You stand in a dark room and see a strange box with a faint amber glow, Before it sits a rectangular device with letters and numbers. What do you do?
@c1ph3rpunk4 ай бұрын
XYZZY
@anumeon4 ай бұрын
"Inspect strange box"
@brasscog88904 ай бұрын
@@anumeon The box appears to have buttons each have a symbol on them, but some have multiple. You sense a strange field eminating from it and there is a strange amber glow with a blinking light onwhat appears to be a mirror on top of the device. What will you do?
@HerrWieland4 ай бұрын
Push the buttons with the letters D, I and R and then hit the button that has a rectangular arrow pointing to the left on it.
@brasscog88904 ай бұрын
@@HerrWieland You see a flash and a scrolling list of characters fill the amber device, some seem familiar almost all end with a . and three more characters. What will you do?
@lateve62434 ай бұрын
My dad owned a 286 for accounting from 1988 to 1998. The "drama" of my early teenage years was seeing all my friends with Nintendos and SEGAs having a blast with tons of games easily playable by just poping-in a cartridge rented at the local blockbuster. While I had to engage in strange social clubs with older men, learn MS-DOS to navigate the file system, know exactly what my hardware was to set the games up and learn a new language, English, to play games like Sierra's Quest series or just being able to read the manuals or magazines to stay informed. Then some of my friends' dad bought computers and they were all 486s, I finally had people my age to share games but the limitations of the 286 hit hard. I tried all the tricks and the less than reputable shennanigans to squeeze any bit of performance out of it to play games like wing commander or the latest point n' click adventure games like Sam n Max or Monkey Island . It was a lot of frustrations but it also was to best school for personal computing. Made me the nerd that I am.
@SeanBZA4 ай бұрын
Also no burn on the screen, pretty much every office computer monitor had such a hard burn in that you could read the menu with no power turned on, just from the burn. I do remember one Olivetti ATM that, due to the poor phone lines it was connected to, had deeply burned into the green CRT the words "Temporarily out of order", that were visible even when it was actually working, as either a burn or a dull section of the display, according to if it was dark or lit.
@teh_supar_hackr4 ай бұрын
I heard of an old CRT used for security that had an image of the maze from Pac-Man stuck on it.
@j.d.69154 ай бұрын
This takes me back. My second PC was a 286 with about 2mb ram, 320x300 vga graphics, clocked at 12 mhz. It played Golden Axe like a champ. Those were the days.
@wille84fin4 ай бұрын
Ah, good times. My first PC experience was with a 286 and quickly after a 486. My actual first PC was a K6-2 (~450Mhz) and it sucked. It was notorious for overheating. Played a lot of games though, from DOS onwards. My first (good) GPU was GeForce 2 MX.
@barryschalkwijk93884 ай бұрын
(super(VGA) and 2mb ram was a tiny god back in those days. Of course it played Golden axe lol.
@j.d.69154 ай бұрын
@@barryschalkwijk9388 Well, I had a Tandy 1000 EX before that. It didn't play Golden Axe, at least, not at a playable frame rate.
@jersmont13094 ай бұрын
in Golden Axe for pc you can play as anyone, just rename the character files if you look at the dir you can play as any enemies
@chadvanderlinden95484 ай бұрын
The amber, green and even yellow screens were supposed to be easier on the eyes than the original white on greyish black monochrome monitors. They certainly seemed sharp and felt better; but years of research discovered they weren't as helpful as hoped. The truth is that they were cheaper to build than white phospher screens, and being exotic colors meant they could command a higher price.
@TomanovicsGergely4 ай бұрын
My first PC was a 286 in 1994 and there was a special promotion in the store where we bought it: we got a 80 MB HDD for the price of the 40 MB one and that felt like wow, it's literally unlimited storage space (compared to the school computers having HDD's ranging from around 10 to 20 MB's) and impossible to fill it :D Took some 2 weeks to fill it with copying all pirated games my schoolmates had on their PC's.
@BasVoet4 ай бұрын
Ah the 286. The memories.
@grumpyoldwizard4 ай бұрын
I always liked those amber/orange monitors. They look great.
