Gateway Astro: $800 All-In-One PC from 1999!
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Restoring and testing out the elusive Gateway Astro! An all in one desktop computer from the late 90s that sought to be an easy to use internet appliance, and/or a kid's first PC with branded Rugrats and Blue's Clues bundles. Let's get this one repaired and running Windows 98!
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My PC growing up. We actually got ours by collecting points from the back of potato chip packages. Looking it up the points were called "Ploids". The points could then be used on a site from the company which held regular auctions. We figured out based on the average points the Astro was going for, it was a bit cheaper to buy a ton of chips from Costco than it was buying the PC outright. We spent days cutting out the points, taping the chip bags to preserve them for a bit longer, and sending them in. In the end we got the PC for a couple hundred cheaper and a huge supply of somewhat stale chips.
Tenacious!!!
The only things my family ever managed to get from collecting points are board games and small household items like a butter dish. Getting a whole PC is incredible!
Legend.
That's some thrifty thinking, love it
Reminds me of punch drunk love
That new shot you're using of the desk with the window behind it is absolutely next level
Thanks! Just really nice unplanned lighting, you should've seen me scrambling to get as many shots as I could before the sun moved.
@@LGR Haha, it looks awesome! Loved the video
Looks a lot like my childhood bedroom in the 90s oddly enough, even down to where the bathroom door was, the window, and even the color of the paint on the walls. Spent countless hours gaming on my 12.5 MHz 286 in there.
We've entered a new era of the LGR Cinematic Universe.
Seriously, it looks like an actual Gateway ad.
The cow pattern is why I wanted a Gateway when I was younger. I was told that it was only on the boxes. Thank you for showing me actual cowputers.
This old box is my family's PC when I was a kid. I got the weirdest nostalgia hit from this video.
That clip of the Rugrats Astro commercial hit me like a nostalgia truck. I know I saw that ad as a kid but had completely forgotten about it. Seeing that clip was like a small revelation.
The Astro itself was a Nick nostalgia factory for me; I remember when this was a major prize on Figure it Out
The internal VGA connector was probably very handy for Gateway's Techs who needed to test the machine on their workbenches, rather then being forced to reconnect the machine's CRT every time. So +1 for thinking about those people.
Agreed, modern apple could learn a thing or two about making their glorified E-Waste more repairable
LGR videos make me feel like I'm trapped in a 1991 mail-order computer catalog, but in the best possible way?
That is not a good thing
you can always turn the page
It's like vaporwave for me
@@MissouriMatt54 nah, I like it. It's like being in a dream and a soothing voice is talking about cool old tech
@@onlyinsomniac Okay, I will give you “soothing voice” and “tech”, but some of this stuff just sucked, even back then.
Anytime I watch an LGR upload, I have this inexplicable urge to buy late 90's beige hardware for my own nefarious nostalgia purposes.
Im currently lurking on classifieds for beige hardware... unfortunately here in my country they were not awailable widely back then, nor now. But, I see some.
Yeah - I kinda bought a Gateway Profile 3 on eBay the other day............
Noostalgia 😉
This was my very very first pc! we got it used from a family friend and used it as the main family computer for a few months before my dad bought a kitted out gateway performance 1000. After we got the performance 1000, I had the astro in my room and used it to play stuff like Falcon 4.0 and rollercoaster tycoon a bunch
That's awesome. What a great bedroom PC for the time!
Rollercoaster Tycoon is a timeless classic.
Technology changes and years move on, one thing that will always be the same is how pleasing it is to look at the shadows of leaves in sunlight. Great job on the setup. Really gives that good nostalgia feel
Thank you!
You know, I gotta really stop and appreciate the fact that EVERY LGR video has full on English captions
That is an amazing job done by Clint, and I deeply appreciate it!
English is not my main language so I still have a little bit of trouble hearing it sometimes, it makes watching these videos a lot more fun!
Thank you, Clint!
I’m glad they’re useful!
@@LGR I use subtitles all the time even with English being the only language I speak. I do appreciate that its not just the machine learning produced ones or at least if they are someone took the time to edit them.
