I found an IBM EduQuest! One of the machines of my dreams... My luckiest estate sale find to date!

[@andrewoldham1]

Just came across your videos and am now binge watching them all. Thanks for preserving history. Funny how us collectors have an out of body experience when we find our holy grail other people think we’re weird. Great job and greetings from the UK

[@BenState]

ditto

[@HalianTheProtogen]

1:43 Oh hey, that's from Florida! Bay County is in the Panhandle; its seat and largest city is Panama City.

[@webluke]

In the summer of 2000, before I started high school, I worked with the Board of Cooperative Services in the schools of Western Colorado. The schools had thousands of these, and we would blow the dust out, wipe them down, check that they worked, and go on to other technology hardware. The video cable that you have to disconnect first thing when unscrewing the back was always a pain. One of the guys with us would always forget to reconnect the cable, and he would have to walk around and fix the mistake. These computers ran Windows 3.1 until they came through in 2001 and were replaced with Windows 98 desktops. They also came in and replaced all the token ring networking with ethernet simultaneously.

[@miketech1024]

Good to know I wasn’t the only grade-school IT technician! 🤣 Since 2nd grade, School staff would always call me in to solve problems. Didn’t matter where I was in the building, they would find me… I guess that was faster than waiting on the school’s IT staff. This was in South Philadelphia during the ‘90s. Sadly, our schools were 100% Apple (mostly Mac Performas, but there were a handful of Apple II systems still hanging on). I would’ve loved to have been working on IBM systems instead, since that’s mostly what we had at home. Lucky you!

[@robfl07]

Similar experience here.. graduated in ‘93. In my sophomore year, my HS hosted a huge tech conference with IBM to demonstrate computer networking to teachers/administrators across the state. I had been helping in the library supporting their Apple ][s and was invited to help the IBM sales/techs set up the demonstration networks. The following year I helped set up our school’s first permanent network of hundreds of the original model 25s and a model 95 tower running Novell in the library’s office. All that and my senior year I was constantly paged out of my classes to come fix one thing or another... Ironically about mid-way through my senior year, I was deemed a network security risk because I helped set it up and was kicked off the network. After enough of the staff complained and my parents threatened to sue I was allowed back on (after the winter break) to do required class work… I’ve been doing IT ever since.. (I still remember the first computer I ever used… an apple ][ playing Oregon Trail in 2nd grade.)

[@miketech1024]

@@robfl07 I’m honestly SO glad we got to do that stuff in school. Learning this stuff was far more valuable to us than learning about mitochondria or whatever. That’s funny, it was the Apple II that started it all for me too! It was in my kindergarten class. Still remember it clear as day! Of course I was playing Oregon Trail on it! 🙂

[@offrails]

First period business class at middle school in a room full of these machines - I think we had the 386 machines without CD-ROM or sound cards, but they did have Token Ring. At the teacher's instruction, they were all turned on simultaneously with that that two tone POST sound echoing throughout the classroom.

[@legacyoftheancientsC64c]

Oh man, the Eduquest machines are pure distilled nostalgia. So many hours wasted playing sneaked in games in the back row of the classroom hoping the teacher didn't notice. When my middle school upgraded to newer models one of the teachers convinced the administration to give away some of the old PS/2 25 series that were being replaced. I ended up with a 286@10mhz machine with 2 megs of RAM, decent VGA capabilities and a 20 meg HDD. I honestly have a hard time telling which machine I have more nostalgia for, that PS/2 25 or my C64c.

[@livefreeprintguns]

Bro I love your content so much, I'm able to enjoy it while relaxing in bed or when I'm at the computer doing other things... keep up the great work!

[@miketech1024]

Thanks!

[@gttarus1]

A local school district had an auction back in the 90s and they sold a lot of old apple iis and pcs like that eduquest. My brother in law bought a pallet of computers and my parents got an eduquest from them with a 386 for a few years. Don't know what ever happened to it. They probably tossed it.

