Find a man that treats you like LGR treats 90s hardware.

I've been using the Windows 95 startup sound as my ringtone for the past year. Everyone always asks me why it sounds so familiar because they don't know where exactly it's from, I just tell them "it's a part of life."

"I don't like that kind of noise coming from a battery." I don't like ANY noise coming from a battery o_o

"Let's apply that crap without restarting!" This man likes to live on the edge.

A wood grain toothbrush... I love this channel!!! 😀

"Hey guys I found a disk drive, do you need this?" Yes I do computer, that's okay. I don't know why, but this bit cracked me up xD

I was a child in 1997... And at this time I was amazed by the power you can get from a so thin device! Remember TV was huge, PC monitor was gigantic, PC tower was big too, an suddenly: a pc and a monitor for "almost nothing in space". Man it was a shock for me! Awesome channel! Thank you LGR!!!!

I keep coming back to this video, it's therapeutic to see and listen to it. It seems to get better every viewing on top of it.

I like to imagine that laptop has one big virtual smile on the monitor saying "thanks for cleaning me

I feel my soul being cleansed watching this

“I like the feel of a fresh... nipple.” LGR, 2017

I know this is a year old, but I've seen you do this a few times now. A "proper" way to copy over the CAB files is to start by creating C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS and copying the entirety of the WIN95 or WIN98 directory into it. You then run SETUP from that directory instead of the CD-ROM. That's where OEMs like Dell and Gateway 2000 loaded the CAB files.

The setup background looked so futuristic back then but now it looks like something that an average person can come up with in 5 mins on Paint.

It's amazing to think that the phone (A FREAKING CELLPHONE!) that I'm watching this on has more storage than that machine. Technology is amazing.

More like IBM T H I C C P A D

7:54 "Nice" - Steve1989MREInfo

My morning just got a whole lot better, love these videos where you work on old stuff to bring life back into it.

Rainy day here in Louisiana and I was just about to turn off the pc and pop in a movie, Then I spotted this! Love these videos man.

Watching this on my brand new 2018 ThinkPad makes me pleased to see that, even after the handover to Lenovo, the core design and construction of these laptops are quite similar! It's very pleasing to see where certain features, and design language comes from, the ruggedness, the purpose built, "have the job done" style is awesome! Well done IBM, and keep it up Lenovo! BTW, great video as always! ;)

Thank you for the subtitles, my level in english is bad. Hello in France

Ah! There's nothing like watching a new high quality LGR video after working a 12-hour shift as night security and just a couple of hours of sleep. It feels sort of cozy.

7:53 Steve1989MRE would be proud of that "Nice!"

My mom had a similar ThinkPad (a 390X?) that she called the StinkPad. She got it from her employer, and they went out of business or something and didn't bother asking for it back, they never even cashed the check she gave them. I still have it somewhere.

Can you imagine if they made a modern version with the same thickness, it would be powerful as hell

Was insanely happy when you got that white spot off tbh, so satisfying

"fresh.... nipple" -LGR 2017

I just love watching you work this magic and geek out over these. It makes my little heart feel all warm and fuzzy and happy.

That thing is insanely thick. It looks like one of Ben Heck's console laptops.

That battery pack will probably just contain a bunch of cells and a control circuit. If you can open it up, you can probably replace them with new cells pretty easily.

I figured it out, LGR vision is like Neo's vision in Matrix, only in WOODGRAIN. ",...there's way too much information to decode the LGR. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the woodgrain. All I see is maple, oak, cherry . Hey uh, you want a drink?"

I love this channel. Your videos are fantastic man!! I had a IBM Thinkpad that I bought when I was graduating high school. I was going to college and wanted a good laptop and I was working at a computer store during the summer back then. The owner sold it to me at a discount and I used most of my earnings for the summer and my dad helped me pay for it as well. I was super proud that I had worked so hard for it. It was modular in that the keyboard could be raised to reveal slots to put in a 2nd hard drive, memory and cd rom drive could all be easily accessed. In my freshman year of college I had to do a speech presentation in one of my classes and I chose to do a presentation on the laptop. Got lots of oohs and aahs when I showed off the modular functions! Sometime in the next month or so my dorm room was broken into and someone stole it and some other electronics from my roommate. It was never recovered and I did not have any kind of warranty or insurance on it. It was one of the saddest moments in my life!! Months later the thief was discovered, he was a fellow college student who was boosting stuff around the school. He was killed in a violent attack. Crazy story but watching this video brought back a lot of memories!!

