the controllers firmware and you would load debug and then execute the formatter at whatever address the factory stored the program (ie: $C800). you had to low level every hard drive back then so you could map out the bad sectors. back then it was normal to have a bunch of bad sectors on your hard drive, whereas today you dont have bad sectors. once done, run fdisk to create partitions, format the drive and then make a \dos subdirectory and copy all the dos disks files to the \dos directory. it was really cool that you got that unmolested AT, watching your video brought back lots of memories, also really enjoy your videos, keep up the great work.

[@anteldrobat3880]

this whole part of the comments section :o... wow.

[@MrJest2]

Oh!! Spinrite - another blast from the past!! Forgot about that one...

[@dlarge6502]

I still use spinrite. The latest version. Saved a few drives.

[@joesatchton212]

What might be an amusing episode is if you were to contact IBM customer service directly and try to get some assistance with this newly opened and installed PC 5170. If you get really lucky Clint, you might be able to get to someone over there with both a sense of humor and a sense of history. :)

[@misatzu]

I really liked your comment, but some Indian call center would probably as far as he could get nowadays. Personal assistance is dead since ages.

[@GridDweller77]

Man with strangely soothing voice looses his mind over the contents of a 30 year box, Circa 2017

[@wildbill23c]

Call IBM and ask for warranty service on that machine since you just opened it this year and see what they say LOL.

[@CrashZombie]

Free upgrade options? LoL

[@RealLifeEddy2K]

Sir when you power on what is it asking you.....It is asking me model Keyboard I am using, but I am entering what came in the manual and it says not recognized????? :)

[@TheFlyingZulu]

It would be funny to mail in the customer comment card. Backdate it maybe as well to play a good joke. lol

[@nunyobiznez875]

+Anonymous Anonymous No, technically the warranty begins at the time of original purchase. The system is brand new, never used, directly out of the factory packaging. Which makes William Todd's comment an interesting question. From a legal standpoint, it should technically be under warranty lol. So I have no idea what IBM would say, but it would certainly be interesting to find out.

[@1912RamblerFan01]

Another KZbin user did this with an IBM PS/2 that was new in the box - never opened. IBM didn't respond too well...

[@SkeezyFlautist92]

you got a 20+ year old sticker off in 1 peel? What are you ?

[@LGR]

Experienced. ;)

[@conorrocks7]

still probably easier than a months old Gamestop sticker.

[@themollymachine]

Lazy Game Reviews thats what she said

[@conorrocks7]

to be fair, for the past few years there stickers have actually come off without any issue, but i dont know if it was their old stickers or maybe how long they've sat, but they were a pain in the ass to get off

[@Gasoline85]

Some places that sell used games/movies/whatever I usually just leave them on because their POS stickers are impossible to get off without ruining the cover. Sometimes I suspect they've used superglue.

[@Tommyr44]

I told myself I was going to skip through most of this and just see the computer being booted up. but every tiny little thing was so intriguing. The boxes, the manuals the keyboard, and the little stickers all in original condition.

[@gordlord561]

Its hard for me to skip anything since LGR is just so interesting to listen to, he made a chair review actually interesting. If he can do that, he can do anything.

[@aserta]

THE chair review.

[@benroley2112]

I miss when people used to be genuinely amazed by computers. We’ve all become jaded to technology recently, so it’s fun to think that not too long ago when people talked about these clunky black screens that you could type green text in to with wonder and awe. For me, this channel keeps that feeling alive.

[@robertrijkers4923]

I remember having to use the dos command /park before shutting off the pc to park the needle on sector zero to avoid dataloss because HDD's didn't have centrifugal arms.

[@ViewThis.]

Ha aha !! Park. I forgot all about Park !!

[@yanivpeleg8857]

That was the single most nerdiest sentence I've read in my whole life. I LOVE IT!

[@vaporwave826]

Yeah, sex is pretty cool _but have you ever unboxed an unopened Model M?_

[@miltonrodriguez8923]

Mauhahaha bru I was thinking the same thing😂🤣🤣

[@lordbobrules]

Maria? ya, i "opened" that models box....

[@JBidensucks]

bro this box is so cool !!! I can't wait to jerk off ALLL over it!

[@gazzam3172]

dumb ass!

[@SeeburgMusic]

@kappelmeister123 Newsflash.......Not everyone cares that much about about sex.

[@ElfinaAshfield]

God this is so cool. It's like opening a time capsule lol

[@LGR]

It really is an event to savor!

