Linus: "Starting with one of the industries oldest heavy hitters..." Me: "Compaq." Linus: "Tandy." Me: *Double checks video title*
@P4boot4 жыл бұрын
LMAO he definitely had us in the first half!
@twixieshores4 жыл бұрын
Funny thing was I also said Compaq, despite the fact that my first PC compatible was a Tandy
@Kronoc4 жыл бұрын
Went on bit of a tandygent there
@samuelevans57504 жыл бұрын
A lot of these sounds like fake companies. Dont sound real at all, linus might just be messing around.
@danielllitpek20144 жыл бұрын
@@samuelevans5750 Please spam your conspiracies else where lol
@hamm3rh3ad514 жыл бұрын
Watched this entire video on a more than a decade old compaq presario cq40.
@hamm3rh3ad514 жыл бұрын
@@brikthor Older the better, I guess!
@autisticmonkie97104 жыл бұрын
Bruh I have the same exact laptop but I'm watching this on my phone cos that thing is really slow now
@C_HSe3 жыл бұрын
@@xmikeox ikr, I have an old Compaq prsssario cq61 here, it's been here for more than 11 years still working really well!
@moneybilla2 жыл бұрын
My pres. Laptop from 2005 or 6 just like blackscreened on me idk if it's the bios or what ina get a Adapter tho n flash it see if I can fix it😂
@Commodore_Plus4 Жыл бұрын
I have another laptop: my compaq presario cq56!!❤
@mvl714 жыл бұрын
I've got an _Accredited Compaq Technician_ certificate somewhere. That's got to be at least 20 years old now... [sigh] I'm getting old.
@pocketanime4 жыл бұрын
that is pretty awesome
@netx4214 жыл бұрын
You should wear that at pro shows or hang it on the wall man
@KuriusOranj4 жыл бұрын
Nice! Now with social media, all the (not really aging) techs can swap stories of the goofy online testing processes for Compaq and HP. :D
@tapsilogkid86244 жыл бұрын
mid 50s??
@johnunderwood434 жыл бұрын
LOL! Yeah I have one of those. Also still have the remains of some of the many t-shirts they used to give away in my rag box.
@dy72964 жыл бұрын
Linus: "Where are IBM laptops?" Me: Lenovo.
@eemeli70933 жыл бұрын
Wh... Whattt?
@Ordlnary_Gamer3 жыл бұрын
@@eemeli7093 thinkpad
@douche61062 жыл бұрын
@@Ordlnary_Gamer this comment section is weird
@Alpha17x4 жыл бұрын
Oh man, you're making me feel old. I remember alll these.
@KuriusOranj4 жыл бұрын
I feel ya on the age thing! Although, way back when, I worked with a guy who had "retired" from Digital Equipment (DEC). When I was at university, only the CompSci students could get e-mail addresses, and the web was mostly MUDs and MUCKs. Gopher, Finger and FTP for the win!
@pratheeshsekar11234 жыл бұрын
Then what about me! The desktop which I still have is "COMPAQ" 🙄
@benook4 жыл бұрын
@@TheSeniorTaco no one cares
@kas-lw7xz4 жыл бұрын
@@benook why did u react then boomer
@benook4 жыл бұрын
@@kas-lw7xz boomer is a dead meme
@tarikkaramehmedovic86084 жыл бұрын
Linus: Remember COMPAQ? - Where Are They Now Me: well apparently my school bought them
@belgianstar4 жыл бұрын
Tarik Karamehmedović we had 5 classrooms full of those blue pieces of garbage. Made for windows xp, refitted with an intel core duo...
@Cecil974 жыл бұрын
Yeah my primary school in Canada also had these
@samuelevans57504 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a fake company, like Linus made them up just to troll us.
@abcdefg96134 жыл бұрын
We here in Romania were subject to one of the most weird corruption scandals involving Microsoft. We got really expensive computers for out school labs despite not being able to use them(such as for gaming). I still remember drolling at my schools a64 x2 6000+be with 4 gigs of ram, 7800gt and raptor 10k drives which we used to learn excel and Pascal.
@belgianstar4 жыл бұрын
abc defg i mean, your school didn’t have to buy them. Also, you’d expect every school to have some kind of IT-guy who checks on these kinda things
@heyspookyboogie6442 жыл бұрын
I LOVED my compaq laptop. The screen was gorgeous, and while the trackpad was horrible, and it was the only laptop I ever had whos hinge snapped in half, I love the front facing speaker design when it’s closed, the IO, and it was just generally great for the price.
@davidbolha8 ай бұрын
Which model did you own/have ? 🤔
@cockatoo0104 жыл бұрын
my first PC ever was a Compaq Presario 5000 :) Oh, the memories
@bosscon2663 жыл бұрын
Mine is Compaq presario cq3000 Series And I'm still using it this year😈
@riceeatrs3 жыл бұрын
Bro same
@thewikiburger8982 Жыл бұрын
mine is compaq preasio f500 and c700
@Gofr54 жыл бұрын
Man I remember seeing all those brand PCs as a kid. Feelsold man.
@davidfuller5814 жыл бұрын
"where are they now?" part of HP.
@emmgeevideo4 жыл бұрын
I worked at HP back then... We used to say “Compaq bought HP with HP’s money.” Compaq leadership took over the HP PC business.
