Opening an Overwhelming Number of Retro Tech Packages!

[@Zeeruss]

I worked at CompUSA for a while and we ended up selling only 4 of those drive bay storage boxes to the same person. He bought one, and came back the next day and bought 3 more. I commented to the guy that they must really work well, he responded with "Yeah! They're great for hiding my weed!"

[@geoffreyreuther5260]

At least he was honest! Also, which store did you work for? I was at #411 for over 10 years.

[@lancecozad5704]

You can put your weed in there.

[@GAMER_PUNK247]

I was thinking that too.. Great for hiding drugs.. Come to think about it, you could probably fit a handgun in there lol

[@GGamerGeneralista]

Dude, LGR has enough stuff to create a giant retro LAN house.

[@samulimahkonen8604]

That would be Legendary, Awesome, Historical, Hysterical, Educational, Fun and might serve a purpose for something.

[@John_Locke_108]

60 minutes of unboxing. Sounds like something nobody would ever want to sit through. But in actuality it is so damn entertaining and I have no idea why.

[@lunacouer]

So entertaining! I'm not even into retro tech, but hell yeah I watched the whole thing 😂 Enthusiastic geeking out over cool retro finds? Yes please.

[@hhectorlector]

I think Clint's a good dude to hang with and his appreciation toward retro stuff and gratitude toward his fans keeps me watching :)

[@vivanecrosis]

Seeing what items he gets is interesting. It's all very mysterious. Not like say someone unboxing a known thing such as a Nintendo Switch, that would be boring.

[@XrisD147]

I made it thru from start to end.

[@RandomPerson964]

Because most unboxing videos are garbage like "UNBOXING $20,000 WORTH OF AWESOME STUFF!" (note: awesome=boring) with overly shocked guy in the thumbnail and red arrows and circles placed randomly. The person in the video thinks shouting and jump cuts every five seconds is a personality, and most of the views come from parents letting their toddlers watch KZbin on their phones and autoplay takes them to that kind of nonsense because it's trendy. Clint is genuine and enthusiastic. It's kind of like how I don't really like watching Star Trek, but listening to people talk about Star Trek is one of my favorite things. When a person genuinely loves a topic, it almost doesn't matter what that topic is, listening to them talk about that topic will be interesting.

[@qunstrudel]

32:18 Oh man, the memories! My first PC was a Toshiba Satellite. It got me through most of my college papers and let me play The Sims (though I had to upgrade the RAM to make the game playable). I loved that old brick of a laptop!

[@PXAbstraction]

CD-ROMANCE: The "Hot Singles In Your Area" of the 90s.

[@Schwarzorn]

This needs to get a video.

[@frankowalker4662]

I wonder how many singles are still waiting for a response? :)

[@05milmachine90]

kind of a "where are they now?" type of vid would be fun

[@kokeshkokesh]

We need a video on this. Or an CD image, so we can check it out ourselves!

[@Popk1ller]

stone-age version of tinder

[@stinkdude]

52:25 i legitimately can't believe you got sent a Hyper NeoGeo 64. i heard these things spoken of in legend around the late 2000s; the 1up Retronauts podcast was an early gateway drug to all of this classic gaming goodness for me in those days, and one of the hosts (Shane Bettenhausen) recalled playing Samurai Showdown 64 in a local arcade & then never seeing it again. the other hosts were reluctant to believe him at the time, and frankly i never thought i'd see the real deal; i sincerely hope you make a video on that deeply obscure platform, as i can't think of a greater White-Whale-Holy-Grail from my adolescent canonizing of retro games than those boards you now hold in your possession.

[@atomicsteameng]

24:26 Ah yes, the plastic bubble packaging explosion transition.

[@atenachos6282]

The cheese factor is real and I love it.

[@kiisseli8086]

scared the hell out of me

[@wcarver2150]

My boss: Our client's coming over tomorrow, make sure to make a good impression Me: MOUSE BURGER

[@CWINDOWSsystem32]

@Tu Iochi And stylish!

