The Computer Chronicles - Beginner's Guide to PCs (1993)

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[@synthead]

I've been binge watching this show lately, and I think I can see woodgrain starting to appear on my walls! I LOVE it!

[@christopheralthouse6378]

How fitting it is, that a show all about computers and advancing technology, is now fully archived on the web and available for view free of charge, with episodes all over KZbin... Basically, buried in the most perfect way possible...in the tech world that it so passionately covered... 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@drewpop3117]

It literally highlights the beginning of information systems, a lot is still relevant today, as all that’s really changed is the speed. The internet is literally a giant wide area network, interconnecting our devices so we can communicate and share information!

[@hopefulkoala01435]

Thank-you so much for uploading these, not sure why but I feel really comforted by watching this stuff lol.

[@raven4k998]

remember a 200 megabyte hard drive is a lot of space it'll last you a long time

[@blackneos940]

Back then, when most of your Data was just Documents and lower resolution pictures, 300 MB was big... :)

[@blackneos940]

EDIT: 200 MB :D

[@gatsbye53]

Same

[@IIIJFRIII]

Such a good show, wish it was still on.

[@lokibau]

+HYPER! DSG back then the speed of technology innovation was way much faster than today actually

[@IIIJFRIII]

You guys are right, but still. Just such a cool show. I'm almost 30 and I still feel like I have no idea what I'm doing a lot of the time. And I'm always on the computer.

[@lokibau]

HYPER! DSG hi m8, maybe i could specify more; by innovation i meant only the fast obsolescence rate of 90's computer hardware, and the high speed of the market availability of new products that could often double or more previous ones in performance. Of course today we are learning so many things in physics and space exploration medicine and so on unthinkable in the 90's, but i was only talking about cold pc hardware! cheers

[@markchas4554]

It would be a totally different show today. The "newness" of the technology was really mind blowing at the time. Today there is nothing truly revolutionary, and and has not been for some time. Personal computing at the time was comparable to mass-produced accessible automobiles or regularly scheduled commercial airline flights. Most of us will never again experience anything like this in our lifetimes.

[@bryonmiller4326]

lol You have no idea.... Tech advanced so quickly in the late 80s/ early 90s that a running joke was if you went to buy a new top of the line computer, it would be obsolete by the time you got it home and put together.

[@mujtabamujeeb786]

“Hard drive is always spinning that’s why it’s so fast.” Man, watching this is amazing.

[@silvercoulter]

They’re comparing it to the floppy which is way slower because it’s not always spinning.

[@thomasanderson1416]

My “new” favorite show 😊

[@kanopus06]

My computer in 1993 was an intel 486DX 33MHz, 4MB of RAM, 1MB VGA and a 120MB HDD, it ran Windows 3.1 very fast and was quite a capable machine, which I upgraded in 1994, I think.

[@EnglishPolishOnline]

Mine was 386 SX 33MHz, 2MB of RAM and it also ran Windows 3.1 very fast.

[@rivciks5045]

@@EnglishPolishOnline Mine was a Sinclair without any hard disk. You had to feed that machine with bits and bytes coming from a tape recorder.

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

I literally LOLed when he said, "Rent-A-Nerd"! 😆 Take that, Geek Squad! 🤓

[@raven4k998]

Rent-A-Nerd how may I help you?

[@TheUtuber999]

Wonder if there was a certification to become a Nerd in official capacity and whether it was limited to technical knowledge or more broadly included personality traits, odd quirks, social awkwardness, lack of intimacy, dressing habits, etc.

[@1jeffr]

6:43 "Get a Lot of memory. I recommend 4 Megabytes".

[@knowwhey7559]

25 years from now, guys makes same joke about 32 Gigabytes of today, and in another 25 years...and so on ...and so on...