@UCm0i6w5lBlRthCtZEoj99tg4 ай бұрын
I love that amber screen. Reminds me of the computers at my library when I was a kid.
@fatjesuscult4 ай бұрын
Came here to say this
@erichobbs40424 ай бұрын
We got a Compaq 286 in 1984, and it had the amber monitor as well. Seeing this one makes me really nostalgic for all those hours I spent after school playing Kings Quest and Police Quest in glorious monochrome orange.
@noelht1Ай бұрын
This is taking me back to the happy times. That’s a proper high spec machine. I love it
@PixelPipes4 ай бұрын
The amber screen DEFINITELY elevated the experience. One reason why I love the Compaq Portable III.
@brasscog88904 ай бұрын
Speak the word, I got a job in high school just to get a second phone line to fire up the 1200 Baud modem up without my sister picking up the other phone in the house and killing the connection. Those were the days to play Co-op it required loading up the car with 100+ pounds of PC equipment, driving to my friend's house and spending half a day wiring up null modem cables with a couple breaks to head to the 7-11 for a double big gulp in a milk carton. All that just to play Space Rogue. The extra phone was good until ATT sent the usual $200.00 bill for long distance calls because they are comstar. Video games killed the tabletop star... In my mind and in my car (with said equipment) we can't rewind we've gone too far...
@DaystromDataConcepts4 ай бұрын
I remember well the 286 era. It's amazing how much one could do with so little back then. My use case was a little different. We used Altos 286 based running Xenix to support up to 8 users. I remember getting the 386 and later the 486 and each felt so much faster than the previous generation.
@tsm6884 ай бұрын
when CPU's actually got faster instead of junkier and gimmickier
@jothain4 ай бұрын
I loved amber displays. It was very clear and so... Warm and pleasant
@IDieHardForever3 ай бұрын
.... this was the best nostalgia video I've ever seen. I'm 43 but was tapped in to all this. We had an Epson 286 salvaged from my Dad's work that got our family started. It wasn't until the 386 that things got real but this really brought me back. Appreciate ya.
@hackerx73294 ай бұрын
The real world of games on early PCs wasn't the arcade and console ports. It was all the weird little indie dev titles from one guy or a couple of friends who sent there stuff in to a publisher and managed to get it released along with all the weird shareware you would find on disks at book stores or download from a BBS. Go look at a ASCII based game like ZZT and then have it sink in that it was the same company that after a few name changes became known as Epic Games and now makes pile of cash with fortnite. Or look at another early ASCII based title that started life on UNIX mainframes, then eventually move over to MS-DOS, spread like wildfire, and ended up spawning an entirely new genre of games. That game was Rogue and now there are countless titles called rougelikes. There are plenty of other tales of humble beginnings that shaped the world of gaming into what we know now.
@dgmt14 ай бұрын
PC gamers have always tended to be mainly adults rather than children and thus the popular games on the platform reflect that. It was becoming very evident even by the end of the 80s that PCs was becoming the main platform for RPGs, adventure games, 3D games and simulations due to the massive advantage the PCs had on memory, storage and raw CPU power over other systems. The amiga and ST were great platforms but it's telling that if you go through the lists of top 100 games on either system, the majority of the titles from around 89/90 onwards have superior PC versions that were intended for 286/386s.
@DanielMReck4 ай бұрын
Totally loved the amber phosphor screen I had on my Compaq Deskpro 286. Zaxxon never looked better. Today, I set my terminal to an amber theme, and depending on the mood load up an era-appropriate BIOS font.
@NorthernStar19824 ай бұрын
My work experience in high school was amusingly with our schools IT Technician and on the first day he had me reinstalling DOS on "ancient" (by then) beige desktops located in an old training salon in the school in the D&T block. And I'd never seen an orange phosphor monitor before then. Green yes but orange? I was mesmerised. That particular day is crystallised in my mind. Alongside the hair washing sinks. That was an odd repurposing of a school room.
@skRapKlan4 ай бұрын
Ahh that beautiful amber screen really takes me back.. Thanks for the memories, dude!
@CTSFanSam4 ай бұрын
Yep, the ORIGINAL dark mode. What seems new is actually old.
