The First IBM Aptiva - Pentium 75mhz Retrospective
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Dude this video has some of the best production quality on any of your videos!! I really appreciate the effort and man you always seem to take me down memory lane with these retrospective videos 💪💪🤘🤘😎😎
I've got it set to loop, I'll let it do its thing for a couple hours lol
GREAT AWESOME VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watch out LGR will be up to grab it
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The original "desktop" form factor.
“I dunno what it called when it on its side like this” 🤫
@@Drez01 I was going to say basically the same thing as both of you, and add that Timmy Joe's cred just plummeted for not knowing what a desktop was.
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I couldn’t even watch anymore after that’n he said he dropped it 🤭
@@amindlost Yeah, cause what we have now is actually a "tower". A good example of a modern desktop case is the Silverstone Grandia GD09B, if you're still interested in that kind of thing.
PC's like this were the coolest shit I have ever seen, at that time.
5:25 I've been using Winamp since the early 00s still use it to this day lol
Same here!
"It really whips the llamas ass" outstanding...
lmao WINAMP!!!
Winamp was the VLC of today. Damn I miss the old days.
My first OC was moving pin jumpers around to turn 100mhz into 130mhz
I had a Pentium 75 Aptiva that looked exactly like that and I overclocked it to 100 MHz moving a couple of jumpers so it would play MP3s smoothly...
@@marcusaureliusf I believe this was the computer I later did an odd mod to where a company had taken an AMD K6-2 CPU with a peltier cooler, and made it compatible with that socket for more like 300MHz speed instead of 75MHz.
I remember how excited I was when I got my first 1gb hdd back in 1994😂
I remember playing commander keen on my 486 back in the day, so 👍
imagine slapping a faster pentium mmx into that thing if it would take and run it
I had one of those. It's sitting somewhere dusting in my parents garage now. Man, I loved this computer so much!
That was my first PC, my mom worked as a IBM seller and she bought this PC for me when I was 3 years old🤤
Me too. I was like "WHAAAAT" when I saw it. 4MB RAM 350MB hard drive CDROM
It was more expensive than cars in Brazil.
@@piadas804 I'm in Costa Rica, the price was pretty high as well, the retail price was about $1500, however she got a pretty high discount working at IBM
@@josegarita2718 it costed 4000 reais in Brazil. But the minimum wage was just 100 reais.
Wow... your teens pics are amazing... we were all trying to look badass and edgy back in the 90s...
This is looking like some classic Timmy Joe!
Command and Conquer was and still is my jam from that time period. Had that with Sim City 2000, my brother was into Civilisation.
The way you did this with the old photos and leading into a classic repair vid was dope I like that a lot
that desktop background picture brings back memories dude
They are known as "Desktop" computers .. when laying horizontally . Cheers
I remember getting my first ZX Spectrum for Christmas in the early 80's........still gaming now into my 50's.
As someone who worked at IBM Home Computing in the 90s this is a great trip down memory lane
Wow super job Timmy Joe. Always will watch your stuff
Enjoyed the video, I live near LGR a retro PC hardware reviewer and it still amazes me what is left out there to find.
You are only a year or two older than me, and we have very similar experiences. First one that had AOL may have been a Pentium or a 486 I cant remember. But we got on AOL then MSN, then we moved to like a Pentium 3 a few years later. Wish my memory was better so I could put it on a timeline. Retro tech and retro consoles for that matter is fun, I have learned a ton about board level repair from retro tech, starting at LGR all the way down to Voltar, bigclivedotcom and others, making sure to heat a solder iron to the right temp, how to read resistor bands and how to use a heat gun lol.
Loved that intro man! Great story telling!
Great video! Brought back good memories of my first PCs, an IBM PS/1 286 and an IBM PS/VP 486 DX4. I'm still in love with the desktop/under the monitor form factor.
I'm still on a quest to build a modern, scratch-built and custom-watercooled PC with this form factor :)
What a nostalgia trip! We had this IBM Aptiva as a home computer back in 95 and it only cost my parents $3 000 lol It mostly had games from 93 and 94 on it though, and they ran fine. The games you play in this video is more appropriate on a more powerful Windows 98 PC probably.
My first pc was a pentium 75 from AT&T. Yes, they made computers back then. I just recently bought the exact same model on ebay and have been having a blast reliving the old days. Love the video!
The IBM aptiva we had as our first family computer was the 486 sx 25 MHz with a 270 megabyte harddrive. My brother works for their server division(still does) and helped us get one in 1994/1995.
Getting windows 95 to work on that was not even a thought. Had a lot of fun on it later with lucasart golden era adventure games. Getting Creative multimedia bundle with sound blaster 16 and 2x cd-rom helped.
My family's first home PC was an IBM Aptiva... it was a later model though, with I believe an AMD K6 at about 350mhz. I still have a soft spot for the brand name nevertheless. That digression aside, cool video Timmy Joe, the extra work really shows.
