@@rbxgemini wow dude idk how you can throw shade at 8BG that guy is really awesome and the content he produces is awesome. 8BG is a national treasure. respect him.
Slightly irrelevant but thanks for having accurate captions - I’ve got sensory processing issues and I basically can’t watch videos with people talking without captions and it’s just so much easier for me when the captions are actually correct! I know it’s kinda strange to comment on but I definitely appreciate it
@@Merrinen I imagend a dockingstation for the dockingstation in order to fix the F1. ;) Turns out the stupid Conditional Access Module depends on the implementation of PCMCIA (or Enhanced Option Slot as Compaq called it between 1992 to 1995) in the Compaq LTE 5280 and MS-DOS in order to run correctly. Meanwhile there should be a emulator for recent Windows versions but only since around 3 years it seems. This will not be an uncommon problem regarding future oldtimers which will also depends on software and hardware for MS-DOS, Win9X or Win XP.
"Cool shirt, that looks like a parallel port... but... it doesnt have the right amount of pins???" - Clint 2020, with the most LGR comment ive heart in a while. You are a beautiful human beeing sir, dont you ever change. Just incredible.
The weather station package put me in a wistful mood that perhaps one day LGR will be simply a small weather station broadcasting over short band radio from the foothills of Appalachia
As a Guatemalan, I have to admit that I got a bit excited to see Guatemalan coffee in this video (specially coffee that comes from small rural producers). Hope you enjoyed it! We have very good coffee here!
Hey Clint, the weatherstation is an awesome donation! I installed a few of those when I was working for a technology service group as part of a dairy co-op. Dairy Farms have to track the weather and keep records because they are also out spreading manure on their fields. They can't spread it when it's raining or going to rain, because too much of it ends up in the surrounding creeks and rivers. They can get audited and have to show when there was rain and how much related to when they spread manure. Fun Stuff!
Your letter resonated with me. LGR is truly a comfort food for me also during tough times. Battling depression is rough but it helps when we can find a bit of solace in things even as simple as a UA-cam channel. As LGR said, here's hoping things get even better in 2021 :)
To be honest: What are you going to do with all this stuff? Storing it doesn’t make sense if you’ll never get back to it. You should either sell it on or throw it away now (instead of waiting 30 years).
hehe I remember those "mail sounds" was the big thing back then, there was even one with Arnold and with Yoda and so on :D they were brilliant (kinda miss em)
Why is so oddly satisfying to watch someone else open up packages? Must be the whole unknown part. You got 44 mins of viewing time from me. Ha ha, hope you all have a great Christmas!
anyone likes the mystery of opening presents... it's like gambling, or scrolling through the news feed, you never know what you get, and your dopamine increseas.
Well, surprise for the viewers, for him not a big surprise, he selects the donations, only pickup the good stuff. Dont know why people still send stuff to him
Oh, if someone hasn't mentioned it yet Clint, the Stereo F/X was a sound card made by ATI back when the Sound Blaster was becoming popular. The VGA Stereo F/X was the same, but also was a VGA card as well. I see them now and then on eBay, and they ain't cheap, let me tell ya.
The reason retro stuff is so rare is because it has to go through gauntlet of when it's just old junk. 8 - 16 year old things get thrown away. 16+ suddenly it's valuable...
That Quarterdeck memory manager (QEMM) brings back memories. I used to use QEMM a long time ago. Those of you who remember MS-DOS days, remember the struggle to get enough memory in the first 640 KiB to run some games like Wing Commander 3. With QEMM, I was able to get about 620 KiB available, which was more than enough to run pretty much every DOS game.
Back in the day, we had schools around the state receive these as part of a grant. Students set up weather stations at many of the schools and they remained in place for a long time. I had forgotten about these gems!
I like to think that past LGR and future LGR are separate entities both trying to run the channel but past LGR keeps putting off problems on future LGR causing this animosity between the two
That Compaq laptop and dock sure bring back memories, I used to deploy them to users... they weighed a ton, completely over the top and $$$$$ too! FYI - There are two spring loaded things above the LED indicators & battery button, these depress down to accommodate a large monitor stand attachment on top... once those spring loaded things depress down, they provide a recess to lock in the monitor stand to stop it sliding around. An absolute behemoth once all assembled together. 🤣
for that laptop beast, the software in question was likely "Mitchel on demand", it came on like 32 cd's and a floppy install, it was basically all the manuals for car repairs but in CD format in order to use it you had to swap CD's out alot and to save time I could see multiple drives being used
That "World's Smallest Laptop" magnet was something my grandparents had also! I haven't seen it in MANY years. Man, seeing one in this video brought back fond memories!
