Four free vintage computers...Do they work?
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Long story short, I managed to save four computers from going to the recycling pile at the local Best Buy. Was it worth saving them, do they work?
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Great video. Love the old dec pc. I used to build them back in the 90s on ayr, Scotland.
Great finds! With all of those PC's you could heat every room in your house in the Winter!
Love Gateways, have a few myself including a socket 7 mmx 200mhz
I'm so glad you can get old Computers to work.
Like your content. Keep it up for us old PC-enthusiast weirdos
I am one too! I would certainly find a use for older computers that modern systems are unable to play the retro games, or just for that nostalgia feeling of computers growing up in the 90s
I have to this day something similar to that Presario. Mine is a 5070, with 350mhz K6-2. It was freely handed down to me from a family friend. When I got it around 2003, I immediately found & updated the CMOS version, back when Compaq still had websites with the downloadable cmos versions & it was a successful burn. I have not worked on this PC in 15-20 years but hopefully will get back into it soon. Last thing I "tried" to do back then nearly 2 decades ago was to replace the AT powersupply with an ATX powersupply but I ran into "short cable" syndrome where the AT-ATX adapter cable was too short & I pretty much gave up & moved on, heh. Supposedly the motherboard has an XG MIDI chip on it which was one reason I kept it. I will also try to replace the CPU to a faster one, hopefully a K6-2 550 or something, if I can find the right speed switch combos, as some of the combos may be undocumented. I have a few more vintage stuff, my Commodore 64's being my oldest PC's in the bunch. Have a nice day.
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to be honest, while the "pro" in production is kinda lacking, the audio is good and the delivery is so on point that i've been binge-watching your videos for the past few hours. Sad that the channels like this one don't get the recognition they deserve
Thanks for the feedback! Given my limited time to film, and only really having an iPhone as my main camcorder does limit the quality, I am looking to try and improve it going forward. Just trying to figure out DaVinci resolve slowly over time, so it is a hurdle but nothing I can’t overcome.
@COBRA i'd guess a simple $100 3-axis stab would be enough tho, at least for now
@@jwoolery99 Get a GoPro and a head or body mount so your hands are free to work on the systems!
I should, honestly, haha
Why do people have to say "To be honest "? Do They lie all the time or something?
You can purchase an IDE based SSD that you can use on one of these old monsters and help speed up even more than they would've been in the day they were used.
love that gateway 2000! nice haul !
That Compaq still has the stickers on it. Mint!
I stumbled on your channel while just randomly browsing youtube watching tech and computer videos and I was recommended this video!
You have some really good finds there! Those old computers like the one you got at the yard sale is a STEAL! Youy could essentially build what is known as a "sleeper PC" basically what looks like crap on the outside but it would have amazing internals! I am currently working on finishing a project build by taking a Dell Optiplex 990 mini tower PC that i bought refurbished and completely redo the internals to be a gaming beast inside! All I need now is the mATX motherboard, CPU, RAM and an m.2 SSD to finish it off! I plan on eventually making a video of the finished build.
yeap i agree i randomly found this channel too and its great
That Gateway2000 there was my first computer. 200Mhz MMX Pentium, 48mb ram, 2, 3GB hard drives. I used to emulate playstation on it as a kid at low frame rates. Think I had an ATI Rage 128 in it (PCI) and I was running a SoundBlaster 16 Wave Effects ISA sound card
Liked, subbed, and commented! Best of luck. :)
Supreme simply means it comes with sour cream...
haha yes
could be a power supply getting weak for that one that blue screens, and could always hook up the hdd to a usb to ide/sata and see if there's any goodies worth saving on it.
1 long beep = Too much dust on case
talk about a trip back in time! Cobbed together systems from 1994 on, those green rails I recall as well as a buch of similar ones for different systems. I built several bunches of systems starting with DX2-80's w/ 4 speed CD-Roms, all bfore PS2. I figure through the years I assembled +300 systems...
That caviar 22500 is the exact drive that came in the gateway 2000 P5 110 the previous year!
They used the computer for years yet didn't take advertisement stickers off LOL.
Honestly that's pretty cool when that happens, guess it just depends on the system. Things like this, as long as it doesn't interfere, I just leave them on.
maybe dumpster dive best buy's dumpster and see what tech you can save?
Could also trash pick and dive other areas for pcs too. And show the setup, perhaps organize a "install table" (aka a place for whatever computer is installing a os and taking awhile to free up a main spot to work on another) As far as the athlon maybe gpu needs reseat/contact cleaning? And was the caps bad?
Patg108 i hate sw va so much i wanna move where u r
@@isaacwright2247 my area barely has any pcs in trash or in thrift stores
The $3 computer wasn't missing its front panel, it was missing the front door. With the door closed, you couldn't open the optical drive. The first thing I did with a case like that was to remove the front door.
That one computer must have been manufactured on a planet with a slower rotational period than earth.
Super find.. I owed 2 of the 4 of them. Ugh I'm old
A 486 DX with 20MB Ram can run Windows 98 with no problems.
At boarding school, we had a computer club and we worked on a lot of 486s.
AWESOME! 4 free machines? 😍😍😍😍😍😍 SO JELLY!
You could just use one of 'em for a sleeper PC build.
Not if youre in gate city va
Excellent Video.
Dude is living my dream😂
I remember having to press Esc to skip memory counts!!
Check with the Nostalgia Mall. He is a Packard Bell collector
He hates sw va
compaq laptop were great i still have one now running linux now
lucky to be there I bought a ThinkCentre Edge 72 & iiyama E2483HS-B1 24-inch screen at the weekend for £20 the screen might resell tonight for £35 and decide if I want to upgrade the PC with an i5 and SSD or just resell it. will defo get more than the £20 I paid anyway.
Jesus! if talking got it done you would have finished two weeks ago.
You can use a Linux live CD to use for boot.
What is the point of playing with so many old computers? I can see doing it occasionally just for a little fun, but why so many? What's the fascination?
Do you sell these, or just stock pile them, Loved the vid.
The meme
On capacitor in the compaq persario5190 is very toxic Meme
that old pacard with 486 dx 66Mhz i think i have the same too :D sadly it dows not have agp but it can have windows95 tho with voodoo :D
tho`s old compaque presario often had P2 or p3 with voodoo3 if lucky :D mine had P3 500Mhz with voodoo3 3000 agp its great with soundblaster live and win98se for gaming :D
Lucky find
Unless youre in the evil swva
You need to clean your monitor !!!