OH MY GOD!!! My first proper laptop was that blue Advent! Got it at PC World, had Windows ME on it, yikes! And went for the upgrade to 1.1GHz Pentium... brum brumm!!!
The thinkpad is worth every dime. You still get spare parts. My oldest is a T20 from 2000 running windows xp. Produced where? By ibm in Greenock, Scottland, I guess cause I got my first thinkpad laptop from there for about 5000€ ... then of cause 10.000 DM. Great machine, hot swap bay for exchange a dvd player with a 2nd battery or ejectable num block or floppy disk drive or hdd
The Thinkpad HDD is possibly still Okay. I haven’t checked for this model, but on these older systems I’d suspect it’s just a case of the BIOS settings being lost, so you’d need to go back in and setup the hard drive again in the bios (in the old days, the interface didn’t auto detect). :)
@@DavidWatts Great, I've got a 380XD model which is similar to the model in your video. You've got to admire IBM for their funny flying duck cursor, makes you wonder what thy were thinking :) I can post a link to the drivers if you need em.
Butterfly connector? I’ve always called it a cloverleaf. Officially it has the name IEC C5 I believe. But that doesn’t role off the tongue does it? My first PC had windows 3.1 - but I used to play sim city 2000 on an ibm machine similar to yours on w95 round at a friends house.
Windows 95 pre-dates USB. It wasn't until Windows 98 Second Edition where USB support came in. I have a crusty ThinkPad which has a USB port, but is unusable because the OS is older than Win98SE :( Guess I should "upgrade" it :)
Love the Compaq Armada - not so impressed with Advent PCs as they were DSG Retails Ltds own brand and I know how they used to test/grade them so would steer well clear of them! I've got a couple of IBM 308 laptops but the ones I have have cases that are covered in scratches and dont look as nice as your one.
On my old Armada, the power inlet was next to the PS/2 port, however it had the 3 pin connector you're using. Open it up and see. Loved the design of these laptops.
those laptops are quite modern for DOS and were released around the time of Windows 95/2000/XP. You should get yourself a 386 or 486SX/DX laptop which were the "elite" DOS machines and Windows was just an option (if you had enough dsk space) :).
@@DavidWatts Yeah I know, but some of the IBM and Compaq 486 laptops are still floating around on ebay, if you are lucky enough to find one with TFT and onboard sound. The Toshiba's are very well built machines, I watched your video of that model, quite funny the intro.
DOS games don't understand MMX instructions, is used only to speed up multimedia applications in Windows. Slow running DOS games was all part of the fun back then :)
@@Geeksmithing I used the TURBO button to slow down work and speed up games 🤓 16Mhz to redline turbo 33Mhz with 8MB EDO 60ns Ram and a fully defragged 80MB disk!
ive got one of those Compaq Amador laptops somewhere in my garage with the same cloverleaf plug that turns on, if someone sent a shipping label you can have it for free if you want BTW im in the UK too, probably about £5 to post it ?
I wish I still had my Compaq 386... I remember in the early days of Linux, I took it down the park and booted Slackware on it and it was like "Wow... I'm in the park, and I've got Unix... In the Park!" (My previous Unix machine was the size of a large chest freezer) ..... 'course as soon as I'd got root, the battery ran out.......... (sigh) .... the good old days. Ha! I've still got marker pen all around my BIOS key even now. I always thought it was a mistake for Microsoft to name an edition of Windows after myalgic encephalomyelitis... but anyone who's run Windows M.E. probably think that was quite apt actually.
Wrong title cause DOS GAMER DREAM ... would hit the nail. Railroad Tycoon or WOLFPACK or Battle of Britain were the games I purchased from my first full salary as a full time employee on day 1 after studying was done in the year of the Berlin Wall and Communism collapse. Great memories, huge card board boxes with 5,25 or 3,5 Floppy disc and mostly a huge manual and password protection like "please type page 4 second paragraph last word of the line" ... or battle britain protection by a cardbox utility you could turn "Turn the wheel to homechain .... field and then type in the radio frequency showed in the box ...
Crystal Caves and Duke Nukem 1 were my favourites although I dare say it was post BW fall. In 91 I think my Dad had an Amstrad PCW8256. I can't recall if the Commodore PC (really, a Commodore PC) was before or after. All if our PC's were second hand to the year doesn't really date them tbh,
The ThinkPad reminded me of the old comment that PCMCIA stands for: "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms".
Ha ha, it really becomes a tongue twister
11:40 I've never seen this in a computer ! I think you were hackingthe matrix mate. You shall be visited by polite agents : take care, good luck !
July 7th, 1643. Hmmm. That was during the English Civil War. I wonder if that's Oliver Cromwell's laptop...
OH MY GOD!!! My first proper laptop was that blue Advent! Got it at PC World, had Windows ME on it, yikes! And went for the upgrade to 1.1GHz Pentium... brum brumm!!!
The thinkpad is worth every dime. You still get spare parts. My oldest is a T20 from 2000 running windows xp. Produced where?
By ibm in Greenock, Scottland, I guess cause I got my first thinkpad laptop from there for about 5000€ ... then of cause 10.000 DM.
Great machine, hot swap bay for exchange a dvd player with a 2nd battery or ejectable num block or floppy disk drive or hdd
I got a ibm t21 800mhz p3
The Thinkpad HDD is possibly still Okay. I haven’t checked for this model, but on these older systems I’d suspect it’s just a case of the BIOS settings being lost, so you’d need to go back in and setup the hard drive again in the bios (in the old days, the interface didn’t auto detect). :)
Thanks Greg, I will dig out some boot disks and check. I will have to have a search and find out what the magic BIOS key is.
