Did I buy a working 286 that doesn't need repairs ? 

well you know sometimes you get lucky like that one

Impressive indeed. In fact I did not expect 3 but one of those fancy DOS file managers/program launchers called Windows 1.0 or 2.0

Yo can have my Kalok HDD... its broken.

@@BaumInventions That’s like telling someone “my VW Bug leaks oil.” ;-D

Harris in particular and Headland made some great clone motherboards. There are also "Chips" versions.

You weren't able to do that with any hard drive, some HDDs were only allowed to be mounted horizontally.

The computer also displays some text in Dutch when he boots the hard drive, at 11:13. Oostende is part of the Dutch-speaking area of Belgium so that makes sense.

If you pay someone to use careful wire work to replace traces it could likely work again.

@@hicknopunk I sure hope so. I'll test the traces, hopefully this weekend, and probably do the wire work myself. I don't know anybody who does that kind of thing.

@@leandrocosta3709 oh cool you can do that. My type 1 diabetes makes my hands shake and it is a rare day when they are stable enough to do fine soldering. I can fix things made through the 90s, usually...well non computers. Like amps, equalizers, etc. I'm glad you can fix it on your own, I wasn't going to make that assumption. Added: btw, I have a 386 dx 25 at home myself. I'm always glad to meet someone else who loves dinosaur computers.

Actually the turbo button was meant to slow down the computing speed (by removing some CPU features such as cache or optimizations) and make it compatible with older software that required a PC-XT or very slow computer. The turbo mode was never designed to accelerate the speed, so the labeling is a bit confusing! :)

@@olivierpericat9224 On my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus, I have cache control software that makes my DX5-133 run as a 386 DX-33 for older games, like NHL Hockey 95 for the Roland MT-32 and I also have a batch file that loads the mark software, the SoftMPU (for delaying the SYSEX commands), and after the game exits, the end of the game batch files loads the TSR-REM program to close the SoftMPU software so it doesn't hog resources. That and it also brings the computer speed back from a 386 DX-33 to a 486 DX5-133. Some boards were picky with WB CPUs and the turbo button as it never worked right and only WT CPUs would drop the speed or remove certain CPU features as you mentioned to make it run slower for older software to make it more compatible without hesitation. Even the CTRL ALT -, CTRL ALT +, or CTRL ALT \ was a thing as well. The 8088 clones, like the Commodore Colt, had certain combinations to go from 4.77MHz to 9.18MHz.

Maybe adding a packet of desiccant inside the computer case would prevent it?

@@ObiWanBillKenobi The computer or motherboard would still have to be sealed against external humidity variations. This PC appears to have been stored in a climate controlled environment or a very well sealed container. The lack of any dust and corrosion inside the case suggests this.

Storage conditions make all the difference for battery leakage. Particularly temperature, being that these are little cans of reactive chemicals. This machine must have been someplace cool and dry for most of its life.

That is pretty late for a stepper. Largest one I have is 60mb. I have a few of the first wd stepper 40mb drives too. The performance is really interesting too.

@@wishusknight3009 Yeah, this ~100MB Kalok I have (Actually rebranded as an Ocatagon I think? Rebranded label applied right over top of the Kalok label, which is how I know.) was, as I understand it, the bargain-basement cheapest HDD you could buy at the time. And its reputation says most got what they paid for.

Also, a label on the Hyundai PC says it came with a 40MB HDD, so this Kalok must have been an upgrade my friend did back in the day (he bought the PC new, and passed it on to me a couple decades ago).

@@jasonhaman4670 I can not remember what happened to Kalok, if memory serves they re-emerged as JTS. Which was just as bad. My first ide drive was a 105mb 5.25 half hight ide drive which is a stepper as well. And its still working. Got it new in 1989. I remember compressing it with dblspace on dos 6.2 and stored it that way. When I got back into retro stuff a few years back I dug my original dx33 out and found out how much that machine had been "loved". And just how much software and documents and games I had crammed on that thing. I had the 105 and a Quantum 80mb as drive d also compressed. whoa... lol It was pretty crammed full.

@@wishusknight3009 Curiosity got the better of me, and I fired up and opened up the Hyundai. The Kalok had been rebranded as "BSA", not Octagon. Octagon was somewhere on the original label. That old drive still spins up... after I found the key combination to get into BIOS setup, and found the CHS specs for the Kalok, confirmed that it was configured correctly. I suspect it's not booting because I left the HDD blank the last time I tinkered with it, many many years ago. May have been playing with Minix on it at the time. I'll probably try to partition and install DOS on it soon, to see if the thing's still working fine despite its reputation (AKA the exception to the rule).

Finding a working Kalok is rare though

Maybe a couple years later, it had windows 3.1 on it. I still have a working kalok, not sure of its size. And it is kept very safe from people even looking at it, for fear of it failing.

@@wishusknight3009 Nice! It's rare to hear of a working Kalok drive. I saw another youtuber who got his from a workplace that had two working ones as well

Probably put straight into storage when a 386 showed up.

Our esteemed host is holding out on us. He clearly has a time machine. Dust and rust free generic case? NiCad battery that hasn’t leaked everywhere? _A working Kalok HDD?_ You don’t expect us to believe you just found this in 2022, do you?

@@nickwallette6201 I'm glad that April fools day has past already 😉 Past

Sometimes reseating the expansion cards / RAM and CPU can also help. Fact that it beeps means it is at least doing something

@@RetroSpector78 Thanks a lot! I reseat the VGA card one slot, and I am getting a video signal now! There are just some issues with Bios mismatch thingy (and of course missing keyboard, I have to buy one with a DIN plug). Fingers crossed, maybe this good ol fellow will work.

​@@RetroSpector78 is like have (when we were born) a tube radio like the one in the gangsters days .. A machine from 1990 ... a machine of 32 years old... in perspective... it will be like in 1999.. have one of thouse old furniture players from the 60's for mono vinyl records like in 1989.. have a Coca-Cola refrigerator from the 50's (Marty Mcfly and his father in the gas station) in '79.. an old tube radio almost like the one in the gangsters days Yeah.. she is old..

Yeah, too new, advanced, and expensive for my blood! 🩸🤯🩸

I suspect this PC was before user-defined types 47 and 48, when you were restricted to the predefined drive types.

@@jasonhaman4670 if I recall late 286 era was when a lot of bios implemented that feature. So it may have it, but it may not. By the 386 era pretty much everything could use user types.

Looking back this board does so type 47

The bios screen on the machine said that type 47 is custom. I'm nowhere near clever enough to remember a detail that specific from 30 years ago.

@@SJ-co6nk Your eye is sharper than mine. I stand corrected.

Not by 1990-91, this is a pretty late 286. It wasn't uncommon to see them with even more than that by this time frame.

Yes, by 1990, 2 MB of RAM was very common. My 286 had 640 K installed on the motherboard and a 2 MB memory expansion card on the ISA bus.

Ok chris

Well computers are still pretty new to the Belgian people so they are still learning you know! 😜