Giant Retro Towers - Teardown and test!

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@GigAHerZ64
@GigAHerZ64 Жыл бұрын
It is recommended to drill through one of the leads to internal battery when modifying those dallas RTC chips. You don't want the old battery to become additional load for your external battery.
@auteurfiddler8706
@auteurfiddler8706 Жыл бұрын
Yes. I bet if he checked the voltage after combining the new 3 volt batter to the old 0.5 volt, the new voltage would be somewhere around 2.0 v That said, I have found that 0.5v is usually enough to keep the settings.
@AureliusR
@AureliusR Ай бұрын
​@@auteurfiddler8706Doubt it would drag it down that much. The internal resistance of that internal battery is likely very high.
@dezhocob
@dezhocob Жыл бұрын
I love such skyscraper looking cases, so imposing yet so much potential for yummy external expansion slots! Everyone needs at least 5 floppy drives of various sizes and form factors in every case! So much expandability inside and out, front and back.
@alpetterson9452
@alpetterson9452 Жыл бұрын
Friday's wouldn't be the same without you Mike.
@fridaycaliforniaa236
@fridaycaliforniaa236 7 ай бұрын
Agreed
@ThePolaroid669
@ThePolaroid669 Жыл бұрын
Wow - over an hour of Mike! yay!! Awesome video (as always).
@foxyloon
@foxyloon Жыл бұрын
My theory is that the Toshiba SCSI drive from the first machine had a fatal head crash on one of its platters, but is a multi-platter/head drive that can still read from the other one(s). Would explain how it's still readable but has a ton of bad sectors marked like that. Would love to see an autopsy of that drive at some point!
@thestoneworks
@thestoneworks Жыл бұрын
Most likely right, but even the smallest dust grain could cause it, and most likely wouldn't see anything unless you got the microscope out. Or the head was just damaged. I've taken apart a few of these where it's like half the drive died (very common back then) and you wouldn't ever see anything on any of the platers.
@Null_Experis
@Null_Experis Жыл бұрын
You can use superglue and baking soda to build up the plastic tab on that door and file it into the shape you want. You basically apply glue, sprinkle on the powder and it turns into a hard rock like substance, and you can just build it up a layer at a time. The chemical reaction does produce some heat, and happens quickly, so let the part cool down so the plastic doesn't deform.
@branscombe_
@branscombe_ Жыл бұрын
I love this channel and thanks for your dedication to retro computing!
@miketech1024
@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!
@daboneyard
@daboneyard Жыл бұрын
Another fantastic, long video full of just enough detail and explanation.. I learn something every week. The pacing of your videos is perfect. Keep it up.
@ntc3631
@ntc3631 Жыл бұрын
Yay another awesome video from the gorgeous techie! ❤️
@QuaaludeCharlie
@QuaaludeCharlie Жыл бұрын
Thank you Mike for the Big Tower Retro Show , I was working at a PC Repair Shop in St. Louis called Word Pro during these years and this is some of the stuff we would see . Good to see Bigger cases like these as they are becoming more Rare :) QC
@procta2343
@procta2343 11 ай бұрын
I think i bought the very last one from my PC repair shop 20 years ago, case was shite quality but it did the job. Binned the system off about 6 years ago there, Everything was practically buggered drive wise, and the motherboard was shite one anyway. laugh was i had a fault on its 1st board, so the shop "sent it away" fast forwards 10 years later, when they were shutting down or what ever, and they give me a bell, i was like what board?? he tried to say it was lost in the post, i was like aye fella, nearly 10 years and it pops up. I think i had even binned the original setup off by that point. collected the board and it went straight in the bin.
@skjerk
@skjerk Жыл бұрын
Using the Floppy interface for Tapedrives was actually very common on low-end systems. Expecially those Colorado drives.
@MervinGriff
@MervinGriff 3 ай бұрын
That Hi-Q computer does indeed have a Enlight case, I built 2 systems in 2003-2004 and that was the exact cases I purchased. I still have one empty case with an Iomega Jazz drive in it on my shelf.