@AlistairMaxwell774 ай бұрын
one of these epson 286s, badged slightly differently for australia , was my first pc back in 88/89. specs were the same except for ega card and monitor. pretty nice for the time.
@joshpayne40154 ай бұрын
An amber monochrome monitor via Hercules graphics adapter was my jam throughout undergraduate college in the late 80's since it was all a poor college student could afford at the time in my IBM XT clone system, initially only dual-floppy but later upgraded with a whopping 30 MB Seagate RLL hard drive. My roommate, a bit more well-heeled than I was, had the CGA card and a CGA monitor and could play Alley Cat and Leisure Suit Larry in glorious 4-color CGA. Aaah, the memories.
@grecinos24 ай бұрын
Nostalgia points for the monitor, it reminds me of a 20" NEC flat screen CRT I had many years ago.
@bivas1084 ай бұрын
I learnt computers because my father bought a 286 in the beginning of 90s in India. That was not that common at all, and he sparked my interest in computers and how to work with a limited resource like you mentioned as a kid. The greatest technological education I got.
@Great_White_Great_White4 ай бұрын
3:30 - Don't you go teasing me like that, Nerd!!!!
@FlyboyHelosim4 ай бұрын
Why did I read that in Ashens' voice?
@bluemoon59294 ай бұрын
Thanks alot for that warming video and especially for your wise words about limitations. I remember loving these old machines. Built up a 286 with monocrome screen myself when I was in school even I already had a more powerful PC. ♥
@noelht1Ай бұрын
0:37 OMG that the Belinea monitor. I had many just like it
@JGreen-le8xx4 ай бұрын
I'd love to say that's an amazing machine, but to quote a system requirement off an old videogame box "1MB of ram, or get lost." 😜
@rotteneffekt44164 ай бұрын
Had that Philips orange display on my philips 8088 XT. Thank's for the feels.
@Thevaporwaveraver4 ай бұрын
I appreciate how gentle you put the monitor down. Also a very long time viewer by the way, love your content as always
@Martin21124 ай бұрын
Weirdly the most nostalgic bit of this video for me is that Belnea monitor in the intro, used to have those in the office at my first job! (around '98).
@0wl9993 ай бұрын
Started with a 386, quickly upgraded to 486. Xtree Gold was my preferred file browser, and uncounted hrs in Doom, Quake, Commander Keen, Duke3D, ect.😂
@AndyEmerald4 ай бұрын
I also like amber orange. It does feel comforting, easy on the eyes, and nostalgic. I have all my RGB peripherals set to that color.
@hippybuddhist4 ай бұрын
I always loved the 80 column display format. It looked special.
@workonesabs3 ай бұрын
The .286 we had in 1990 was a 286 12mhz with a full height 330MB, yeah a 330MB HDD. Dad got it from work and was massive, not only it was a SCSI, so was very fast with its SCSI card. Later on a Soundblaster 16 card was added,
@mattblatchley20614 ай бұрын
my first PC was a college writing lab 286 in 1993...dang that was fun to learn...I hooked up whatever I possibly could to that thing!!! including a clunky hand scanner!!! so freeking fun...
@J45yu4564 ай бұрын
This is a lovely video good sir! Keep these coming
@CricketEngland4 ай бұрын
My first Pc (after my Amstrad CPC 6128) was an Olivetti PCS 286 running Dos 4 and Windows 3.0 Later upgraded to dos 6 Windows 3.1
@philipmcdonagh10944 ай бұрын
i guess Windows 11 might be pushing it.
@T.E.S.S.4 ай бұрын
quality video. I'm really not familiar with those orange displays, but I think I love them. I instinctively feel they'd be much easier on the eyes than green displays.
@EpicLebaneseNerd4 ай бұрын
i started my journey on an IBM-286 with 1mb of ram and a 70mb HDD, it was a great time, it was an amazing time, playing those games like WOLF 3D , LOTUS ESPRIT, SUPAPLEX , I even added another 1mb and played some amazing games like mortal kombat 1 and desert strike. It was weird what a great machine it was, added a sounblaster and played Alone in the dark 1 and 2.....until i needed a 386 with 4mb to play doom and dark forces and fifa 94, but it was one hell of a ride from 1992 to 1994. i still think they were the best gaming days of my life.
