this 1980s laptop was ahead of its time
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Back when things were engineered to last, not be replaced. Good days.
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Every laptop I've had since 2009 except for one cheap one has lasted me up till now.
It could repaired & live forever, unfortunately the OS isn't...
Back when things were engineered for the first time, so thinner and thinner margin gains were not necessary. If that laptop sold now, nobody would buy it.
I have a freezer my grandma used like 55, 60 years ago. Still works amazingly and no problems.
“Secondary display for notifications”
Looks a lot like a certain Apple product…
and apple keeps saying their ideas are theirs
@@skullnoober I don’t remember them saying that.
@Ez Shinobi Ratio Apple fanboy
@@charakiga they keep calling stuff that's been around forever "innovative".
innovation - new product, idea, method, etc. aka something brand new
@Ez Shinobi I have owned both and macs imo are worse and more expensive. But they are more easy to use and have more protection against viruses. However pcs are way more powerful/fast 90% of the time for a lot cheaper
That physical brightness slider is just gorgeous
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That's where the trackball was mounted on the previous version. The click buttons were on the other side of the lid and it was the most comfortable poi ting device on a laptop ever
It reminds me of the Nintendo 3ds 3d slider
and it works for decades
I actually used a monochrome windows 95 laptop to fix a robot arm a few years ago.
The brightness slider is required because the old LCD screens are _very_ much affected by temperature.
So you might need to adjust it depending. In this shop, I had to adjust it as the laptop warmed up throughout the first hour or so.
"5 thermal paste tubes tall"
American measurement system in a nutshell
😂😆🤓
Typical!
anything but the metric system
Better then fucking “42 millimeters🤓”
@@Caleb-fv5fp it's like 5.7cm. also,inches are shit
@@Caleb-fv5fp Look at this American (USA, not to be confused with the continents), a certainly interesting specimen as whilst trying to prove their point they proceed to become extremely aggravated at the fact that the metric system is clearly superior than the American measurement system(s) as resulting to vulgar language as to offend any user of the metric system.
That feeling when an old ass laptop is more advanced in terms of user ability to upgrade/make changes to hardware than 99% of laptops today
Exactly bruh! 😂😂😂😂😮😅
B- but thin and light design...🥺🥺🥺
@@vynasdyzelisshut up apple nerd
@@vynasdyzelis"breakable design"
It has a Pentium sticker right on it, which firmly places that laptop in the 90s.
Yeah. It was too slim, also cd drive. Not 80's tech.
Also it just looks too new, as a 90s laptop
It also have RTX40000060ti
@@polandman07 hi
@@MuantanamoMobileactually cds came from the 80s
The original framework laptop!
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Back when companies wanted you to keep their products for more than a year
@OwO shut up
@OwO ok
@OwO nobody cares about your profile
There is more modern version of this but used for heavy workers and law enforcement, try lookup powerbook
Well the 5000 series came out out in 96. It was good but the whole line did hit a big wall in the late 90s and fell off hard in business. The wall was the IBM Thinkpads. The 390 was a great laptop but the big hit came with the Thinkpad 600 series a couple of years later. For business they were the Ultrabooks of the day. Just as powerful but thinner and lighter then the other business laptops.
This is the level of beefiness I want in my laptops
Yup
It is a built-in anti-theft feature
@OwO alr m8
"Over 5 thermal paste tubes tall" 💀
#America
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 fr
They'll use everything but metric system to measure things
😂🤓😆👍
Typical.. Lazy Ass's!
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Lazy.. Typical!
Had that very laptop. What you didn't show is the crazy docking station it came with. And it's from 1996.
no it’s not. You’re wrong
@@Cccccc Whatever dude :)
@@Phunker1 pretty sure it got discontinued in ‘97. It was released in ‘89
@@bigpompano1659 google first at least so as not to talk nonsense
@@DmiA the irony on your comment is funny
The Compaq 5280 was released in 1996 according to Wikipedia. I believe it due to the color screen and 3.5 floppy.
I worked them in the mid 90s as a desktop engineer, its got a pentium processor sticker as well.
Imperial:I’m the best
Metric:I’m the best!
