Military 286 Intel CPU / Gold Bars & IIT Coprocessor Unpacking - Most Beautiful 286 Board!

[@trnguy6137]

At 10:40 the chips crawled across the mobo and self inserted. This guy s voice is so soothing even chips do wis will

[@cptcrogge]

Dat stop motion animation at 10:40 :o

[@piotrludorowski9529]

at least 45-50 frames, nice ;)

[@lQuadXl]

_"First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the Gold Plated Chips!"_ 😁

[@sfh2050]

Sounds like IMF

[@thehistoryofnarcos1399]

Yeah Quad X :)

[@NesNyt]

You sounds like Tony

[@woldemunster9244]

"Because i can... and want." Very nice indeed.

[@streetpreacherumm]

I bet some of these CPU´s are still in service on military equipment!!!

[@CPUGalaxy]

yeah, for sure.

[@karolwojtyla3047]

Of course, there are very reliable and today hard to hack.

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

Heck you Can Calculate Ballistic Missile arcs, or it can be in a Bomb sight.

[@CPUGalaxy]

😅👍🏻

[@transkryption]

@@DanielLopez-up6os I thought this version of Scorched Earth was just a game kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHXakKCmn7Cfpsk

[@dj_paultuk7052]

When i was a student in 1990, i had a Zenith 286 laptop with a blue monochrome display. I was studying AutoCAD V10 at college and the only way to get it to run on my laptop was with a 287 Emulator program. It was so slow !. It would actually take 8hrs to redraw some big drawings. I eventually saved up through my weekend job and got a Intel 287. It cost a fortune back then but it made a massive difference. Big drawings would redraw in about 2mins, rather than 8hrs.

[@Arti9m]

Thank you for that stop-frame animation once again :)

[@floriansretrokiste6844]

Als ich die Verpackung des Koprozessors gesehen habe, ist mir glatt die Luft weggeblieben. Das Setup ist eine absolut fantastische Komposition, welche ich in der Form noch nie gesehen habe. 👍

[@CosmoRiderDE]

Ist schon geil was der alles zuhause rumliegen hat. Sachen, von denen ich nicht mal wusste dass es sie gibt! Oder gab.

[@theposguy1435]

Beautiful board! I have never seen the purple and gold ceramic memory.. thank you for the video

[@abooogeek]

Nice to see such an old Chaintech board popping in, and these gold chips! These are gold-plated latinum chips :D.

[@SainLanParty]

This video is a gem. The 10:40 animation looks great, I loved the selection of games you chose (Prehistorik 2 is one of my favorite games from that time, but it is not very well known) But the best of all was the final appearance of that 286 plate. The True collectors love the aesthetics of their computers :)

[@Yliannyx]

Wow, talk about pimping my 286! That’s a fantastic build! Looks utterly gorgeous with the gold ceramic chips! They are just so satisfying to look at! Some nice hardware additions too!

[@mrmobodies4879]

Nice to see you get stuff I rarely and don't often see and demonstrate them working very well.

[@Cherry1880]

2:15 I couldn't agree more, if a Pentium Pro has a single scratch on the gold cap, I wouldn't use it on my Quad PPro display board

[@mrbrad4637]

I had a 286 12MHz with 1MB RAM as a kid in the early 90s and I had so much fun on that computer, it was a huge step up from my 8088 XT. I loved how it was able to run Windows 3.1 very usable along with Wolfenstein 3D.. I feel the 286 was the first PC that was exciting to own, use and play around with..

[@mrroobarb]

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" as Dave Jones would say!

[@tl1024]

And Willy Wonka.

[@eadweard.]

And Keats tbf

[@c.zatara-673]

What a great video! The production quality is top notch, the RAM modules stop-motion added so much to the final edit =]. Your passion for the tech in this episode was captivating!

[@CPUGalaxy]

Thank you!

[@cburgess5294]

Late to the party but I shared your enthusiasm while watching this video. Very nicely done! I love the end-product. I laughed out loud when you burned your fingers installing the CPU socket because it is something I would do.

[@OzzFan1000]

I have no idea how you're able to score so much rare stuff, but it's really cool seeing videos of the stuff. Thanks for sharing!

[@RodBeauvex]

Money. And Patience. But mostly Money.

[@CPUGalaxy]

more patience..

[@daghtus]

There are quite a few channels I like to watch but I look forward to your new videos the most. Greetings from your Slovak "neighbor" (just across the border).

[@CPUGalaxy]

Thank you 🙏🏻 ☺️

[@catriona_drummond]

So happy to know that there is somebody else out there whose approach to retro electronics is about beauty.