Had this in a playlist waiting for me to be ready to watch, and it actually got me in more of a Christmas spirit! Great stuff, always fascinating to see what comes through to the inbox.
You've certainly brought most, if not all of us, quite a bit of entertainment even on videos you thought were long or drawn out. With most being stuck at home or are going through issues and need an escape from life for a bit, you've certainly helped.
The Kodak picture disk and that APS film are my cousin’s first bridge to digital photography, there was a camera that let you see pictures digitally on a LCD screen before you developed the film. He used APS before he went fully digital!
@@alexsilva28 Well, it's not very pretty. I have version 1.01 running on a 286, about the best part of it is Reversi, or maybe Paint. I don't have a lot of applications for it, and not many were written specifically for it at the time IIRC. Frankly, DOSShell from MS-DOS 5 and 6 is a better file management tool and application launcher.
@@AndrewAMartin Reversi? You've just solved a mystery. When I was at Primary School (aged 5 or 6) one of the computers had Reversi and I couldn't remember the details. It must have been one of the RM Nimbus 186s that we had. Not PC-compatible but ran an early, customised, version of Windows. Nice one.
I'm interested to see how much hassle he will come across... Windows 1 is a temperamental piece of software. Of course, it's nothing compared to Windows/386 2.x, which I have never managed to install.
@@VectraQS your installation woes may be due to DOS version compatibility. I'm running Windows 1 on DOS 6.22, but to do so, I had to use VER.EXE to tell Windows that it was DOS version 3.3.
holy crap what a vid. I was completely awestruck by that weather station kit, I am so absolutely looking forward to an LGR vid on that whole thing. And then when you opened that Compaq my jaw immediately hit the floor. Goodness goodness me.
I had one of those 5280's that I dialed up to the 9s in the early 2000s. Had multiple hard drive caddies so I could swap and run different OSes. Loved it because it was a workhorse. Took mine everywhere. The modular ports could hold a floppy, CD ROM or a battery. That is why the battery has the door that extends to the right. You could put it in a modular port and pull the door over to cover the rest of the slot. At the time, with two batteries in the laptop, I would use it for tuning WiFi shot lines and scouting interference. I heard from a Compaq rep about a "workstation" base and hunted around for one. There was another, smaller base that didn't have speakers or the ISA slot that I had, but that usually stayed at work. Mine had a plastic monitor shelf that curved over the back and fit into those two sockets in the top front. The battery disk indicators were aligned to being able to max out each, and indicated which on was indicated by the quadrant of the machine the port was on. The IrDA in the base was really hit or miss but the one on the laptop always worked better. I tried using the Compaq Hardcard accessory in the ISA slot on the base, but it kept locking up, so I replaced it with an ethernet card. I remember the speakers as being pretty good as I used to listen to the GITS soundtrack on it often while working. Somewhere I have a picture of that machine, the dock, a Handspring Visor and a 17" CRT as my home workstation. Used that for about 4 -5 years before getting an IBM from work and using that moving forward. It also came with a "wireless modem" set up. It wasn't cellular, but an RF telephone accessory that worked with a base and a cordless modem. Was kinda cool as a gimmick. Could support 28.8 if you used the phone port on the remote or 33.6 if you used their special PCMCIA modem. Worked so long as you a) didn't really move around and b) no one tried to use another cordless telephone. Even when the phone was on a different line, it would still kick you offline with CRC errors. I kinda miss those workstation docks. Yeah, the new usb c stuff allows for more diversity, but give me one of those old LTEs or a MacBook Duo for looks any day!
Also, I had one of those Compaq laptops with the dock - identical to how you see it - in 2002. It was awesome. So expandable, so useful, great modular design. I loved this computer SO MUCH. If I remember correctly, you could get a CRT table that would sit over top of the laptop when closed and support the weight of the monitor. You could hot plug and unplug the laptop from the dock and "go". Again, one of my favorite laptops ever.
@@Stout936 i just recently got over it. Most of my trouble was contacting everyone I had seen in 2 weeks and also dealing with people accusing me of spreading it. After I felt better I was stuck on quarantine for 2 weeks. Hopefully you feel better soon!!
For proper credit, I think Steve of Gamers Nexus was the first to coin that at a point when UA-cam would guaranteed demonetize any mention of it by name, because Google is Google.