@UKprl4 ай бұрын
I remember seeing someones computer running Windows 3.1 a an amber display (in Hercules graphics mode?) back in a time before I could even imagine having my own PC - I'd have to go to the Uni campus to use one. I had assumed it would be terrible in monochrome and less vertical resolution than VGA but there was something about both the sharpness and the way gradient and halftones were being displayed in the fading daylight that evening. It turned out to be way more usable that expected and certainly enough for the built-in programs and early productivity applications.
@matthewchandler78454 ай бұрын
This was the first computer I ever used/saw as a kid...it was my mothers spare office PC (at her work). It sat right next to her typewriter (I am not kidding it was still being used in the mid 90's in some places). It could well have been a Tandon model as I remember it had a key in the front but I could change the color setting on the back like the epson.
@gamingtonight15264 ай бұрын
My first PC was the 286. Used it for business and playing games. First PC game I ever played was an adventure game, called Les Manley Lost in L.A. A game lost to history!
@seanlavoie24 ай бұрын
Monochrome ^_^ . . . Wonder if you could hook an old Apple II up to that. I know there weren’t as many in the UK, but monochrome and educational software Apple games would be like exploring Childhood in the US. Apple was used at schools even into the 90’s at some schools.
@techdistractions4 ай бұрын
My first PC was NEC Powermate 286 with a hercules graphics and amber screen - and I got it in the mid 90s when everyone had a 486. Traded my Nintendo to a friend for it. At the time I loved it even with all of its limitations. Leaderboard golf in Hercules with the realsound pc speaker sound was mind blowing to me at the time :-)
@PeacelordApropos4 ай бұрын
Thank you! What a flashback!! I remember the old 2, 3, and 486s
@JohnKelly24 ай бұрын
I had an amber monitor with a Hercules adapter on my first PC. I'd run a TSR called SimCGA before I ran any game and never had an issue with compatibility. Later I wanted to upgrade to a VGA card, but I couldn't afford a monitor. My computer store had a black & white VGA for only $99, so that's what I went with. That made for some amazing looking games.
@edtuckerartist4 ай бұрын
My first PC was a 386 that I purchased just as the 486 was launching. Knowing very little about PC's at the time I was just looking for a new computer not necessarily a PC I looked in many shops to find a computer I could afford, the Atari ST, Amiga and 486's on sale were tempting I simply did not have the budget for them so ended up with the 386 and a VGA monitor on credit which took me a fair few years to pay off so it was quite a while before I upgraded from that PC.
@synthoelectro4 ай бұрын
I remember back in the early 90's, around 90 - 91, seeing video game magazines, where PC's were being showcased and how the graphics were far superior to any console at the time. This always made me want a PC, and everyone spoke highly of the 486 in those days by mid 90s. I think a lot of us were moving away from the console market into the PC market by that time.
@tsm6884 ай бұрын
LOL, took until the Pentium era for those predictions to truly happen. In 90-91, the only cobnsumer application which really used those higher graphics modes was Splash. Even in the 80486 era 320x200x256 was about the fastest you could do with continous fullscreen updates.
@synthoelectro4 ай бұрын
@@tsm688 It was the early IBM's the 128's I think.
@tsm6884 ай бұрын
@@synthoelectro the pcjr? my condolences
@synthoelectro4 ай бұрын
@@tsm688 I don't know because I never owned anything past a Tandy Color Computer II by 1987. It was later when I my family bought the Packard Bell in 95. But I do remember it was around the same time when Mean Streets the game was being show in magazines. This was as far as I remember 1987, I was 10 at the time. The graphics started becoming very good around the same time of early 1989 and 1990s computers in magazines. I even had a friend who owned a large tower and he played those kinds of games around 1991.
@duroprem4 ай бұрын
My first pc was a 286 which we got second hand from my dad's business partner. It had a similar orange-and-black monitor and I only had a handful of games for it, one of them being Grand Prix. It ran and looked like ass, but I loved it. Ah, simpler times.