[@nadieselgirl]

There are some white ceramic and gold 186550 uarts if you can find them! Beautiful board and project, thank for you for helping me relive my early PC memories!

[@transkryption]

"The 286 is the missing link between the 8088 and 386" - 80186 cries

[@JosiahGould]

Eh, the 186 wasn't really intended as a desktop processor. It was more of an early SoC with so much integrated - really an 8086 with a bunch of support logic integrated for embedded systems. I was really surprised Intel kept making them until 2007!

[@fremenondesand3896]

@@JosiahGould Wow, considering how ephemeral modern CPU's are, that's quite surprising. I wonder what systems were using 80186's?

[@transkryption]

@@JosiahGould I thought it was buggy.

[@SmithKerona]

@@fremenondesand3896 A product that uses 80186 that I still use at work is the Modicon Quantum PLC CPU modules from Schneider Electric used extensively in industrial automation (example140CPU11303 module). If you are good with x86 assembler, you can create what are called "loadable" exes that you can call from the programming software if you want to implement your own fast routines for data communication. In fact Schneider Electric was still selling these CPU modules (with 80186) until 2015.

[@fremenondesand3896]

@@SmithKerona that's a great answer and I'm surprised that if they've been making them until 2015 they'd have stopped. What's the replacement, some single board x86 computer?

[@SUCRA]

What an awesome system you put together here, and the video production is no short of a true documentary on the world's prettiest 286! I love arkanoid, played a lot of that and Lemmings. I never played prehistoric but it looks really good, I played something similar called Humans. Loved the video as usual, thanks for this massive effort! Really entertaining.

[@CPUGalaxy]

Thank you my friend. 😍

[@roberthorwat6747]

A very enjoyable watch. Loved the animation of the gold chips self installing themselves.

[@eightbit1975]

Beautiful. And I commend the fact that you have archived the co-processor test software. I hate when people find a disk and never archive it. The software now lives on.

[@osgrov]

This is my favorite video of yours so far, what a beautiful board it became! I made an audible "whoaa" when you opened up that box of RAM chips, lol. Trust me, they are worth every penny you paid for them. I was hoping for a Seagate ST15150N in this build but that Fujitsu looks great, too. If you haven't played with that Seagate, go look it up. It's my favorite hard drive, and it sounds as good as it looks, haha. It's a bit too new for a 286 though, but still. :) Love your channel, keep up the great work!

[@pablodrescher-flores9884]

Same when he opened the box. So cool!

[@PeterHaida]

I share your passion in vintage computers and also other electronics, the 286 board does look truly awesome, thank you for making your videos.

[@necro_ware]

OMG! How long did it take to make that animation? :D Great board, really nice work!

[@CPUGalaxy]

Thank you. ☺️. Well, that animation took me 2 hours. It turned out to be more effort than I thought. But I love the result. 😅

[@TheVanillatech]

Thats some serious dedication for ya! WELL for US really, the viewers. Soon as I saw that animation I smashed the "like" button and subscribed.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@CPUGalaxy having dabbled with stop-motion about 15 years ago, I intimately knew how long it must've taken. But it looks great! Well done!

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

Good work !

[@VK2FVAX]

I really liked the animation. Those RAM chips looked like they *REALLY* wanted to be there. I'm quite partial to my 286's also. I like to think of them as SuperXT's. Enjoyed the video. Thanks.

[@Michael_Brock]

Always love your stop frame amination of chip(s) walking to their sockets. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Great content as usual 👍

[@CPUGalaxy]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@Michael_Brock]

@@CPUGalaxy BTW watched that section 4 times before moving on to rest of this excellent video.♥️♥️👍♥️👍♥️👍♥️👍

[@CPUGalaxy]

Thank you. I am happy that you like it. So the hours I spend for these few seconds were worth it. 😇

[@Michael_Brock]

LOL it's amazing when you run the that 10second sequence at quarter speed, but I muted sound after first run because distortion on music. Must have watched it 20 times, my favourite CPU galaxy short section. Thank you for that 2 hours you put in just tomake just that! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🆙 Now I have to find again that walking CPU you did a few months ago. This vid goes in my personal KZbin "hold " (forever) list for the stop frame animation at 10:40.

[@J0r]

That stop-motion was awesome!

[@GeorgesChannel]

Great video! This is "Fort Knox" at 10 MHZ. I am looking forward to future episodes of this great project.