12:48 Couldn't believe my ears. My mouth had just finished making the "thump" when you made it too. Total double take moment. Can't control these kinda things. :)
oh my gosh, THE JOURNEY MAN PROJECT TURBO , i remember owning it , oh man....Clint just gave me a rush of nostalgia , i remember exactly carrying that game home as i walked the neighborhood, eager to get home and play it....wonderful how such a random thing triggers a distant memory in your mind, thanks Clint.
Wow! That Compaq laptop with its docking station brings back memories. I worked there for almost 20 years here in Houston. I clearly remember building many of those. It may be collectible someday!
the duke poster with your face on is hands down the best thing you have recived amazing i look forward to seeing it on you walls in background of future videos
I had that compaq laptop and docking station. For its time it was awesome. Bays were modular for sure. You are missing the part that lets you have a monitor sitting on top. One the best features was the built in speakers.
8:13 Clint, I only recently stumbled on your channel. I don't care for the tech or the stuff...ok maybe I do a little, but I enjoy your tone and presentation more. Telling the stories of the 90s, which I remember through TV and magazines. Wishing you nothing but the best for 2021...Keep safe, my friend!
Oh wow, a Kyro card! I had an internship as a hardware tester in the compatibility labs at Videologic (aka Imagination Technologies) at Kings Langley in the UK when they were developing the successor, the Kyro 2; my first tech job. At 17 years old was sat in the testing labs with 3 20-somethings who seemed like grown ups to me (but I realise now were basically snotlings too) with access to shelves of the latest hardware for testing the reference hardware on hundreds of different hardware configs; we had test rig machines where you would basically get a test spec sent down (say, PII-400, 32GB ram, X hard disk etc, windows 98r2 ) and you'd build it up, image it with requested operating system then test a list of games on it with the reference hardware. I got to build hundreds of different configs in the space of a few weeks, played a lot of delta force land warrior on the LAN with other teams using the internal phone system for teamspeak, and we had a rig in the corner hooked up to the holy red ethernet 100 mbit port labelled "NO FIREWALL" obtaining, uh, unlimited free trials of various media, 24/7. Decided right there and then I wasn't going to do the law degree my parents were pushing me to do LOL.
Heh - Those ATi speakers were probably just given away as promo gear, usually at trade shows or other 'booth' type events. There's all kinds of stuff. I used to get t-shirts, rolls of stickers and other items for free from AMD in the early 2000s
@LGR @11:42 Clint, those were unpowered speakers for sound cards that had amp hardware built into them, of which you have many! Generally a pair/set of jumpers were all that was needed to switch between the output modes(amplified VS line-level output). I had a set of those speakers, they came packaged with an ATI Rage VGA card deal that CompUSA had way back in the day.
The speakers at 11:50 are Walkman speakers I believe. I had a similar set when I was a kid. Used it mainly when camping etc. Very useful to listen to some music in my tent without being tethered to the Walkman itself by the crappy cheap headphones the whole evening.
Hi Clint, I owned a Compaq LTE 5000 until recently, mostly for Retro Gaming (640x480px active matrix display, OPL3 Soundblaster). I have tons of documentation and drivers laying around, so if you need anything for a video about the LTE series let me know.
32:58 It's _almost_ oddware, but it looks too useful to be (and isn't exactly obsolete yet, as Powerpoint controller remote things are still used to this day).
So youtube videos like this are officially now same as 70s, 80s,90s game and music magazines with people sending mail letters and items and getting feedback. This is cool, my fav part in computer magazines were Q&A columns.
Glad to see you too is letting the beard grow festive for the holidays :) A wonderful video of fun tech, thank you very much to everyone involved for making my afternoon!
In my grade school years i remember playing around with that spiderman cartoon maker back in the early to mid 90s lol it was quite a thing indeed .id watch a review of it , hint , hint lol
Great video LGR recently subscribed but been a watcher for a while it's amazing to see you and others bring these old machines back into use. I hope someday I can find an 486 the IBM is a wonderful looking machine by the way.
@@chic-geek ❤ Coffee Crisp. While I can sometimes get it locally, I can't wait for the border to re-open so I can get it whenever the heck I want (and cheaper, too, as last I checked it was 0.82 CAD at Dollarama vs. 1.69 USD at Wegmans).
@@fnjesusfreak I'm over the pond so it's tricky to get here, though maybe not impossible! £1.50 when ordered from a snack importer, plus shipping. Yikes.