@carloss67074 жыл бұрын
Many Compaq tech stayed @ HP. (Proliants, laptops, desktops)
@davidj.77794 жыл бұрын
@@emmgeevideo Also mostly forgotten is that the bones of what had just a few years before been the worlds 2nd largest computer manufacturer behind IBM; Digital Equipment Corp. ended up being bought by Compaq. Ken Olsen, the micro-manager founder of DEC refused to believe that PC's would ever be anything more than a toy. When it became obvious even to him that he was wrong, DEC came out with the "Rainbow", a desktop running on CP:M, an OS rapidly going out the window. Of the 2 million they built, about 1.8 million ended up in landfills, never out of the box.
@erikschiegg684 жыл бұрын
I remember having cleaned school for six weeks in summer vacation to buy a HP41C. But this was when they made still military grade stuff. Since the graphic designers have taken over the company, it's triple hiss, vade retro!
@carloss67074 жыл бұрын
@M Harris I still have my z210 and my zbook 14 running with me. I just can't avoid looking 4 HP as the main brand for laptops and workstations
@shreysaini78004 жыл бұрын
I still have my Compaq pc from 2009, and it's still working fine, it Originally had windows xp, then windows 7 ultimate and now it has windows 10.
@netx4214 жыл бұрын
Can it run Netflix?
@shreysaini78004 жыл бұрын
@@netx421 I do not have a Netflix account, I use torrents
@adamgrant17874 жыл бұрын
I still have a HP Compaq DC5800 SFF that came with Visa and was upgraded to Windows 10 it's still going strong after 11 years of use. Yes I did upgrade it a lot with parts I had laying around but it's still a great computer and still fast.
@stevenalexander47214 жыл бұрын
I have a Compaq Presario CQ57 laptop that originally had windows 7 before I got the free upgrade to windows 10. I initially wasn't too thrilled with windows 10 but I love it now, I just wish I could get a new computer that was made for the windows 10 os because so many apps are now requiring touchscreen and other functions that windows 10 cannot provide on an older computer like mine.
@adrenaliner914 жыл бұрын
@@shreysaini7800 you know that is unsafe af?!
@charlestilley25764 жыл бұрын
COMPAQ was last seen by me as Black Friday Walmart specials (budget HP models) a few years back. Gateway (or COMPAQ) could make a great comeback in stores such as Walmart as Ubuntu & Linux Mint PC's. Only Dell carries Linux based notebooks online & one has to look deep to find these, usually in the business section.
@TrollFaceTheMan4 жыл бұрын
"Compaq became known for unexceptional, poor quality..." Trust me I know that one all too well... Bought a Compaq laptop awhile back and not even a few months later the screen data ribbon went bad. Paid a lot of extra money for a warranty from them that was 'Supposed to cover everything!!' Even and I quote "If you were to accidentally throw your laptop down the stairs..." (Yes that is actually what the rep told me...) When trying to use said warranty they basically told us to get screwed and that their warranty doesn't cover basically anything... 'Except' blatant manufacturer defects which they said this wasn't (it clearly was) and that It was instead 'User Damage...' They then tried to sell us a repair for 1,100 which was 300 more than the laptop was worth. Needless to say I am glad they are gone...
@jonesconrad14 жыл бұрын
consumer stuff, the business stuff was quite good, at least until HP got their hands on it.
@IIGrayfoxII4 жыл бұрын
This sounds like an America problem. Guess this shit happens when you dont have consumer rights. If that shit was tried in Australia they would be taken to court by our consumer rights watchdog
@kveeder32244 жыл бұрын
I also had a bad experience with Compaq.
@scottyfixit4 жыл бұрын
Warranty issue here too. Bought extended warranty. When HP purchased Compaq, they no longer honored my warranty.
@watfordjc4 жыл бұрын
I've boycotted Sony consumer electronics since 2004 due to their shoddy quality. Laptop screen broke within 7 days on my first laptop (VAIO) and they wanted to charge me double the cost of the laptop to repair it, and I went through 5 replacement MD players because the Sony store would only offer like-for-like replacements. I had a phone in 2005 that broke and, despite living in England, the manufacturer had the audacity to claim that it was damaged by water and wouldn't be repaired without me spending 4x what the phone cost - apparently their moisture detectors were designed in such a way that humidity in the air (such as if it is raining outside) was enough to turn them red. On the plus side, the likes of Compaq, Sony, and Motorola from the nineties/noughties are the reason we demanded better consumer protection and why Dell are sending UPS to pick up my broken laptop tomorrow.
@Gurj1014 жыл бұрын
videos i would like to see: 1. risc-V vs ARM vs x86 instruction set 2. li-fi and what happened to it ?
@gearz25704 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/aprEeoSIhKyqkNk
@Gurj1014 жыл бұрын
@B3ro1080 thanks
@BichaelStevens4 жыл бұрын
@@crypticsailor to be fair everyone touts risc v and the risc architecture as the thing of tomorrow much like edge computing and how great it is but nobody ever puts their proof where their mouth is. They sound like sham product salesmen, you ask them why risc matters and they give vague promises. Sounds a lot like apple marketing tactics.
@Gurj1014 жыл бұрын
@@trw8777 that so lol i was talking about more like which seems to have more chances of being prevelant in future technologies.
@Gurj1014 жыл бұрын
@@crypticsailor not really but that may be a good idea XD
@neoasura4 жыл бұрын
You snickering at the fact Sears sold PCs makes me feel old as hell, I remember always combing through the Computer aisles at Sears as a kid, and my family bought their PCs at Sears back then (Packard Bells of course).
@CCharlesHahn4 жыл бұрын
Gateway may not have been very aggressive with their business offerings, but they were quite aggressive in the education space in the mid to late 90s. I worked for the IT department of the local public school district between '99 and '01, and unboxed/installed hundreds of Gateway desktops in school computer labs. In fact, I've still got some of their promotional materials from the time kicking around in a cabinet. Good memories from my youth!
