I think we all used the 'Jungle' theme at least once back in the day, complete with the sound effects. I was always fond of the 'Inside Your Computer' theme the most though.
I had a Unisys 486 box that I purchased from eBay a while back. I LOVED the case style of that thing! Mine was a much slimmer profile and was so clean looking. I wish I hadn't sold it!
Good catch, that could be it... alternatively, from the look of the RAM on the video card, that might be the problem. It looked like 60ns DRAM to me, not VRAM. My Pentium 75 had the Diamond Stealth Video VRAM 2MB... I insisted on that one when I ordered it, I wanted to make sure the video performance didn't suck. I was coming (defecting) from an Amiga 4000/040. For the time (1994) it was the shiz. This card looks to be, well, just shiz.
@@SeeJayPlayGames S3 Trio64 is quite nice for what it is (S3 Virge is basically using the same 2D core), and that DRAM is plenty fast, with the card having a 64 bit data bus spread across the 4 chips. Diamond Stealth is just Diamond's brand that they used for a ton of different video chips over the years. One of the Diamond Stealths is this very design (S3 Trio64), but with 8 8-bit wide DRAM instead of 4 16-bit wide DRAM.
@@ianhanschen the graphics cores are similar (S3 968 in my card's case which I think is older) but my card had dual-ported VRAM which could be read from and written to simultaneously. IDK what use case that helps with but it was a selling point. It might very well be the acceleration slider. Or maybe wrong driver.
It’s not the graphics. At one point he minimizes a window, which takes a while to redraw, then brings the window back again, resizes it, and minimizes it, and the screen redraws instantly. If it can do it at all, it’s not bandwidth related. My guess is, with only 16MB, the wallpaper is getting swapped away pretty much any time anything else loads into memory.
That computer should be running must faster than it is, probably bogged down from bloatware etc. I had 486 during the same time period and it had no issues with even the underwater Screensaver
It's not "booring looking" at all, the entire aspect it's perfectly balanced, as all things should be. Plus, those stripes just scream nostalgia at you!
I was wondering why I couldn’t hear the hard drive seeking and then you showed the inside and it was Fujitsu drives, two of them at that! The seeking of these is actually very faint compared to other drives of the era. Was one of them bad? When the PC booted it only listed one of them (maybe the BIOS was miss configured though). I have a Pentium 75, and it runs better than your PC did here, so yeah the install was probably bloated, with a new install it would probably run much better I guess.
I have the compaq armada 1530dm laptop with windows 95 but unfortunately not the sound drivers for that ess chip..someone removed the cd rom drive and all I have is the floppy drive....wonder if I can find a floppy driver disk for that sound chip? Certainly haven't found a cd rom drive on ebay anywhere.
I first installed Win95 on a 486DX/2-66. I would’ve loved to have had a P75, but Pentiums were still very expensive. For that matter, I now have a Gateway Pentium 60 that was manufactured in first quarter 94. So I think 75MHz in 1995 was quite decent. :-)
That's a very cool time capsule. I'm guessing that was an office machine? I say that because offices were notorious for getting the cheapest pc's they could that would still do the job
Interesting... this is the first time I see such a PS/2 config- I had/have (again) an Intel Zappa board, and was surprised at the time Windows 95 detected a PS/2 mouse port - which I wasn't aware I had! Turns out this port could only be used when the voard was configured by factory with it - I had an AT style DIN connector instead. About Win95 and the speed: I'm pretty certain your issue is the lack of RAM, not CPU power, here. Beginning with 32 MByte, Win95 is nice to work with...the 16 are likely not enough, and the system's main task is now swapping (moving [un]used data between RAM and disk) - creating all the loading and stuttering effects you perceive.
windows 95 can install on 8mb of ram, and run so so. But here i think this may have a lot of shite on the drives, we used to use windows 95 with this sort of spec at school, those ran bob on.
9:10 Out of the two hard drives, one is marked with a "Belgium/French" sticker on the top left, and the other "Belgium/Dutch" What can be that be referring to?