That weather station takes me back to my school days and we had (I think) the same one as part of a UK school weather research project. I remember many cold days on the school rooftop having to check the data with more standard tech to make sure our data was correct from the PC, Will make a great video for you ..
![Lp. Сердце Вселенной #60 РОЖДЕНИЕ ЛОЛОЛОШКИ [Финал] • Майнкрафт](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YoR0pAV9FVQ/mqdefault.jpg)
The fact the ink sat around so long and dried up in a Duke Nukem Forever pen is basically the most fitting thing ever!
LOL
Man, the fact that you stop to read Em's letter and wish her well is super cool. Thanks for being part of the awesome side of the internet.
Yeah season 3 of LGR anime is solid af. very wholesome
S-Super cool? O-okay.
Man.
@@rbxgemini wow dude idk how you can throw shade at 8BG that guy is really awesome and the content he produces is awesome. 8BG is a national treasure. respect him.
@@rbxgemini I found a motherboard in a dumpster once and traded it to a guy for a cigarette and the guy threw it at a car after I gave it to him.
Cool shirt bro. Lol
That poster with Clint's face was too good
That poster won the internets!
Thanks, I do appreciate it.
Slightly irrelevant but thanks for having accurate captions - I’ve got sensory processing issues and I basically can’t watch videos with people talking without captions and it’s just so much easier for me when the captions are actually correct! I know it’s kinda strange to comment on but I definitely appreciate it
My pleasure, I'm glad they're useful!
same
Clint now needs a McLaren F1 for his new laptop
Currently accepting donations.
I'll call Zak Brown
EDIT: Seriously though, you have to do a video with the McLaren F1 team. Guaranteed they would love it.
I wonder if there is a McLaren keyboard. Could send just the key.
@@Merrinen I imagend a dockingstation for the dockingstation in order to fix the F1. ;)
Turns out the stupid Conditional Access Module depends on the implementation of PCMCIA (or Enhanced Option Slot as Compaq called it between 1992 to 1995) in the Compaq LTE 5280 and MS-DOS in order to run correctly. Meanwhile there should be a emulator for recent Windows versions but only since around 3 years it seems.
This will not be an uncommon problem regarding future oldtimers which will also depends on software and hardware for MS-DOS, Win9X or Win XP.
@@LGR If I had one I would've sent that too for the great content.
"Cool shirt, that looks like a parallel port... but... it doesnt have the right amount of pins???" - Clint 2020, with the most LGR comment ive heart in a while.
You are a beautiful human beeing sir, dont you ever change. Just incredible.
The weather station package put me in a wistful mood that perhaps one day LGR will be simply a small weather station broadcasting over short band radio from the foothills of Appalachia
Congratulations to the person who sent the Compaq, you broke Clint for a hot minute
Few things are as pure as Clint’s giggles when opening fan mail lol
As a Guatemalan, I have to admit that I got a bit excited to see Guatemalan coffee in this video (specially coffee that comes from small rural producers). Hope you enjoyed it! We have very good coffee here!
Hey Clint, the weatherstation is an awesome donation! I installed a few of those when I was working for a technology service group as part of a dairy co-op. Dairy Farms have to track the weather and keep records because they are also out spreading manure on their fields. They can't spread it when it's raining or going to rain, because too much of it ends up in the surrounding creeks and rivers. They can get audited and have to show when there was rain and how much related to when they spread manure. Fun Stuff!
Thank Clint for featuring my gift! Glad the mug arrived safely before christmas!
Your letter resonated with me. LGR is truly a comfort food for me also during tough times. Battling depression is rough but it helps when we can find a bit of solace in things even as simple as a UA-cam channel. As LGR said, here's hoping things get even better in 2021 :)
@@awake4ages I’m glad my letter can resonate with someone! I want to be a counselor and help others. I guess that’s one way I can start!
Storage Company: So, how many lots do you want to rent?
LGR: Yes
Storage Company: Uuuh, when you say "yes", you mean...
LGR: Yes
LGR: It's a meme.
Storage company:...
LGR: I don't get it either.
To be honest: What are you going to do with all this stuff? Storing it doesn’t make sense if you’ll never get back to it. You should either sell it on or throw it away now (instead of waiting 30 years).
lights: goodbye
Clint: STAY FESTIVE DAMMIT!
That Duke poster.... Wow that was a good "Got'cha" right there... :) Hail to the king (of retrotech) baby...
Clint's voice makes me sleep better
Yes.