Thermal paste: hold my beer
Indeed
Thermal paste is pretty much what imperial system is.
Thermal paste: hold my paste
the fact that the laptop has a better keyboard than my mechanical blue switch keyboard
It does not
Bro we need computers like this fr
I remember getting my hands on a Dell that worked like this. It's fascinating, and fun!
I was about to say this. I owned a similar Dell one briefly
It is, as a tech geek it's also beautiful
Dell Toughbook?
That's about what comes to mind to me.
@@yeejay6396 Yeah I have a Surface Pro ultra thin from 1978 that works just like this as well. It's amazing how the time flies.
Modern Dell Precision laptops have the modular bay and an expansion port. (at least up until the M6800 for sure) You can take the optical drive out and install a hard drive in its place. I actually installed a GTX 980M into mine and made it into a mid tier gaming laptop for cheap.
80s computer
Procedes to show a computer from the 90s
This was released in ‘89 so technically yes it is from the 80’s
@@adamgraskewicz9972 the CPU in that computer is from 1993…
@@adamgraskewicz9972 this specific model released in 1996.
@@adamgraskewicz9972 can I know it's name
Can I even buy one??
Y2k
Back then expansion bays were very common. Floppy drives, cdrom drives, zip drives and extra batteries were common
Yep, laptops were super functional back in the day. Dual hot swappable batteries were my favorite feature, and the reserve battery that lets you put the computer to sleep and change both batteries without shutting down.
How far we have fallen.
Yeah can we “regress” the laptop form factor back to this but keep our modern tech, that would be awesome.
“Hold up guys lemme get my 1980 laptop so we play cool math games”
It’s not an 80s laptop tho
@@nuherbleath461Well maybe you didn’t read title
Hold on**
@@Nsodnoajdjksl sorry don’t correct me
@@HP_ENVY_5644 sorry, but it's my job
“From the 80s”
The Intel Pentium 1 sticker:
"How tall are you bro?"
-"216 thermal pastes bro"
Edit: Ayyyyyy 1k likes
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Someone do the math to figure out how tall he is
@@cakeeatingpirate 6'9 if that laptop is 2 inches thick
Anything but the metric system
Longways or crossways for the tubes i will maths
Modern laptops:" thats my grandpaa 🥺🥺"
"aPPlE DiD tHe DiSplaY NoTiFicAtioNs FirST"
Half the comments be like
ikr
u the best
Yeah, Apple isn't known for inventing something first, they are known for popularizing a concept. They are ignorant bunch.
@@kaikart123 ikr
I like how you used thermal paste as a size comparison lol
America
Ngl this brick does have some aesthetics
Bro I love the way that looks
Hey bro love ur vids!!
Keep up the good work!!!
40 years later and it’s still amazing
26 years. This had windows 95 on it when it was sold.
Thermal paste tubes is the unit the world needed
Look at build quality man awesome 😎
Many laptops were modular during this time. I had a IBM that allowed you to put in a different screen, add a external and internal HDD. Replace the keyboard with somthing different. It had the option for a modem HDD CD drive or floppy. Idk what it was, tbh is may of been experimental since my family did work for IBM.
i stand with russia
I still use an old Dell where you can easily pull out the battery and hard drive, without having to take apart a solid block of glue and desolder things.
@@hazywasxd go and live there then
@@aleksandrokolodko3592 okay
This is the laptop that Chandler bought and was bragging in front of his other Friends! Lol
Gaming and stuff 😂😂😂😂😂
8 mb ram 🥶
Just saw that episode
@@aranjaysharma my first laptop was an old Toshiba Satellite that looked a lot like this one. It had a port on the side for a trackball and 8 Mb RAM on a PCMCIA card and 8MB internal RAM.
This wasn't out of the ordinary even in the 2000s.
Yeah, that's because it is from the 80's
@@unicockboy1666 more like late 90's
@@unicockboy1666 it was released in 1995
Love this old stuff specially looking back at the super expensive stuff
I like that oldschool laptop 1980.s and I was born 1983
"Over five thermal paste tubes tall"
Could you make your own metric system that all units are computer related
Anything is a unit of measurement if it's standardized and you try hard enough
I love these old 486 laptops. I would love to get myself one some day.
