Howdy there! I work at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (the enterprise-side of the 2015 company split, consisting primarily of PPS becoming HP Inc. (HPI) and EG becoming Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)), and our team manages some of the biggest data centers in the company! Our lab supports some absolutely ancient server/data center technologies (still alive!) purely for customer contract support purposes... some back from the Compaq merger days and before! It's kinda odd seeing 20 year old equipment sitting next to Gen 10 servers which are exponentially more powerful and energy efficient. If you're ever in the Fort Collins area, hit me up for a tour of how far HP has come since this early workstation laptop!
Oh wow, never thought I'd see someone from Fort Collins in this comment section! I drive by that gigantic HP facility on my way to work - small world huh! Super cool stuff though, always been curious as to what all went on there.
omg that sounds so cool :o I'd take the tour any day! It's amazing how equipment this old can still work and actually be necessary. That idea would have never crossed my mind!
As much as I'd like to meet Clint and share game/computer nostalgia (I also have a pretty formidable collection of NES schtuff, I have nearly every game ever made), I'm not too confident any interactions between us would result in anything viewable by you guys. There's a strict No Cameras policy in our labs for obvious reasons, and not even Clint is immune to such policies :(. I'm sure he'd find it fascinating, but not really shareable on UA-cam unfortunately.
Starbucks might be a bad example they're used to people bringing their desktops and even in case of one photo a full recording studio. Edit oh yeah and that was also a desktop.
I work at Starbucks, and i shit you not, I've seen folks bring in their Macintosh all in ones to work on stuff. A couple guys bring in makeshift mobile rigs to play WOW every few days or so.
It's a t1 network analyzer. I never worked with one but worked with other similar pieces of equipment. Long story short it can perform bit error rate testing on the entire t1 line down to the ds0 level along with acting as a monitor for the different protocols used in network communications. Speed tests, stress tests, and probably a few others I am forgetting. You don't want the long version. lol
Josh Samuelson I believe you, because one of the federal agencies I worked with back in the day, had a need for one. But, instead of paying 20k for this, they hired me for $5k to write code that did all the analysis they needed.
This makes me think of the “lappy 486” from homestarrunner so much. “WEIGHING AT A CONVENIENT 47 POUNDS!” “⚠️5-minute battery life” “ -several- *COLOR MONITOR!”* “Charges in 5-7 business days”
Suffer No Fools Lots of different stuff for testing T1s, BERT (bit error rate test). There are lots of settings for T1s they could be set up for AMI B8ZS etc. different types of framing different times of handing lots of 0s. I had to learn this all in the last 6 years and it’s kinda fascinating to a techie born in 85 lol!
nothing says "i love collecting vintage computer hardware but i also live in the present" than having a 1080ti box and a soundblaster box in the same frame
Checkout LGR's Twitter feed (@lazygamereviews) for a GIF of the mouse being *ejected.* Pretty cool IMO. I found this video from a retweet or the GIF by @notch.
This is not a laptop! Its a piece of networking test gear that has a built in computer. Agilent and now Keysight still make things like this today. A lot of high end test equipment like osciloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers and other specialised test quipment runs a normal x86 PC inside running windows 7. This high end equipment does not sell in high volumes as only so many people in the world need such a thing so using windows makes it faster to develop software for it, but they all still cost over 10 grand new. Its all the specialized test and measurement hardware that makes this thing cost 20 grand, not the glued on computer part.
Reminds me of synthesizers of the very late-1970s and the 1980s. Then eventually, some were made for the Macintosh and the like, by the late-1980s, IIRC.
In a way it's like a stylus popping out of a phone or a nintendo ds for example. Seems like a neat idea overall though. I just hope you can put in a new one once it breaks :D
It's a telecommunications test set to test digital telco lines up to a T1 level, a T- Bird or Firebird test set built into a a laptop style case. Most likely with with different protocol analyzer software. Although 20 years old it would work just fine testing today's telco lines.
Wireshark stuff is just a small part of what it's capable of. One of the primary functions of these things is seeing how clean and reliable the data path is. Think of wireshark as a traffic monitor on a highway. This thing also makes sure the highway itself can handle the traffic.
I've got a couple of these, we have modules that will test telco circuits from basic pots/FX circuits to DS0 thru DS3. I might even have an OC3 module kicking around somewhere. Like Brian Unruh said, it'll do RS232 protocol analysis as well. Central Office Technician here :)
I have an HP version as well as the newer Agilent Net Advisor. The T1/T3 undercradle I have is for T-carrier analyzing of T1/T3 etc. (1.544Mbs/44.736Mbs). It allows for non intrusive monitoring of the signal for alarms and errors. It will also provide intrusive test capability for verifying circuit integrity to various points through the T-Carrier circuit. There are many under carriage modules for these. I have one for testing DS0 2.4k thru 64k Data circuits. One for TEMS (Transmission Impairment Measuring Set) which will perform frequency loss and nyquist tests on copper wire facilities. I also have an undercarriage for RS232/RS485 protocol analysis with v.35 and D-Sub connectors. I might even have some FX (Foreign Exchange) test units that will test analog voice lines and act as customer endpoint equipment such as a PBX.... A very versatile piece of kit for its day when to purchase a piece of test equipment for each of these technologies would cost 10's of thousands EACH per device.
