Nana definitely found a way to fill it up!

I use to sell and work om computers back then. Yes that was the good old catch phrase "All you will ever need!" Hahahaha LLAP 🖖

640k ! ;D

@@mm-hl7gh Yup! I believe it was Bill Gates himself that actually stated that 640k was all you will ever need! 😂

Western digital drives of that area were the among the worst. They all failed. To this day I still hate them.

😂

And it bit Peter Parker

The scrappers definitely hurt my soul… I don’t get it - these parts have to be more valuable for what they are vs their scrap value… I have an HP Vectra powered by a Pentium Pro, which allegedly has the highest amount of gold of any CPU. They’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands! Then they’ll need to fight me as a zombie!

@@miketech1024 They'd likely spend more on the equipment to *scavenge all the gold* than they'd get for selling the results, ignorant, sell the PC or the parts you'd get way more bang for the buck, and help save a bit of history

PC archaeology! I like that term!

I also used to do a lot of PC archeology in 2000's when I was a teenager (got some machines to work also), nowadays it's quite hard to find anything because mostly are taken to recycling centers here in Estonia too._

@@miketech1024 I've got the Vectra with a 286, one of the first vectra's from hp. I also have three or four HP-150, one first series with two flops and two with hd's. Those were the first ever touch screen pc's. Have them complete with original software and manuals as I used the be the head of the IT department in my office. Also got some original IBM and novell equipment. Not to mention a truck load of old cards, drives and whatnot. All stored in my attic. Could actually start a museum. Fond memories.

I’d be cranky too if someone woke me up from a 2-decade slumber! 😂

Windows 98 booting in a totally different hardware environment without a blue screen. That is amazing. The plug & play system came out winning after 15 minutes.

Windows 98 seemed particularly bad about that! I mean, if it didn't power down absolutely perfectly, if the weather changed, or if you re-seated some RAM it seemed like it had to go rethink it's whole existence lol!

@@davidg3044 And if you re-located a PCI or ISA card, you best pray to the PnP gods! 🤣

@@miketech1024 😂 exactly! I

My dad built an AMD K6-2 system back when it was bleeding-edge technology. 500 MHz! I thought it was a supercomputer! 🤣

I had a home-built K6-233 box back in my student days. When the motherboard failed I replaced it with a Super7 board that would take my existing CPU and RAM, yet give me more upgrade headroom as I couldn't afford to buy a whole new machine. Later, I upgraded it to a K6-2/450. The board had 1MB cache on board. Nice machine for it's time, ran Linux really well.

I nearly did a dance when I saw that CPU! 🤣

That motherboard will definitely be making a re-appearance on this channel. I’m determined to get it working!

@@miketech1024 I wonder if a simple cleaning up with some rubbing alcohol would bring it around. Maybe some of the traces are messed up from being so dirty. It's amazing just what a simple cleaning can do to a machine.

Thanks!! Yup, it was a wolf spider. They’re very common in this area. Perfectly harmless but also a horror show for the arachnophobes. They have to be incredibly agitated before they’ll bite.

These machines always take me right back to my childhood! I can distinctly remember practically salivating over the Compaq Presario laptops on display at OfficeMax. Now I need to go buy a few of those… LOL

It would have been 98 or after. The Celeron first released in 1998 as a more affordable version of the Pentium II.

Thanks! Man I wish I still had even a quarter of the systems and parts I used to have…

Thanks! Lol good old percussive maintenance! I once had a little Macintosh SE that wouldn’t boot unless you slapped the side of it.

Yeah I certainly don’t mind spiders. They eat the bugs that really creep me out! This one is a wolf spider, very common here in Florida. They’re quite gentle giants. They have to be really agitated before they bite. Now it’s patrolling my back yard!

Thanks so much! Yeah that system is definitely the gem of the three.

The garbage was my exclusive source of systems and parts back then. My family was quite broke!

Thanks!

Did you build multimedia PCs?

@@louistournas120 No, they were just generic desktop computers. It was sort of a side business my family ran; we had a dealer account with a distributor which was really big on AOpen products so that always got us the best pricing. I plan on making a video of an all AOpen PC at some point; I've collected most of the components so far, lol. I can't even tell you how many AOpen FM56 56K modems I've collected so far, haha.

It’s very rare these days. I find that visiting flea markets and thrift stores in smaller towns tends to increase the likelihood of finding older systems and components.

me too!

Those are the kinds of yard sale finds I live for!

