Thanks to every one who helped encourage me todo this, and ZombieWorkshop for doing some of the graphics for me.

I watched that thing come down the carousel in Newark and at LaGuardia early '90s, and it made it out to Harlem and Columbia with me every week for 3 months! Hats off to whoever put that thing together, and hats off to the 10 MB hard card I had which gave me the huge build I needed to bill the customer into the next decade and beyond!

Takes me back, my first IT job was configuring IBM PC's with AST Rampage cards adding 256K of RAM (lots of chips) and a real time battery backed clock, I always preferred the Compaq's over the IBM's, have a look for a Compaq SLT luggable PC Thanks for the vid and keep them up pls

On today's episode of 'Things KZfaq advertised and I clicked on...' Not that I regret the click. Very slick production, reminds me of Nostalgia Nerd and Laird's Lair. You've got a sub :D

I never had a green screen as a kid, and even now - there's something so retro-futuristic about them. I think it was their consistent use in films like Alien and The Thing that just made me believe that everything in the future would be displayed in green.

This was my first computer. Well, not mine exactly as it belonged to my dad's employer. But he would lug it home for me on weekends and I spent a lot of hours playing around. It was on that machine that I first learned to code BASIC, among many other things. This video was a fun nostalgia trip.

Probably my favorite compaq video on the youtubes :) Thanks for making great videos!

My first PC was a 386DX with a whole 4Mb of RAM, which was a good spec when it was made, unfortunately by the time I had it the min spec for most games was a 486SX 25mhz.

My first PC was a clone from Jameco in the coolest flip-top case. 1988. It has CGA graphics and a Panasonic dot matrix printer. We were running the NEC VC20 10 mhz chip. 20 mb MFM. We played Stonedale and text based adventures, but I twisted my dad’s arm to get us a VGA monitor and board-and eventually a Harris 286-16 motherboard with a whopping 4mb ram. Then we could play games, even run windows 3.1. That was key for my midi adventures. Miss those days.

Excellent work sir. Thoroughly interesting throughout, and you've gained a subscriber!

I’m very impressed because I’m 15 years old and I love ibm and I’m so surprised that a small channel could make SUCH GOOD CONTENT THANK YOU 😊

I wrote code for a small software company back in the day. They got a Compaq early on and, have worked on IMB PC's, I was blown away by the start up graphic that spelled out "Compaq" with a laser like beam. It was way to heavy to carry around but Ok to throw in the trunk of the car (boot) and bring to client demos. They didn't sell very many but it was a very nice machine for the time.

Compatibility and Quality. What a time it was to be alive and still be alive. We’ve experienced telephony innovation and computer innovation. Moore’s law in full effect.

I found this video through ad while watching LGR, clicked, and I liked it, Subbed, and please make more.

I remember walking into a business computer shop to buy a pack of 5.25" floppies, probably for my C64 (before upgrading to an Amstrad PC512). Sales man saw me oggling the demo running on a Compaq, so got me to hold the keyboard while he lifted the running machine in the air and dropped it a couple of feet onto the desk, where it just rebooted and ran the demo again. I was very impressed at the time

Great stuff! You've got another sub :) What's that version of Tetris called? That's the one I played as a kid and I haven't been able to find it yet.

This takes me back I got my first pc in my last year of a levels just before university. I worked the school holidays setting up a bunch of pcs for word processing, they were Hyundai 10mhz 8088 with Hercules graphics and 20mb hdds. After setting up 6 of them and training the staff to use them, I had earned enough to buy my own but with a 40mb hdd and cga graphics on a Philips 8833 monitor. After having the pc 3months I worked out that the graphics card was ega compatible (change a number of jumpers) and the Phillip monitor would support ega. Massive results

Its kind of unique that your videos start at a story worth telling, to end up with a machine worth showing and fixing it too. Like lgr stories with oddware combined. Idk if it works, idk if people stay to watch to the end enough. If not, you could always decide to split the videos. Or to edit both parts in with eachother instead of 2 sections

The IBM /MSDOS version of Tetris by Spectrum Holobyte was actually the first commercial offering of Tetris. The OG! Played it on my Tandy 1000 when I was a young. Followed by offerings in Europe for various micros by Mirrorsoft. Before that a version for IBM /MSDOS machines was made by the original programmer in Russia which began to circulate around Europe several months prior to the commercial release. It was brought back from Russia by someone who negotiated the deal for the rights to the game. He brought it back as an evaluation copy and it began to spread first around Hungary. (I saw a documentary years ago about Tetris. This is the little I can remember.)

