Let's check out some of these mystery pizza-box systems! Vintage computer teardown and test.

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It's been driving me crazy not knowing what's inside of these systems. Time to remedy that! In this video we teardown and test three vintage desktop systems from the Franklin eWaste haul.
0:00 Intro
System 1
0:19 System 1 Tour
1:00 S1 Disassembly
7:09 S1 Testing and OS Tour
15:26 S1 Verdict
System 2
15:29 System 2 Tour
16:37 S2 Disassembly
20:47 S2 Testing
22:35 S2 RTC Hackulation
23:47 S2 Testing and OS Tour
26:32 S2 Verdict
System 3
26:57 System 3 Tour
27:56 S3 Disassembly
32:26 S3 Testing
39:09 S3 CMOS Final Boss Fight
41:33 S3 Verdict
41:52 Outro

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@aminorityofone Жыл бұрын

After Dark is a screensaver program. They are most famous for the flying toasters.

@tony--james Жыл бұрын

literally the 1st piece of software from a store I ever bought in my life, 1997.. (I think I bought Netscape Navigator also at the same time, both on floppies)

@IrnBruNYC 11 ай бұрын

My copy of After Dark came with a pretty great Asteroids clone called Lunatic Fringe!

@keithbrown7685 11 ай бұрын

@@IrnBruNYC Dit it have Lawnmower Man?

@brikwil 7 ай бұрын

I loved AfterDark!!

@GodSaveTheUnitedStates 4 ай бұрын

31:27 That's crazy. I knew SeaSonic had been around for a while, but I didn't know it's been around that long. They've even kept the same logo all these years...

@pdandersondo46 3 ай бұрын

I was a dad during the 80's 90's Made my first computers after first buying an old 486 66mhz from Gateway. I''ll never forget having problems and being on tech support with a lady who changed one line in the configsys file. she put a comma in and it fixed whatever was wrong. I was sooo impressed. Before that I had a VIC20 I used to play space invaders on. Lovved making computers back then and still do.

@SGTMacBC Жыл бұрын

Every old computer has a purpose. At the least a typewriter with memory. Great selection today. Surprisingly clean at that.

@esc2dos Жыл бұрын

Really enjoying watching you go through that treasure trove. The mystery expansion slot is most likely a memory extender, I have a DTK board with an extra 8bit slot that gives you 8mb more with an 'unobtanium' 8meg card.

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to figure out exactly which card is required by this board and try to create a reproduction of it!

@RodBeauvex Жыл бұрын

I obtained one recently for a 486 variant of their 386 board. 8MB is usually enough for 386s and most 486 stuff, but 8 extra never hurt anyone. :)

@anthonyblacker8471 4 ай бұрын

I comment on all of your videos - usually the same general idea - this was the BEST time for home PC life.. It was so wonderful the technology moved SO SO fast, you could build a system, upgrade it 3 or 4 times in a couple years, put it away, build a NEW system, run them both, keep upgrading them along the way.. I just loved LOVED the late 80's through up into the 2000s for PCs.. what a GREAT time to be a teenager / 20s.. SO good!! I have had SO many of these generic small company systems come through my home.. I sure wish I'd have kept all the old stuff.. the only thing I think I still have is my 386 motherboard in the box with the manual (needed the manual back then, there was NO plug n play hahaha) and a couple old drives.. I do get older systems from friends / friends of friends just because in my area I am one of the better repair techs / I'm super fair with my work to cost.. like I do most stuff for free for people, that's just the way I am. I LOVE computers with such a passion. I'm glad your channel is here, you share my love for these systems and it makes me smile!!

@marcberm Жыл бұрын

After Dark! The origin of the legendary Flying Toasters!!! And always looking fire in the thumbnails! Who does a guy call for THAT pizza delivery? Haha

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

I'd probably get fired on the first delivery for eating all of the pizza!