Both of these are pre-Keysight. They're the HP Net Advisor with Win95 and Agilent Net Advisor with Win98 They both still work well, however now we have purpose built test equipment that is faster and much smaller. Even the T-berd 310 with OC3/OC12 was easier to use than waiting for the Advisors. edit: changed 311 to 310
are you sure you died? because you couldnt have typed that response after dying. that would be physically impossible. which makes it safe to assume that it is a joke on your part and you are still alive.
Looks like it's using some sort of motion-sensing, which is in every phone now and costs about 50c. Back then it'll have been state of the art and cost an absolute fortune, but when an engineer's travelling and doesn't have anywhere to put a mouse mat, technology provides. Nothing's too good for a $20k laptop.
This brings back memories. I had one I used when I worked for Pacific Bell in Concord, CA. I was the chronics tech support for frame relay. It was a fun time b4 SBC/AT&T. I retired 1/11/08 after 38 yrs in the telco. I couldn't take any more of AT&T's BS. Thanks for showing this rig. Cheers.
I have noticed your subtle new editorial touches and I like them, good sir, they please my eyeballs and my brain thanks you for it. Have a good day and continue to produce such pleasing videos, they are of greatly admirable quality.
Clint, if you ever do another Tech Tales, then you should review MSN TV (WebTV) if you haven't already done so. They were around from the mid-'90s all the way up until 2013. I remember my father was provided a keyboard, remote mouse, and a box that you hooked up to the TV. Of course, it also used dial-up access, so you needed a landline. It's actually pretty funny thinking about it. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. We ditched it after a few weeks back in 1997 ('98?) because we had nothing but problems. You can probably find it for dirt cheap off of eBay. Love your videos, especially the one about America Online (AOL). I subscribed.
Michael Cummings I've thought of this as well. I still have my WebTV box and a wireless Philips keyboard for it lol It was so awesome to me when I was young. maybe the first way I could look up porn because it was in my room.
dreamy stone HP began as a test equipment company, primarily, but not exclusively, electronics test gear. They later expanded into computing. As the computing side grew and grew, the test and measurement arm was spun off as Agilent. Agilent in turn began to expand heavily into non-electronics test and measurement, especially lab and biochem. Eventually, that grew so big that they spun off the electronics test and measurement again, this time as Keysight. It kinda saddens me that the division that is HP's true roots didn't get to keep the HP name. Keysight is just an awful name IMHO.
Honestly I would've loved to have heard a smidge more about the pop-out mouse. I suppose it uses that 'cable bridge' to decide the position of the mouse? I guess I'll stop being lazy, heh heh, and do some research of my own! Is it weird that's what intrigued me the most?
I was hired for my very first full-time IT job in the summer of 1998... doing laptop/desktop support... and my first laptop was an older HP Omnibook with a pop-out mouse. By that time, the pop-out mouse had already been phased out of the mainstream Omnibook line. I think it was used mainly in laptops manufactured from '95-'97. That said, part of my 'hazing' as the new guy was to get the older crappy laptop... After a few weeks on the job, I was expected to upgrade myself into a newer model... but to start... it was pop-out mouse. To be honest, I very rarely used it... typically had a PS2 mouse plugged in. While pretty much everybody found it awkward to use, it was functional in a pinch... which is about the only compliment I can give it. As far as how it functioned... it was a fairly complicated device compared to the eraser / touchpad pointers that would replace it. The 'cable bridge' had two sets of conductive contacts on the internal end that would register with pads inside the assembly... one set for the x-axis and another for the y-axis. Buttons were controlled by conductive strips that ran along the same surface as the positional contacts. Replacement was a bit of a pain... as with most laptops... a lot of things needed to be disassembled to reach what you wanted... But it could be removed in 2... or maybe 3 parts. Once the laptop was torn open, replacing the pop-out mouse section only took a minute or two. Thankfully, these models were already being phased out when I started and they were all retired by early '99.... so I didn't work on them all that much.... and my recollection might not be perfect. In general, the thing was more robust than it looked. The most common damage was when somebody would forget to pop it back into the laptop before putting the laptop into their bag... the mouse would snag on something and the plastic bridge would shear off.... but outside of that type of catastrophic damage.. it held up quite well in day-to-day use... occasionally dust would interfere with one of the contacts... so the x-axis would work perfectly while the y-axis would be all wonky... but that was relatively rare. All in all... a neat bit of over-engineering compared to what replaced it.
I've seen similar devices around the Logistics Center at the old Danish telephone monopoly, damn things were used for analysis out in the field a lot. Had to be able to handle a lot of crazy shit, like checking copper cables in the middle of nowhere or on a small island. Cool shit like that.
Philip Balfour That's why these were the best test sets, especially at remote sites, while waiting for customer access to get in to troubleshoot a telco problem you could get in a game with Kasparov or Doom. 😊
Oh man, that software alone was thousands of dollars. That era of HP/Agilent was the BEST. Consistently heads and tails over the competition. And their customer support didn't mess around. They were dedicated to not interrupting your work.
That thing would still look right at home with the racks of Agilent and HP instruments at my last job, the Keysight spinoff was just happening at the time. I almost wonder if this was meant to be if not rack mounted at least rack attachable. That protocol test suite is quite the doozy with ISDN and Fiber Frame Relay this must've been quite the swiss army knife for telecoms Since instruments were HPs first products, Keysight can in many ways be thought of as the successor to the core of Hewlett-Packard and it has a large part of the company archives that it inherited.
