ULTRA RARE Monorail All-In-One Desktop PC

[TheDataZoo]

I have a compaq portable 3 in my wardrobe rofl

[iUseiMacsRV]

@bbishoppcm 2:40 A 500 gb hard drive? Do you mean 500 mb?

[iUseiMacsRV]

That's crazy that you found that!!!!!!!!!

[vwestlife]

Your first 480p video!

[MacintoshUser1986]

According to Linkedin the Monorail Computer Company was available from November 1995 to January of 2002. I'll PM you the link.

This video really got me interested in the whole Monorail systems.

[thecooldude9999]

if the modem works, you can look up free dial-up internet numbers in your area code and you will most likely find one.

[nannynicky4life]

hey luv, you need to put puppy linux on their. it only needs 32 megs of ram. it would make tat machine of yars modern again while still keeping it old school and classic.

[an65001]

@nannynicky4life Puppy Linux won't run on that thing.

[turnermedman1231]

big monitor for a small screen

[turnermedman1231]

your right. i have never heard of this computer before, and i have had computers since 1981. same time as i had got my first CB radio. just thought i would post this, no idea why..........

[ncrdisabled]

I do not know if you know this but gateway was also sold on Home shopping network. Gateway was also one of the computers desktop only no laptops the NCR had a contract to repair do PM and set up . The computers were also sold on a other type of home shopping network type store. I still have a few mother board from the 286 386 486 era. We lost the contract when ATT sold NCR . Packard bell was a other large contract we had .

[Madness832]

Pretty sure I remember seeing one of those, on display, at Egghead Software (remember them?) way-back-when.

[ncrdisabled]

@Madness832 If it was the egghead store in NJ I can not remember the road but it was a main road in NJ it was on the left side of the road traveling from NY to NJ . I remember when I went in the store I went in a lot of times it was in the window . I think is was for sale for over 2000.00 bucks . I loved the 5 /1/4 3.44 disc games I used to buy there. Back then there was not a lot of cd rom games.

[macintoshgermany]

Este seguro es una moderna máquina para el año 1996, pero prefiero usar un CRT que un LCD de matriz pasiva para ser honesto.

Me recuerda el 20th Anniversary Macintosh.

[szabotihamer16]

You should always make a Norton Ghost image backup of these old machines just in case something bad happens to the operating system. An image would be handy sometimes, and you can restore it later on the same machine.

[matthewh16]

Also anyone else think this resembles the current iMacs, mounted upside down?

[matthewh16]

Anyone remember Mio gps? That's Mitac, they also own Magellan gps and tyan it seems.

[Necrom83]

Did u realize u actually said 500gb to 1gb hard drive..? just letting you know =)

[kbhasikevin]

Does the factory windows 95 have a way to create recovery floppies? I remember the manual for a broken pentium 1 laptop stating that 40 floppies were needed! I bet that was hideous for the time.

[vwestlife]

Monorail did have later models with better specs, but this was simply too early for LCDs to be accepted on a desktop PC. It was a good idea, but too far ahead of its time.

[redneckbryon]

Very interesting, would that run Win98?

With more ram and a new hard drive?

[FreudRulz]

Good ol' passive matrix screen.

[gmcnewlook]

funny how all in ones are popular now with the imac...... even PC makers make them (im aware that gateway made LCD models (iirc) in the early 2000s before apple even made an LCD model)

[ManiacalMichael504]

I remember that "Jungle" sound scheme, think I had it set on the computer at home way back in the day. Didn't appease my dad though. :)

Also, is that a Wyse keyboard? Those are actually quite nice.

[lmull3]

why does this computer remind me so much of the TAM? very cool machine though. something i've never heard of, let alone seen before.

[sonicfan23]

Great video, interesting to learn about this

[thecooldude9999]

your intro should say

BBISHOPPCM's World

(of obsolete technology)

[Gameboygenius]

@thecooldude9999 That's what it used to say before he changed the intro.

[thecooldude9999]

@Gameboygenius i know, i am a long-term subscriber (since 2009) i remember when he had no intro

[stopactionsam]

@thecooldude9999 yeah me too

[bbishoppcm]

@thecooldude9999 I thought someone would point that out! I'm actually re-branding the channel, as I do much more than obsolete tech/equipment. 

[thecooldude9999]

@bbishoppcm alright, looking forward to the new banner!

[TehMG]

The VGA port could be use to hook up to a projector to do presentations.

[IamFat32]

And I thought that my Acer Veriton 5100 was very super rare.(I have the 40th one ever made) But this monorail is just plain cool. but I guess Acer didn't do the whole plaque thing in the late 90's. Wouldn't the VGA port be useful for a wall projector? (they weren't very common but they did exist back then)

[Danny77uk]

look's like someone put a Dell LCD monitor into a washing machine and it shrunk

[crogeek]

That's one outstanding piece of hardware which you got

[TheEPROM9]

I love obscure and rear computers.

[grassulo]

four things you must run on this: Rise of the Triad, Doom 95, Tyrian and of course Hover! Awesome little machine.

[bbishoppcm]

@grassulo I LOVE Hover!!



[an65001]

@bbishoppcm Same here!

[OmegaM41]

@bbishoppcm Me too! Used to play that game a lot. We had a 1997-era Gateway with a 200 MHz Pentium, 32 MB of ram, and a 4 GB HD. Ah, those were the days...

[OldTimeForties]

A superb video! Excellent, just a question though, were Pionex computers considered rare. I used to have on back in '98 and have yet to find another one anywhere, and the information is scarce. 480p :o)

[talldude123]

500gb to 1gb hard drive?? :p

[ipeters61]

2:45 Whoa...my Pentium III only has an 80 GB hard drive.

[ComputerNut277]

First And Yay!