Back in those days every time I turned on my computer I had a feeling of excitement. The internal noises of the BIOS, the HDD, the beeps, and the clickety click of the keyboard... and the lines of code, the DOS commands for file management... boy I loved to use my PC. My first one I got in 1991 was a 286 IBM compatible. Thanks for the "memory"! And the memories.
Wow, XTree Gold - one of my favourite tools back in the DOS days. And funny to see that despite the memory check at the beginning the whole system still started up faster than many modern PCs (well, the non-SSD ones). With the memory/storage restrictions back then and the lack of an easy way to ship out hotfixes/patches, programmers had to do a better job, I think.
I like this kind of stuff more than our current tech too. Just messing with it and playing within its limits is like playing with sand in a sandbox. It's so fun. Idk why.
@@novesspl5061 You need very deep pockets for this specific keyboard, and it won't serve much use if you don't have a computer capable of interfacing with it.
Got an IBM 5150 myself - looking at the bootup screen it seems that it has a PC/AT like BIOS, a successor of mine. Love the sound of the keyboard - those things still last after 30y of continuous use.
I grew up with this thing - although ours was upgraded to a mind blowing 640K of RAM, the same 20ish MB hard drive as yours, and a 4-color CGA card which was pretty much the coolest thing ever in '84. I learned to write on WP5.1 (I even remember installing it with my dad with 13 or 14 5.25-inch SD disks.) Thanks for the fun memories :)
Man, I'm happy you launched Xtree Gold. I used to love that. I remember for a while I still used to say "Prune" when talking about deleting "Type PRUNE if you wish to prune"
my First computer in school in the 80. but our version hat two 360k floppies and no hard disk but external EGA monitor :D On that machine I learned gw basic many thanks for sharing
What? That's like the best computer ever! Maybe not but it certainly is the best portable ever! It's like a whole computer, but.. Portable!! Why did they stop making these? Genius!!
A great machine you have ! Once we had a KAypro-10, but that's not an IBM_PC compatible( Saddly, the KAypro is lost, but in 2006 I began to collect classic computers and have about 70 of them now - from IBM 5150 to PIII, some macs, Amigaand few Soviet PDP-11 compatibles)
I'm kinda mixed. For text mode stuff, Amber CRTs look best in my opinion. However for graphics I prefer Green CRTs. Windows 3 and Geoworks Ensemble looked amazing with my Hercules card and Green CRT I had on my XT.
I notice that this machine has contrast and brightness controls for its VDT, but does it also have focusing controls? What about inversion of the text/image?
I had a hard drive just like that one in our old AT&T xt comp. To this day I havent heard another hard drive that sounded like that. It made kind of a beeping sound instead of clicking sound when read/write. If i recall right, it was either 10 or 20mb.
whats with the little whits dots popping up on the screen every time you type something or wen something is loading on the screen??? is there something going bad on the inside of the computer???
I miss the yellow and green phosphor screen days. They were nice and crisp, unlike today's flimsy LCD screens. That was the day when people did real computing !!!
Those are the IBM 5051 Keyboards. My wife still has one with a built in scanner. It was from Compaq Computer. That keyboard sold for $ 350.00. When I was working at Compaq I went to the Compaq employee's store and bought a new one for $ 50.00. Those things are like battle ships, they never wear out.
I'm a sucker for Model M keyboards, but those Model F ones are becoming increasingly difficult to restore due to their foam pads degrading. One of the 5155s I serviced only had it's keyboard back to life after I carried it around half the city, nowadays you have to harshly wiggle it again before usage. Being capacitive keyboards keys just won't work but instead output multiple random characters (some not even found on keyboards usually). So meh ... I was recently offered one for trade, but actually passed.
Prince of persia was running slow but you still could play to the end. But Golden Axe was booting for half an hour and it was slow as hell!! You couldn’t play it)) But i had at least 50 different games that were running perfectly on this comp! I was an idiot that i sold it in the 90-s.
+Hobby Electronics The IBM 5155 has a regular IBM XT motherboard in it, so you can plug in an ordinary serial card. I have connected this computer to a Raspberry Pi via an USB-to-Serial converter. You can even share the internet connection of the Raspberry Pi with the IBM 5155 via the serial port en browse the internet with it!