@eugeniuszgorka8599
@eugeniuszgorka8599 Жыл бұрын
Wymieniłem procesor i komputer działa , o dziwo . Nauczyleś mnie , Mike Dzięki . Mam 64 lata . Pozdrawiam i dziękuję . I replaced the processor and the computer works, surprisingly. You taught me, Mike Thanks. I am 64 years old. Best regards and thank you.😁🤭👍🤝
@partycatplays
@partycatplays Жыл бұрын
Ah Goldstar, the "G" half of LG before they merged with Lucky
@orangejjay
@orangejjay Жыл бұрын
You seem to be forgetting that it was actually the Gold and Star companies that merged. Lucky and GoldStar was a "partnership." 😉
@partycatplays
@partycatplays Жыл бұрын
@@orangejjay after all these years, seems to be a distinction without a difference 😉
@AzDawgNo1
@AzDawgNo1 Жыл бұрын
Love all of your videos, I've watched them all and look forward to you releasing a new video at the end of each week. ❤ I noticed those 866MHz Pentium 3's were only running at 520MHz, I'm guessing the settings must have been input manually and when the CMOS battery died it went back to defaults (I'm pretty sure that board is new enough to not need jumpers for setting bus speed and multiplier lol)
@BernhardWeber-l5b
@BernhardWeber-l5b 10 ай бұрын
Found your channel by accident. Immediately subscribed. Excellent content!!
@RetroTechChris
@RetroTechChris Жыл бұрын
Great vid! Yea, the Colorado drives of the time used a floppy interface. You could order a FC-20 card that would speed up access quite a bit. Yours truly did a video on that, comparing the speeds!
@jeffb6786
@jeffb6786 Жыл бұрын
That last tape drive is probably a Colorado Jumbo 250, maybe 120, but yeah, floppy interfaces were really popular with the CMS tape drives. They also made portable ones that used the parallel port to transfer data. Not very speedy, but they got the job done. They take QIC-80 tapes that you can compress. I still have the 2 tapes I made from my 486/66 Win 3.11 machine back in 1995, and they're still readable. I bought a NOS Jumbo 350 off eBay and it came with that extended floppy cable so you could still have both 3.5 and 5.25 drives connected. Anyway, another awesome video, Mike.
@miketech1024
@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info!
@tangerinepuma28
@tangerinepuma28 Жыл бұрын
Love the videos man, you're the only KZbinr I can sit down and watch the entire video. It is so entertaining for a fellow computer nerd like me. Thanks for always giving me something to do on Fridays.
@marktubeie07
@marktubeie07 Жыл бұрын
Superb hour of Mike goodness - load of fun towers there and some surprises,!
@germancaperarojas4023
@germancaperarojas4023 Жыл бұрын
Ol' Mike, I saw this video as the first from your channel and I am totally in love. High quality images, full knowledge of the systems and very well picked retro computing beasts from the past. Lots of things to learn from yours. Instant subscriber and die hard fan... hahaha.
@miketech1024
@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@SiD3WiNDR
@SiD3WiNDR Жыл бұрын
Notched case is top notch. I salute you, sir.
@OneSmallStepWeb
@OneSmallStepWeb Жыл бұрын
That last system was a gem. The design and the pairing of parts was just perfect IMO. VBL Mach 2, OPL3, 486 DX2 and cache chip. RAM and his selection of drives. Dream system.
@OneSmallStepWeb
@OneSmallStepWeb Жыл бұрын
Posted before testing. Might regret my words...
@branscombe_
@branscombe_ Жыл бұрын
43:25 thanks for the fun run down and clean up, that was super fun! my fav so far from all your builds!
@JVHShack
@JVHShack Жыл бұрын
The PSU from system 3 looks like the guts are interchangeable with a later PSU if it turns out that it's unrepairable. Awesome goodness seen in this video, Mike!
@gmguevara
@gmguevara Жыл бұрын
Ahhh good old Maxtor drives. At some point they began to add an animal to the PCB. In this case: a schnauzer dog. I've had an 850MB IDE drive with a shark on it. Later I found that Maxtor wasn't THAT reliable 😂. I absolutely love this videos. They bring back SO many memories. Keep up this amazing work!