It’s pentium mmx
Where can I get these ?
Compaq man. I sadly wasnt at their time, but they made some good stuff. I still have some of their speakers. Better than all of my other ones
Haha my dad had one of those in the early 90’s to use with work 😂 I used it until it couldn’t read my THPS1 disc lol.
I like that old-school laptop 1980.s
This guy has evolved from the banana for scale to thermal paste for scale
Americans
@@christowilliam21 nah. Just that guy
Back when Laptops we're made to last and not break after a 1 year, cant forget hostile hardware design
I love old technology growing up in the 90s was amazing. I can remember my computer in the 90s had a hard drive of 4GB’s, lol but yet I’m writing this on a iPhone that is WAY smaller then that hard drive and yet my iPhone 13 Pro has a storage of 128GBs 😂 😂
From the 90s, it was a great laptop, I want to get another one someday
duuuude, this looks....beautiful, the color it has, the old school look, is just perfect
how much nostalgia do you wan-
*YES*
Y2k.... that's really nostalgic
omfg i have that laptop but it has 2 display sliders, brightness and contrast. keep up the good work!
Then you have an STN/DSTN LTE.
That laptop with little modern upgrade will ❤️🙌
I got one of these with all the accessories at an estate sale for $55, really bummed that the laptop just stopped turning on randomly, but what a cool machine.
Old computer be like, BEFORE FRAMEWORK WAS I WAS!!
I as a guy who was born in 1996 well after this laptop have seen so many laptops release in the 2000's and early 2010's that had modular accessories and parts like this
@@zahidshabir4038 I am in my teens but I really love old stuff they are really useful things back then including old computers and you could literally just go down the hardware stores and the radio shack and get all the parts you need to make one even in the '80s they would contain the schematics for the computer in the user's manual and tell you how you could identify problems if things went wrong so you could literally go out and replace the parts that and the fact that you could just program them to do whatever you wanted really appeal to me and for a time I really wanted my own Commodore 64 or a BBC micro but getting a hold of one can be expensive or difficult and in my current state I couldn't really keep one around for that long it would just take up a lot of space including all the other things I do wish to collect but couldn't really do much about it, nowadays modular and repairable products that can be infinitely expanded upon as time goes on really appeals to me and that's also sort of why I love Framework even though I do not have their laptop yet but I am saving up for one and I do have an interest in Arduino's and Raspberry pi's and 3D printing and can't wait to get a hold of some and use them to create awesome things!
“mom can we have framework laptop?”
“no son, we have framework laptop at home.”
framework laptop at home:
Where could I get one? Looks awesome man!
"Sometimes old tech just blows my mind"
Made my day
Chandler - "Check out this Badboy" 🤣
United Nation of yeesters
Currency:- thermal compound😂😂
Him: "This is the compact 5280"
Me:" Hmm doesn't seem very compact"
Compaq
What happens if you use maple syrup instead of thermal paste: day 146 of asking
Ur mom will become gay
I had one of these! From memory there was a HUGE docking station for it that I also had, complete with one or two 16-bit ISA slots. Madness.
Put crazy parts in that and make it a modern computer on the inside.
They need to bring back the brightness slider to newer devices that was so useful
Old keyboards always look like the buttons presses are so satisfying
I wish laptops today be as practical as the old ones
The OG toughbook when Panasonic PC's was just a thought in companies minds.
I've wanted one of those for years. I hate when I see them on UA-cam. Ugh. Lol they're awesome.
I just threw one away
thankful to these pioneer gadgets without them we won't have this high end gadgets
I would've thought it was from the 90's. I remember seeing ones like this all the time as a kid.
It was made in the 90s lol
I love models of old PCs
I had a Compaq laptop from around this time with an absolutely insane dock. It was a full computer, with ISA slots, proper ports and outs, and even a sound card. And you didn't just plug the laptop in, oh no. It had a mechanized loader that pulled the laptop into place with a really satisfying whrrr-chnk. On top of that (literally) was a steel cover for the docking station capable of holding up a CRT monitor, turning it into a proper desktop. And a single physical button could send a sleep command to Windows and then pop the laptop out for instant portability.
