To those pointing out Acer also makes Extensa laptops: yep, and with good reason! They bought the notebook division from Texas Instruments in 1997.
@kbhasi4 жыл бұрын
So that's why I saw some Extensa 390 laptops with Texas Instruments logos and some with Acer logos…
@only2574 жыл бұрын
LGR Blerbs 😈cool
@JonnyInfinite4 жыл бұрын
I've got an Acer Extensa laptop, was just going to ask this
@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo4 жыл бұрын
I'm waiting on 8-bit guy for his response but then again,he dont respond to all videos but this is a texas instruments and since hes in texas, I think he'll know more about this machine
@drizztcat14 жыл бұрын
Hey man, when are we gonna get some more Clint sammich videos?
@jdduncan4 жыл бұрын
I worked at Texas Instruments in the early to mid 90's. They made laptop computers in a small town in Central Texas. The TravelMate brand was fully TI designed and built by TI. By 1995 TI decided to bring in some less expensive models built by Taiwanese manufacturers. The Extensa 550CD was one of those systems and it was built by FIC. I was on the team that brought those in. I got to spend a couple of months at the FIC factory outside of Taipei doing what was called "factory authorization inspections" which was quality inspections on the first production run of the Extensa models. TI also had another Extensa model that was produced by Acer. Clint, if you remove the keyboard you will see the the CPU is a desktop Pentium in a socket. We had a couple of issues with the Extensa 550CD. The sled holding the HDD had a little wiggle room and the HDD would disconnect from the connector board. We had to add a spacer to the front of the tray to keep it tight against the connector board. The bigger issue was that the battery would pop out. We had a lawsuit from an incident in an airplane where the laptop owner was putting the laptop into the overhead luggage compartment and the battery dropped out and into a dude's crotch and did some damage. Fun times.
@LGRBlerbs4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all the info, good stuff!
@Merrinen4 жыл бұрын
Ah so that is what the model number means, 550CD = 550 Crotch Damage...
@luxembourger4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, poor Linus got a high-pitched voice after this incident.
@tornadotj20594 жыл бұрын
Reading this reminds me of all the issues we had with laptops at AST.
@iwanttocomplain4 жыл бұрын
Was the damage to his crotch extensive?
@lyonadimral4 жыл бұрын
Water faucet is power management indicator; 1 drip is conservative, 2+ drips is max power. :)
@LGRBlerbs4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I had no idea!
@only2574 жыл бұрын
LGR Blerbs ☺️
@taz3000nice4 жыл бұрын
I always thought it meant that its "Running" like running water lol
@Lukeno524 жыл бұрын
IIRC, Toshiba used a very similar icon on some of their laptops as well.
@phasm424 жыл бұрын
@@Lukeno52 yeah it looks like a Toshiba re-badged.
@Vladimir_Kv4 жыл бұрын
This blerb and the screen shown here taught me WHY there is an option to make mouse pointer leave trails - before I thought about that option as a random appearance thing.
@RichardSmithers4 жыл бұрын
Screens like this remind me again of how thankful I am that active matrix finally became the norm. You paid a good $400+ premium for them back in the day, but the difference was night and day - almost literally.
@lull_the_un4 жыл бұрын
"I don't know what this little water faucet icon is that showed up right there..." Texas Instrument's short lived attempt at merging laptops with tamagotchi. (not really)
@Mazing784 жыл бұрын
My grandfather has an Extensa 565 that he still uses. Its only job is to automate opening/closing of his curtains. The screen is so faded he has to use an external monitor.
@kbhasi4 жыл бұрын
I wonder what kind of curtain rails he had. Probably something custom, or smart home curtains before its time.
@ocg-overwatchconsolegamepl28094 жыл бұрын
@@kbhasi LGR showcased lots of old automated stuff on his channel, recommend watching that if you haven't!
@s8wc34 жыл бұрын
Your grandfather sounds awesome
@Redhotsmasher4 жыл бұрын
As the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
@Vegas2424 жыл бұрын
@@Redhotsmasher Well apparently the monitor is broke
@Spender6044 жыл бұрын
$2,799 for this bad boy without the extra RAM, from what I can find. You could also get it with an active matrix display for an additional $800. Unbelievable how expensive laptops used to be if you also consider inflation.
