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I remember OS/2. I never had the chance to use it myself. I think it's too bad that it failed because it'd be nice to have a viable third option to Windows and Mac.

I’ll never forget my time with the se and se 30. Like you said, it is not nostalgia, not hype, the experience was truly magical for the time. Thank you for making this detailed video, it sparked many forgotten good times moving the mouse to prioritise multitasking of the the program in front and playing the ancient art of war. ❤

In my tenth grade typing class, the teachers used a machine like this one as the LAN server.

I had a ROM3 IIGS with a Transwarp GS and oh my god it was fast.

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I really liked this video. I was at Infinite Loop by 2005 and 2012. Even more appreciated your thoughts about not looking back and what could have been. I felt it came straight out of your heart. THANKS!

The IIgs system looks great, and is easy to upgrade. But a slow cpu, slow graphics, and no ethernet port means that it has little use in the present day. It has Low res graphics and it runs from a floppy disk drive. Truly a relic from the 1980's

I own one of these and it's going to need work, thank you for this video

These cases were, and still are, amazing. I have a 2006 full tower that I'll never be able to part with. The only downside to using one of these in a modern build, is the airflow, or rather, lack thereof. But, they're perfect for building a period correct PC. In the early 00s I always went with the Antec SX line, because they were solid and affordable ($99-120). The Lian Li cases were just outside my budget, but I certainly coveted them.

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Your grandpas brushed aluminum stereo is far more valuable though lol

Not hard to make power adapters from something else though

Adobe is a garbage company.

What an excellent video! I appreciate your dedication to fact finding, and choosing such an interesting topic!

Apple computer only had a 10 run In my school. But that was 4th grade to high schools graduation for me. My high school got their first 386 imp computers in 1993 the year after I graduated

Are you freaking kidding me!!! You hit the oMac lottery!!

I used one of these in my grade 9 "intro to business computing" course! I refused to use any other computer in the lab, had to be this one! Everyone else always complained (in 1998 no less) about the grade nine classes being in the "old" lab filled with 386 pcs, but I genuinely looked forward to sitting at and using this computer every day! It just... always worked! I never seemed to have the same issues with it that everyone else did with all the generic PCs!

I'm sure it's a good video. The jokes were just too dumb for my preference. Best wishes.

This might seem a strange takeaway from your video, but I'm happy that comp.sys.apple2 was featured a lot. The group is still there; it just take a bit more dedication to reach it these days.

I really loved the Lian Li aluminum cases, I have three Lian Li cases. PC-V351A micro-atx cube, PC-A77B full tower case and the 25th anniversary case PC-777 that looks like a shell/snail. The PC-777 I bought unused with the original box from eBay in january 2020 for 100 euros with shipping.

Get a 95 server, they are just as much crap.

unfortantly i know to muchs of these computers, so i hate them. '

Is it Scuusi? or Sckassi?

My boss had this, i had a 70p.

I had one of these. Sadly, I binned a lot of my old machines back in the late 90s / early 2000s. The only one that escaped was my IBM PS/2 Model 80, now restored with its original IBM 8513 monitor, keyboard and mouse.

I started out in 1995 or so with OS/2 2.11, and later upgraded to Warp 3 and 4. I brought Warp4 with me when I returned from the 1996 ColoradOS/2 conference. There, I had just spent $1000 on OS/2 stuff when I learnt about rumors that IBM would abandon OS/2. I wasn't very happy about that. My employer was one of Germany's companies that provided programming services to IBM and Siemens customers. Not long after we heard that Deutsche Bank was switching from OS/2 to Windows NT. I was pretty sad, because I LIKED OS/2. At home, I had a multiboot setup with DOS native, Windows 3.1 native, Windows 95/98/ME and OS/2. And when Microsoft introduced Direct X to Windows 95, I really discovered PC gaming, and at some point, I didn't need OS/2 anymore. There was only so much you could do with it (since it wasn't maintained anymore), and I was unhappy that IBM gave it the boot. Even my employer was unhappy and withdrew from IBM and Siemens. The company went bankrupt only a few years later. Thankfully, I got experience with AIX and Solaris there, so after working with some real UNIXes, I finally migrated to Linux at home for the first time in 2004 (after running into a problem with Windows XP). Nowadays, I hardly use Windows anymore. I'm content with my Linux system. When I had my first employment in 1991, my employer back then warned me about IBM, that they would abandon products just when they're successful. He had seen it with IBM Series/1, and I've seen it with OS/2. IBM canned OS/2 just when it started being successful, which is a real, real shame. /rant

Of the classic SimCity games, it's gotta be the SNES version for me. Also, GO KRAKEN!