[@98SE]

I read that as: Our Clint's coming over tomorrow... haha

[@rpm773]

1:35 - Some former AOL marketing exec is kicking himself over a missed opportunity. " Free AOL CD with your kiosk ice cream - why didn't I think of that??!11?1111??!"

[@TheShitSmith]

AOL disks came in frozen vegetables. If they thought of that, they thought of ice cream.

[@WolfCoder]

15:38 the polarization effect on the screen just makes it look cooler, like is the way it would be drawn in advertising in front of a desert void with lightning bolts in the background (or neon grid)

[@WildernessRocks]

I’ve owned a couple martial arts schools and I still have a cd business card. I was so stoked 15 years or so ago for those little weird disk.

[@simontay4851]

A couple OF.

[@yohojones]

The pure joy that you can hear in your voice as you open this stuff is why I subscribe. Huge fan LGR.

[@BradFoust1826]

I'm glad you liked the IBM laptop. Hopefully it's still in a working condition, and you can get something out of it.

[@BradFoust1826]

@corey Babcock I did why do you ask?

[@DragonslayerProd]

You should use that cheeseburger mouse while wearing the Burger King headphones, using the baguette keyboard wrist guard, and listening to a record on the Audio-Technica AT727 soundburger

[@DragonslayerProd]

While playing Burger Time

[@ironcito1101]

And eating a burger, of course.

[@DragonslayerProd]

@@ironcito1101 The record should be Cheeseburger in Paradise

[@ZakkandtheJ]

And a 2nd screen showing Good Burger

[@HarlotOfWrath]

and he needs a burger pc

[@smolzillamakes]

Watching these unboxing is like watching the previews for movies. Gives me something to look forward to

[@fartvader84yearsago8]

You know what, it's worth waiting 3 or 4 months just for you too accumulate an excessive amount of mail and make a whole hour unboxing video. Love it.

[@thomasgrisfett]

Hey LGR-guy. Regarding the icons on the blanket at about nine minutes: I'm not sure if they orginated there, but most of them were in a concentration/memory-type game I had for my Macintosh SE. I think it was called MacConcentration.

[@bigbrassballs]

@YassinPlae8 YT hey man, not everyone knows Clint's name. Maybe this guy's a new viewer! Good on you for letting him know though.

[@hhectorlector]

YassinPlae8 YT that’s Clint “Big Man” Baesinger to you, buddy!

[@MaddTheSane]

Cairo was a wingding font on early Macs.

[@medes5597]

It's Cairo, it's just an apple font.

[@cyruscuckler9301]

@YassinPlae8 YT I think he was going for an 8bit-guy joke

[@SudosFTW]

Previous Inspiron 9100 owner here. I have a couple videos on the upgrades I've done to mine in the past about... 10 years ago? Included adding small southbridge heatsinks to the heatpipes for the middle fan to pass air over and get more cooling, downgrading it to a 2.4GHz HT Northwood for battery savings, and upgrading it to a Mobility Radeon 9800 (part number 0G5117) and doing a thermal shim mod for that to be rid of the thermal pad and prolong the card's life. There was a mod to do where you had to get a GPU made before a certain week/year and you could bridge two pads on top and unlock more pipelines, as the MR9800 was just a cut-down X800. Aside from this I also had a 1920x1200 panel of which later went into my current Thinkpad T500. I used that laptop as my main laptop for three years from 2010 to 2013, when a single-core P4 could still be used for day to day tasks and pwning noobs in the occasional game of HL2 Deathmatch. Another fun thing, what you have there is the 12-cell battery. that has a built-in subwoofer. Those were all recalled. They sent out 16-cell batteries as a replacement as late as 2013. Mine had such a battery and with the 2.4, I could get about 3 hours on a charge whereas with the Prescott I'd get maybe 30 minutes if I was lucky.