[@miketech1024]

It seems a lot of EduQuests have been lost to the ages. This machine probably would have been either trashed or destructively mishandled if I hadn’t bought it. The sellers were really only interested in the massive wood lathe and other carpentry equipment that was in the garage.

[@m3gust4qu3so]

The 55 was my first computer, my grandfather gave it to me because it was liquidated from a school. I remember setting a power on password and forgetting it- and tried for months to remember it. moved it up to the attic. years later i came across the user guide and on the first few pages there was instructions for jumping a pin. Never got around to going back up and getting it. ended up leaving it behind after a move. always regretted it, haven't been able to find a replacement. maybe someday!

[@Novusod]

The high school I attended had a couple hundred of these back in the '90s. There were 5 or 6 in every classroom. They were slow but very reliable. Spent many hours typing up assignments on the IBM Eduquest.

[@chrfit1]

This is an excellent find, good job restoring it, really enjoyed the detail you put into the video, especially the time you took testing the power before booting, must have been a great feeling finding out both the power supply and the harddrive were working, that never happens.

[@miketech1024]

Thanks! I still feel like I won the lottery. An EduQuest was the last thing I expected to find at that sale. It’s funny, I keep wanting to make really technical repair videos but this and the Commodore 128 just happen to be almost fully working already… 🤣

[@shawnstillman736]

Super glue is amazing if you add some baking soda before it dries. Will make a rock solid repair.

[@360gradenpanoramafotografi7]

The soundcard with modelnumber CT2950 is the Sound Blaster 16 VALUE PNP

[@maxtornogood]

That hard drive sound would make for some relaxing background noise.

[@miketech1024]

It is lovely.

[@RachaelSA]

In the mid 90's I used to build a lot of school computer labs and internet cafes and office networks. Every other week I was setting up 30 of these at a time.

[@FlightEagle]

Thank you for a really interesting video and a trip down memory lane.

[@tonysmall7182]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one that swoons at the sight of a rare find 😍

[@vswitchzero]

Great machine and good memories! A good friend of mine had one of these back in the day as their family PC. I'm pretty certain it was an older model than this one (probably a 386 or a 486 SX) based on how slow it was. It didn't have a CD-ROM drive or even a sound card but we had a lot of fun playing some of the older side-scrolling games on it like Commander Keen, Alien Carnage and Lemmings. I remember Wolf3D was playable, but it needed a reduced window-size. I kept an eye open for one for quite some time, but they are really hard to find! Great video, thanks for sharing 👍

[@greenaum]

Hm, Wolf3D played fine on my 386-SX40, so sounds like a slower 386 to me, a 486 would completely wipe the floor with Wolf, and anything faster than, say, a 486 25MHz would play Doom no prob. Did you know they made 486's at 16MHz!? That's practically clockwork! Ahh, lovely to go back to my early PC days.

[@miketech1024]

I've searched for many years hoping to find one. It was definitely one of my 'white whales'. Very rarely they do pop up on eBay. However, the idea of having one shipped made me incredibly uncomfortable (knowing how brittle this old plastic has become). The prices they command are pretty crazy also... This machine being a 486DX2 was just the icing on the cake. I absolutely love your channel BTW!

[@vswitchzero]

@@miketech1024 Thanks so much! :) .. I know what you mean. I really wouldn't want to get a CRT or all-in-one like this shipped to me for that reason. Hoping one day I'll find a nice all-in-one PS/2 or something similar in a local sale.