@Drago1995 Жыл бұрын

I also love when CD albums I get have "Made in West-Germany" it's like piece of history

@jotani86 Жыл бұрын

I love your cuts, when you need to unscrew something or clean something.

@grimmpickins2559 Жыл бұрын

May your channel grow exponentially! Your love of this shines through, and just the details and care in your overviews is beyond so many others. Thank, man, thanks.

@fatguywitholdcomputers9351 Жыл бұрын

The extra long isa slot on the 386 is for a proprietary memory board that lets you add more memory slots. great video!

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I've never seen a board like that. Wonder if we could figure out which board is intended for that slot and reverse-engineer it. I can't imagine it's more than a few bus transceivers and passive components.

@fatguywitholdcomputers9351 Жыл бұрын

@@miketech1024 pretty much. but 8mb on a 386 is plenty for 99.9% of people with the only use being games. if the board accepts 4mb 30-pin simms... the memory board becomes moot. if you ebay search for "386 memory board" you can see some examples.

@mrgrumpy888 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful 90s beige-ness! They just feel so cozy to me. One of these days I need to build a sleeper out of an ancient beige case.

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

I'm thinking about transferring my Ryzen 7 system into one of these beige cases.

@maltoNitho Жыл бұрын

8:53 “What is After Dark?” O. M. G. Only the most amazing collection of screensavers to have ever graced both PC and Mac!! I bet my head you don’t even know “Bet Your Head”! After Dark was a popular screensaver pack made by Berkeley Systems. They had many versions with many different fun screensaver packs over the years. They made the popular Flying Toasters you may know of.

@andrewdunbar828 Жыл бұрын

After Dark was the classic Mac screensaver with the flying toasters. I guess they used their fame to make a gazillion licensed versions on a bazillion other platforms.

@1bit Ай бұрын

Apparently this is my flavor of ASMR. Thank You

@raym1842 11 ай бұрын

Conner drives were some of the quietest drive around back then.

@maxtornogood Жыл бұрын

I like you sense of humour & enthusiasm as you go through the process & explore the hardware. I can also agree late 80's hard drives shouldn't be that quiet. Love the old Caviars I must say!

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah those Caviars make some of the best sounds of all the drives I've tested so far from this haul. That MFM drive from the NEC PowerMate was quite musical as well.

@maxtornogood Жыл бұрын

@@miketech1024 The louder the better I say! 😉

@catvaska1627 Жыл бұрын

old computers are full of surprises

@jkeelsnc Жыл бұрын

I like all 3 of these computers. As for the scratched case. Sand, prime, and spray. The science desktop theme on the 486 system was added as an option by the Windows 95 Plus! Package. I am sure that system will work better with doom if you provide a good performance VLB card or maybe just an ET4000AX card. That WD caviar 280 hard drive was the first one I ever had in the first 386DX PC I owned. Incidentally, that was a GRiD 386is-16 which used Tandy parts but did not have any of the idiosyncratic hardware incompatibilities of the older Tandy 1000 series. It had a CHIPS chipset as well with a Phoenix BIOS.

@anthonyblacker8471 4 ай бұрын

Whoa you SERIOUSLY lucked out with these systems!! Holy SMOKES that's totally 100% a jackpot Mike!!!

@fhunter1test Жыл бұрын

On last computer ( at 31:13 ) - the connector is for memory expansion with custom board. Usually motherboard-specific.

@gen_angry 10 ай бұрын

8:50 'what is after dark?' me: :O youre in for a real treat. After Dark is awesome.

@danheerkens799 Жыл бұрын

The After Dark “Bad Dog” screensaver is great. The dog runs around your desktop slowly destroying it.

@AceMcCrank 9 ай бұрын

The Windows 95 Plus! Pack is where all the sounds and crazy cursors came from on that first pc

@probnotstech Жыл бұрын

8:49 Oh man, that's one of the themes that came with Windows 95 Plus! We had that exact lion background on the family PC for a good year or two. And those sounds are bringing back memories I forgot I had.