@ivanjakanov
@ivanjakanov Жыл бұрын
1:00:10 those style of cd drives are so satisfying, i wonder how common they are to find in sata
@daspec
@daspec Жыл бұрын
I have that board in one of my old workstations and I love it. The only difference with the DLS model is the Adaptec 7880 SCSI controller, which is the classic AHA-2940UW but onboard. I already had a faster card so I saved some money. At that time, there were already newer and faster U160 and later U320 SCSI adapters, so buying the expensinve version made no sense. It is a fantastic board and even supports dual 1.4 P3 Tualatin, albeit with small intermediate socket boards for the voltage regulation. No mods are required. Just CPU coollers with adjustable springs to take the slack for the extra 2mm height difference. It maxes out at 4GB of RAM and supports AGP pro 4X GPUs and newer 8X but at half the bus speed. Having such a machine back in 2000-1 was a pleasure to work with and it was expensive AF. That rig along with a rpofessional 22" CRT monitor cost me almost $10K in today's money adjusted for inflation. It would run circles around SGI and Apple systems of the day. I still use today for retro software with Linux and Windows XP/7 and it can even do all modern things. This thing has paid for itself multiple times.
@melterofsnowflakes
@melterofsnowflakes Жыл бұрын
Stopped by an estate sale last Friday. Looked around, saw some tech stuff. Picked up an EnPower TW3 EAA-89 laptop for $25USD. Never seen one before. Core Duo T2300, 1GB of RAM (512 onboard, 512 stick), 80GB HD, 945G video, 15.6" 1280x768 screen, and LOTS of ports: Four USB, firewire 400, PCMCIA and SD card, s-video, NIC and 56K, and something I've never seen in a laptop before: DVI output! Like an actual full sized DVI port. Too cool. It's in really good shape, all I needed to do was reseat the CMOS battery. Seems like a really good computer from 15 years ago. Is running XP home SP3. It also had all documents and email intact. So, PSA: When you sell a computer, wipe or destroy the HDs.
@mspysu79
@mspysu79 Жыл бұрын
Some really cool systems there, and quite a trip down memory lane with that JDR Microdevices power supply. JDR had some really cool stuff back in the day like POST analyzer cards and cards with breadboards on them for making interface cards. That Micronics Motherboard and Power Tronic Power Supply combo is the same pairing that early Gateway machines used, I wonder if Gateway was the OEM for Tri Star and others. It also looks like there was a scanner attached to that machine with the HP SCSI card (NCR Chipset) card and a copy of Ofoto, I would guess an HP ScanJet 4C. NCR made many of the SCSI chipsets starting in the mid 80's and yes the chipset in the other machine did say tolerant, it was a style of chipset that they started in 1990 with the Mac IIfx it was supposed to be more stable and less prone to SCSI Voodoo, but in the IIfx it was very prone to SCSI Voodoo but they were pushing the chips and the drives for throughput in that machine.
@clok1966
@clok1966 Жыл бұрын
Zwnon was a heavy advertiser in Computer Shopper in the 90s. They let you build your machine the way you wanted, video card, ram etc. I had a giant case you have already shown in a video with a PentiumPro 200 and a Imagine II number 9 ( the kick azz video card of the day, later upgraded to Orchid 3dfx sli setup). It was a huge expense back then $2000 . They pretty much beat any other vendor and had a good rep as far as I can remember. Quake at horrible FPS but still beating everybody else machine 166 etc machines, the PPRO 200 when released was a beast, the kids would cry today with the FPS numbers... the bad old dark ages.
@RetroPC
@RetroPC Жыл бұрын
I was so excited to sit down and watch a 1 hour MikeTech video! As a kid, coming across towers like this - with the mindset that bigger always meant better - I always thought that 'If I could ever get my hands on one of those... I could play any game in the world.' 😆 Thank you for the awesome video!
@robertcase2961
@robertcase2961 Жыл бұрын
12:28 JDR Microdevices! Wow! That’s a blast from my past. I grew up in their hometown of San Jose, CA. I would go into their store on Bascom Ave every so often. Their products were generally top notch. Their people tended to be a bit rude, tho.
@arsenemercere8059
@arsenemercere8059 Жыл бұрын
I don't know how I found you, but this brought back memories of teenage me working on computers in the late 90s. I don't know anything about modern computers, but I followed everything you said. And to be honest? I still prefer the form factor of those old towers. I can't even begin to explain why, but I'd still kill to have a modern build in one of them.
@Svein-Frode
@Svein-Frode Жыл бұрын
What a haul! So many amazing vintage computers. Thanks for sharing!