I love retro PC videos like this. I grew up in the same era of computing, so I can really relate to your experiences and what those now ancient pentiums had to offer a young gamer.
I really enjoyed this video, bringing me back to my childhood..Why I like watching your channel Tim..Keep it original my man...
Great time man. Thanks for the ride
This was a trip back in time,15 year old me was playing games on my dads AMD AM5x86.
Then 9 or 10 years later he bought a AMD Athlon 64 2800+ that now sits at my house in a closet.
I have SliTaz linux on it.
Never had an Aptiva, but definitely remember the struggle of playing games on my 486DX4 100Mhz with 8MB of RAM back in the day... then I got a Cyrix 6x86 266 my freshman year of college and was running NT 4 and playing Quake deathmatches on the campus network. This video really took me back to a much simpler, and better time. Thanks for the walk down memory lane, TJ!
This was my first computer, I loved to see the same exact system.
Nice job with this video, the editing was on point. Keep it up with this quality content
Great video. Love these looks back at old hardware.
Love this nice style of video Timmy Joe. Keep it up!
LOL, back in 1995 I had an Intel 486DX4/100 CPU, 32Mb RAM, 2Gig HD, 56K US Robotics Modem, Soundblaster 16bit soundcard, and a 16mb 3D Viper video card running Windows 95. I loved that system. It played every game I wanted to play.
Our stories are very similar. 386 to a p75, was amazing. The Biway, ha, the memories. Greetings from New Brunswick.
0:20 ah, the "Ontario Ministry of Education" Icon II systems. I used one of them in 1991 in London, ON.
def one of the first computers I ever played with, probably in grade 1
Got yourself a new subscriber!
Love your vids!!
love these old tech vids, hope you get your hands on a Commodore 64 one day.
eBay has some!
Now.
Timmy love the reboot of your channel. Now THIS is content
been there, done that. 100 times. and loving it.
My family had a PC, like this. It was an IBM Aptiva, and it was the same model, except the mouse was a little different and the processor was a Pentium 100. This PC is unique and special, because it is specifically an OEM PC, by IBM. In fact, you normally cannot install an Operating System as easily as you would a custom PC. The IBM Aptiva we had came with a recovery software, that would install Windows 3.1 and PC DOS (Yes, PC DOS!). About a month later, we received a Windows 95 CD, along with Pitfall: The Myan Adventure and Endoorfun. The Windows 95 CD, that was sent to us, was only used to upgrade Windows 3.1 to Win 95. That means you can't use the CD ti install the Operating System on another blank PC. The Upgrade CD was specifically for the IBM Aptiva. It was weird, I know, but we played some great games on it. However, about 17 years ago, we junked the whole thing because the HDD went dead, and I greatly regret it to this day. But we still have the original Software CDs that came with the IBM Aptiva, all scratched to hell.
I was 11 when my family got one of these! 1 GB hard drive. Played hundreds of hours of Doom 2, Descent, and Duke Nukem on it. We put those AOL discs from the mail to good use. Ashamed to admit it, but my dad still uses AOL as his only email address, yes, he pays for AOL!
Really enjoyes the video, rwminded me of my first pc in mid 2010 as a kid. Even though thats a huge difference in time. I ended up upgrading that pc pretty quick 😅😅
Hi. What a splendid video!! Love it. I remember about my IBM Aptiva 2134. It was my first multimedia PC. You can do anything with it! Make phone calls, listen to your favorite music, watch videos (specially the hidden inside videos in Windows 95 like "Good Times" or "Buddy Holly" by Weezer), send fax and connect your life to the Internet with the fastest speed in that era (36.6 mpbs). I learn all about the computers with this Aptiva. This PC whas my best friend by many years. And I remember in that ages, if you have any doubt about how you can manage your PC, or something about Windows, IBM had a callcenter located in each country in North and South America, with talented guys and ladies who help you like a teacher... no matter if your question takes an hour.
My first encounter with a computer was in 1988. Pretty sure is was an 8086 clone. I remember Alley Cat game. I had no understanding of what a computer was at the time. I thought the monitor was the computer. Then in 1989 saw a 286 over at my brother's house. And that was the machine I got to inherit later on. Used it till mid 90's and then suddenly upgraded to P-100 with sound and an 8x CD drives. Top luxury. Didn't have internet though. Didn't know what it was. Saw some clips on TV trying to explain what it was, but still couldn't fully understand it. When I got a 33.6k modem, I didn't even know there needed to be internet providers. I thought you just hooked it up to the phone line and that was it. When discovering tech for the first time, it's all new and mysterious. In those days everything was experimental. Tons of ideas with keyboard, mouse, joystick, speaker designs. Should the case be horizontal or vertical? Should the monitor sit on top? And all those bulky microphones. I had a headset with a mic, that looked like it belonged in a tank. Also had a gimmicky mouse with a built in landline phone and a dial pad on top. The kind that became popular with telemarketers.