+Alphaslucas Thing has 8(!) expansion slots like the IBM 5160, 3 being full length and 5 being restricted in length to slightly more than an ISA8 slot. I recently restored one of those and have to admit it's quite a nice machine. The one I was restoring came with a HardCard+ (non standard HDD with 20MB + controller on a full length ISA card) that was replaced by an XT-CF and a 256MB CF.
just 3 years later I remember some friends having a nintendo... a fuckin hand held machine running mario smoothly. I remember how much the ghosting on those screens was...
The kind of phosphor used for the screen gives out a orange glow when exited. Alot of old displays eighter had a green or orange screen; only later it became black and white and then color.
Ya, all of my retro IBM compatibles are gas plasma orange flat panels except one. It's a Mitsubisi MP286L 80286 with 80287 installed :D. 15 MB mfm hard drive, black and white LCD with an inverter switch so black becomes white and vis versa, which definitely comes in handy and is a really neat feature. It has CGA, and an output to external monitor if you want color. I don't have a 9 pin monitor so I'm out of luck there. They had color portables back then though, like the SX-64, but IBM and the people copying them were geared more toward business. Especially in the portables which were already cost prohibitive for most people even into the mid 90s. I can remember for example borrowing a hand me down laptop portable 286 in the mid 90's and programming in bed, thinking as my legs were burning from the heat of the thing, THIS IS AWESOME!! I was programming in bed! Who cares if I only have monochrome!
I found the same computer in the trash with everything even the bag to move it but it did not power on so i did put it back in the trash. so mad lol i did that.
Back in those days every time I turned on my computer I had a feeling of excitement. The internal noises of the BIOS, the HDD, the beeps, and the clickety click of the keyboard... and the lines of code, the DOS commands for file management... boy I loved to use my PC. My first one I got in 1991 was a 286 IBM compatible.
Thanks for the "memory"! And the memories.
Khamomil Exactly what noise did your BIOS make?
The tactile click of the keys were my favorite part of IBM business machines. Tactile clicks complemented by keyboarding skills nicely.
@@askhowiknow5527 it's just one beep
Nice to see somebody demonstrating a vintage PC with something other than games. You are a 1-2-3 maestro.
Wow, XTree Gold - one of my favourite tools back in the DOS days.
And funny to see that despite the memory check at the beginning the whole system still started up faster than many modern PCs (well, the non-SSD ones). With the memory/storage restrictions back then and the lack of an easy way to ship out hotfixes/patches, programmers had to do a better job, I think.
Im born in 2000 and just 16 years old but for some reason i love vintage technology. :) thanks for sharing man! :D
Piotr Jankowski Wow I'm 16 too and really interested in MS-DOS :D
GriteMate Glad you like it!
Same
I like this kind of stuff more than our current tech too. Just messing with it and playing within its limits is like playing with sand in a sandbox.
It's so fun. Idk why.
Piotr Jankowski same here!
Great demo, especially AutoCAD and TurboC.
The sound of raw computation
I'm amazed at what they were able to put in 440 kb of ram. Simply. Amazing. Great video.
In 4th grade, we had one of those in the back of the classroom. I have fond memories with that thing...
With those specs and that collection of software, makes that computer a great portable workstation, pretty handy for its time! Nice video!
That keyboard is very nice. Great sound.
loool i love this for programming
it's regular old keyboard guys. you can buy it anywhere
@Novess PL Perhaps but you need deep pockets
@@novesspl5061 You need very deep pockets for this specific keyboard, and it won't serve much use if you don't have a computer capable of interfacing with it.
@@ducksonplays4190 i don't mean this exact keyboard, but ones that have the same type of buttons and sound the same.
Heel erg gaaf om te zien dat zo'n oude machine het nog doet!
Oh man, that brings back some memories!
10 print "that brings you 448 ko of memories..."; 20 end
cool vid i like that u actually ran and did stuff w the progs and not just turn it on
Love the keyboard sound, it puts mine to shame, I will have to get one of these at some point for my collection. :-)
What a time to be alive!
Got an IBM 5150 myself - looking at the bootup screen it seems that it has a PC/AT like BIOS, a successor of mine. Love the sound of the keyboard - those things still last after 30y of continuous use.
That was fantastic! Those were great times when it was all new. Thanks for the video.
