Lazy Game Reviews this vídeo is awesome congratulations , you work is amazing. congrats from Argentina. the end of the world .

Lazy Game Reviews you say that because you dont live in Maranhão, Brasil

What vendor did you buy this from? I was trying to find it but no dice. Can you link it please?

LOL!!! I just randomly bumped into your video while hopping around KZfaq. I was actually working part-time for IBM while attending UT-Austin during the mid-1980s, and I used my very generous 50%-off IBM employee discount in 1985 to buy a FULLY-LOADED PC/AT "Enhanced Model", with 512-KB of memory,. with the matching 80287 math coprocessor pre-installed, the IBM EGA display, an IBM dot matrix graphics printer, an IBM dot matrix color printer, a monitor swivel stand, and the IBM PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure. You can see what the PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure looks like in the link below. It made my PC/AT look like a cool 1980s minicomputer with the big vertical box placed next to my desk while I programmed using Turbo Pascal and Microsoft C during the 1980s: minuszerodegrees.net/5170/cards/5170_floor_standing_enclosure.jpg IBM would later copy this same floor-standing approach for their later PS/2 high-end models: www.google.com/search?q=IBM+Personal+System/2+Model+80&rlz=1C1AOHY_enUS708US708&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjM47Ka357UAhWW0YMKHRwECMUQ_AUICigB&biw=1430&bih=733 The PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure was the predecessor to the later ATX tower cases that are now the norm. Prior to the PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure, all PCs were placed horizontally on the desk with the monitor placed on top of the case. I also still have a mint-condition never used IBM 1.2-megabyte high-density floppy drive still sealed in its original IBM box. The total price for my IBM PC/AT order was about $6400 when I ordered it in 1985, and I paid $3200 after the 50%-off employee discount. The sprawling IBM campus in north Austin where I worked part-time during the 1980s also manufactured PC/AT and PC/XT computers, along with a UNIX version of the PC/AT that ran the Xenix 286 operating system that was licensed and ported by (gasp!) Microsoft to run the 80286 in protected mode. No one nowadays realizes that Microsoft previously developed a UNIX operating system for the 80286 CPU, decades before Linux. I was helping IBM to build PCs and attending UT-Austin at the same time that Michael Dell was building and selling PCs from his dorm room and Dell was advertising in the UT-Austin campus newspaper, The Daily Texan, under his original brand name of "PC's Limited". I see that you have the later IBM Model M keyboard. I am actually still using my earlier Model F IBM keyboard that does not have the function keys across the top. The Model F mechanical keyboard used a very unique buckling spring with a capacitive design, compared to the membrane design of the later Model M keyboards, and the Model F has full n-key rollover, and a lighter crisper louder mechanical key action than the later Model M keyboard that you have. Your RAM does not appear to be piggyback stacked on top of each other. My earlier PC/AT had 512-KB of RAM where two RAM chips were piggyback-stacked on top of each other and then soldered together in order to double the memory density. It looked weird, but it worked. My PC/AT motherboard looks like the RAM is having sex and humping each other with how two RAM chips are paired together with the top RAM's pins wrapped over the bottom RAM chip. I actually am still using my Model F keyboard connected through a USB adapter, 32 years after I received my PC/AT :-) Quality and durability in a keyboard is when you have been using a keyboard for 32 years and all the keys still work with the same satisfying click-clack mechanical sound. I doubt that the modern Cherry MX mechanical keyboards will still have all their keys functioning after 32 years of use. I last powered on my PC/AT during the mid-1990s and it still works with its DOS 6.3. I have been thinking about modifying the case to use a new ATX motherboard. But seeing your video makes me want to keep it in its original condition since its original keyboard also still works. My original IBM EGA display failed long ago, and I replaced it with a Princeton Graphics EGA display that still works fine. Both of my dot matrix printers still work. You may want to see if you can find the PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure simply because it really helps to free up your desk space by placing the PC/AT vertically on the floor. In 1985, I also ordered through the mail a custom-sewn dust cover that fully covered my PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure in thick beige canvas fabric with a stylish dark brown border trim with my initials monogrammed on the front panel. You can see a vintage ad for the "CompuTogs" mail order that I purchased from in 1985 here: books.google.com/books?id=Udw3QWX2LQ8C&pg=PA147&dq=CompuTogs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikyPn32p7UAhVE1oMKHWLfCbwQ6AEIKDAB#v=onepage&q=CompuTogs&f=false No one runs a business like CompuTogs nowadays where you just send them your PC case measurements, and the CompuTogs lady in Illinois sews a stylish slip-on dust cover with your initials stylishly monogrammed on it. I ordered three CompuTogs dust covers at the time - one for my PC/AT Floor Standing Enclosure, one for the IBM EGA monitor, and one for the IBM standard-width dot matrix graphics printer. That same PC Magazine page also shows a Cray X-MP, and I also previously did scientific computing on a Cray X-MP and Y-MP supercomputers. Those were good times during the 1980s - working on a fully-loaded PC/AT at home and working on Cray X-MP and Y-MP supercomputers at work. That was also the unconventional way that I was introduced to UNIX during the 1980s - by using the Microsoft-developed Xenix 286 running on the PC/AT and Cray UNICOS running on the Cray X-MP and Y-MP. ENJOY YOUR PC/AT!!! It was the fastest state-of-the-art PC in 1984!! The average smartphone now has more computing power than that PC/AT which had a $5300 price in 1984 and was the world's fastest commonly-available PC at the time.