I'm interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud Internet connection to a 1.5 megabit fiber optic T1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatible with my Token ring/Ethernet LAN configuration?
I ran one of these in the 90's and used it to solve a TON of trouble. Mine had a Cerjac undercradle and I mainly used it on PRI and channelized T1 trouble. My telco personnel jacket is chock full of kudos letters from companies, because I used this thing to save them hundreds of thousands of dollars resolving chronic troubles. Thanks for the video- memory lane time!!
That mouse kills me. That being said I love the inclusion of the info panels and such on the sides. It's upped the already high quality of your conent and I'm a huge fan!
My Dad worked for Hewlett Packard and then Agilent Technology when it split off. He was one of the project managers on this product! When I showed him this, this is what he replied: “Yes. We produced a “Signalling Advisor” which used the same pc based chassis (which we co-developed) and different interfaces and extra processing. Ours was $40-$80,000. Signalling is the therm used for control signals for phone networks - mobile, long distance, satellite and undersea cable. Our extra processing correlated the signalling from 4 channels (for reliability) and in real time analysed the details of all the calls being made.”
This is how we'd feel about today's $20,000+ Xeon servers 30 years from now. Or so I hope, given how computational power has greatly slowed down its progress in recent years.
I actually think year to year gains will be pretty marginal. Even 20 years from now I bet those servers will be serviceable. Maybe not top-tier tech anymore, but definitely useable.
The toggles that you were selecting with the small screwdriver are Control signals that were used in the serial communication through RS 232, and the ones on the right side are control signals for Data Terminal Equipment - Data Communication Equipment configuration. This piece of hardware is amazing, never heard of it before!!! Thank you!!
That is something that would be used by network technicians at well funded corporations and ISP's to monitor corporate internet usage and analyze network issues
I worked on a competitor product to this in the UK which used Dolch field portable units containing our own E1/T1 linecards. They were sold or leased out to companies for SS7, V5, R2 protocol testing, bulk traffic generation, switching simulation and passive analysis, but our products were less for LAN/WAN and more for DMS (digital main switches) such as BT's System X, Ericson AXE-10 and AT&T/Lucent 5ESS.
One of your most entertaining videos yet! Clint, you're really good at this stuff! (Seriously, you deserve a mini network TV segment (any US computer shows still running?)). You can really see the production improvements when comparing early LGR to now. You may have started off as a "lazy game reviewer" but you're anything but now, keep up the excellent work!
Ah shiiiiit, used one of those back in the late 1990's through the early 2000's. These network analyzers still exist from various vendors, but most in my profession use other more economically available tools.
OMG the popup mouse! I didn't expect that and never thought I'd see such a thing! XD Wow~ And though I don't understand those programs and its purposes I still think it's nice to see what some people used to work with~
Oddly enough, this could still be used for provisioning T1/E1 circuits, since most LECs still have hardware in place to interface with it. I can almost bet this terminal belonged to 'Ma Bell at one point. For all I know, I used it.
@LGR, Those dip switches control the bit flow, parity and such for checking and polarizing whatever signal the tech is troubleshooting. This is also used as a diagnostic for multiplexing connections and such.
That's what's kinda fun about AMS Neve audio mixing digital consoles. The computers that run the control surface (the 'desk' with all the knobs and buttons) and DSP unit (a computer that adds all the effects to the audio) use Windows XP and Vista. They don't need to be connected to the internet and are designed for a single purpose so they suffice. Although it is quite fun to be playing Solitaire on a 56 channel console and Pinball on a console that is in the process of exporting a short film in 5.1 surround sound. Its unusual, its funny and I shouldn't be doing it but hey, its not something you see every day.
I use to work for HP and we would take "work" home with us. My department serviced these machines for our HP laser printer dev. We would lan part Duke Nukem 3D over the weekend. Good times and great memories. Thanks for sharing.
I use Agilent lab equipment every day, and if their current hardware prices is anything to go by, that undercradle you have there may very well have been as expensive as a small family car! Also, they have a nasty habit of requiring specialty hardware for many things that seems like it should just be able to to plug into a USB port, like a spectrophotometer that requires a proprietary connector that you can only get on an arcane Agilent PCI card.
that machine is something really special, i did cisco training in my youth (mason by trade these days, idk wtf happened) they would have used it to configure networks at the electrical / binary level, you can see the old T1 designation, collision detection etc etc, amazing machine didn't know things like that existed, in its day i imagine it was the emperor of the internet
Ah, old Agilent network analyzers. My dad used to sell and lease these to everyone and their grandmother, amongst a gorrillion other things. Awesome to see these again, I wouldn't mind using the shell of one to make a hell of a gaming "laptop"
"most bullet proof laptop I own" do you not have an early Panasonic toughbook? I have a CF-25 and it is in an all metal case and frame, you should check it out.