@retrozmachine1189 Жыл бұрын

VTech had a line of PC compatible computers that could be genuinely described as pizzabox format. They were around half the height of the top computer. There was enough room in them for maybe 2 expansion cards with the riser board fitted (one to the left, one to the right not a vertical stack). Honestly can't remember. I think it only went to 386 but maybe 486 too. VTech also had a line of low profile computers in the same style as the top computer.

@ArjanvanVught Жыл бұрын

37:30 The DFX/DWG files are AutoCad drawings

@optimax500 Жыл бұрын

So nice to see these old computers, I look forward to every friday☺

@weepingscorpion8739 Жыл бұрын

That first system was pretty sweet. However, in addition to it being a VLB system in the wrong case, that Matsushita 563 CD drive is definitely a win. It's one of those drives that is absolutely required for using the very elusive 3DO Blaster. So I would definitely keep it. Will have to wait with the other two later.

@abx42 Жыл бұрын

You hit the jackpot lol. I would love to have the system's!!!!!!!!!!

@andrewmurray1550 Жыл бұрын

AfterDark were well known for screensavers in the 90's. I used to have a Star Trek TNG (and TOS) themed AfterDark screensaver. Their famous ones were the flying toasters/flying toilets.

@9852323 Жыл бұрын

Good finds again this time. Atleast for me 90s hardware is getting pretty hard to find now so you’re definitely pretty lucky to continually find these kind of computers. I love 90s and 2000s hardware.

@AveragePootis 8 ай бұрын

God i love the look of the second system, very PS/2 like. I could see myself doing some writing based work on one. Christ you know you are beyond a nerd when you audibly say "Cool" when shown a red LED for the 3'5 inch drive

@PaulsComputerEmp Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! I stumbled upon some intriguing details about Reasontech. Apparently, back in 1996, the Wayback Machine archived a snapshot showcasing their later models, Square 5 and Square 6. It's fascinating to see how their products evolved. In 2003, Reasontech also went through a name change and became Reasoncomputer. Keep up the excellent work!

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

Wow that's interesting! They lasted a lot longer than I would have thought.

@ModeofHorror Жыл бұрын

Great video! I appreciate you throwing some horror in there with the After Dark and Doom. :)

@matix16 Жыл бұрын

The sound from 12:22 when you shut down the system is from the first Polish internet messenger called Gadu-Gadu when you received a new message :D

@ValdovasX2 Жыл бұрын

i love these kind of videos, always gives me the urge to re-assemble my windows 95 machine :)

@keithbrown7685 11 ай бұрын

I like the whole thing for the memory refresh. So much that I thought I forgot, just had a light coating of dust on it.

@skochin 9 ай бұрын

386DX was definitely capable of running Doom, heck I played doom on 386SX. Back in college we ran lanparties on 386DX on Novell and it was absolutely payable. The key was to get VLB VGA card, bacause the regular 16bit ISA didn't cut it. I think your lovely 387 was just dragging down by ISA. Great vid as usual.

@amplibax8 Жыл бұрын

I do a lot IC desoldering and I had no idea about that desoldering alloy. I'll be picking some of that up for sure

@fatguywitholdcomputers9351 Жыл бұрын

I've always just used some fresh leaded solder... desoldering alloy sounds fancy.

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

It works incredibly well for removing SMD chips and other multi-pin components like HDMI ports. It makes very short work of modern lead-free solder without the crazy high temps that are normally required.

@TheDimsml Жыл бұрын

It sounds like Wood's metal, but please be careful, it is apparently toxic, since it contains cadmium.

@slycooper1001 11 ай бұрын

there is a product called soldering wick basically it's braided copper wire mesh ribbon that literally pulls the hot solder right off the board i mainly use it if i somehow mess up with the solder and have to start over which doesn't happen very often but it's not a non-zero chance

@HunOmegared Жыл бұрын

The extra "ISA" slot is slot for a memory expansion card. You can se the traces between the slot and the simm sockets.