[@SamOlds2999]

5th like

[@greenaum]

Couple of things I noticed... you might know this, but the little chip sockets by the CPU are for cache RAM, if you could get some static RAM chips, usually 15ns is the right speed (or faster), it would help significantly speed up processing on the machine. Second is just a little thing, the "game / MIDI / line in / out" labels look like the Soundblaster was an original part, but that it was installed upside-down in the slot with the labels. Maybe that slot went a bit unreliable so the school moved the card to a different slot? Or were they all like that, mis-labelled at IBM. It's good to see a genuine Soundblaster, but under DOS, "compatible" cards weren't very compatible, so the real thing is what you want if you're gonna run DOS, and possibly all sorts of obscure educational software. I'm telling you all this just cos I remember it the first time round, and I'm sure from your youth, that you don't! Or at least not as an adult, when this stuff was all current. Also... that was my first IBM monitor! It wasn't built into a PC of course but it looks just like it. I got it second hand to plug into the second hand 386 that was my first PC! A 386-SX40, so 16-bit data bus rather than 32-bit, but the fastest 386 available. It played Doom... just... which was the benchmark of a worthwhile computer in those days! Doom in low-res (press F5!) mode with the window brought in a couple of pinches. Your 486-66 should manage it no problem, Doom 2 too.

[@batemanjo9]

Wow, nostalgia overload! My first pc experience was on a version of this machine. It didn't have windows. It was running DOS with no CD-ROM. As a kid my first computer experience was with various versions of Apple with Dallas schools. We moved while I was in 5th grade and that same year I experienced system 7 (later called Macintosh after version 7.5) with using a mouse for the first time. I thought it was so amazing! We moved to a suburb not far away and they had these IBM EduQuest systems. I thought it was so bizarre having to type "A:\" to access the floppy for our educational programs and games 😂 been using a PC ever since 🙏🏽

[@september1683]

Very interesting! Thanks for restoring this precious piece of computer history. Here in Germany, I think these were never available.

[@paulb4uk]

Neat find a cool ibm machine saved and restored .

[@hattree]

Reminds me of my high school in the early 90's that got sold a bunch of PS/2 Model 20, 30, and 35 machines on Token Ring. I have no idea what happened to it all as it's been 30 years ago.

[@montmn]

Incredibly hard to find machine. Good for you.

[@jonathankent5898]

The EduQuest machines that I used to use had a CD-ROM that used a cartridge. You had to put the disc into a cartridge, then insert it into the machine. Nice find by the way!

[@shadowopsairman1583]

A case to make it like a floppy, even macs had them.

[@sininetulnukas]

