That sounds like a MiniScribe 3425 hard drive... but that was a half height drive, and this computer has a full height... how is that possible? Is there a full height faceplate on the half height drive???
My goodness! I have a generic clone of a PC like that, complete with big red power toggle! It was built in '88, has a 286 at a blazing 12MHz, 640k of memory, and I forgot how much hard disk space. It has DOS 4 and Windows 3.11b. Hell of a machine.
Also, because it came out yesterday and I have to say it...can it run Crysis 2?
That's not a true 5150! You have dual half height drives, & a hard drive with EGA. The real 5150 should have dual full height drives, no hard drive, and CGA. Don't ya agree?
@scryingeyes The upgrades don't make it any less real. A unicorn is a unicorn. Would you prefer if I noted it was a pimped-out 5150? The 1200-baud Hayes modem is way too fast for this machine anyway.
@41D57 ...I was merely noting for authenticity purposes that it's not completely factory original. Why represent to the world a non-original example? ;-) Why is the 1200-baud to fast? I simply disagree. Those were your choices back in the day. Just my opinion nothing more, nothing less...
@scryingeyes I was, to coin a phrase, joking (In case the unicorn remark didn't give it away). I don't believe I ever claimed, proclaimed, exclaimed, reclaimed, or blaimed (liberty taken), canonical 5150-ship with this video. ;)
IBM should have used more proprietary parts and CP/M instead of MS-DOS. If so every PC today would have a POWER processor and run a desktop version of AIX. None of this x86 and unsecure Windows rubbish.
In the time that this booted up, I could have cold-booted my computer, checked my email, printed a document, check my Facebook, and shut it down with a few seconds to spare.
Retrotech is fun. Getting these old guys back on the trail is an absorbing hobby. Since I have gotten into it, I have been given 1990s PCs for free and have them flying on broadband. I can even send and receive email; browse the web, gopher and newsgroups all in DOS and Windows 3.11. In fact, browsing with DOS makes more sense because the 90s browsers fall over and DOSLYNX never (I mean never - not even once) crashes. I can sit back and read the newspaper sites with no adverts...
Love the sound of an old hard drive spinning up. lol. Don't ask me why, I have no idea I just love the fact that it seems so leasurely compared to modern computers.
wow,double-size HDDs...one "floor"/rack for the mechanical part,and one "rack"/floor for the full-sized electronics component part...I have a machine which is I think just 2-4years younger than this,after the simple PC,but before the XT...and it is in parts,I have to restaurate/renew it...it has MFM-controlled two floppy drives and a HDD.M?FM was before IDE-controlled things....I need a keyboard and a videocard and a monitor for that,still...for my retro collection...
for all those people that say these are crap and to get a mac, your wrong. If IBM or Microsoft hadn't came along Apple wouldn't even EXIST!!! I'm not against Apple or anything I'm just saying that Apple needed Microsoft and Microsoft needed Apple. Never the less BRING THE IBM OUT OF THE OBLIVION!!!
@simon1234simon True, but sure enough you would like to still pay the same. This machine costed about 1600 bucks with the most basic configuration, but somethig "mid-range" must have costed 3000 easily... Plus no free software those days.
I just tried booting MINE up! I'm not having much luck though.
It says it's DOS 2.10, and has an underscore: _ , which I guess is the prompt. I'd expect it to look like: C:\> though. ??
And it won't let me type anything. I just get beeped at. I wonder if my keyboard even works. It seems like the caps/num/scroll lock lights are on dimply. eek.
Any ideas? This baby hasn't been booted since 1991.
@miselaineeous does it respond to turning on and off the lock keys? (i.e. caps lock) if it does, maybe perhaps try another floppy disk with MS-DOS on it.
@blackbullet357 -- Miraculously, after booting it five or six times, it suddenly made it all the way to the prompt, where I need to enter the date. yay!! My keyboard just types jibberish. I guess it was just beeping before, since it wasn't booting all the way. A friend is mailing a new keyboard. i can't wait to try it. I'll upload my bootup video. :D
I'd really love to have an old IBM PC like that. I once had a TeleVideo TS-1605, but I got rid of it nearly 4 years ago. I wish I hadn't done so now, though. Those old DOS computers rock!