As I understand author very well, subtitles are so much fun to look at. I like this sense of humor (Doom sounds playing) )))))
@@LGR I always watch your videos with subtitles on, it's a great feature!
Kind of love them,, thank you @@LGR
I remember these. My local mom-and-pop computer store back in the 90s was selling them as "kitchen computers." They even seemed to have put a custom disk image with a bunch of recipe and home software (like a demo for Quickbooks or something).
nice
That storage room is better organized than any Radio Shack I ever worked at.
I still get games on pc by using CD-ROMS. Someone gave me a minecraft cd rom and it is my favorite game.
As a fellow retail worker, most of the issue is customers that must move all the things, and never remember where they picked stuff up.
It's no shock to me that an awesome ultra-nerd like LGR has a wonderful storage area for his collection of retro epicness.
I need to do better with my own group of AMD PCs and laptops I grew up with, and the XP Franken-machine I'm building out of old and new parts to cover the gap from our first PCs we gave away before my retro PC hobby took hold, heck, I even have a C64 1541 floppy drive and a Commodore programmers manual even though I don't have a C64... yet
I think I speak for all LGR fans when I say we would love some official tours of your storage rooms! I admit I went back and paused it multiple times throughout that part of the video so I could see all the goodies you had in there. Another great video, as always.
And that was just one room! I have rooms like that as well but with less computers. It's for 20+ plus years of vintage electronics. I keep the IBM and early printers on the bottom because of their weight.
Upvote for this
I just want more LGR sandwiches
@@verygreedy100 Amen, brother!
I see this first time now out of his ten videos, and my eyes tried to pop out when he got there.
Wow! You sure have stepped up your production game! That new home is serving you well!
Thanks, I’ve been having a lotta fun trying new environments!
Oh my gosh your storage room 🤯 Looks like old tech heaven.
"A brief visit to one of the LGR storage rooms will--" 👀 HOLD UP
Kinda reminded me of a mini-computer reset
Needs its own video!
Storage room also caught my attention :)
@@NickDalzell That's probably where some of it came from!
I worked in a Gateway factory for a couple months in 2001, specifically on the teardown line, where they'd take all the parts out of the units folks traded in and set them up for refurbished or rebuilt units to sell later. I don't recall having seen any of these come through, though. Coulda been that the CRTs were taken off beforehand. But I was only there for a couple months either side of 9/11 and only worked the very end of the line where they sent the empty cases to wherever it was they went with all the labels and stuff removed.
Having grown up in North Sioux City with parents that both worked for Gateway, I always love to see coverage on anything Gateway related, but to see the Astro? The very computer that raised me? You are doing god’s work here XD I don’t remember the exact details, but Christmas 1999 they gave the employees free Astros, so my parents had two, one for me and my brother, and one they gave to my grandparents, while my parents enjoyed their high end Gateway tower with all the bells and whistles. So many memories using the Astro, Age of Empires was indeed one I played tons, as well as classics like the Madness games (Midtown, Monster Truck, Motocross, etc), Re-Volt, Road Rash, Rollercoaster Tycoon, the vast library of Humongous Entertainment games as well as other edutainment titles, I could go on and on and on. My mother recalls finding me up in the middle of the night with a carton of ice cream on the Astro at age 2 or 3 on multiple occasions, you couldn’t keep me away! My father thought the Astro was junk and that they were hard to repair, maybe other issues apart from the battery popped up? Or he was just spitballing, who knows. He got rid of my Astro without telling me one day in 2010, and it took me 10 years of off and on searching to find another, never letting this one go!
Ahh dang, shame about the original but I'm glad you finally sourced another one!
have you tried out RVGL? would definitely bring back memories if you haven't heard about it
Hey! another person from Sioux City! My mom was a manager at Gateway since the late 80's and our whole basement was full of those cow print boxes and old PC's I'm sure she has one or two Astros in storage somewhere.
@@Zippy_Zolton I hadn't heard of that, but I'm glad to see fans of Re-Volt keeping it alive, will definitely give it a try!