[@DonPedro6901]

Elfina, I feel the same ;-)

[@thommckirdy3657]

The mention of the IBM factory in Greenock brings back a lot of memories. Not all that far from where I live, first train stop after getting off the ferry in fact. Knew plenty of people who worked at it. unfortunately was reduced to rubble many years ago.

[@IanBond007]

Takes me back, thanks for the memories, damn I feel old :) I started work as a programmer back in 85 and used to setup these PCs for our customers, and get them started on the dizzy world of using computers for the first time. IBM PCs and cheaper clones made by Amstrad. No Windows operating system, just MS-DOS [edit - oh yes, PC-DOS my memory is failing!] and that welcoming prompt. Happy days.

[@Mark007uk]

Also feeling old, used to repair these babies over this side of the puddle.

[@travaa54]

I wil remember a gtx 1080 like that

[@mikegravell1409]

I worked for an IBM VAD/VAR in the 80's and received one of the first AT's off the assembly line. Also had a dial-up modem account to Boca Raton for ordering replacement parts. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I remember wondering who would ever need more than a 20 MB hard drive.

[@schmodedo]

20 MB was huge back then ! I didn't even come close to using all of it until 1991. In 1998 I was wondering how I'd ever use up 12 GB but 3 yrs later I had figured out ways. I keep running out of space on the 32 GB SSD in my phone. And now PCs typically come with a TB. I've already used 3/4 of that in about 2 yrs. How long before the everyday user needs a PB ?

[@mikegravell1409]

Soon the computers/phones will be implanted in us.

[@DaItalianstalian]

@@mikegravell1409 it's already happening.

[@jquest43]

MIXED BAG VLOGS & VIDS it's happening without some of us knowing it happened. I lost a whole day long ago.went to bed on wed.woke up Friday morning😎

[@The901meister]

Hi. I had a manager at IBM Boca in the mid 80's named Dave Gravell. Any relationship?

[@NicMG]

I live very close to an old IBM site here on the west coast of Scotland, UK where this unit was probably built. It was only when you mentioned Scotland I was like holy crap!? There is actually a train station called I.B.M, most of the buildings have been demolished but man it just dawned on me that's possibly where it was made! Thanks for the video it was really interesting.

[@NicMG]

How did I miss it, Made in Greenock! yup definitely made here!

[@detroitboy65]

I got over unboxing and setting up 1908s IBM PCs when I worked at setting up our school computer center in my college in 1982-1987 They call it IT now but I don't recall any heavy use of that moniker back then. I do remember that we had a laser printer! It was about the size of a dorm fridge and had prodigious amounts of toner that lasted for a long long time!

[@jonasduell9953]

Man when I was 14 I used to earn a few bucks at a computer leasing company/authorized IBM dealer. I spent weeks cleaning/disassembling/reassembling and testing/documenting returned leasing machines. And they paid good money :) Good times

[@ELSTERLING]

That old FDD whirry grindy noise is still magical to me and I'm not even that old, I just had ancient PCs to work with as a kid.

[@Fir3Chi3f]

Your enthusiasm really makes this video so special. Thank you for the video LGR!

[@FlyingwithStan]

Oh my God, the memories. My first hard disk was for my IBM PCjr around 1987. 20MB (yes, MegaBytes) $700 (yes, 7 hundred). It was the size of a small toaster. I remember thinking "how could I ever use this much space?"! I still have it and the PCjr. Today, 1 second of 4k video from my drones takes more than 20MB. Thank you for this trip back in time.

[@twodaves9480]

“You’re going to have to give me a moment” - most perfectly timed mid-roll ad placement ever - 😂

[@lemau8458]

I wouldn't know because I use KZbin Vanced.

[@TABRO284]

I used to work in my uncles computer shop in England from the time of 186 processors to the first 64bit dual core CPU's. You wouldn't believe the amount of computers we had in for repairs because some one flicked the voltage switch on the back of the PSU. The other funny one was fried 56k modems after a thunderstorm.

[@SonicRainbow]

I don't think this PC could've found a better home. :D

[@kingofcastlechaos]

ROFL! My wife came in just as I was saying "touch it, touch it, touch it" at the 10 min mark and shot a look at the screen to see TOTAL GEEK PORN!!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane, those keyboards were INCREDIBLE.