Loved the video, but I've spotted one tiny inaccuracy. You've said that developers had no choice in terms of colors using CGA, but that is not really true. CGA had 6 color palettes to choose from. Though all of them looked like crap without the composite color blending thing.

Only recently algorithms suggested I should see your videos, they are impressive as hell. Well done!

My first PC was either IBM PC and/or a Compaq deskpro, but I definitely remember that distinction magenta CGA pallet. Especially for Accolades F1 Grand Prix. Saying that I do remember CGA having different pallets and I think some games used them. Then again this is some 30 odd years ago.

Great video. Enjoyed the mix of general information and information about the specific machine. I miss DOS PCs

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX80. I also didn’t have a green screen like the other commenter but my dad had an early ish orange screen Toshiba laptop. I still have a 1-bit Macintosh SE/30 so accustomed to just 1 color. There is something both nostalgic but also pure about the simplicity of single colour screens.

My first house owned PC was a Pentium 166 MHz with 16mb of RAM and a 2 MB cirrus logic video card. Quite the multimedia machine at the time. Played a lot on cool games on this machine.

Our family's first PC was an ICL DRS M30. AMD 286 at 12 or 16 MHz (can't remember which), VGA graphics, 2 MB RAM, 100 MB hard disk. I recall it was MS-DOS 3.3 because that hard disk was partitioned into 3 x 32 MB, the max that DOS 3.3 allowed, plus one small one for the tiny bit of space remaining. It came with Windows 3.0 so must have been summer 1990. Looking it up, it was apparently a rebadged Acer, or maybe Acer built them under contract. It's an obscure machine to have: I think my Dad must have got it on a staff discount, because he'd worked for ICL for about 20 years at that point. But it was a pretty big step up from the ZX Spectrum 48K we had previously!

Really enjoying your video's.

In 1989 I was in college and taking a Pascal programming class. I didn't have my own PC, but a coworker's husband loaned me his Heathkit portable PC that was a clone of the Compaq portable. Dual floppies, 4.77 Mhz. Saved me a lot of time by not having to go to the campus and use the lab.

Love the editing, subscribed.

Great channel! The Art of Nosie "Close (to the Edit) " background music really sold me. Does anyone have a link for this version of "Close (to the Edit)"?

Great video, my first pc was an IBM pc xt way over his live span, and I have to fix it. Anyway I got a decent amd k6-2 running by years until I have to upgrade by windows XP time. The old computers are like a mistery to me because it was hard back then to fix it.

I like the narration so much!!

I had one of those and gave it to my sister to dial into BBS. It had a 20mv connor hardcard in it for storage.

My first PC was a TRS-80 with a cassette drive. I spent hours typing in code from magazines and playing the resultant games. Zork, man. Freaking Zork. Wow. I never did learn how to code, despite all that work, though. LOLZ. In my teens, I did have a Kaypro 5 that ran CP/M. It was a crazy machine. Those "luggables" were insane.

I didn't know that the IBM legal department had such a dark side to them.......... (seriously loved that bit)

We called these Luggables. Apple made a Macintosh Portable a couple of years later that used a 6V 'motor-scooter battery' for power. It weight a bit less than the Compaq, but it was not a bad first attempt at a truly cord cutting computer. Grid Computing kinda upstaged everyone with the first portable desktop class computer than fit in a briefcase. Apple soon answered with the Powerbook 100 designed by Apple, but built by Sony.

That was good stuff dude. Nice and informative and witty and stuff.