[@Fiilis1]

@@knowwhey7559 Also 25 years from now, some dude will comment this same comment on a comment =P

[@raven4k998]

fuck that you need 8 Megabytes like my first computer had it was a Pentium 60 ooooppppsssieessss I did copy that floppy sorry

[@raven4k998]

@@knowwhey7559 what are you going aboot 32 gigs is nothing my computer right now has 64 gigs of ram so :p

[@tetsuoswrath]

@@knowwhey7559 You and only four others are intelligent. At least 18 others are not. :{J

[@duckingtonedits2369]

This series is extremely valuable to those of us getting into retro computing

[@ian_b]

This was really the cusp of everything taking off. I remember around this time, 4megs was standard and 8megs was "pro". In 95 (I think) I had a 486 DX2 which eventually had 36Megs and a 4.3Gb HD. My next system in '97 was a PII 300Mhz with 192Megs of RAM and a 17GB HD. I'd gone from a Soundblaster rip-off in the 486 to putting SB Live! cards (2 of them!) into the PII, and the graphics on that machine was an ATI All In Wonder Pro with a TV Tuner and 8MB of video RAM! Great times, everything was just improving so fast.

[@johngrave5554]

Just looking at this show from it's first to it's last episode shows how fast it changed in 15ish years, they went from reporting about monochrome computers to tablets and PDA with built in modems.

[@SkuldChan42]

I love the colors in that studio - its so 90s.

[@awesomegmg956]

Man it was 80s

[@ParabulaMan]

oh you

[@azmedz]

That motherboard looks exactly like my very first computer motherboard 486sx 25 MHz I had 4 MB of RAM installed. There is even the 487 math coprocessor slot right next to it. That brought back memories of me Papa and the case open and installing a modem and sound card and all the stuff I installed overtime

[@ParabulaMan]

im actually proud of myself for understanding everything said in this video.

[@lenovovo]

Hey Always Thinking, I'm proud of you .... you go girl!! :-) :-) :-)

[@rsc9520]

Me too !!!

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

These were the Computers I cut my teeth on , I still use them , I enjoy OS/2 Warp , GEM , Amiga , Win 95 & 98 SE , and DOS 6.22 , we could make Video Calls over a Phone line using that same 4 Mb's of Ram , it still works Today in 2015 , so you can see everything they are selling us is extremely bloatware / components necessary for programs to function; as well as the amount of backwards compatibility bloat and redundancy involved , it's great we have faster Processors and much more Ram , but Truthfully if you put your own System on without the bloatware you can get a 90 % faster PC :) QC

[@cpufreak101]

Quaalude Charlie actually that is true, i did a complete clean install of windows on my computer and boot times were improved and overall performance installed

[@TheMacOSXdot7]

word of truth

[@tracylf5409]

Sad that most of these fine people are now gone from the world. :(

[@yaosio]

I remember thinking we would never go past the 640k conventional memory limit. It was so annoying because you never had the full amount, and you couldn't just use EMS or XMS memory, programs has to use some amount of conventional memory. Also, I was a little cat man in 1994 (when we got our first DOS PC) and when I saw XMS I thought it was cool because it had an X in it.

[@VikingoChannel]

I never understood why they couldn't make it bigger than 640kb

[@orlovsskibet]

This made me look up compuserve on the internet, to see if it still exists. It does - sorta - and it still looks very 90ish 😁

[@captainkeyboard1007]

This show would also be appropriate in the year 2024 for people who want to learn about [micro]computers but were afraid to ask.

[@johnnycash5858]

Oh man I used to love PC Novice. That’s where I learned how to build my first PC, a Pentium 3 bad boy.

[@Theodosius667]

It was a time when owning and using a PC was private. My father bought me a pc with 286 cpu, 1 mb ram and 42 mb hard disk for the first time in 1990. I've always used a pc since then.

[@Kyntteri]

10:14 BTW, I was unaware of the 487 coprocessor until now.

[@RWL2012]

it was "fake"; it was a relabelled 486DX that took over from the 486SX when installed.

[@CommodoreFan64]

@SteelRodent Don't forget about Intel's Pentium OverDrive, which which socketed in, and gave a 486 66Mhz machine a 100 Mhz Pentium experience or better with a slower front side bus, so it was not a true performance, but it was cheaper then a whole new system for 486 motherboards that supported it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_OverDrive

[@Blackadder75]

it's 2019 and , I a school teacher still has to teach my students what a parallel and serial port are. Because the hardware from 2009 (HP) we use in class still has those ports on the motherboard. And the hardware from 2014 (HP) still has the COM port. SO I tell them those are old school USB ports.

[@bbkcs]

I feel bad for your students.

[@FrenziedManbeast]

The guy talking @ 12:20 is out of his damn mind. I've never seen a Floppy Drive fail before an oldschool HDD.

