Gateway 2000 Super Tower - Towering Above the Rest

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This Gateway 2000 tower is not all that it seems. Besides being a huge beast, other parts lurk inside. There is only one way you to find out what those parts are. Time to explore, and play some games!
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0:00 Intro
1:30 Exploring the Tower
4:40 Checking out the Parts and Disassembly
14:37 Cleaning
15:21 Closer Look at the Parts
17:07 Assembly Montage
19:42 Boot Up
22:21 Game 1 - Caesar II
23:12 Game 2 - Screamer 2
24:02 Game 3 - X-Wing
24:46 Game 4 - Die by the Sword
25:59 Game 5 - Tomb Raider
26:49 Closing Thoughts

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@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

A note for the video: I didn't catch the choppiness in some of the capture until later. The games played as smooth as you would expect on the machine without hitching. So take what you see with a grain of salt, in that they ran better than it seems!

@PixelPipes Жыл бұрын

Looks like the whole reason the roof of the Greek Parthenon collapsed is because someone stole one of its columns and made a PC out of it.

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Now I'm imagining this in the middle of some sweet 80s art. Black and white stripes, faded pink and a white tiger for some reason. Greek "pillar" front and center.

@3dfxvoodoocards6 Жыл бұрын

A 3dfx Voodoo 1 would make that system great :)

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Yep it would fit it like a glove! If there were any to be had that didn't cost a kidney haha.

@bryan-po8dn Жыл бұрын

My first computer was a Gateway 2000 486/66 so that case brought back memories, especially when you took that giant metal shroud off.

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Fantastic, such a great era of computing, glad I could help with a bit of nostalgia hah. Especially for these mega towers!

@vonhapen1 Жыл бұрын

That Indy-reference got me, very nice 😁 That machine would be a nice new home for a Voodoo1 card.

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Hah yeah glad it worked out, seemed funny when I thought of it! And no doubt this machine would be elevated greatly by a nice Voodoo!

@ShrineOfLife 2 ай бұрын

i love those late era socket 7 boards, where u got both option for at or atx psu and sd or edo ram, i think it was neat! i really enjoyed that time period of PCs in general, good memories... childhood memories, life easy and peaceful and plenty of time to x-around ty for the video and cheers from bavaria in southern germany!

@lonewolfniko3525 Жыл бұрын

WOW!!! What a f.... beast!!! 🙂 super enjoyable!

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! It's a bit of a beast yeah hah.

@SUCRA Жыл бұрын

Great video man. It was fun to watch you explore this thing. Nice Inidiana Jones Reference there, I chuckled. The Gateway design from this period is so attractive with its curved edges, and the Gateway 2000 logo. I was wondering if some of the hiccups you had in some of the games was related to a bad hard drive, or maybe not enough memory leading to constant paging. Any way, I had a good time the past half hour, have a good weekend!

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's such a cool design, although with some quirks. Thanks for watchin!

@slaapliedje 9 ай бұрын

Haha, that BabyAT board is only like a 3rd of the size of the tower!

@N64Guy 4 ай бұрын

Love the vid, lol damn you did all that before testing out

@bryondillon1302 Жыл бұрын

Rik, just as a suggestion I would disconnect the power supply from everything, and only connect a drive you don't care about and test the voltage output on each rail before trying to power the machine on. The one time that this saves your board will make up for the inconvenience. Also it will give you a little piece of mind knowing that the power supply is working in spec. Keep up the great work!

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Yes good suggestion! I really should slow down and manage risk a bit better. Hard to do so when you are excited to get a project finished!

@bryondillon1302 Жыл бұрын

Totally understand that!

@tyta1 7 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly from those early days, the permanently lit LED on the 5.25" floppy means you got the connector reversed 😉

@cbluebeard Жыл бұрын

That was fantastic, Rik! Great job.

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Great, glad you enjoyed it!

@georgez8859 Жыл бұрын

That is a Great Retro Machine. Thanks for the Video

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

It's pretty neat (albeit large!). Thanks for watching!