Great vid!

watching this three years later... my first PC was a compaq! LTE 5000something from 1996 that I got in 2001 well at least it was beige

My grandfather had one of these. I used to love to play The Bard's Tale on it when I visited. I might be mistaken, but I think his only had one floppy drive and some gigantic (probably 20 or 40 MB) hard disk in the other bay.

Great video man

My very first experience with computers was the Tandy 3000, I recall having to load a boot disc and then finding a master rom that had all these games on it that my older brother and Uncle had setup. Shit was cool and I regret getting rid of it and all the floppies we had.

I had one of those, and used it a lot. I was young then ...

WOW! a portable computing center. The future is now

great video, really like you humor

Where is the music from? It sounds AY, so I'm guessing a ZX spectrum game that I've played in the past.

Love it

First PC was a compaq business machine of some sort in the mid 90s. Then a presario at some point. Hard. To remember exactly. First machine was windows 95 tho

Cla cla cla close to the edge, to be in England in the summertime :)

OH GOD WHEN I GOT MY COMPAQ PORTABLE I HATED DOING THE KEYBOARD! THOSE PADS WERE A PAIN IN THE NECK!!!! I STILL HAVE NIGHTMARES ABOUT IT!

Well, my first PC was when I was quite young. Probably five or so. Dial up internet. Don't really remember anything else about it, apart from it running Windows 98. The first one I owned myself was my mom's previous after she bought a new one. I do recall it being a Compaq; I know it had 512mb of ram and an 80gb hard drive, with some flavor of pentium or celeron cpu. That would have been around 2006 or 2007, and it definitely wasn't new when I got it. Windows XP. Killed it with a virus from Limewire. Classic. I went from that to my own first PC that I bought myself; it had some flavor of AMD Athlon cpu from 2008, nvidia 6150se graphics, 3gb ram, and a 1tb hard drive. I thought I had myself a gaming monster, because it ran the original Halo. Ha! A friend of mine ripped all the parts out, put it in a new case with a larger power supply, and threw in a spare GTX 560 that he had in a drawer, and man, what a difference. I could play games with my friends! Moved from that to the first dedicated gaming PC I bought myself, with an FX-6300 and a GTX 1060, which I realize now was a somewhat mismatched pairing and not particularly good value. 16gb of ram though, and it was my first PC to run Windows on an SSD, so that was still a great experience regardless. About a year and a half ago, I learned to build my own, and I've got a Ryzen 5950x, 32gb ram, 12tb of SSD storage (and two 12tb hard drives on top!) with a 3080ti. Quite different from where I started. Love working on PCs. I've built nearly two dozen since I learned how, mostly for other people. It's a really fun thing to get into. Quite a long path to get here. I'll be 30 next year.

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My goodness i laugh in almost every part of the video your good english humor i suppose is great. Good work indeed i like the video!

True bro!

Ok at darth vader, i hit the bell icon too, great videos. But the algorythm did pick you up, so who knows maybe more will get you recommended soon!

That tetris version sounds like it was for hiding that you were playing games from the boss🤣

The Compaq was not "the first ever IBM compatible PC". It was the first _legal_ IBM compatible PC to sell in large numbers. There were numerous PC clones before the Compaq, but most of them got in trouble for illegally copying IBM's ROM BIOS code.

my first pc was an amiga

You should have showed microsoft flight sim!!

Ah the Compaq Luggable... innovative but not really portable. The SLT line was much better at not ripping your arm off, although they were still pretty heavy beasts.

Oh screq compaq! They screw up with fhese keyboards totally!

Now-a-days....Compaq would created a KickStarter, with a fake case, and a doctored IBM under a table.....then run off with the money.

john cleese making fun of ibm 😂😂

First PC was a Compaq Presario 5528. Don't really recommend it.

“Look at this guy, look how smug he is!” Haha

jesus, the most annoying version of close i have ever heard! had to stop the video half way. pity, i quite liked it ;-(

Dude I like your video but, I think you talk to fast