[@halftone-tony]

36:25 I can’t be the only one who thought that he just threw those processors across the room at first, haha

[@kieferonline]

Ha! At 24:25 I love the "[explosion roars] Whoa!" when he exploded the curiously large air bubble. Nice 3D accelerated graphics.

[@MontieMongoose]

I can't wait to see those little Finnish CD games.

[@alepallo2]

@Finnish lego unboxing media Suomi!

[@nox4000]

I remember those but can't remember if these games were crap or not.

[@Nightweaver1]

I can't wait to see him... finish them. *rimshot*

[@aziztcf]

That reminds me, can some other Finn confirm my hazy memory about some Kotijäätelö/Jäätelöauto ice cream company game?

[@Ropetupa]

Oh crap! I remember those... They utterly sucked. Think of smartphone game that is over in five minutes and is punishing as all hell. Because nobody apparently bothered to test them before selling them at local R-kiosk. Just thinking about them fills me with longing for those 30 minutes I spent playing about five of them, 30 minutes I am never getting back.

[@youdud44]

8:00 - Any time I see or hear mention of Papyrus's OG NASCAR Racing, a big ol' smile just crosses my face. 25:40 - Oh boy. I'm getting flashbacks to those Burger King headphones you did that a video on a few years back. 32:20 - That is probably the most gorgeous Toshiba Satellite I've ever seen. I'm a total sucker for those stickers still being on the machine. Also awesome seeing that Inspiron 9100 and Pre-Thinkpad IBM laptop too. What a beast that Dell is. I'll be damned if that Redhat Linux works on a 386.

[@mirakurunch.]

Is this the chill LGR hour I didn't deserve, but desperately need?

[@phreapersoonlijk]

And it was good.

[@benjaminhuerta2536]

we all need a chill hour of LGR unboxing

[@nuukke_]

Yes. Yes, it is.

[@adailyllama4786]

Yes. Perfect thing to watch and have a beer.

[@LonSeidman]

I believe that Powerbook is one of the legendary "Wallstreet" models - a legendary laptop from Apple. A good pickup!

[@Typo205]

Legendary

[@aidancommenting]

Legendary

[@gabrielmalta1962]

Legendary

[@kikoplays44]

Legendary

[@MufMof]

Legendary

[@winstonsmith478]

That new old stock Hyper Neo Geo 64 stuff is worth a lot of money and must have cost a lot to mail from London.

[@catoblepag]

Yeah, I collect Neo MVS carts and I was shocked to see all that stuff... I can't believe someone would just give it away! I mean, of course AES is on another level, but NOS, complete in box with all that wonderful art set? That's a LOT of value. I hope Clint won't throw away the cardboard box, even that one is important (put the SNK logo on toilet paper, and even toilet paper will sell for a premium price).

[@LGR]

@@catoblepag I throw away nothing when it comes to boxes! It's currently sitting proudly in a dry air-conditioned room until I can do something awesome with all of it 👍

[@catoblepag]

@@LGR Great to know, that's also my philosophy - even the original bubble wrap has historical value 😁👍 Of course you could hook that Hyper NeoGeo 64 to your SuperGun, lookin' forward to that episode!

[@JFD62780]

@@LGR ...That wouldn't happen to be the first truely videogame-based Oddware, would it? :P

[@x-crisis]

Yeah, my first thought as crass as it may be is good lord, how much could you sell all that for?

[@cjsebes]

That Load n Go took me back! I remember seeing them at K-Mart. Thanks for that blast from the past!

[@SwedishCandyPirate]

1 hour of LGR. Time to make some tea and sandwiches then.

[@AmstradExin]

He should get more people with him to react to this kind of stuff when he unpackages these!

[@GroteB]

I hope you didn't forget the crisps and the dill pickle spear with your sandwich.

[@ZockAmigo]

I hope you’re hungry now - because I am!

[@egustafson]

Burrito and ice cream here lol

[@OldUKAds]

@@AmstradExin No. No. Reaction videos are like a plague on KZbin.