Lazy Game Reviews I prefer the EGA monitor on the AT rather than the PS2 because it seems to mathces the AT's "Ethos" if you will. I don't know that is just my opinion. I'm fasinated by old IBM computers mainly because both my Grandparents worked on old IBM computers that took up an extremly LARGE room starting the 60's. I think they we're called "Main-Frames" I can't rember. My Grandmther was one of the first female computer programers. My Grandfather was an electrical engineer that worked for American Eletric in New Jeresy they would soon be called Belltone. He even made little games for the family Commodore 64.

Mike Erickson get a life! Who am I kidding it's 2:30am I'm no better XD

Mike Erickson i know right xD I just thought the same. And it's already 6 o'clock.

Mike Erickson All of you should get a life (3:48am here).

Mike Erickson its 2:04 AM for me 😂

5:54 here, had to stop building a 3d printer to watch this :3

I thought he was gonna fvck the keyboard

@@jamesmuthiani5680 Pump your brakes kid, gotta romance that kind of keyboard. That model is litterally THE single best model/brand of keyboard ever made.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 right @@kmain5587 so I've heard. Used to have of these at my old school.

@Dr Psychedelic nice name

Declip me daddy LGR xD

"Cuz its a model M"

"You night have to give me a moment" totally got me!

6:78Wake up

Of course, ITS A BRAND NEW IBM KEYBOARD, if you've typed(keyword) on one you would understand they really are wonderfull

OMG I read this as he said it!!!

Expensive too! This thing probably went for $2500 or so. Maybe more since it is IBM.

I learned computer programming on an IBM 360 series computer. It was 6 feet long 36 inches tall and had to be kept in a very cool AC room to keep it from overheating. It had 16K memory. The input device was a punch card reader. You would sit a write a program on a input sheet, sit down to the punch key typewriter. Then run the cards thru the reader. It would run to a point and usually error or stop code due to typo error typing up the cards. My first program was a payroll data sheet. Not much they could do, but this is where it all started for me.

@@CuriousKL That's really cool. My mother used to work at Digital (Digital Equipment Corp) in the late 70s/early 80s and she had told me stories about those giant computers that took up whole rooms.

So true😂

I own a IBM laptop that will tell me an "error" occurred when I attempt to type in the present day, time, and year. It doesn't accept the entry and refers back to it's default setting of July 17th, 1997.

My ATARI Computer AC "WHAT IS THE CURRENT DATE" Me "10 6 2019" AC "SYNTAX ERROR"

PC: say sike right now

I don't even know if it knows what "WTF" means.