Sweet! Keysite is headquartered in my hometown of Santa Rosa, CA! When I worked at a high school I took the kids on a field trip there. Super cool. No idea what anyone was doing. 😂
Howdy there! I work at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (the enterprise-side of the 2015 company split, consisting primarily of PPS becoming HP Inc. (HPI) and EG becoming Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)), and our team manages some of the biggest data centers in the company! Our lab supports some absolutely ancient server/data center technologies (still alive!) purely for customer contract support purposes... some back from the Compaq merger days and before! It's kinda odd seeing 20 year old equipment sitting next to Gen 10 servers which are exponentially more powerful and energy efficient. If you're ever in the Fort Collins area, hit me up for a tour of how far HP has come since this early workstation laptop!
Oh wow, never thought I'd see someone from Fort Collins in this comment section! I drive by that gigantic HP facility on my way to work - small world huh! Super cool stuff though, always been curious as to what all went on there.
omg that sounds so cool :o I'd take the tour any day! It's amazing how equipment this old can still work and actually be necessary. That idea would have never crossed my mind!
you should hit up his twitter
As much as I'd like to meet Clint and share game/computer nostalgia (I also have a pretty formidable collection of NES schtuff, I have nearly every game ever made), I'm not too confident any interactions between us would result in anything viewable by you guys. There's a strict No Cameras policy in our labs for obvious reasons, and not even Clint is immune to such policies :(. I'm sure he'd find it fascinating, but not really shareable on UA-cam unfortunately.
Figures x ) it is expected, though. Corporate secrets and sensitive data are like the Vatican archives lol
You can go to your local Starbucks with it. I'd like to see the faces of the people.
Starbucks might be a bad example they're used to people bringing their desktops and even in case of one photo a full recording studio. Edit oh yeah and that was also a desktop.
I work at Starbucks, and i shit you not, I've seen folks bring in their Macintosh all in ones to work on stuff. A couple guys bring in makeshift mobile rigs to play WOW every few days or so.
Cameron Koontz i don’t wanna be mean, but the macintosh all in ones are called imacs.
@@dragxnnu duly noted
@@dragxnnu unless of course they actually brought in there classic "Macintosh" all in ones but I would expect to find that on this channel as Mac OS
The friggin jet engine noise when it turns on. Titilating.
That boot is like my server booting.
it's more quiet then a ps4.
At least its not as loud as a powermac g5
windows and turbine spooling up.
sirp0p0 that's what those old pcs sounded like
"It's just a 90's computer at heart"
*Sound of Helicarrier taking off
is this early 90s notebook, 100mhz for 20 000 USD SMH
Lmao
It's a t1 network analyzer. I never worked with one but worked with other similar pieces of equipment. Long story short it can perform bit error rate testing on the entire t1 line down to the ds0 level along with acting as a monitor for the different protocols used in network communications. Speed tests, stress tests, and probably a few others I am forgetting. You don't want the long version. lol
Josh Samuelson I believe you, because one of the federal agencies I worked with back in the day, had a need for one. But, instead of paying 20k for this, they hired me for $5k to write code that did all the analysis they needed.
I am familiar with the Fireberd 6000 and 8000 network analyzers this looks liker it has a bit more functionality
I used equipment like this in the Navy to test my radio/radar data.
Yeah and i used it on my special agent missions on the moon
...I want the long version.
This makes me think of the “lappy 486” from homestarrunner so much.
“WEIGHING AT A CONVENIENT 47 POUNDS!”
“⚠️5-minute battery life”
“ -several- *COLOR MONITOR!”*
“Charges in 5-7 business days”
Oml I love homestar runner
Holy Crap you're totally right! 💻
they should have called it "the lap crusher 20,000"
Tony Fleetwood ok ok you fucking got me lmao
Tony Fleetwood I got a good laugh from that lol
That's a great name lol
the heat off this thing would also cook your testicles
LMAO! You just made me spit out my food. :p
Worked at an ISP in 1996-2000 and we had 4 of these!
Countryman Gaia Warrior I guess you would have needed both of your hands to lift one of these. Or a servant 🤔
Well you have to buy them in pairs otherwise your arms unequally exercised
Ya used one late 90's for lan/wan purposes. Was a great machine at the time. Can't imagine what out there now.
Suffer No Fools Lots of different stuff for testing T1s, BERT (bit error rate test). There are lots of settings for T1s they could be set up for AMI B8ZS etc. different types of framing different times of handing lots of 0s. I had to learn this all in the last 6 years and it’s kinda fascinating to a techie born in 85 lol!
And here I thought a computer with lots of blinky lights was only something you saw in 60's tv shows.
nothing says "i love collecting vintage computer hardware but i also live in the present" than having a 1080ti box and a soundblaster box in the same frame
HOLY SHIT THAT MOUSE IS SO CUTE IT'S THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!
My cyberdongs are ready and lubed up with holy oils blessed by the omnissiah.
Checkout LGR's Twitter feed (@lazygamereviews) for a GIF of the mouse being *ejected.* Pretty cool IMO.
I found this video from a retweet or the GIF by @notch.
Its a "clit" mouse.
Lorenzo Pagani dafuq
Yes the mouse was cool
This is not a laptop!
Its a piece of networking test gear that has a built in computer. Agilent and now Keysight still make things like this today. A lot of high end test equipment like osciloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers and other specialised test quipment runs a normal x86 PC inside running windows 7. This high end equipment does not sell in high volumes as only so many people in the world need such a thing so using windows makes it faster to develop software for it, but they all still cost over 10 grand new.
Its all the specialized test and measurement hardware that makes this thing cost 20 grand, not the glued on computer part.
