Repair: The Monorail All-In-One PC

LGR's video here: • The Monorail: $999 All...
In this video, I take a deeper look at the internals of the Monorail all-in-one PC from the mid 1990's in an attempt to resurrect an example unit.
#vintagecomputing #electronicsrepair #monorail #pentium

[@Ariannus]

Got to love those nice slim bezels. Kidding aside I remember seeing the Monorail advertised back in the day and being impressed with it's compact size.

[@ericvintage5725]

Wow! Your channel is one of the best that i ever seen! Have a good day! Hugs from Brazil!

[@jonobst]

Thank you!

[@rgarlinyc]

Ha ha - kudos to you, O Resurrector of Machines of the Ancient Gods! 👏🏻👍🏻

[@Djdhevsbisbdjdbsisb]

Let’s go monorail computer

[@jacobwarriner1125]

I can imagine these monorail AIOs were quite popular in libraries. Good god they look stuffed inside though 😂 nice video, keep it up!

[@jonobst]

I'd think so too, especially at their launch price!

[@jonobst]

...and thanks!

[@baremetaltechtv]

I Subbed. Great video, dont know how ive never found your channel before, you have a good backlog of videos for me to binge 😊 greetings from Cincinnati Ohio

[@jonobst]

Thanks!

[@KevinHorvatin0001]

I came for the computers stayed for the wasp lore

[@jonobst]

Finally something LGR doesn't have!

[@dave4shmups]

Nice work! One of my roommates got a Monorail PC in early 1997, which was the second half of our freshman year of college. I don't know which model he had, although it definitely had Windows 95 on it.

[@jonobst]

These things are built like a boat anchor with their steel case - probably perfect for a college dorm room.

[@dave4shmups]

@@jonobst True, although we never had any parties in our dorm room

[@jonobst]

@@dave4shmupsI meant the small footprint and the rugged case, but yes I suppose parties too :)

[@dave4shmups]

@@jonobst Yeah, it definitely looks pretty rugged! Honestly, it reminds me of a kiosk from that era, as big as the screen bezels are. It's too bad that they decided to go with a passive matrix display.

[@jonobst]

@@dave4shmups hmm swapping that out for a better display sounds...tempting.

[@gravedigger1454]

As a German, I love your last name. It means fruit (plural) in German. Great Video!

[@jonobst]

My Grandpa on my dad's side was an immigrant to the USA in about 1904 - sadly I don't speak any German but I do know the meaning of my name! Thanks for watching!

[@rhuwyn]

The factory recovery software does work, but it's not very good at dealing with partition management. For the recovery CD to work you have to have your C partition already setup, and the installer has to be run from D drive. If you have a large hard drive and end up with multiple parititions it breaks it. When I restored mine and I had multiple partions I copied the contents of the CD to the D partition and ran the D:\autoexec.exe and did the full blown recovery and it worked fine.

[@jonobst]

Yeah, clearly haha! Thanks for the info!

[@StanleyKubick1]

monorail, monorail!

[@jonobst]

LGR did it!!

[@ericvintage5725]

Your camera is good, but one tip I give you is to get a lapel microphone or even a better mcirophone, so you don't capture so much background noise and just your voice.

[@jonobst]

I don't disagree, I do need a better audio capture solution. Some day! The other problem is my workshop is next to my furnace, water heater, dehumidifier, and server rack - so there is a ton of background noise. I am usually able to filter most of it out with some tweaking.

[@spikederailed]

mud dauber wasps

[@jonobst]

Bingo!

[@andreabc1469]

scrap it!