[@somethingelse4878]

93 Seemed so modern, but now looks so old fashioned

[@AllboroLCD]

My first rig was an Acer with a TI 486 and 4mb RAM. Later added a Cyrix Dxr2 co cpu and 16mb so win95 would run.

[@YarisTex]

At 20:44 that is a Mediavision Pro Audio Spectrum, with 2 YM3812 chips (OPL2). Awesome card for its time.

[@1337Shockwav3]

Also being the 8bit version it's quite a collector's item these days.

[@theedrstrangelove]

YarisTex Funny you say that. A couple of weeks ago, I went through boxes and boxes of my old pc stuff and came across some ISA, EISA, and MCA sound cards and scsi cards. Out of curiosity I checked prices on Ebay and Craigslist. I could not believe the prices people are asking. I may need to have a big sale.

[@1337Shockwav3]

Depends on the card ... anything between $1 - $400 is very possible these days ... just don't expect every "buy now" offer on eBay to be realistic.

[@theedrstrangelove]

I never sell as buy now. I just post and let the bidders do the work. I'm sure my MCA Soundblasters will do well, especially since some are still in the shrink-wrap.

[@1337Shockwav3]

theedrstrangelove Any MCA Adlib Gold cards? Those might actually fetch beyond $400 :P

[@wallacelang1374]

I would have liked to have seen this episode back when I bought my PC in the mid 1990s, but I had apparently missed it when it was first shown on PBS back in 1993.

[@semireality]

QEMM, that brings back the **memory**

[@ezydenias8505]

3:56 "Hello this is rent a nerd, if you tried turning it off and on again?"

[@graemeconnelly8849]

it crowd?

[@AntiHydra747]

@@graemeconnelly8849 dang you know it

[@raven4k998]

@Andrew Tarrant you didn't type it in correctly according to IBM

[@MrGencyExit64]

21:49 -- Check out that ancient Ethernet card with BNC and AUI. Not what most people think of when they think Ethernet (twisted-pair) these days ;)

[@TheJonathanc82]

MrGencyExit64 my first home network was BNC. Coax and terminators. So much fun.

[@LachambredeNico]

At 3:00 that board look the same from a compaq prolinea 4/25s I used to have, was this made by the same oem ?

[@robertgijsen]

@19:50 what is that The Cat soundcard? I've never heard of that nor did I find any information on it. Would that just be a Covox Speech Thing clone?

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

Twain’s World! Twain’s World! Party time! Excellent! 💿

[@jasonhansen8996]

I remember installing the Intel Inboard 80386 card in my old XT.

[@tomp2008]

ahh the good ol days

[@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418]

I recommend everyone here gets at least 4MB of memory.. specially if you intend to run windows 10.

[@mtx247]

I laughed so flipping hard when he said, "rent a nerd"..... Rent a nerd, how may I help you? I'm calling them now... HOLY CRAP THEY STILL EXIST! What a great night.

[@lenovovo]

The Geek Squad .... they are VERY EXPENSIVE! $400 to $500 to come out .... highway robbery!

[@oilybrakes]

@@lenovovo Yeah, even the "a buck a minute" price that they mentioned in the show, stricked me as expensive...even without adjustment for inflation. 1$/min, Caaarl.

[@lenovovo]

@@oilybrakes You got that right Anton. Just the other day, I saw a geek squad van drive by, I said to myself, they are on their way to rob some poor old soul blind. You know what Anton, this is a money hungry society, I am so glad that I am not like that, I try to help people as much as I can, and I don't charge them anything, the universe pays me back in so many good ways :-)

[@wonderpierrot]

How does DOS work? What is that serial and parallel port? I don't think my computer even has those?! HELP!!!

[@acmenipponair]

A. DOS works just like your cmd or power shell. Just a bit more rudimental. In linux you would compare it with the terminal B. You have not only one, but many serial ports and unlike that time they are nowadays universal, called USB. Also you have an emulated parallel port, but as nowadays everything is send over USB, calls to a parallel port would just be reinterpreted by your Windows as calls to a serial port. (Parallel ports, RS/232 were only needed until the 2000s because the amount of data coming in or send away to the internet, a printer or scanner would be too much for a serial = bit by bit data transfer, you would had via COM port to wait for hours for your spreadsheets to be printed. Since USB is nowadays in the GBit speeds, that bottle neck of your PC is gone. But you can still buy PCI-E -> Parallel-Port adapter cards and even USB->Parallel-Port dongles, because some people need to run old parallel port hardware with modern computers.)