No turbo button? FAIL! LOL!!!!! Ah I remember that Win95 Plus Pack. Yes, I went bonkers and messed with the various sounds to make Windows sound completely ridiculous.
Very nice video for a superb computer (which would deserve a good redrobright session to get back to its full glory) ! Regarding the PS/2 connectors on the motherboards, that was quite common at this time on brands such as Dell or Gateway 2000. All my Gateway 2000 boards based on Neptune or Triton chipset are AT, and get the same PS/2 connectors at the exact same place. This is very convenient and you don't have to use a serial DB9 mouse !
in the 90s, assembling, troubleshooting or setup of PCs is like rocket science, lot there's a lot of any peripheral devices you can choose to plug and test on the motherboards. Nowadays is somewhat "boring" because everything is on the motherboard now..
Can anyone tell me what ISA vga card and what type of monitor I need for an old 8086 486dx setup? Found my old desktop from my childhood in my parents storage building. It powers up but I can't get video. I think the card is possibly bad, but it could be that I have the wrong monitor. The oldest CRT I have is an emachines from 99. Give a dummy a clue.
brings back memories of me doing a windows 95 install on a 75 with 8 meg. My good god it took nearly all morning to install windows 95 on floppy. Only for the HDD to give up mid way through lol. Also that's a 1st for me too seeing PS2 instead of AT keyboard connector, on systems like these. you normally would get PS2 connectors on odd ball systems as i call them of that era. Also down grade it to windows 3.11, and you find it will be quick.
It's amazing to think that my Smartphone is more powerful than that Pc now. I can run 486 emulation and even install Windows Xp in the emulation and run all the software I still own from those days. My first PC was the Commadore 64 followed by every upgrade from the IBM 286-386-486 and so on as they came out year after year.
The good old Win95. I had this OS on my 486 from DX2@66 up to 133. And it ran just fine. As memory I had 24M (2x4+2x8M) FPM and it impacted the OS fluidity quite a bit; it was mostly a single task computer. When i swapped the memory stick from 4M to 16M for a total of 48M, man, it was like a wake-up for Win95. Snappy, responsive, no swap accessing, and with my Trident TGui VLB with 2M VRAM, it was a new computer. I would suggest to upgrade the amount of RAM to 32M or even better, 64M for the best performance. The new owner and Windows 95 will thank you.
Those were the days, when you upgraded one part after the other and always felt you got a newer PC after - funny that when you upgraded to Pentium class from your last 486 you most probably still had parts of your old one in you dragged with. Like me, had a simm shuttle to use 30pin SIMM in a Pentium 72pin slot, until i could buy proper EDO... and so on.... hehe
@@CosmoRiderDE Yes, my new Pentium inherited the soundcard, memory (I think). Saddly, the HDD was not able to use because it only had one IDE controller while my 486 had a dual one with VLB. And, also it was a good time to upgrade. I went from 486 DX2@66 up to 585@133 on the same motherboard and for each CPU I used I felt the upgrade. Same with going from 286 to 386 or from P1@90 to P1@166. But hey, that was the beauty, and I was proud to show my friends that I can run games that theirs computers could not.
i remember my little 75 system that had 8mb of ram, put windows 3.11 on it, i was learning about PCs at the time, bought 32 mb which i think maxed the board out i think. fired it up and windows 3.11 ran like stink! My dad said bloody hell!, that's quick! installed windows 95 and that was flew too, i always found windows 95 to be smoother than windows 98, which i think may have been why it hung around till the very end, and things just moved to windows 2000.
I had never heard of an otherwise AT-standard motherboard with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports onboard, until one of Adrian's Digital Basement ]['s videos (ua-cam.com/video/GDOp32LZB-4/v-deo.html @8:40). Now not long after that, I watch this video with the 2nd I've ever seen/heard of. Every motherboard I was aware of with PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports on the motherboard pre-ATX was a fully proprietary, non-AT-standard motherboard. Very interesting.
I used to work for Unisys, but only after they stopped making hardware and was just a tech support call center for other companies. It always gives me a little jolt when I see their name on actual PCs.