@@DavidWatts With the unit powered off, hold the F1 key and power the unit on. Keep F1 held down until Easy setup appears.
@@arnolduk123 F1 indeed did it
@@DavidWatts Great, I've got a 380XD model which is similar to the model in your video. You've got to admire IBM for their funny flying duck cursor, makes you wonder what thy were thinking :) I can post a link to the drivers if you need em.
Butterfly connector? I’ve always called it a cloverleaf. Officially it has the name IEC C5 I believe. But that doesn’t role off the tongue does it?
My first PC had windows 3.1 - but I used to play sim city 2000 on an ibm machine similar to yours on w95 round at a friends house.
Cloverleaf sounds much better! :-) I kinda made the butterfly thing up because I didn't know what to call it.
In the store i work in, we call it a "Mickey mouse"-connector.
zapro_dk Ha! I like that. Although I tend to use the term Mickey Mouse when something is a bit cheap and rubbish.
Windows 95 pre-dates USB. It wasn't until Windows 98 Second Edition where USB support came in. I have a crusty ThinkPad which has a USB port, but is unusable because the OS is older than Win98SE :( Guess I should "upgrade" it :)
6:35 Toshiba power bricks with the type of tip which fit the massive centre pin input plug type are also useful to power Fujitsu laptops.
Love the Compaq Armada - not so impressed with Advent PCs as they were DSG Retails Ltds own brand and I know how they used to test/grade them so would steer well clear of them! I've got a couple of IBM 308 laptops but the ones I have have cases that are covered in scratches and dont look as nice as your one.
Got to love DOS gaming :)
On my old Armada, the power inlet was next to the PS/2 port, however it had the 3 pin connector you're using. Open it up and see. Loved the design of these laptops.
those laptops are quite modern for DOS and were released around the time of Windows 95/2000/XP. You should get yourself a 386 or 486SX/DX laptop which were the "elite" DOS machines and Windows was just an option (if you had enough dsk space) :).
The perfect one is kinda hard to find. I have a Toshiba 200 CDS which is great but it has an STN screen.
@@DavidWatts Yeah I know, but some of the IBM and Compaq 486 laptops are still floating around on ebay, if you are lucky enough to find one with TFT and onboard sound. The Toshiba's are very well built machines, I watched your video of that model, quite funny the intro.
I'm intrigued by that very vintage looking Eveready C cell.
I plucked it out of a vintage multimeter - ua-cam.com/video/57cX-dSYh_Q/v-deo.html
Any interest in a Siemens Nixdorf Scenic Mobile 700 ?
I have a fully functioning HP Omnibook 3000CTX 5/200 MMX, is it worth anything?
Wow! That Thinkpad has MMX technology! You are going to be SCREAMING through those DOS games! ;)
DOS games don't understand MMX instructions, is used only to speed up multimedia applications in Windows. Slow running DOS games was all part of the fun back then :)
@@arnolduk123 It was more of a joke, but that is good to know!
@@Geeksmithing just a bit of tech waffle but I get the joke :)
@@arnolduk123 it's about as useful as the turbo button!;). Why would someone NOT use that?!🤪🤓
@@Geeksmithing I used the TURBO button to slow down work and speed up games 🤓 16Mhz to redline turbo 33Mhz with 8MB EDO 60ns Ram and a fully defragged 80MB disk!
ive got one of those Compaq Amador laptops somewhere in my garage with the same cloverleaf plug that turns on, if someone sent a shipping label you can have it for free if you want BTW im in the UK too, probably about £5 to post it ?
I wish I still had my Compaq 386... I remember in the early days of Linux, I took it down the park and booted Slackware on it and it was like "Wow... I'm in the park, and I've got Unix... In the Park!" (My previous Unix machine was the size of a large chest freezer) ..... 'course as soon as I'd got root, the battery ran out.......... (sigh) .... the good old days.
Ha! I've still got marker pen all around my BIOS key even now.
I always thought it was a mistake for Microsoft to name an edition of Windows after myalgic encephalomyelitis... but anyone who's run Windows M.E. probably think that was quite apt actually.
nice blue computer
Wrong title cause
DOS GAMER DREAM ... would hit the nail.
Railroad Tycoon or WOLFPACK or Battle of Britain were the games I purchased from my first full salary as a full time employee on day 1 after studying was done in the year of the Berlin Wall and Communism collapse.
Great memories, huge card board boxes with 5,25 or 3,5 Floppy disc and mostly a huge manual and password protection like "please type page 4 second paragraph last word of the line" ... or battle britain protection by a cardbox utility you could turn "Turn the wheel to homechain .... field and then type in the radio frequency showed in the box ...
Crystal Caves and Duke Nukem 1 were my favourites although I dare say it was post BW fall. In 91 I think my Dad had an Amstrad PCW8256. I can't recall if the Commodore PC (really, a Commodore PC) was before or after. All if our PC's were second hand to the year doesn't really date them tbh,
The ibm is my favorite
Don't forget about quake.
95, NT, 98, NT-4, ME, 2000, XP, Vista,
You missed CEMeNT
CE don’t count 😝
@@AJB2K3 In that case neither does the horrid release of ME :D
was 98SE straight after 98 ?