I found an IBM EduQuest! One of the machines of my dreams... My luckiest estate sale find to date! 

Just came across your videos and am now binge watching them all. Thanks for preserving history. Funny how us collectors have an out of body experience when we find our holy grail other people think we’re weird. Great job and greetings from the UK

Totally awesome find. I need one of these to my collection lolz. The ct2950 didn't have a Yamaha chip.. Nice videos 📹 😍 😊

In the summer of 2000, before I started high school, I worked with the Board of Cooperative Services in the schools of Western Colorado. The schools had thousands of these, and we would blow the dust out, wipe them down, check that they worked, and go on to other technology hardware. The video cable that you have to disconnect first thing when unscrewing the back was always a pain. One of the guys with us would always forget to reconnect the cable, and he would have to walk around and fix the mistake. These computers ran Windows 3.1 until they came through in 2001 and were replaced with Windows 98 desktops. They also came in and replaced all the token ring networking with ethernet simultaneously.

Bro I love your content so much, I'm able to enjoy it while relaxing in bed or when I'm at the computer doing other things... keep up the great work!

First period business class at middle school in a room full of these machines - I think we had the 386 machines without CD-ROM or sound cards, but they did have Token Ring. At the teacher's instruction, they were all turned on simultaneously with that that two tone POST sound echoing throughout the classroom.

This is an excellent find, good job restoring it, really enjoyed the detail you put into the video, especially the time you took testing the power before booting, must have been a great feeling finding out both the power supply and the harddrive were working, that never happens.

The high school I attended had a couple hundred of these back in the '90s. There were 5 or 6 in every classroom. They were slow but very reliable. Spent many hours typing up assignments on the IBM Eduquest.

A local school district had an auction back in the 90s and they sold a lot of old apple iis and pcs like that eduquest. My brother in law bought a pallet of computers and my parents got an eduquest from them with a 386 for a few years. Don't know what ever happened to it. They probably tossed it.

The EduQuest machines that I used to use had a CD-ROM that used a cartridge. You had to put the disc into a cartridge, then insert it into the machine. Nice find by the way!

Seeing the Sound Blaster 16 software reminded me of when we could type something in and the sound card would speak it out. We used to make it say “lunch meat” and the depressing way the male voice made it sound had us howling in laughter! I’m sure was laughing wasn’t appreciated in the school library. 😂

Hey, MikeTech, I just stumbled upon your channel, and I have viewed half of your videos thus far, but you have left me quite curious regarding one matter: your computer room! Will we, the viewers, ever have the privilege of witnessing this mysterious homage to ancient artifacts? I'm sure that I can not be the only one who has had the seed of curiosity sprout within, take root, and begin to grow, and develop into a desire to quench the thirst of knowledge. If you have not yet considered it, you may want to consider creating a video covering various elements of the elusive "computer room". Surely, I can not be the only one who is curious, or interested in this matter. Beyond that, I look forward to viewing your remaining videos, and future videos alike. Thanks for sharing!

looking forward to more of your videos!

Very interesting! Thanks for restoring this precious piece of computer history. Here in Germany, I think these were never available.

Thank you for a really interesting video and a trip down memory lane.

Neat find a cool ibm machine saved and restored .

Glad to hear I'm not the only one that swoons at the sight of a rare find 😍

In the mid 90's I used to build a lot of school computer labs and internet cafes and office networks. Every other week I was setting up 30 of these at a time.

This was a great video. I’m very happy to have stumbled across your channel. I’ve always wanted to get either an EduQuest or one of those Compaq all in ones like that one you have at the end of the video. I hope to see that Compaq repaired at some point. It would be interesting to watch for sure.

love these vids man!

The "healing bench"! Nice.

You seem like a young guy, it's surprising that you even know abou the EduQuest.

Thanks for this, I didn't even know about this EduQuest range of machines or the subsidiary company behind those and I enjoyed every moment of this video. When I got this video suggested it looked like it could be something quite interesting and it certainly lived up to expectations.

