Abraços a Grande Terra Européia das Américas desde o Brasil!

Me tiene loco, no puedo dejar de ver sus videos..el tipo cumple todas mis fantasías digitales jajaja

@@pollock8000 jajajjajaja aveces digo como hace para tener todo eso?

@@juanschroder6519 sisisis consigue todo! Yo estoy luchando para restaurar una 486 acá y no se consigue nada. Todo muy viejo y muy roto. Ya compré 5 monitores y todos se rompen. Lo mismo con los parlantitos de escritorio, discos rígidos. Argentina está en una dimensión paralela jajaja.

Aguante el hard retro!!! Sigo buscando un mother 486 con PCI, me pudri del VLB

I worked on these old pc when they were new and those maxtor would sometimes seize up if you left them turned off too long between power on states. You just had to take it out and shake it gently as it tried to boot and that would typically get it going again.

Correct, unfortunately the hard drive has bad sectors and not that reliable to use anymore.

First machine I bought with the money from my summer job was such a Vobis/Highscreen 486 (DX4-100) served me for years and gave me lots of fond memories.

Thx ! Really need to find me a Colani.

Lol, retrospector speaks German. He probably knows this.

@@tiporari i speak Dutch not German. You’ve got me confused with Jan Beta :)

The other half of PCs was made by Escom :-)

@@RetroSpector78 Ah, Dutch, Deutsch..... all the same :D

@@januszkszczotek8587 True!

I know. You were on my mind while I was editing that section :)

Also remember these Vobis stores. Glad you enjoyed it. Greetings from Flanders !

Or are simply to lazy to do it :)

@@RetroSpector78 It's a tossup, really. I don't mind a little yellowing, but when it looks orange, I'm grabbing the UV light and 40 vol. On the other hand, the patina and yellowing shows the history of the machine. It comes down to personal preference. Some people say that retr0btrite destroys the plastic, but really, if it was that brittle, you had other issues.

Really glad you enjoyed it! thx.

Indeed it was. And except for the hard drive is working perfect.

Now I just have to find the computers that were in there :)

@@RetroSpector78 I hope you find them👍🏻 That FL10.000,- system haha

I believe his greatest success was defining a new design language for Canon SLR cameras. His aesthetic design for the Canon T90 in the mid-80s continued to influence camera design for many years after.

Me too. Cyrix 486 DX2 80 MHz. Upgraded it till it eventually had 8 mb of RAM, 540 mb hard disk, 1 mb graphics card, SB16 compatible soundcard and a 6 speed CD-ROM drive. So many memories toying around with it. :)

Same...

Yeah I try to use hard drives most of the time, even on XT class machines. With ethernet installed (pretty sure every collectie has boxes full of them) transferring software is pretty easy. But on lower class machines networking is also slow and hard drives small, making it not very practical.

Cool .. you wouldn’t happen to know of any old stocks piled up somewhere ? :)

That is a shame … but then again lots of stuff is getting tossed out (understandably)

@@RetroSpector78 You know, back in the days (20 years ago), when we thought nobody would be interested in these outdated and obsolete machines....Yeah stupid things I did when I was younger.

We owned one. Especially the full size tower was huge.

Fun times.

Yeah its not bad … I have vivid memories of scrolling through these magazines. Even then I thought the computers looked cool. I’ve come to appreciate them even more now.

Yeah this motherboard maxed out at 133MHz if I’m not mistaken.

@@RetroSpector78 You know... the other day Clint (@LGR) was asking "what would be the bottleneck of his Pentium Overdrive" 😐.. I comment that is the crappy motherboard 🤨.... and i tell him to look for an Intel "Batman" or similar from back in the day.. 😃...... Now I'm at 5:37 in this video ... and I bet that this machine with that motherboard.... performs much better.. just because of it.. 🤓

@@RetroSpector78 @ 16:35 The odd extra power connector there is for a 3rd AT power connector that provided 3.3V. Around that time when the Pentium 133 CPUs came out Intel started making CPUs with split power rails, for running the signals at 3.3V for example and the cores at 3.3 or less. They also planned to use Voltage regulator modules (VRMs) on retail CPUs but that didn't take off. Quite some boards were prepared for that however, but remained unpopulated. Such boards like yours, or my dual socket 8 Pentium Pro Workstation, could either run on 3.3V from the PSU, or from the onboard 3.3V regulation (to beconfigured via jumpers usually). A bit later the ASUS T2P4 board that ran basically every existing socket 7 chip could be jumpered to about any voltage between 2.2V and 3.3. That would be a fine example of an onboard VRM. Starting with the Pentium 2 systems CPUs began setting their own voltage via pins on the socket or slot, the beginning of various "VRM versions" that had to be supported to run CPUs. Apparently Intel had concerns about regulation and cleanliness of the rails coming from 3rd party PSUs. I hope that's helpful

@@amurtigress_mobile365 "The odd extra power connector there is for a 3rd AT power connector that provided 3.3V." That's right. This was the shortly lived spec between AT power and the 20pin ATX power spec. The ATX spec (both physical and electrical) was likely released right as this motherboard was made.

Indeed. Looking forward to exploring some period correct software

floppy is 34 pin

Fixed.

Didn’t notice that :) will take a look

Yeah … future video is going to be about software and games. I remember the pentium being a step up from a 486 so it will be fun to see what kind of software this could run that a 486 could not

My first PC was an 80 MHz Cyrix 486 DX/2 back in 1995. It came with 4 mb of RAM. I've had it upgraded to 8 mb which made quite a difference. It also burned a hole in my pocket though.. As I recall those 4 mb of RAM costed me 250 gulden. About 100 Euro.

@@SandsOfArrakis I remember trading in my electric guitar for a 4x1mb 30pin simms. As I didn’t have money for an amp the electric guitar was pretty pointless anyway :)

Yeah I totally forgot about that

with Smartdrive loaded beforehand, the installation from CD was almost as fast as from the HDD, provided you had a CD-ROM faster than 4x :)

It's a ferrite core used to filter out electrical noise. Usually you would only see these in OEM computers for regulatory compliance.

Yeah I like these intel boards. Never seen one in real life with onboard audio / video.

I also ran an Intel Triton board and it was very reliable. It also looks and FEELS like a quality board (unlike the cheaper made in Taiwan brands). No sharp edges on the board, all the connectors and jumpers were labeled. Often Intel would use much better quality parts, like capacitors. The only downside to an Intel board, was that there was no overclocking.

Same 540 mb in my 486.

Had the same. Deinstalled OS 2 pretty quick

Pimped to the max ! Love it.

Will be pretty difficult to track down. Keep hoping to find a storage facility filled with new old stock highscreen stuff :)