Love the video! A bit different, and a lot of fun!
My Packard Bell that came with a P1 75MHz came with 3.11 as well and then sent us 95 in the mail for free. Really appreciate the coverage for an era I have so much nostalgia for. Glad I still have my Packard Bell, even made a couple of Geocities sites in that system. Not using it for anything but retro gaming, LOL.
Dude that was our first PC at home, I was 9. I wouldnt be who I am without it.
I believe these also shipped with os/2 2.x back in the day as well. Miss ya Timmy Joe. Hope you are doing well and happy new year.
My office had a bunch of these machines just like this one in our office. A former employee took ALL of the mouse balls from the mice's, no one wanted to wanted to pay him for (as the Companies PO stated): "My balls!" And I knew some dude stole those just to hear some PO officially state "Please give me my balls back!" Which the PO never said that exact phrase, the computers were recycled, and the PO never got "his balls" back.
I remember my first IBM Aptiva like it was yesterday. Blazing away with 8MB of ram and windows 3.1. Then it happened...I opened an AOL account. And I would sit there for days just chatting with people from around the world. Then I tried Prodigy. Remember that?
Love it. And the MCM and the MTM2 really took me back... Had a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster that we bought when I was like 9-10years old I believe. Damn, that took me back.
Awesome sauce video. Loved it!
Keep it up Timmy Joe...Nostalgia blast
Oh and on my 2nd viewing...18 more to go
I had a 98 Aptiva with shiny new Windows 98 back in the day. It came with a microphone too!
Oh my first PC!!
great video didnt think id be seeing some coverage of old parts on this channel, have a aptiva 2144-25p here with the original install of ibm pc dos on it sadly for me its 486 model and im with timmy joe on this era of gaming "its all about the pentiums"
Trip down memory lane for me as well, I had something close. My favorite sound was the dial up modem connecting, lol....
Nice video! Congratulations
Good job man! Always nice to see retro pc's in your channel. That pc is ideal for DOS gaming and maybe up to Quake I. So Windows 3.11 along with MS-DOS 6.22 would be the perfect OS for that machine. I have the buckling spring version of that keyboard and been trying to fix it for like 2 years now...
I still have a set of Aptiva 560 speakers and amazing they still work as well :)
Holy nostalgia. NFS 2 SE was honestly one of the most played games of my childhood. Really miss those days.
I had a friend that had a similar PC and what we did was overclock it to 100Mhz. Ran stable. We moved some pins jumpers for the CPU clock speed.
Loved this video. Reminded me of my first PC which was a selfbuilt P90 with a ATI"3D" Rage II and 32 mb edo and a SB16 PCI soundcard and all that in a terrible wonky case that was always falling apart.
Keep it up !
PS. NFSII SE oh the memories ! Napster and SC2000 as well, I think I actually used Napster much later a few weeks before it went awol
My first pc was an aptiva 486 dx2 had a 728 mb hdd if I remember correctly. Might even be still floating around mum's house back in NZ. she was still using the original speakers last I saw.
Oh dang! I have a nice collection of old systems ranging from 286s with cinder block sized MFM hard drives to a Pentium Overdrive that I would get out of the trash when I was a kid as everyone started upgrading their systems to PIII or P4. After surfing through eBay for some of these I can only say I am shocked with how much people are paying for them now. Now I want to dig them out and play with them again!
I was still rocking 100mhz pc with stunts and first NFS game in 2005. I upgraded to athlon 64 3000, 512mb ram and radeon 9550 128mb, it was massive leap.
My first gaming pc was pentium 133mhz and 12mb ram. Nice video btw:)
First PC I build was a Pentium 120mhz. I was always trying to run games that said it needed a 133 but it always ran well for me. And I remember the struggle bus for installing Win 95. The order of installing drivers made a difference. And loved editing my config.sys and .bat files.
Yo Tim
I copied all my CDs to the hard drive back in the day and was able to play most of them on a 100kHz system. Great vid dude. 👍
My first PC was the Aptiva M50 just after this one. pentium 100mhz, 8MB ram, originally with pcdos7, windows 3.1, and os/2 warp. first guy on the block with a HUUUUUGE 1 GIGABYTE hard drive and a 8x cd-rom... and that IBM Mwave 28.8k modem/sound card was crazysauce. IBM shipped me a free upgrade to windows 95 when it came out, but by the time I gave it up around 2000, I'd upgraded it to 16MB ram (I think that was maxed out), I bought a 8/4/32 cd-rw that I used to burn a ton of disks and an external serial 36.6k modem... I remember playing diablo, command and conquer red alert, descent, doom, wolfenstein 3d, and mechwarrior 2 (I put my thurstmaster flight stick to work, son! :D - great times. it was also the first machine I did a dual boot with windows 95/98 and a few different linux distributions including but not limited to slackware, red hat 5.2, etc.