@colombianguy81944 жыл бұрын
That's the thing that blows my mind. Laptops in the 90's were very expensive machines, I have a thinkpad 760XL, I don't remember it's price when new, but it was way above $2.500. And I recently won a bid for a Thinkpad 770X from a German guy, I'm still waiting for arrive (Coronavirus shipping issues to Colombia, my home country) That beast cost like $4500 in 1998. 14" TFT, Pentium II and DVD drive, it was the top of the class back then.
@Lurch-Bot14 жыл бұрын
I have a couple of old Toshiba Satellite laptops. One of them, my parents bought new in 1998. It has a 486 DX4-100 processor. It cost around $1800 new, probably on clearance. I also have the same model with a Pentium 120 MMX and I think that one was just shy of $3k originally.
@BenState Жыл бұрын
*but cheap
@ivanr31074 жыл бұрын
ok Clint, that Gothic game in the background has been teasing me for quite some time now! I'm dying to see your review of it.
@NexXxus864 жыл бұрын
Same here man, love this game since its release in march 2001
@billybollockhead56284 жыл бұрын
I keep seeing the realms game.. and reminding me that I’d love to see Clint review “realms of the haunting”, one of my favourite “fmv cd” games
@Lykoloo4 жыл бұрын
It's $2.49 on GoG as of 6/10/20
@rickyrigatoni4 жыл бұрын
It was so good they made the same game 6 more times.
@Fastwinstondoom4 жыл бұрын
@@rickyrigatoni Just too bad that they could never make it better than Gothic 2 with Night of the Raven expac...
@coffee1154 жыл бұрын
This is the laptop I had in highschool and college. I loved it so much, and I miss the heck out of it. if any manufacturer can make something like this again, I would buy it immediately.
@Snotnarok4 жыл бұрын
This is taking me back to high school, my dad had gotten a really, really out of date laptop for 'cheap' (IDK what he paid for it, but he said 'cheap'). How out of date? It ran windows 3.11 and I graduated in 2004. It was a glorified word doc maker. I confused teachers when handing in reports that were printed from our DOT, MATRIX, PRINTER. Some made fun of the PCs in the library for being bad but they were LIGHT YEARS ahead of our family PC. Our PC before that? . . . DOS.
@vetchb.s.c.16124 жыл бұрын
Sounds like my home computing experience i had a commodore 64 in the 90s and when we got an upgrade it was an IBM XT
@bitwize4 жыл бұрын
My high school's computer lab had a fleet of IBM PCs. As in 5150s. This was the early 90s. Eventually they were upgraded to 386s and 486s, and we all played Wolfenstein/Doom on those.
@MosoKaiser4 жыл бұрын
Well, if you only needed to type simple documents without much fancy-schmancy stuff, it probably got the job done just fine? Reminds me of that Polish guy running his car repair shop and still using his old Commodore 64, for which he himself had programmed software he needed, like some tire balancing program for instance.
@JayFochs13374 жыл бұрын
I used an actual doc maker xD basically a typewriter but for notepad txt files. Nightmares.
@bitwize4 жыл бұрын
@@JayFochs1337 So, a word processor?
@thedungeondelver4 жыл бұрын
Man...I remember these. When my department, back in '98, was depreciating old equipment to give away to employees, one of these was turned in by the hardware engineering dept. so they could upgrade to a shiny new Compaq. Anyway, I'd made everything else ready for the giveaway, and this was one of the few stragglers. I could NOT get the Ti video or sound drivers to work. They'd install and let me put the display at 8 or 16 bit color (it's been a while, don't recall) and play audio but as soon as I rebooted the laptop, it would default back to the previous settings, and from there on it wouldn't acknowledge the changes. Ended up going to the recycle bin.
@jacobsekela86914 жыл бұрын
I love these videos. Perfect for to watch with a coffee during a cloudy, rainy day. I was born in ‘97 but I get nostalgic for this kind of old hardware.
@markambrose19104 жыл бұрын
I had this exact model laptop when I was in high school (my mother worked for Texas Instruments and purchased the laptop at cost), it was an absolute tank. An excellent DOS machine but very mundane and slow as a windows pc. I played Doom and Doom II on it constantly, and yeah, that screen was absolutely horrible. Thanks for the nostalgia trip back to the 90s. I'd love to see you upgrade it to the max, if I remember correctly the cpu is socketed and can be replaced with a desktop pentium 133Mhz.