That startup sound ❤️ it’s practically the sound of my love for computers beginning. Wild!

Back then "Holy hell. 6.4gb!" Now "Bruh. You only have 1tb?"

10:05 Scandisk voice: "I gotta check though, it might not be ok."

my dad had one of these with Win 98. That and his Compaq Presario were my first computers. I remember playing the sims and goofing around on paint all day.

So nice seeing the old thing come back to life, and the care you give it.

Watching someone repair a 20-year-old laptop makes me wonder what we'll do with today's laptops 20 years from now. I can't really see someone cracking open a current-year MacBook and fiddling with batteries and things.

The aesthetics are over 9000!!!

Your Channel brings up so much precious memories! Thank you!

Love watching you are videos of bringing these old computers back to life. Right now I am studying Network Administration at my school, I love working on computers.

I own a IBM Thinkpad Windows 98. lol I use to own one back in day as well and I love it. They are great work horses and built tough. I loved the video man!!

Hey Screw KZfaq for demonetizing your original episode for today. Glad you were able to find something else to put up. Sorry KZfaq is such a shitter.

This is that LGR episode that I always come back to for some reason.

My Dad used to have one of these, As a Kid I used to play the DOS version of SimCity as well as Warcraft II on this at times

I bursted out laughing at the Steve1989 reference (complete with the spoon noise) lol. Clint, your channel and Steve's have a special place in my heart.

Love your videos LGR, always makes my day to see you in my sub feed. Stay awesome =)

That was amazing work buddy! I so miss that era of the 90's. Quality built computers back in the day!

Software developer here. Love having your videos on while I work. Thanks for the cool content and for putting the recent history of technology into perspective.

What I'd like to see is Windows NT 4.0 running on a thinkpad with a PowerPC CPU. NT 4.0 was the only windows to support that and I've never seen any major retro tech channel covering that.

FDISK verifies the integrity of the user. No wonder I got so many fatal errors back in the day.. LMAO

Your restoration videos are really great, I enjoy seeing them. Keep up the good work!

Those last Minutes of Cleaning were strangely satisfying. :-D

I got a HOW TO BASIC vibe from that clean at ~22:00

you forgot the retrobright whops wrong channel

I have this laptop here with me too! And this is a big pleasure. Best keyboard, old ports, MS-DOS 6.0, Borland Turbo C++ 3.1, Microsoft QBasic... nothing better than this! Thanks Clint for old your videos with big old stuff! Inspiring!

In primary school, I was the nerdy kid with the laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 345CS), UNTIL the nerdier kid got a 380 of some description which had everything I coveted: CD, a sound card, a bigger screen, Windows 95... you inspired me to hop on eBay, pick up a cheap 380D, and begin a project to bring it back to its former glory! Thanks LGR :D

Surprised you didn't take the whole thing apart and show off/clean the insides. Maybe a part 2 someday for a deeper inspection of the guts of this machine? Great video Clint! Glad to see a new video despite the setbacks with KZfaq

You ever start to wonder if LGR has a problem with all the wood grain stuff? No, me either. If he starts considering changing his name to Woody then I think we must step in.

One of my relatives had a 380D model however there was no power supply however when I went looking I found an original at a local computer store. This video helped a lot with restoring it and it was very fun to take it apart and play around with it!

this is amazingly therapeutic to watch you restore old pc's and i just realized this video was dropped on my birthday :)

we used to call the nub a Centrally Located Integrated Tracker

You should cover your entire house in wood grain.

Great video LGR, I own one of these machines and anyone having problems with 163,161 or 192 REPLACE YOUR CMOS BATTERY FIRST! It was a great sigh of relief when I got rid of all three errors just by replacing the CMOS battery, I was worried about the 192 error more then the other two.

"Coffee and memories". Lol. I love your videos so much. You inspire people to take better care of their equipment. You are the soul reason I am using again my 2005 Toshiba laptop to do my writing instead of a modern laptop. I got my Toshiba fixed up with windows 7 and it's working perfectly. You can't beat these old machines. You rock LGR.