[@robdevenney]

It's a testament to your infectious excitement that I have sat and watched for over half a hour a bloke install dos etc onto a very old PC... the wonder that is KZbin. I hope it continues to bring you many hours of fun.

[@LGR]

Glad to hear it!

[@GregotheGreat1]

Who needs to watch a Switch unboxing when you have this. Damn I love your channel Clint.

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

Who needs a switch in the first place?

[@120358]

That keyboard is gettin lucky tonight!

[@iamfinky]

Ah, this was GREAT. I really love the 5.25" drive sound... takes me back to my youth!

[@CoolerQ]

That's almost certainly a lithium *primary* battery, not a lithium ion battery. In particular, it's not rechargeable, and it's designed for a shelf life of 10+ years. So it's not completely surprising that it still works. I would not replace it with AA batteries; they will work, but their shelf life is much shorter. Better to replace it with another lithium battery.

[@MattExzy]

...what about lithium AAs :D

[@ethanpoole3443]

MattExzy Lithium AAs are perfectly fine and typically have their own 10-20 year shelf life. I do not like to use regular alkaline batteries as they have a tendency to develop leaks, tucked well out of site, long before the battery will have run down from the attached load as the SRAM used for the BIOS settings draw almost no power, they mostly just need the voltage potential to maintain their state (real load is typically in the nano amps to pick amps range). The battery pack can then be secured to the chassis with heavy duty Velcro to hold them out of the way and prevent them impacting electronics when moving the device, But it is not at all uncommon for a lightly loaded lithium battery to last for decades. I had an old digital Casio watch from the late 80s whose original lithium cell was still powering the watch up until 2007, or nearly 20 years on the original battery. I was very surprised to come across that watch after it had been packed up in a box for a move and untouched for over a decade and was still running when I opened the box after another move in 2005.

[@billesposito3482]

To clarify for people not in the know, a 'primary' battery is a non-rechargeable battery. Watch batteries are a familiar example of non-rechargeable lithium (which are different from lithium-ion/lithium polymer) batteries.

[@cupcakethesabertooth6802]

This feels like I'm looking into an alternate universe where LGR is unboxing and reviewing an IBM computer in 1988

[@PXAbstraction]

This is just downright pornographic. Should have put an NSFW warning on this LGR. I started watching this at work and a few minutes in, I had a small crowd around my desk. Dat Model M...

[@LGR]

Haha, nice :D

[@DMack6464]

Savage...

[@BlaecHrim]

Agreed. Forget about all the pornograpic sites in the internet. Just watch LGR. Pleasure guaranteed.

[@MattExzy]

The gloss on that board.. mmph.

[@brentholman168]

Mmmmmmmmmm! Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos

[@fft2020]

Its the "UNBOXING" of a 30 year old computer in 2021 that keeps me coming back to your LGR extravaganza channel :-)

[@deusexaethera]

4:42 - "It does have a little bit of...not damage, it's just going to need cleaning..." *8-Bit Guy, dressed as Duke Nukem, breaks down the door, dual-wielding spray bottles of Retrobright*

[@dedsecpetrikov]

Shawn Elliott LMAO I-

[@leother0luunead667]

*duke nukem voice* time to get cleanin

[@pingaslord9726]

Don't forget his favourite: hydrogen peroxide

[@notthatntg]

How do you know it's The 8-Bit Guy?

[@joshmeyer7384]

I love seeing the absolute joy you take in unboxing this computer; the sounds, smells and feels, that don't translate across the video, but I can experience through you.

[@LaVaProductions]

The sound of the boot, the floppy disk drive, the keyboard... so much of good teenage memories coming back. Thank you for this fantastic emotional trip.

[@edibfeyzuahbeygi2045]

I got shocked! So beautiful packaging and such a rare chance to unbox a product from 80's!

[@mistersukmeoff4723]

I've hereby seen a man sniffing keyboard with passion. I can go in peace now.

[@annereilley4892]

You should call IBM to register it. Then get a telegraph and contact AT&T.

[@tnickknight]

They are Lenovo now

[@TorutheRedFox]

nah IBM still exists, but the computer computer stuff is done under Lenovo

[@EffectPlaceboThe]

Acoustic modem over a pots line

[@GuilhermeFerreira-we3lw]

@LAFOLLETTER Wow maybe communism isn't that bad, since they could afford buying all this companies

[@imperatyw_kategoryczny]

@@GuilhermeFerreira-we3lw so the red bandit is cool because he can buy you ? Wow it must be a leftist logic...