And it can apparently play Solitaire. ;D Lol!
Reminds me of synthesizers of the very late-1970s and the 1980s. Then eventually, some were made for the Macintosh and the like, by the late-1980s, IIRC.
Do they still make 'em a billion pounds?
I was thinking the same!
>fits in lap
>fits on desk
laptop
That pop-out mouse idea made someone very rich... but all I can do is laugh at how silly that looks. :P
It's a BAT MOUSE.
In a way it's like a stylus popping out of a phone or a nintendo ds for example.
Seems like a neat idea overall though. I just hope you can put in a new one once it breaks :D
Looks better than those shitty touchpads we use now
Still better than a button on the keyboard as a mouse.... I just remembered those things ^^
The nipple mouse is coming back.. I have one now on my dell.
Looks cool, but does it have a TURBO BUTTON?
I knew there was a downside...
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Diagnostic doohickeys.
Fuck the turbo button, this things got nitro!
@@Mabidemonstrations epic nitro
It's a telecommunications test set to test digital telco lines up to a T1 level, a T- Bird or Firebird test set built into a a laptop style case. Most likely with with different protocol analyzer software. Although 20 years old it would work just fine testing today's telco lines.
Brian Unruh a fellow signal geek. I did 14 years as a tech control operator.
Question for you both. Is this like a hardware tool to do similar things to Wireshark in terms of monitoring?
Wireshark stuff is just a small part of what it's capable of. One of the primary functions of these things is seeing how clean and reliable the data path is. Think of wireshark as a traffic monitor on a highway. This thing also makes sure the highway itself can handle the traffic.
I swear by my Fireberd8000
I've got a couple of these, we have modules that will test telco circuits from basic pots/FX circuits to DS0 thru DS3. I might even have an OC3 module kicking around somewhere. Like Brian Unruh said, it'll do RS232 protocol analysis as well.
Central Office Technician here :)
I have an HP version as well as the newer Agilent Net Advisor. The T1/T3 undercradle I have is for T-carrier analyzing of T1/T3 etc. (1.544Mbs/44.736Mbs). It allows for non intrusive monitoring of the signal for alarms and errors. It will also provide intrusive test capability for verifying circuit integrity to various points through the T-Carrier circuit.
There are many under carriage modules for these. I have one for testing DS0 2.4k thru 64k Data circuits. One for TEMS (Transmission Impairment Measuring Set) which will perform frequency loss and nyquist tests on copper wire facilities. I also have an undercarriage for RS232/RS485 protocol analysis with v.35 and D-Sub connectors.
I might even have some FX (Foreign Exchange) test units that will test analog voice lines and act as customer endpoint equipment such as a PBX....
A very versatile piece of kit for its day when to purchase a piece of test equipment for each of these technologies would cost 10's of thousands EACH per device.
Both of these are pre-Keysight. They're the HP Net Advisor with Win95 and Agilent Net Advisor with Win98 They both still work well, however now we have purpose built test equipment that is faster and much smaller. Even the T-berd 310 with OC3/OC12 was easier to use than waiting for the Advisors.
edit: changed 311 to 310
i died at the Mouse..
I didn't know what to expect but a miniature little black thing permanently attached by what appears to be Hot Wheel track wasn't it.
are you sure you died? because you couldnt have typed that response after dying. that would be physically impossible. which makes it safe to assume that it is a joke on your part and you are still alive.
Haha! No one expects the pop out mouse (inquisition)!
Looks like it's using some sort of motion-sensing, which is in every phone now and costs about 50c. Back then it'll have been state of the art and cost an absolute fortune, but when an engineer's travelling and doesn't have anywhere to put a mouse mat, technology provides. Nothing's too good for a $20k laptop.
greenaum either that or the black ribbon moves sensors inside the laptop
That popuout mouse blew my mind! Never seen anything like that before.
All those ports.. [*looks at Macbook*]
Symone *[Macbook awkwardly looks back]* W-what?
lol
Don’t forget to bring a seperate bag full of adapters when most devices don’t come with a USB-C connector.
MacBook is looking towards the future. Comparing it to a 90s computer is unfair.
"future"
Apple R & D: we have to remove all useful stuff so that the profit margins go up
Hold on let me start my jet engine up 1:48
That form factor actually looks pretty sweet for a LAN party 'desk top' computer. Way easier to lug around than a full desktop and monitor.
This thing weighs 20 pounds you do not want this thing in your lap
Me with my 19 pound cat in my lap: What?
XD So truee lol
Boi ,i can only say my Dog likes to sit on my lap(He ways 20 KG /44Ponds.)
Guessing it wouldn't have a very long battery life, if one at all.
Psivewri Considering the fact that it has an internal PSU and used a regular ATX three prong cable, I don't think it even has a battery
A car battery should fit inside that huge case
I don't see a place _to_ plug in a battery. Maybe you can replace the bottom plate?
Rodrigo Seoane Don't forget that the base is separable from the upper keyboard and screen portion
Tony Hong I know, I was just joking about the sheer size of the computer. "Laptop", ha!
This brings back memories. I had one I used when I worked for Pacific Bell in Concord, CA. I was the chronics tech support for frame relay. It was a fun time b4 SBC/AT&T.
I retired 1/11/08 after 38 yrs in the telco. I couldn't take any more of AT&T's BS. Thanks for showing this rig.