Ahhhhh, needs more woodgrain.

Ah, you failed to answer important life questions such as where does one find a wood grained toothbrush....

That was beautiful! Thanks for sharing this content. I never had a computer when kid, but someway I know that nostalgic feeling.

Was feeling kind of off until I saw this video this morning. Helped perk me up in a weird way. Your channel is awesome.

Device Name : BANANA

"I agreed to your outdated agreement"😂😂😂😂😂😂

HOLY SHIT LGR! I literally just got this exact machine given to me through my (sole proprietor) e-recycling business. Granted the guy kept the HDD (no biggie because I have 50+ on hand), But other than that it's fully functional AND he had the original doc and 2 power supplies. I booted to BIOS and everything looked good; even the CMOS battery.... Also, incredibly further still, the unit's battery STILL works and holds juice for a coupe hours. Could not believe that part. This is a classic, and a beauty at that! Crazy timing for me to randomly find this video in my feed. Cheers! -H.B.

The jazz in combination with the beeping and the drive noises makes such a sound scape. I dont know how but its really mesmerizing.

"What year is it?" - LGR 2017

Wow I haven't heard the PC speaker sound of commander keen since I played it as a kid.. I loved that game and that's what it sounded like back in the day for me. 💗

Restoring PCs is a beautiful thing, I really enjoyed the video, thanks a lot

My grandmother just gave me this exact laptop yesterday and this video has proven to be very useful.

"Nice, okay" 7:55 Nice SteveMRE reference haha

7:53 is that some Coffee, Instant type 1? Alright, Cool.

Something from 1997 is by no means "old" to me, only when I remember that I was a sprightly 30 year old then LOL, but it is fascinating seeing just how far we've come in tech since then. I can't help but wonder what tech will be like in another 20 years. Good video mate, truly enjoyed it.

Love your channel! This stuff is equally as nostalgic for me

Why they demonetized this, i see nothing wrong with this, I swear YT is becoming a shitshow

Will you do an episode on what got you interested in wood grain? :)

Dude, lgr. I live for wat u do. Like restoring old pc's. Its so fun to just boot up old pc's and trying to make them run well. Its gr8 bro

Thanks Clint! After watching you clean your pc things, it inspired me to clean off my 2006 macbook from my closest and pack it back into it's og box for storage.

Than ScanDisk impersonation was spot on.

Wow! I remember growing up with one of these as a kid, playing DOOM and RollerCoaster tycoon. Very nice.

Oh my god... the memories... the feels... *hugs his still running and still used x201* long love the trackpoint...

"Getting ready to run Windows 98 for the first time..." I remember helping my dad reinstall Windows on customers' computers back when we had a computer repair shop, and I still get so satisfied seeing that splash screen after installing 98 or XP. ^w^

That is one adorable little hard drive

KZfaq and their over-reliance on algorithms, it's just like their DMCA process. If KZfaq is going to do something like this, at least get a human to double check.

Somehow it's relaxing seeing someone restoring a pc~ Seein' someone else doin' the work and seeing how shiny and "new" everything looks like in the end~ x3

well i really like seeing you restore and clean these great machines!i am a total clean freak with my various systems as well!!

Channeling a little bit of Steve1989MREInfo Let's get this out onto a tray. 7:54

Awesome restoration job! The computer is actually in pretty good shape, but the fresh Windows 95 install on it was very cool and with 64 MB's of ram it should run pretty fast and your now are able to portably play your favorite old school games... very nice job!

Really enjoyed the video. It is always nice to share a cup of coffee with someone, even if I am at work while drinking along with you!

Such a beautiful machine, I had a lot of fun learning on it when I was a kid.

windows....95! ...i've installed windows 2000 more times than i want to admit, nearly remember the serial by heart

7:51 Is that a nod to Steve1989?

Excellent tip there about creating a CAB folder on the hard drive, seem to remember doing that myself from time to time, but I've had a few sleeps since 1997!

Found a working 380D today, can’t wait to start my journey in restoring it! I ordered a blank floppy disk so that I can start a fresh install. Never worked on any computers from this area so it will be fun.