[@seasonedtoker]

hearing that floppy drive made my day. sometimes we forget the old days too fast. it is just so damn satisfying seeing an old machine in all its glory.

[@thegrays3303]

@seasonedtoker: Same here

[@flyboi1217]

I remember using a floppy drive and compression to use 2-3 floppy disks to watch a single episode of South Park. It was blocky, but loved it... soooo cutting edge! lol

[@juha2031]

I just missed the floppy drive days. :(

[@tnickknight]

@@juha2031 I like seeing them, but I don't miss them.

[@MikeJones-nu4sd]

I bought three of these in 1985 for the company I worked for at the time. I unboxed and set up all three (!) and ran the test software you are running on each. Then initialized and formatted each hard drive and loaded PC/DOS. I also had a video, a communications card and extra memory to load. I took an entire week to do all this and had part of a day left over. I was just as excited as you and took my time. It was glorious!

[@TheCondoInRedondo]

I see you placed the eight-bit video card into the final slot. That doesn't always work. I mean... it works. But not at full speed. Not all slots on the early machined were capable of driving the high-speed data mode. I forgot what it was called. But only certain slots permitted the card to seize the machine-gun data channel. The last slot typically could not do that. The slot you used for the video card was really intended for the printer/async cards where byte-by-byte communication was plenty fast enough for the card to talk to the CPU. Oh, I believe that special mode was called "DMA" Direct Memory Access. And if you want to know how I know all this stuff.... That pamphlet listing a lot of apps? My name is in that pamphlet. One of my apps made it to the big time. General Electric bought 5000 copies in a single purchase order.

[@SeriousBeats]

your knowledge with these computers is insane man! fun to watch!

[@jefforymitchell5697]

"Current date is 01-01-1984" Nostalgia for a time I never knew.

[@childofcascadia]

Jeffory Mitchell Welp. I feel old now. I was almost 4 on that exact date.

[@childofcascadia]

Nice to see someone else who remembers what the world pre internet was like. Kids nowadays..lol.

[@deusexaethera]

Go buy "Real World" by Mr. Mister on a cassette...and, um, go buy a cassette player to play it in...and you'll be all caught up.

[@budmeister]

I was 5 months old.

[@jennylee9761]

@@childofcascadia I was 2.

[@KLiNoTweet]

The smell is important indeed. Thanks. The machine is stunning.

[@Piero71]

I LOVE this video!! I started as computer programer on a PC with 8086 in 1986... How many memories!! greeting from Argentina and Happy New Year!!

[@p.b9085]

Girlfriend, in the other room (Can't speak english) : "ARE YOU WATCHING PORN ?" Me : "Ye... No... I'm not sure !"

[@deusexaethera]

"I'm watching a man opening a box of equipment, so...yes."

[@Rocky712_]

*anwsers her in english which she cannot speak* *Intelligence 100*

[@ra_alf9467]

*Speak increased to 100*

[@MercilessDoc]

@@Rocky712_ он пишет на английском для того, чтобы его ты понял. И твой интеллект явно не 100, если ты этого не понял. Я специально на русском написал, чтобы ты немного призадумался в следующий раз, когда будешь писать глупый комментарий. Auto-translate this.

[@RobertTheHaunter]

10:00

[@sierratrey]

FINALLY! I’ve had mine preordered for about 30 years‼️

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

so much for paying extra for 1-day shipping...

[@kriscynical]

You are such a nerd. I love it. You're a man after my own heart. That computer was manufactured when I was 4 years old, wow. 😂

[@miltonsmith3114]

I was in the building where these were made in 1984-85 at Boca Raton, FL, I was a test technician for the RAM chips! Though yours' was manufactured in Greenock, Scotland. I think Boca was making the PS2 line in 1988.

[@childofcascadia]

Milton Smith I love youtube comments like this instead of people shitposting. Unfortunately youtube is 99.5% shitpost.

[@unrealhit88]

That poor building got turned in a whole lot of stuff after ibm sold it now they have a little tiny spot in boca :(

[@coolie4u]

You must have a lot of information from this time and the products. Would be nice to hear more about that. Maybe you can make a KZbin video about it or meet up with Clint and make a video about your stories and he can edit it in a good way.

[@ThomasJr]

14:30 since there was no internet and no google, they had to deliver a lot of guides and manuals to the user.