Some strong nostalgia here. I too was into BBSs albeit back in the 80s. I was on Compuserve and Dephi in addition to a variety of regional BBSs. It was an exciting time. By 1994 I was into the internet and by the fall of 1995 was already working as a web site developer while in college. Credit to my mother who bought my father and I a TRS-80 Color Computer for Christmas 1981. The rest is history... oh, and my first modem? 300 baud. Continental drift moved faster. ;-)

Next time you come to the uk you might want to check out Bletchley park and the national museum of computing.

Stock footage, ugh… Just stretch authentic shots, please. Hell, plain old stills with Ken Burns pan zoom is fine too.

excuse him he's having a moment, stay mezmirized brother, this is a simple joy thats hard for a man to explain ✊😮‍💨....

I had this thing as a hand me down. Sadly, it was recycled like a lot of vintage PCs in the 2000-2010 range days. Sad days!

The most exciting machine I had owned... until the next one.

Stumbled upon this video out of mere curiosity (I was like "wait, am I sure OS/2 Warp could run on a PS/2?"), found an underrated channel that is only getting started... thanks for the video, really enjoyed its quality footage, well-researched sources and calm pace!

Nice video, very professional. I always wanted one of these cases

This is so impressive and well done -- seeing what this has grown into is so inspiring!!

44:09 Amiga 1.x Workbench! 😍 My 8th grade classroom (sadly not public school) had gotten a C128 by the time I was there. I had an Atari 800XL and many games came on disks you could flip with C64 on one side and XL/XE on the other. Nobody ever used 128 mode 😕 and there was no usage of the computer in class. Just played games during lunch. Never knew why it was there. But in high school there were a few computer lab class rooms. n introduction to computers class was in a room full of IBM PCs (or XTs?). That was public high school. The parochial high school that most of my 8th grade classmates went to (I had enough and rebelled) had Tandy TRS80’s (all in one style so III or IV?) that I saw on the open house tour. So already the public high school was doing better. But for the Computer Science classes that room had Tandy 1000’s. Borland Turbo Pascal! One friend with a C64 was talking about getting an Amiga. A little later I messed with him and said I got a Macintosh but pulled out a McIntosh to eat. I was on local BBS’s and also Delphi and GEnie. I heard about the Amiga history and its ancestral routes with the Atari 8-bits. When the local Macintosh user group and Electronics Boutique (remember that store?!) put on an exhibit at the mall one night (included others like Commodore and Atari too) I saw Dark Castle for the first time. Sears sold a Franklin (?) //c imitation but in black and it never had a good demo. I liked the Apples that I saw that night. And I was unimpressed with the Atari ST. But when someone loaded the Dragon’s Lair demo on the Amiga I melted. Wow!🤯 And the NewTek demo! That settles things. I had to have an Amiga. And honestly all I could afford as a teen was a used 1000 and by the end of October’88 I found one online (Delphi or GEnie) and while we met in person and I paid cash it was still sorta early online shopping. After CBM went bankrupt I bought a Performa 637 from someone I knew who was going PowerPC. And that was my way into the Apple ecosystem. Next a Motorola Starmax 3000 and a USB+firewire card for it. And an accelerator. Then an open box Pismo (the TiBook G4s had come out). An Intel iMac 🖥️ (the first aluminum and glass model) then ‘14 mini and now a Studio. I’d say no looking back but I do seem to subscribe to the retro computer channels) 🤷‍♂️

Similar age range as you, from Southwest Virginia, we didn't have many Apple IIs the school system chose Laser machines instead (apple II clones) because they were cheaper.

Finally had a chance to fully and completely watch this from beginning to end, and I have no words for it other than to say that it's just fantastic. Video quality was great, commentary was great, coverage was great. You managed to find things that I missed, and I helped run the darn show! You have a real knack for these kinds of videos, and I hope you're able to visit other shows and report on them as well. Also: Nice score with the butterfly Thinkpad! I used to have one but sold it when I wasn't able to repair it. I shall live vicariously through you now.

5000+1, congratulations! 👍🏻 🙂

Hey, thanks for the great video. I really appreciated your honesty and understanding. This was the first time for us too at such a big venue :) Hope you can make it to the big #20 in 2025!

yup definitely LGR vibes mixed with akbkuku-style presentation and thoroughness. you are awesome.