@TheReimecker4 ай бұрын
Awesome Video i love this Amber Monitors one of my first pc's also used one of this nostalgia pur
@Aldenfenris4 ай бұрын
A 286 with an amber screen! that takes me back to when I was a kid, I had that, lots of fun. I used SimCGA to run older games and cga only games on it as well XD
@BastetFurry4 ай бұрын
Isn't it the law by now that every old PC has to be demoed with Planet X3? 😅 Nice find! ❤
@RandomBrantley4 ай бұрын
Back in 1990 I remember a friend that had a 286 with a Hercules monitor and card. And he showed me a little program that allowed for CGA emulation on those type of systems. I never needed it so I can't remember the name of the small app. But it ran full speed like it was native.
@Nza4204 ай бұрын
My first PC was a trs-80… tape player to load programs.. my second was a 286/12 from DAK.. cost my dad over 2000 in 1990.. i loved that thing. Played Wing Commander like a champ with 1mb of memory.
@fishy79014 ай бұрын
My first PC, mine was 2nd hand from a flea market and had a 20mb HDD and lots of holes where the floppy drives should be but it did have a colour screen. It had Alone in the Dark 1 and Leisure Suit Larry 1 installed on it.
@MrClawt4 ай бұрын
In the early 90s my mom brought home a word processor with an amber screen. It was amazing to look at. Not much fun mind you, but something special about it.
@RobSchofield4 ай бұрын
Great fun, great script, great music!
@ste765394 ай бұрын
I worked at an architects in the early nineties. They had an IBM 5150 in a back room and as far as I can tell, nobody had ever used it apart from whoever it had been who set it up in the first place - the identity of whom was lost to time. Anyway, I fired it up one lunchtime and found it had just two programs on it - Space Invaders and a golf game I unfortunately don't remember the name of. They'd spent a huge fortune on that machine, someone played a couple fo games on it and then nobody touched it again until I discovered it that lunchtime 🤣
@Ezyasnos4 ай бұрын
If you ever come across 3+ menus, I would absolutely LOVE to hear! I'm looking for it for decades now
@jwoody88154 ай бұрын
My 10MHz AT 286 w/E-EGA (Enhanced EGA, basically a standard EGA card with some extra RAM that suppored higher than standard EGA resolutions with full 16-color through software tricks) had a very simular case. Havent seen a case with that styling for 25+ years. Later upgraded that case with a larger harddisk(s) and swapped that CPU for a AMD 386 40MHz Board with 4MB RAM and reused everything else. DOS 3.3 and later MS Windows 3.0. Upgraded to VGA a few months after that. Quite an upgrade for me back in 1996 (Yeah I had my own PCs as a kid but I was a bit behind the times till about 1999, Hand me downs) BTW: Fun Fact - My Actual house with a full yard is smaller than your apartment, lol.
@darak24 ай бұрын
Text mode has aged well. It is *fast* and crisp, with very readable text. With the low speeds of computers from the 80s, graphic modes would usually compromise resolution (and readability) or speed. I find the clean interfaces of WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 extremely clean and serene in comparison to the modern equivalents. Those programs were hard to use (that was long before CUA menus, the mouse, or standardized shortcuts) but later text environments such as the Borland languages or Framework are easy and pleasant to use.
@herbiehusker18894 ай бұрын
We had a 286 with an EGA card. It was so awesome when most people had an 8086 with CGA.
@kFY5144 ай бұрын
My first computer was a 386 with 4 MB of RAM, but it had a Hercules card, a CRT with orange phosphors, a 40 MB hard drive and no sound card just like the one shown here. And it was in a desktop case with twin 3.5"/5.25" floppy drives, even though it was 1995 (or maybe even '96) and literally nobody used 5.25" floppies anymore. I had a couple of DOS games on it, including Prince of Persia, as well as a copy of Windows 3.1 - even though it couldn't run most of "modern" Windows 3.1 software, as most of that required VGA at the very least. Still, I learned the basics and even some programming (QBasic and Turbo Pascal) on it. Good times.