@@stevenchinn8218 Haha so many people around Sioux City have Gateway ties, my parents are always bumping into people that they knew from Gateway, and some of the people I work with now are ex-Gateway and often tell stories from those days XD We still have our cow print boxes the same, if y'all have any Astros to spare let me know, I kinda like the idea another comment said about building a sleeper PC in one since it has that easy to use VGA port for display, and I know a friend that specializes in working with old hardware and doing silly stupid things XD
10:35 My favorite LGR thing is the "Jazz and Boot break" where the voice over fades out, the jazz stops soon after, and then it's the satisfying sounds of the POST and boot sequence.
So so so cozy.
When I see 90's PCs that I didn't even have, I'm filled with nostalgia I never knew I had!
When I see 90’e PCs older than I am, I too am filled with nostalgia I never knew I had!
That is the most well composed shot of a desktop computer that has ever existed. Seriously, no million dollar TV ad in the 90s ever looked that good. And just a very nice photo/video clip. Very rich, pleasing contrast, layers of complexity, just a great shot.
If 8-Bit guy needs an ad for the Commander X16, he totally needs to call LGR
@burnte I noticed that also , this is a truly stunning PC.
I love the insanity of the design inside the case - it's like someone made the prototype version and management were like "brilliant, ship it tomorrow, don't change a thing"!
Nothing better than fixing a stone dead machine by simply replacing a battery (or removing it) either.
Am I the only one that was so impressed with the storage room; no wonder the number of video went down for some time; this is some serious professional organisation; so neat and nice to see I would love to browse that room!
I hope we get to have some level of tour of his new home once all is said an done
Wow LGR on Friday🎉 thank you Clint the gateway to a good weekend!
I see what you did there. Double pun for the win!
Was gonna say Clint normally uploads on Friday.. lol
Your computer video shooting room has come out so nice and cozy. It's so unique compared to tons of UA-cam backgrounds of only walls of games and random nerdy nick-nacks. 🤓 love it
Thank you! I’ve been making a conscious effort to try and stand apart in that sense. Quite a few similar looking collection walls, Ikea cube shelves, cooler-hued RGB lights, and hexagon wall panels out there on UA-cam.
@@LGR who else has Hexagon panels besides Dave 8-bit Guy?
@@jackfroste Linus Tech Tips, Action Retro, Epictronics, a number other reviewers, vloggers, and streamers that are and aren't tech-related. It's just a really popular sound dampening panel shape, I don't blame 'em!
LGR has a master enthusiast's showcase, everyone else has a Reddit shelf.
@@LGR I mean, hexagons ARE bestagons, after all.
Clint, I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the details -- between how you dress and stage the shots, to highlighting the sounds and noises the vintage tech makes --- the details in the user experience. Thanks again for what you do!
And further congrats on the new space. It seems great that you are now able to have it all under one roof with space to spread out (proper workbench, storage, etc).
I loved the initial shots of the PC in the kitchen; it called to mind all the old advertising copy when the PC was being framed as a household appliance much like a television!
Big step up in production values, I appreciate the effort that went in to this video, well done LGR.
Man, when you first boot it up it sounded like the thing was about to launch into space. Those were some sweet, nostalgic sounds.
It still annoys me that all modern machines are deathly silent. It's rather unnerving for me as I've grown accustomed to hearing the sound of work being done
@@NickDalzell Got to disagree. I hated the racket my comps made, even when they were just sitting there. A desktop-replacement laptop changed all that. It had fewer ports, but it was vewwwy qwwwwwiet. : )
Yeah when I heard the floppy drive make its grinding noise I thought back to my old full server tower. At first I cringed. Then I thought to myself "Oh yeah, that was how it sounded every time I booted mine".
my modern machine does make a lot of fan noise sound when i do intense work.
@@SectorfiveYT Fan noise will never replace that iconic mechanical sound of an old HDD and floppy self-test during boot, along with the AMIBIOS memory count ticks. If only I could bring them all back to my modern rig including the MHz display (albeit a GHz display today)
All the shooting locations in the new place remind me of those super detailed nostalgia paintings that one artist does with all the different games on the shelves and computers or consoles around. Real cozy brought to life.