Hey Robert I worked at the IBM Plant in Austin, Texas back in 1993. The Department I worked in was ECAT. So I actually built, all the parts that was in his computer. Sad thing is I bought my ex, a 486 SX from Dell. And I remember my supervisor telling me, you could buy parts for any computer IBM made directly from IBM all the way back to the first computer IBM ever made. I still remember that Dinosaurs of a machine I ran, that placed the majority of the components on the boards. And that we had one socket, that had an S pattern to the leads, that the machine hated placing as it could not see the leads as the part was so small.

IBM Boulder 1982-86. My first job.

Ted dibiasi You opened this can of worms you antisemitic POS. Keep your HATE to yourself we have enough of this in the world.

actually i do care about the computer dw

🤣🤣🤣

I literally screamed at my screen: The box! It's gotta be in the box!! CHECK THE BOX!!!

The first game played on this PC was NOT CDMAN it was the “Quest for The Key” developed exclusively by IBM.

IIRC the keys were supposed to be taped to the back of the machine

That's the LGR way lol

The unspeakable things i'd do to it.

He’s putting his scent on it.

and its the reason the computer still works!

Yeah because it was built in Scotland in the 80's. So it wasn't built by communists but work-shy communists.

In Greenock there is still an IBM railway station en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_railway_station Although the plant has been demolished now the station is still called 'IBM'.

True they don't make them like they used to. What's funny now with Moore's law slowing down it actually would be desirable to have a computer built to last vs one that falls apart after three years.

Patchuchan my 1055T had been runining for more than 7 years now 24/7. PSU failed at just short of the 5th year, luckily it was under warranty but so far not even a single disk of my raid has failled nor shows any sign of going old so far. Its just a matter of building the pc with good components. (assuming they exist, unlike with many things nowadays)

It feels a lot more solid, substantial and stable. There's also a satisfaction in making this old stuff work because you were very much involved in the process. To say modern tech is vastly more powerful (this laptop I'm typing on, for example) would be a terrific understatement, but what modern tech does lose out on is that they feel much more like an impersonal, mass-produced appliance.

@@brianm2881 and everything is so simplified too, I liked how back in the day doing something as simple as loading from a floppy drive means needing to use commands n shit

clint is the best

i- ok

good comment :)

Nakatomic 😂😂😂

Damn

To bad these days, a woman like that doesn't exist, lmao. I don't think such a chick ever existed at all to be honest.

Women don't like you, they like what you can provide for them

Such pure love doesn't exist between humans. Never ever.

@@CoxTH Well you just crushed me lol

CoxTH Yes it does

a techgasm lol

*nerdgasm

the g80 3000 is kinda midend. Got one myself but there are better options like Das Keyboard. It has a steel plate and feels much more solid than the g80. But still the g80 is kinda awesome. Got one with the black linear switches.

It's exactly what I would've done. I still love new computer smell, but it just isn't the same as it was. The day I cracked open the anti-static on the mobo for my 386 motherboard. man. I'll never forget that smell.

everyone sniffs their keyboard when they take it out of the box, if they deny, they lie. i think its law somewhere. it mite only be a little one...but we've all done it. admit it people....ADMIT IT...respect the sniff. ahem, sorry.

Let me guess, at a school?

Gold Fox7 oh crap yes hi capacity disks

Remember when you first got a (gasp) VGA graphics card???

Yes one!

We are so spoiled.

careful cuz one day that too will be small and obsolete and likely brake down first this old IBM we're seeing here was built to last especially last long cuz its never been used until this video

Aye, BASIC in ROM is always a nifty thing indeed :)

A wild 8-bit guy appeared!

OMG SENPAI NOTICE ME!

Yeah, that was quite the revelation! Also... OMG The 8-Bit Guy is here!!! Put my patronage to good use already! ;-)

Is it just me.. or does it say this message was from 5 days ago? Also.. Omg 8 BIT GUY!!...Love your Videos

Madness! :)

This is damn best unboxing I have seen in my entire life .. ah, the time when things were simple and customers(us) were kings

Are they still for sale?