Thanks! I feel like I owe the spider royalties 🤣

@@miketech1024 🤣 I'm sure he would take Crickets and Locusts as payment 😂

You beat me to it . Most spiders seem to be chill . I've picked up many bare hands and never taken a bite . I love spiders and can't even imagine how there is such fear over them for some people. We are many times bigger than a spider and if we really wanted to we could end one with zero effort and I wonder if the spiders know this and think if they bite then they will get smooshed or something plus even if you did get bit you likely wouldn't die or have a bad reaction unless you have an allergy. Hell I've even picked a widow up once or twice before and all they did was calmly walk around like they didn't even care lol . I'm really hooked on watching spiders up close, I find them so fascinating.

Sadly though, putting a "house" spider into a garden is a death sentence

@@grabtharshammer I agree . I usually just allow them to continue living inside.

@@42TY.Gamingso scary, so many legs 😣

It was absolutely a stroke of luck! This stuff barely ever turns up where I live. I’m almost at the point where it’s time to go patrolling on garbage days again! 🤣

Thanks so much! Yeah space is getting… interesting (just wait until you see my next video LOL). I’ve been interested in all things tech since early childhood, starting when I was about 5 years old. It was the Apple II in kindergarten that captivated my imagination. Then I started watching a show called The Computer Chronicles where they’d often discuss technical details of systems. I just soaked it up like a sponge. My dad was a radioman in the Navy and a highly skilled electronics engineer. He was also getting into computers around the time I became aware of them, so I learned a LOT from watching him. Feels like tech is in my DNA. Then I discovered the world of open source (thanks to Linux) at around 12 years old and my future was made. Today I’m a Senior Systems Engineer (specifically in DevOps and cloud infrastructure) for an amazing Fortune 500 company. Feels like what I was born to do. 🙂

Thanks!

We still have lots of houses that are damaged from hurricane Michael in 2018 that are still being cleaned out. These were on the curb of one such house. That’s also how I found the four TRS-80s. Your system is probably either a micro-ATX or mini-ITX form factor. What is the model number?

@@miketech1024 Thanks for the reply. The computer is a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900. The motherboard power connector is only 10 pin, but I see that there are 24 pin to 10 pin ATX adapter cables. Note: Please don't let this fool you into thinking that I really know what I'm talking about, I'm just repeating the description. If you put a pile of parts in front of me, I can assemble them into a working system, but as far as just knowing what parts you need, and which ones will work together properly, not so much. The graphics card that I hoped to use (assuming it works), is a Sapphire HD7870 XT 2G DDR5 PCI-E.

@@lurkerrekrul If it has PCI-E slots, then it is indeed a micro-ATX motherboard. They use the same screw hole pattern so they should mount up in a standard ATX case. You probably won't have much luck finding an I/O shield, but that doesn't matter much. You might be able to adapt the I/O shield from the micro-ATX case. Standard to 10-pin ATX power adapters can be had for under $10, though I've never used one. You might have to trace out the front panel pins that lead to the power switch/LED and HD activity light if they're not clearly marked. As for the graphics card, it *should* work as it shouldn't draw much power from PCI-E itself, just as long as the power supply is up to the task.

@@miketech1024 Of course none of the pins on the motherboard headers are marked. However I found a diagram of a Lenovo front panel connector that seems to match., The same pins are used and the wires seem to be going to the pins indicated in the diagram. Unfortunately I forgot the golden rule that noting is ever simple. Lenovo used a proprietary connector for the front USB ports and audio connections (mic and headphones). It's like a mini expansion slot on the board and the end of the cable has a small card-edge connector. People make adapters for this to give you a "standard" USB connector, although I'm not sure what kind of USB standard includes audio as well. Just search for Lenovo 28-pin adapter. The real problem is that Lenovo placed it directly in line with the PCI-E slots. For most cards this wouldn't be an issue, but the graphics card is so long that the end of it goes past that socket. If plugged into the upper slot, the heatsink and plastic casing hit the connector. If plugged into the bottom slot, the board itself will hit the connector. It will clear it if nothing is plugged into that connector, but then I lose the two USB 3.0 ports and the audio connectors. To use it, I would need a very low-profile right-angle connector with the right pin spacing. They probably make such a thing as a generic connector, but probably not one specifically for Lenovo motherboards. And even if I managed to come up with a way to connect to that socket, I don't know what any of the pins do. I haven't been able to find a pinout for it. I know they make extender cables that plug into a PCI-e slot and let you mount a card somewhere else, but I've also read that they might not work correctly. And of course, the slot end is always mounted straight in the end of the cable, ensuring that you can't just put the card in an empty expansion slot/bay below the edge of the motherboard. Someone with more skill would probably de-solder the proprietary connector from the motherboard and mount kind of low-profile standard connector, but I'd be afraid of ruining the board. Someone with skill could probably buy the adapter, cut off the pins and reconnect them on a right-angle. I'm fully confident that if I tried this, no matter how carefully I connected everything, it wouldn't work.

People are calling it ‘Vanilla Darth Vader’ and I’m living for it! 🤣

Sounds like a beast of a system!