The content does not seem to differ from what other retro-computing channels do, but the host of the channel is certainly sexiest retro-computing-channel host that I've seen so far. (It's a matter of preference, but, darn....) Also, I haven't noticed that other retro-computing channel hosts put their camera between the hands, when working on things, which is interesting approach, interesting camera angle, and sure fits to this channel here, in a good way 😀 But, OK, let's see, if I were to fantasize about a retro-computing-channel that nobody has ever done, then I would go for the "homebrewcomputer" theme, which is not about restoring old computers, but designing computers with similar technical parameters FROM SCRATCH. Nobody has done that kind of a KZbin channel yet, it would be totally novel, but at the same time, the technology, CPU-speeds, logic chips, etc. would be roughly the same, a few MHz max, may be like 20MHz max, often times more like 4MHz or less. I would try to get interviews from the builders of home brew computers. The start of the list of references would be the legendary homebrewcpu dot cooom web ring, but a search phrase of "home brew computer" is also a nice phrase to look for. But, no CPU channel yet about that. A related topic might be modern development of microcontroller(MCU) applications, taking to account that microcontrollers are not available and have to be replaced in digital designs with whatever make and type is available. The legendary Benjamin Heckerdon (Ben Heck Show founder) had a COVID19-era rant-video about the lack of availability of MCUs and how that ruins the mood of many MCU board developers. I don't know, if that would be popular on KZbin, but it would certainly be unique and first. Given the lack of MCUs, may be some applications might be done with very small "programmable logic arrays", nowadays CPLDs, which do not have as many logic_function_tables/"gates" as FPGAs. That's how industrial machines were done from discrete Boolean logic gates before Intel4004-like CPUs were available. The overall idea there is that an industrial robot or "production cell" is a state machine and for every state there is a boolean formula, where the boolean variables are positions of mechanical switches, which can also be switches that are formed of mechanical counters (devices like mechanical clocks, where the clock pointer is one contact of a switch). I'll illustrate that idea with a set of boolean formulae that describe how to move at the edges of a 3x3 square field, where columns are labeled x0,x1,x2 and rows are labeled y0,y1,y2. A square would be indicated by its so to speak pixel coordinates (x,y). Variable name prefix B_ denotes a Boolean variable. Prefix func_ denotes a function, an action what to do. B_we_reside_at_x0_y0 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_0 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_0 B_we_reside_at_x0_y1 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_0 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_1 B_we_reside_at_x0_y2 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_0 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_2 B_we_reside_at_x1_y0 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_1 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_0 B_we_reside_at_x1_y1 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_1 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_1 B_we_reside_at_x1_y2 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_1 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_2 B_we_reside_at_x2_y0 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_2 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_0 B_we_reside_at_x2_y1 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_2 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_1 B_we_reside_at_x2_y2 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_2 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_2 if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x0_y0) then func_move_right_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x1_y0) then func_move_right_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x2_y0) then func_move_down_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x2_y1) then func_move_down_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x2_y2) then func_move_left_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x1_y2) then func_move_left_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x0_y2) then func_move_up_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x0_y1) then func_move_up_by_one_square The more modern implementation of the idea that a "production cell" or a robot can be described by a series of Boolean formulae and actions, what to do, if a formula is true, is implemented in the form of a "programmable logic controller" (PLC), which nowadays are basically microcontroller devices, MCU-devices that run software that simulates what used to be implemented in discrete logic chips. Omron has even fancy IDEs with GUIs for their PLCs. The FPGA predecessors, "programable logic arrays" (PLA-s) were a revolution in a sense that people could avoid re-wiring discrete logic chips. Then, at some point, when the Intel4004 came to market, somebody came up with the idea that let's not mess with the PLAs at all, let's just write software that simulates it. One topic that no retro-computer-channel has covered, is software development tools of the era. For example, somebody had to write some assembly code for the industrial Intel4004 control devices and that assembly probably was written on some desktop computer of the era. There's a lot of talk about old games, but not that much content on software development tools of the era, specially the various programming languages that run on those computers (may be p-code based Pascal, probably some dialect of COBOL, etc.) The various development tools, IDE analogues, that were used for developing industrial control systems like the Intel4004 based control devices, would be nice to learn. May be some early CAD tools. Basically, industrial and engineering software part has NOT been well covered yet. The same goes for educational software of the era: I found a soft floppy disk as part of a university level physics study book, but I do not know, what's on there or what computer it even runs on. The british BBC Domesday laser disks have been well covered, but general purpose educational software does not seem to be covered yet. Probably it was so that the cheaper desktop computers of the era might have been used as terminals for the supercomputers of the era. I haven't noticed that anybody had covered that topic about retrocomputers. And then there are the Soviet and Japanese own CPUs. The Soviet Union copy-catted western CPUs to be able to run western software, but they did have their own, unique, CPUs too. In Eastern-Germany. It would also be interesting to know, what kind of computer architecture the Western/USA used at their missiles. For example, the Soviet Union designed a special computer for the nuclear missiles, so the U.S. must have had its military computer designs that are probably unclassified for decades by now. The U.S. space shuttle Soviet copy-cat project, Buran, was able to conduct fully automated flight from start to landing. The idea behind the Buran computer was the aforementioned state machine idea, "programmable logic array" idea, except that it had 3 of those computers that simulated the PLA and there was a vote-counter: if 2 computers gave an answer Foo and 1 gave Bar, then Foo was considered to be the answer. Americans did not have that kind of control hardware and software at that time, but there must have been something also at the American side. (I'm born in 1981 Estonia, which was part of the Soviet Union, because Estonia was under Soviet occupation. Hence my interest to the technology of both sides, including the Soviet Union side. The Soviet Union technology was not necessarily Russian technology, because a lot of the development work also took place at the occupied regions of the Soviet Union, including Estonia.) Thank You for reading my comment.