That´s Good! :)
yup
He gives good back rubs
Me to!! 1# go to!
You've got mail! What an appropriate sound for a mail call video.
hehe I remember those "mail sounds" was the big thing back then, there was even one with Arnold and with Yoda and so on :D they were brilliant (kinda miss em)
Why is so oddly satisfying to watch someone else open up packages? Must be the whole unknown part. You got 44 mins of viewing time from me. Ha ha, hope you all have a great Christmas!
anyone likes the mystery of opening presents... it's like gambling, or scrolling through the news feed, you never know what you get, and your dopamine increseas.
I suggest 1.75x play speed for you, he speaks so slowly, at this speed he sounds normal
Well, surprise for the viewers, for him not a big surprise, he selects the donations, only pickup the good stuff. Dont know why people still send stuff to him
@@oturgator Slowly? To me he sounds normal.
It's the fact that it's old tech that interests me. I hear of "unboxing" videos and they can quite frankly go to hell!
That packing peanut made me genuinely feel happy
Oh, if someone hasn't mentioned it yet Clint, the Stereo F/X was a sound card made by ATI back when the Sound Blaster was becoming popular. The VGA Stereo F/X was the same, but also was a VGA card as well. I see them now and then on eBay, and they ain't cheap, let me tell ya.
That shopped Duke poster is hysterical LOL
"I will single handedly Re Populate the Entire Earth" - Duke Nukem, Land of the Babes
One day shitty notebooks and posters for 2013 games are going to be considered as retro tech. Crazy to think about it.
The reason retro stuff is so rare is because it has to go through gauntlet of when it's just old junk. 8 - 16 year old things get thrown away. 16+ suddenly it's valuable...
They're already nostalgic, give it 15 more years lmao
it will never be the beginning of home computing tho
thats why i am keeping all of my tech because i know it will be retro once, i still got a ps3 and in a couple of years it will be retro
Holy shit, time is linear. Mind blown.
That Quarterdeck memory manager (QEMM) brings back memories. I used to use QEMM a long time ago. Those of you who remember MS-DOS days, remember the struggle to get enough memory in the first 640 KiB to run some games like Wing Commander 3. With QEMM, I was able to get about 620 KiB available, which was more than enough to run pretty much every DOS game.
that K-pop group was huge at that time... it's really cool to see a bit of my country in your videos sometimes! Greetings from SK!
Back in the day, we had schools around the state receive these as part of a grant. Students set up weather stations at many of the schools and they remained in place for a long time. I had forgotten about these gems!
Idk how you can hold yourself back from opening these when you get them. I get excited when my meds show up.
As a german i can tell you, that neapolitaner stuff is super yummy!
I like to think that past LGR and future LGR are separate entities both trying to run the channel but past LGR keeps putting off problems on future LGR causing this animosity between the two
That must be why Future LGR donned the santa hat and became the way he/they/it are.
It is that time of year for two LGRs is it not?
What if past LGR and future LGR line up between timelines and somehow collide into one single LGR
LoreGR
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank pfp
That silence at 39:53 is what awe sounds like.
Thank you, Clint for all the enjoyment you've brought us this year!
I once owned an ATI Stereo F/X sound card. (without video)
There is one on eBay for ~$300.
FCC ID is from 7/29/1991
That Compaq laptop and dock sure bring back memories, I used to deploy them to users... they weighed a ton, completely over the top and $$$$$ too! FYI - There are two spring loaded things above the LED indicators & battery button, these depress down to accommodate a large monitor stand attachment on top... once those spring loaded things depress down, they provide a recess to lock in the monitor stand to stop it sliding around. An absolute behemoth once all assembled together. 🤣
You haven’t lived until you’ve had to install OS/2 Warp 3.0 on one of those.
for that laptop beast, the software in question was likely "Mitchel on demand", it came on like 32 cd's and a floppy install, it was basically all the manuals for car repairs but in CD format in order to use it you had to swap CD's out alot and to save time I could see multiple drives being used
I really hope we get to see Clint Nukem merch at some point; that’s incredible
I loved Spiderman Cartoon Maker and The Journeyman Project growing up. I can't stop staring at the boxes in the background.
Same dude
That "World's Smallest Laptop" magnet was something my grandparents had also! I haven't seen it in MANY years. Man, seeing one in this video brought back fond memories!
Now all you need to do is speak to Vinwiki about finding a McLaren F1 to borrow for an Oddware episode.