Does it have the ST-225 hd or the full height IBM badged HD? That whirl-up on those old hard drives is a cool sound, it gives the impression something powerful was coming to life.
It was purchased in 1981... with only two full height 5 1/4" drives and 16KB of RAM. It was upgraded to the two half-height drives and the 20MB hard disk that makes the awesome noise along with 512KB of RAM. Much to my chagrin, as a Kid I couldn't play games with a 640KB memory requirement - a standard for quite a while.
hahah i remember when computer used to have those big red on/off buttons on the side or in the back, my first PC i got after Commodore 64 was getting old (IBM 386) had one. :)
It took all that time just to get to a DOS prompt??? THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for postin this video! :D Now I feel MUCH BETTER about my startup time! :D
Used to have this computer A LONG time ago, before they came up with a more better bios for new IBM computers, lets just say, it's not a good idea trying to load an operating system on it,because I tried windows 3x and it crashed :|
The computer was initially purchased with a 4.77MHz 8088 and 64KB of RAM, as well as two full-height 5 1/4 quarter floppy drives. It was upgraded to 512KB of RAM, two double density half-height drives and a 20MB full-height hard disk.
It has an NTSC video out. ACSII feature films... here we come!
AWesome video. What a great machine! I have one not so old that I was able to fix up to play all my old DOS games. Thank you Ebay for the parts!!! Anyways, great PC!
Oh, Apple dreamed about it, they also did it. They made the Apple II, the machine that you could put into your home and not look like a computer geek with those flashing lights and switches of the Altair 8800 back in 1977. Apple actually bought the PC into home, and now Microsoft has the largest market share because people were not ready for the GUI yet, they continued with DOS. I think IBM was making horrible products when Apple had the Apple II and Macintosh.
Close, Xerox didn't invent the Graphical User Interface.
Douglas Englebart of the Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute invented the computer mouse with a crude graphical user interface during the 1960's from ideas by Vannavar Bush in a 1945 Atlantic Monthly (magazine) article about a Memex machine idea.
The NLS (or oN-Line System) was demonstrated networked between 2 computers publically in December of 1968 several years before the Xerox Alto Workstation.
Yup, it did originally have two full-height 180KB single-sided drives and no hard drive.
The 20MB disk added in an upgrade that saw the addition of: two half-height floppy drives, an upgrade to 512KB of RAM (which totally bites because in the late 80s/early 90s a lot of games had a 640KB minimum requirement) and a Hayes 1200 baud modem.
The fun thing is that this machine has a coaxial TV-Out.
Oh and the monitor is an upgraded EGA (16 colour) model. 16 Colours!
Watching one of these start up was the way I learned the multiples of 16...
douro20 2 months ago
It looks like a microwave lol... Nice computer.
tomiatt2112 4 months ago
you can play on it battelfild 3 lol
bari1221 5 months ago
Sounds like a plane! Great good old times :)
gerardtroost 7 months ago
Is you PC still running now, 30 years after it came out?
kalinga01 7 months ago 3
@kalinga01 I'm going to upload a special 30th Anniversary version on the 12th to celebrate that milestone! Stay tuned!
41D57 7 months ago
@41D57 Yes It Was a 1989 October.
BJ29035 6 months ago
@kalinga01 i hooked mine up and it still runs lol
splochfilms 4 days ago
awww i feel so bad... i had one of these but trashed it because i ran out of space to keep it >.<
izlude2 9 months ago
Is this machine able to run Windows 3.1? I'd love to see a video of that.
computerkid1416 9 months ago
@computerkid1416 no way, this machine is wayyyyy older than windows 3.1, but maybe with a vga card, and com port mouse, but it will run very slow
miviezgeneration 8 months ago
@miviezgeneration Actually, no. Windows 3.1 requires at least a 286 to run, and this thing does not have a 286.
forestm281 8 months ago
Great clip. Thanks for posting.
I am very curious about WordStar 2000.