[@sininetulnukas]

I'd like to add that the "home brew computing" theme would match well with the trends that the 8bitguy has with its commanderX16 and the whole "modern electronics based components for the retro computers" theme. Thank You for reading my comment.

[@miketech1024]

Homebrew computing is definitely a topic I plan to explore, as well as taking a look at the software development processes of the time. I work in DevOps so it would be fascinating to show how far we’ve evolved. I appreciate the feedback!

[@BuckoBean29]

This was a great video. I’m very happy to have stumbled across your channel. I’ve always wanted to get either an EduQuest or one of those Compaq all in ones like that one you have at the end of the video. I hope to see that Compaq repaired at some point. It would be interesting to watch for sure.

[@olbeast]

JB Weld is great for plastic repair.

[@darnice1125]

It was dropped, that's why the bezel and clip were broken. The weight of the crt breaks it that way every time.

[@BilisNegra]

And as stated on the back label that thing is heavy at over 40 pounds, so...

[@miketech1024]

That is heart-breaking, but I'm glad there isn't more damage!

[@cyberwolfe]

10:35 - Imminent disaster is the WORST kind of disaster! 👀 Outstanding video! 💖

[@miketech1024]

Thanks!

[@bujin5455]

The "healing bench"! Nice.

[@ReidHaynes-yu6hx]

Can someone make a video of how to make a ms-dos startup disk floppy with cd-rom support

[@RETROMachines]

Superb you managed to save all these i am not sure how well tandy computers sold in the uk but they sure are great looking machines ..

[@BilisNegra]

Thanks for this, I didn't even know about this EduQuest range of machines or the subsidiary company behind those and I enjoyed every moment of this video. When I got this video suggested it looked like it could be something quite interesting and it certainly lived up to expectations.

[@JustEasyIT]

we had a packard bell all in one that reminds me of those

[@SockyNoob]

Woah, glad you stuck out and asked the buyer if you could buy this from them.

[@miketech1024]

I definitely wasn’t letting this one slip away!

[@ReidHaynes-yu6hx]

I love ur vids can u try to post more often

[@soteful9949]

you seem so excited

[@miketech1024]

I’ve waited a lot of years for this day! 🙂

[@altbeetle1998]

it would be interesting to see a review of the second computer at the end of the video. looks very nice

[@itzcaseykc]

Nice unit. Glad you were able to claim it as yours. Never thought it had the capability for a 486 chip to be used, but good that it does. Would have thought it to be an 8088 or at least a 286 considering it's design.

[@Michael_Livingstone]

Seeing the Sound Blaster 16 software reminded me of when we could type something in and the sound card would speak it out. We used to make it say “lunch meat” and the depressing way the male voice made it sound had us howling in laughter! I’m sure was laughing wasn’t appreciated in the school library. 😂

[@gxdjoeybaby07]

looking forward to more of your videos!

[@ethand.9184]

20:28 god I wish that was me🥺

[@megatronskneecap]

I love how all of these AiO CRT's are literally a motherboard flung ontop of a monitor.

[@tedcollins4684]

I repaired those back in the late 90s.

[@bikeradycbr]

Sadly we don't see much cool old tech here in the uk maybe some, when i lived in canada we used to have the commodore pet when i was younger but the Eduquest was something i remember from while after we came back to the uk very cool machines!

[@JamesDalton-c7q]

Used these from 1990 in kindergarten to 1998 in Jr high

[@jaeger8882]

Cool find! I would say that board whilst not having PCI, does have internal VL-BUS, which is used by the cirrus logic video and the IDE controller. Such a mainboard was fairly common in the 93/94 era with OEMs. Actually this whole system is pretty cookie cutter 'multimedia pc' with the Sound Blaster 16. The original CD-ROM was almost certainly a 2 speed unit. I noticed all your cache sockets are unpopulated, might be an upgrade worth considering. Also, I have never seen a standard install of Windows 95 with those program groups, including a shortcut to QBASIC. Whilst it might not be the original IBM install, it must have been fiddled with by a school or university IT department.