Cheers.
Aside from the roaches, THAT thing will survive the inevitable apocalypse.
A tin can, a piece of broken glass, and a used battery will fall together and they'd be able to play Doom
That and you can rebuild civilization with it (or at least the phone line / Internet part of it) once things have died down a little.
Yung Tityboi Right alongside the OG GameBoys, old Nokia phones, and pagers XD
Yung Tityboi It looks like something from Fallout that's for sure lol
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LGR: Gets a specialized heavy-duty 20k machine used for network diagnostics and other specialized work
Also LGR: *d o o m*
*d ö ö m*
I am going install embedded Linux on mine :3
I have noticed your subtle new editorial touches and I like them, good sir, they please my eyeballs and my brain thanks you for it.
Have a good day and continue to produce such pleasing videos, they are of greatly admirable quality.
I am glad to hear that, thanks!
Clint, if you ever do another Tech Tales, then you should review MSN TV (WebTV) if you haven't already done so. They were around from the mid-'90s all the way up until 2013.
I remember my father was provided a keyboard, remote mouse, and a box that you hooked up to the TV. Of course, it also used dial-up access, so you needed a landline. It's actually pretty funny thinking about it. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. We ditched it after a few weeks back in 1997 ('98?) because we had nothing but problems. You can probably find it for dirt cheap off of eBay.
Love your videos, especially the one about America Online (AOL). I subscribed.
Michael Cummings I've thought of this as well. I still have my WebTV box and a wireless Philips keyboard for it lol It was so awesome to me when I was young. maybe the first way I could look up porn because it was in my room.
Buys a 20,000 dollar comuter
Just to see a mouse pop out at the side of the computer
😂😂😂
Gabriel Austria he didn’t buy it for 20k
why
Its $900-$1000 now I believe
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Wait, Agilent? They make plasma spectrometers, I was at one of their conferences a few months ago. You're blowing my mind right now.
dreamy stone HP began as a test equipment company, primarily, but not exclusively, electronics test gear. They later expanded into computing. As the computing side grew and grew, the test and measurement arm was spun off as Agilent. Agilent in turn began to expand heavily into non-electronics test and measurement, especially lab and biochem. Eventually, that grew so big that they spun off the electronics test and measurement again, this time as Keysight.
It kinda saddens me that the division that is HP's true roots didn't get to keep the HP name. Keysight is just an awful name IMHO.
@@tookitogo Yeah, a lot of the life sciences business of Agilent came from buying another old Silicon Valley name, Varian.
I'm sure my dad has fixed these machines at some time then. Retired now but he used to repair medical machinery
"I don't know what they do but they look great, make me feel like I'm doing something important."
my life in a nutshell
The mouse is so cute even by the standard nowadays!
A 20,000-dollar mouse;-)
Hahaha
i wish modern hp laptops have that
LGR: *turns on the laptop*
Laptop: *makes airplane engine noises*
That thing must run pretty hot.
Hp airlines
Me: *is suddenly less concerned about an old laptop I have*
And ?
@@abc-ni9uw my point is it's fairly loud for something its size
Honestly I would've loved to have heard a smidge more about the pop-out mouse. I suppose it uses that 'cable bridge' to decide the position of the mouse? I guess I'll stop being lazy, heh heh, and do some research of my own! Is it weird that's what intrigued me the most?
I was hired for my very first full-time IT job in the summer of 1998... doing laptop/desktop support... and my first laptop was an older HP Omnibook with a pop-out mouse. By that time, the pop-out mouse had already been phased out of the mainstream Omnibook line. I think it was used mainly in laptops manufactured from '95-'97. That said, part of my 'hazing' as the new guy was to get the older crappy laptop... After a few weeks on the job, I was expected to upgrade myself into a newer model... but to start... it was pop-out mouse. To be honest, I very rarely used it... typically had a PS2 mouse plugged in. While pretty much everybody found it awkward to use, it was functional in a pinch... which is about the only compliment I can give it.
As far as how it functioned... it was a fairly complicated device compared to the eraser / touchpad pointers that would replace it. The 'cable bridge' had two sets of conductive contacts on the internal end that would register with pads inside the assembly... one set for the x-axis and another for the y-axis. Buttons were controlled by conductive strips that ran along the same surface as the positional contacts. Replacement was a bit of a pain... as with most laptops... a lot of things needed to be disassembled to reach what you wanted... But it could be removed in 2... or maybe 3 parts. Once the laptop was torn open, replacing the pop-out mouse section only took a minute or two. Thankfully, these models were already being phased out when I started and they were all retired by early '99.... so I didn't work on them all that much.... and my recollection might not be perfect.
In general, the thing was more robust than it looked. The most common damage was when somebody would forget to pop it back into the laptop before putting the laptop into their bag... the mouse would snag on something and the plastic bridge would shear off.... but outside of that type of catastrophic damage.. it held up quite well in day-to-day use... occasionally dust would interfere with one of the contacts... so the x-axis would work perfectly while the y-axis would be all wonky... but that was relatively rare. All in all... a neat bit of over-engineering compared to what replaced it.
The computer like machines these days are much quieter then yesterday’s computer machines.