This is definitely one of the most cutest looking PCs I've ever seen.
There is something satisfying about your videos. Soothing voice, musack and mechanical hard drive nostalgia is good for the soul.
I often find myself watching these videos and feeling a nostalgia for a time I'll never have back. From when I would go to my mom's house on school holidays and we would play for hours on the ancient pc in the kitchen she had been gifted by a friend. I wish I had the kind of money to try building an old machine myself, if only to gain confidence to do a new one, but I have no idea what I would do with the thing once it's built as I have very limited space. As it is, my tower stands on the floor with my table having barely the room for a mouse and keyboard side-by-side.
You can try to find older lap top if space is problem i have 2 old lap tops for old games beside of dozen of other old computers, i just love them way less hassle to play something on them than regular old pc.
Love how Clint cleverly hid the thermal paste application. Nicely done! Your thermal paste is neither correct, or incorrect! Perfect!
I think I remember these being higher end prizes on Double Dare 2000. Quite the interesting piece of 90s computer nostalgia.
That explains Gateway's partnership with Nickelodeon at the time.
I remember wanting one so badly. I was still stuck with an IBM XT clone at the time.
@@mr3urious Which probably also explains the Rugrats and Blue's Clues Astros as well.
The love, care, and attention that you give to old obsolete technology just warms my heart.
Your framing is getting really good. Very pleasing shots of the computer with almost mesmerising shadows playing through the window in the background.
Thank you! The new place has proved inspiring.
@@LGR Thank you for all your content, sir.
That was one of your best videos in awhile my man. Thanks. You channeled LGR of old there.
I appreciate it!
Thanks for the video Clint! My grandparent had one of these for a number of years. I spent hours playing a snowmobile game on it. When they got a new one, it became mine. It ended up dying a few years later. I loved that machine.
I so love the fact that you hold the fan blades when blowing them out with compressed air. You wouldn't believe how many people blow up stuff from their pc just by simply blowing fans without holding them and unknowingly create voltage which goes back into the board and other components and fries things up. Kudos!
Love those weird shaped 90s relics, great video!
I hope he doesn't do a video on me! As a weird shaped 90s relic myself I'd be embarrassed 😳
OMG SAME!!!
Weird? They're shaped like the future!
lol 2:06 got to love the fan screwed directly into the heatsink
In my city they were going to open a Gateway store, they had it all setup, painted the walls up with the cow pattern, had the sign up and the retail space setup and everything... and then it never opened. This was sometime between 1999 and 2001.
Had one of these back in 2000-ish that was given to me by a local office. The blue channel had given out on the CRT display, so it was permanently dyed this weird pink hue and was relatively dim. I found out that it was still under warranty while I was looking for a replacement tube. I claimed the warranty, and after it came back, it worked great for years. I remember specifically using it as a side PC to look up stuff on Thottbot and for Yahoo messenger before the mainboard finally gave out in I want to say 2006.
I presume you mean the green channel went out, that's the worst one to lose. You're lucky it was under warranty, I have a history of having things shortly right after the extended free replacement program ended.
@@eDoc2020 You're probably right. I remember it as blue, but I didn't do the repair myself so I'm probably misremembering. It was, in fact, over 20 years ago. Yeah, the warranty was never registered by the business I got it from, so I just claimed to be a contracted IT representative of that business. Surprisingly, Gateway didn't ask any questions and just serviced it, even the shipping both ways was free. It was only around 8ish months after the business bought it to be a receptionist PC, and I think the warranty was for 2 years.
Oh man, Gateway will always live in my heart. We had Gateway computers in my house growing up, from our Windows 95 PC, to the XP machine we upgraded to, to my first laptop. I still have some extreme brand loyalty to those things. And Gateway Country stores will forever be my happy place.
Imagine my feelings when I looked first time in my life at Gateway black tower in Moscow computer store back in 2000? With all the specs and display... I want to go back there to buy it now. But store just doesnt exist for years. And I have never seen these machines on classifieds here in Russia.
