Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup
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Date: 2022-04-14
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John
I remember using one of these. I thought it was so cool back then. Seemed so fast then. The tablet Im watching this video on blows this PC away of course. We've come a long way. Still one of the best keyboards. You needed the templates since there was almost no user intertace to look at on screen. You also needed a notebook to write codes in as well as books about the software you were running so you didn't have to remember what DOS commands to type. Many of those commands and keyboard shortcuts still work with today's PCs. We found that binder very helpful. The main key was kept in our tower and the backup was kept taped inside the binder. Those towers were built like a tank. A case built as well as this now is quite pricey. The power port design has barely changed. The first PC we had didn't use a mouse. Didn't learn how to use a mouse nor a visual user interface until we upgraded to a 486 PC. I still love the noises that these old PCs made. Haven't heard that in years. The happy beep! Computers today are so quiet. I turn off the boot splash screens on my modern PCs so that I can watch them go through diagnostics. CD Man! Awesome! I remember that game.
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I remember using one of these. I thought it was so cool back then. Seemed so fast then. The tablet Im watching this video on blows this PC away of course. We've come a long way. Still one of the best keyboards. You needed the templates since there was almost no user intertace to look at on screen. You also needed a notebook to write codes in as well as books about the software you were running so you didn't have to remember what DOS commands to type. Many of those commands and keyboard shortcuts still work with today's PCs. We found that binder very helpful. The main key was kept in our tower and the backup was kept taped inside the binder. Those towers were built like a tank. A case built as well as this now is quite pricey. The power port design has barely changed. The first PC we had didn't use a mouse. Didn't learn how to use a mouse nor a visual user interface until we upgraded to a 486 PC. I still love the noises that these old PCs made. Haven't heard that in years. The happy beep! Computers today are so quiet. I turn off the boot splash screens on my modern PCs so that I can watch them go through diagnostics. CD Man! Awesome! I remember that game.
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Mike
I stumbled on this video and it caught my attention right away. Our office was one of the first in the US government to use this IBM system in the early 1980s. It was my first exposure to a networked system, office-wide email, automated word processing, and a lot of other stuff that we now take for granted. It was a reliable system for its day but by the time I left the office in 1987, Apple and other PCs were already making headway into government service and this system (like its rival Wang systems) became obsolete and left behind. I can imagine that the warehouse cache he found is evidence of how quickly this system fell victim to newer and more advanced technology. IBM has never been the same since. His delight and appreciation for this old system is really nerd-worthy and I rejoice in his wonder and amazement in this old technology.
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I stumbled on this video and it caught my attention right away. Our office was one of the first in the US government to use this IBM system in the early 1980s. It was my first exposure to a networked system, office-wide email, automated word processing, and a lot of other stuff that we now take for granted. It was a reliable system for its day but by the time I left the office in 1987, Apple and other PCs were already making headway into government service and this system (like its rival Wang systems) became obsolete and left behind. I can imagine that the warehouse cache he found is evidence of how quickly this system fell victim to newer and more advanced technology. IBM has never been the same since. His delight and appreciation for this old system is really nerd-worthy and I rejoice in his wonder and amazement in this old technology.
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k4vud
Hey local store in one of these machine to demonstrate brand new. I was an early customer investigating the machine. I asked the salesman what do you do with this thing question. Their salesman was proud to say it was a machine to keep track of your address book and your friends address it. The machine was turned off so I asked the salesman to look up and address in it while I looked up and address in my little book. Of course I was much faster with my hand written book then the machine took. It was still booting up and I was ready before it. The salesman stood up and went in a backroom. Years later I did buy one and enjoyed the long track from that basic model to the nice unit I have now.
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Hey local store in one of these machine to demonstrate brand new. I was an early customer investigating the machine. I asked the salesman what do you do with this thing question. Their salesman was proud to say it was a machine to keep track of your address book and your friends address it. The machine was turned off so I asked the salesman to look up and address in it while I looked up and address in my little book. Of course I was much faster with my hand written book then the machine took. It was still booting up and I was ready before it. The salesman stood up and went in a backroom. Years later I did buy one and enjoyed the long track from that basic model to the nice unit I have now.
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Bradley
Dude, pardon my French, but watching this vid gave me a complete boner! The new car smell of that brand new keyboard, and memories of setting these things up fresh out of the box.
I've actually got a small museums of mostly customized PCs, including a 3270 AT that I still use, and a couple of crowning jewels in the form of original 5150's w/64k motherboards and Din connectors for attaching the cassette deck so you could program and operate the machine in ROM Basic if you didn't wish to boot to PC-DOS v1. 01: )
Thank you thank you thank you for sharing this amazing video of a fresh unbox of a brand new AT!
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Dude, pardon my French, but watching this vid gave me a complete boner! The new car smell of that brand new keyboard, and memories of setting these things up fresh out of the box.