They are actually located very close to each other. Would be a neat episode.
There's also Jay Leno as another possibility...
@@IndygoEEI Vinwiki are probably easier to contact.
a little shrewd negotiating never heart no one
Had this in a playlist waiting for me to be ready to watch, and it actually got me in more of a Christmas spirit! Great stuff, always fascinating to see what comes through to the inbox.
42:14 A docking station for a docking station! How Inceptionous! ^_^
You've certainly brought most, if not all of us, quite a bit of entertainment even on videos you thought were long or drawn out. With most being stuck at home or are going through issues and need an escape from life for a bit, you've certainly helped.
The Kodak picture disk and that APS film are my cousin’s first bridge to digital photography, there was a camera that let you see pictures digitally on a LCD screen before you developed the film. He used APS before he went fully digital!
@34:00 That sound of lid closing, that is ASMR levels of satisfaction!
Very interested to see a Windows 1 install.
Same
@@alexsilva28 Well, it's not very pretty. I have version 1.01 running on a 286, about the best part of it is Reversi, or maybe Paint. I don't have a lot of applications for it, and not many were written specifically for it at the time IIRC. Frankly, DOSShell from MS-DOS 5 and 6 is a better file management tool and application launcher.
@@AndrewAMartin Reversi? You've just solved a mystery. When I was at Primary School (aged 5 or 6) one of the computers had Reversi and I couldn't remember the details. It must have been one of the RM Nimbus 186s that we had. Not PC-compatible but ran an early, customised, version of Windows.
Nice one.
I'm interested to see how much hassle he will come across... Windows 1 is a temperamental piece of software. Of course, it's nothing compared to Windows/386 2.x, which I have never managed to install.
@@VectraQS your installation woes may be due to DOS version compatibility. I'm running Windows 1 on DOS 6.22, but to do so, I had to use VER.EXE to tell Windows that it was DOS version 3.3.
holy crap what a vid. I was completely awestruck by that weather station kit, I am so absolutely looking forward to an LGR vid on that whole thing. And then when you opened that Compaq my jaw immediately hit the floor. Goodness goodness me.
16:40. More Matrox nonsense I now need to own. Damn.
You can also check Matrox G200 test on my channel.
It was watching one of your vids that made me buy a Parhelia...
@@chriscrossan8034 I've been using one for the last 2 weeks. Awesome cards.
Holy shit budget builds when you going to upload again? A week is too long! Lol all jokes aside I love your videos man! A big fan since 10k subs
@@JohnDoe69000 Heyo, new video on Sunday. It’s a big one 👍
Your enthusiasm for tech is contagious. Thank you for sharing it. :)
I love these unboxing vids man! Keep em coming
I had one of those 5280's that I dialed up to the 9s in the early 2000s. Had multiple hard drive caddies so I could swap and run different OSes. Loved it because it was a workhorse. Took mine everywhere. The modular ports could hold a floppy, CD ROM or a battery. That is why the battery has the door that extends to the right. You could put it in a modular port and pull the door over to cover the rest of the slot. At the time, with two batteries in the laptop, I would use it for tuning WiFi shot lines and scouting interference. I heard from a Compaq rep about a "workstation" base and hunted around for one. There was another, smaller base that didn't have speakers or the ISA slot that I had, but that usually stayed at work. Mine had a plastic monitor shelf that curved over the back and fit into those two sockets in the top front. The battery disk indicators were aligned to being able to max out each, and indicated which on was indicated by the quadrant of the machine the port was on. The IrDA in the base was really hit or miss but the one on the laptop always worked better. I tried using the Compaq Hardcard accessory in the ISA slot on the base, but it kept locking up, so I replaced it with an ethernet card. I remember the speakers as being pretty good as I used to listen to the GITS soundtrack on it often while working. Somewhere I have a picture of that machine, the dock, a Handspring Visor and a 17" CRT as my home workstation. Used that for about 4 -5 years before getting an IBM from work and using that moving forward.
It also came with a "wireless modem" set up. It wasn't cellular, but an RF telephone accessory that worked with a base and a cordless modem. Was kinda cool as a gimmick. Could support 28.8 if you used the phone port on the remote or 33.6 if you used their special PCMCIA modem. Worked so long as you a) didn't really move around and b) no one tried to use another cordless telephone. Even when the phone was on a different line, it would still kick you offline with CRC errors.
I kinda miss those workstation docks. Yeah, the new usb c stuff allows for more diversity, but give me one of those old LTEs or a MacBook Duo for looks any day!