@WJCTechyman
@WJCTechyman Жыл бұрын
Well this video brought back memories. When I was a teenager in High School in the early 2000s I used to play around with old systems like these. Now, I never came across any old towers like those shown here but I saw the Baby AT systems and definitely had a few of those as well as some old Digital Electric Corp 486 slim desktop systems. My favourite systems to work with these days are either Lenovo or HP business desktop systems with the relatively tool-free designs. In fact, my HP Elite Desk tower has the legacy of Compaq Deskpro computers tool-less design implemented in it even down to the size of the power supply casing.
@SkullCommander
@SkullCommander Жыл бұрын
Nice find and review, btw, on the last tower computer, i believe that small ISA Card with DB25 pin connector, is not a parallel port card, but a SCSI card which usually used by scanner, usually older HP or UMAX scanner (the card comes with them when you purchase these scanners), the card uses NCR/Symbios 53C400 SCSI controller chip
@256byteram
@256byteram Жыл бұрын
37:00 sounds like you need to make yourself a "programmable load". They can be made from an op-amp (plus support components), some high power resistors and several MOSFETs in parallel, bolted to a heatsink. Google "programmable load schematic". Going by your previous videos, I doubt you'd have trouble making one. Cheers.
@Greg1096
@Greg1096 8 ай бұрын
2nd case looks extremely similar to an old IBM case I use to have
@ericsills6484
@ericsills6484 Жыл бұрын
After your comment about hitting your shop lights when opening those AT cases, I would have inserted a glass breaking sound effect and showering glass video effect just to be funny 😄
@gentuxable
@gentuxable Жыл бұрын
24:46 love how it says "some bad sectors" in the legend on the right. :D
@appleontheapex
@appleontheapex Жыл бұрын
These full size cases were always odd to me. There's often so much wasted space inside that could never really be useful. But they are extremely cool looking to me now! I think one of the first few videos on my channel was about a Gateway P5 something and I recall even that one being massive. Also 2:04 may or may not have been a highlight of this video 😂
@lemagreengreen
@lemagreengreen Жыл бұрын
I knew of a few people with them, some would even drag those giant things to LAN parties. I also remember a lot of them with all the drives as low as possible since people didn't own long enough IDE/SCSI cables. There was definitely a lot of wasted space, in the early days of jank watercooling they found good use for the space though :)
@voiceofjeff
@voiceofjeff Жыл бұрын
I believe I have some of the tapes that will fit into that drive. They are new and in the box that came out of an office that just never got around to using them when they threw out all of their computers that had those drives in them. Ha! I really enjoy your energy and enthusiasm, and really enjoyed your videos (and I love your watch, too!) Be well, friend!
@Marco.Teixeira
@Marco.Teixeira 10 ай бұрын
Your Dallas hack with a drill bit is the best I seen, and I saw a lot... That's even good to hold the solder in! I sure will try that next time! Congrats on the channel. Just one suggestion after seeing other videos... don't forget to always check the motherboards power rails for shorts. Keep up the good work.
@branscombe_
@branscombe_ Жыл бұрын
1:00:00 wow, that is just too cool! love that caddy!
@davidmckendry4491
@davidmckendry4491 Жыл бұрын
I love watching repairs on older pcs I'm only used to working on modern pcs and find this very informative.Thank you for your content.😊It's very interesting to me to see this even though I owned vintage pcs when I was a teenager I never worked on them.First pc was a Compaq 286 with two 5 and a half floppy drives using MS-DOS 3.0 such nostalgia I also owned both a Compaq 386 and 486 both running windows 3.11 for workgroups .😅I sort of miss them. The old comoaq keyboard ms felt more tactility pleasing the roller ball mice werent so great though.Had an old cannon bjc 200 printer and loved the way it printed at the time even though not perfect and a couple of dot matrix printers b&w such nostalgia.
@wundermonkeyuk
@wundermonkeyuk 3 ай бұрын
Awww man such nostalgia ❤️🧡🩵 also I don't think the heat is coming from the weather 💪🏻💪🏻
@skynetd-termination98
@skynetd-termination98 Жыл бұрын
Proud citizen of Mikeropolis!
