Exactly what he said! I've been looking forward to this video all week!

@@gmtm2162 Same!

So many small independent computer stores in many towns. The cases had the square spot for thick custom logo for the company. I don't remember what company made the custom stickers but I remember seeing them in PC Shopper

There are only two scenes I like in Titanic, the scene where he's drawing her lushous boobs. And the sinking part, especially the propellor guy and the ship breaking in two. I am morbid, depraved, and fkkkt up. : )

I've encountered many a drive, particularly in the 2000s that just refused to load some CD-Rs. It was very much an imperfect technology that I don't miss any more... 😂

But they fixed those problems, just in time for napster. I'm happy when things come together like that. Man, the tunes I stole....... uh ...... borrowed..... sampled.

The main problem is cdr's are less reflective that cd's so had a lower signal return strength. Also the lasers could be just getting weak so they read cd's but cant get a good signal from cdr disc's

Even LED teacandles use it, it's quite popular choice of compact power source._

Well I know this reply is late, but you need to be ashamed of yourself!! Have you been to church lately??? You have sin on your soul. Do you think Jesus would steal tunes on Napster?? Me, I auditioned tunes on Napster. It was all about quality control. I had to do a lot of auditioning but it needed doing! And most of the time, the quality sucked balls. 🙂

Those glitches in the matrix have been seeming like full-on kernel panics.

You mean CeleronA (with the on-die cache), didn't you?!

Yes, I had one of those back in the days. 300 MHz easily overclocked to 450 MHz, that was awesome value for money.

The celeryA was the one worth OCing. The non A 266 did overclock well though

and P2s, or so I heard.

And you know it *was* floating.. in a way. : )

You may very well be right. I have plenty of Verbatim disks that used their dark blue AZO dyes and those disks always read well, compared to many of the cheaper disks I used in later years that had like a very pale green type dye.

Do you remember orange dye CD-Rs? The first Maxell ones I bought in the very early 2000s were like that and ugly expensive. I seem to remember they were something like 18 Austrian Schillings each, or €1.50 in 2002 money. Finding a 10-pack of no-name CD-Rs for 10 Euros felt like a steal and they were decent too. The packaging was something to behold. A plain white cardboard box with black print and the discs in paper sleeves inside. No manufacturer info or anything on the box I think. If I remember correctly these off-brand discs had a deep green dye. Blue ones came later and I loved them as a teenager.

@Ragnar8504 I never saw orange dye disks, but I did encounter recordable disks probably a bit later in the lifetime of the tech. However I have very fond memory of the Dysan black CD-R, as rumour had it those would work best for pirated PS1 games. I never could test that, but the black disks looked really neat and all of those I burnt still work to this day. Can't same the same for those pale green-ish dye ones.

Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering if they were still teaching computer science in hs in 2003. We took it in grade 12, but that was in 1982. Also, it's just weird what time changes. When I was learning how to run my own computer, reading those Dummies books and doing the disk tutorials, we were told that we needed to get a "computer guru" to help and guide us in our computer journey. That was in the mid 90s. Now, it's like who the fkkk needs one of those? The damn comp explains itself. : )

@@keithbrown7685 They were still teaching computer science in 2003 in high school because I was taking some of those classes back then while I was in high school. They were tech prep/vocational program classes that counted towards college but I never used that credit for anything as I did not go to university, only to a vocational college.

The spookier part, is how that stuff binds to lung tissue. I think of the things I did to my lungs. And even now, I'm not sure if I got away scot-free. But I LOVED smoking, in the beginning, and it was because of that very tar, that my tastebuds went to nirvana, and ultimately short-circuited, so that cigs were tasting like something worse than ***t to me.

I'm not sure, the dust doesn't look quite brown enough to me. Besides, it would have smelled. Humidity can make dust properly difficult to remove. My parents have a holiday home that sits empty and unheated throughout most of winter and that has dust just like this PC. Spring cleaning is always a chore.

It was so exceptionally bad... I feel for their lungs...

And more heat. That was the whole point with the P4. Geeks needed space heaters. They also needed comps, but they often lived in cold cramped spaces, like dorm rooms. Enter the Pentium 4.

The system 4 case is almost perfect for it. I’ll definitely use some modern, quiet fans so that those delicious drive sounds won’t be drowned out.

@@miketech1024 Yeah, no pesky vibration dampers either, though I dunno what that's gonna do for the life of four drives hammering away in sequence. Back in high school, a friend of mine and I thought it would be funny to RAID a bunch of these noisy 1GB Western Digital drives he'd gotten in bulk. We never got to do it though, but man that would've been loud. The drives were leftover spares from some office building, NOS, and they were loud. Never thought I'd miss that sound, haha!

Perhaps you'll do a video on them 🤞

Yeah I was pretty disappointed by that.

You should've made them into YT vids!

Fiberglass is my favorite material for repairing thin plastic like this. Stuff is crazy strong! I do wish there were a good way to replicate original texture after filling/sanding. Especially that classic IBM texture.

Thanks! Gotta stay in shape moving all these heavy old machines around! 😂

Came here for the handsome guy, stayed for the PCs... 😂 I wish I had one of those old towers. Everyone I know has long disposed of them.