0814ma 9 months ago
That sounds like a MiniScribe 3425 hard drive... but that was a half height drive, and this computer has a full height... how is that possible? Is there a full height faceplate on the half height drive???
HemaZev 10 months ago
@incpuable I know too.
smcdermott015153fs00 11 months ago
This is IBM 5150
smcdermott015153fs00 11 months ago
My goodness! I have a generic clone of a PC like that, complete with big red power toggle! It was built in '88, has a 286 at a blazing 12MHz, 640k of memory, and I forgot how much hard disk space. It has DOS 4 and Windows 3.11b. Hell of a machine.
Also, because it came out yesterday and I have to say it...can it run Crysis 2?
ThatBum42 11 months ago
@incpuable l use only a computer for doing things like games :p
marcvie9 1 year ago
What can u do on that PC ?
marcvie9 1 year ago
What can u do that pc?
marcvie9 1 year ago
do you ever tried to run this monitor with the MDA adapter? i wonder if this would work
Serpico261 1 year ago
Can it run Crysis ?
PojeMetal 1 year ago
@PojeMetal not funny...
marcvie9 1 year ago
In my opinion the Miniscribe hard drive alone makes this machine win.
Eep386 1 year ago
How many FPS you get on GTA IV??? I'm thinking of upgrading to something like it.
ALGStudios1 1 year ago
That's not a true 5150! You have dual half height drives, & a hard drive with EGA. The real 5150 should have dual full height drives, no hard drive, and CGA. Don't ya agree?
scryingeyes 1 year ago
@scryingeyes The upgrades don't make it any less real. A unicorn is a unicorn. Would you prefer if I noted it was a pimped-out 5150? The 1200-baud Hayes modem is way too fast for this machine anyway.
41D57 1 year ago
@41D57 ...I was merely noting for authenticity purposes that it's not completely factory original. Why represent to the world a non-original example? ;-) Why is the 1200-baud to fast? I simply disagree. Those were your choices back in the day. Just my opinion nothing more, nothing less...
scryingeyes 1 year ago
@scryingeyes I was, to coin a phrase, joking (In case the unicorn remark didn't give it away). I don't believe I ever claimed, proclaimed, exclaimed, reclaimed, or blaimed (liberty taken), canonical 5150-ship with this video. ;)
41D57 1 year ago
@41D57 ... Whatever! you're hard to talk with.
scryingeyes 1 year ago
@scryingeyes Am I now? Your opener was hardly endearing. "That's not a true 5150! "
Sincerely,
Hard to talk with
41D57 1 year ago
How much ram do you have inside that box?
Thetrutv 1 year ago
@Thetrutv a whopping 512KB. That's only 25 165 312 KB less than my current workstation.
41D57 1 year ago 13
@41D57 Cool
smcdermott015153fs00 11 months ago
@41D57 I like your video.
smcdermott015153fs00 11 months ago
Nostalgia flood!
Martinofredwall100 1 year ago
@Martinofredwall100 I have something really special in store for the 30th anniversary this summer!
41D57 1 year ago
Been trying to get 1.0 to boot on virtual machine,cant find the right 'floppy' files. :^/
hfsjansharr 1 year ago
2:16 = sounds like airplane engine after landing
windchannel1 1 year ago
I've never heard a hard drive start up so slowly. Technology really has come a long way.
mrlichenstein 1 year ago
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microsoft windows OS system is still inside the IBM computer
bestamerica 1 year ago
Faster than Windows Vista.
lukebccb 1 year ago
Had one of those. Threw it out ... when i got my 486... damn.
RoteKampfSocke 1 year ago
This is faster than my modern computer.
LlamaLlandPictures 1 year ago
Was then QBasic or a programming language from which you could program a game?