Great machine and good memories! A good friend of mine had one of these back in the day as their family PC. I'm pretty certain it was an older model than this one (probably a 386 or a 486 SX) based on how slow it was. It didn't have a CD-ROM drive or even a sound card but we had a lot of fun playing some of the older side-scrolling games on it like Commander Keen, Alien Carnage and Lemmings. I remember Wolf3D was playable, but it needed a reduced window-size. I kept an eye open for one for quite some time, but they are really hard to find! Great video, thanks for sharing 👍

Wow, nostalgia overload! My first pc experience was on a version of this machine. It didn't have windows. It was running DOS with no CD-ROM. As a kid my first computer experience was with various versions of Apple with Dallas schools. We moved while I was in 5th grade and that same year I experienced system 7 (later called Macintosh after version 7.5) with using a mouse for the first time. I thought it was so amazing! We moved to a suburb not far away and they had these IBM EduQuest systems. I thought it was so bizarre having to type "A:\" to access the floppy for our educational programs and games 😂 been using a PC ever since 🙏🏽

keep up the hard work. I have a few IBM's from the 8088 to the P2 and the AMDs, fun systems.

Very lucky find

Incredibly hard to find machine. Good for you.

found an eduquest that my grandmother used to own back in the 90s, it works well as far as I can tell, only downside is I couldn’t find the mouse, but I do have the keyboard! this was interesting as I’ve never heard of eduquest before so im glad I could find a little more information on it!

I love ur vids can u try to post more often

Superb you managed to save all these i am not sure how well tandy computers sold in the uk but they sure are great looking machines ..

you seem so excited

Nice video! Welcome to retro youtube :)

Awesome video! I'm not sure those EduQuest machines ever made it over to the UK, which is a shame as I rather like the aesthetic. You're really passionate about this stuff - hope to see more videos in the future!

Wow I remember these

10:35 - Imminent disaster is the WORST kind of disaster! 👀 Outstanding video! 💖

Woah, glad you stuck out and asked the buyer if you could buy this from them.

Reminds me of my high school in the early 90's that got sold a bunch of PS/2 Model 20, 30, and 35 machines on Token Ring. I have no idea what happened to it all as it's been 30 years ago.

we had a packard bell all in one that reminds me of those

Super glue is amazing if you add some baking soda before it dries. Will make a rock solid repair.

That hard drive sound would make for some relaxing background noise.

Nice unit. Glad you were able to claim it as yours. Never thought it had the capability for a 486 chip to be used, but good that it does. Would have thought it to be an 8088 or at least a 286 considering it's design.

1:43 Oh hey, that's from Florida! Bay County is in the Panhandle; its seat and largest city is Panama City.