Yes, they sure are. From Wikipedia: ‘The name of the company, as well as many of its products (e.g., Revolution, Imagine, Pepper, Ticket to Ride) refer to Beatles songs. At system boot up, Number Nine cards' video BIOS splash screens display short phrases from Beatles songs related to the cards' model names. Card model names were usually preceded by a "#9" moniker.’
@@kasimirdenhertog3516 Thank you! If I happened to know the brand, and, therefore, more of their products, I'd probably know that for a fact, but I'm not familiar with it. Nice info. Oh, and nice touch by that hardware company, too!
i had a socket 3 pc in the family i could use (486dx 33mhz) and then much later a socket 7 pc (cyrix 100mhz) back in the day but never had any socket 5 or early pentiums to play around with. these things are so cool to me. they always seemed a step above anything we could afford, a very premium option. i'd love to have one and install an SSD to speed things up and put in a relevant ISA sound card. it would make a really fun dos gaming PC. as cool as those 500mb drives are, i bet in terms of seek time they are slow old dogs :P
Why not? With windows as daily driver there shouldn't be any difference to ISA. At least the bus isn't that different and the ESS chips were built with PCI in mind.
@@thepirategamerboy12 That PCI card was produced in 2000, so it doesn't really fit in this system. Removing the driver (and the card) will increase the performance.
I spent a lot of time playing with that Plus Pack back in the day . Nice Machine Thanks for the Video
I like the old look of windows 95, it’s oddly nostalgic even though I grew up on windows 2000 and XP service pack 3.
I remember the days of Pre windows 95
The color of the default wallpaper is still one of the most soothing and awesome colours used in any Windows version.
I think we all used the 'Jungle' theme at least once back in the day, complete with the sound effects. I was always fond of the 'Inside Your Computer' theme the most though.
I had a Unisys 486 box that I purchased from eBay a while back. I LOVED the case style of that thing! Mine was a much slimmer profile and was so clean looking. I wish I hadn't sold it!
I don't think I've ever seen a Pentium motherboard with L2 cache in the DIP-chip format like you typically see on 486 boards. Neat.
The motherboard is a FIC PT-2000.
The latest known bios update for it is from 1997
Nice trip down memory lane, it kinda remembered me of the Olivetti pc's of those days as they looked very similar I seem to remember 🙂
Might want to check the acceleration slider in the advanced display settings. Wouldn't expect a p75 to redraw the wallpaper that slowly.
Good catch, that could be it... alternatively, from the look of the RAM on the video card, that might be the problem. It looked like 60ns DRAM to me, not VRAM. My Pentium 75 had the Diamond Stealth Video VRAM 2MB... I insisted on that one when I ordered it, I wanted to make sure the video performance didn't suck. I was coming (defecting) from an Amiga 4000/040. For the time (1994) it was the shiz. This card looks to be, well, just shiz.
@@SeeJayPlayGames S3 Trio64 is quite nice for what it is (S3 Virge is basically using the same 2D core), and that DRAM is plenty fast, with the card having a 64 bit data bus spread across the 4 chips. Diamond Stealth is just Diamond's brand that they used for a ton of different video chips over the years. One of the Diamond Stealths is this very design (S3 Trio64), but with 8 8-bit wide DRAM instead of 4 16-bit wide DRAM.
Also maybe the hard disk is in PIO mode and not DMA, which drains the little performance that Pentium has to offer anyway.
@@ianhanschen the graphics cores are similar (S3 968 in my card's case which I think is older) but my card had dual-ported VRAM which could be read from and written to simultaneously. IDK what use case that helps with but it was a selling point.
It might very well be the acceleration slider. Or maybe wrong driver.
It’s not the graphics. At one point he minimizes a window, which takes a while to redraw, then brings the window back again, resizes it, and minimizes it, and the screen redraws instantly. If it can do it at all, it’s not bandwidth related.
My guess is, with only 16MB, the wallpaper is getting swapped away pretty much any time anything else loads into memory.