[@thechillhacker]

Nope, standard upgrade to 95 from 3.1, as evidenced by the volume label calling is msdos6. Those program groups are the default ones from a stock 3.1 install.might well have been upgraded with 27ish floppy disks

[@tedcollins4684]

If I remember correctly, the model 45 did have VLB. At least at least 1 model did.

[@OCROldComputerRebuilds]

keep up the hard work. I have a few IBM's from the 8088 to the P2 and the AMDs, fun systems.

[@shadowopsairman1583]

I think I used 1 of these in 93-95 in a library.

[@davinp]

Creative Labs was best known for their Sound Blaster cards. Other than dust, this PC looks to be in good condition. I remember when I was in high school in '90s they had IBM PCs in the Library computer lab

[@JamieKnight23]

Awesome video! I'm not sure those EduQuest machines ever made it over to the UK, which is a shame as I rather like the aesthetic. You're really passionate about this stuff - hope to see more videos in the future!

[@Syngekhoomei]

Wow I remember these

[@andrewbaluk1663]

looks like it could do with some L2 cache upgrading?

[@DerekDavis213]

You seem like a young guy, it's surprising that you even know abou the EduQuest.

[@miketech1024]

I was a small child when these were new. My school used Macs exclusively (specifically the Performa 575 and 5200). However, at home we used IBM and compatible systems. One day, we visited a school in another city and I was floored to see they were using IBM machines! I can’t remember if they were EduQuests. At the time I didn’t know much about the EduQuest line, but always wished my school had them instead of the Macs. Maybe that was a good thing because I would have DEFINITELY been bringing my own DOS boot disks!

[@DerekDavis213]

@@miketech1024 Mac 575 and 5200 were from the era when Apple was on the edge of bankruptcy, until Bill Gates gave them a $150 million lifeline. Today, Mac still has a tiny 9% market share. You are lucky to have used PCs at home when you were young, rather than *waste* *your* *time* on Mac, the loser platform.

[@sininetulnukas]

@@DerekDavis213 I for instance refuse to create any software for the modern Apple products, because my ideological belief system says that end users MUST be at least theoretically in control of their computers, even if being in control means asking local IT-department personnel for help. Apple is an awful dictatorship and prohibits free use of their products to the point that I kind of wonder, how long will it take, till the European Union starts to accuse Apple of producing electronic waste. Specially given the new trend in Brussels and France to demand electronic equipment manufacturers to allow end users to repair the products themselves. I remember that Microsoft had a nasty monopoly accusation and fine from Brussels for forcing Windows users to use Microsoft Internet Explorer, to the point that Microsoft stopped bundling the Internet Explorer to Windows or at least did not force it on users so aggressively. If Apple censors, what software runs on iPhones and Macs in 2023, then I would be really worried, if I were an Apple lawyer. Now, if I were owning Apple stock and given the size of the European Union market..... Thank You for reading my comment.

[@ThinkerOnTheBus]

Hey, MikeTech, I just stumbled upon your channel, and I have viewed half of your videos thus far, but you have left me quite curious regarding one matter: your computer room! Will we, the viewers, ever have the privilege of witnessing this mysterious homage to ancient artifacts? I'm sure that I can not be the only one who has had the seed of curiosity sprout within, take root, and begin to grow, and develop into a desire to quench the thirst of knowledge. If you have not yet considered it, you may want to consider creating a video covering various elements of the elusive "computer room". Surely, I can not be the only one who is curious, or interested in this matter. Beyond that, I look forward to viewing your remaining videos, and future videos alike. Thanks for sharing!

[@miketech1024]

Thanks so much! I’m actually kind of rebuilding it right now to add more desk/display space. It’s not particularly photogenic right now. 🙂 Hopefully it will be done soon!