I grew up with this thing - although ours was upgraded to a mind blowing 640K of RAM, the same 20ish MB hard drive as yours, and a 4-color CGA card which was pretty much the coolest thing ever in '84. I learned to write on WP5.1 (I even remember installing it with my dad with 13 or 14 5.25-inch SD disks.) Thanks for the fun memories :)
What were those four colors on the CGA card? Does White count as a color?
After 90s install windows 3.0 with 4 floppy disk. 1995 14 floppy :D.
Man, I'm happy you launched Xtree Gold. I used to love that. I remember for a while I still used to say "Prune" when talking about deleting "Type PRUNE if you wish to prune"
my First computer in school in the 80. but our version hat two 360k floppies and no hard disk but external EGA monitor :D
On that machine I learned gw basic
many thanks for sharing
Wow, I haven't thought of XTree in nearly 30 years!
This was my first non-Commodore pc. I eventually swapped in a 486sx mb, 4 mb ram, 2 100 mb hds and a combo hard and floppy disk drive.
I've never seen one of these in such great condition
Grande nostalgia del mio primo portable personal computer ... Bei Tempi !!!
Awesome! That text-based interface....
We have come a long way.
Wow...that just brought back some nightmares lol. really cool video!
Wow you just brought back memories for me on this one
What? That's like the best computer ever! Maybe not but it certainly is the best portable ever! It's like a whole computer, but.. Portable!! Why did they stop making these? Genius!!
Yep. I hope you mean a full fledged desktop computer in portable. And not a Laptop..
Wow, the snow in WordPerfect is very noticeable... Can't say I've seen it that bad before!
A great machine you have ! Once we had a KAypro-10, but that's not an IBM_PC compatible( Saddly, the KAypro is lost, but in 2006 I began to collect classic computers and have about 70 of them now - from IBM 5150 to PIII, some macs, Amigaand few Soviet PDP-11 compatibles)
In 1990 Brazil user dream a this model PC!
I remember one of these computers that had to use about two Low density disks to boot, (I was a child but I remember that I could boot the computer).
Getting that Fallout computer vibe
Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it.
Thing were much simplier 30 years ago!
orange on black > green on black
I'm kinda mixed. For text mode stuff, Amber CRTs look best in my opinion. However for graphics I prefer Green CRTs. Windows 3 and Geoworks Ensemble looked amazing with my Hercules card and Green CRT I had on my XT.
I notice that this machine has contrast and brightness controls for its VDT, but does it also have focusing controls? What about inversion of the text/image?
Que máquina mas primitiva en mis actuales 2020.
I had a hard drive just like that one in our old AT&T xt comp. To this day I havent heard another hard drive that sounded like that. It made kind of a beeping sound instead of clicking sound when read/write. If i recall right, it was either 10 or 20mb.
That's because of the heads being moved by a stepper motor. It was a very unique time. It felt magical for sure.
Wow, you've got autocad on there! I still use autocad 2013 on a regular basis. So nice to see a historical vintage version of autocad.
dykodesigns2yt looks pretty yawn ,but is juiced back date Id.
Is this the same PC Gordon and Joe reverse engineer in Halt and Catch Fire?
I have seen this IBM 5155 computer store I ago back in 1990s they were selling them used
The orange screams Deus Ex. I love it.
Still got software - still got 5.25" drives - but that dos 3.3 - make me a copy !!
Woah! Why didn't you demo Qedit? It was a fantastic editor back in the day. :-)
whats with the little whits dots popping up on the screen every time you type something or wen something is loading on the screen??? is there something going bad on the inside of the computer???
Levi Cassidy That is called CGA snow. It happens when a program writes directly to screen menory. This is normal for these old CGA cards.
Were did you getn that Retro Cumputer asking for the rounders
Do you have Interface Manager and/or Windows 1.00 COMDEX, please ?
and all that running on an Intel 8088!
Very nice machine. How did you upgrade the RAM - an expansion card?
+themaritimeman Yes, there is a Tecmar Captain Junior expansion card in it. There is a real time clock and serial port on that card as well.
Nostalgia
That is PROPERLY old!
I miss the yellow and green phosphor screen days. They were nice and crisp, unlike today's flimsy LCD screens. That was the day when people did real computing !!!
Today we do more computing than then
Might be time to get a good monitor mate
man, i would murder just for the keyboard
Those are the IBM 5051 Keyboards.
My wife still has one with a built in scanner. It was from Compaq Computer.
That keyboard sold for $ 350.00.