[@EposVox]

"I guess it's been about 3 or 4 months since the last one" I could've sworn... it was just like, last week... man this year is wild.

[@39zack]

And 2021 is not much different

[@alexdv2635]

Oooohh boxed copies of Netscape Navigator, there's my 90's nostalgia fix.

[@janopd5026]

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease make a video on old Linux! According to his biography, Linus began Linux on an 386 and then later upgraded to a 486, so this should be right up your ally!

[@techkid43]

Yeah I have always wanted to know more about old Linux too! Coming from LGR would be the cherry on top

[@Crixer234]

keep waiting then.

[@dermond]

So probably there will never be a old Linux video

[@keimahane]

Yup, my first Linux Distro was Slackware 1.1.2 and I ran it on a 33mhz 386.

[@Magnavox-1972]

That sounds awesome! I second this request. :)

[@TheAtoll]

Your thrift and oddware episodes inspired me to create a KZbin channel all about my favorite forgotten film: Waterworld!

[@medes5597]

I wouldn't call it forgotten by any means

[@needfortweed8734]

That's... oddly specific. But it is a great, GREAT movie, so I might just check out your channel as well..

[@ironcito1101]

It's remembered... for being a massive flop. I wouldn't call it a great movie, but it's not _that_ bad, either. The problem is that it was the most expensive movie ever made at the time it was released, but its quality is nowhere near enough to justify it. At least, to most people.

[@lazarusjones5280]

Subbed

[@needfortweed8734]

@@ironcito1101 Well... I love it. Regardless. I have bought it multiple times on multiple formats. In many ways a completely bonkers movie, but I still love the Mad Max on the Sea vibe they tried going for...

[@onyxdeceit]

I'm always amazed that LGR subtitles EVERY episode, no matter the length. Kudos, Clint.

[@aserta]

I lusted for years after that mouse burger, and i nearly didn't manage to get it when the computer shop across from my place had announced they'd move. It was in the store front, but luckily the facade was never in the sun, otherwise after years of being exposed it would've been sun bleached, i mean it was, but barely noticeable. They didn't even have the box for it anymore, and gave it for free when i asked, which was nice. :)

[@BRUXXUS]

Haha! I love that you'd had your eye on a burger mouse for years. 😄 Glad you finally got one 😊

[@XrisD147]

Lol I kinda wanted the mouse burger too when I was in my teens and the flippy burger phone!

[@PeasGraveny]

How come it feels like I'm opening these packages and receiving these splendid items. Love it!

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Okay, you just need a burger keyboard, monitor, and case and you can use your burger headphones for the full burger experience.

[@KOROZEC1]

I've just relocated to another country and it's on lockdown again. Happy there's a new LGR upload to keep me from going mad inside four walls with little money. Thank you Clint! You are my hero.

[@TopVersnelling]

Hey Clint, you might know this already, but when you upgrade the Mac Pro's RAM: It will not take your average high density RAM, it has to be low density RAM! Learned that the hard way with my G4 sunflower... Pinout might fit fine, but then there's the density.

[@derekrucker377]

I worked at CompUSA for 3 years in the late 90s and seeing some of the retro things on your channel really bring back memories. Especially the Voodoo stuff! Those were drool-worthy back in the day.

[@dingdongbells3314]

Those CD ROM cards were MIND BLOWING, I've never seen anything like that before

[@mattb4721]

I only knew these as business card type gimmicks, but not as something with software on it. But if you google it, apparently Italy had some Dragonball Z stuff on these type of cards, as far as I can tell from the pictures?

[@draggonhedd]

WOW a VLB 3D blaster! I have one of those Nakamichi CD changer and it works GREAT in my 5x86 windows/dos PC. Yes it does show up as 5 separate drives, and it automatically swaps discs when you access one or the other. Its a really slick unit and supremely reliable

[@worldofretrogameplay6963]

The dating CD made me laugh. Imagine contacting someone from that CD today. 😆

[@patrick6350]

That would actually make for an entertaining/interesting video!