[@sweseysworld]

Very lucky find

[@BigBadBench]

Nice video! Welcome to retro youtube :)

[@jadenidontknow4025]

Dang, Based on the tag on the back at 1:49, this EduQuest was auctioned off or sold on May 26, 2005. Or and maybe blur the district name?

[@thechillhacker]

OK, I'm sorry but I totally laughed my ass off at 8:00 as I totally called it. 4/4. Yeah this old abs is just garbage. Especially cheap abs on top of something that gets hot, like a crt. Those poor clips took ALL the heat cycles, even when the machine idled. Most of the crap I acquire rattles before I even open it up. Great work man, keep fighting the good fight.

[@thechillhacker]

And to clarify, I call it crap when I acquire it, as it almost always is - by choice. Then it becomes inventory, then a lab subject, then a machine with a job and home or merchandise, worthy of sale and capable of many years of well-loved service. It is extremely important to reclaim all the crap we can and turn it back into it's former glory (or quite a bit more).

[@DandyDon1]

Marine Epoxy works wonders in repairing plastic parts. It is also easily sandable if needed. BTW did you arms get that big from lifting heavy computer equipment? ;)

[@miketech1024]

Marine Epoxy is definitely some good stuff! I spent some years as an auto mechanic so JB Weld naturally became my default (my garage is well-stocked with it). Yeah man those old CRT monitors are a workout in themselves! 🤣

[@DandyDon1]

@@miketech1024 Although I have used both, I've found that Marine Epoxy seems to adhere to some plastic materials better and longer than JB Weld.

[@miketech1024]

@@DandyDon1 That’s good to know, Thanks! I have several other systems (including that Compaq CDS524) that are in need of plastic repairs. I’ll definitely try it! Hopefully I’ll get that video out soon.

[@DandyDon1]

@@miketech1024 One other point I have experienced with older office equipment. Some plastics become extremely brittle when exposed to Ozone. For example as generated by a plain paper photocopier "Xerox machine", charging coronas, and will break/crumble easily. I've seen the plastic covers/skins of the Xerox 5328 crumble or shatter from light handling or a drop. This machine was introduced in the mid-late 1980s. It could have also been the type of plastic used. As you probably know UV exposure also ages plastics. So handle with care.

[@OldManGuitar-68]

love these vids man!

[@SidebandSamurai]

@7:33 have you ever tried using super glue and baking soda? you can combine the two on the broken part making it stronger than before.

[@miketech1024]

Haven’t tried it before. I hear it makes a good filler also.

[@sininetulnukas]

@@miketech1024 I haven't tried it, but may be combine epoxy resin with some carbon-fiber cloth. May be the most brittle epoxy is not the best option, but I've noticed that lately there are some leather-glueing super-glues on the market. May be test those out with carbon-fiber cloth. I do not know, if it works. I suspect that brittle plastic is kind of hopeless, but may be if some carbon-fiber reinforcement at the non-visible side combined with some clear lacquer might help. Or it might ruin it. I do not know.

[@caffeinepizza]

There’s just something ironic about IBM licensing PhoenixBIOS.

[@branhicks]

Nice find. What's up with that speaker in the front? It almost seems like thats not the original sound card or it got moved from the other side. I was surprised it has the ability to boot from the network

[@miketech1024]

The sound card is indeed aftermarket. These originally used a special ‘inverted ISA’ MWave sound card. There is woefully little documentation for these machines. I gather based on Cathode Ray Dude’s videos that the MWave sound cards were pretty awful, so I’m probably better off with the Sound Blaster. The speaker in the front acts as both a standard PC speaker as well as a speaker for the sound card, but I haven’t found a way to get it to work with the Sound Blaster. I believe it only works with the MWave cards. I was surprised to see the network booting option also. I’d love to experiment with it, but the machine pre-dates the introduction of PXE. I’ll have to dig deep in order to find the relevant information to get it working.