@lexluthermiester Жыл бұрын

@MikeTech Those two slots by the RAM are RAM expansion slots which needed a riser board to fit more SIMM modules into the system. As you see the board it can take up to 128MB of RAM, but with the expansion riser, that maximum increased to 256MB, IIRC. EDIT, it might have been 64MB -> 128MB. It's been so long I'm not 100% on the exact RAM limits.

@slaapliedje 9 ай бұрын

For that first system, there is a Cyrix cache enabler software out there that may be required to enable the cache which should speed it up. (I only know about it from a PS/2 I have that has an drop in 286 replacement that is a 486 thing.

@sebastianohalloran9093 11 ай бұрын

Enjoyed, as ever, your fun and delight as you discovered each facet of each machine. Whether about the unusual Cyrix or the maths co-processor. My partner and I come for the reminiscence and stay for the cuteness!

@Michael_Livingstone 11 ай бұрын

Hey Cutie, nice video. It always amazes me that the manufacturer of these PCs stuff massive amounts of ribbon cables in there versus custom lengths to not clutter up the internals.

@blackheart58 Жыл бұрын

Wow all the old windows sounds. I haven’t heard welcome, you’ve got mail in ages! Makes me feel ancient! The mouse cursor is a trip. The screen saver looks like Mortimer Mouse. That system sure made some crazy noises. The desoldering gun is very cool! Three Squares Computer is something I never saw before. Another great video!

@robertcartier5088 Жыл бұрын

The After Dark screensavers were legendary, at the time... Think "Flying Toasters"... seriously!

@marshitup Ай бұрын

that extra slot is for a video accelerator card. diamond made one that I know of...I used to own it

@ForTheBirbs Жыл бұрын

Another great video. I love your commentary. Cheers

@UncleAwesomeRetro Жыл бұрын

Very nice too see you explore those computers :) Very nice hardware. I have a 386sx but I really want to have a proper 386dx system.

@ceilingfanmusic6597 Жыл бұрын

Omg thank you for making these old computer vids. Ever since uxwbill quit making vids on old systems i havent really found any one who made vids like he did.. until today. Keep up the good work an maby try repairing some of those power supplys

@Guitarhero1000 Жыл бұрын

Great Video as always mike!

@Richo5566 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the videos. Always interesting. You should do a video on all the tools/devices essential for this kind of work.

@kitchentroll5868 Жыл бұрын

To mitigate the rust on the case, I'd recommend either sand-blasting with glass beads _or_ manually sanding with some manner of high number sand paper (at least P320, possibly P500) to avoid marring the surface with deep scratches (steel hardness and quality varies wildly in old cases). Matching the paint is another issue, I have had relatively good success using RAL 9002 ("grey white") when repainting old beige boxes. Although, I have come upon a few that needed RAL 1013 ("oyster white") and more than one that was RAL 9012 ("clean room white").

@keithbrown7685 11 ай бұрын

I'd almost prefer some kind of power sanding tool with a delicate setting. I swear I'd take forever with sandpaper, and I probably wouldn't get it right anyway.

@kitchentroll5868 11 ай бұрын

@@keithbrown7685 Sanding metal cases is a lot like using salt in cooking. You can't undo sanding once done and you can't dial back salt once added. So slow is better, especially when you go in guns-ablazing thinking you're sanding steel only to discover it's aluminum. (Learn from my mistake)

@simisteve1425 Жыл бұрын

Mike, Word 6.0, on windows 3.1 was the hot set up at the time. Ran that at work on my PS2 model 60 with an HP DeskJet printer and got great looking print outs without the expense of having to use a LaserJet. I don’t recall what years that was, obviously pre-Y2K, but it worked really well. Thanks for the video!