@katerwhall18654 жыл бұрын
"dude, your getting a dell" those where the days.
@thealien_ali33824 жыл бұрын
I still have my Dell, spent over 1k on that bastard
@kveeder32244 жыл бұрын
The original "It's free real estate".
@williambaldwin93464 жыл бұрын
Dell fired and then Sued that guy.
@Rock_Reggae_Riff4 жыл бұрын
Dell, it's great for porn.
@katerwhall18654 жыл бұрын
@@NoharaLoco-gw8ld Aren't they mostly server focused now? since the enthusiast market exploded they and some other OEM's have really just languished and withered.
@krieger60844 жыл бұрын
Me: yeah someone is going to tell me about Compaq Linus: Tandy Me: hold up
@mattmers4 жыл бұрын
My family's first PC was a Packard Bell. I remember spending hours playing Rodent's Revenge and Hot Wheels Computer Cars. Also the Navigator was so cool for the time. We eventually replaced that computer with a Compaq Presario similar to the one pictured. To be a kid in the 90s
@KOSMANIA114 жыл бұрын
Ahh damn, the UK was missing on your map of Europe altogether!
@lialialia14 жыл бұрын
All blame goes to Brexit. :D
@GodKing8044 жыл бұрын
@@lialialia1 thats what they get for leaving the socialist economic bloc
@MjRDutch4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, what's that about? UK hasn't ceased to exist (yet), why wasn't it on the map?
@gokulbalagopalpayyanur80804 жыл бұрын
@@MjRDutch because he was talking about Europe
@MjRDutch4 жыл бұрын
@@gokulbalagopalpayyanur8080 Still not convinced that warrants removing it from the map completely. Maybe make it a different colour or something but not deletion.
@ksells4 жыл бұрын
5:41 wow that's an extreme aftermath of Brexit on that map
@toromothy4 жыл бұрын
lol
@rhys.t00754 жыл бұрын
This is the brexit we asked for, literally moving away from the continent. Bwexit means bwexit
@CheshireTomcat684 жыл бұрын
Blimey, is there something Boris isn't telling us? (well, obviously lots but geez, that's quite a rise in tides)
@rightwingsafetysquad98724 жыл бұрын
And they took Denmark with them.
@wetlettuce47684 жыл бұрын
@@CheshireTomcat68 Why do you think we wanted new aircraft carriers with no planes, we're going to use them to tow our nation elsewhere!
@GubbyMan924 жыл бұрын
Techquickie in 2029: Remember Intel? - Where Are They Now
@SingleTheShot4 жыл бұрын
plot twist Nvidia becomes a monopoly in the cpu market
@lioneckenbach5524 жыл бұрын
@@SingleTheShot 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@philipcooper82974 жыл бұрын
Too big to fail, #pan_am
@philipcooper82974 жыл бұрын
@Voltaic Fire I think going back to Risc processors could break their neck, if they fall behind the demand.
@bradleyp36554 жыл бұрын
More like Remember Microsoft - They got their @$$ handed to them when they got caught spying on users an selling the information to the US and other governments...oh wait.. never mind.
@williamhall23864 жыл бұрын
I really appreciated this video having owned all of these when I was younger. Especially the nod to PB Navigator Thank you!
@mikedoe65854 жыл бұрын
Tandy -a Leather company produced Computers. Nokia was a Lumber company and produced Cellphones ! Wright brothers produced Bicycles and then produced Airplanes.
@s.baldrick38074 жыл бұрын
My Dad's Presario laptop running Windows ME still boots up fine to this day.
@mikec.86044 жыл бұрын
thats the only thing he can do today with it Boot wait close
@aadityasonwane70674 жыл бұрын
@@mikec.8604 haha true
@brkbtjunkie4 жыл бұрын
S. Baldrick that’s cute.
@dippst4 жыл бұрын
lies. ME never booted fine. i mean... it was ME.
@kalijasin4 жыл бұрын
@S. Baldrick, windows Me? 😳
@jimacarroll4 жыл бұрын
I was a computer salesman at Sears, in the “Office Center”, back in 1990.
@LockonKubi4 жыл бұрын
Sears as a proper department store will always be weird to me as I grew up with a "Sears Hometown" that was just the hardware and appliances department.
@csucujo4 жыл бұрын
I was a computer salesman at CompUSA back in 2001 - hated it. My manager was always making me sell those damn platinum warranties.
@tchitchouan4 жыл бұрын
You look old bro
@CoreZer04 жыл бұрын
Yea one of the guys that suckered my parents into getting a Packard bell. I was to young to know better until 2 years later. That's when I started understanding computers more. Years later I would be in shock on how much my parents spent in that hot garbage.
@KuriusOranj4 жыл бұрын
Sweet! I think I had a custom-built 486 back then - possibly the DX2-100, but my memory is foggy. I do recall saving up the $1000 to buy 16 MB of RAM. I'm pretty glad that I never made the goal. What a waste of cash that would have been!
@dereklathan4 жыл бұрын
Seeing Packard Bell Navigator gave me a surge of nostalgia.
@starguard41222 жыл бұрын
At 2:22 I still have my Compaq Presario complete with its whopping 7GB Hard drive, and believe it or not, IT STILL WORKS
@bhuvaneshs.k6384 жыл бұрын
My first computer was COMPAQ .it's still in my garage. Those old days.... !!!