Very entertaining and interesting video. I remember the days when the computer actually had to be understood to be operated.

Im happy for you, man!

Its hard for me to skip anything since LGR is just so interesting to listen to, he made a chair review actually interesting. If he can do that, he can do anything.

THE chair review.

...what about lithium AAs :D

MattExzy Lithium AAs are perfectly fine and typically have their own 10-20 year shelf life. I do not like to use regular alkaline batteries as they have a tendency to develop leaks, tucked well out of site, long before the battery will have run down from the attached load as the SRAM used for the BIOS settings draw almost no power, they mostly just need the voltage potential to maintain their state (real load is typically in the nano amps to pick amps range). The battery pack can then be secured to the chassis with heavy duty Velcro to hold them out of the way and prevent them impacting electronics when moving the device, But it is not at all uncommon for a lightly loaded lithium battery to last for decades. I had an old digital Casio watch from the late 80s whose original lithium cell was still powering the watch up until 2007, or nearly 20 years on the original battery. I was very surprised to come across that watch after it had been packed up in a box for a move and untouched for over a decade and was still running when I opened the box after another move in 2005.

To clarify for people not in the know, a 'primary' battery is a non-rechargeable battery. Watch batteries are a familiar example of non-rechargeable lithium (which are different from lithium-ion/lithium polymer) batteries.

*smacks* NOICE

he sniffed it twice so 4 million times.

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you right

Actually, I had to rewind to that point around 10 times. So it's much more than that!

By now it has dried crusty jizz drops.

kevsbear Thank you for sharing!

That’s a really neat little piece of history you were a part of!

thats so cool!!

Cheers mate. Cool history.

*Greetings from Texas, and thank you for sharing that bit of history. I imagine you saw quite a few Interesting things as a truck driver and learned a bit about all of the industries*

Joseph Fedele 🤣🤣🤣🤣

...there is always the dremel/grinder method to get it open, or the lock-picking. ;)

OwO

SoDaftMinecraft first time I’ve seen that particular face typed out in this comment section

@@silasmcgee3647 lol

r/thathappened

Marsipan Marsian Honestly, what’s not to believe ? People who are watching this are into computers. If he worked at IBM, chances are he is into computer and is following this channel, you know ?

How did I miss it, Made in Greenock! yup definitely made here!

It really is an event to savor!

Elfina, I feel the same ;-)

Free upgrade options? LoL

Sir when you power on what is it asking you.....It is asking me model Keyboard I am using, but I am entering what came in the manual and it says not recognized????? :)

It would be funny to mail in the customer comment card. Backdate it maybe as well to play a good joke. lol

+Anonymous Anonymous No, technically the warranty begins at the time of original purchase. The system is brand new, never used, directly out of the factory packaging. Which makes William Todd's comment an interesting question. From a legal standpoint, it should technically be under warranty lol. So I have no idea what IBM would say, but it would certainly be interesting to find out.

Another KZfaq user did this with an IBM PS/2 that was new in the box - never opened. IBM didn't respond too well...

Jeffory Mitchell Welp. I feel old now. I was almost 4 on that exact date.

Nice to see someone else who remembers what the world pre internet was like. Kids nowadays..lol.

Go buy "Real World" by Mr. Mister on a cassette...and, um, go buy a cassette player to play it in...and you'll be all caught up.

I was 5 months old.

@@childofcascadia I was 2.

I really liked your comment, but some Indian call center would probably as far as he could get nowadays. Personal assistance is dead since ages.

True, over time PCs have lost all resistance to y2k

It's like that Futurama episode where Fry gets a cold and everyone freaks out because humans have no resistance in the year 3000

To paraphrase an old, stale meme: still a better story than Terminator Genesis ;P

Jacob Lund What's the Y2K BUG? someone explain it go me?

+CyanideSurprise Google it dumbass.... its when the year on a computer was displayed with just 2 digits instead of 4. nobody knew how computers would cope when it hit the year 2000 so everyone lost their shit.

Mike Danick Neat comment, thanks for the info! Quick questions​: Did you ever upgrade the 512k ram for customers? Also, did you have customers buy PCs specifically for gaming back then?