@moezarella1261
@moezarella1261 Ай бұрын
I'm really late to the game here, but it always makes me sad, seeing those ginormous pre-Pentium and Pentium Towers: my first "Retro"-PC was a 486 I got in 2005 when a firestation cleared their storage out. It was huge, came with 2 Hard Drives (a whopping 200 MB total! should be enough for anyone), a working install of DOS 6 and wfw 3.11 and a complete office suite. I played a lot of Commander Keen on that thing. I haven't seen it, since I went to university - my parents left it behind, when they lost our house... But on a happier note: I really enjoy your videos, Mike! Thanks for the great deep dives, your passion and your knowledge :-) Greetings from Germany
@branscombe_
@branscombe_ Жыл бұрын
Just loving that HIQ case, Mike.. It's my fav so far that you've displayed.
@allenrusselljr
@allenrusselljr Жыл бұрын
I just found your channel and i love it. I grew up hacking these old dinosaurs together. Being born in 1980 i was learning as the tech started to boom (everything nearly doubled in speed every 6 months). I think i was 12 and installing the new windows 3.11 ugrade! Around the same time my external 2400 baud modem was replaced by a 14,4. Hacking was new and everything was vulnerable. I could go on and on. Thank you got sharing these
@RobertDickens2002
@RobertDickens2002 Жыл бұрын
You just made me remember something I forgot all about with that CD rom caddy I had a gigantic external cdrom drive with one of those I had forgotten all about that.
@fhunter1test
@fhunter1test Жыл бұрын
On third machine - NCR53C400 is a SCSI card, not a parallel port. Probably from some scanner. (at ~ 47:11 or so)
@auteurfiddler8706
@auteurfiddler8706 Жыл бұрын
I wondered why it had no jumpers.....
@DominatorHDX
@DominatorHDX 10 ай бұрын
Finally! I've been waiting 30 years for a good review. Where can I buy one 😄
@dmjoel
@dmjoel Жыл бұрын
When I first started in PCs I built an XT class clone with parts from Jdr m icrodevices. Long story short: NEVER AGAIN WILL I even entertain buying from them. It was 1987. The MCT parts were cheap VERY cheap. In the first year I went through 7 miotherboards and 8 power suplies 5 of which came D.O.A. I tell you this to use caution with that PSU as to the broken catch on the case door they were usualy Touch latches. I really enjoy these vids a the trip down memory lane. Joel
@abx42
@abx42 Жыл бұрын
That third system is beautiful. Would love to have in my collection.
@thudtheace
@thudtheace Жыл бұрын
That 3rd system probably used a colorado memory systems QIC tape drive(i.e. jumbo 250). They used the floppy controller for the interface. Sound card is SB16 with scsi-2 interface, with waveblaster header and jumpers for internal/line-out output plus the usual jumpers for dma/high dma, and irq. Very nice.
@demenACE
@demenACE Жыл бұрын
Awesome finds! Who would have thought that one had dual processors!
@jamesblinzler7421
@jamesblinzler7421 Жыл бұрын
Those sound blaster 16,s are great man. I upgraded my placard bell 396 with one. Loved it.
@IrnBruNYC
@IrnBruNYC Жыл бұрын
Seeing the RealPlayer icon in the system tray of that Windows 98 machine triggered my PTSD. RealPlayer was the bane of my existence in 1998, yuck.
@PCBWay
@PCBWay Жыл бұрын
This is so GOOD, Mike! 👍
@TheNZJester
@TheNZJester Жыл бұрын
I had a SCSI CD Drive with a Caddy that looked identical to that one in the Tri-CAD case. Mine was a CD Writer. I remember it taking ages to burn a full disk. Mine however was in an external case with a 50pin centronics plug on the external case. I used it on both my PC and my Amiga.
@EsotericArctos
@EsotericArctos Жыл бұрын
That little transformer can likely do more than you think. Remember the 12 volt rail is only rated at 10amps. The 250 Watts is all rails combined. The 12V rail was rated at 120Watts max, but it didn't do it. Probably bad caps. With the power supply open, the heatsinks will get hot as you didn't really get any air flow over them, but you are right in that saying that PSU is pretty well rubbish. I am just playing devils advocate really.
@Constantin314
@Constantin314 Жыл бұрын
great video, Mike! i just luv it cause it's about an hr long, i could watch even 2 or 3 hrs long videos that you make.
@tony--james
@tony--james Жыл бұрын
Yup, it's Friday, looks like a good one!!