The content does not seem to differ from what other retro-computing channels do, but the host of the channel is certainly sexiest retro-computing-channel host that I've seen so far. (It's a matter of preference, but, darn....) Also, I haven't noticed that other retro-computing channel hosts put their camera between the hands, when working on things, which is interesting approach, interesting camera angle, and sure fits to this channel here, in a good way 😀 But, OK, let's see, if I were to fantasize about a retro-computing-channel that nobody has ever done, then I would go for the "homebrewcomputer" theme, which is not about restoring old computers, but designing computers with similar technical parameters FROM SCRATCH. Nobody has done that kind of a RU-vid channel yet, it would be totally novel, but at the same time, the technology, CPU-speeds, logic chips, etc. would be roughly the same, a few MHz max, may be like 20MHz max, often times more like 4MHz or less. I would try to get interviews from the builders of home brew computers. The start of the list of references would be the legendary homebrewcpu dot cooom web ring, but a search phrase of "home brew computer" is also a nice phrase to look for. But, no CPU channel yet about that. A related topic might be modern development of microcontroller(MCU) applications, taking to account that microcontrollers are not available and have to be replaced in digital designs with whatever make and type is available. The legendary Benjamin Heckerdon (Ben Heck Show founder) had a COVID19-era rant-video about the lack of availability of MCUs and how that ruins the mood of many MCU board developers. I don't know, if that would be popular on RU-vid, but it would certainly be unique and first. Given the lack of MCUs, may be some applications might be done with very small "programmable logic arrays", nowadays CPLDs, which do not have as many logic_function_tables/"gates" as FPGAs. That's how industrial machines were done from discrete Boolean logic gates before Intel4004-like CPUs were available. The overall idea there is that an industrial robot or "production cell" is a state machine and for every state there is a boolean formula, where the boolean variables are positions of mechanical switches, which can also be switches that are formed of mechanical counters (devices like mechanical clocks, where the clock pointer is one contact of a switch). I'll illustrate that idea with a set of boolean formulae that describe how to move at the edges of a 3x3 square field, where columns are labeled x0,x1,x2 and rows are labeled y0,y1,y2. A square would be indicated by its so to speak pixel coordinates (x,y). Variable name prefix B_ denotes a Boolean variable. Prefix func_ denotes a function, an action what to do. B_we_reside_at_x0_y0 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_0 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_0 B_we_reside_at_x0_y1 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_0 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_1 B_we_reside_at_x0_y2 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_0 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_2 B_we_reside_at_x1_y0 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_1 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_0 B_we_reside_at_x1_y1 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_1 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_1 B_we_reside_at_x1_y2 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_1 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_2 B_we_reside_at_x2_y0 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_2 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_0 B_we_reside_at_x2_y1 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_2 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_1 B_we_reside_at_x2_y2 ≡ B_x_coordinate_is_2 ∧ B_y_coordinate_is_2 if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x0_y0) then func_move_right_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x1_y0) then func_move_right_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x2_y0) then func_move_down_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x2_y1) then func_move_down_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x2_y2) then func_move_left_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x1_y2) then func_move_left_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x0_y2) then func_move_up_by_one_square if (NOT(B_action_in_progress) ∧ B_we_reside_at_x0_y1) then func_move_up_by_one_square The more modern implementation of the idea that a "production cell" or a robot can be described by a series of Boolean formulae and actions, what to do, if a formula is true, is implemented in the form of a "programmable logic controller" (PLC), which nowadays are basically microcontroller devices, MCU-devices that run software that simulates what used to be implemented in discrete logic chips. Omron has even fancy IDEs with GUIs for their PLCs. The FPGA predecessors, "programable logic arrays" (PLA-s) were a revolution in a sense that people could avoid re-wiring discrete logic chips. Then, at some point, when the Intel4004 came to market, somebody came up with the idea that let's not mess with the PLAs at all, let's just write software that simulates it. One topic that no retro-computer-channel has covered, is software development tools of the era. For example, somebody had to write some assembly code for the industrial Intel4004 control devices and that assembly probably was written on some desktop computer of the era. There's a lot of talk about old games, but not that much content on software development tools of the era, specially the various programming languages that run on those computers (may be p-code based Pascal, probably some dialect of COBOL, etc.) The various development tools, IDE analogues, that were used for developing industrial control systems like the Intel4004 based control devices, would be nice to learn. May be some early CAD tools. Basically, industrial and engineering software part has NOT been well covered yet. The same goes for educational software of the era: I found a soft floppy disk as part of a university level physics study book, but I do not know, what's on there or what computer it even runs on. The british BBC Domesday laser disks have been well covered, but general purpose educational software does not seem to be covered yet. Probably it was so that the cheaper desktop computers of the era might have been used as terminals for the supercomputers of the era. I haven't noticed that anybody had covered that topic about retrocomputers. And then there are the Soviet and Japanese own CPUs. The Soviet Union copy-catted western CPUs to be able to run western software, but they did have their own, unique, CPUs too. In Eastern-Germany. It would also be interesting to know, what kind of computer architecture the Western/USA used at their missiles. For example, the Soviet Union designed a special computer for the nuclear missiles, so the U.S. must have had its military computer designs that are probably unclassified for decades by now. The U.S. space shuttle Soviet copy-cat project, Buran, was able to conduct fully automated flight from start to landing. The idea behind the Buran computer was the aforementioned state machine idea, "programmable logic array" idea, except that it had 3 of those computers that simulated the PLA and there was a vote-counter: if 2 computers gave an answer Foo and 1 gave Bar, then Foo was considered to be the answer. Americans did not have that kind of control hardware and software at that time, but there must have been something also at the American side. (I'm born in 1981 Estonia, which was part of the Soviet Union, because Estonia was under Soviet occupation. Hence my interest to the technology of both sides, including the Soviet Union side. The Soviet Union technology was not necessarily Russian technology, because a lot of the development work also took place at the occupied regions of the Soviet Union, including Estonia.) Thank You for reading my comment.

The soundcard with modelnumber CT2950 is the Sound Blaster 16 VALUE PNP

Sadly we don't see much cool old tech here in the uk maybe some, when i lived in canada we used to have the commodore pet when i was younger but the Eduquest was something i remember from while after we came back to the uk very cool machines!