TuragTheHedgehog 1 year ago
IBM should have used more proprietary parts and CP/M instead of MS-DOS. If so every PC today would have a POWER processor and run a desktop version of AIX. None of this x86 and unsecure Windows rubbish.
gschjetne 1 year ago
@gschjetne Yeah, too bad Killdall dropped the ball on that one.
deadmetalbr 1 year ago
0:41
What's "TO JACK"?
hateWinVista 1 year ago
I lol'd the first time I saw that
kirbydeluxe 1 year ago
wow...
thecomputerwhiz1 1 year ago
At 0:41 what is that black cable with the silver tip?
jdawz1985 1 year ago
It sounds like it's about to take off.
nikomo0 1 year ago
In the time that this booted up, I could have cold-booted my computer, checked my email, printed a document, check my Facebook, and shut it down with a few seconds to spare.
algorithmae 1 year ago
see how far we have gotten with computer tech. Though most people still have a floppy drive haha
saik0pod 1 year ago
So PCs always took longer than a Macintosh to boot up :)
DavidsTechShow101 1 year ago
@DavidsTechShow101
Macs ARE PCs, you retard
TheCanadianPenguin 1 year ago
My dad said he had one of these, I didn't think he was that old.
Craiglaca1 1 year ago
Retrotech is fun. Getting these old guys back on the trail is an absorbing hobby. Since I have gotten into it, I have been given 1990s PCs for free and have them flying on broadband. I can even send and receive email; browse the web, gopher and newsgroups all in DOS and Windows 3.11. In fact, browsing with DOS makes more sense because the 90s browsers fall over and DOSLYNX never (I mean never - not even once) crashes. I can sit back and read the newspaper sites with no adverts...
MisterEvasion 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing :o)
RetroGamerVX 1 year ago
can i have it??
DavidRockin1 1 year ago
hell yeah sound like a jet starting :D
TNG128MB 1 year ago
Ah, that loud thunk of the power switch. Such memories. :)
JonathanDP81 1 year ago
Dig that groovy Miniscribe full height hard drive!
Eep386 1 year ago
Love the sound of an old hard drive spinning up. lol. Don't ask me why, I have no idea I just love the fact that it seems so leasurely compared to modern computers.
deepblue69uk 1 year ago
Nice..boots up in about 1/10th of the time that it takes XP to do so. . .
malkneil 1 year ago
We used to have one in my computer class back in high school. The first time I booted it up it sounded like a piece of heavy machinery.
velvetravyn 1 year ago
Can it run Windows 7?
oliebol61 1 year ago
It would be cool to see some old games running in this machine ^.^,
Brainfuckinyourhead 1 year ago
OMG, I remember those beasts! They were really well built - really solid - not the plastic craptastic of nowadays
ConLog1969 1 year ago
wow,double-size HDDs...one "floor"/rack for the mechanical part,and one "rack"/floor for the full-sized electronics component part...I have a machine which is I think just 2-4years younger than this,after the simple PC,but before the XT...and it is in parts,I have to restaurate/renew it...it has MFM-controlled two floppy drives and a HDD.M?FM was before IDE-controlled things....I need a keyboard and a videocard and a monitor for that,still...for my retro collection...
Balage78Szfvar 1 year ago
for all those people that say these are crap and to get a mac, your wrong. If IBM or Microsoft hadn't came along Apple wouldn't even EXIST!!! I'm not against Apple or anything I'm just saying that Apple needed Microsoft and Microsoft needed Apple. Never the less BRING THE IBM OUT OF THE OBLIVION!!!
xXINSANELOSERXx 2 years ago
I really like the look of these PCs: I'd really like to go back to the 80's and see the dawn of computers
smellytoilet1996 2 years ago
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gat a mac
cwhitters 2 years ago
i wish computers were still made in a way this one was. industrial, durable, high quality.
simon1234simon 2 years ago 20
@simon1234simon my m11x is...
MASTURCHEEF001 1 year ago
@simon1234simon True, but sure enough you would like to still pay the same. This machine costed about 1600 bucks with the most basic configuration, but somethig "mid-range" must have costed 3000 easily... Plus no free software those days.
BilisNegra 1 year ago
@simon1234simon And NOT MADE IN CHINA!!!
TheToploaderwasher 8 months ago
@simon1234simon Their built like cars now, plastic inside and little bit of metal inside. Gold if you're lucky!