[@CosmoRiderDE]

So the 4x4 iiT extension was basically the MMX for 287 math co-processor. Nice feature! And: awesome board with all the gold! Please dont show your address ever, scrappers will come to steal this. :D Again, awesome video. Thanks for the unique content. Greetings!

[@teknologyguy5638]

Great video, hope you get back into these more regularly.

[@fiziflash]

The boot sequence due to this bios model is identical to the one on my first computer, 286 which I had when I was 14 years old. I kept looking at that part of the clip. Including the checkit program, which I used then, and the bios menu. I remember when I bought that first 286 second hand, when the sellers started it for the first time and did the computer their checks with ... ok at the end of each checking, one of the sellers joked and said that "it counts his electrons ". I will remember this joke along with the pure joy I felt all my life .Thanks!

[@tl1024]

I love your channel, very entertaining. Thanks for bringing us fine examples of classic hardware.

[@cosmicrain4345]

Wowww ...i have the same passion about ceramic and gold chips the new pcb looks so nice...but u can also replace this common ttl chips with ceramic D type instead of this boring plastic pack.As always a top quality video!

[@alvaroacwellan9051]

I love the military 286 and the IIT 287! The huge array of gold top memory chips is a bit too much to me, but it's just my taste :D One day I'd like to test my PGA 286 chips too... good to see that the socket is compatible with the CLCC board - unfortunately I still don't have a board for ceramic CPUs that works... But now that you showed it - it seems to me that even a PLCC socket could be replaced with a 387 one... Hmmmmm, new possibilities!

[@ShamblerDK]

This video was a fantastic walk down memory lane. I started playing Pong on the Lambda 8300 in the mid-80s and have been gaming ever since :-)

[@CandyGramForMongo_]

Three cheers for the Adaptec AHA1542C, the best ISA SCSI adapter ever! It just works with everything.

[@kemi242]

I love those purple/gold ceramic beauties.

[@cornflake75]

Wow, interesting technique to solder the new socket in !

[@CannedNoodles]

That looks amazing! I see why any enthusiast would have fun putting together such a system like this

[@calvinthedestroyer]

Duel 8088: I'm I a joke to you?!

[@totoliciu]

Great video! I just found your channel and the work that you do and the way you explain things require sincere congratulations! This is a real passion and a form of art for you and I think this is one rare thing in the field of computers.

[@spamwich0]

I really like the ram ships looking like marching ants into the sockets very cool, also that is a nice looking computer.

[@heinrichberger3908]

Brings back nice memorys of the good old times! I love it!

[@karolwojtyla3047]

Love it when this beauty gold ram chips running into their sockets. :)

[@hgbugalou]

OK I dig this project. Definitely keep going with it and make a part 2 at some point.

[@ctiborkoza8944]

That motherboard is a real beauty

[@IkanGelamaKuning]

Hi bos, Im from Malaysia, I always proud to see my country name printed on most cpu shown in your channel. Nice channel bos. Subscribed.

[@CPUGalaxy]

thank you 🙏🏻

[@lowfinger]

If I explained that this video existed to everyone I know they would think I was crazy and it wasn't true. But this video is made for me (and of course the many other ceramic package fans out there). Great work.

[@AncapDude]

I just felt in love with this build.

[@ScottLynn-gz2hl]

I remember there being software racks of 3 1/2" floppies at the local grocery store when I was about 16yrs. I remember purchasing and playing BriX when I was a kid and man it was so much fun. My dad had a Packard Bell 386sx (w/o the math co processor) You could still play a lot of games and I have a lot of memories about that computer.

[@alfulton5946]

It definitely looks good. I hope it works well for the games

[@armchaircommenter6805]

congratulations on your newest treasure! please never change and i hope you never run out of content. your guttural sounds of sheer glee are just as endearing as the hardware itself. 😄 also, too bad that the sound blaster awe64 gold isn't appropriate from a historical point of view. optically it would be a great match and it would still fit in those isa slots though... 😉

[@CPUGalaxy]

Thank you 😊. Don’t worry. I have so much stuff here and so many ideas that there is no danger to run out of content soon. And no, I will not change to Thin Client reviews and crap from Ali Express. I am only producing videos I would watch by myself as well if someone else would make it. 😉. Yeah, the AWE Gold would be a great choice, but its too far away from the historical pov.

[@blaiserobitaille1940]

That is one of the most creative ways to "Hot Air" a component! Good Job!!

[@Alex4SiliconValley]

That’s what Steve Jobs said “Build the best computer and don’t settle for anything less”. I am glad to see you used nothing but your best components in your 286 build. Looks Fantastic. I like to use nothing but the best components in my PC and Mac computers too.