Nice filming spot. It had that nostalgic feel from the childhood
Nice to see your new house starting to pay off, that storage room is awesome!
This was the first computer we had in my house growing up. I remember it so fondly and miss it so dearly. I've been trying to find one for sale for ages but it seems like these are one in a million now. Gosh how this brought back so many happy memories of my parents and I sitting around browsing the "new to us" internet. Thank you LGR for bringing such nostalgia back to me.
Oh Gateway Astro one of the few pc's that I barely even see. I only see them in some magazines or some grainy old photos on the web but not in a video. It is so nice to see one in action and being able to see what is capable of when it came out way back in the late 90s. Pretty neat
Windows 95 to Windows Vista era stuff is always such a nostalgia trip for me. Great video as always!
Nice to finally show off the house as close to finished now with as much cinematic flare as possible.
Dude have you seen the world record fart? WILD
I am SO jealous of your storage room. So many old CRTs and old PC parts, so much tinkering potential!
Had one of these as a kid, and it was such a fun computer. It was my first real experience with USB!
Man, I really miss the random PCs from the 90s. They definitely had a weird style to them that is timeless in a way.
We had a Gateway Country store close to where I grew up. My friend and I were in our early teens when it opened up and we would walk there once in a while to see the new computers. They had a few computers setup with internet access and printers that you could use freely. We would find guitar tabs online and would print them out to take home. We'd literally walk out with like a ream of paper we had printed guitar tabs on and nobody in the store ever cared, haha.
Gateway Country was awesome. We bought at least one computer there because their sales and support were so good.
It also got me interested in thin clients when their Gateway Connected Touch Pad came out, competing with the Netpliance i-Opener, both of which had those 2-4 year internet service provider lock-in deals.
That whole market imploded just before AOLTV was cancelled. Interesting times to be in home computing on the internet.
That shot of the PC and the wavy reflection from the windows was pure 90s bliss
11:32 Very much so, looks like a trade magazine advertisement from early-to-mid 1990s. The ads would often add graphical and text doodads, but the shot itself is perfect as the base image.
Yay new LGR always makes my day when these come out 😁
When I worked in a Gateway tech support call center in 2001, this was the machine _everyone_ wanted to get a call on. Walking grandma through replacing a hard drive on anything else was just a nightmare. This one was so easy. It was super rare but sometimes we'd get someone calling in for support on it.
I really love the shape of this computer. It's very cozy.
To quote a popular meme, it's shaped like a friend. 😊
@@stevethepocket It sure is!
A PC that was only made for a year and doesn't work at all when the clock battery fails - no wonder these are so hard to find. Great video, Clint.
You'd find them, just that you'd have to become some kind of a landfill archeologist.
5:30 At least this means that if the monitor ever goes bad, the computer isn’t completely useless since you could just take it apart and connect a different one.
Disassemble a lcd monitor and mod it in there somehow.
I believe that was also there to speed up the service department doing video testing .
My mind is blown that thing ran NFS and Quake as well as it did. Neat little PC I'd never heard of. Nice work dude.
That could make a really nice CRT sleeper PC actually, esp. with their decision to have the monitor connection as a regular VGA socket, etc.
I would love to see someone mod this to not only boost performance, but also to add in all the missing I/O.
I think seeing a Raspberry Pi 4 in there would be really interesting.
Man I love your storage solution for all your tech gear. I know you've changed it up a bit over the years but man what a dream! Really really glad to call myself a Patreon supporter and glad that you have the means to run this channel. There are so many computers out there that need videos documenting issues, features, etc. and LGR is such a slick way to present them. Rock on, dude! 🎉
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Hey Clint!
As always, thanks for the awesomeness 🎉
Being from Durham, NC myself it's cool to see a local shop donate a classic PC like this for one of your videos that you managed to resurrect!! Never knew of the shop personally but they seem to have rave reviews. May have to give them a look!!
I remember when Gateway was the best thing around. It's really sad the company crashed so hard 😭
i still have a working Gateway computer.
