Man, I miss when turning on your PC was like firing up a Jet.

The KZfaq authority on vintage computers: "Look how clean my ball is!" I freaking love you dude.

Fun fact: The PS/2 Model 25 was one of the first PCs to come with Windows. There was a "Collegiate Edition" of the Model 25 that came bundled with a mouse and a copy of Microsoft Windows 1.04, on 3½" diskettes.

I was very intrigued by your technique of checking the manual before plugging things in. I will consider employing this technique.

*Turns on SCSI drive* IT'S SO QUIET YOU CAN BARELY HEAR IT

Oh, man! It's just like when I opened my fresh PS/1 (model 2168) back in '93!! Ohhhhh, the nostalgia!!!.... This just made my day, Clint! Thank you!! :)

I owned the PS 2 model 25, and I know from sad personal experience that it has a really bad design flaw. One day when I was inserting a floppy, it snapped the drive head right off. It used all proprietary parts, so you couldn't just install a clone drive. The system was two generations obsolete at the time, so I called IBM about getting the pin-out configuration to allow me to put a clone drive in. One of their techs explained it was a known design flaw; the floppy had been designed to install vertically, so its horizontal placement meant the drive head hung lower than spec and would eventually catch on the floppy and break. The tech said they couldn't give me the pin-out, but they'd be happy to send out a technician to repair it... at $200 an hour, timed from the time they leave the office to the time they return. I politely declined his offer, took the thing to an independent tech, and he used a multimeter to get the pin-out himself. I ended up paying $25 for an adaptor so I could install a $15 clone drive instead of the $150 proprietary drive IBM wanted to sell me. (It turns out that IBM just moved the power pin from one side to the other, just enough difference that you'd fry your drive if you tried to use anything but their proprietary hardware.) It had a very nice paperwhite monitor, though. Very crisp.

I love me some new old stock!

Senior year of high school, I was taking the highest level computer course my school taught. That would be word processing, using Word Perfect 3.1 on a network of these, ahh the early 90's.

My favorite part of this was when you got excited and said, "Alright, lets use this mother******!" This made my day by far. I'm always excited to see the content you put out.

As someone who only built their first PC last year these old PC's are almost alien to me. Love seeing how far tech has come in a relatively short time and how much more user friendly it is nowadays.

The user interface for most of that software was heavily influenced by IBM mainframe software design - the menus, 'enter selection number', F key options at the bottom of the screen, F keys used for everything, and the whole general appearance of the text screens.

Wow, I JUST now realized that the PS/2 keyboard/mouse connector comes from the IBM PS/2....

It's so satisfying to watch this video. Is like the Bob Ross of the retroware.

YEEESSSSSS! This is the one that I grew up on in school. Lots of Oregon Trail and Space Quest played on this thing in elementary school.

"Look how clean my ball is" Clint "balls of steel" Elgiarre 1969 - 2018

"I used to have size 15 feet... for a bit... Then they like, shrunk..." Dude...

It's really a testament to the quality of your videos that I read the notification for a video about "IBM PS/2 Model 25 + Model M SSK", a topic that seems really boring to me, notice LGR uploaded it and click it instantly. You just have a way of making the most mundane topics interesting. Looking forward to you hitting 1m soon my dude.

LGR, I friggin' love the retro hardware on this channel. Please keep it coming and keep up the fantastic work!

I love that external SCSI enclosure. I have always had a fascination with first party external add-ons, and that is one of them. One that is also very intriguing is the IBM 5161 expansion chassis, though I have never seen one, only pictures.

Just discovered this channel 2 months ago. God I love what you do man. Makes me feel so nostalgic.

Thank you so much for this unboxing, as a computer science student, I'm so curious about IBM stuffs like this, I'm so fascinated about the technology back then, it's kinda crazy how fast the technology could grew over the time

Clint's absolute love of these vintage units comes through so clearly makes his videos awesome.

What a fun trip down memory lane. I'm pretty sure my dad had this same (or very similar) model, but with his electronics expertise starting and ending with setting the VCR clock, it didn't get much use. On a side note, it's astonishing how much some of those older keyboards go for. Another great video!

I love watching these videos of old machines! It has really increased my appreciation for these old machines! Whenever I visit the PC museum at Super MAGfest, my room mates can never get me to leave haha!