@mistersomaru4 жыл бұрын
I saw these things when I was in elementary school in the late 90's XD
@andrewdupuis11514 жыл бұрын
does Duke3d work on it ?
@erebostd4 жыл бұрын
@@andrewdupuis1151 obviously 😉
@UltimateAlgorithm4 жыл бұрын
What is the water faucet icon means?
@Henchman19774 жыл бұрын
I just picked up a mint Toshiba 430cdt P120 machine. Has a fresh restore from 2004 with only one user created document. Screen is really nice on it too. Battery even still holds a charge. I like that the PSU is internal.
@Henchman19774 жыл бұрын
For $10cnd I might add....
@Vegas2424 жыл бұрын
Clint, stop kink-shaming the power cable
@MontieMongoose4 жыл бұрын
That boot up sound is so amazing.
@jansenart04 жыл бұрын
I think what's most notable about this thing is how little you can find about it online. I'd like to see it play SimCity.
@aarongreenfield90384 жыл бұрын
Question is, would it even run SIM city?
@redherring55324 жыл бұрын
This comment reminded me of Sim Tower, loved that game
@jansenart04 жыл бұрын
@@redherring5532 I remember trying to figure out how to change the lobby size only to be told I was SOL.
@kbhasi4 жыл бұрын
I've a feeling that the backup battery is leaking, hence the corrosion in the PC Card slots, so I recommend you try to get it apart and remove it! Hopefully it can run without that backup battery. (Edit: I think there may be leaking capacitors that are causing the audio output to be quiet) 5:45 Power management mode! Compaq used the same icon back then.
@dedr4m4 жыл бұрын
A leaky CMOS/BIOS battery is what killed the GPU on the one I picked up (Had the Toshiba branded varient, can't remember the video-chip, but it were BGA and failing due to battery leakage) Yep, I tried replacing the VRAM and trace testing, defo the GPU.
@CassandraCarter4 жыл бұрын
My stepmother had one of these, and I got it as a hand-me-down. Not surprised it's still working. It's a real workhorse computer.
@Gartral4 жыл бұрын
that valentine's day animation brings back memories.. as SOON as I saw the "Enter name" screen I knew what it was... trust me Clint, get it going on the woodgrain and witness it in all it's glory, it's awful.
@Ash05124 жыл бұрын
How good is the calculator application on that?
@jabbott74 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@MisterRorschach904 жыл бұрын
It better be able to spell boobies.
@AerinRavage4 жыл бұрын
Hopefully good enough to play Doom!
@Hat-4 жыл бұрын
Probably decent enough
@MediocreTCG4 жыл бұрын
Because tech is so weird sometimes, it's probably shite lololol
@TwoWholeWorms4 жыл бұрын
Man, that Valentines Dance exe makes me miss the early Internet. We used to send those things around all the time at school, heh. The IT guy wrote a script to get rid of sheep.exe which he called mintsauce. xD
@leisergeist4 жыл бұрын
Gaming on a passive matrix display, wew! Wouldn't wish that eye ache on anyone lol
@davidromeroblaya79204 жыл бұрын
Windows 95 start up sound... That is how nostalgia sounds.
@billspooner37924 жыл бұрын
I was 9mins in the joys of being in Australia. Thank you LGR love your reviews
@charleschilton38184 жыл бұрын
I liked seeing that boxed copy of Gothic in the background. The first 2 games are some of my favorite RPGs
@gadzi4ok3 жыл бұрын
this valentin.exe brought me right back to 2000 man. never thought i will ever see this again
@LaCorvier4 жыл бұрын
You always made my day... Thank you . Had a bad day today. But your videos always cheers me up !!! Keep up the good work mate.... Gnite from down under !!!
@MrJeffreyTibbs4 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! My dad used to have one back in the day! I don't remember getting to use it much myself, but I forever associate early/mid-90s laptops with that bulky grey casing.
@prabhatbhandari3 жыл бұрын
lol that Valentine's day flash animation brought back so many memories.
@ThrashTrash1204 жыл бұрын
It doesn't seem like anyone else is going to bring this up, so I will. That flash animation was actually done by John K., of Ren a Stimpy fame. He made a lot of Flash back in the day.