[@Mario_N64]

Well, there was an internet. U should know. I used it. Geeks were talking about Star Wars on the net as early as 1983.

[@brianm2881]

@@Mario_N64 Back then, it was all Usenet and BBSes, but by comparison that was a tiny knowledge base compared to all that we have today.

[@Adam-qs5ir]

I wish manuals came with product now. I miss that.

[@lohdown8871]

This video was awesome! It brought back so many memories: that heavy duty power switch, that keyboard, that key lock, that setup routine, that hard drive "type", those manuals, those floppy disks, and that disk formatting. The only thing missing is a turbo button (a later innovation, of course) and my journey through nostalgia would be complete. As I sit here in front of my modern day PC with multiple monitors, I can't help but feel humbled with how much things have changed. Wow! We have come so far.

[@danrazART]

that was in the Pentiums, I think. made the PC super fast to 100 MHZ from 77MHZ! and with Lightning fast 8MB RAM!!!!

[@terencejay8845]

@@danrazART And the digital display that showed the MHz speed!

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Not to mention the non-adjustable clack clackety clack clack clack of the keyboard. If you were in a fairly enclosed place, the cacophony was annoying beyond belief.

[@darkestmon]

@@danrazART I don't think so, we used to have an x386 and the turbo button was still there and working as expected :)

[@danrazART]

@@darkestmon yeah, probably right. Pentiums were considered to be the next generation super cool Personal computers.

[@voidwalkersystem]

Holy shit, dude! We'd been meaning to watch this for years. I finally remembered! What an awesome thing to watch! Everything about the process made me squee with pure delight, right along with you. I especially loved your reaction to the brand new model M! -Mea

[@michaelhansen3126]

The smile on my face when I see that the new LGR video is 36 minutes long! Best Friday ever!

[@RojoSostenido]

I watched the entire video and loved it. I had a 85 computer I don't remember what exactly it was, it had a green colored monitor and came without a hard disk which my father bought later. I remember installing and fooling around with MS-DOS, and I also learned programming with BASIC on it, which now a days is what I do for living so I owe a lot to that computer. I hope it still exists somewhere.

[@ibizenco]

+tom_crus8126 -Oooh, yeah, fiddling with QBasic. My first QBasic program, displaying the sentence: "Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver". A game called "Nibbles": blue, yellow and red colours :) Oh, man, the memories!

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

My first machine that I owned myself was an Apple IIe. 64k ram... I had it over a year before I realised it had a color GFX card but I had a mono monitor... wrote my first program on it too... in basic. Its in a landfill now.. sigh!

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

You had to have some cash. As these machines cost $3000.00 in 1988 dollars for a basic setup. You wanted an Extra 20 Meg HD it was an extra $500.00. No modem. Sound Card or expanded memory boards. You could spend $4500.00 in those days dollars for a new machine. That in 1 years was worth $1500.00 used. Not to mention the standards were not even set. You have VESA. ISA. EISA. PCI making your computer obsolete in months.

[@ibizenco]

And now we have "handheld computers" (read: smartphones) that kick those first PC's bum. And we find this normal, too (smartphones; not the bum kicking). Amazing, when you think about it.

[@cardboardboxification]

Jon Doe glad apple never went under, No touch smartphones, no ipads, Would Still be using flip phones and a pc... And heavy 2hour battery laptops , No one had the balls to make a touchscreen os. Other then apple.!!! Steve jobs changed the world how people use computers.. In your pocket !! Rip

[@AdhamOhm]

I love how the user guide and startup disks come in a binder. Showing just how important those things were for a lot of users back in the day. You don't see that anymore.

[@danmoran01]

Ha! I must have done this 100 times back in the late 1980's! The Canadian notification reminded me of the Great Power Cord recall. Can't remember why it was necessary, but they shipped boxes of power cords as replacements. Love the "BRL".

[@rbailey1240]

The fact that the thing didn't explode when you entered the date tells me that the whole Y2K business was complete b.s.

[@dylanhinkel3548]

australian vending machines everywhere trembled after y2k. so sad

[@sherlockhonks2514]

It was

[@ThomasJr]

*It was absolutely BS, conspiracy theorists at the time got everybody onboard and people believed them. Unlike today.*

[@DjahAlanBinSueKu]

Precisely. Y2K was perhaps the millennium hoax.

[@aorusaki]

hahahahaha

[@domdecosa]

I know you said you aren't particularly proud of this video, but your genuine excitement is totally what makes this video.