Loved the video! Hearing you dropped this made me die inside 🤣
Upgraded mine back in the day with a 366mhz Kingston turbochip, still have it running Windows 95
This was my first PC I just felt the nostalgia hard
I may now have to buy some merch. Timmy Joe listens to good music! Nice. Now to figure out what to get... and sneak it past the folks.
Liked the video man!!
So nostalgic! The first computer in my house when was little, was some decrepit gold screen thing. Our first real computer, was a ballin' Pentium 90 with 32mb RAM (almost said gb too!) a 1gb SCSI hard drive and I think a 4mb ATi card with no 3D, but maybe 2mb.. And a sweet, 17" full color monitor. played a ton of Doom2, Descent, Wings of Glory, Lands of Lore, Warcraft 2 and of course, all the Mechwarrior 2! My uncle brought this beast home in 1994! It was like $5k. my grandpa paid for at least half of it.. It came with Windows 3.1 and I remember pushing and pushing to get 95, but it took a long time and a lot of persistence.
The first computer that was really mine, was a significantly crappier Packard Bell Pentium 75. But I still played the crap out of it, 10fps at a time, like everyone else!
Remember playing Warcraft 1 on one of those. They were so cool in those days
hell yeah, and UO
holy sh!t my dad brought this home as our 1st family computer. (windows 3.1)
feeling some emotions cuz I haven't seen a picture of it in decades.
ours came with a thin microphone that I used to record my weird voice and use its voice recognition software.
I remember learning how to use dos and installing Dark Forces. opening it up and putting in a rewriter drive.
lastly, I remember throwing it into the dumpster at the recycling center, cuz we didn't have room when we moved out of state.
It still had that "multimedia" sticker on the front of the case , slightly curling on the right
sigh... 😥
Upgrading from Windows 3.1 to 95 was a nightmare at the best of times. In fact upgrading Windows was a pain right up until Vista. Microsoft learned the hard way that PCs had become far more mainstream by the late 2000s, and people would not tolerate buggy driver issues anymore.
Man awesome video, brings back memories. My first real PC was an Acer Aspire, P166, 32mb edo ram, this thing was awesome at the time - 1996 Costed $3000 from Futureshop! First game played - Warcraft 2!!
I have a IBM PS/1 and two Aptiva's Love them :) Anything IBM is awesome :P
Awww this was the perfect opportunity to try Oregon Trail.
98 SE.. :D this brings me back... my own first PC (AMD K6-2 266 Mhz.) had 98 on it when i got it from new, ran like crap.. took me a few days (maybe a week) to delete the legal 98 and replace it with a pirated 98se :D
Oh, how fun you still got to play around with it. XD
Bonzi buddy was probably the culprit of your winamp player lagging back in the day.
My first family computer as well. Great memories. That PC came with a mic and those speakers are not the original.
I remember playing the original Zork and other text based adventures on my 386sx 33mhz PC with 8mb of ram. We added a CGA card and went from monochrome to 4 colors and I thought it was the greatest thing ever 😍
Gotta admit I don't miss DOS 3.0, it was a pain the the butt to use. I was so happy when Windows 1.0 came out. My dad was a programmer so he got us a computer at home so he could work on stuff.
My first PC was a (genuine) IBM PS/1 486 SX 25 Mhz, 90MB HDD and 4MB RAM. - I wasn't much of a gamer but it played Microsoft Golf pretty well, and of course Solitaire.....MineSweeper and that was about it.
Only $20 for a special machine like this is INSANE!!!
The first Aptiva i had was a 486 SX 33 that i later upgraded to a dx2 66 and 20 MB of ram. The 16 MB stick cost me $500 at the time.
My first multimedia pc - we got it at radio shack good times
Wow that was a throwback Winamp
My college classes were in Word Perfect and other office software for DOS and Windows 3.1. Then we were told they would not be changed much when Windows 95 came out the next fall semester. I am OLD!!!
This was my first new, "real" pc. I learned so much from it. By the way (I hope I don't get sued) the password for the zip file on the restoration CD is "magic". I had to brute force hack it to get around removing the mwave card (I think that was why?).
Man this is the era I learned overclocking on and thankfully still got some goodies from the period including an older model of this with the 60mhz socket 4 pentium. The plastics don't age well at all and gotten a tower version only for the plastic face plate to explode on me (r.i.p). If you want to get kinda fancy about it give odd ball procs like the AMD K5 a try as they are good in dos games.
Played all those games. Used to play Daytona at my buddies on his Sega Saturn. Owned all the other games on my pentium 133 with 98se. Had tons of hours on need for speed 2.