@CocoMark4 жыл бұрын
mine was tandy
@erikburzinski82484 жыл бұрын
You should see if it still works
@bhuvaneshs.k6384 жыл бұрын
Actually i tried few months ago.. it's not opening.. 😔
@PiLLbOt1004 жыл бұрын
I have a portable in my basement.
@NabhanOnCars4 жыл бұрын
I had a packard bell, bought one in 2009, lasted me till 2019, tough machine.
@akash-zg4vj4 жыл бұрын
Till when like last month?
@RustyHondas4 жыл бұрын
What?
@MiniRockerz4ever4 жыл бұрын
Toshiba laptop from 2009 still going strong
@akash-zg4vj4 жыл бұрын
@@MiniRockerz4ever hmm I always wonder why old laptops work till now and these latest 0 figure laptops stop working in a year
@luxembourger4 жыл бұрын
@@MiniRockerz4ever Toshiba Tecra S10, I had it from 2009 to 2019.
@ppal112a4 жыл бұрын
My Dad used to work at DEC (Digital Electronic Corporation), "Deck" as it was called in those days. The company was sold to Compaq in 1998. Later, as Linus mentioned HP acquired Compaq itself in 2000s.
@SilverScarletSpider4 жыл бұрын
I miss emachines
@mikemassino4 жыл бұрын
Like you miss the plague
@adamgrant17874 жыл бұрын
I still have a 20 inch emachines LCD monitor that still works great
@kja98814 жыл бұрын
@@adamgrant1787 Me too
@adamgrant17874 жыл бұрын
@@kja9881 I only use it for a test monitor when I'm working on a computer since it don't have HDMI only VGA but it still works.
@InDreamsYourMine4 жыл бұрын
@@mikemassino Actually, eMachines in the mid 2000s we're pretty decent. My first computer was a eMachines and still like the day I bought it.
@funkmetal4 жыл бұрын
It almost felt like a sponsor segway when you started talking about Tandy lol
@tn0wl3614 жыл бұрын
Segue
@CocoMark4 жыл бұрын
@@tn0wl361 what
@vnyggi6214 жыл бұрын
@@CocoMark segueway
@Species15714 жыл бұрын
@@CocoMark It's segue. Segway is one of those 2-wheeled platform things.
@liquid1864 жыл бұрын
swagaway
@shadowdriver62484 жыл бұрын
"Packard Bell navigator" *LGR having Vietnam flashbacks of The 955*
@muzallisam50684 жыл бұрын
I still have a Packard bell pc at home.
@solarstrike334 жыл бұрын
*Druaga1 having big nostalgia bombs of the Legend 100CD*
@MrRhino126674 жыл бұрын
LOL.. I still have this CD from my first computer. Good times....
@charleshines61554 жыл бұрын
My first PC was a Packard Bell. I don't remember seeing that navigator. I do remember having a 170 MB hard disk (yes 170 megabytes) and a 486SX running at 25 MHz. I had that back in the '90s but we don't have it any more.
@jamesrussell82564 жыл бұрын
Ah yeah I remember that. My first PC was a Packard Bell.(Long forgot the model) that had a 486 SX2 processer and Windows for Networking 3.11. Man when I look back, it seems crazy how much more powerful computers have become. I had done a couple of upgrades to it and was able to run Win 95 on it and Sim City 2000. My old Compaq (lol) laptop i got in 98 or 99 ran Win 98 and Netscape Navigator. Good God, remember 56k modems? Jesus I sound ancient, and I haven't even hit 40 yet lol.
@JackRusselMan4 жыл бұрын
we had 2 compaq's growing up and we loved them. We thought they was good computers until HP bought them.
@jn1mrgn4 жыл бұрын
The mom & pop computer shop I worked at in the 90s was a Packard Bell service center. We picked up lots of recovering Packard Bell customers.
@twixieshores4 жыл бұрын
I feel old considering I have had all of these brands at some point.
@nicky94994 жыл бұрын
"Gateway is still around as a low-cost Acer brand" Huh, and here I was thinking PCs couldn't get any cheaper and shittier than an Acer...
@izaicslinux69614 жыл бұрын
That's why it's under the gateway brand ;)
@calebpoley93774 жыл бұрын
Yeah, acre has a bit of a shitty reputation...
@raddysurrname79444 жыл бұрын
my dad bought an Acer tablet once. It's the only one I could find that had a mini HDMI connector but it was unstable as hell... Now I avoid their products. Not that other companies are clean though...
@Skulllywag4 жыл бұрын
You forgetting about E-Machines???
@kfoley2754 жыл бұрын
My school swapped from hp laptops to acers, the trackpads give me arthritis, even more so than hp ones did
@KuriusOranj4 жыл бұрын
I was working in the computer industry when Samsung shut down AST. They did it suddenly and without mercy. One day I was ordering a set of systems for a client, and the next day, the regional sales rep said that he would go out to the shipping bay to ensure my order was on the truck, before heading to the lobby to get in line to be fired. Unfortunately, that order had issues, and our client was a legal firm. We ended up getting sued over Samsung's elimination of AST. I was in the corporate market, and the Compaq's we sold were quite good, and Compaq made it pretty easy for a client to get the exact PC they needed. I sold so many that I had memorized most of the product skus in the phone books they sent out.
@davej37814 жыл бұрын
ah, good ol' Packard Hell. whenever I walked into a customer's office and saw them, my first thought was "uh oh!"
@cruikshank4 жыл бұрын
Dave J yep notorious for failing hard drives. Forget the mfg but it was a Big 5” drives maybe 100 MB, failed like crazy. Then they screamed because they lost all of their work.
@jn1mrgn4 жыл бұрын
@@cruikshank Quantum.