739199 7 months ago
@simon1234simon You forgot to add expensive as all hell too.
Which considering the rate of obsolescence is probably a good thing.
KillaHaakon 7 months ago
My dad has a 386 and a 486 laying around somewhere in the garage. Im going to find them and set them up. These old computers are classics.
realbustylatinas 2 years ago
I just tried booting MINE up! I'm not having much luck though.
It says it's DOS 2.10, and has an underscore: _ , which I guess is the prompt. I'd expect it to look like: C:\> though. ??
And it won't let me type anything. I just get beeped at. I wonder if my keyboard even works. It seems like the caps/num/scroll lock lights are on dimply. eek.
Any ideas? This baby hasn't been booted since 1991.
miselaineeous 2 years ago
@miselaineeous does it respond to turning on and off the lock keys? (i.e. caps lock) if it does, maybe perhaps try another floppy disk with MS-DOS on it.
blackbullet357 2 years ago
@blackbullet357 -- Miraculously, after booting it five or six times, it suddenly made it all the way to the prompt, where I need to enter the date. yay!! My keyboard just types jibberish. I guess it was just beeping before, since it wasn't booting all the way. A friend is mailing a new keyboard. i can't wait to try it. I'll upload my bootup video. :D
miselaineeous 2 years ago
Haha, from 0:54-1:05, it's trying to imitate the THX intro - and then... Blip! :)
Psylicium 2 years ago
i wish i had a classic PC :(
NintendoTobi 2 years ago
i meant sound of course....
nebojsattel 2 years ago
Hi...i would like to use the soud of the computer booting as a soundsample. Would that be ok for you? Thx
nebojsattel 2 years ago
LOL, and we can see your flat screen TV in the background!
hologram555 2 years ago
lol nice!!!
Core2QX 2 years ago
I'd really love to have an old IBM PC like that. I once had a TeleVideo TS-1605, but I got rid of it nearly 4 years ago. I wish I hadn't done so now, though. Those old DOS computers rock!
JEMASCOLA 2 years ago 2
Does it have the ST-225 hd or the full height IBM badged HD? That whirl-up on those old hard drives is a cool sound, it gives the impression something powerful was coming to life.
Scioneer 2 years ago
i would say its a miniscribe
Messerschmitt262a2a 2 years ago
it sounds like a ST-225 to me :D
DURAMATRIX112 2 years ago
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ceracecar 2 years ago
5151 is the original monochrome monitor model number. It just happens to also be printed on the back of the PC. Wikipedia much?
41D57 2 years ago
I should add, in case anyone else noticed, that the monitor in the video is an upgraded 16 colour EGA model.
41D57 2 years ago
I had a Hercules Monocromatic monitor in a old 286 =) Good times! I had six years old :)
bobdelacruz 2 years ago
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ceracecar 2 years ago
so are you saying that that sticker is not the original
damiannerd 2 years ago
The sticker is for of the monitor, but this is an IBM 5150.
ceracecar 2 years ago
CD's did exist in the 1980s. In fact, the DVD was first made in like 1993 or something.
Darbyjack 2 years ago
Is the 20MB stepper drive a Seagate? :)
tombell12 2 years ago
Well I just skimmed the comments and answered my own question, yes it is :)
tombell12 2 years ago
I still have the monitor to one...
The Tower was well done :(
i wish i could save it i tried but it just was damaged way to much.
THanks for the upload!
atari26003 2 years ago
yes please upload a vid of those programs. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
racindeere65 2 years ago
is that from 1988?
timsperts 2 years ago
It was purchased in 1981... with only two full height 5 1/4" drives and 16KB of RAM. It was upgraded to the two half-height drives and the 20MB hard disk that makes the awesome noise along with 512KB of RAM. Much to my chagrin, as a Kid I couldn't play games with a 640KB memory requirement - a standard for quite a while.
41D57 2 years ago
wasn't like the first PC
mapumac 2 years ago
commadore 64 has more ram dang
terminx12 2 years ago
1985
Aqwert76 2 years ago
How much RAM has that got? 512 KB?