@MalikCarr4 жыл бұрын
IIRC he contributed quite a bit of work to Sugarqube, which was an early to mid-2000s e-card website. Wayback Machine says they went dark in late 2007 and apparently were absorbed by American Greetings - assumedly without John K.
@U014B3 жыл бұрын
I just thought whoever made it had been watching a lot of R&S at the time.
@ZASHAwesome4 жыл бұрын
Dude you make my days happy, Keep it up... I have some stories about woirking in a e-waste recycling center that would make all of us cry.
@RenzoPereyra1154 жыл бұрын
I really like his enthusiasm in every video. Adds a nice touch to the content he provides. Keep up the awesome work! :D
@donbot50004 жыл бұрын
That flash animation is the high quality content we come here for !
@UKfromadrone4 жыл бұрын
I see TI managed to fit a second screen on a laptop without removing the function keys... i wonder why apple couldnt figure it out 25years later...
@alhuno14 жыл бұрын
Because Apple. @Louis Rossmann is the best example of this.
@MultiTelan4 жыл бұрын
Form over function. In fact...form over literally anything else.
@alhuno14 жыл бұрын
@@MultiTelan to the point of computers that thermal throttle the second you put a load on the CPU just because they want their computers to be quiet.
@MultiTelan4 жыл бұрын
@@alhuno1 that's why I love my G3 15. Yeah it's a lower end system build wise, but she games with the best of them and stays cool because the internals were designed properly.
@NigelDraycott4 жыл бұрын
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@mosieurlaurin4 жыл бұрын
Texas Instruments, the kind of hardware that comes with so many quirks and features for the professional spreadsheet gurus!
@Katerpillar4 жыл бұрын
That's so cool, a laptop from like 25 years ago with all it's components working (more or less).
@phillipev4 жыл бұрын
I cannot be the only one who wants to see that Flash Valentine's animation And your voice is SO soothing
@scipioafricanus68074 жыл бұрын
This is the laptop the senate gave me when I was on campaign against Hannibal.
@IRWPD4 жыл бұрын
Had know idea that Texas Instruments made laptops. Learns something new everyday.
@Accounting4Cycling4 жыл бұрын
If you get really bored, I found the full manual. You were spot on about the floppy and CD drive being modular.
@erebostd4 жыл бұрын
Haha, great, I had this one back in the days. Loved that thing, great to see it again 😁
@teresagarcia5284 жыл бұрын
That Valentine dance is mesmerizing
@andersenpeters4 жыл бұрын
You skipped over the most important connectivity option, IrDA! That little black window on the back looked like IR and old ads confirm that it is.
@tornadotj20594 жыл бұрын
For transferring data to another laptop. Oh, the memories.
@KarlBaron4 жыл бұрын
@@tornadotj2059 Or to sync your Palm! Or to go online at exorbitant rates using your GSM cell phone...
@Beany2007FTW4 жыл бұрын
@@KarlBaron I recall doing that with an XDA and a toshiba tecra laptop. Early 00s as I recall. Such strange times thinking back!
@sa_exploder4 жыл бұрын
Yeah! IrDA would make a good Tech Tales or Oddware episode. Cool stuff.
@RyanRiopel4 жыл бұрын
I once used IrDA to transfer an MP3 from my iPaq PDA to a friend's laptop. I think it took over 5 minutes!
@jarthurs4 жыл бұрын
I used to do technology displays for the Royal National Institute for the Blind and we would demonstrate screen magnification and large print software. Sometimes I'd have a van full of kit and we'd have to unload the laptops first and leave them near a heater before setting them up otherwise the screen contrast was zero. Even the early TFT screens weren't much better if they'd been left overnight in a cold van.
@rebe014 жыл бұрын
I used this exact model to take notes in college starting in 2003. Better laptops were available, but this one was free. The hinge was falling apart, the battery didn't work, and it was super slow. I ran DOS 6.22 on it and a simple text editor since all I needed to do was type notes. I kinda wish I still had it so I could follow along at home.
@Dskinny234 жыл бұрын
LGR / Clint, you should talk more about this channel on your main. I've watched all your primary channel videos a few times and had no idea this channel existed. Glad I have more to watch.