CD rom drives with headphone output and volume control... My absolute favourite
A unisys, beautiful! I actually have 3 old Sperry PCs here that I need to get up and running. This is like their grandchild.
Nice FIC PT-2000 Board. Didn't know they had green boards before changing to yellow.
That computer should be running must faster than it is, probably bogged down from bloatware etc. I had 486 during the same time period and it had no issues with even the underwater Screensaver
yeah it seems to have a load of shite on it, a clean install and it will be spot on, it can also make a fast windows 3.11 machine too.
The dual PS/2 ports & hard drives are a nice touch!
Yes old stuff ☺ Saludos desde Mexico !!
It's not "booring looking" at all, the entire aspect it's perfectly balanced, as all things should be. Plus, those stripes just scream nostalgia at you!
excellent machine, many memories with the pentium 75 mhz, fortunately I have seen many of the series. great content, greetings from Argentina.
With all the craziness about 3090 Ti....this is a relaxing video to watch
J'aime vos vidéos sur les vieux ordinateurs. Laissez-les venir !
This entire room needs a good retrobrite
Could do with a few posters at least to lose some of the dungeon vibe 👻
I miss when computers were cool.
Can we please see more about the 2 compaq deskpro systems in the background? One of them should be the 2000/4000 series!
nice, i love my win 95 cougar sounds too
Amazing Retro PC!👍🖥️
I had one Unisys computer back in the day, think it's model was Aquanta DL. Pentium MMX@166MHz, 64MB of RAM and Windows 98. Had 2 USB ports even!
Looking up the FCC ID, it looks like this was made by "First International Computer, Inc.".
I was wondering why I couldn’t hear the hard drive seeking and then you showed the inside and it was Fujitsu drives, two of them at that! The seeking of these is actually very faint compared to other drives of the era. Was one of them bad? When the PC booted it only listed one of them (maybe the BIOS was miss configured though). I have a Pentium 75, and it runs better than your PC did here, so yeah the install was probably bloated, with a new install it would probably run much better I guess.
those fujitsus were alsop slower than average thoughso maybe thats why it seemd slow
I have the compaq armada 1530dm laptop with windows 95 but unfortunately not the sound drivers for that ess chip..someone removed the cd rom drive and all I have is the floppy drive....wonder if I can find a floppy driver disk for that sound chip? Certainly haven't found a cd rom drive on ebay anywhere.
I'd love to throw a 3DFX card in this just to see how far the system can be pushed in games.
I think it will be too limited with this CPU... The first 3DFX have been designed at the time were the Pentium 166 was the king ! :)
@@olivierpericat9224 True, but that means the platform and CPU will be pushed to the limit! Then 90s games and benchmarks can be used on it. :)
Just a heads up in case you're interested.
There's an eBay listing from the Netherlands for a new Conner CP-2064 laptop drive, 60MB.
"We looked at the indoor airconditioner box for design inspiration"
I used to work on these they were rebadged acers
We had a pizza box model too (small form factor) for commercial market
75MHz in 1995 seems like an incredibly slow clock speed by that point in the 90s
I first installed Win95 on a 486DX/2-66. I would’ve loved to have had a P75, but Pentiums were still very expensive.
For that matter, I now have a Gateway Pentium 60 that was manufactured in first quarter 94. So I think 75MHz in 1995 was quite decent. :-)
That's a very cool time capsule. I'm guessing that was an office machine? I say that because offices were notorious for getting the cheapest pc's they could that would still do the job
Have that same mobo, i guess those were some more customized ones motherboards.
Interesting... this is the first time I see such a PS/2 config- I had/have (again) an Intel Zappa board, and was surprised at the time Windows 95 detected a PS/2 mouse port - which I wasn't aware I had! Turns out this port could only be used when the voard was configured by factory with it - I had an AT style DIN connector instead.
About Win95 and the speed: I'm pretty certain your issue is the lack of RAM, not CPU power, here. Beginning with 32 MByte, Win95 is nice to work with...the 16 are likely not enough, and the system's main task is now swapping (moving [un]used data between RAM and disk) - creating all the loading and stuttering effects you perceive.
windows 95 can install on 8mb of ram, and run so so. But here i think this may have a lot of shite on the drives, we used to use windows 95 with this sort of spec at school, those ran bob on.