[@Sinn0100]

That's incredible! They used to have slots on motherboards and GPU's for user added co-processors?! Awe man can you imagine what one could do if they still made them like that? Think about this scenario for a second.... You have an I9-13900K w/a GeForce RTX40 that has an open "processor accelerator slot" ready for a co-processor. Now, let's suppose money is no object and you go with an Intel I7-8700K as your co-processor. I can't even imagine how stupidly fast a rig like that would be. You would definitely need another power supply and likely your going to have to redo your entire cooling setup. Maybe a water cooled or refrigerator box might be what the doctor ordered.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

In practice, the overdrive slot was seldom used. instead, the cpu slot was used to mount cpu's that weren't made for it. this was namely for many 386 processors and the 486 to pentium upgrades. In reality, there wasn't much upgrade room before you just needed to toss the motherboard and get a different one matched to what you wanted it do. And the math co-processor slot was just when cpu's didn't have them natively onboard to save on cost. That phased out with the 486 chip and beyond.

[@RonJohn63]

2:05 Ah, the good old days of not needing a massive heat sink and fan!

[@smutkovski]

+RonJohn63 Agree good old days

[@smutkovski]

+RonJohn63 Agree good old days

[@RonJohn63]

smutkovski Ask me if I'd trade the Bad Modern Times of lightning fast CPUs, 16GB of RAM and 9TB of disk space for the Good Old Days of 33MHz CPUs, 8MB RAM and 250MB HDDs.

[@smutkovski]

i don't think u'd but that nostalgia :)

[@HuggieBear39]

HaHaHa RonJohn63 I saw that too.

[@changkwangoh]

I want that comp that’s being unboxed in the beginning.

[@NathanChisholm041]

Finally, i can put my computer together!

[@raymond06]

I miss the turbo button, and the LED digital display on the case to remind me of the Mhz.

[@DannyBeeVegas]

That opening scene where the woman was unboxing everything... just ignore each other and keep doing what you're doing

[@RonJohn63]

7:10 It would be helpful to know what a "sim" is (SIMM: Single In-line Memory Module)

[@HuggieBear39]

They could have also told them to make sure to know how many pins your SIMM sockets are I needed 30 pin SIMMS the standard was 72 pin

[@hubzcaps]

Bring back this format. Do it. Cmoooon.

[@DavidMiller212]

6:40 get a lot of memory, a minimum of 4 megabytes... oh man those were the days lol

[@ssga7081]

4megs is king 😂

[@acmenipponair]

And it was in the time before the himem manager was build into DOS :D

[@user-fm5rs3rp7i]

i remembered my first pc in 1996 specs pentium with mmx 90mhz 64mb ram 948mb hard drive

[@ArcadeGames]

Meme GamerHD My first real PC was in 1993 with 33mhz, 4mb of RAM, 100mb HD.

[@RWL2012]

KEK1337 The Pentium didn't get MMX until it reached 166MHz...

[@B1G_Dave]

200mb HDD "You'll have room to save stuff, for a long time"

[@krolik8586]

How long?

[@acmenipponair]

@@krolik8586 I recognized, that it don't matter how big the HDD/SSD is, you fill it in a year

[@helldad4689]

I would have been in 3rd grade when this aired. For the next several years, you'd be lucky if the school let you touch their few precious 486s (I got a pass because I was "a computer kid" and you couldn't write QBASIC programs on an Apple IIe). By the time I was a high school freshman in high school, they were straight up letting me lug that same generation of computer home (with a box of SIMMs and SCSI hard drives and ISA expansion cards) so I could learn how to do stuff with I/O streams (or attempt to). Not to borrow, just to free up closet space. Kinda sad how "last gen's junk tech" now is too locked down and "seamless" to even be worth giving away to some kid so they can learn basic computer stuff. It's a real bummer to meet teens who are just like "oh my parents have this spy app on my phone, and there is no point in even trying to jailbreak or spoof or disable it, because that's magic."