[@chilrad]

What a fantastic video! To think that this faithful old workhorse slept through the turn of the millennium in a cold cardboard coffin and only now emerges to to a world of wireless internet, augmented reality, cloud based data storage and enough bloated OSs to buckle its modest platters several hundred times over makes me quite emotional! Perhaps even more moving is the fact that it still manages infallibly to fulfil its duty...as if one needed yet further evidence as to how massively over-hyped the Y2K bug was!!!

[@ibizenco]

I wonder if one of today's computers would still work, in 2047.

[@Spyrika]

chilrad This comment just made me think of the "Cutting Edge" song from "The Brave Little Toaster" so hard.

[@MrHurricaneFloyd]

In 2047 computers will be single chips embedded into our fore-brains.

[@Rubycon99]

+Storm Bolt more... more... MORE!

[@Cheepchipsable]

Well, given there is no modern software to run on it, we will never know.

[@swayybaby9772]

80s 90s and early 2000s technology is something that we will definitely remember and love

[@TreePDX]

You fool! you've brought the y2k bug to the future!

[@Malus1531]

True, over time PCs have lost all resistance to y2k

[@Malus1531]

It's like that Futurama episode where Fry gets a cold and everyone freaks out because humans have no resistance in the year 3000

[@milczyciel]

To paraphrase an old, stale meme: still a better story than Terminator Genesis ;P

[@Coolkidkarateman]

Jacob Lund What's the Y2K BUG? someone explain it go me?

[@babyplaze]

+CyanideSurprise Google it dumbass.... its when the year on a computer was displayed with just 2 digits instead of 4. nobody knew how computers would cope when it hit the year 2000 so everyone lost their shit.

[@0002pA]

This is the most intense half hour long porno I've ever watched.

[@Supernionra]

0002pA It definitely has a much better plot than others I've seen, though.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

People can and do fall in love with actual objects.... Weddings are a bit more unusual ...

[@NanoCottage]

Amazing it was made in Scotland. Here are some photos of the factory: www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/sets/72157611597220928/ More: www.flickr.com/photos/aaron-sneddon/sets/72157667425437442/

[@TooManyEyesJoe]

I live 7 minutes away from that factory and its got its own train station

[@Alpejohn]

I dont understand how they just leave a factory like that.. With so much value still inside? Do you know when it was abandoned?

[@enfieldjohn101]

I remember using one of these. I thought it was so cool back then. Seemed so fast then. The tablet Im watching this video on blows this PC away of course. We've come a long way. Still one of the best keyboards. You needed the templates since there was almost no user intertace to look at on screen. You also needed a notebook to write codes in as well as books about the software you were running so you didn't have to remember what DOS commands to type. Many of those commands and keyboard shortcuts still work with today's PCs. We found that binder very helpful. The main key was kept in our tower and the backup was kept taped inside the binder. Those towers were built like a tank. A case built as well as this now is quite pricey. The power port design has barely changed. The first PC we had didn't use a mouse. Didn't learn how to use a mouse nor a visual user interface until we upgraded to a 486 PC. I still love the noises that these old PCs made. Haven't heard that in years. The happy beep! Computers today are so quiet. I turn off the boot splash screens on my modern PCs so that I can watch them go through diagnostics. CD Man!?! Awesome! I remember that game.

[@devancole488]

"Do not double stack" says a sign on quadruple-stacked IBM boxes.

[@bitservicesltd]

My dad's company would have transported this between Rogerstone and Greenock. Happy memories of seeing pallets of IBM components loaded on to lorries when I was a teenager.

[@bikkies]

The first business computer I ever used was on 14th April 1986, a date so memorable that it is burned in my mind. This was a genuine IBM PC/XT with an amber (not green) screen, EGA graphics, 512KB RAM, 1 floppy and 1 x 10MB 5.25" full height Winchester HD. This came with IBM PC/DOS 2.01. I know exactly what you mean about the power switch, a gorgeous satisfying ker-klunkkk as you operate it, such a tactile experience. The keyboard was a work of beauty, preceding the model you have here. This was a type-F 83 key UK keyboard. It weighed about the same as a herd of elephants but was as gorgeous to type upon as a block of smooth coffee flavoured chocolate floating on a bed of velvet. The PC/AT was on our shopping list but this came out in our area a little before the earliest PC/AT compatibles which were a shade cheaper and, of course, not fully compatible.