If I remember correctly mouse balls never were the things that got dirty (pun intended), but those small plastic cylinders that registered movement. I always had an xacto knife handy to scrape the caked dust

When I moved to my dad's house, the school had hundreds of Model 25SX computers. Each class had 6 + labs with a full 25-30. The first year I was there, we had some kind of dual OS setup, and we had access to the internet from all computers because of the Token Ring network. They switched to Windows 3.1 for workgroups when I was in middle school around 1997. Before high school, my first summer job was working for the Board of Corporate Services, doing maintenance on all the AV tech and computers in my area. That was a great summer learning about tech and A+ certification stuff. We cleaned so many Model M keyboards with nothing but compressed air, fantastic cleaner, and a scrub brush. For those computers, you would pull 2 screws and disconnect a VGA cable, then blow them out. One guy forgot the cable and had to go back to 20 computers in 1 day and plug it back in. I wouldn't mind finding one of these 386 systems with ethernet to run DOS and Windows 3.1. I would also want to get the Model M to match. It also explains why I like clicky keys, as they were the keyboards I learned to type on.

A 30 minute video? What a great monday treat :)

When that C:\> prompt came on, I actually got chills and this emotional wave. Did not expect that :D

"Alright, lets use this mother*BEEEEP*" Lmao. Thats such a mood.

When I was in tenth grade, lo these 30 years ago, I took a touch typing class, where we were taught that venerable art on electric typewriters. When we returned to school after Christmas vacation and I entered the classroom, all the typewriters had been spirited away and replaced by IBM PS/2s that looked almost identical to the one in your video (except the displays were color). No hard drives; they booted from either floppy disk (two drives) or off the LAN. If I had to look back, I'd say that's where my love for computers and tech really started.

So many memories, my dad worked for IBM and "borrowed" one from work, I still can't forget the music from Ally cats.

0:53 woah... that’s one of the cast of MASH!

A friend of mine use to when he needed to clean the ball in his mouse would pop it into his mouth, swish it around and then wipe it off and put it back in.

Quite a remarkable piece of old tech! It does look really neat. To be honest LGR and The8Bit Guy are the two people that got me into old computing, So I'm grateful for that.

I never grew up with these PS/2s, but I think it is one of the most, if not the most, beautiful line of computers. I always wanted on. Awesome video!

These were a staple of computer labs in my district back in the '90s.

My body is ready for this video.

CLINT!! Thanks so much for these videos! Never thought it'd be possible to always have a good Monday until I found LGR

I can not believe how much passion you put in your videos You are the best man and I appreciate and I like old PCs

When you do your episode on MCA I hope you talk about how it did find a niche in IBM's supercomputer offerings! When I worked in my university's IT department we had a scaled-back version of the RS/6000 cluster that was the basis of Deep Blue, and it used MCA as its processor interconnect for the clustering. Really cool stuff.

You did it! You found the model 25!!!!

love this, my dad was on the PS2 and aptiva design teams at IBM in New York in the 80s and 90s he loves these videos!

I never tire of seeing Clint unboxing and playing with various IBM machines. These things are just awesome.

23:20 no one expects the Spanish inquisition!

Oh! my god!!! I love this machine :)

i didn't expect but greatly enjoyed that short little cold open, it was cheeky and quickly showcased just how much stuff came with this thing! not done with the video yet, but excited to watch the rest!

Holy shitttt! Dude this is so amazing! You gotta keep doing these new old stock unboxing computers videos and stuff. It's like going back in time and getting all those old computers that I always wanted but can't because they are older then me. That, keyboard, monitor, system, EVERYTHING. Amazing video. Thank you so much for sharing this. Would love to see you get your hands on a Apple /// for Tron reason and have a go at that. And a hole lot of others. Keep up the EPIC work man.

Loving the cast of MASH on that old advertisement image!

Keyboard plugs into port 1. Mouse plugs into port 2. Should you have a combination keyboard/mouse, also known as a keybouse or mouboard, that plugs into port manteau. ...Sorry. I'll get my coat.

I love watching you open stuff. You get so excited : )

Oh my god freddie's rescue roundup. I used to play that on my grandmother's IBM PS/2 all the time so many years ago. You just brought back a lot of memories with that. And yes it has a CGA color version iirc, lots of pinks and blues.

The model 25 definitely did come with just 720k floppy drive, as it was the entry level model. The 1989 upgraded Model 25-286 came with 1,44mb floppy drive.

"I pressed the wrong button and I won so that's good" LGR, 2018

Wow, my early 90's high school computer lab had these. The fan noise took me right back. These were solid machines. Long live PS/2.

Oh yeah, this is like asmr to me. Man, vintage computers are so satisfying to just look and listen to their textures and how they feel.

I do like these live non scripted videos :)

23:31 you stopped it there!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats when the foot comes down and swishes everything. :-(

Was a great video clint. Thanks for showing us this. :)

Wow! Christmas came early this year! another amazing computer for your collection.

4:10 *Clutches his headphones and writhes in pain.* Damn, even through a recording that sound makes my skin crawl.