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

Imagine how much older they'd be today...

[@johnDingoFoxVelocity]

On the PowerBook g3 if it doesn’t start up take it apart and unplug the cmos/efi battery and plug it back in if the unit doesn’t start up this happens because the battery stores the date and time and when the battery dies the time and date get stuck causing the machine not to start I recommend installing Mac OS 9.2.2 on that machine and run some Macintosh lemmings

[@XmorganlamiaX]

5:11 - "Nintendo-like, high resolution graphics, animation & color!" What an interesting thing to put on the box. 😆

[@quackman]

even has the little ™ next to Nintendo™

[@Talewhipforge]

I had one of those 5 1/4 inch storage drawers in one of my PC's years and years ago. You can put a small screwdriver, a few cables, and extra screws etc.... in case you need to do a quick pc repair you always knew where it was. It was actually very useful and convenient. Or you know. Store your weed in it. Whatever.

[@mightyfilm]

Dr. Ruth. As of this typing, she's still around. I swear she was born 70 years old.

[@hurricane567]

Also a sniper. "Today we will discuss 308 as a substitute for the penis." 😀

[@RiderLeangle2]

I think the part that will always stand out is the first time I heard of her was on this PBS Kids show I watched when I was a kid Between the Lions, she basically played herself but instead of the last name of "Westheimer" she was "Dr Ruth Wordheimer" and helped people talk about long words, it was not until much later I found out that basically her entire career other than that was talking about sex.

[@ZipplyZane]

@@RiderLeangle2 Sounds like something they'd do on Sesame Street today.

[@mightyfilm]

That's because a lot of the Between the Lions staff was comprised of writers who left Sesame Street to focus on their own shows with more creative freedom. Of course, being a kid's show, only the adults would know who Dr. Ruth is.

[@MaskMan191]

Clint, I love watching your videos for two reasons. When I am at my desk, they are interesting to watch. When I am in my bed, they help put me to sleep so I don't stay up until 11AM before finally getting there.

[@homogenized]

That Cairo throw blanket is so cute!!! I want one! Haha

[@carlastewart3566]

I really enjoy watching these videos and the fact that you’re excited to open all the packages and very grateful for all the stuff you get!!!❤

[@callme_Sweetpea]

Clint! Dr. Ruth is STILL ALIVE! She's 92 y/o! You should make it your mission to find her and make her sign that box!!!

[@mikeey6804]

M A K E her

[@39zack]

I want to see an review on it

[@soundguydon]

I'm utterly jealous of 2 things: The IBM XT (had one of those

[@absalomdraconis]

The computer at the end isn't an XT, it's a PC, which was the release before. You can tell because of the cassette port (for a "cassette drive", which really was just a standard cassette player/recorder, preferably with a 2.5mm motor-remote port).

[@TheDemocrab]

Can't wait to see those old Linux videos, there's not a heap of content on older Linux stuff because it's so niche and there's some interesting stuff there. In theory with the correct version of fglrx (The old Radeon driver) which I think is fglrx 8.52, some Radeon HD4870s/HD4850s/a HD4870x2 and the native older versions of Doom 3, Quake 4 or Enemy Territory Quake Wars it should work..Even a lot of Linux fanatics aren't aware of this.

[@4Wilko]

32:14 - Holy cow that takes me back. It might not have been this exact model, but my dad definitely had one of these Toshiba Satellite behemoths back in the day. I remember that green nub and sticking various emulators and DOS/Windows games on there.

[@helltbrother2]

The one from the Furry gave me a laugh. Found it funny how LGR just glossed over the cartoon cutout thing that the Husky person included. Ha ha ha

[@DrawntoRetroTech]

I feel that a lot of furries are tech enthusiasts

[@TastyBusiness]

After I built my first custom desktop, I put one of those little 5.25" drive bay drawers in the case, just like the one seen at 19:45. I loved it.