[@Frankiedejongo]

rest in peace

[@PhuPham-vj4gd]

The storage in a smart phone now would have been the total for a data center back then.

[@DanielRodriguez-zn3tf]

solo consiguen jugar candy crush ..nuestra generación envio gente a la luna con unos pocos kilobytes

[@oddballhippie7363]

@21:35 I wonder how a fully upgraded A4000 Video Toaster unit would do against that?

[@tdrewman]

Cheap computers back then cost about 2200 dollars... We have come a long way, Macs still cost the same ..

[@Advection357]

My 386 cost around 1200$ in 1993... 2mb ram 80mb hdd and 256k video card :P

[@daehawk9585]

In 1994 I got a AST 486sx33 for $850 on a damn great sale at Circuit City. 512k video memory, 4 megs ram, 210 meg HD. Actually it ran everything great until Wing Commander 4 s ground missions.

[@HuggieBear39]

In 1992 I got a 486sx25mhz Packard Bell from the Post Exchange where I worked. Take home Lay-A-way for $1350. It had a whopping 2 megs of ram and 100 meg HDD. It was SVGA though and came with the 12" SVGA monitor. The modem was 2400bps . I eventually got another 4 megs of ram, a coprocessor, a sound blaster pro, and a 28.8bps modem for it.

[@TheAnonapersons]

486 dx 66 $1300 around 95

[@cidsapient7154]

the main reason is not as many were made mass production techniques brought price down substantially as well as shrinking transistor size

[@retrosimon9843]

It's weird seeing new looking ancient hardware hehe

[@sergheiadrian]

Oh God! I learned Paradox in college. I feel so old...

[@r2dxhate]

$800!?!?!

[@MrApplewine]

8:54 Wrong. The first number is the horizontal which refers to the columns the second number is the vertical which refers to the rows. Somewhat confusing because you count columns, which are vertical, by moving across horizontally, perpendicular to their axis, and vice versa for the rows / second number.

[@manitobabushcraftingandrev9592]

My watch has 4gb and 1 gb of ram I feel pamered ugh I wonder how these guys feel looking back at these vids

[@slickstretch6391]

20:37 Wow, I think I had that same controller.

[@14ajencks]

these guys are definitely salesmen lmao their discussion is filled with so many technical inaccuracies I won't accept any other labels

[@joseywilds3133]

That number still works!!!! 😳

[@mujtabamujeeb786]

17:52 I wish someone would look at me like the guy that is looking the other person right next to him

[@JavaNocKziK]

6:30 bro really said memory is where work gets done. Guess I don't need my CPU any more :)

[@lordmmx1303]

Okay, so if I get a 486 with 200megs drive and a 4MB ram, i should be able to play all the latest game titles?

[@RWL2012]

MP-Tuners Productions Should be able to run Minesweeper fine but you may experience some lag in Solitaire depending on how many KB of VRAM you have.

[@DavePoo2]

As this comment is now 6 years old, you should now consider getting a Pentium with at least 16Mb of RAM instead

[@lordmmx1303]

@@DavePoo2 yeah, no. I'll just get a brand new pentium overdrive cpu for my 486

[@loganmacgyver2625]

How come they didn't use the parallel port for Modems?

[@ruben_balea]

The serial port was already fast enough for modems and most computers only came with a single printer port from factory

[@zebonautsmith1541]

Remembering when computers were cold and gray and UG_ Lee

[@mopspear]

20:52 off camera the joystick was immediately snapped off the Gravis gamepad.

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

Oh, the time when the CPU didn't need a cooler that is heavier then the actual motherboard it's mounted on... (also just noticed @2:25 that the motherboard actually used a battery of the type still in use today. I remember that most old computers used to have a rechargeable battery soldered on the motherboard)

[@TheUtuber999]

"(also just noticed @2:25 that the motherboard actually used a battery of the type still in use today..." Not true. The battery in the video was the one-time-use Lithium coin/button type (ie. CR2032). The rechargeable types came later and are usually encased in shrink-to-fit plastic with lead pins soldered to the motherboard.

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

@@TheUtuber999 But all motherboards of the last 15 years or so use those same lithium CR2032 batteries. Old 386 and 486 I saw back in the day ones used those soldered rechargable ones. I also saw those on an old PC XT system board. Never seen lithium CR2032 on those older boards before, but then I wasn't into PC's back then before commodore went bankrupt and the Amiga line of home computers died out.