I remember they collapsed and they had just managed to expand there retail to my area. They were a opening retail store for the renovated Whitehall Mall. The store lasted about a month before closing and being replaced by a smaller electronics store that also closed. Ironically the mini strip had none of the stores survive that originally opened in it . the Anchor was Borders.
@@JeffreyPiatt Whitehall PA? I live near there lol. If so, small world.
@@vardekpetrovic9716 Cloanto still seems to be alive and kicking. Much to the annoyance of people who would rather their products become abandonware.
@@vardekpetrovic9716 Hyperion is still around.
this is the 2nd pc my family had. my mom tried to open a sewing shop, and this was meant to be her work computer. after her shop failed, we brought it home, and it pretty much became my computer since i used it so often. one neat piece of default software that came on it was an instructional video that introduced what USB was since it was new technology at the time, and it predicted that it would be the default port going forward for all peripherals
Love your retro computer videos!!!
I am in agreeance
your videos like this one always bring me back to being a kid playing games on my old windows 98 HP Pavilion desktop, very cozy and relaxing stuff to watch man
I worked at GW country stores from 1999 to 2004. Right up to the point when they were purchased by eMachine and closed all stores. The Astro was Ted's answer to Steve's iMac but the iMac had better marketing and the ipod gen 1 was right around the corner. Those were the days. I can't wait to see your next oddware review of a Gateway Plasma TV from 2002!
I'll never forget the day I went over to my friend's place and his dad was setting up a Destination in their living room. I was like, what is that?! I remember we played The Neverhood on it. I'm surprised LGR hasn't done a video on Destination yet but those are probably pretty rare these days. They're still out there though! I remember being shocked about 9-10 years ago when I opened a closet at my office and there was an old Destination sitting on a long forgotten A/V cart. I felt like I was transported back to high school. Good times.
@@itsonlybrad2278 Those Destinations where ahead of their time.... This would have been a serious purchase. The "High Definition" VGA 31" Monitor\TV was almost 300lbs. The stores had a living room setup with the Destination for people to demo. People loved checking it out but it was hard to sell based on the price. ua-cam.com/video/s4WTJGBAfGA/v-deo.html
Well done on a great video as always LGR. I'm always intrigued by Gateway machines, since there were very few of them here in Aus back then.
The move to your new house is already doing a tremendous service to the quality of your videos. The sets, the workshop, the storeroom, it's all paying off. Bloody awesome mate keep it up.
As always, a great video. I genuinely appreciate that on a fairly limited machine like this you don’t harp on what it can’t do, but instead allow us to enjoy what it can do.
It's amazing how long we stuck with floppy disks! I remember selling custom systems well into the early 2000s and since the floppy was only $19.95 retail, people were always wanting one "just in case". Now as a tech, I did use the floppy a bunch to run Seatools (HDD diagnostic) and Memtest, sometimes to flash BIOS, so I did appreciate it still being there.
Back before the cloud and cheap USB drives they still held an important niche for transferring files from the office and home, or students for school projects.
The wait for new vids to start showing since your move was definitely worth it. I can see a few improvements from the main shots, b-roll, and other shots like in your work area. Makes me want to finally redo my desk to record larger projects. That storage solution seems pretty well played out with motion lights, if I'm not mistaken. Might do something similar for my things.
Thanks, it’s been a journey but it’s finally coming together nicely I think!
@@LGR so far so good. My current project is a full acrylic build from the mid 2000s. I just can't seem to locate an era-appropriate clear ps/2 or USB keyboard like the logisys clear multimedia keyboard. I've got everything else... Cold cathodes, lcd, speakers, mouse, etc.
I remember some all in ones that looked like it in the Ritz Carlton in Florida. Was in kids club. They were that color. Was either the emachine or the gateway. Loved playing them.
810 graphics, early onboard sound, no expansion options... Truly the stuff nightmares were made of. It totally deserves being stuck with a death star HDD.
my favorite Clint quirk is when he randomly slides into his duke nukem voice
This is pretty well made I wish I could have one.