Couple of things I noticed... you might know this, but the little chip sockets by the CPU are for cache RAM, if you could get some static RAM chips, usually 15ns is the right speed (or faster), it would help significantly speed up processing on the machine. Second is just a little thing, the "game / MIDI / line in / out" labels look like the Soundblaster was an original part, but that it was installed upside-down in the slot with the labels. Maybe that slot went a bit unreliable so the school moved the card to a different slot? Or were they all like that, mis-labelled at IBM. It's good to see a genuine Soundblaster, but under DOS, "compatible" cards weren't very compatible, so the real thing is what you want if you're gonna run DOS, and possibly all sorts of obscure educational software. I'm telling you all this just cos I remember it the first time round, and I'm sure from your youth, that you don't! Or at least not as an adult, when this stuff was all current. Also... that was my first IBM monitor! It wasn't built into a PC of course but it looks just like it. I got it second hand to plug into the second hand 386 that was my first PC! A 386-SX40, so 16-bit data bus rather than 32-bit, but the fastest 386 available. It played Doom... just... which was the benchmark of a worthwhile computer in those days! Doom in low-res (press F5!) mode with the window brought in a couple of pinches. Your 486-66 should manage it no problem, Doom 2 too.

JB Weld is great for plastic repair.

I repaired those back in the late 90s.

Creative Labs was best known for their Sound Blaster cards. Other than dust, this PC looks to be in good condition. I remember when I was in high school in '90s they had IBM PCs in the Library computer lab

I love how all of these AiO CRT's are literally a motherboard flung ontop of a monitor.

20:28 god I wish that was me🥺

It was dropped, that's why the bezel and clip were broken. The weight of the crt breaks it that way every time.

it would be interesting to see a review of the second computer at the end of the video. looks very nice

Cool find! I would say that board whilst not having PCI, does have internal VL-BUS, which is used by the cirrus logic video and the IDE controller. Such a mainboard was fairly common in the 93/94 era with OEMs. Actually this whole system is pretty cookie cutter 'multimedia pc' with the Sound Blaster 16. The original CD-ROM was almost certainly a 2 speed unit. I noticed all your cache sockets are unpopulated, might be an upgrade worth considering. Also, I have never seen a standard install of Windows 95 with those program groups, including a shortcut to QBASIC. Whilst it might not be the original IBM install, it must have been fiddled with by a school or university IT department.

Used these from 1990 in kindergarten to 1998 in Jr high

I think I used 1 of these in 93-95 in a library.

There’s just something ironic about IBM licensing PhoenixBIOS.

OK, I'm sorry but I totally laughed my ass off at 8:00 as I totally called it. 4/4. Yeah this old abs is just garbage. Especially cheap abs on top of something that gets hot, like a crt. Those poor clips took ALL the heat cycles, even when the machine idled. Most of the crap I acquire rattles before I even open it up. Great work man, keep fighting the good fight.

looks like it could do with some L2 cache upgrading?

Can someone make a video of how to make a ms-dos startup disk floppy with cd-rom support

I thought I might see Microchannel. That was IBM's expansion slot. I have seen PCI and ISA before anyhow. Even today some motherboards still come with PCI (not just PCI express). There may even be some bizarre Chinese industrial motherboards that still have ISA. With things from China you never know what kind of weird things you will see next.

Marine Epoxy works wonders in repairing plastic parts. It is also easily sandable if needed. BTW did you arms get that big from lifting heavy computer equipment? ;)

@7:33 have you ever tried using super glue and baking soda? you can combine the two on the broken part making it stronger than before.

8:35 Every time I look myself in the mirror.

Nice find. What's up with that speaker in the front? It almost seems like thats not the original sound card or it got moved from the other side. I was surprised it has the ability to boot from the network

I have an eduquest 45, whats a good price point to sell it for?

Dang, Based on the tag on the back at 1:49, this EduQuest was auctioned off or sold on May 26, 2005. Or and maybe blur the district name?

Likely would have been better to try and pry those monitor screw covers front the top

Luckly. The two estate sale ladies don't do that sh*t. You get a fair chance and if you want to whole lot at the end of sale. You can do that.

Does the EduQuest software exist out there somewhere? Would be nice to see it running on that machine.

Plastic from that age is very brittle, I have a PowerMac 7500 and it's horrible -- you just look at it and the tabs break off.

Paracido a la Mac pero más barato 😅😂

Soundblaster 16 pro?

I think i have one of those but I'm not sure how much to sell it for on ebay I don't want tomplug it in

I don't know why the CRT is tilted upwards. Children are rather short-of-stature, so it doesn't make sense.

Damn, they paid 5$ and you paid $100. LOL

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An all ISA machine in 1995? That's just plain mean.

You could have cleaned it before.

Ouch, you seemed to put the CPU back in wonky. Hope it wasn't damaged. Also, you really should clean the unit before opening as you have no idea what's in that dust. Someone could have been grinding metal in the garage.

@CathodeRayDude would be jelly