[@MegaFirewalk]

love it, your stop motion animations are so good.

[@Buciasda33]

The amount of computing power we have at the moment almost makes me sick especially when looking back. It's just like looking down at the pavement from the top of a skyscraper. Your board looks amazing.

[@neilbradley]

Such well produced and interesting videos! Bravo!

[@joegee2815]

I agree these are beautiful and back in the 80s any of us would have given our left nut for a decent 286 machine. But I don't miss the slowness and continue to appreciate what we can do today. Great video as usual. Great production quality. Thanks for remembering history for us.

[@deang5622]

But you wouldn't have paid extra for a 286 with ceramic package chips. Not when there is no performance improvement. And such a PC would have cost a lot more.

[@joegee2815]

@@deang5622 I actually skipped 286 entirely. Kept my IBM PC until 386 came out. 286 was still encumbered with that 1MB address space and a modest increase in clock speed.

[@docrx1857]

10:40 So beautiful. Thank you for this.

[@faumnamara5181]

your enthusiasm is priceless

[@MaxKoschuh]

great video, as always Man spürt die Begeisterung für die schönen Chips, die sich in der Stop-Motion widerspiegelt

[@Cluffmaster1980]

Love the spin up sound of classic scsi drives 👍

[@SeanBZA]

The Military and regular CPU is the same die, just the testing is different. You should read the testing, IIRC Motorola and National included it in the early databooks as part of the book, so you might find them in databooks on Archive.org. I still have the paper ones from pre 1980.

[@geoforconsulting]

Sleepless nights boost human kind. Subscribed!

[@JonWhitton]

Thanks for sharing, great 286 setup. Vintage gear and memories

[@cedric0850]

Amazing, i love the gold capped stuff!

[@ferrumignis]

Love this video! My favourite game back then was F29 Retaliator, my brother and I both had 286 PCs (built from parts from local computer auctions that were popular at the time) and this game allowed head to head combat using a null modem cable. Good times!

[@TrueNorth1970]

My first PC was of course a 286 :) learned all my beginner computing on it and loved it while it was contemporary up to speed :)

[@damienbalbriggan]

Amazing as always. Nostalgia overload ;)

[@enilenis]

This was my very first CPU around 1989. The computer was crazy fast. As good as some 386's.

[@GigAHerZ64]

Damn! That's a flex I've never seen before!

[@tron3entertainment]

I had Check-It, as well. It never found a single issue on any machine in which I used it. I was also at a computer show where I met the developers of Lemmings.

[@DaveWithMS]

I used to run a Citadel-86 BBS system. It was on our 286, 12mghz my dad installed the 287 coprocessor. We had a Sound Blaster sound card. And had a 30MB hard drive and a 100MB hard card and four megs of ram then often I ran a 2MB ram drive which was way faster than I ever needed it was fun for running games. It started out with a 2400 baud external Hayes modem and then later upgraded to a 28.8k USR external modem. Yeah we had a Okidata 321 macro line dot matrix printer. I have no real reason to tell you other than when I think about that computer it brings back good memories and you're probably the only person (and your followers of course) who would understand what I'm saying.

[@GameSensay]

This is a work of art and should be put in a museum.

[@CRSolarice]

Very nice. I've been full of regret ever since getting rid of my 80286. It had quite a few nice looking chips.... What color would be most compatible for your jumper pegs? I'm so glad that you didn't completely destroy this wonderful video with that Kindergarten music that you played when you swapped out the memory.... I've been noticing the prices increasing for old peripherals as well and I am loaded with them. I put them away inside of 3 huge suitcases all anti-static wrapped up. I guess I'm sitting on a small fortune, without even being greedy about it.... You have a good eye for computer chips and while I don't put funny lights inside of my cases, etc I can certainly appreciate what you have accomplished here.

[@UpLateGeek]

It looks like there's a fair few 74 series logic chips on that board too... You know, they did make ceramic versions of most 74 series logic chips, which would look perfect alongside your other chips!

[@davidca96]

I have to say thats some really good manual soldering 👍

[@tobiasit1743]

dude, that with the Ram was so cool in the video 😋👌🏻 it is filmed so perfekt cool! awsome dude!!!

[@CPUGalaxy]

Thank you!

[@intrinia]

Around 13:46 I have the excact same drive, but opened the lid to see the discs as a showcase.

[@Vermilicious]

Nice bling you've got there!