@michaelmiller4154
@michaelmiller4154 Жыл бұрын
You’ll always love opening a random PC, you never know what’s in it and just makes it more fun 😂
@DeadReckon
@DeadReckon Жыл бұрын
Man I am jealous of that dual Pentium III system, bet that'll run late 90's games like Half Life flawlessly. That last system is a dream DOS gaming system too!
@auteurfiddler8706
@auteurfiddler8706 Жыл бұрын
I would like to see him set it up and see how many games will play. Personally, I found ME could play games a lot better than XP for games that would run on either OS. But, what OS will support dual CPUs? Even today the second CPU (such as xeons) seems to add nothing to gaming even under Windows 7, 10 etc I played GTA San Andreas with a Celeron 1200 and it played pretty well under ME. Not so well under XP with the same computer. So that is a game to start with, since it is on the edge. I'm going to say I had a 64 k Radeon 7000 or something about that level.
@makedaevilmage
@makedaevilmage Жыл бұрын
I really enjoy someone giving so much TLC to old systems
@SockyNoob
@SockyNoob Жыл бұрын
I love how you tortured that first hard drive. Was hoping for the magic smoke and/or a fire lol. Some lovely systems all around, probably tall enough to support my desk.
@blackheart58
@blackheart58 Жыл бұрын
Great video as always! Towers like that come up almost to my knees. I never really had much interaction with them. I have seen them at the Philadelphia School District building and in the offices on 8th and Snyder. Love the cd caddy as in the olden days lol. Your videos never cease to amaze me. I look forward to new videos every Friday.
@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365
@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 9 ай бұрын
Those ATI cards with a Rage Theater chipset are precious and highly sought after. They are still considered in 2024 to be the best VHS/analog capture devices ever made for the digital conversion.
@cocusar
@cocusar Жыл бұрын
Now, a quick word about old AT psus. They had most of the load on the 5V, not on the 12V. Loading the 12V line with car lights is not technically a good idea. Look for a motorbike or an old car 6V light, and use that on the 5V, not 12V. Since there's just a single transformer for all the important voltages on an AT psu, and they're not regulated separately, you have to think that loading one rail, but not the others, would make the loaded rail "low", and make the others read "high"; exactly as it happened with that PSU that got 9.42V on the 12V but the 5V skyrocketed to 5.82V! Only a few selected gamer PSUs have a separated mains to 12V circuit and then 12V to 5V and 3V (and servers, of course)
@AnthonyRBlacker
@AnthonyRBlacker 8 ай бұрын
I actually got the smell of cooked on wet dust and dead skin particles when you opened up the power supply on the HIQ machine. Oh that scent.. that old damp dusty stale nasty smell I miss and love so so much. Great!!
@parandersson6541
@parandersson6541 Жыл бұрын
Over an hour, I like that. Nice video as always.
@TheTerminalGuy1
@TheTerminalGuy1 Жыл бұрын
So cool to have these systems! Nice resurrection
@elit3darkness
@elit3darkness Жыл бұрын
Brother, I just subscribed. The systems you check out are some of the greats I grew up with! SCSI Ultrawide, SCSI II... I love that era of PC. 5.25", 3.5" Diskette Drives and a CD ROM. Back when you can go GENERATIONS of upgrades and the "core" PC still kept up. Back in the day: Max out the RAM and Overclock, and youre good to go for another decade.. Keep Posting!
@branscombe_
@branscombe_ Жыл бұрын
46:50 wow I love that sound card, damnn!!
@DuneRunnerEnterprises
@DuneRunnerEnterprises Жыл бұрын
Yeah,my favourite type of cases, lucky you,Mike!!!
@KevinJohnson-je1pe
@KevinJohnson-je1pe Жыл бұрын
Wow thanks Mike for a another great video and a long one to. Thanks for taking me back to the early days. Please keep up the great work. Kev
@BernhardWeber-l5b
@BernhardWeber-l5b 10 ай бұрын
Ah, this is so beautiful to watch!