@acedotcom3 жыл бұрын
I had one of these. It was actually the first windows based computer I ever bought. Mine didnt originally include a cd player but at some point my windows install became corrupted and I had to write the driver for DOS to get it running again. it was really amazing for a guy that never really worked in DOS before
@Hairy_Lee4 жыл бұрын
After working for Acer for several years (some time ago now), I can't believe I only just found out where the Extensa and TravelMate brands came from
@paulhall98114 жыл бұрын
When I think of all the old laptops we got rid of at my old workplace.
@MrTruth-yn7pq4 жыл бұрын
5:44 The water faucet has to with the power management settings... The more drips appear the more power/battery power the laptop is using. That indicator was pretty common on lower end laptops of the day..
@doramilitiakatiemelody18753 жыл бұрын
Yep
@drizztcat14 жыл бұрын
Sometimes these cheap old things are the best finds because they hold so many weird surprises.
@c750dt4 жыл бұрын
The Extensa was also sold as an Acer. That display is definitely DSTN. The water faucet icon indicates the power management mode. A lot of laptops in the 90s correlated a faucet icon with power management. A full stream means full power and a trickle means power saving (slow) mode. With those mouse buttons, one click is probably an actual button click and the other is something buckling. Also, PM me if you need any help with those 760s you unboxed in the last vid. I used to rebuild them, repair them and resell them when I was in high school in the 2000s. I've even built a few from scratch and know every centimeter of those things. Sadly, those ELs you have have DSTN displays but those can be really easily swapped with a 12" TFT.
@eDoc20204 жыл бұрын
Actually with the mouse buttons, one click is the actual click and the other is the same click. There are two switch elements in parallel under each external mouse button, presumably for more consistent activation.
@PaulsPlace4 жыл бұрын
The Texas Instruments THICCCCBOI
@GroteB4 жыл бұрын
Everything is bigger in Texas (Instruments).
@Uncleharkinian4 жыл бұрын
Texas Instruments Texas toast
@AdmiralBison4 жыл бұрын
"PCMCIA" slot in a laptop. holy wow. I haven't heard that word for 17 years and this is probably the last I will hear about it ever again.
@MozTS4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: f/a-18 super hornets still use them as a data cart for mission planning
@anticommunist16074 жыл бұрын
JMPS still runs on Windows 98 machines.
@nynexman44644 жыл бұрын
What a weird choice of background, every time I see it I think "oh windows isn't finished setting up yet".
@wibblehx4 жыл бұрын
Its the classic, user looks for wallpaper but there isn't any on the computer so they just select the install bmp in c:\windows
@manuell35054 жыл бұрын
Wasn't that 1 of the few fullscreen images where the rest were tile-based? You have to make something with paint or get your 56K online...
@mattelder19714 жыл бұрын
When Windows 95 first came out there were sometimes issues where the setup wallpaper would get "stuck" during setup and be carried over to the install once it was completed.
@agy2344 жыл бұрын
Matt Elder thought I was the only one that had that! Did they ever find what caused it?
@Shand19824 жыл бұрын
Frickin' love Cosmo. Loved most of Apogee's games, simpler times with humble gaming, really pleasant graphics, I always felt there was a real art to making games when limited in pixels and colours, Apogee always did great artwork. Nice laptop too, especially the IBM :) droooool droooool!
@CameronHuff4 жыл бұрын
That's a laptop you can take into the wilderness, beat a bear to death with it and then work on your business presentation afterwards without any issues.
@StrategyJoe4 жыл бұрын
That is one big calculator
@LGRBlerbs4 жыл бұрын
As are all computers when ya think about it 🤔
@Ropetupa4 жыл бұрын
...spoken in a Duke Nukem voice.
@marcosdiogenes93804 жыл бұрын
The ghosting on that screen makes my blood pressure rise.
@doramilitiakatiemelody18753 жыл бұрын
Its a passive matrix screen try playing doom on that kind of screen
@splodman4 жыл бұрын
I find it to be a very useful laptop as a go-between for older PCs and newer ones
@NovaSilisko4 жыл бұрын
This machine seems very unhappy to have been brought back from the dead. It only desires to continue its eternal slumber. It's not screaming "kill me", but it is quietly groaning "no... must.. sleep... "
@julianf0x4 жыл бұрын
Holy shit this was the first laptop I bought at a flea market in ~2005. Was coffee damaged! Held onto it for years but never tried to boot it from a 100 percent match power supply. Never thought i'd be watching a video on the same one haha
@tammysilverwolf10854 жыл бұрын
So many memories of wandering office supply stores and Circuit City messing with those laptops and mocking how much better my 300mhz AMD K6-2 with a Viewsonic monitor was. "They'll never compare!" I told myself. Thought, maybe it's telling that I still use my SSK keyboard with my X1 Carbon Extreme. Some things never did really figure out how to measure up. :) Great video as always, Clint!