Sonicman to go above 512k you need to add an expanded memory board, the expanded memory board will take you to 640k of extended memory then what ever is left becomes expanded memory. say you add a 1024k (1mb expanded memory board) that takes you to 640k extended memory and 896kb of expanded memory. back then we didn't have customers asking for gaming pc's, but that is the when gaming was mainly done on the apple II (IIe, IIc, IIgs) or the C64 and Amiga which computerland didn't sell. the computers we sold (IBM, Compaq, hewlett packard, packard bell and digital) mainly businesses. ega graphics were the main boards we sold, then vga and evga once they arrived. really didnt sell many of the ibm and compatibles or macs to home users, mainly we sold to business, back when sneakernet was the only major networking sharing. also back then alot of the hard drive controllers had low level formatting options built into the controllers firmware and you would load debug and then execute the formatter at whatever address the factory stored the program (ie: $C800). you had to low level every hard drive back then so you could map out the bad sectors. back then it was normal to have a bunch of bad sectors on your hard drive, whereas today you dont have bad sectors. once done, run fdisk to create partitions, format the drive and then make a \dos subdirectory and copy all the dos disks files to the \dos directory. it was really cool that you got that unmolested AT, watching your video brought back lots of memories, also really enjoy your videos, keep up the great work.

this whole part of the comments section :o... wow.

Oh!! Spinrite - another blast from the past!! Forgot about that one...

I still use spinrite. The latest version. Saved a few drives.

Experienced. ;)

still probably easier than a months old Gamestop sticker.

Lazy Game Reviews thats what she said

to be fair, for the past few years there stickers have actually come off without any issue, but i dont know if it was their old stickers or maybe how long they've sat, but they were a pain in the ass to get off

Some places that sell used games/movies/whatever I usually just leave them on because their POS stickers are impossible to get off without ruining the cover. Sometimes I suspect they've used superglue.

Later models the fan got faster with the turbo button too! So much fun 🤩

23:40

Anyone into old computers would have nutted to this as well

Warning: this box contains Virgin-B-Gone

Shawn Elliott LMAO I-

*duke nukem voice* time to get cleanin

Don't forget his favourite: hydrogen peroxide

How do you know it's The 8-Bit Guy?

One day at IBM Boca Raton in the early daze, we went to see the engineer working on the software for this board, Bob. By now in our young careers we’ve gone from developing the DOS programs on green screens through CGA, EGA and now PGA. Bob showed us the unbelievable graphics. Then, the inevitable Playboy centerfold, the one with the hat. Yes, the world worked like that, even then.

Mauhahaha bru I was thinking the same thing😂🤣🤣

Maria? ya, i "opened" that models box....

bro this box is so cool !!! I can't wait to jerk off ALLL over it!

dumb ass!

@kappelmeister123 Newsflash.......Not everyone cares that much about about sex.

"I'm watching a man opening a box of equipment, so...yes."

*anwsers her in english which she cannot speak* *Intelligence 100*

*Speak increased to 100*

@@Rocky712_ он пишет на английском для того, чтобы его ты понял. И твой интеллект явно не 100, если ты этого не понял. Я специально на русском написал, чтобы ты немного призадумался в следующий раз, когда будешь писать глупый комментарий. Auto-translate this.

10:00

Same! Not a collector either but I love seeing Clint happy lol

Who needs a switch in the first place?

Alan Douglas time flies my friend, time flies!!!

australian vending machines everywhere trembled after y2k. so sad

It was

*It was absolutely BS, conspiracy theorists at the time got everybody onboard and people believed them. Unlike today.*

Precisely. Y2K was perhaps the millennium hoax.

hahahahaha

I wouldn't know because I use KZfaq Vanced.

so much for paying extra for 1-day shipping...

0002pA It definitely has a much better plot than others I've seen, though.

People can and do fall in love with actual objects.... Weddings are a bit more unusual ...

Completely agreed.

MrMarkb68 what? only 500$???

Yeah, I would've imagined 5-10 times that amount!

500 with M included?