Thanks! I thought the previous comment was referring to the electric plastic welders (the ones that essentially just melt a heated wire in). Never heard of that stuff, but it looks interesting.

I never knew before of hdat2, where has that been all my life ! Thanks sharing 👍

Yeah i had that a lot over the years 💿

At the start of the audio cd rip-off era, someone gave me a disc that sounded like the audio had tiny little pperforations in it. Turned out they forgot to finalize it. I don't know why I remember such trivia, but this was in the year 2000.

Thanks! That is interesting. The CSI badge was giving me a bit of a hunch. It's incredible how difficult this information is to find via search.

I would've thrown the whole computer into a soapy bath, risk be damned. Or should that be 'risc' I don't know. 🙂

That makes my bearings hurt lol. I used to work at a shipyard. It gave me a whole new respect for the environmental conditions that hardware can tolerate! Oh I remember all too well the wild-west days of early recordable optical media. I definitely don't miss that!

So if I were to touch it, I might ride the lightning?

I’m going to try and find the noisiest HDDs imaginable for it. 🤣

Well spotted good sir 🧐

That would be DVD. CDs only came in -ROM, -R and -RW flavours. Early DVD drives were sometimes indeed limited to whatever rewritable format the manufacturer thought to be more likely succeed in the format war. DVD-RAM was even more limited, especially the cartridge type.

@@Ragnar8504 Whooops, you're right, I got'em mixed up.

Oh yes, and you kids have it easy nowdays. 🥳 Let me introduce you to our friends in the 90s, "everything is an expansion card" and "IRQ conflict from hell"! 😂👹

Oh yes, it was! I started messing with old and cheap or free computers (mostly 286 to 486) in around 1997 and played with a bunch of P1 machines throughout my teen years. I never built a PC from scratch but I did help a friend design his custom PC in 1999 or early 2000. We picked all the components from a local small computer chain, I think we even used their web site rather than a paper catalogue, and then he had the machine built by the store, it was a service they offered. One thing I remember very well is how upset I was that he got a crappy video card (might have been an NVIDIA something) so he could afford a huge 19 or 20" CRT monitor - I'd have preferred a decent video card and smaller screen. He was happy with the computer for several years though and eventually gave it to me to play with when it was wildly outdated. It did run XP quite nicely, which was a far cry from the 98 it had been built with. The real fun begins once you get back into the late 80s, with MFM and RLL hard drives. The first DOS machines I worked on were like that, 1987-1989 vintage, mostly cheap-ish 286s, featuring Seagate ST-225 or 251 drives. The two things that saved my sanity back then were a stack of DOS magazines my neighbour gave me and the early internet. Seagate had the data of all their ancient drives on their web site for free. Those drives couldn't be detected automatically, you had to enter cylinders, sectors and heads manually. Some BIOS setups offered a custom type (often 47) that let you enter the data manually, with others you had to pick the closest pre-defined type with the same or slightly smaller size and format the drive with those values. Using that drive in any other machine required knowing the values the original user had used to format the drive. If you didn't know them you were out of luck. Early IDE drives were installed in a similar fashion, the cyl/head/sec values didn't have to match the physical drive though, just the size of the BIOS type had to be correct or smaller than the actual drive. Auto-detect came with 486 machines, possibly some very advanced 386s had it too but I haven't seen any. ESDI and SCSI drives were much more advanced. For SCSI you set the BIOS hard drive type to "none" and the controller did the rest, for ESDI you picked any type you wanted. Those drives were painfully expensive though. MFM/RLL and IDE were similar enough that they couldn't co-exist in one system, so moving data from one of those old machines onto something more modern usually required a SCSI controller and hard drive. The last time I used that setup in a real world environment was in 2006 when I had the dubious pleasure of backing up the hard drive of a 1987 Mitsubishi 286 that used to control a CNC milling machine. The only thing that was wrong with the Mitsi was a flat CMOS battery but unfortunately the BIOS setup wasn't in ROM but had been supplied on a long gone floppy disc. Getting the controller and hard drive to work with any other 286 board proved futile for some reason, as did using the drive with another controller, so I spent the better part of two days scouring the depths of the internet for a setup disc image. I actually found a generic setup that I could then put on a flash drive, shift that to a 3.5" floppy on an older Mac with a USB card and finally copy it onto a 5 1/4" DOS boot floppy on a Pentium 1. Then began the fun of trying hard drive types one by one, thankfully type 2 or 3 was the correct one. Once I had the hard drive working I installed my SCSI card and drive, xcopied the whole C: drive to the SCSI drive, plugged that into a Pentium 90 running DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 and copied the relevant software to the Pentium's IDE hard drive. Thankfully DOS software could be copied from drive to drive without any issues. What a palaver!

Thanks! Yeah I was moving pretty fast by that point in fear of the video being late, didn't even see it...

@@miketech1024 We don't mind videos being late, don't overwork yourself, a day or two is fine :-) although can't get enough of your videos, drooling over the videos and you haha

I'll see your $500, and raise you 7 internets! Too rich for your blood?

@@keithbrown7685 I'm out! 😂😂

Oh yeah I’ll take a dead RTC over an evil Varta battery any day!

Yup, and the timestamps corroborate usage up to that time. Someone definitely got their money's worth out of that system!

@@miketech1024 incredible

@@miketech1024I want to know the story