[@nnubb]

I like how when he asked people to send less stuff because he was running out of space, yall started sending more stuff.

[@GabREAL1983]

😆

[@paincreatesfame]

I volunteer for FreeGeek (Portland) when I can, definitely didn’t know they had places on the other coast too! Lovely organisation and I’m glad to see them around, if I ever end up travelling over there I can have peace of mind knowing I’ve still got places that I can help out at 😊

[@msbae]

19:44 That storage bay would be great for storing those USB flash drives that you frequently use with a certain PC...

[@TheInfinitySystem]

"...so I guess this is a press sample, I suppose..." /crumples ad insert into a ball and carelessly tosses it aside Savage, Clint. Savage.

[@RetroTvVideos]

I was just about to go to sleep when this video was uploaded looks like i will be staying up for another hour.

[@jessragan6714]

You know you've hit it big when people send you rare Neo-Geo 64s free of charge. So will we see a little of that system in action in the future?

[@jong2359]

Methinks yes. Don't lose sleep waiting for it, but I doubt it will go to waste.

[@MikaelMarius]

The unboxing Clint: Polite, grateful, gregarious. The thrifting Clint: Snarky, sarcastic, dismissive. Explain this, scientist man!!!

[@Squideey]

Just more forms of Clint, much like Christmas Clint.

[@jessragan6714]

The unboxing Clint is getting all this stuff for free?

[@bobblum5973]

The Thrifting Clint is in hunter-gatherer mode, looking to gorge himself on big-box games in original shrink-wrap. He gets grouchy when his usual prey of woodgrain items goes unsatisfied, and resorts to offerings to the Lucky Rock during his foraging for good will. The Unboxing Clint, by comparison, has his appetites satiated by offerings from others trying to calm the beast. This particular video shows the Unboxing Clint in a particularly good mood, as noted by the duration of it.

[@MikaelMarius]

@@bobblum5973Oh, that kinda makes sense. I thought wormholes were involved somehow...

[@bobblum5973]

@@MikaelMarius Wormholes in woodgrain? Perish the thought! (Besides, we're talking Retro and Classic tech here. Wormholes are typically found in antiques. However, I wouldn't leave spacetime wormholes out of the equation. 😉)

[@neverletyoufall]

Clint. You are the reason for my surplus of mid to late 20th century electronic "stuff" ... Oh the days I'd spend binge watching your videos and trying to find things I wanted at goodwills and or any store that had electronics or weird things. Thanks for the good times lol 🤘 **dukes voice** "Don't ever change" lmao

[@TheHaddonfieldRegistry]

Those CD cards are absolutely gorgeous, I would have loved for those to have caught on here in the states.

[@DragRedSim]

That 5.25” drawer is actually rather clever. I have one in my gaming rig for USB flash drives, spare batteries for wireless game pads, cables, etc. Great for just keeping tech stuff with the tech itself. Oh, and Allen keys for the equipment that uses them.

[@sellingacoerwa8318]

The moan he made when he opened that calculator.... lol

[@daschmitty]

Dang, nostalgia overload with the TabWorks. My first computer (Compaq 486DX2) had that. Totally forgot about that program! Thanks for your great channel!!!

[@deathproofpony]

Finland , Finland , Finland... The country where I want to be... Eating breakfast or dinner... or snack lunch in the hall... Finland , Finland , Finland... Finland has it all. You're so sadly neglected... And often ignored... A poor second to Belgium... When going abroad

[@XrisD147]

Monty Python

[@ronch550]

You have one of the finest KZbin channels. Love all these retro stuff.

[@dannya8614]

The grin on my face became much bigger after seeing a +1 hour LGR Friday upload ^_^

[@Chris_In_Texas]

43:57 I had one of those boards. I even still have the matched pair of Intel Overdrive PPro-II 333Mhz CPU's for it, plus the original 166Mhz CPUs as well.