@jeffkardosjr.38254 жыл бұрын
Picard Bell
@michaelgriffin32304 жыл бұрын
I threw one out a 14 story window once
@one_step_sideways4 жыл бұрын
My dad has a Packard Bell netbook from some 2010 or so with the old type Atom we all know and love and 1GB of RAM. He still uses it sometimes, because a hard drive is a hard drive. I'm surprised it still boots into Windows 10 and can open up a photo.
@anonymousperson262234 жыл бұрын
'Where are they now?' At my school *duh*
@lellienicole4 жыл бұрын
That's actually pretty funny
@ineedzsleep4 жыл бұрын
lol
@thefurrygamer14894 жыл бұрын
I was thinking third world country lmao
@williamkeltner51194 жыл бұрын
Do you still use Netscape Navigator?
@anonymousperson262234 жыл бұрын
@@williamkeltner5119 no lol we use ie 😭😭😭
@m3cha4 жыл бұрын
I'm still rocking a Compaq pc
@travishawkins37454 жыл бұрын
I'm running one of their keyboards
@SomeOne-ge2pu4 жыл бұрын
Ur parents must be proud
@sayantanmaiti25134 жыл бұрын
I'm using it too..my desktop and cabinet...7yrs gone
@gnmn4 жыл бұрын
Me too, my parents bought a Compaq laptop for work but two years later they gave it to me.
@blakecasimir4 жыл бұрын
@@gnmn My condolences. :P
@bob52694 жыл бұрын
"Where are they now?" --- I still buy leather goods from Tandy! I love the place!
@robert4you4 жыл бұрын
I still have my _Compaq Presario 433,_ manufactured in November 1993. It has a 200 MB HDD, a 33Mhz Intel CPU, 2 MB of RAM, no CD-player, a 1.44 floppy disk drive. Genuine Windows 3.1 on floppy disks and all other programs like Microsoft Works (MS Office light). I even have the original box in which it was shipped. The PC is an "all in one" model with a 14 inch 800x600 resolution monitor, refresh rate 50 Hz. I was so damn proud and excited when I bought it for $1,445...
@samtherat64 жыл бұрын
Huh. So two major computer companies had "Packard" in their name. Who would've thunk it
@keifermatthew4 жыл бұрын
thunk? are you trolling or this is some big brain flex im not prepared to see
@keifermatthew4 жыл бұрын
thought = correct but too normal ThUnK = wrong but BIG BRAIN
@Google_Does_Evil_Now4 жыл бұрын
I always thought it would be a good name for men's underwear. Packard.
@southerncharity79284 жыл бұрын
Also 1 of the best cars back in the day. (rival to Rolls Royce)
@theguyyoucantstand62224 жыл бұрын
@@keifermatthew You're overthunking it.
@mdukasa4 жыл бұрын
5:43 No UK map in Europe Hmmm...
@hayden.A04 жыл бұрын
Brexit is more serious than we thought
@Awesomeamh994 жыл бұрын
ideal world
@Cyber_Akuma2 жыл бұрын
Man, I never thought a video about all those long gone early 90s computer brands would make me feel nostalgic.
@davidbolha8 ай бұрын
Same. 😊😄
@georgeworley69274 жыл бұрын
Compaq main line was the Proliant. Expensive servers. I have one that still works with what we thought was a high capacity RAID 5 {6 drive unit} from 1998. I think it cost my company $12,000 US. We had 10 of them. Rev George
@Google_Does_Evil_Now4 жыл бұрын
Daewoo, what happened to them? PCs, cars, ships, fridges. They were Samsung before Samsung, but even more.
@LouisSubearth4 жыл бұрын
Well, the Daewoo brand split into three, the car division was absorbed by General Motors, the truck division was bought by Tata, still selling trucks as Tata Daewoo, and their electronics division is still around, but it's mostly really cheap products now
@ArthurD4 жыл бұрын
@@LouisSubearth there's also a bus division and a military vehicle division which went nowhere. It's still there.
@stephenwoods41184 жыл бұрын
Also a firearms division that is doing just fine.
@Delta694 жыл бұрын
In my country 1/5 of taxis is still daewoo lol cant forget them
@bitelaserkhalif4 жыл бұрын
@@ArthurD daewoo bus became independent owned by young-an hat company. Our state even used to have them in transjakarta buses, type bh115e For firearms, now it's called s&t motiv since 2012
@mamashomeschool9354 жыл бұрын
I feel like it's a little sad we don't have so many brands out there anymore.
@0dyss3us514 жыл бұрын
But don't we tho?
@nnekaotika56354 жыл бұрын
It's crazy that I once owned HP Compaq and later, a Packard Bell laptop.
@valkyrja--2 жыл бұрын
My first computer was a Compaq. My uncle worked for a tech company and he gave me this used Compaq laptop as a gift when I was 11 - 12, and that was definitely one of the happiest moments of my life. It died back in 2014 only 2 - 3 years later though lol
@Streetbikerider834 жыл бұрын
omg seeing that old packard bell program brought back alot of fond memorys from 1995. thank you linus
@SPLIFiTeD4 жыл бұрын
My Packard Bell served me well through my high school years.
@Streetbikerider834 жыл бұрын
@@SPLIFiTeD omg u telling me i had mine for like 5 years it ended up half outside the case but still used daily i learned so much from that machine
@munenex4 жыл бұрын
Memorys of what capacity?
@snowcie4 жыл бұрын
God I remember playing Half Life on a Compaq. Yikes Im old.
@adem_gun4 жыл бұрын
Yikes.