ShadowRSonic 2 years ago
See my reply to timsperts below. :)
41D57 2 years ago
cool, internal modem
you should add a couple hard drives and maybe a CD drive and start a BBS!
AFNYOAQIS 2 years ago
LOL, my uncle still has one of these set up in his loft.
user12119 2 years ago
What? No ROM BASIC?
fcabral 2 years ago
The boot sound was this, but louder, a lot louder. Scaring the first time you boot one of those beasts.
ibm5150 3 years ago
ive used one of these before... they really do sound like a jet starting
chao129 3 years ago 13
That takes me back, love the sound of the HDD spinning up :D
ohm1163058 3 years ago 2
is that a THIRD floppy drive?
windowtech2000 3 years ago
No, it's a hard drive, but what computer doesn't come with a third floppy drive these days? :D
OwlMovieStudios 3 years ago 2
My IBM PS2 20 (286 12mhz) had the same sound ;)
Keor66 3 years ago
Cool startup sound. Whoa!!!
Saturn357 3 years ago
SLI compatible?
cschilling93 3 years ago
hahah i remember when computer used to have those big red on/off buttons on the side or in the back, my first PC i got after Commodore 64 was getting old (IBM 386) had one. :)
Borin81 3 years ago
thats hot sh!t compared to mine. ive only got 64k ram, mono screen, and 2 full height floppies.....
Commodore477 3 years ago
I Had one of these computers back in 1982
My dad who worked for IBM brought it home.
my brother and I were young. I was amazed
cause i didn't see anything like it before.
chipperJFan 3 years ago
IBM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^
TGWLEAD 3 years ago
Sounds like a Spaceship lol
skgamerps3 3 years ago 2
i used to have one of these, it made a great door stop
ictothbukti 3 years ago
I thought the exact same thing! ^_^
annietart 3 years ago
lol i like the sounds... what´s that for a hard drive?
Messerschmitt262a2a 3 years ago
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piece of craP
Macintosh all the way!
macosxrules 3 years ago
Right...
Are you aware of the fact that a Windows based computer has countless advantages over a MAC?
The bottom line fact it - PC IS BETTER. You can't disagree with millions and millions of people who uses PC instead of MAC.
MACs these days are just PCs, using the same hardware but more expensive anyway. The only difference is the operating system.
Darbyjack 3 years ago
kind of ironic: microsoft made the Applesoft BASIC system for the later apple IIs.
oh, and as far as the apple v. microsoft war, i'm not taking sides. :D
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago
Like booting up HAL in Space Oddissey. Cool vid!
92EXC 3 years ago
It's Gunna' blow!!!
chadheck96 3 years ago
It took all that time just to get to a DOS prompt??? THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for postin this video! :D Now I feel MUCH BETTER about my startup time! :D
~Cindy! :)
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CindyBradyTooh 3 years ago
Man i have the monitor from this PC :P thats sweet you got a full running system :)
Looks like the Battery in its dead its asking for date,
Great piece of history & Collector piece you have there. hope you keep it!
atari26003 3 years ago
it sounds like its about to fly off the desk lol
wtfclan07 3 years ago 2
omg this is gaming pc just kidding but anyways how long did u buy this pc for ?? is it still working ???
HereComesThePain007 3 years ago
are u stupid? no shit its working you didnt just see it turn on did you?
knightelf190 3 years ago
Used to have this computer A LONG time ago, before they came up with a more better bios for new IBM computers, lets just say, it's not a good idea trying to load an operating system on it,because I tried windows 3x and it crashed :|
jwjustlookin 3 years ago
Holy shit that thing is old what does it have a 10MHz processor and 5MB of ram?
jay52592 3 years ago
Way back in the comments so I'll repeat:
The computer was initially purchased with a 4.77MHz 8088 and 64KB of RAM, as well as two full-height 5 1/4 quarter floppy drives. It was upgraded to 512KB of RAM, two double density half-height drives and a 20MB full-height hard disk.
It has an NTSC video out. ACSII feature films... here we come!
41D57 3 years ago
Finally after a minute and 48 seconds you see a sign of life....