@Murrlin274 жыл бұрын
Hey, Duke boi! TWEAK DAT DOS MEM! :) Truth be told, it was about as much fun to tweak Castle Wolfenstein's mem usage as it was to play it, for me!
@Dukefazon4 жыл бұрын
Ohh, the nostalgia, that old Flash player icon :)
@solaufein13744 жыл бұрын
Hmm, Realms of Arkania: Star Trail in background, Amiga 1200 memories. Keep LGR blerbs coming, especially LGR plays ;)
@LoftySkinner4 жыл бұрын
Played Realms on my old Olivetti 486 back in the day. Probably the first RPG I beat.
@johnroberts29054 жыл бұрын
I used to work in a PC Superstore that sold these. Not a proper TI machine - those were the Travelmate range - Acer had bought the brand recently and this was an OEM rebadge of some sort.. The internal drive bay would take either the 3.5" drive or an included CD-ROM drive. The funky connector on the back that you suggested was for a dock would plug into an external caddy that you could slot the 3.5" drive in if you needed to use both. CD-ROM didn't work externally. So yeah, the CD-ROM and the floppy caddy appear to be missing.
@Paka_VTuber3 жыл бұрын
I love this old notebook
@loganlee37514 жыл бұрын
Love ur relaxing intro cutscene as always
@fernandoochoaolivares88293 жыл бұрын
this was my first computer, I had a 3COM 10Mb LAN PCMCIA, I had an unpgrade of Hard Disk, what memories... I was 8 at the time.
@ChronOJohn24 жыл бұрын
Wow Cosmic! I totally forgot about this game. I played the shareware-version a lot as a kid.
@damianisel3598 Жыл бұрын
Hermosa maquina 💻💻💻👏👏👏👏👏🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
@alles_klar Жыл бұрын
Can't believe I missed this upload at the time... This was my first computer. Got it as my mom's old laptop and used it to play SC2K
@golfguy252 жыл бұрын
This laptop is VERY similar to my NEC Versa 2400 from 1996. Same ports on the back, same water faucet indicator, came crappy display, same bios. it even has the same power supply, which split apart just like yours, so I had to tape it back together. It does have a slightly different design though.
@raggededge824 жыл бұрын
those sound effects are pure Visual Basic
@fastpoke424 жыл бұрын
I know that Valentine flash animation! I used to have it on some of the burned CD-Rs with a collection of random stuff from the internet back in the 00s. You should definitely watch till the end, it'll be hilarious!
@presidentkiller2 жыл бұрын
He should watch it somewhere else, though. That computer struggles like it's about to catch on fire. 😅
@iain9999999999999994 жыл бұрын
Many moons ago used a Clevo-rebadged laptop of possibly a couple years later (it had one USB port). Also had an ESS audio chip. Odd thing is it had wavetable on port 330 as well. Not documented anywhere. But even the win95 install it came with was set to use the FM synth by default. Only found by accident. If esscfg and essvol are on the HDD somewhere, one configures the ESS chip for pure DOS use, the other allows setting the volume. Became less and less reliable before randomly shutting down, and then the hinges crumbled, and that was that.
@Sevenigma7774 жыл бұрын
I used to have one of these things when I was younger. I thought I was the coolest kid this side of the Mississippi River lol
@ameliawilder28 Жыл бұрын
I miss that old windows logo. So nostalgic!
@kirkanos39682 жыл бұрын
idk why but i love old laptops
@samuelmeasa92834 жыл бұрын
Was any one else looking not at the laptop but rather the Dark Eye game behind it on the shelf? I haven't seen that title in a while and boy do I miss the classics.
@Mini-z19944 жыл бұрын
That fan is dry for sure & making some noise, cleaning it out with some degreaser & sewing machine oil afterwards. That oil is a bit on the thicker side but should have it work nicely my r9 280's fans have been working great daily for 1.5 years now since i added some sewing machine oil into them after they started making similar grindy bad noises.