@xenonram4 жыл бұрын
Yeeks....
@heimvar4 жыл бұрын
*FLEX*
@theguyyoucantstand62224 жыл бұрын
I played WoW on my Compaq, was pretty good at the time. I'm too spoiled by lightning fast responses from my current PC to go back though.
@gregvertrees51224 жыл бұрын
How about Pong on an Apple II? I am way older!!
@fmc63384 жыл бұрын
In the nineties my wife had a Wang, really, computer called Wang. It was a large one.
@greeceuranusputin4 жыл бұрын
reassignment surgery is common these days...
@Ghost-vp7wz4 жыл бұрын
@M Harris was it a nice wang
@Ghost-vp7wz4 жыл бұрын
@M Harris lol yeah
@jasondicioccio8804 жыл бұрын
Ooo. I remember those. She had one at home, though? I thought of them more as office PCs
@tfharper4 жыл бұрын
@M Harris Very successful company. IIRC they were in Lowell MA. The whole town was pretty much Wang. Huge cambodian population. Fun markets and restaurants.
@EpicJones14 жыл бұрын
I used to have a Compaq laptop and I played wow on it at literally 5 - 9 fps. Took me a good year to hit level 40.
@jordanferrazza87004 жыл бұрын
At least everyone was being sold up rather than bankrupt.
@pd2094584 жыл бұрын
Mostly for their patents and licences probably.
@IntoTheMindlessAbyss4 жыл бұрын
OMG! You're like a rapper
@FuncleChuck4 жыл бұрын
HP bought and killed COMPAQ. That was my last windows laptop haha. Edit: still boots wtf
@keifermatthew4 жыл бұрын
I think i had their disc player.. did they make a disc player?
@RustyHondas4 жыл бұрын
I still have COMPAQ laptop with win 7 and it boots
@ljclac14 жыл бұрын
I still have a compaq desktop running windows vista still boots but is very slow
@DouglasLuedtke4 жыл бұрын
@@keifermatthew If they made a portable disc player, I bet it was very compaq...
@texascolorado2 жыл бұрын
Worked at Compaq for 17 years - left right after they bought Digital. Great times. 🙂
@HoleDweller4 жыл бұрын
My parents bought me my first PC, a Packard Bell, from Sears in 1993. A 486SX 33, with 4MB of RAM, a 245MB HDD, a 9600 baud fax/modem, and SoundBlaster compatible audio. Upgraded it over the years with a CD-ROM drive, 850MB HDD, and a 486DX 133 Overdrive. Finally replaced it in 1998, then donated it to my local college after I rebuilt it for my A+ class in 2004, still in working condition running Win 3.11 and DOS 6.22, with original mouse, keyboard, and 13" monitor. Still remember picking it up and getting a Tandy 24pin printer, then running over to Babbage's to grab Turbo Pascal, X-Wing, and Wolfenstein 3D.
@markleos80074 жыл бұрын
5:43 LTT must take brexit very seriously
@morgan11684 жыл бұрын
Linus: "Speaking of hard to find" Everybody else: "A Barber"
@SpoilerAlert__4 жыл бұрын
My barber left the country 2 years ago and I haven't gotten lined up/faded since then. *nothing was the same*
@Kirinketsu_4 жыл бұрын
"Yes Sears sold PCs" Sears still sells PCs in the U.S anyways, they still sell everything they can like they did when they started catalogs back in 1908. Sears, Kmart, JCPenney, and nearly every jewelry store, really most big stores from the 1900s to 1970s were the first WalMarts.
@cruikshank4 жыл бұрын
Kirinketsu I bought our Photo Studios First Laser Printer, a Canon from Sears because we could put it on the Sears card. Talking about 94. We printed All of our marketing material with it. It made us Money 💰. Then made the mistake of buying a Brother Laser from them. It sucked, had a major design flaw.
@solarstrike334 жыл бұрын
Thing is, they're on the brink of extinction.
@travelandmoore4 жыл бұрын
The only time Sears sells a computer in store today is when the store closes.
@kyoryu14 жыл бұрын
I was 6 y.o when my father bought us a Compaq Presario 7477 Model and was able to run Starcraft Broodwar and Diablo II smooth but the psu burned out after switching the voltage on it with the red slide one day. A nice rig i am trying to end now. I grew up and managed to buy a new psu and this zombie was able to boot, i couldnt recover the keyboard, the mv540 monitor, the multimedia keyboard and the JBL Platinum Speakears(We had 2 computers by that day and had to donate those components to charities). I still have this 7477 PC and it is old england toffee mode now.
@ViciousPikachu4 жыл бұрын
Me using a COMPAQ laptop in 2019 :......:
@pocketanime4 жыл бұрын
be proud of it you have a different thing lmao
@shiinaai29784 жыл бұрын
If it's still running well, maybe you can sell it for high price to a collector and then buy a new one? I didn't think Compaq laptops still exist.
@Zesuto34 жыл бұрын
My Compaq presario lasted from 2008 to 2017, went through hell and survived every single time, until I was drunk one night during a LAN party playing AoE with my friends and I spilled a Vampiro Cocktail all over it, the acids from the lemon and hot sauce in the drink slowly destroyed the keyboard, the lappy still works, only the screen and the keyboard died. My first computer was also a Compaq back in 1996 and I had it till 2003. Luckily I now have a 2700X so my days of not being able to game at all are gone.
@nekogod4 жыл бұрын
Like I know here in the UK we have that whole Brexit thing going on (I wish we were remaining), but seriously the whole of the UK and Ireland was missing from the Europe map at 5:42 x_x
@McVaio4 жыл бұрын
Yeah? You like being manipulated by the Big EU Government?