[@rbarquer1]

Hi do you have any information about the Eduquest 30 power supply? it is missing on mine and need to try to power it up with something like the PicoPSU. What model is this Eduquest? would it use the same power pinout you showed on the video? Any help is appreciated.

[@AlejandroFerrariMc]

8:35 Every time I look myself in the mirror.

[@prozacgod]

I have an eduquest 45, whats a good price point to sell it for?

[@jazzdirt]

Soundblaster 16 pro?

[@miketech1024]

Yup! Not original to the machine, but I’ll take it!

[@ianicus123]

Likely would have been better to try and pry those monitor screw covers front the top

[@miketech1024]

It was my first thought, but the risk of snapping the entire tab in half became very apparent. Saw it happen before in a few videos. I figured they would be easier to repair if they broke in the way they did.

[@johnathanstevens8436]

Plastic from that age is very brittle, I have a PowerMac 7500 and it's horrible -- you just look at it and the tabs break off.

[@GTAjedi]

Does the EduQuest software exist out there somewhere? Would be nice to see it running on that machine.

[@miketech1024]

I’ve had no luck finding anything on archive.org or with good old googling. I sure would love to see it!

[@arthurmann578]

Maybe the KZbinr that has the Cathode Ray Dude channel can help. I see that he did a video on two of these machines just five months ago. I didn't see it yet but I will after seeing yours here. Nice video by the way! I am subscribed! 👍👍

[@SteelCurious]

I think i have one of those but I'm not sure how much to sell it for on ebay I don't want tomplug it in

[@SteelCurious]

If I have a few crts new in box should I open and test before selling or just sell on ebay?

[@miketech1024]

Have someone test the power supply at-minimum (as I do in the video) before attempting to fully boot it up. You won’t need to remove the whole back cover like I did, just the system tray. These machines are quite rare and a faulty power supply will cause extensive damage.

[@miketech1024]

Are they IBM monitors? If the boxes are factory-sealed, I wouldn’t worry about testing them. I might be interested in one. Send me some info on what you have using the business inquiry email in the channel about page.

[@SteelCurious]

@@miketech1024 ok I'll have to check and get back with you!

[@SteelCurious]

@@miketech1024 I sold the eduquest I'll email you I have more stuff, I'll get back with you after Christmas

[@idahofur]

Luckly. The two estate sale ladies don't do that sh*t. You get a fair chance and if you want to whole lot at the end of sale. You can do that.

[@infinitecanadian]

I don't know why the CRT is tilted upwards. Children are rather short-of-stature, so it doesn't make sense.

[@dkhl02]

Paracido a la Mac pero más barato 😅😂

[@6581punk]

Ouch, you seemed to put the CPU back in wonky. Hope it wasn't damaged. Also, you really should clean the unit before opening as you have no idea what's in that dust. Someone could have been grinding metal in the garage.

[@arthurmann578]

I was thinking that EXACT same thing about cleaning the dust first as it can kill electronics depending on what it's made up of! 👍👍

[@miketech1024]

The CPU heatsink is crooked, not the CPU itself. Heatsinks from this era of machines are often adhered to the chip, so it’s risky and pointless to try and straighten it out. I’m not sure how I could have cleaned the machine prior to opening it without knocking even more gunk in through the vent holes. Vacuum cleaners can create static build-up which is dangerous to circuits.

[@arthurmann578]

@@miketech1024 I usually use the blower end of my wet/dry vac to blow the crap off of, then from inside of my PCs. Outside of course...usually...as I am nuts! 🙄😂

[@factsoverfeelings1776]

Damn, they paid 5$ and you paid $100. LOL

[@miketech1024]

These machines routinely sell for around $500 soooo.

[@sarkybugger5009]

An all ISA machine in 1995? That's just plain mean.

[@Mexmex1975]

You could have cleaned it before.

[@SamOlds2999]

999th like

[@DaarkCloud]

@CathodeRayDude would be jelly