[@ryanstoddard1803]

Clint can theoretically buy some land and build a museum with all the stuff he has had donated to him and I’m sure all of us will want to visit. And the 8 Bit Guy can come around and give lectures in the auditorium on different aspects of retro computing.

[@bastardfromhell5188]

Clint! That Pentium Pro motherboard might come in handy soon because the Intel P6 architecture celebrates 25 years in November! A CPU that us normal humans could only dream about, and now when we can play with them in retro systems its amazing how powerful they were compared to the regular Pentiums. In just 6 years the P6 scaled from 200MHz all the way to 1.4GHz.

[@dudefingerboard]

19:45 You have a server rack? A video about your homelab setup would get an instant view from me haha (I don't know about anyone else though :P)

[@ironcito1101]

I second that. He said "one of my server racks", so he has more than one rack, presumably with several servers in each of them. That's a lot of equipment. I'm curious about its purpose. The only thing I can think of is lots of storage for video. Unless it's something unrelated to his KZbin channel, of course.

[@dudefingerboard]

@@ironcito1101 Clive might be a rocket scientist with racks of HPC working 24/7 on fluid simulations. Or maybe just game servers and storage servers. We may never find out.

[@Mrhellacat]

I have the same toshiba as the one at 32:10 its the 320cdt model with the TFT where the cds models have the dualscan. Ive got a 40gb hdd in mine and use it for most of my windows 98 stuff on the go!

[@ryablow]

I have a 460CDT and I'm interested if you're truly able to be on the go with your laptop. The battery in mine has been as flat as a pancake since the day I was given the laptop. Don't get me wrong; it's awesome, but tethered to the wall, she remains at all times.

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

I just recieve case badges from geekenspie as well :) Clint, we need definately a video with VLB 3D Blaster on you 486 PC

[@AmstradExin]

Probably you two were the only ones knowing how expensive they are! He should totally use a Pentium Overdrive @ 100Mhz for these!

[@d.p.423]

5:10 never got to the math one but my very first pc games ("word rescue", "cosmo's cosmic adventure" and "commander keen 4"), played on my 486DX 66mhz pc, back in the day... great way for someone to learn-english-while-having-fun, being a 9yo non-english speaker at the time... thanks @LGR for all the memories . kudos from portugal

[@northof-62]

That Psion cover can be pulled off to reveal the battery compartment underneath. I remember it lost all data if you didn't swap battery rather quickly. I really like the calculator on there, as it shows the numbers and operators in a single line that you can go back, correct mistakes and continue to work on. Ideal for large sums etc. But again, the worry of losing data due to lack of battery power marred these as well as the model 4s.

[@markb232]

You could get an EPROM cartridge that stored data if you took the battery out. There was also a RAM cartridge, with a small battery in it, the battery was hard wired in so not easy to change it out, you needed a soldering iron to change the battery!!!!

[@ZanderHorn]

My mom had a Inspiron 9100, I remember many evenings playing Splinter Cell on it as it was way faster than my Athlon XP desktop! Pretty fascinating device, the speaker in the battery is a "sub-woofer" and the GPU is on a separate daugter card, ostensibly for upgrades which I don't think were ever released. Very much in the desktop replacement class of the day, even the CPU is socketed. When new the battery lasted about an hour and a half for office work.

[@funghazi]

Wow, you can almost fit all of Wing Commander IV in that disc changer!

[@AndrewAMartin]

Imagine having a tower of 8 of those changers? I've got just the system/case for that, actually -- it has 8 2x or 4x SCSI CD-ROM drives in it now. I've thought about upgrading it to maybe 4 SATA DVD drives and another 4 SATA hard drives for network storage, but I really need to upgrade the electrical in my basement first. I just don't have enough outlets to run very many things.

[@hcim1809]

@@AndrewAMartin lain?

[@Thom101]

I love how you giggle at these treasures. This was a long video but there was so many things you enjoyed opening and discovering the extra bits that you were not expecting. I can see at least 10 videos based on the hardware you got.