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This is the coziest LGR video of them all.
Your new storage looking good man!
like 2 terrabytes too
love it man, I want one. This is back when machines were personal and neat.
That's better engineered than an iMac.
Thank you for making sure each episode is properly captioned.
Former Gateway country store employee here I remember working on the Astros a lot. They were pretty finicky didn’t run well and had overheating issues but I love the way they looked!
I love watching videos about old tech I could never afford from back in the day on FAR superior tech I've bought recently.
Thank you for these videos, they're oddly helpful and comforting, in a strange, beautiful way.
Totally love this PC :) Would be so epic to toss in a new age upgraded system. There is some great usb to IDE and floppy controllers, ;) Plus the wire harness looks super easy to convert :)
This was my first brand new computer way back in the day!! I knew even then that it was a lower end machine but I truly loved it because it was new and all mine. No broken Dos or Windows 95 PC that I had to cobble together.
I recent purchased one that did not power on (it was still new in box) and I spent HOURS and HOURS taking it apart and testing continuity on the motherboard, testing the power supply and everything I could think of. I searched forums and the internet for an answer as to why the motherboard would not power on even though it was getting power and came up with nothing.
it never occurred to me not even one time that it could be a problem with the RTC battery. I feel dumb. LGR deserves a hero medal for finding this ridiculous answer for me. Plopping in a new battery completely resolved the issue. I literally cannot thank you enough for helping me fix this terrible computer so I can play Mind Maze.
Final note: even if you had he original keyboard it is very likely the film would have melted together so that only certain keys work
Thanks! ! ! this is my favorite video you have ever made. (that and pretty much every thrift episode)
That Rugrats game you featured at the end... Did they seriously make the in-game inventory screen... _Inside Tommy's friggan diaper?!_ What the *Hell,* Gateway? Did you even LOOK at this game before approving it as a bundle?!
The nostalgia in this video is off the charts! My gosh from the 90s PCs, awesome game clips, the sound of that boot up. Man do I miss that era SO much. 😭😭
Great vid. You're like the Bob Ross of old hardware.
"Let's get you opened up and cleaned. Soft bristles and a delicate stroke is all you need to make this little fan feel all good and new again." "Looks like we need a hard drive. Let's see what we have. Oh, here's a happy little drive. Not too big, not too small, it's just right."
the nostalgia hit me so hard from this
The idea of how many of these got tossed just because of a dead battery hurts me for reasons i can't explain
Man just hearing that old machine fire up brings back floods of memories and relaxing nostalgic gooeyness.
Gateway was the Acer back in the day. Pretty decent but affordable.
Irony being that when Gateway went under Acer bought there Consumer and Business Desktop/Laptop business and Branding. Micron's former PC business MPC bought out there server arm.
With the little difference that Gateways were well put together devices and most Acers were just cheap crap.
Killer shot at 10:36. Cool background.
Thanks!
As silly as it seems, I really miss Gateway because of those cow prints, lol.
Where I used to work, we bought a load of Research Machines (Obscure UK computer manufacturer specialising in education) all in ones. These were supposedly custom designed, but while they did have a vertically mounted motherboard, it was a conventional Intel desktop board, which the result that while it hid the external ports away in their own cubby hole, it also had a short VGA lead which fitted entirely within the cubby hole and plugged into the motherboard. This looked messy enough, but the board only had onboard DVI. So, we also had a DVI to VGA adaptor that also took up space, and frequently fell out, even when tightened.
It was also WAY bulkier than any of the available iMacs, while having a much smaller screen, less storage and less onboard processing power.
I miss Gateway 2000 and all the cow spotted goodness they had to offer 😭
I think it would make for a cool video on how you store and organize all the computer goodness you have.... Your shelving was impressive and seemed to have purpose besides just holding things 😎
Man, I had one of these in a nook in my parent's kitchen. I spent many many nights sitting on an uncomfortable barstool struggling through Broodware on one of these. I LOVED it though. Great video!
Thanks for the video review.
You have the most interesting and detailed video reviews.
I sink into nostalgia.