@pierreinthavong181
@pierreinthavong181 Жыл бұрын
An hour long of video - really good vid!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻☺️
@ocsrc
@ocsrc Жыл бұрын
The crazy design of the large cases had the main board under the drive cages which made me crazy. I had a 9 GB SCSI external hard drive with my 386 The drive weighed 40 pounds and was 2 feet by 32 inches by 12 inches high. It was my prized drive. Back in the days of 386-16 mhz mother board with a 80 mb hard drive. I paid very little for the drive. I had a Symbios 50 pin / 68 pin internal connector and I think a 68 pin external connector and a 50 pin external connector. I had 25 pin SCSI adapters and 50 and 68 pin adapters. I ran a flatbed scanner that took a full minute to scan a legal page I had 3 devices on the SCSI external and 3 internal hard drives and a CD Rom. It was a monster of a system I ran DOS and Windows 3.1 and was so happy to get Windows 95. It changed my life
@GabrielsTech
@GabrielsTech Жыл бұрын
Interesting how the two intake fans in the dual Plll system are set up as exhaust fans, and not intake. Makes sense the amount of dust in the floppy and etc as all fans now create negative air pressure inside the case.
@seanthiar
@seanthiar Жыл бұрын
I still have and use a big case similar to those, only it was designed for ATX-style mainboards. It's the only component in my setup that is still the same. Everything else was changed and I never had any airflow and cooling problems people have with newer cases. The only case I would it change for is an old Dell case where you had the mainboard on one side and the drives on the other. Don't know what it was called. It was sold as a high end gaming system / workstation and you could fit 14 5.25 drives in it.
@homelessEh
@homelessEh Жыл бұрын
brilliant addition of the price tags on the parts .. truly a legacy left over from when it was small independent assemblers piecing the stuff together el manual. good way to show the customer the value and to make sure the shelf price tag is profitable.. lol
@davidmckendry4491
@davidmckendry4491 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for content.😊Such nostalgia i love it.
@kargandarr
@kargandarr Жыл бұрын
It is also better if you are a certified electronics repair tech from the 90s. They make drop-in replacements for those battery chips to this day. I have seen them on other channels dealing with retro PCs from the same era.
@MrSardoc1
@MrSardoc1 Жыл бұрын
Oh sweet sweet entertainment, but I'll have to wait with this one till the evening. Want to watch the whole thing properly.
@Natures_Intentions
@Natures_Intentions 9 ай бұрын
Its awesome i just found your channel Great videos we love retro computers in all forms Binge watch time
@jp-ny2pd
@jp-ny2pd Жыл бұрын
This whole system reminds me of when I started seriously getting into computers back in the late 90's. I would imagine the Sound Card was probably the last thing to get upgraded on this thing. Sounds cards were so cheap and relatively decent by then that it was almost a no-brainer upgrade from any sort of ISA based sound card. They were usually garbage compared to a good PCI sound card like an SB Live, but still an upgrade over almost anything ISA based. A lot of people were still running AWE64's at the time.
@auteurfiddler8706
@auteurfiddler8706 Жыл бұрын
I honestly could not tell the difference. I used a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 in one of my most long lived systems and could not fault it for anything. I NEVER wanted to use the CD Rom interfaces from any sound card, though.
@auteurfiddler8706
@auteurfiddler8706 Жыл бұрын
It seemed like I used a 4 channel amp that , with a flip of a switch could take two channel input and image it to the back speakers. I wish I had not broken that amp since it and the speakers were far better than what I use now.
@RuruFIN
@RuruFIN Жыл бұрын
That Deer PSU is F- tier what it comes to quality. I'd throw that to recycle bin immediately.
@johnc7512
@johnc7512 Жыл бұрын
These are awesome. They have much more character than today's computers.
@oceania68
@oceania68 Жыл бұрын
Full towers were always my favourites, they still are in a way.
@kevinTheabla
@kevinTheabla 11 ай бұрын
Seeing old software is the best
@SdjdidjeuDidjdjdkkd
@SdjdidjeuDidjdjdkkd Жыл бұрын
Cool e-waste collection
@neilh990
@neilh990 Жыл бұрын
Aww look at you putting on the perfect amount a thermal paste ;)
@westtell4
@westtell4 Жыл бұрын
ooh i was looking forward to the big bois
@Stonerman023
@Stonerman023 Жыл бұрын
Nothing like som good ol' computer archaeology!
@The_Real_CMA
@The_Real_CMA Жыл бұрын
Hey Mike, love your videos. I always have them on while I'm tinkering with retro computers. Quick question, what hardware do you use to capture the VGA output from these machines?
@ChuckedTech
@ChuckedTech Жыл бұрын
Love your videos Mike! Recently got back into computers because of them, they're very helpful!
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