*than
damn did technology advance THAT quick that computers have become much more silent within a span of 24 hours?? Wow
Ah... Yes another LGR video... time to grab a cup of tea and enjoy the woodgrain, smooth jazz and old tech products that are amazing everytime...
Mellow are you confusing him with greenham gaming?
only because he said "time to grab a cup of tea"?
i like tea. dont be confused.
good thing i dont drink cocoa.
His videos are the best
Watching your videos makes me nostalgic for technology I wasn't even alive to see
I've seen similar devices around the Logistics Center at the old Danish telephone monopoly, damn things were used for analysis out in the field a lot.
Had to be able to handle a lot of crazy shit, like checking copper cables in the middle of nowhere or on a small island.
Cool shit like that.
Philip Balfour That's why these were the best test sets, especially at remote sites, while waiting for customer access to get in to troubleshoot a telco problem you could get in a game with Kasparov or Doom. 😊
Loved the fan powering up! Takes you back! Live long & prosper!
Something this monstrously beautiful should never be allowed to die.
Oh man, that software alone was thousands of dollars. That era of HP/Agilent was the BEST. Consistently heads and tails over the competition. And their customer support didn't mess around. They were dedicated to not interrupting your work.
That pop-out mouse is classic-cool!
That thing would still look right at home with the racks of Agilent and HP instruments at my last job, the Keysight spinoff was just happening at the time. I almost wonder if this was meant to be if not rack mounted at least rack attachable. That protocol test suite is quite the doozy with ISDN and Fiber Frame Relay this must've been quite the swiss army knife for telecoms
Since instruments were HPs first products, Keysight can in many ways be thought of as the successor to the core of Hewlett-Packard and it has a large part of the company archives that it inherited.
needed it for faster access to My Space Page
I'm interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud Internet connection to a 1.5 megabit fiber optic T1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatible with my Token ring/Ethernet LAN configuration?
Just go to thinnet as nobody would need more than 10Base2.
Why is he using Token Ring and Ethernet? It's 1998, simplify man!
Welcome to the Internet, my friend! :)
Would you please pay first!
I understood that reference.
I ran one of these in the 90's and used it to solve a TON of trouble. Mine had a Cerjac undercradle and I mainly used it on PRI and channelized T1 trouble. My telco personnel jacket is chock full of kudos letters from companies, because I used this thing to save them hundreds of thousands of dollars resolving chronic troubles. Thanks for the video- memory lane time!!
Another day, another LGR vid. Today is going to be a good day.
RUSH B NO STOPU CYKA BLYAT
man i love 90s. HP made the GREATEST pop-out mouse ever
The Flying Windows screensaver always scared me as a kid.
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i loved it
It was kinda unsettling. Don't know why.
I still have it as my screensaver today. The Windows 98 version works fine on Windows 10 :)
What about being stuck in that maze of bricks?
“95 or 98?”
“*98 octane please.*”
I'll take 105
Was that an initial D reference or am I just a weeb
Hahaha the mouse whats got me laughing. Just pops out and folds back in. i love it and your videos.
That mouse brought back memories. I used to work in Corvallis Oregon on the Omni book assembly line as a youth. Good times.
That mouse kills me. That being said I love the inclusion of the info panels and such on the sides. It's upped the already high quality of your conent and I'm a huge fan!
My Dad worked for Hewlett Packard and then Agilent Technology when it split off. He was one of the project managers on this product! When I showed him this, this is what he replied:
“Yes. We produced a “Signalling Advisor” which used the same pc based chassis (which we co-developed) and different interfaces and extra processing. Ours was $40-$80,000. Signalling is the therm used for control signals for phone networks - mobile, long distance, satellite and undersea cable. Our extra processing correlated the signalling from 4 channels (for reliability) and in real time analysed the details of all the calls being made.”
those switches is to manualy set the parameters of the serial port for specialized comms
Jeezus, was this video that long ago? I distinctively remember clicking on it shortly after it was uploaded.
This is how we'd feel about today's $20,000+ Xeon servers 30 years from now.
Or so I hope, given how computational power has greatly slowed down its progress in recent years.
I actually think year to year gains will be pretty marginal. Even 20 years from now I bet those servers will be serviceable. Maybe not top-tier tech anymore, but definitely useable.
And it sounds like a damn jet engine, Love it!
A vintage Wireshark! Nice :)
I love seeing your videos about these older co.puters and such. Glad I found your channel.
So its the 90's version of the Predator 21X.
I knew someone would bring that up
Except it's not because Acers die 5 years after owning it.
The toggles that you were selecting with the small screwdriver are Control signals that were used in the serial communication through RS 232, and the ones on the right side are control signals for Data Terminal Equipment - Data Communication Equipment configuration. This piece of hardware is amazing, never heard of it before!!! Thank you!!
ID like to see everyones reaction at a coffeeshop when you bust this sucker out on the table xD
I hope it's a strong table.
The crazy guy with the giant metal laptop that sounds like a jet engine! Since it's a coffee shop, they'd think he's some next level hipster.
I'd love to see the entire friggin table straight up collapse under the weight of that monster ;D. That'd be hilariously awkward.
"Bomb has been planted"
My father works for keysight, he's been there since the hp days. He might be willing to do an interview if you want to hear the story.
I think it is so bad ass that you can own these "god computers" from back in the day. Clint you need the computer from Superman 3.