A whole episode dedicated to that chunky laptop at the end of the video please.
Also, I had one of those Compaq laptops with the dock - identical to how you see it - in 2002. It was awesome. So expandable, so useful, great modular design. I loved this computer SO MUCH. If I remember correctly, you could get a CRT table that would sit over top of the laptop when closed and support the weight of the monitor. You could hot plug and unplug the laptop from the dock and "go". Again, one of my favorite laptops ever.
It's like a ton of Christmas presents from around the world...
12:48 That sound & Clint’s imitation of it made me smile more than reasonably necessary 😁
I guess one bonus to having covid is I get to watch this right when it drops
This too shall pass
@@NikoNoxious hopefully sooner rather than later. I finally have free time, but no energy to enjoy it with, lol
@@Stout936 i just recently got over it. Most of my trouble was contacting everyone I had seen in 2 weeks and also dealing with people accusing me of spreading it. After I felt better I was stuck on quarantine for 2 weeks. Hopefully you feel better soon!!
It's been 2 years since i subbed to you,i watched all your vids,i love your content and learned so much,thank u LGR❤️
I just had to swab my own nose for a, as Adrian Black calls it, "human malware" test this morning, so this is a nice treat!
For proper credit, I think Steve of Gamers Nexus was the first to coin that at a point when UA-cam would guaranteed demonetize any mention of it by name, because Google is Google.
That's like a term from 90s Douglas Coupland novel. I like it.
Dont know why. But i find your unboxings/mail calls very soothing. Maybe its because of the great donations.
Need to fill that IBM mug up in an LGR foods episode.
Yeah, I miss LGR Foods!
12:48 Couldn't believe my ears. My mouth had just finished making the "thump" when you made it too. Total double take moment. Can't control these kinda things. :)
13:13 Plot twist: That was always Duke Nukems face.
I love when you talk a little calmer? I guess? It's like borderline asmr. With all the opening and materials and stuff makes it really relaxing.
Merry Christmas! I can't wait until you delve deeper into that Compaq.
oh my gosh, THE JOURNEY MAN PROJECT TURBO , i remember owning it , oh man....Clint just gave me a rush of nostalgia , i remember exactly carrying that game home as i walked the neighborhood, eager to get home and play it....wonderful how such a random thing triggers a distant memory in your mind, thanks Clint.
The Lexbook - a laptop that sounds like a halloween coffin.
Wow! That Compaq laptop with its docking station brings back memories. I worked there for almost 20 years here in Houston. I clearly remember building many of those. It may be collectible someday!
Obviously LGR has been a good boy....🎅🏽
the duke poster with your face on is hands down the best thing you have recived amazing i look forward to seeing it on you walls in background of future videos
I just found out my uncle died last night and the video really raised my spirits
I’m sorry for your loss
rest in peace, sorry to hear
You should of kept better care of those. They're vintage!!!
@@Nate-ez3bw what
I had that compaq laptop and docking station. For its time it was awesome. Bays were modular for sure. You are missing the part that lets you have a monitor sitting on top. One the best features was the built in speakers.
38:00 Maybe you can set up a retro Weather Underground community station!
8:13 Clint, I only recently stumbled on your channel. I don't care for the tech or the stuff...ok maybe I do a little, but I enjoy your tone and presentation more. Telling the stories of the 90s, which I remember through TV and magazines. Wishing you nothing but the best for 2021...Keep safe, my friend!
There we go, 44 minutes of being jealous haha
Oh wow, a Kyro card! I had an internship as a hardware tester in the compatibility labs at Videologic (aka Imagination Technologies) at Kings Langley in the UK when they were developing the successor, the Kyro 2; my first tech job. At 17 years old was sat in the testing labs with 3 20-somethings who seemed like grown ups to me (but I realise now were basically snotlings too) with access to shelves of the latest hardware for testing the reference hardware on hundreds of different hardware configs; we had test rig machines where you would basically get a test spec sent down (say, PII-400, 32GB ram, X hard disk etc, windows 98r2 ) and you'd build it up, image it with requested operating system then test a list of games on it with the reference hardware. I got to build hundreds of different configs in the space of a few weeks, played a lot of delta force land warrior on the LAN with other teams using the internal phone system for teamspeak, and we had a rig in the corner hooked up to the holy red ethernet 100 mbit port labelled "NO FIREWALL" obtaining, uh, unlimited free trials of various media, 24/7. Decided right there and then I wasn't going to do the law degree my parents were pushing me to do LOL.