[@CountZeroOr]

26:00 - So, I guess you can has cheezburger.

[@briangoldberg4439]

Wow, so much god stuff this time around! Looking forward to the PS2 Laptop. That thing looks super cool.

[@stevec00ps]

Those huge P4 era laptops were mad huge to cope with the power and heat requirements - I could never bring myself to buy such a beast!

[@Dj3ndo]

Such an awesome video! I must say that i dig the way the G4 opens. I wish more cases were built like that. Makes it so much easier to work on indeed!

[@kenji6612]

Is this the answer to Techmoan's 1 hour special? :)

[@j.w.techchannel]

Maybe lol

[@stephanemignot100]

Or Adrian's Digital Basement "mini" 90 minutes mid week mail call!

[@chrisfratz]

If anything, I think this is an answer to a accursed farms one hour video on Sonic Heroes.

[@TheMaxstpau]

Techmoan did a 1hr special? Damn, gotta check that out! Thx!

[@ElectromasterTech]

1hr techmoan special? Where!

[@koalaspruce]

I love these unboxing videos. It's like a sneak peak at future LGR videos, an LGR showcase.

[@YodaPagoda]

"It looks slightly cursed...and I love it."

[@brunal.m.5681]

The thing that appeared at 14:44 made me remember about all the beige computers I have seen at school lol I think beige pieces were popular in Brazil

[@Flakman500]

When he said "this is not a think pad" I thought he was going to say "it's a Thonk Pad"

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

It's a ThickPad, clearly

[@kaosine2877]

@@LonelySpaceDetective ＴＨＩＣＣpad

[@jek__]

the EPN Thonk Pod?

[@jimmygillard]

Love sticking these unboxing videos on whilst working, can just tune in and out as needed.

[@TheCreapler]

lol i have one of those storage drive bays used to hide my weed in there back in the day no one ever found it and i even bet my friend he could not find my stash he tryed and failed.

[@milesbailor5019]

lel

[@uNpOpuLArOpInION69]

Ohhh that's what they're for thankd

[@geoffreyreuther5260]

The extra sad thing: I actually used to work for CompUSA back in that era and didn't even know we sold those. Then again, we sold all kinds of weird crap at random. Christmas season "impulse buys" were always interesting. Like the year that our store got 10 "Mr. Beer Homebrew kits" (WTF does that have to do with computers?). Not a single customer had a chance to buy one, though. The managers and sales guys bought them before they even hit the floor.

[@thefadebeta580]

I've been watching you for ages, I always love your content.

[@SeanOMatic]

That Pi case is dope!

[@pjcmerritt]

18:12 - I had one of those! One thing you missed, the front speakers on the bay TILT - so you direct the HQ sound towards where you're sitting :D

[@Schwarzorn]

I’m interested in a video on that Disney World Explorer. Sounds intriguing, exciting, relaxing.

[@evilspoons]

Ha ha, those PlayCard things at like 2:10 were specifically warned against with the faster CD-ROM drives. The instructions for a lot of 52x-56x drives said something to the effect of "don't put CDs that aren't round in, they might explode".

[@RynoDBones]

My dad got me the Dr. Ruth program when I was a kid so he didn’t have to have the talk with me. Good stuff, actually.

[@LSMH528Hz]

Your dad talked ? 😲

[@darikdatta]

That's an HP28S, one of those got me through University. Other than malfunctions caused by the hinge it's one of the best calculators HP made. The RPL programming language it uses is amazing.

[@Nicszerg]

As Finn my self, I've never seen those card size CDs before.. must have been before my time.

[@absalomdraconis]

I have a bunch of blanks that I bought here in the US, and can say that they're just _rare._ They're mostly a gimmick, since they're the right size for a business card, and also are the lowest-capacity that you can find in ordinary CDs.

[@miraiguess5545]

Clint is the only dude that I'd watch unbox retro stuff for hours upon hours. Dude is kinda adorable when he geeks out about the things he gets in the mail ♥