DirtBiker205 3 years ago
I wish i had a 5150...Oh well, come christmas i will have one of them.
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago
Long live IBM (even though lenovo owns it now!)
Treki85 3 years ago
5,4,3,2,1 blastoff, damn that thing is loud
tbrais 3 years ago 2
jet engine
sparky4444444444444 3 years ago
Hard drive.
GeekOfDeath2 3 years ago
the hard drive sounds like a jet engine i love that sound
sparky4444444444444 3 years ago
Dave ...
1954shadow 3 years ago
IBM is great. I'm typing this comment on an IBM laptop right now! My laptop is a 2007 Lenovo IBM ThinkPand Z61m.
Treki85 3 years ago
LOL me is useing my IBM lenovo 2007 Thinkpad r60e
IBM is great
sparky4444444444444 3 years ago
i believe my dad had this model back in the 1980s, but its stopped working now because its had so much use out of it.
seems revolutionary to its era
StapledNote 3 years ago
.... kepp it and sell it to a museam
sparky4444444444444 3 years ago
AWesome video. What a great machine! I have one not so old that I was able to fix up to play all my old DOS games. Thank you Ebay for the parts!!! Anyways, great PC!
mistyfreak 3 years ago
Gotta love the sound of it when you turn it on. <3
Pashune 4 years ago 3
please prove how apple is garbage
slayersdeath 4 years ago
neither is garbage. IBM; Apple...Either way, they are computers.
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago 2
Oh, Apple dreamed about it, they also did it. They made the Apple II, the machine that you could put into your home and not look like a computer geek with those flashing lights and switches of the Altair 8800 back in 1977. Apple actually bought the PC into home, and now Microsoft has the largest market share because people were not ready for the GUI yet, they continued with DOS. I think IBM was making horrible products when Apple had the Apple II and Macintosh.
Vyggy 4 years ago
OMG thats old. its probably older then me. look at computers now a days
weezyfbaby47 4 years ago
it's ugly..........................
th3sp0rk 4 years ago
lol, we still have one of these things at my school for some reason :P
HellMan1O1 4 years ago
lawl, my megahurtz iz broken.
ShaneYnclan 4 years ago
i didnt see ibm making the gui apple made the gui so fuck u get some facts before speaking
slayersdeath 4 years ago
Neither Apple nor Microsoft invented the GUI. Xerox did. Research YOUR facts first.
Pashune 4 years ago
Close, Xerox didn't invent the Graphical User Interface.
Douglas Englebart of the Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute invented the computer mouse with a crude graphical user interface during the 1960's from ideas by Vannavar Bush in a 1945 Atlantic Monthly (magazine) article about a Memex machine idea.
The NLS (or oN-Line System) was demonstrated networked between 2 computers publically in December of 1968 several years before the Xerox Alto Workstation.
m9078jk3 3 years ago
=x I suppose being that I'm only 19 does give me a right not to be 100% literate on computer history... D:
Pashune 3 years ago
Actually, Xerox invented the GUI, Apple bought their prototype.
Games5522 3 years ago
well tell people who keep saying they stole it it does my head in
stephy4lyfe 3 years ago
does this dos computer have those OLD OLD disket drives by any chance?
overmind2 4 years ago
RTFWikipedia:
The 1981 PC had one or two 160 kilobyte 5¼ inch single-sided double-density floppy disk drives (180 kilobyte in later MS-DOS versions).
goomba000 4 years ago
Yup, it did originally have two full-height 180KB single-sided drives and no hard drive.
The 20MB disk added in an upgrade that saw the addition of: two half-height floppy drives, an upgrade to 512KB of RAM (which totally bites because in the late 80s/early 90s a lot of games had a 640KB minimum requirement) and a Hayes 1200 baud modem.
The fun thing is that this machine has a coaxial TV-Out.
Oh and the monitor is an upgraded EGA (16 colour) model. 16 Colours!
41D57 4 years ago
I recognize the sound of that hard drive: a Miniscribe stepper-model. Couldn't mistake the "growl-PEEP".
Good stuff.
Eep386 4 years ago