I can already see the video: "Playing games and fixing an F1 car on Vintage Compaq Laptop, ft. Formula One driver Lando Norris"
Actually, the Mclaren F1 is not a formula one car but a sport car : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1
Its not an F1 car its a super car named the F1
Ha! That clip of future LGR chewing out past LGR cracked me up.
making that coffee crisp disappear is clearly the highlight.
How do you like your coffee?
I for real look forward to these videos, thank you my brother
Heh - Those ATi speakers were probably just given away as promo gear, usually at trade shows or other 'booth' type events. There's all kinds of stuff. I used to get t-shirts, rolls of stickers and other items for free from AMD in the early 2000s
@LGR
@11:42 Clint, those were unpowered speakers for sound cards that had amp hardware built into them, of which you have many! Generally a pair/set of jumpers were all that was needed to switch between the output modes(amplified VS line-level output). I had a set of those speakers, they came packaged with an ATI Rage VGA card deal that CompUSA had way back in the day.
Just watched a video of that Myst "Demake" awesome stuff and very funny! You should definitely do a vid on it!
The speakers at 11:50 are Walkman speakers I believe. I had a similar set when I was a kid. Used it mainly when camping etc.
Very useful to listen to some music in my tent without being tethered to the Walkman itself by the crappy cheap headphones the whole evening.
12:46 I also made the sound out loud when I heard the cap pop off that tube XD
i shed a tear when i saw the LS120 and Sparq drives. i had such a wonderful time with those drives when i was a kid.
Hi Clint, I owned a Compaq LTE 5000 until recently, mostly for Retro Gaming (640x480px active matrix display, OPL3 Soundblaster). I have tons of documentation and drivers laying around, so if you need anything for a video about the LTE series let me know.
I'm so happy right now. NEW LGR OPENING STUFF VIDEO!!
Ahhh Clint Nukem 3D, those were the days. XD
Hell yeah! I am glad you got that Tony Hawk in! I was worried it would be damaged on shipping.
32:58 It's _almost_ oddware, but it looks too useful to be (and isn't exactly obsolete yet, as Powerpoint controller remote things are still used to this day).
So youtube videos like this are officially now same as 70s, 80s,90s game and music magazines with people sending mail letters and items and getting feedback. This is cool, my fav part in computer magazines were Q&A columns.
that compaq laptop is the final boss when you beat all the other laptops
I'd laugh if it was a prolinea compaq laptop.
Glad to see you too is letting the beard grow festive for the holidays :) A wonderful video of fun tech, thank you very much to everyone involved for making my afternoon!
In my grade school years i remember playing around with that spiderman cartoon maker back in the early to mid 90s lol it was quite a thing indeed .id watch a review of it , hint , hint lol
Great video LGR recently subscribed but been a watcher for a while it's amazing to see you and others bring these old machines back into use. I hope someday I can find an 486 the IBM is a wonderful looking machine by the way.
It can't be a LGR video if Clint doesn't sniff something
Glad to see the Cyrix CPU that I sent made it to you ok. Hope to see it soon in an LGR thing!
"Oh honey he's teasing you. Nobody has three CD drive!"
6:20 QEMM is by far the best there ever was! What a lovely throwback. With my 486 fully loaded it still left me with 630KB conventional memory.
Coffee Crisp, a nice "light" snack.
It's kinda related to Kit Kat.
Bet many Canadians like me where hoping he would take a big fat bite out of it and react!
As a Canadian abroad, I jumped when I saw this. They're SO GOOD.
@@chic-geek ❤ Coffee Crisp.
While I can sometimes get it locally, I can't wait for the border to re-open so I can get it whenever the heck I want (and cheaper, too, as last I checked it was 0.82 CAD at Dollarama vs. 1.69 USD at Wegmans).
@@fnjesusfreak I'm over the pond so it's tricky to get here, though maybe not impossible! £1.50 when ordered from a snack importer, plus shipping. Yikes.
@@chic-geek Ouchies. :(
I'm literally down the street from the border, so I'm champing at the bit for them to reopen it.
That weather station takes me back to my school days and we had (I think) the same one as part of a UK school weather research project. I remember many cold days on the school rooftop having to check the data with more standard tech to make sure our data was correct from the PC, Will make a great video for you ..
Who else pauses on the letters people send in to read the whole thing?
That laptop & dock is magnificent, can't wait for the video about it.