I've actually got a small museums of mostly customized PCs, including a 3270 AT that I still use, and a couple of crowning jewels in the form of original 5150's w/64k motherboards and Din connectors for attaching the cassette deck so you could program and operate the machine in ROM Basic if you didn't wish to boot to PC-DOS v1. 01: )
Thank you thank you thank you for sharing this amazing video of a fresh unbox of a brand new AT!
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brickson98m
Ah, LGR and his obsession with smells. Others might think it's weird, but I completely understand. It's just one more sensory element involved in the experience of anything. Whether it be good (like this new keyboard) or bad (like a night in the oval office after Taco Bell.
I appreciate that he tries to describe the smells of everything. It's something that doesn't translate through video, so being able to have a guess as to that sensory element of the experience is nice.
But I really feel like, as is tradition, he should've typed -Hello World! - first. Haha
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Ah, LGR and his obsession with smells. Others might think it's weird, but I completely understand. It's just one more sensory element involved in the experience of anything. Whether it be good (like this new keyboard) or bad (like a night in the oval office after Taco Bell.
I appreciate that he tries to describe the smells of everything. It's something that doesn't translate through video, so being able to have a guess as to that sensory element of the experience is nice.
But I really feel like, as is tradition, he should've typed -Hello World! - first. Haha
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KEREM
Dear LGR, or anyone visiting this Video can help me? I need Help! I managed to turn on my old computer working with Dos 3. 2 and BIOS 4. 01 ( 1987 ) my problem is, the computer is not reading the 5. 25 floppy, neither the Hard Drive: I suspected jumper setting on CPU board ( 8088 CPU ) and MIO jumpers with no effect, is there any way to enter in BIOS 4. 01 to check some settings without MS DOS activated? please help, cheers
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Dear LGR, or anyone visiting this Video can help me? I need Help! I managed to turn on my old computer working with Dos 3. 2 and BIOS 4. 01 ( 1987 ) my problem is, the computer is not reading the 5. 25 floppy, neither the Hard Drive: I suspected jumper setting on CPU board ( 8088 CPU ) and MIO jumpers with no effect, is there any way to enter in BIOS 4. 01 to check some settings without MS DOS activated? please help, cheers
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Mike
I bought three of these in 1985 for the company I worked for at the time. I unboxed and set up all three ) and ran the test software you are running on each. Then initialized and formatted each hard drive and loaded PC/DOS. I also had a video, a communications card and extra memory to load. I took an entire week to do all this and had part of a day left over. I was just as excited as you and took my time. It was glorious!
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I bought three of these in 1985 for the company I worked for at the time. I unboxed and set up all three ) and ran the test software you are running on each. Then initialized and formatted each hard drive and loaded PC/DOS. I also had a video, a communications card and extra memory to load. I took an entire week to do all this and had part of a day left over. I was just as excited as you and took my time. It was glorious!
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brickson98m
Double commenting here. But man, I wish modern systems would just say out of memory and let you close the program and continue. I know there's tons of technical reasons why that's not the case, but it sure would be better than Windows (or your OS of choice) bogging down to a near halt, getting worse as each second passes, but simultaneously preventing you from closing any programs.
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Double commenting here. But man, I wish modern systems would just say out of memory and let you close the program and continue. I know there's tons of technical reasons why that's not the case, but it sure would be better than Windows (or your OS of choice) bogging down to a near halt, getting worse as each second passes, but simultaneously preventing you from closing any programs.
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Michael
23: 54 OMG OMG OMG! I still remember coming home from highschool. Throwing my backpack onto the livingroom TV. And hopping onto my IBM.
I felt. I felt like I was commanding mission control at NASA, with the TV on, the radio on, while sitting at my computer.
I'd pour myself a fresh Coke, and start discovering.
The feeling I would get I just beyong words.
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23: 54 OMG OMG OMG! I still remember coming home from highschool. Throwing my backpack onto the livingroom TV. And hopping onto my IBM.
I felt. I felt like I was commanding mission control at NASA, with the TV on, the radio on, while sitting at my computer.
I'd pour myself a fresh Coke, and start discovering.
The feeling I would get I just beyong words.
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EV-YT
This was great to see. Thanks a lot. My first PC was the original IBM PC before the XT and the AT. I paid $1, 750 from a computer store in Irvine, Calif. It had no operating system, only IBM Basic language. It had 32 Kb of RAM and a 5 1/2- disk drive. DOS cost about $75 to be installed at the store. I used it for about five years and wrote a lot of programs on it.
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This was great to see. Thanks a lot. My first PC was the original IBM PC before the XT and the AT. I paid $1, 750 from a computer store in Irvine, Calif. It had no operating system, only IBM Basic language. It had 32 Kb of RAM and a 5 1/2- disk drive. DOS cost about $75 to be installed at the store. I used it for about five years and wrote a lot of programs on it.
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