Excellent Video.
My favorite kind of episodes: to discover another classic PC
is it just me or do the front panel LEDs not work?
9:10 Out of the two hard drives, one is marked with a "Belgium/French" sticker on the top left, and the other "Belgium/Dutch" What can be that be referring to?
Governement PC. Belgium has 2 big regions (Dutch and French). Perhaps related to that.
No turbo button? FAIL! LOL!!!!!
Ah I remember that Win95 Plus Pack. Yes, I went bonkers and messed with the various sounds to make Windows sound completely ridiculous.
Very nice video for a superb computer (which would deserve a good redrobright session to get back to its full glory) !
Regarding the PS/2 connectors on the motherboards, that was quite common at this time on brands such as Dell or Gateway 2000. All my Gateway 2000 boards based on Neptune or Triton chipset are AT, and get the same PS/2 connectors at the exact same place. This is very convenient and you don't have to use a serial DB9 mouse !
in the 90s, assembling, troubleshooting or setup of PCs is like rocket science, lot there's a lot of any peripheral devices you can choose to plug and test on the motherboards. Nowadays is somewhat "boring" because everything is on the motherboard now..
Can anyone tell me what ISA vga card and what type of monitor I need for an old 8086 486dx setup? Found my old desktop from my childhood in my parents storage building. It powers up but I can't get video. I think the card is possibly bad, but it could be that I have the wrong monitor. The oldest CRT I have is an emachines from 99. Give a dummy a clue.
brings back memories of me doing a windows 95 install on a 75 with 8 meg. My good god it took nearly all morning to install windows 95 on floppy. Only for the HDD to give up mid way through lol. Also that's a 1st for me too seeing PS2 instead of AT keyboard connector, on systems like these. you normally would get PS2 connectors on odd ball systems as i call them of that era. Also down grade it to windows 3.11, and you find it will be quick.
Is a beautiful PC.
2 harddisks but only one configured in the bios? That's odd?
One of the Fujitsu drives must have been dead for a while
looks awesome, as always, thanks for the video,,I really enjoy your channel. I install 98plus to all my retro machines..
Unisys was a quality brand.
It's amazing to think that my Smartphone is more powerful than that Pc now. I can run 486 emulation and even install Windows Xp in the emulation and run all the software I still own from those days. My first PC was the Commadore 64 followed by every upgrade from the IBM 286-386-486 and so on as they came out year after year.
mad isn't it!
The good old Win95. I had this OS on my 486 from DX2@66 up to 133. And it ran just fine. As memory I had 24M (2x4+2x8M) FPM and it impacted the OS fluidity quite a bit; it was mostly a single task computer. When i swapped the memory stick from 4M to 16M for a total of 48M, man, it was like a wake-up for Win95. Snappy, responsive, no swap accessing, and with my Trident TGui VLB with 2M VRAM, it was a new computer.
I would suggest to upgrade the amount of RAM to 32M or even better, 64M for the best performance. The new owner and Windows 95 will thank you.
Those were the days, when you upgraded one part after the other and always felt you got a newer PC after - funny that when you upgraded to Pentium class from your last 486 you most probably still had parts of your old one in you dragged with. Like me, had a simm shuttle to use 30pin SIMM in a Pentium 72pin slot, until i could buy proper EDO... and so on.... hehe
@@CosmoRiderDE Yes, my new Pentium inherited the soundcard, memory (I think). Saddly, the HDD was not able to use because it only had one IDE controller while my 486 had a dual one with VLB.
And, also it was a good time to upgrade. I went from 486 DX2@66 up to 585@133 on the same motherboard and for each CPU I used I felt the upgrade. Same with going from 286 to 386 or from P1@90 to P1@166.