@sidneysnottley64144 ай бұрын
Talk about tottering down memory lane - that brought back some wide eyed memories - Cheers
@HomelessTechnology4 ай бұрын
Wow that amber screen was nostaligic! So was the Philips screen with no base. They were some of the first PC CRT I used back in the day. Started with a Atari 520stfm, then had a 286 IBM PC XT with an amber screen, then 386, loads of different 486, began playing Doom! Next it was Pentium from 100mhz to 233 MMX with the fancy black heatsink, then Pentium II. If I had all of the systems now I had back in the day I would be rich lol.
@magicknight84124 ай бұрын
That is one very nice machine and setup!
@MazeMouse4 ай бұрын
That Belinea monitor is bringing back memories. I've had a similar one to that with my first PC.
@itsjohniley4 ай бұрын
My first PC was a 286, it was an Amstrad 286 with a (I Think) 40Mb Hard Drive and 1Mb of Ram. I could only use it for basic Windows/Dos stuff and the only game I had was Links golf on it! And this was back in 1993.
@Bacon4204 ай бұрын
I had my 286 from 9th grade (1988) and dragged it with me to college in 1995...still didn't have a color monitor even! I loved the grayscale of Hercules 256 shades more than any CGA 4-color turd. When I got to college, one of my roommates had a 386 with VGA...and a built in 9600 baud modem... we only disconnected from BBSes to call out for pizza. mmmm
@raelik7774 ай бұрын
There is NOTHING as sharp and crisp feeling as 80-column text on an MDA card outputting to a really good amber monochrome CRT, especially if it's got a nice dark black level and an amber phosphor right between orange and yellow. Don't want it too dark orange, but you also don't want it too yellow. The ubiquitous Amdek 310a is probably one of the best.
@daviedaviedave4 ай бұрын
I had a Tandon 286 computer. I upgraded from a Amstrad 1512DD (640K upgrade and 20MB HDD) and going to the 286 was quite a step up. MS-DOS and Windows 3.0 goodness, complete with an EGA graphics card. I remember the first game I launched on it was Commander Keen and was grinning for days.
@tranka61124 ай бұрын
First PC we had was an IBM compatible ES-COM with 1MB RAM, a 12MHz 286 prozessor, and a VGA card. Sadly, only pleeper, though, but in retrospect I think I was better off with all the supirior versions of Zak McKracken, Monkey Island, CIVII or MMIII... Couldn't have it all back then, but now when with emulators you can, and some of theses good old games stand out to this day. Amazing!
@Nostalgianerd4 ай бұрын
Escom is really interesting. I'll be covering that soon
@halitimes24 ай бұрын
While living my mothers basement in my teen years I had a cracking 286 working as my “home server” running NetWare Lite, mostly hosting the WAD files me and my friends used to play in Doom Deathmatch (with some snazzy batch file to sync your local Doom WAD repo from said server, it was ground breaking). Ahh thinking of those NE1000 IRQ conflicts and 10base-2 bus breaks almost brings a tear to my eye.
@johnthedatascientist75854 ай бұрын
Great Video, I enjoyed watching it.
@andrewstombaugh93184 ай бұрын
While not a 286, I had an Epson Apex 100/20... Epson machines were beautiful and well built. I loved the aesthetic and hide-away controls. This 200/40 is in very nice condition, and the moment I saw it, I had to watch the video!
@Choralone4224 ай бұрын
That 286 machine is in awesome shape! But for me PC gaming really took off in the pre-doom 386 era. Games like Wing Commander that made good use of the still fairly new VGA graphics along with Adlib or Soundblaster sound. Stuff that ran well on a 386 16-25 MHz PC. That is when PC gaming for me really kicked in! Doom blew the doors open for much of the world later in the 486 era. For me the 386 era is when PC gaming really took off. Yes you could run Doom on a 386 PC, but it was not a great experience, even with an AMD 386 40 MHz machine.
@Hyperchicken4 ай бұрын
Knights of Legend! My dad grew up with the designer and his brother. There is some random NPC somewhere in the game named after him.
@Colin_Ames4 ай бұрын
I bet this brought back memories for a lot of folks. My first PC was a no-name 286 with 640K of RAM, EGA graphics and a 20MB hard drive. I bought it at a computer fair in 1988, for $1800. This included printer and colour monitor. $1800 was a huge investment for me at the time, but I thought it necessary to have a PC as the company I worked for had just developed a range of products that were PC-based, and I figured somebody in our local office needed to understand them. It was a wise decision. Favourite games were Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry.
