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When you notice that this KZfaqr knows what we love to see, *Love me an old portable device*

Please never stop making these videos I need themmm Whattttt? My mans hearted my comment thanks bro that made my day keep up the good work!

“It’s honestly really *thicc* ” -Psivewri 2019

Holy shit, they put the CMOS battery in a location where it doesnt require a complete teardown to replace???? Amazing. Also gotta love the PSTN display. I believe this is one of the more pedestrian thinkpads from the time so it's to be expected.

IBMs were such beautiful laptops with gorgeous keyboards. Lenovos today aren't half bad, but of course, with the times, things have gotten thinner, so the keys will not be as satisfying to press, however, Lenovo's keys on their mid to highend laptops are still a joy to chatter away on and some of the best in the business.

Must have a passive matrix screen LCD which explains the ghosting.

i have that one! Is a very confortable writing machine and it's great for clasic games, for full screen scaling just press fn+f8 keys

I have an IBM ThinkPad T30 and I love it. Combined it with my father's T30 which was cracked and atuff

I was started to use computer back in 1997, still remember using windows 95, browsed netvigator & yahoo, and played AOE. flat screen laptop in that time is definitely a luxury.

Your channel bridges and the gap between sustainability (restoring usable tech) and preserving historic artefacts. I like that very much!!!

That was excellent in every way!! Delighted to have discovered your channel because this is also my hobby : reviving old laptops (usually 10-15 years old) bringing them up to a very acceptable level of everyday computing - usually with Win 7 and sometimes even with Win 10! - and donating them to charity. Subscribed !!

Really love watching this old retro reviews man !

What a historical Gem! Even after all the years gone by, you can see where IBM were going with their ThinkPad design. Great Chapter and great to see you testing those games. Thumbs up! [as always]

PLEASE upload this ThinkPad video to KZfaq. It looks amazing.

800x600 is pretty wild for 1997 considering in 2021, they still sell many new laptops with 1366x768 displays.

You know man my favorite of ur videos are the ones about old laptops, thinkpads, and cheap thin and lights nice vid man!

@Psivewri Pro tip - turn on "Mouse cursor trail" in the mouse settings. It helps a LOT to see mouse pointer on these old passive-matrix LCD screens. This feature was actually developed to to exactly this.

It is wonderful and very satisfying to see old machines working, technology pushes us forward, but it does not let us see at the same time, that there are machines that can be used today.

This will probably sound fake, but I can promise you it’s real. Around 2 weeks ago I bought an IBM ThinkPad 380ED “for parts”, this same model, from eBay for $35, and when it arrived it was only wrapped in one (and a half) layers of bubble wrap, and sustained considerable shipping damage, similar to this one in the video. The seller later offered me a 50% refund. When I booted it up it gave those same 161 & 163 CMOS errors, and when I replaced the battery it booted into Windows 95 as well. What timing!

Hi! You can select to have lower résolutions scaled to fit the LCD in the Thinkpad Configuration Utility

That keyboard is marvelous! They need to make keyboards on laptop like that today. I’d buy them even if they were 2 lbs.

I just found your channel I just subbed I love how you take old laptops 💻 that most likely would be thrown out and help save the earth

The windows 95 startup sound gives me shivers to this day

Thanks for the video mate, I've got a Thinkpad 380D and thought that I was the only one that had a screen that ghosted like crazy! Also suprised that the Hard Drive worked, from my experience and research, they seem to be quite prone to failing.

I love these old laptop restorations. I’ve been seeing a ton of these now. I think it be sick if someone could switch hack a board in there, I mean even a raspberry to keep the drives. Don’t think they’d work tho.

Great video. I used to have a 380. My mate still uses it to program old PLCs

Your eucalyptus oil trick is great I used it to clean my MacBook Air keys and it was super shiny at first but it like evaporates and leave it looking beautiful!!!

Thinkpads have a fantastic appearance in shape.

You're really taking me back with this one

Uf that Psion is gold, I love those machines, sadly don't own one anymore but always want to snag another one for my collection.

I used to have a 385XD as a kid, I loved that thing. I destroyed it though when the power socket pushed into the computer. I tried to find replacements for it online but this was like 2012 and I had no idea what I was looking for so I eventually just smashed it because I had figured it was beyond saving.