I love the new little info blurbs that show up on screen! A very nice touch :D
That is something that would be used by network technicians at well funded corporations and ISP's to monitor corporate internet usage and analyze network issues
Sheepdog Wrangler The thing payed itself very fast , the clients allmost applaud when we bring it in. It cut days from a tuff network troubleshooting
I worked on a competitor product to this in the UK which used Dolch field portable units containing our own E1/T1 linecards. They were sold or leased out to companies for SS7, V5, R2 protocol testing, bulk traffic generation, switching simulation and passive analysis, but our products were less for LAN/WAN and more for DMS (digital main switches) such as BT's System X, Ericson AXE-10 and AT&T/Lucent 5ESS.
Oh my god, those dip switches are goddamn gorgeous
and holy shit that mouse!!
Clint, this may be your most well produced video yet. Keep it up!
Thank you!
"it's like driving a steamroller into a parking lot"
**Dio Brando wants to know your location**
One of your most entertaining videos yet! Clint, you're really good at this stuff! (Seriously, you deserve a mini network TV segment (any US computer shows still running?)). You can really see the production improvements when comparing early LGR to now. You may have started off as a "lazy game reviewer" but you're anything but now, keep up the excellent work!
i like the pop up video style fun facts
I can't get over how adorable lgr is one talking about stuff like, he's just so damned giddy. It's infectious.
That would be a nice computer for some of the radio equipment I run.
This is how I feel about the Probooks, Zbooks, and Elitebooks of the G1 variety. Bet of the bet.
Ah shiiiiit, used one of those back in the late 1990's through the early 2000's. These network analyzers still exist from various vendors, but most in my profession use other more economically available tools.
OMG the popup mouse! I didn't expect that and never thought I'd see such a thing! XD
Wow~ And though I don't understand those programs and its purposes
I still think it's nice to see what some people used to work with~
Oddly enough, this could still be used for provisioning T1/E1 circuits, since most LECs still have hardware in place to interface with it. I can almost bet this terminal belonged to 'Ma Bell at one point. For all I know, I used it.
@LGR, Those dip switches control the bit flow, parity and such for checking and polarizing whatever signal the tech is troubleshooting. This is also used as a diagnostic for multiplexing connections and such.
Best channel.
That's what's kinda fun about AMS Neve audio mixing digital consoles. The computers that run the control surface (the 'desk' with all the knobs and buttons) and DSP unit (a computer that adds all the effects to the audio) use Windows XP and Vista. They don't need to be connected to the internet and are designed for a single purpose so they suffice. Although it is quite fun to be playing Solitaire on a 56 channel console and Pinball on a console that is in the process of exporting a short film in 5.1 surround sound. Its unusual, its funny and I shouldn't be doing it but hey, its not something you see every day.
That thing started up like my vacuum cleaner.
Cool, I've maintained HPLC systems from Agilent a lot back when I was a chemist, never knew it was from HP :)
1:48 Satisfying LED's.
That pop out mouse is a really interesting idea. I'm surprised I haven't seen some sort of gaming laptop try doing something like that
OLD DAYS LOGIC
Bigger = Expensiver
Still have my HPackard PC from 1996. Was my first PC. Never had the heart of ditching it
That leg-crushing, genital-flattening 'laptop' looks like something that could power up the old and damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant! Lol. 😂
J R-B = Jacky Row-Boat
if you put that on your lap you'd probably toast your little boys
Certainly if it had been used in the operation of Chernobyl.
J R-B I could fit my currebt desktop ibto that thing.
You should get one and do it!
Oh my god that noise when it turns on. POWERFUL
Turns on pc
*jet engine sounds*
I'm scared
I use to work for HP and we would take "work" home with us. My department serviced these machines for our HP laser printer dev. We would lan part Duke Nukem 3D over the weekend. Good times and great memories. Thanks for sharing.
I use Agilent lab equipment every day, and if their current hardware prices is anything to go by, that undercradle you have there may very well have been as expensive as a small family car! Also, they have a nasty habit of requiring specialty hardware for many things that seems like it should just be able to to plug into a USB port, like a spectrophotometer that requires a proprietary connector that you can only get on an arcane Agilent PCI card.
I have that exact screwdriver you use at 2:55, I took it from my parent's "computer room" back in the day. Small world!
Luggable 486 jet turbine adviser, quite the looker to boot
that machine is something really special, i did cisco training in my youth (mason by trade these days, idk wtf happened) they would have used it to configure networks at the electrical / binary level, you can see the old T1 designation, collision detection etc etc, amazing machine didn't know things like that existed, in its day i imagine it was the emperor of the internet
Woah! That mouse though! Haha! Awesome
Ah, old Agilent network analyzers. My dad used to sell and lease these to everyone and their grandmother, amongst a gorrillion other things. Awesome to see these again, I wouldn't mind using the shell of one to make a hell of a gaming "laptop"
Really nice video... just needed to be 5 times longer :-)
Oh the days choosing between a DX and an SX. Of course, the jump from a 386 to 486 was even huger-er.
"most bullet proof laptop I own" do you not have an early Panasonic toughbook? I have a CF-25 and it is in an all metal case and frame, you should check it out.
Sweet! Keysite is headquartered in my hometown of Santa Rosa, CA! When I worked at a high school I took the kids on a field trip there. Super cool. No idea what anyone was doing. 😂