But hey, that was the beauty, and I was proud to show my friends that I can run games that theirs computers could not.
i remember my little 75 system that had 8mb of ram, put windows 3.11 on it, i was learning about PCs at the time, bought 32 mb which i think maxed the board out i think. fired it up and windows 3.11 ran like stink! My dad said bloody hell!, that's quick! installed windows 95 and that was flew too, i always found windows 95 to be smoother than windows 98, which i think may have been why it hung around till the very end, and things just moved to windows 2000.
I still don't know why so many OEM's assembled that Toshiba CD-ROM drive in their pc's.
obviously because it was cheap.
Educational video always appreciable gaining the retro experience mark to the top. Lol
i block and skip all ads possible :)
always hated the MS-plus back in day .. i always removed it as just slowed down 90's computers considerably
But it was so much fun! I mean, the letters in “Plus!” were all different sizes and colors! What’s more fun that that??
I had never heard of an otherwise AT-standard motherboard with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports onboard, until one of Adrian's Digital Basement ]['s videos (ua-cam.com/video/GDOp32LZB-4/v-deo.html @8:40). Now not long after that, I watch this video with the 2nd I've ever seen/heard of. Every motherboard I was aware of with PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports on the motherboard pre-ATX was a fully proprietary, non-AT-standard motherboard. Very interesting.
I used to work for Unisys, but only after they stopped making hardware and was just a tech support call center for other companies. It always gives me a little jolt when I see their name on actual PCs.
1:51 Number nine? I'm 64? Beatle references?
Yes, they sure are. From Wikipedia: ‘The name of the company, as well as many of its products (e.g., Revolution, Imagine, Pepper, Ticket to Ride) refer to Beatles songs. At system boot up, Number Nine cards' video BIOS splash screens display short phrases from Beatles songs related to the cards' model names. Card model names were usually preceded by a "#9" moniker.’
@@kasimirdenhertog3516 Thank you! If I happened to know the brand, and, therefore, more of their products, I'd probably know that for a fact, but I'm not familiar with it. Nice info. Oh, and nice touch by that hardware company, too!
where are you.....waiting and waiting.....
you can slam voodoo1 in it and play some cool games like turok, quake or gta ;)
Can you try to not touch the PCI contacts?
It’s no big deal but skin oils don’t belong there.
He can't.
have you seen his hands? They look chapped AF. Dude definitely needs moisturizer. I don't think he has any skin oils left.
i had a socket 3 pc in the family i could use (486dx 33mhz) and then much later a socket 7 pc (cyrix 100mhz) back in the day but never had any socket 5 or early pentiums to play around with. these things are so cool to me. they always seemed a step above anything we could afford, a very premium option. i'd love to have one and install an SSD to speed things up and put in a relevant ISA sound card. it would make a really fun dos gaming PC. as cool as those 500mb drives are, i bet in terms of seek time they are slow old dogs :P
PCI sound card in a Pentium 75? Really wouldn't recommend that.
Why not? With windows as daily driver there shouldn't be any difference to ISA. At least the bus isn't that different and the ESS chips were built with PCI in mind.
What’s wrong with that? Won’t be great for DOS games, but in Win95, it would be fine.
@@nickwallette6201 I tried it one time (Sound Blaster Live in a Pentium MMX 233), and in Windows the game performance was dramatically worse.
@@thepirategamerboy12 That PCI card was produced in 2000, so it doesn't really fit in this system. Removing the driver (and the card) will increase the performance.
@@meiklman I already did that a while ago, it was never a permanent thing. It has a Yamaha Audition 32 ISA card now.
I'm so old I remember when they were called Sperry! If you say Sperry today, people would think of shoes. I love the look of that machine. 8)
Ugly to!
@@MusicalMuse444 Really? I actually think they look pretty good on women, though.
There looks to be something wrong, I feel it was slower than the 486/SX we had.
The "good" old days of damned jumper settings required for everything.
Windows 95 ran much faster on a 486DX4-100. Why?
I'm fiirs.... T.... Oh, wow, I'm eleventh.
Generic Award BIOS
"Master" and "slave" is RACIST :P
So slow
Can we please see more about the 2 compaq deskpro systems in the background? One of them should be the 2000/4000 series!