Thank you for this incredibly thorough coverage of the event! And all credit to the event organisers for taking feedback and criticism on board and adapting to deliver an event that must now seem very enticing for a lot of people interested in retrocomputing.

That was no ordinary logic analyzer at 6:21...that's a Tektronix Prism 3002, at the time the world's most advanced logic analyzer.

Back in 1981 (I think) I spent a few days in Salt Lake City learning how to repair the current line of Beehive terminals. Oddly enough, I spent more time working on SOROC terminals in the field (designed by the same team that created the B100 and B150's!).

VCF Midwest was a blast this year, though as with every year I find through other people's post con recaps that I missed a lot of stuff I would have found interesting. I'm sure committing to see everything would require a grueling methodology and would detract from the fun of spontaneous encounters! I've seen some footage of myself across a few videos, but more interesting is you caught the aftermath of one of my favorite moments from the con: at 17:00 you can see the terminal session from when I had been using that Compaq Portable earlier in the day. Your eyes do not deceive you: I dialed into my Linux box back home 500 miles away over the dial-up modem peeking from behind it! The plan was to connect to an IRC channel and post a message, but as you can see I only got as far as typing the first four characters of my username before the connection dropped. As you said, the cellular towers were absolutely hammered, and the con's telephone operator was getting very irritated by having to dial out for me over and over and over again. I took my own photo of the attempt, of course, but it's neat to see someone else caught it.

I watched the whole video and feel like I was really at the show. Thanks for sharing!

Gateway Solo 2500 is good as a Windows 9X laptop. Although the Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDT is better investment. It had Windows 95 OSR2 on it's replaced hard disk drive so I decided to stick a Western Digital Scorpio WD400 on the machine in which I installed Windows 98 First Edition on the machine since it had when I got it 144 MB of RAM and an Intel Pentium MMX clocked at 133 Mhz. Threw quite a bit of Blizzard Entertainment games on it. There is better stuff online anyway. The only other laptop that would have rivaled the Toshiba was the Compaq LTE 5300 with 80 MB of RAM but that one only had an Intel Pentium clocked at 133 Mhz with no MMX and had no USB. At the time I did not even have a PCMCIA CardBus network ethernet card. The Compaq much like the Toshiba you could swap the floppy drive out for a CD-ROM but with the Toshiba you can connect the floppy disk drive as an external drive. The Compaq LTE 5380 as opposed to the Toshiba as well as the Gateway had a 1024x768 TFT LCD Display whereas the Gateway as well as Toshiba had an 800x600 TFT LCD Display. The major drawback with the Compaq LTE 5300 was the most in terms of an operating system that you could run was Microsoft Windows 95. The Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDT you can go up to Microsoft Windows 98 provided that you have the RAM. I really like the Compaq Armada laptops that not just came with Pentium MMX but also Pentium II processors not just because like with the Compaq LTE 5000 line which came with ESS AudioDrive ES1688 and you also had Armada laptops that had that in addition to having a built in power supply. The Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDT had Yamaha OPL3-SA Sound Chip. The problem with the Gateway Solo 2500 as opposed to the Gateway Solo 9100 was the limited MS-DOS Mode support only working on Windows 95 OSR2.1 mainly for the fact that the NeoMagic MagicWave 3DX Sound System on that laptop only seemed to work properly on Windows 95 and not Windows 98. You could not properly run MS-DOS 6.22 & Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on the Gateway Solo 2500 whereas the Compaq as well as the Toshiba you were able to. MS-DOS compliant sound hardware is a really big deal. On the Toshiba I ran QUAKE on the WINQUAKE port at 400x300 and it ran a little bit choppy but mostly smooth. Got 17.3 FPS on running DEMO3 on QUAKE’s ‘timedemo’ command from within the console. Tried it on WINQUAKE on DEMO3 at 320x200 and got 26.1 FPS. I ran DEMO3 on QUAKE V1.08 at 320x240 in MS-DOS Mode and got 25.9 FPS. WINQUAKE and GLQuake ports were really a great alternative to playing in MS-DOS. That Chips & Technologies 65554 PCI onboard video chipset on the Toshiba is on par with the Gateway Solo 2500’s NeoMagic MagicGraph128XD especially with both having 2 MB of VRAM. Although I do like the Compaq LTE 5000’s Cirrus Logic GD7543 with it’s 2 MB of VRAM is also not a bad options.