When I was working at Compaq I went to the Compaq employee's store and bought a new one for $ 50.00.
Those things are like battle ships, they never wear out.
I'm a sucker for Model M keyboards, but those Model F ones are becoming increasingly difficult to restore due to their foam pads degrading. One of the 5155s I serviced only had it's keyboard back to life after I carried it around half the city, nowadays you have to harshly wiggle it again before usage. Being capacitive keyboards keys just won't work but instead output multiple random characters (some not even found on keyboards usually).
So meh ... I was recently offered one for trade, but actually passed.
AWESOME!
Great video, however you forgot to park the HDD! (perhaps it's Seagate ST225 as it sounds like this!)
Gotta love that awesome plasma screen
Is that artifacting that I'm seeing when keys are being pressed?
追悼、宇津木忠直。
Prince of persia was running slow but you still could play to the end. But Golden Axe was booting for half an hour and it was slow as hell!! You couldn’t play it))
But i had at least 50 different games that were running perfectly on this comp! I was an idiot that i sold it in the 90-s.
I can't stand today's mushy keyboards. Back then, we used real keyboards with silky-smooth clicking keys. They were pleasure to type on.
魔法のランプ。
Your faster than I ever was
Model M or Model F? That pingy noise screams IBM :)
A portable PC? That will never catch on...
is possible port SymbOS?
Nonstopstart~.
Can you Connect to the console of a rasberry pi using serial port with this computer?
+Hobby Electronics The IBM 5155 has a regular IBM XT motherboard in it, so you can plug in an ordinary serial card. I have connected this computer to a Raspberry Pi via an USB-to-Serial converter. You can even share the internet connection of the Raspberry Pi with the IBM 5155 via the serial port en browse the internet with it!
+Alphaslucas Thing has 8(!) expansion slots like the IBM 5160, 3 being full length and 5 being restricted in length to slightly more than an ISA8 slot. I recently restored one of those and have to admit it's quite a nice machine. The one I was restoring came with a HardCard+ (non standard HDD with 20MB + controller on a full length ISA card) that was replaced by an XT-CF and a 256MB CF.
+Hans “Shockwav3” Meier I put 32gigs of ram and win 8.1 lol
+The Copper Golem Such humor, such wow.
Alphaslucas what make card for Apple is that?
追記有、居間の7、5帖の部屋nonstopstart~.
TURBO C 2.01!!!
just 3 years later I remember some friends having a nintendo... a fuckin hand held machine running mario smoothly. I remember how much the ghosting on those screens was...
kdyby nebyl internet plný moderních zbytečností jako reklamy, tyhle staré pc by ho uměli levou zadní i s vytáčeným připojením
宇津木家２名お悔やみ申し上げます。
can it run gta v on ultra + redux mode
追記有、宇津木忠尚nonstopstart~.
前任者１名、日系ブラジル&アメリカ人。
do you have friendlyware
sooooo, I see it's a Dutch pc XD
i dont know how to operate this pc -_-
そういうことです。
PipBoy 5155
Might need to overclock it
2018年（令和1年〰️
宇津木忠尚nonstostart~.
Why is the screen Orange?
The kind of phosphor used for the screen gives out a orange glow when exited. Alot of old displays eighter had a green or orange screen; only later it became black and white and then color.
+John Kapri oh ok
It Could Also Mean it's Gas Plasma.
Ya, all of my retro IBM compatibles are gas plasma orange flat panels except one. It's a Mitsubisi MP286L 80286 with 80287 installed :D. 15 MB mfm hard drive, black and white LCD with an inverter switch so black becomes white and vis versa, which definitely comes in handy and is a really neat feature. It has CGA, and an output to external monitor if you want color. I don't have a 9 pin monitor so I'm out of luck there.
They had color portables back then though, like the SX-64, but IBM and the people copying them were geared more toward business. Especially in the portables which were already cost prohibitive for most people even into the mid 90s. I can remember for example borrowing a hand me down laptop portable 286 in the mid 90's and programming in bed, thinking as my legs were burning from the heat of the thing, THIS IS AWESOME!! I was programming in bed! Who cares if I only have monochrome!
wooooooooooooooow like mlg
合計２名。
タイムマシーン。
Где ibm5100
I found the same computer in the trash with everything even the bag to move it but it did not power on so i did put it back in the trash. so mad lol i did that.
Conect with you android yoy will hace smart pc
can I have it
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