@websurf586 Жыл бұрын

That Sound Blaster VIBRA is definitely a later upgrade too. Looks like that model (CT4170) is from 1997. I decided to lookup when port color coding was first introduced, as I figured it was a sure-sign of components from at least the mid or maybe the late 90s. Interestingly Wikipedia's "PC System Design Guide" page says it was introduced in the PC-99 standard. Clearly this card is older. Perhaps color coding existed with an unspoken agreement between manufacturers and wasn't formalized until 1999?

@caelointheclouds Жыл бұрын

Hey Rik!! This is absolutely amazing rebuild! I have never seen such a beautiful tower that huge!! How I would’ve loved to play roller coaster tycoon on a machine like that!! Thank you for showing us a beautiful computer of the distant past ⌨️🖥️

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. But yeah it's a great era of computing, I have a soft spot for the type of Windows 95 machine this is. But yeah... it sure is big!

@yolodancers Жыл бұрын

This was the family computer for many years growing up

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Awesome! I'm still a bit curious on the motivation behind selling such large towers for home use, but clearly they did. It's a cool machine!

@thewayback_playback Жыл бұрын

Nice presentation Rik! My favourite part may have been the cleaning montage (great track choice), really took me back to the 90's and gave me an itch to rejig the Pentium machine and dual boot it with Win95 OSR2B and Win98SE. Looking fwd to seeing more of the Gateway SuperTower!

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

I do love my montages haha. But I do have a soft spot for this era of Win 95 machine. I spent a lot of time playing games and tinkering during that era, so it feels extra nostalgic. Win 98 is of course amazing, but there is something special about the particular computer era around Win 95!

@youp1tralala Жыл бұрын

A real nostalgic trip in memory lane and great watch ! In the attic I still have my PC from that era that I need to clean up as you did: a Pentium 120 in a tall beige tower, although not as much as this one. It's curious that this unit has a 5" diskette drive as they were long absolete at that time

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

It's a fun machine for sure. As for it having a 5.25, since the machine originally was a 486/66, that makes a bit more sense at least. I'm going to assume they just left the drives as they were when they upgraded it (likely adding that CD-Rom too)

@bitdigital8052 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of an AMIGA Tower 😎

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

The Amigaway 2000 tower stands tall!

@slaapliedje 9 ай бұрын

Crying shame Gateway did absolutely NOTHING with the Amiga except give it to a dude who prevented anything happening with it for at least a decade...

@the_holy_forestfairy Жыл бұрын

It's just as huge as the "SKYTOWER" from VOBIS/HighScreen. I've been looking for a Case like this for a Project for over 5 Years. But in Germany? Used? In good Condition? Cheap? No chance!!!!

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Dang, it's so hard to get lucky on machines/cases depending on the local markets. Hopefully one turns up sooner or later as I can online imagine the risk and cost of ordering something like this online.

@johnwells558 Жыл бұрын

My gateway 2000 was great😊

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Lots of fond memories I bet! My cousin had a later Gateway 2000 (P2 era, if I recall), and I was always envious of it.

@pete8475 Жыл бұрын

I have never heard anyone say Vibra the way you do before. Everyone I knew back in the day always said it like "vibe" not "vib". I don't know what the official Creative Labs pronunciation was though.

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Honestly no clue, hah! I'm a non native english speaker, so this is how my mind says it, but the "vibe" approach actually makes more sense!

@RetroTinkerer Жыл бұрын

Oh, I would be so disappointed if I ever encountered a Gateway 2000 desktop of a friend I upgraded from a DX2 66 VLB to a dual Slot 1 300MHz PII motherboard... Small surgery included to make the board fit inside. Yep I was a bad person, had zero respect for old systems!

@RiksRandomRetro Жыл бұрын

Haha, hey it still sounds like an awesome machine! We all did what we could to save money or squeeze more performance out of them. Didn't really plan ahead for it to be vintage!