@keithbrown7685 11 ай бұрын

I could probably still get use out of it today, except for the thing with the short filenames. I used to be ashamed to admit this to a geek crowd, but I'm still using Word 2000 --- on a Win7 system! 🙂

@simisteve1425 11 ай бұрын

@@keithbrown7685 LOL Keith, I still use Word 2003 on my Win 10 system. I've got Word 2010, but never liked the ribbon on the top. IMO opinion Word 6.0-2003 were the best Word versions.

@robert1975031 Жыл бұрын

After dark was quite the well known screensaver program back in the day. many modules were made for it. flying toasters was my favorite setting and it was the main screensaver for windows 3.1

@keithbrown7685 11 ай бұрын

Just curious. Did you have the Lawnmower Man plugin?

@robert1975031 11 ай бұрын

@@keithbrown7685 for some reason I thought I had, but I can't find it now :(

@Andrei718290 Жыл бұрын

The last computer i have with a 386 33Mhz in 1992 (Romania/craiova)

@Lee_Adamson_OCF Жыл бұрын

Cool machines man. I really like that backplane type system.

@thorrollosson Жыл бұрын

Great channel mate. A fun idea might be to run a favorite dos era CPU/Ram/Display benchmark on every retro PC that comes through and stick em in a Google doc or something.

@precisionxt Жыл бұрын

Love me some pizza box/desktop form factors…Crammed components and all. I’ve stopped questioning why I like them over towers.

@keithbrown7685 11 ай бұрын

I think it's the visual aesthetic. Maybe there's some space savings to be had, too.

@Ryanfox1981 Жыл бұрын

31:18 RAM expansion card. Seen Everex 386 TIGA workstations with up to 32MB RAM :)

@tony--james Жыл бұрын

another awesome video, I just saved a 2008-ish Dell Vostro200 Tower from the garbage this week, it works, and has Windows XP Black edition on it lol

@slycooper1001 11 ай бұрын

i found a listing for a dell vostro 200 on ebay and bought it it was listed as for parts but when i first looked in the case i realized it was complete and it was just password locked funny thing is if you know how to. you can completely bypass the password the machine had the admin account disabled but funny thing is there is a secret hidden Administrator account that is not able to be disabled just for that reason of regaining access to computers with lost passwords so i went on turned the other admin account back on and logged in apparently someone forgot to properly erase the hard drive tsk-tsk because i found vacation photos and more stuff from a probably defunct tuxedo rental company weird thing is there were no names so i couldn't actually find out if they wanted those photos back i actually bought it just for the tower because i had a disembodied computer laying in a box just waiting for a new home but i ended up with a standard office computer running xp i compared what i did to a fallout 3 style hacking minigame i actually had to look up how to change the username of the main account since it was firstname lastname and it wouldn't work if i typed firstname_lastname it's been a while so i have actually forgotten again the steps of doing that but now if i wanted to i could rename the main account.

@floydlooney6837 10 ай бұрын

I got a slim version of that for $20

@MotownBatman Жыл бұрын

Man, those Caviar Drives! I loved getting a pile of junk from my uncle in TN when we'd visit from Detroit. I thought these things would never die in the early/mid 90s

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

I'm really surprised at the number of hard drives I've tested from this period that still work perfectly fine!

@davinp Жыл бұрын

I see a WP51 folder on the first PC - that is WordPerfect 5.1 (for DOS)

@slvclw 7 ай бұрын

Nice work man just subscribed

@mattparker9726 Жыл бұрын

9:53 dude, that Bobcat picture, makes me think I'm 10 again. Win 95, GOOD TIMES!

@danotten3344 Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to seeing that VLB board in another case with some VLB cards 😀

@ScottyBrockway 9 ай бұрын

Turbo switch seems to be hooked up backwards, turbo is supposed to slow it down to 286/386 speed.

@ricardog2165 Жыл бұрын

The second system looks identical to a Northgate 386SX system I used to have. Worked pretty well, and came with a nice keyboard - which is what Northgate was famous for. I'll bet they used the same OEM manufacturer.