Old is gold bro love it

You have an excellent find there. Sorry to hear that they treated it rough in shipping. A couple of years ago, I fixed up a Toshiba Satelite 330 CDS manufactured in November of 1998. Has a 266 MHz Pentium MMX CPU with 96 MB ram and it's original 4.1 gb hard drive. I put a fresh install of Windows 98 second edition with Office 97. I feel like hanging on to it for many more years.

This tanks of a laptop is just great. Also great Video, greetings from Poland :D

Wake up in the morning, new psivewri videos is up, best thing ever!

Love these old laptop resurrection videos

I just watched LGR get a ThinkPad X1, and now this video pop up... what perfect timing!

I have a 380D here, in almost new condition. Maxed out 80MB RAM and running NT 3.51 like a champ. Still runs an hour or so on battery even.

I’ve been looking forward to this!

A couple of months ago I found my old 1997 760XL in the attic that hadn't been booted since 2005. The battery is shot but with AC it fired right up except there's a vertical line in the screen.

These laptops are great for DOS! Complete hardware sound blaster pro compatibility out of the box no drivers. Sounds identical to my ears to a real SB Pro. If you can find a docking station (took me a while) you can hook this up to a crt , speakers, keyboard, mouse, and even a classic joystick and have an excellent retro dos machine. The PCMCIA card works great to boot from if you use a CF Card Adapter. The 380ED is my favorite native Dos Laptop for sure. Got 2 of them while they were cheap. Batteries still hold a charge for like an hour lol.

ohh your in South Australia like me im in Adelaide to been watching a few of your post very smart man you are good jobs

I love this vids of old computers!

1:50 - Wow… that brought back memories.

Great video and great buy!

What kind of person packages stuff like that?

Watching you cleaning laptops is satisfying

I have the 380xd, the exact same laptop, but with an amazing 1998 USB 1.0 port!

Must be one of the last ThinkPad systems with a passive matrix LCD. IBM sold Active Matrix as a higher end option on most models. My 365XD from 1996 has an active panel, but could have shipped with a passive at a lower cost.

sticker was black because it had a pentium mmx

You have good taste in games. I salute you.

i like old laptop and that was the era when i play old game...Thank you for remember

IIRC, some older thinkpad do scale up the lcd to fullscreen for displaying lower resolution setting different from lcd's native. Either in the bios setting or shortcut key fn+f8 (if i'm not mistaken), or was it in the driver setting/thinkpad utilities. Oh, one more thing, those old thinkpads are uber durable, had 760xl that's been taken apart completely then rebuilt back frankenstein style for many many times over many many years and the damn thing still working; so a little bump on the postal service really just like a little shrug off for these older thinkpads (one that still using 3 digits numbering models followed by some lettering).

Any reccomendations on how to fix a 2012 MacBook Pro that has a hard drive with files missing for the boot up?

I found one running wiendos me, sometimes it work, sometimes not, is the video card, since my dad worked at IBM from 80's to 90's it brings a lot of memories too

I actually never played the original NFS till 2007-08. NFS 2 SE was the first one i owned in the late 90s when i was about 4. Loved the game to death & finished it. I played NFS 3 HP on the ps1 as well around the same time.

I don’t know if you mentioned it or not but, is that keyboard mechanical? I’m trying to get older laptops (as the oldest one I have is a PIII from 2002.) and I’m wondering if I should get one of these.

Excelent video. I have the same and installed on it Windows 98. Run perfect. Played quake, dukenukem and nes emulator among other classic games

I'm currently working on my 760el I love old thinkpads

Hi, i would like to ask you something. In minute 3:52 the picture shows that the notebook works with a 16V 2.20A battery or charger. Now, would it work properly with a 16V and 3.36A charger? its the only model of charger i could found in my country and a really want to make it work but i dont wanna overcharge it and screw it by mistake. Im planing on restoring the li-ion batteries also for full restoration. Thanks for reading, hope you can answer me.

Your voice is so relaxing 😌

Hi. Could you upload an image of the drive so I can get the drivers for my identical laptop?

love ur videos mate

Classy psion 5 on the table!

This really shows how good the ThinkPad line-up has been in terms if quality.

Thats sound bring me to 4 years old memory , when my dad bring me to their office and all his friend on the office allowed me to playing the office computer...

What is the mini pc you have in the video?