[@nonsuch]

Even though my first computer (if you can call it that) was a Timex Sinclair 1000 in the early 80's and then a Commodore 64, I consider my first "real" computer a Tandy 286 running Windows 3.0. It was the last solid machine I had before everything became modular with the 386 and beyond. Things just went uphill (or downhill, depending on how you look at it) from there. I have fond memories of going to many "computer show and sales" to buy components. Fun times!

[@xMEGAxARLUx]

Nice! It's a jewel 💎 I like it! Great setup! Greetings from Chile!

[@olepigeon]

13:36 - Yay! Another admirer of the Fujitsu SCSI drive. I have the Fujitsu M2694SA, it's the 1GB version. It's sitting inside my Macintosh IIci. I also have a 2.3GB Fujitsu Magneto-Optical drive and external Fujitsu floppy drive connected to my IIci. Sort of a theme going on. :D If only I can find a Fujitsu CRT or LCD, I'd be all set. I don't know why, but the white casing on that Fujitsu HDD is just classy. 👌 I want to find more and just hoard them. They're deceptively heavy.

[@monad_tcp]

12:54 I find it funny how that ATI went nuts with the silkscreen.

[@TEAMHYBRID007]

I'm at the very end of the video you are an amazing man and you are taking me down the rabbit hole of stuff I did like 30 years ago I don't know it's like it comes back to me but it's something I don't think about anymore I've come to embrace newer technology I guess I don't know but I still don't know where it all started From Hell when you talked about scuzzy drives I know it didn't say it properly SCSI drives you really pulled at my heartstrings because that was the best back in the day there was 50 pin scuzzy or the 40 pin IDE and then there was the EIED which was the better one I'm not sure how old you are but I'm about 40 and I've been playing with computers since the mid-90s my first computer that I owned was a 286 i b m my parents first computer was an 80 86 made by Allied signal

[@rodhester2166]

awesome job, great looking build. lots of good memories.

[@yakacm]

The B-52's were 'upgraded' to 286 in the late 20th century, it might possibly be 386, but anyway I remember seeing a block diagram showing the systems and they definitely had old Intel in them.

[@bennyrogergundersen3040]

Used to sell those Chaintech motherboards back in the days, later it came with space for sip ram module as well if I remember correctly

[@RodBeauvex]

Ceramic and gold CPUs definitely need to make a come back. I love the stop motion thing with the RAM. That was a nice touch. Watching this makes me want to go pull out my full AT discrete logic board.

[@MrHBSoftware]

nah...it would be awesome but the way its going they will make vegan biodegradable cpus

[@deang5622]

Ceramic never went away. It still has its uses, notably in space based applications and vacuums.

[@jamesgiaquinto3907]

Very nice. Good to see a 286 all dolled up and working. I thought when you added a 287 chip it would disable the 286 since they were the same chip just one has a MC. Not for anything but a militayry grade cpu is cool.

[@deang5622]

No. The 287 complemented the 286 MPU, not replace it.

[@stickmenwithrayguns]

I remember purchasing a IIT coprocessor for my IBM Thinkpad 700 ( 486sx ) back in 1992. It was ridiculous expensive but did wonders for Spice Simulations. 🙂

[@monad_tcp]

nice stop motion of the ram chips going into the socket, loved it. if only I could subscribe twice, yep, subscribed with another gmail account...

[@whamer100]

whoa this is a really really cool build

[@tekki2go75]

I really enjoy that this cpu is still faster than the calculator I have to use for the final exam tomorrow xd

[@UncleAwesomeRetro]

Excellent video :D I looks really nice!

[@Raguleader]

Gotta say, having used some "military-grade" gear, I'm impressed that CPU worked lol

[@W1ldTangent]

I've found military-grade can go one of either way... built-by-the-lowest-bidder junk, or stupidly-expensive yet decently-made kit. All depends on the contractor and the contract.

[@W1ldTangent]

On occasion, a given stock item made by one company will have the contract transferred to another and the product will actually improve. An example is the standard US military padlocks for non-secure/unclassified purposes. It used to be made by Masterlock, and soldiers who lost a key had the easy out of just picking them open and not having to bother the quartermaster. After they were replaced with those made by Paclock, suddenly.. bolt-cutters became the go-to tool, and requisitions for new locks shot through the roof. Of course, military beancounters in their infinite wisdom see the sharp rise in replacement lock orders and assume it must be because they're not performing to specification, and they review the contract and ultimately gave it back to Masterlock. Ironically it was because the Paclocks were actually *too* good.