@caeserromero30134 ай бұрын
5:58 You struck GOLD. X Tree Gold! I sued to use that a LOT in the old days. I started out with an Amstrad 512, then progressed to a 2nd hand Zenith 286 and then a 2nd hand Zenith 386. I spent over £100 of my pocket money in '93 to get enough RAM to play Doom.
@gatsbye534 ай бұрын
Great seeing this survivor get some love!
@gk_tonic78434 ай бұрын
Nice bowie shirt!!! I remember my dad had a 386.. at least i knew how to start commander keen, dynablaster and stunts xD
@Kemulnitestryker4 ай бұрын
My absolute favorite system was my 286 system, I was able to do things with that system that common knowledge said I shouldn't be able to do.
@StingyGeek4 ай бұрын
WordPerfect 5.1 ran like an absolute beast on a 286!
@MarbleGiant4 ай бұрын
lol. My typing couldn’t keep up!
@lrochfort4 ай бұрын
Monochrome CRTs are glorious. They're sharp because they don't have the shadow mask or aperture grille that colour CRTs use.
@mike13foxtrot793 ай бұрын
First was an 8088 with 640k both floppies and no HD. Second was a 286 then 386SX. Then Pentium II. After that I went AMD. Heck I still have the 32MB HD from the 8088 with the attached controller card in a box. Now I bring to life potatoes like the IBM thinkpad, no trackpad. Could only get AntiX Linux installed and running. Built 4 over the last year. I still have boxes of 8bit Ram and Floppy drives.
@philipmcdonagh10944 ай бұрын
X Tree Gold, now that sent a shiver down my spine. A freezing cold room with that monitor on was like having a fireplace with a fire burning in it, it felt warm.
@dreadpiratekristo4 ай бұрын
Always something delightful over here.
@_The_Jim4 ай бұрын
i remember playing some very simple games on my dad's old 286 with the orange and black screen. a the time it seemed so amazing
@ScramjetNY4 ай бұрын
An IBM PC AT key dangling from your lanyard was a drool worthy status symbol when that system was first released :)
@nutherefurlong4 ай бұрын
Always up for more monochrome appreciation. If the standard CGA had been skipped entirely until EGA I would have been happy :)
@volvo094 ай бұрын
My familys first PC was a 12mhz 286 with a monochrome display. We had that machine until we replaced it with a pentium 133 running win95 once they were a few years old.
@olik1364 ай бұрын
growing up in the 90s 486 systems basically were "the computer" around here. But they were also very expensive and used by adults to do real things.. but often there was an old 286 somewhere in the corner that we could use more freely.. to play flight simulators at 0.5fps... we honestly used it more as a prop, but they have sparked the interest in computers for many.
@johnknight91504 ай бұрын
I'm glad plenty of Brits were stuck in the same boat we were. We still had a Commodore 64 and Dad's old 286 until 1997, when I got a 486 for school.
@giulianomarco4 ай бұрын
The amber phosphor DEC VT340s we had at BAe in the 80s looked yellow under fluorescent lights. Either was MUCH preferable to the ICL DRS green "E.T." monitors!
@RatikusuCh4 ай бұрын
I have started my PC rabbit hole with a 286 in school, then I set on my quest to get a clone with a intel i386, a cyrix co-processor, then lastly a 486 before I finally got a Pentium PC. i literally stepped up through all of them throughout the late 90s. I got my pentium II system in 2001 after I graduated. Talk about playing the catch-up game...
@miasma824 ай бұрын
I love the amber color on the monitor
@EightPieceBox4 ай бұрын
I had an Epson 8088 which had the same badge on it. LGR also did a video on an Epson Apex.
@ThomasSerruques4 ай бұрын
i did spend the equivalent of 1800$ in 1990 for a 286 PC which was my main gaming machine. wing commander ultima vi might and magic iii monkey island it had it all !
@eddiehimself4 ай бұрын
Two NN videos within the space of a week, what a treat!