[@richardkarl6727]

1:10 " Don't Copy That Floppy" . Lol

[@acmenipponair]

true, it should be "Don't copy that floppies", as in that time typical programs already needed 2-3 floppies to install :D

[@Kyntteri]

This is true still today. Computer lingo is still confusing for the non computer savvy, as it changes with time and time goes fast.

[@raven4k998]

lol Microsoft office making your computer smoke again?

[@Kyntteri]

@@raven4k998 Such a bad habbit.

[@raven4k998]

@@Kyntteri oh common everyone's doing it you should give it a try to it can't be that bad

[@raven4k998]

@@Kyntteri did you hear apparently I am a cancer muhahahahahahahahaha let me take hold and grow inside you

[@Kuth70]

Jim Lauderback looks so young here.

[@lenovovo]

+Kuth70 Jim is a very handsome chap! Very handsome indeed!!!

[@papadop]

LENOVOVO Agreed. As is Stewart Cheifet.

[@yellowblanka6058]

@@papadop Not sure why he adopted that obvious comb-over though...who does he think he's fooling?

[@blazed85]

I just bought my first computer and tried to use this as a guide. I think I'm missing pieces 🤔

[@loganmacgyver2625]

And for some reason I filled my 200 meg hard drive in a day

[@raven4k998]

2:10 you'll notice this bank of dipswitches........ wait where are those on my motherboard fuck nooo I've been screwed

[@thegreatujo]

These video's sound is very poorly normalized for relative loudness. I love watching them but I have to continuously adjust my volume when switching from a computer chronicles video to some other content on youtube, and when I forget to do that I'm like HOLY SHIT the next video pops up and the volume is high as hell because I had to crank it up for the chronicles video. Just a small annoyance but thanks for posting them anyway.

[@PaulMarriott]

3:52 Before the Genius Bar...

[@hedayatsm553]

Did the CD-ROM back then have more capacity than the recommended 200mb hard drive? :D

[@hnielsen759]

Yes, the cd could hold 650 mb, and the disk was 200 mb. But the cd was rom (read only memory).

[@NatsumeKonno]

Yea thats the down side with cd rom. Now a days we can use ram as a hard drive for the amazing speed the problem is its volatile memory. You lose everything if PC is turned off. But the leap in technology is amazing. We now have gen 4 NVMe to fix this very problem with SSD speed.

[@gorgono1]

Where can I get that book "Computer for dummies"?

[@silentunion0834]

You can order anything online. Or try a book store

[@Raven10241]

yeah what he said lolz

[@eni4ever]

"200 MB should give you enough space for a long time"

[@hurricaneomega]

9:15 Where are the RGB lights? the aggressive shrouds? the massive cooling fans? You call that a graphics card?!

[@yellowblanka6058]

Must have been difficult for women to find partners without nerds expressing dominance via elaborate RGB lighting schemes and aggressive case decals.

[@RWL2012]

23:49 that was the brand new Samsung logo!

[@nullify.]

"When you pull the top off..." Me: hahahahhahahaha

[@Nothuman76]

I'm watching this while Streaming to Twitch @ 6Mbs 1080, playing Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wild Lands, and encoding bluray to mkv. to a manageable file size for storage on my home server... thank you AMD Ryzen 8 core 16 threads....

[@thomasham130]

Was like what no PCI cards? Than looked at the date and was like oh that would have be released on June of 92, so depending on when this was filmed, pci might have only been out for half a year. Not sure how quickly it took over.

[@acmenipponair]

Not quick. The major reason people wanted PCI was for network and ethernet cards, when internet connections faster than Modems became available. Also more modern sound cards went from ISA to PCI in the end of the 1990s. Graphic cards first still used EISA and then went to AGP and only started with PCI-e to become part of the PCI(-e) family.

[@stevebollinger3463]

They mention overdrive chips and Pentium. So PCI likely existed. PCI was very common on Pentium machines. On late 486 machines could have PCI but just ISA or ISA plus VESA was more common.

[@thumbwarriordx]

"Are my slots ISA or EISA?" Holy crap the accent already changed. He definitely meant EISA and ISA.

