Old School PC Hardware

[NarcoticEvil]

okay. where did you get these xD

I haven't ever seen anything this old for sale (unless its from eBay). I mean its more common to come across old P3's, with say 128MB ram - but nothing from the DOS days.

[blaketendo87]

A very interesting and quick video describing multiple items of archaic hardware

This was enjoyable to watch and covered only the necessary facets for pitching one's channel. Honestly, everyone who makes videos just to put on youtube can take notes from this.

Thank you for not starting with "HEY GUYS" and for not using music and thank you for editing it to not waste any of the viewers time.

[ebthepcguy]

More vids plz!

[tubelife70]

This is awesome older hardware. I started my career working with computers with this type of hardware. The first PC that I built was a 286. IRQ conflects, config.sys, mscdex.exe, autoexec.bat and who can forget DOS and OS2. Ahhh..., the good old days... never saw a BSOD in DOS 6.22... :)

[KrazyPolak87]

I remember my first computer in the early 90's was an IBM with a beautiful 22MHz. Then that processor was upgraded to around 64MHz and I did have to switch out the BIOS with a new one from Intel. Man how computers have changed.

[CarlsTechShed]

The motherboard you have there is AT type, the keyboard connector is known as a 5 pin DIN connector, the black slots are 16-bit ISA and the brown slots are VESA slots which were used for graphics cards. The memory type is known as a 30-pin SIMM and were usually 256k or 512k. There may have been 1MB modules I can't remember off the top of my head. Also, the 486 CPU is a Socket 3 interface. I hated these boards because the non-replaceable CMOS batteries usually leaked, destroying the board.

[termmert]

that stuff goes way back lol, still have original case/ps for my 286 lol

[termmert]

that's mid school lol

[Despero96]

these old slots are called ISA-Slots

[sparky4444444444444]

sexy

I like you are a cool person you appreciate old PCs ^^

[ows05]

This was a trip down memory lane!! Who remembers trying to get as near to 640k conventional memory to play some of the decent games lol

[3styler1]

they are isa slots and the intel chip cloked about 33mhz still have a bunch of these old boards and some 386 ones to may build some up one day

[boxaify1]

Hahahahahhaaaa that Intel logo looked like it was designed in paint ;)

[Ace9921]

I just have one problem with your first build: the sound card. I'm not a fan of later SoundBlasters like the SoundBlaster 32 PnP CT3600 you have. The later ones lose a lot of authenticity due to the change in the FM chip.  Instead of using a Yamaha YMF262 or YMF289(or even an ASIC variant integrated within the CT1747 ASIC), Creative got cheap and installed a CQM chip, which is not faithful to the YMF262. If anything, add a SoundBlaster Pro 2.0 to that PC for some really bass-heavy OPL3 FM.

[carloakaelbarto]

realy good work ive got a pc like this too whith 200mhz :D and 200 mb of ram whith an 256 mb HDD

[Vocoder07]

great stuff do you have...thumps up !!!

[jbolleman74]

What could make a board like that run fast is the VLB capability (Vesa Local Bus) that runs at base processor clockspeeds.That gave game graphics that time a huge boost compared to PC's with ISA (The black 16-bit 8Mhz) slot graphic cards. Any questions, let me know. I used to build them and tune these boards in the original days. I might be even one of the first having a cooling fan on a video card. Wow, I sound like an old man now! To me the 486 period was the greatest time of PC hardware.

[jbolleman74]

The last board you have the memory should be incorrect. As these 30pins SIMMs are 8 bit, and your processor is a 32-bit you need to place them by 4 pieces a row. (The 386SX for example is 16-bit so place that ram in pairs.) By the looks of it you have 128kb external cache on the board. The processor has 8kb.

[romerofan123]

and the 5.25" Floppy is actually a ZIP drive...

[TheEquivalentXchange]

Nice Vid man! I just found out my old 2004 P4 mobo has 2 sata ports (yay!)

[romerofan123]

i just found an old HP Pavilion that has 64MB of RAM, maxed out. lol w/a 4.4GB HDD. lol, and an old Gateway 2000 P5-100, that's running 15M of RAM, with a Pentium III at 75 MHz. lol. i used to have a board like that one you had at 2:56. it had a spot where you could solder in an extra CPU socket. that was true dual-core at the time. lol

[1536mbComedy]

I remember having a computer that had a 5 1/4 floppy drive on it

[BigTechie24]

The black slots are called ISA slots

[92kosta]

Do you know that the best computer you have will be funny as these "PCs" for 10 years from now!

[joshuamyler]

dos ftw

[XavierPirelli]

yeah the slots are 16 bit ISA slots, there is a shorter type too that is 8 bit and can be found on some early 286 and 386 motherboards but were standard on older 8086 motherboards. I have a huge collection of old PCs at my parents house ranging from commadore 64s to 8086s all the way up to pentium "overdrive" systems for 486 motherboards. I used to have a thing for old tech hehe. Great fun to fire up an old 8086 with a 5mb hard disk and 512kb ram then load up Lemmings from a 5 1/4" disk hehe.

[mrpetezya]

Cool

[dwintzeh]

Keep it, next generation would love to see that for reference.

[shsiow]

Those longer slot is called "VESA Local Bus". Meant for 32 bit card instead of 16 bit ISA.

[ncrkel]

I also love old computers beacuse on the 90´s they made many great games that doesnt run on modern hardware, i have a couple of old computers also, and they work to!

[mcfuson37]

I like any computer age doesnt matter.  I like getting older machine see how good i can make them.

[PITOVIVE1]

yはピカチュウを愛して

[thetechfixer]

Bice old systems but too old got me

[infinitypark003]

Nice man. Old computers are the best.

1:50 How many watts is that PSU?

3:41 I think they are called ISA Slots.

I wanna see more vids like this!

[BrianxTech]

@infinitypark003 yep those are ISA slots and that huge PSU is only 250watts ha

[PsychoLegoMan]

@BrianxTech the brown colored slots behind the ISA slots are VESA connectors..Motherboards are the older AT style form factor.

[TroniPhile]

@infinitypark003 Yup, looks like 16-bit ISAs.

[Chaniyth]

@infinitypark003

3:41 is ISA but also had a VLB (VESA Local Bus) connector [light brown] for VLB based graphic cards. :)

[iTechNetwork]

have one with windows 98 and goes to the BSOD everytime and i also have one with Dos 30MHz of CPU

[joggymac]

Do you think both of those computers, could run the original Command and Conquer

[BrianxTech]

@joggymac If its a DOS game then most likely

[joggymac]

@BrianxTech It is a DOS game, and it's a great game to play LAN, but you would need to install a Ethernet Card, and also, you would need to install CD drives in you're oldest one.

[Crashbndcoot121]

Lol that's pretty old :P

[BrianxTech]

@Crashbndcoot121 haha yepp