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

Very likely. They probably just badged an off-the-shelf case.

@Tatarus31 Ай бұрын

Interesting as usual, thanks!

@DuneRunnerEnterprises Жыл бұрын

Yeah,the "plus!" package!!!! Had not seen &heared it for a while!!!!

@toxin911 Жыл бұрын

brings back lots of memories

@markshade8398 Жыл бұрын

The bottom one in your stack is not a "pizza box" case. It was a standard desktop size and much the same size as a mini-tower, but the horizontal shape/size came first. (Mini-tower came later).

@316diag 6 ай бұрын

none of these are "pizza box" cases. pizza box form factor was/is extremely rare for pc compatible computers. most of them were Sun, HP, SGI, etc... Unix machines. Pizza boxes are generally not sized as these cases, except in places like Chicago or Detroit. these are plain ol' desktop form factor.

@markshade8398 6 ай бұрын

@@316diag agreed. IBM also had pizza boxes and they were AIZ Unix also

@andrewdunbar828 Жыл бұрын

PC clones from mom & pop Chinese computer shops used to all kinds of badges on them, often just for the single shop, but really could be anything. At least that's how it was in Australia in the 486 era. I suppose it was the same before, after, and elsewhere.

@mdkoehn Жыл бұрын

Thanks for another interesting video. It’s possible that the not-parallel card is a SCSI adaptor. The external connectors are the same, IIRC.

@AndrewErwin73 Жыл бұрын

embrace your madness brother.

@reidster87 Жыл бұрын

I have a somewhat similar Socket 3 VLB motherboard with the same Opti 895 chipset. Mine's a Shuttle HOT-419. I've got a late-90s date code AM5x86 installed and running rock solid at 160MHz on a 40MHz FSB. The 895 seems like a pretty great chipset for VLB systems.

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

Good to know! I've always heard VLB can be quite unstable at higher clock speeds.

@reidster87 Жыл бұрын

@@miketech1024 It can definitely get flaky. Many cards and motherboards have jumpers to alter timing/wait states on the bus to compensate for >33MHz FSB. That jumper sets the same signals on the bus whether it's on the card or the motherboard, so it usually only has to be set in one place. Multiple VLB cards installed with a higher FSB is somewhat trickier. You may find that the cards have to be in specific slots to work properly. With my system, it seemed to work best jumpered to >33MHz even with the FSB at 33MHz. It's totally stable at 40Mhz, and it POSTs at 50MHz, but I didn't stress test the system as I want to place thermistors on the CPU and VRM to make sure things are sane with the CPU at 200MHz.

@Ferg13 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Yeee. Yer right Mike. The first one belongs in a tower or full case. Just started watching this. Watched all yer videos so far and Re watched them over and over again. Love the content buddy. Keep up the awesome work. Ps. I still love that one hdd bay that pulls out of the case in the one video. I’d love to find something like that. Right now I have some older computers from early 2000s. Dell Dimension 2400 series 😂. Which I’m currently working on. Some problems installing Xp. Bit anything newer then Xp. Installs no problems. Relic computers grrrr. But I ain’t giving up until I get that Xp on there. Looking forward to more of yer videos 👍

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Ferg13 Жыл бұрын

@@miketech1024 Yw buddy! :).

@alin3836 Жыл бұрын

just fixed up an old LCD monitor (2 fatty looking capacitors). im pretty tired, so when i saw a mike tech video, i grabbed a soda and bagel and got ready to relax!

@pipschannel1222 Жыл бұрын

Cool video Mike. Keep on bringing us that good stuff 👌 Wow that German C&T graphics card in the S3 system must be seriously slow as DooM is supposed to run a lot smoother on a DX-25. I would try that Diamond Speedstar Pro from that other system and see it perform about 3 times better ;-)

@carltondoorman9145 Жыл бұрын

I recognize the funky cursors on that first system - it's the Marvin the Martian theme cursors; I still have the set that somebody gave me back around 2000. Would be still using them if I still used Windows. And that one with the scarred paint on the top, kinda quirky idea, but you might try that self-adhesive contact paper they use on closet shelves. I've done that before. Get the right pattern and apply it carefully and neatly and it can look pretty nice. I still remember making up an old desktop with a beautiful woodgrain cabinet!