[@IvanPlayStation4LiFe]

No accent

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

@3:32 "How do you get more memory." Yeah that must have been a problem. You couldn't really download extra memory cause no (widespread) internet yet.... o.O

[@pozzo1979]

Arrgghg, the IDE cable at 2:50 is not evenly connected. It's almost diagonal! OUTRAGEOUS!!

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

Lol, IBM MCA bus, EISA bus, VESA Local bus. none of them were as successful as was hoped. They were all replaced by the PCI standard fairly soon after. And today we still use it's evolution the PCI-E bus.

[@acmenipponair]

Not so true. the PCI without e only became prominent with network and sound cards. Graphic cards switched to AGP before they then went on the PCI-E route.

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

@@acmenipponair Yes, but before AGP became a standard, graphic cards used either PCI Or VESA local bus. And afaik AGP was more or less a modified PCI 2.1 based protocol bus with a different denser connector and some performance enhancing changes (Like being able to directly access main system memory and higher bus frequencies).

[@dustinhaus1165]

There are only 4 critical parts, 7 main parts, These are the same 7 parts today, as it was then. Motherboard, processor, ram, power supply, and your machine will be able to turn on and compute. Add 3 more parts, Gcard, HD, and case and you pretty much have the whole thing, Just add fans, cables. Once you learn what these 7 parts are all about that knowledge will go a long way. Realize too that there are 2 kinds of PCs. Proprietary, and non proprietary. The case is very important, and its goal is to keep your parts cool, to keep your parts protected, and to be quiet. I do not like non metal side panels, because of EMI shielding, and id rather have an acoustic mat. $100 spent on the right case can last you until we stop using the ATX standard (probably a while). Fans are important. You want at least five 120/140's The Motherboard is going to determine what other parts you need to put into your machine, and is going to be the largest determining factor for "what kind of computer you have" The MB is very important. many things that have historically needed a card have been mushed into the MB. Soon CPU's will have TB's of storage on chip. The CPU, ram, and HD's, Gcard's are all non proprietary, They will all have connection types, speeds, sizes, etc. There are not too many cables, Just the PSU cables, the drive cables, and the fans need to be plugged in. That CD audio cable is gone, as well as ribbon cables. The larger the fan, the quieter it is, for the most part. Do not expect them to last forever. Imagine a PC is a wood working shop. The building is the case, the worker is the CPU, The workers work bench is the ram, The tool storage is the HD. The video card is the conveyor belt of chairs leaving the shop. The Ram is where the where the PC stores the information that it is working with. It is the workbench. It will have a speed, and a size. The CPU does the work. The CPU's cache is the information in the workers hands. The hard drive Is where everything is stored, it will have a speed, and a size as well.

[@jorgemoreira2406]

Boas tudo bom, todos eles percebem e percebiam muito bem de computadores,mas é fantastico quando 1 explicava os componentes e partes do computadores,todos os outros prestavam atenção e respeito no k o outro estava a explicar, tecnologia é sempre um processo de aprendizagem,ainda hoje o é kkk excellentes videos obrigado por Postarem. Um abraço de portugal❤

[@iliketopee8782]

these guys would have a stroke if they could see my gaming rig in 2023

[@Dan-Danyel]

3:53 HahahaHa!!!!

[@botlfpx]

I began at DX4-100, then Pendium133 and skip to Celeron 2000

[@oliviamoore3426]

How amazing itd be if they actually built a computer from scratch

[@computerassociates7686]

5:07 Mr Nerd realizes that a hot, 20yo girl is in desperate need of a bigger hard drive. He's hoping to RAM her expansion slot.

[@raven4k998]

yeah but all girls are like that they just want plug and play

[@Alec_Reaper]

I like to think someone finding this video looking for help regarding a modern desktop computer.

[@aurathedraak7909]

I recommend one pedabyte. If I said that or show an SSD, I'll be hanged for witch craft.

[@darrenfalconer3267]

omg a cdrom drive that i can plug in to my pc parallel port, i was born in 80's i appreciate what technology developments have been through but this guys excitement over that is just odd haha

[@mugzee84]

usb, thanks a lot

[@billv4987]

Today I learned that XyWrite was not pronounced "ex-why write"!!!

[@MrLense]

Damn, 2020 we're looking at getting a RTX 3000 or RX6800 series Graphics card My Dad's graphics card: 9:00