I have a gateway 2000 windows 95 laptop from 1997 that i got from my dad’s friend. It was covered in dirt and the battery was dead so it needed to be plugged in to work. I’m surprised it worked at all. The same day i got it the cord died. i had so much trouble finding a new cord on ebay as the cord is old and rare. now it works good but is slow. i am working on it as I watch this video. 💻♥️

That's really cheap, lucky find. Similarly, I got a Dell Latitude C610 circa 2002 on eBay for $36. It had 512MB of RAM and no hard drive. I got a 60gb hard drive for $9 and a proprietary adapter to use the hard drive in this laptop for $4.50. I added 256MB of RAM because I had extra and installed Windows XP alongside 98. Works great! Only problem is there is a line running down the screen. A new screen is like $30, maybe I'll replace it one day...

how do you find good deals i have been looking all day driving around town

Great video! I have a very similar laptop like that (365 XD) that that I've got with matching bag for around $10. Still working just fine with Windows 95, still in mint condition too. One of the best finds for sure. I also found a matching IBM mouse and numerical pad, but unfortunately the latter is in white. I love that BIOS, by the way. GUI and mouse driven before it was common, this only became a thing when UEFI came around.

I have an old Compaq presario 1075 which I found at a friend’s house. It works but I can’t install any OS and gives me the cmos and system board failure errors. Any ideas what I can do? I don’t want to throw it out as it is in almost perfect cosmetic condition.

Age of Empires 2 is the best game from the 90s

nice can another another monitor work on it ? I use to have think pad T40 it died on me few months ago it came with win xp I installed win 98 on it . i couldn't get sound work in dos mode

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what is your mic it is very different but sounds very good

1:49 《change the world, my final message... goodbye》

"It is now safe to turn off your computer"

Hello community, I have a question, what is the approximate price of a ThinkPad 380e in good condition and working well? I live in Argentina and there is no information on this.

I loved Commander Keen, great game

I have had this laptop for years and wanted to know how do I transfer the data to another laptop. Thanks

One question Will you put an recent intel processor?

some old screens have problems on draw frames per second?(i mean slow)

Is that a passive matrix display?

Back when I was a little Bab, I had a Compaq laptop that also featured an 800x600 Passive Matrix LCD. I thought it had something to do with my Age, and not the Tech which is why I thought it appeared blurry, just the same way the DMG Gameboy I had did as well. I played Lots of AoE II and used Game Maker 4 extensively back in the day, until one day the charging port finally broke off the motherboard. I did so much gaming on that crappy Passive Matrix display to the point of getting used to it. A couple years later I got another laptop but with an Active Matrix display, which didn't blur, and I asked a kid who was around if it appeared blurry or not, and he said it wasn't blurry so I figured it had nothing to due with age, and Eye Maturity. Another few years later I wound up with a Toshiba from 1997 that while having an Active Matrix display, the iGPU didn't feature upscaling, so Starcraft and Quake (the only games that I really played on there aside from zSNES and NESticle) were all in a small lil' viewport, just as seen on this IBM. But the overall image quality of Passive Matrix displays do in fact have a strongly "washed out" appearance to them, horrible refresh rates (Pixel Shift Response Times as I call it) (Mouse Trails were really handy then) and general uneven-ness of color (Solid color backgrounds generally appear "Gradient". However, For a 22 year old laptop that thing has truly stood the test of time. IBM sure built their stuff pretty well back in the day, huh?

What do you do with these old laptops etc?

Can't you set the BIOS to stretch the resolution to full screen?

Ur vids are the best

The display IS capable of scaling - you need a small TSR driver from one of the driver disks that came with the laptop. I know this, because the laptop is very similar to the 760ED from around the same period.

What charger did you use?

i love this channel!

Can you try browsing and doing modern things with the PC? And maybe upgrade to Windows 98 SE?

Where does one purchase the eucalyptus oil spray? All i can find online is essential oils.

your videos are pretty great to watch. maybe you should do this a bit more common, but of course, if you have time. fun fact theres a laptop next to me with a dead hard-drive and cmos battery. it will prob cost us 1k ron(romanian currency) to fix this little thing. tho a quick question that google cant seem to answer. will replacing a motherboard delete a bios password, or is it gonna be kept forever, even after switching motherboards?

Okay but what's the little device you have sitting next to the Thinkpad there?

Trying to find a TFT variant screen to replace on this model

I have a problem on mine, it doesn’t recognize the mouse (trackball) it was working and stopped, I checked the drivers and them seems to be ok but it finds me like a new hardware...

You should upload that demo reel!! You'll get a million views!

Try going into the bios to see if you can enable the display scaling