@nekogod4 жыл бұрын
@@McVaio They're not manipulating anyone, maybe stop reading the daily mail. And have you seen the UK government? Bunch of useless lying scum, being governed by a dog turd would be an improvement.
@Locutus3 жыл бұрын
@@nekogod You really think the EU is better to govern us??? Live in Europe, and enjoy the benevolent, trustworthy, beautiful government.
@nekogod3 жыл бұрын
@@Locutus Better than the current UK government. Although the EU never governed us. Our government has always had a veto for most things and helped create alot of the legislation in the first place. If you think leaving the EU is going to allow our government to do what they want then you're right it'll be free to take away our rights and allow the rich to pay no tax and sell the NHS to the US and break international law and create a border in Kent and jeopardise peace in Ireland. Gonna be great. Would love to hear about any real benefits.
@djokotriono77874 жыл бұрын
My first was a 286 Wearness with EGA display. With that I completed a 1 semester task of creating a A0 layout of a dam debit calculation traditionally done with a technical pen, engraving ruler and 6 months of slaving at that same transparent paper, with 2 days of crunching calculation and copy pasting cells in Excel. And helped a friend along the way too, since he's 2 days short with nothing to show for before deadline. So I've printed out 40pcs of A4s with my LX-800 Epson dot matrix printer, taped them together, and went to printing and asked them to laser copy it to a A0 transparent paper. Oila. Crisp result with no white correction tapes or holes in the paper due to erasing mistakes. Needless to say, all those guys who went with technical pen hated me. Hey, I asked my teacher beforehand and he's OK with it, so..
@sonictimm4 жыл бұрын
This video is so nostalgic! I remember learning to use our old Packard Bell running DOS. It would boot up in ten seconds, which was astronomically faster than the Gateway 2000 machine running Windows 98.
@Javich4 жыл бұрын
You missed eMachines !!
@ayumuchan35414 жыл бұрын
That's bottom of the barrel right there, they were bought by Gateway which ironically themselves were later bought by Acer lol
@TYTLs4 жыл бұрын
I had an eMachines netbook that was less shitty than it had any right to be. Damn that evil 1024x600 resolution though.
@sequoiahughes85364 жыл бұрын
Nobody misses eMachines. Fuck those things were garbage
@imaner764 жыл бұрын
@@ayumuchan3541 there's always a bigger fish 🤔
@thealien_ali33824 жыл бұрын
I had a emachine, upgraded the PSU and added in a gpu and turned my amd athalon dual core pc into a gaming beast and I sold it, I wonder where my bad boy is
@Bohemian05224 жыл бұрын
as a long time Mac user, the last PC that I owned was a Compaq Presario back in the early 2000s, the exact same one shown in this video with the purple and white tower case. It was pretty stylish back in the days, when the first gen iMac got people's attention with its transparent color casing, the Compaq Presario probably got inspired by that.
@willstikken56194 жыл бұрын
My first PC was a Packard Bell. Bought it from a Military PX while over seas. At the time the army was operating on 286 computers with the occasional 386 cropping up i had a Pentium. It introduced me to replacing the cpu with one at a higher clock, over clocking and OEM restore media. It served in many roles and i still have the case, maybe it has a future as an mini-itx based nas.
@TheDiamond8724 жыл бұрын
I remember playing The Sims on my Dad's Compaq computer.
@thealien_ali33824 жыл бұрын
Muppet
@imaner764 жыл бұрын
@5:37 when he pans over to Europe and the UK has already been deleted.... Too soon man, too soon. 🤣
@KrotowX4 жыл бұрын
By geography UK IS Europe and always been. No one can cut it off continent only because of Channel.
@iviaverick524 жыл бұрын
I remember when my family first got a Packard Bell computer back in the 90's. It was $2k and had a 1 GB hard drive.
@0nevadajim4 жыл бұрын
I worked at Packard Bell tech support back in the day, when it was Dos and windows 3.1, we could not see the customers screens back then so you had to have a good imagination and great customer and technical skills. when Windows 95 came out none of us had seen it or even had it on our office computers, I personally bought a QUE book ( ie computers for dummies manual) that would show screen shots of what the desktop looked like, those were some challenging days.. it drove me so crazy I joined the Army... LOL
@Zoyx4 жыл бұрын
Emachines has a fun story. Could have included them in the Gateway segment.
@Yobleck4 жыл бұрын
I remember when everyone would run to the computer lab so they wouldn't get stuck on the crappy old gateway in the corner.
@rnigma4 жыл бұрын
My uncle had a Packard Bell TV he bought in the '60s; it had a good picture and lasted for years. And my first new PC was a Packard Bell, a Pentium 1 I bought around '97. Tried to upgrade the modem from 14.4 to a 33.6, ended up making a pricey call to tech support. I liked the design of the monitor with the attached speakers. When I got another PC a few years later I took the speakers off the PB monitor and continued to use them because they sounded much better than the ones that came with the new PC.
@theDudeOfDudes4 жыл бұрын
I remember bringing home our Packard Bell 386 from SEARS and playing Wolfenstein 3d, Indy 500, and Aces of the Pacific. Good times.
@mrgallbladder4 жыл бұрын
My family's first computer was a Compaq. I played medal of Honor on it.