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

Ah that explains all the weird spacey sounds!

@evefavretto Жыл бұрын

@@miketech1024 I think the icons and sounds were also on the "Science" theme, at least on Windows 98 (that inherited a few of the Plus! 95 themes). And that wallpaper is from another of the themes, Dangerous Creatures, I think. (I had to look up the english names for the themes, btw)

@aardvarkmaximus7688 Жыл бұрын

After Dark created by Berkley Systems and was the must-have screen saver utility with the famous flying toasters. Came to prominence in the mid 1990s and available for Mac and PC. In those days screensavers were almost essential to prevent burn-in and in office enviroments so people popping away from their desk for coffee and forgetting to lock the PC didn't have their stuff looked at casually. Berkley was later bought by SIerra online and the advent of better monitors and decent LCD ones meant screensavers weren't so important. In your previous life as a Network Engineer I'm surprised that you didn't come across After Dark, although it was installed on desktop PCs and not Servers.

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

Never have come across After Dark (or flying toasters of any kind) in a professional environment. I did go straight into admin/engineer roles, completely bypassing helpdesk/desktop type work. So that may be why. The days of CRT monitors were well over by the time I entered the workforce also. I work 100% in the cloud these days (DevOps and Azure) so the only server hardware exposure I get these days are the ones in the home lab.

@demenACE Жыл бұрын

I used to modify the sound scape in AOL. I found some on the world wide web and one was Homer Simpson running to the mailbox stating', "Oooh, the mail's here!"

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

Child me once modified all of the AOL sounds using WAV files from a website called fart.com. This was peak hilarity for an 8-year-old!

@matthewday7565 Жыл бұрын

2:29 Sound card is an Aztech Sound Galaxy Nova 16 Extra, found on DOS Days

@GeoSukarno Жыл бұрын

Thanks to your video, finally i know the terminology of Pizza Box case. Before i watch the video i only know the Desktop term. The problem is, the tower case also called a Desktop. Then i have difficulty to tell people what i mean. Thanks to this video, i can just tell them a pizza box case, which i mean is not a tower case. For a vintage Desktop, i more love a Pizza box case than a Tower case.

@worroSfOretsevraH Жыл бұрын

Ahh too bad no Linux lectures today. I love watching and picking up bits and pieces.

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

There was once an i386 distro called Damn Small Linux. The entire image was only 50MB! Sadly, it is long-dead. Might see what I can do to resurrect it as it is perfect for old machines. Long ago I modified it with graphics drivers and loaded it into a RAMdisk. It made an insanely fast gaming OS!

@offdigital47 Жыл бұрын

@31:13 from memory, I /think/ you could add more cpu cache. that's the socket for it.

@mattp3437 Жыл бұрын

I have one of the same desoldering guns. My experience has been mixed. It seems great when I first used it but I think it depends on what you are using in for. Mine just came with a 1mm tip which I think is a bit bigfor anything mid 2000's forward. Also, since the pump is in the gun it is a bit heavy and combined with the larger tip and loss of suction over time it struggles on any stubborn components. If you're not careful, instead of removing the solder, it will start removing all the solder mask and thin traces surrounding the component after any prolonged use more than a few seconds. Just my experience ... YMMV.

@yardmine Жыл бұрын

Hate to admit it, but we used the top of that last computer case as a work station for a few weeks since we were so low on space. 😬Broke down a few hundred telecom switches right ontop of it

@miketech1024 Жыл бұрын

Ең жақсы KZfaq

Let's check out some of these mystery pizza-box systems! Vintage computer teardown and test.

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