@negil4 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful e-card. My aunts and parent's friend's loved those when I was a kid. I meanwhile had downloaded what was essentially a browser extension (but on Internet Explorer) with goofy animated emojis you could send in emails, and I also sent the extension to some friends and we used them extensively! Plus, my dad had a folder called funny video where he'd save what were essentially KZbin videos Becker KZbin, so that e-card being saved seems very era correct to me
@spidermcgavenport87674 жыл бұрын
I once owned a similar model, played Daggerfall on it for a few years, before upgrading to a Compaq K6 both used and found near the base while serving in the navy.
@MozTS4 жыл бұрын
Neat unrelated fact. In modern growlers (f-18 hornet’s modified for electronic jamming) they use pcmcia cards for storing mission data
@petrpolasek59314 жыл бұрын
The water faucet shows how fast it is currently draining the battery (or overall power consumption) - the same system was used on Panasonic Toughbook CF-62.
@briansmith30114 жыл бұрын
Why do I want to see a chonkers 90s laptop gutted and rebuilt with modern internals?
@NorthStarBlue14 жыл бұрын
With the right adapters and some soldering, you could fit a Raspberry Pi in there and do just that. I've seen a few examples of older Thinkpads that were pulled from tech recycling places and rebuilt that way.
@philtkaswahl21244 жыл бұрын
Sleeper build laptop
@pauljs754 жыл бұрын
I'd think some of the challenge would be getting a modern screen of the right size. The refresh rate on whatever it has as stock is somewhat horrid. Would be fun if done well and kept to the form factor.
@SharpAssKnittingNeedles2 жыл бұрын
Yet another fan of TI calculators, and I f'n love this machine 🥰
@eirange99353 жыл бұрын
Watching this video and seeing the box to the right brings up memories from a distant past: Realms of Arkania: Star Trail (a.k.a. as "Das Schwarze Auge: Sternenschweif" here in Germany, the direct translation would be "The Black Eye: Star Trail") was an adaption of the famous german Pen&Paper roleplaying game. It is actually the second part of the series. Part one ist Blade of Destiny and part three is Shadows over Riva (not to be confused with Gerald of Rivia). These were somehow open-world games like the first Might&Magic oder Eye of the Beholder games but with less dungeon crawling and much more traveling on the original pen & paper map. One of the best features was that you can bring your party from part one to the part two and three. Therefore you have to do the character generation only once, which is a great benefit, because of its high complexity. Everyone who likes old school rpg games should give Realms of Arkania a shot, especially if you want to try something else than the usual Dungeon&Dragons based games.
@TNTUP4 жыл бұрын
10:00 OOH LOL haha didn't expect to see this thing in the laptop hahaha!! Greeting cards was popular back in the 90s/2000's when I was a kid I saw my mom watching that when she put her name on the guy's a$ (yet didn't seen that on video because its way too laggy, 75Mhz xD) Sadly the website is closed since the 2000 times, but I still have those files and they can still be retrieved on web.archive.org xD
@kirbymarchbarcena4 жыл бұрын
Back in the days when this kind of a bulky laptop turns into an expensive paperweigh after years of use...I miss those days of frustration.
@killerbee25624 жыл бұрын
Modern computers are so werid to me. Growing up in the late 90s I got use to computers being out dated after I year. Now I use my 7 year old gaming laptop to play co-op and network games with recently built desktop.
@idanshahar4 жыл бұрын
That game is so old!! used to play it a lot as a young child (first level, didn't know how to read English yet)
@Baoran4 жыл бұрын
In 1995 optical drives in PCs were not common yet. I didn't have in my desktop PC that I built when windows 95 launched.
@VitorMach4 жыл бұрын
13:01 best floppy disk impersonation award
@sedrosken8314 жыл бұрын
This reminds me heavily of my Toshiba Satellite T2130CS. No sound of course, and a 486DX4-75, but it has the same DSTN screen, 24MB of RAM and 500MB hard drive -- I upgraded the hard drive in mine to a 2GB SD adapter.
@TheMainCore4 жыл бұрын
I just love these Blerbs!
@TVperson14 жыл бұрын
My friend got one of these from a CashConverters (Australian Pawn shop) in 2003 and we weren't that inspired by it then. It's very budget.