IT WAS SO AWESOME. It was like a computer from the future. I got it at a company garage sale and it was one of the best $80 I ever spent.
I have an AST Ascentia 900N 4/75 CS10, its my dads old machine. I still use it from time to time to play OG ms dos CimCity.
It's actually a 90s laptop, still cool, my fav model ever
I believe that laptop was first launched in 1989 but because of it being modular it was produced for up to three years so it’s very possible that the configuration options for it to ship with a newer Intel Pentium CPU and a CD drive were made available around the same time the Intel Pentium was first launched in the early 1990s. Apparently that particular laptop with that particular configuration was actually released in the mid 1990s.
The way computers today have been standardized may sound bad, but I’m happy to announce that my latest addition to my digital family, an HP 24-df1053w Touch All-in-One, _does_ indeed have a means for modification. It happens to have a seam on the right fitted with some sort of blank drive intended to fit your own components in (to the best of my current knowledge), but I plan on making a full disk drive my main compartment to fit in the slot. That shows that manufacturers have been growing aware of trends as these again, and people as of late have been wanting to customize their PCs to their likings. Even though my new PC only has one of those, I’m willing to take it.
I should give it to my grandmother, she will love it.
bros bouta drop a killstreak with that
Compaq was always ahead of it's time. I own a Compaq Mini Pocket-PC that literally played an MP4 file my Google Pixel phone couldn't!! And it was made in 2004!! When I was born !!
If this had modern internals I would buy this in a heartbeat
I actually used one of these laptop for work. They were great for their time.
Still have mine it was my dad’s and was the first laptop I ever used.
I remember when you could swap your CPU out from laptop socket, or how you could swap MXM GPU cards from certain laptops, I cannot believe its 10 years since 2012.
I love the look of the laptop
I was playing the pokémon card game on my Game boy a couple years back, when I had to leave for work. You know the thing about those games was when you were stuck in a battle such as in pokémon and you really had to leave you had to just turn the system off and restart from the last save which could have been 24 hours ago. However with this pokémon card game it actually remembered where I left off, the moment I turned it back on! Absolutely astounded me!
The old xerox PARC Alto was the same, mind blowing and so many generations ahead of anything at the time
I’m 14 I started collecting vintage laptops when I was like 11 years I have a 90s laptop and a 2000s one and I really want to get an 80s laptop im going to save up to get one like that someday
I hope more technology will be modular like this, in the future
Toshiba Tecras of that era had this too. I managed a fleet of about 1200 of them running Windows NT. When people would decide on their own to hit swap the floppy for CD it would BSOD. I’m writing this while rocking in a corner crying at the memory.
I'm pretty sure I still have this exact model laying around somewhere, WITH charger in working condition.
It's a nice blast from the past.
honestly idk why some of these aren't used anymore it's so useful
because its obsolete?
Imagine if someone took out all the old parts and put in new ones. Due to the amount of space that thing would be a beast of a gaming laptop
Yea i remembered my uncle had a compaq newer than this. We can interchange the floppy and cd-rom drive whenever we want. It lasted him a decade.
Good old tech.
The two laptops that was ahead of its time in the 80's, was the Toshiba T1000 for it's lightweight and small size that came with a built-in battery in 1987, also the T3200 the same year for it's expandability with dual ISA slots but required to be connetced to the mains outlet in order to work like every other laptops in the 80's, and was NOT lightweight but very powerful for its time.
I have the both in my collection.
Non of them use a colour LCD but a monochrome, and have a 9-pin cga/ega socket to connect a colour monitor to.
Thank you for making me feel old
Wow this looks awesome
The fact that this is impressive should be saddening to us all
if we had an almost invisible slider for brightness that had ticks at 25, 50, 75, and 100 percent would be PERFECT
Manual brightness slider would be really useful in some situations
This laptop keyboard is so beautiful
How beautiful is that laptop
I love this old keyboards ❤
Old man had the swag 🔥