@starrymohannad4 жыл бұрын
me to
@tabernaclejones61154 жыл бұрын
Played the original call of duty on mine lol. Than I gotta eat on x1300 pro and oh boy lol
@mjjjuly4 жыл бұрын
Lots of topics for this series: - mainframes - cpu architectures - operating systems
@WillyJunior4 жыл бұрын
D U M B T E R M I N A L
@solar69884 жыл бұрын
Harvard got replaced by Von neumann
@bbygrlpt2 Жыл бұрын
I still have my Compaq laptop from 2011 😩🥰
@kelvpoon4 жыл бұрын
My Dad worked in Digital, which got acquired by Compaq, which got acquired by HP...now retired. One of the few who can last in the industry through a long period. Career lasting over 20 years.
@travishawkins37454 жыл бұрын
I'm still using one of compaq's keyboards every day
@homegrowntwinkie4 жыл бұрын
They really don't make 'em like they used to...
@travishawkins37454 жыл бұрын
No they don't, it's a solid keyboard and I really like it, everything works on it, it's crazy
@homegrowntwinkie4 жыл бұрын
@@travishawkins3745 I know, man. I wish I still had my old HP Keyboard from the early 00's.
@meesguyy4 жыл бұрын
5:42 Europe after the Great Brexit War, 2020 colourised
@KrotowX4 жыл бұрын
Yep - where casualties will be some beaten up politicians and a bunch of migrants suffocated in closed lorries.
@user-sj3fp2xq2m4 жыл бұрын
OOF
@charlessanson28354 жыл бұрын
I just dug out a desktop Compaq computer, from a storage shed with, monitor, keyboard that had not been used since 1999 . It still works with Windows 95. Hard to believe.
@Jericho81034 жыл бұрын
My first PC was a Packard Bell. I learned everything on that thing and that's what got me hooked on technology.
@owenshotspot4 жыл бұрын
We have compaq computers at our school and everyone hates them.
@owenshotspot4 жыл бұрын
Shank Adams yeh I use my iPad but most people have to use them. When you scroll on anything the whole screen refreshes and it’s awful
@mikeward17014 жыл бұрын
FYI: Tandy never used the Radio Shack brand here in the UK.
@ianweber92484 жыл бұрын
MikeWard1701 I vaguely recall the same being true here in Australia too, at least as far as the stores themselves were concerned. I believe they used the radio shack branding on some of the products they sold though.
@musicalneptunian4 жыл бұрын
@@ianweber9248 They were called Tandy Electronics in Australia. I bought my first chess computer from Tandy.
@ianweber92484 жыл бұрын
Musical Neptunian I definitely remember the Tandy Electronics stores, but I wasn’t sure if they were Tandy for their entire history in Australia. I’m also positive I saw Radio Shack logos on a number of the products they sold as well.
@daniel_rossy_explica3 жыл бұрын
My first PC was a Compac Presario (1999). It was the only prebuilt PC I ever had (I started modding it, adding more RAM, when I was 13). It's monitor though, was incredible. I ever had 3 monitors in all those years, and I bought the last one in 2019. That Compac Monitor I had lasted more than 10 years.
@bjthedjdutchdude19924 жыл бұрын
I had a Compaq monitor. I had the one with the cat snout buttons and a round rear-end. It was a tank. Very reliable!
@thexgamer82404 жыл бұрын
The video title should have been: *Remember COMPAQ? This is it now. Feel old yet?*
@Arovna4 жыл бұрын
I was not prepared, once more, to be reminded of my past youth, please do not take this personally, but I feel compelled to invite you on your way to intercourse yourself. I am vulnerable Never been offended by something I wholeheartedly agree with xD
@jGRite4 жыл бұрын
You don't know Tandy, you're not that old.
@brotnjanin4 жыл бұрын
I still use my HP & Compaq PC to this day. It's pretty powerful for it's age. 8GB of RAM & Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400
@Angrybutcher4 жыл бұрын
First PC I bought, was a Gateway 2000 in 1997. Pentium 200mmx, 32mb ram, S3 video card with 4mb and a Sound Blaster. Paired with a 17" monitor, it cost me $3200 at 17 years old lol. And drove to South Dakota to pick it up! That's still the most expensive computer I've ever owned, even with some notable systems with dual Nvidia 570's, dual 7970's and even my current 2080.
@JuanPabloRojasW4 жыл бұрын
1:40 I used to be a Compaq Reseller and have some research I did back then. There was a company caled Digital, they used to manufacture the Alpha Processor. (the DEC Workstation) Compaq acquired Digital and marketed for a while many servers and high end workstations with the Alpha Processor. When Compaq was merged with HP they kept for a short while the Alpha processors and servers till (I asume) the Itanium processor took over the old Alpha Servers..
@cogs114 жыл бұрын
I remember all these brands. I am so old.
@MXB20014 жыл бұрын
Yeah, good memories. Never had any brand names though, knew from the start that for 100% compat you needed a no name clone.
@stephenwoods41184 жыл бұрын
Note that the Tandy leather company is still going strong.
@sonictimm4 жыл бұрын
Unlike Coleco...
@BOT763954 жыл бұрын
I've actually walk past one of their stores before. I even have a picture of it
@musicalneptunian4 жыл бұрын
Where is my Tandy leather PC?
@Vrloopje4 жыл бұрын
My dad had a Packard Bell with Windows Millennium installed back in the days. Like omg. But then we didn't know any better including myself.
@mattmanguy4 жыл бұрын
My family's first computer was a early `90s Packard Bell. For some odd reason, the only thing it allowed us to do (and literally nothing else!) on it was play these educational 3-D Adventure games, which were about science subjects like dinosaurs, marine biology, human biology, speed, etc. Then we got a Compaq in the early 2K's, which actually worked normally, but was slow and just powerful enough to listen to music while typing a word document.