Why the heck did I hear in my head the line "Warpspeed Mr. Zulu" as soon the Fan from the Harddisk starts to spin.

The CC text in the first few seconds is brilliant.

I really enjoy these videos! They are a nice break from all my paper writing. Thank you~

that dust that came from the mouse cable is plastic softener that slowly creeps out of the plastic over time, and i'd be sarcastic if i said it was good for you.

I like to be already in the future.

I love your in-depth and well-researched videos too, so don't take this the wrong way, but I really enjoyed this somewhat adhoc look at the Model 25. This was a computer I can recall well from my days in school so it was a definite nostalgia factor, but I just like your unscripted styled overall here. Thanks for what you do!

I enjoy your longer videos as I find it very relaxing to listen to your voice and watch. I also appreciate though that your longer videos are rare because I wouldn't have the time to watch every video if they are longer.

That's the worst solitaire I've ever seen

Nice cosmic pizza cat mouse pad.

I have an SSK keyboard that I still use in the rotation to this day. Great keyboard, and one of the only computing devices from the 80s that still works perfectly present day.

I'm lovin this retro! Takes me back.

I'm just... just so jealous.

[Iowa appears.] Yeah, alright. [Moving on.]

YES! The Model 25 - the very computer that was in our junior high computer labs and on which I learned to type.

You know, im not really a tech guy more into cars, guns and motorcycles. but your videos really bring the nostalgia from my childhood and make this subject interesting. We used these things in school in the late 1990s when I was a little kid. Those old ibms running dos, then beige apples then the multi colored apples with those horrible 1 button mouses. Good times. Didn't have normal pcs at school until the mid 2000s. Freind of mine had 2 pcs that would fit your channel bsck then. One in a woodgrain case with a turbo button.

2:04 Hey, Clint. Is your refrigerator running?

You should try that Freddy's Rescue Roundup again on something with colour. It looks like it could actually be fun.

I can’t wait for more ps/2 videos. These machines are beautiful. It would be cool to see one with os/2 and other ibm stuff

This is so funny to watch... I was a young kid and wanted a computer SOOO bad, so my mom bought this for Christmas, what a great surprise in the day!!!

unfortunately No one can be told what matrix madness is.

Does this distributor not have a physical location? Their phone number's area code indicates they are the next county over from me, and now I'm curious...

Each line of that Word Search maker boops a different note-- what a great attention to detail from IBM. They were king for a reason.

I enjoy seeing all the IBM products on your page. My dad has worked for IBM since 1980 and We started off with the IBM PCjr, then a PS/1. After that, we had a couple IBM Thinkpads here and there but desktops we always just built together and stuck to AMD processors.

Has the look of 1960s sci-fi.

My supplier (and good friend) popped one in the box (keyboard) for 30$ from a guy who didn't even know what he was selling, and he sold it to me for 50$ because friends. So i'm feeling pretty nice boot that.

This was my family’s computer when I was a kid. This brought back so many memories.

Nothing like a good half hour LGR unboxing to keep me occupied on my sick day

Greatest keyboard of all time, don't @ me

You know what they say about men with big feet... They love vintage computer hardware.

This really is a lovely machine. Never had any of those, but seeing how neat it is, I would not mind having one today :)

Thanks for the memories. I remember playing this sample pack back on my dad's IBM AT or XT back in the mid 1980s. I did have a color monitor though.

Bleeped swears are funnier than non. I just thought it needed saying.

23:21 Why is a quiz on US states beeping the Monty Python's Flying Circus theme?

Oh man, that's awesome! I remember these from school back in the day!

I am very impressed with your videos and your dedication to all things "retro-PC" I think you are a very smart, savvy young man and way ahead of the curve in the preservation of antiquated technology. I have enjoyed watching you take great pride and pleasure in restoring and preserving these old systems and software. Obsolete is only a state of mind, not reality. My first computer was an Everex Step 386DX-20 tower with a 10 MB HDD, EGA and an IBM monitor. It would have cost me several thousand dollars if I had not got it with a bad power supply from the company that I worked at the time. A customer had returned it and no one wanted to mess with it. We integrated touch screens onto CRT's for POS and other user-friendly systems back in the late 80's. Don't know if you've ever heard of Intel-a-Touch but they were a pretty large touch screen integrator of the day. Please keep up the good work and I will definitely stay tuned to see what you come up with next.

7/10 Not enough woodgrain

Lgr is all excited about getting the software to work, then, at 22:00, realizes what we all did in the 80's after spending hundreds on the latest pc.....it's boring.limited, and not very fun...🤔😐😛 Lol!!

I love your videos for the pure entertainment and enjoyment I get out of them.

Always good to hear Clint advocate for proper ball care.