LGR - Fixing & Installing a Parallel Port CD-ROM 

LGR, the only man to repairs a 2001 drive... with a 1999 drive XD

That music...I thought the drive was defective.

11:32 his chuckle of victory. He could make changing spark plugs entertaining.

"Repairing & Installing a Parallel Port CD-ROM" That is something I have almost no interest in... However, it's LGR so count me in!

forget breakfast, LGR is a way better use of my time at 7 in the morning

My first CD burner was an external parallel HP drive - worked better than I thought it would have.

I always feel like in between the cuts, is you yelling obscenities at the camera, knowing we'll never see it.

That soundtrack at the ending haha xD

Is it sad that I want Clint to upload the Extreme Paintbrawl soundtrack or point us towards a place to listen to it? I love me some terrible late 90's rock! 😂

Man, I love your videos :) Your personality and enthusiasm about old PC's and hardware is intriguing. Keep it up!

That's a rad Jeff Goldblum shirt I see in the screens reflection!

it's great to wake up, make a cup of coffee, and sit down to another great LGR video about old tech.

This really takes me back, reminds me of my childhood playing DOS games. Put a smile on my face. Thank you for doing these videos.

There's something about these old all in one computers that I've always loved. I've actually owned two of the later case designs of this Compaq but sadly had to sell them awhile back. I miss both of them. Such great aesthetics and love that you can just plop them anywhere, hook up a keyboard and mouse, and you're ready to go. My dream all in one is the Packard Bell Spectria, yes, an all in one Packard Bell. Too bad they're ridiculously hard to find, even harder to find than the corner design.

That music gave me a few good chuckles and claps thank you.

I definitely owned that older Backpack CD Drive which I used on a Windows 2k Pro box for... gosh... probably until 2007? 2008?

I really enjoyed that, something about the combination of Clint's voice, jazz, and computer repair sends me to a happy place 😊

you make that poor drive wait all these years just to test that sad excuse of a sound track! you're lucky it didn't explode out of spite.

This was an entertaining video as usual, LGR! Love watching you mess with these things, and glad you could get a different disc drive working in there! With the age of these things, it's honestly no surprise when something just stops working.

One of my favourite times of the week is Friday (also Monday), because it means I get to watch a new LGR video. What a great way to start/end the week!

I've not seen you repair anything before, being a review channel and all. I was thoroughly entertained. My wife and my daughter both think that I am nuts for keeping my old computer stuff and storing it in my closet in the computer room, but I really enjoy seeing you review some of the very same things that I have in there. Love this channel!

I always truly enjoy your retro videos! No matter what they contain. :) You make me see the thingamobobs "live", that I was drooling over in the magazines during childhood. Keep it up pal!

This is my favorite channel! Keep it up LGR! Your enthusiasm is great and your content is so interesting. Thanks man :)

This is just the inspiration I needed to get my old Pioneer DRM-624x drive up and going. Entertaining video as always!

I gotta say I love when you decide to " open stuff up " that's when the real fun starts.lol. love your vids!

I enjoy your videos quite a bit. Please keep it up!

Another classic LGR video. Really happy seeing that creative music player in Windows. Many memories flooded back. Thank you so much for making this video.

I think this is my favorite of your videos. Very entertaining

your channel has reinvigorated such a spark in me. I too worked in my high school as a pc tech while attending, and was employed by them after graduating for a while too - which lead me to various pc tech roles at the apple factory, bestbuy/geeksquad, and circuit city's firedog as a trainer and supervisor of techs; until i decided to change careers and go into graphic design - i've since become 'a mac person' but still remember every DOS command, every virus fix (xp's sasser worm anybody?) etc. and just spent the day troubleshooting my friends' PC rebuilding projects; we built a home theater PC to be a PLEX and Steam client; a gaming rig with all fresh parts, and the leftovers into an extra PC; doing the old gambit of windows updates, driver installs, browser installs, and classic utilities everyone needs; sigh - macs have spoiled me. lol. felt good to get back into it. watching this was the icing on the cake today. Thanks so much!!!! #respect

That music is next level. If you have a tremendous amount of dexterity and fine motor skills, but only had paddles for hands with no fingers, this is the music model for you.

Your content is the comfiest, man. Have a good weekend!

Back in highschool I had a backpack drive for a 2nd hand laptop just like the 2nd one you showed. Ahh the memories. Thanks!

It's so beautiful. Brings a tear to my eye.

Nice! I'm glad you got it working!

i love the way that computer looks it is a cool all in one great video man 👌👍

I kinda want one of those... Not sure why Great video! Brings back so many memories

I'm not even into vintage hard/software, but you make it very interesting! Good stuff buddy!

I've got one of the later models of these. Great video!

I love you dude-keep up the great work

I love these types of videos!

Good guy clint. Love your stuff dude.

Hello i like your videos so much and pc restorations are best :) Greetings from Slovakia

Thanks for that flashback. I worked for Micro Solutions from 97ish to when they closed as technical support. It was a great company and I remember the old cdrom drive you had in its prime. They also had tape drives, hard drives, PD drives (that tech didn't last long), cdrw drives, and at the end also did a NAS box and fingerprint locked hard drive. It was a great company to work for where the tech, sales, owners, engineers all knew each other and were a tight group. Good to see a few products still exist. LoL

EPP, ECP ... woah, more flashbacks. :D Keep up the awesome work :)

Interesting video. Also the quality of the video is great. Sharp and smooth.

Oh my gosh I've also used to have those PC Speakers as well! Makes me so happy seeing them ahh!!

You Are my favorite RU-vidr i enjoy watching you!

OH MY GOD. a parallel cd-rom! holly eff. wow. this brings back memories. man everyone loved the parallel port - flat bed scanners, zip drives, the SNAPPY lol

lol, those speakers. Great video as always)

This guy is DEFINITELY OLD SCHOOL!!!!! Way to go LGR!!!!

I love the idea of you playing videogames in your old Highschool computer. Its just so cool.

AHHH! A Compaq Presario 425, that was my first computer. I miss you little buddy!

Its always nice to discover that old hardwares are using standard parts so its easy to repair.

excellent video, I used to use those external drives for Norton Ghost images when I worked at an old computer store.

This video is entertaining as F@€}. Keep up the good work with all the old stuff!

i fixed tons of those drives yrs ago..... this is a great & funny vid as always!

A very interesting video on installing hardware.

Good lord, I had an early Backback setup! Same case design and all, this was back in the late 90s. Reliable as heck, back when it took a couple hours to write a CD. Have fun with it!

I like your computer! It's nice to see someone else still playing around with Windows 3.1 :)

I looked up the Extreme Paintbrawl OST, and you're the top commenter on there....from 11 years ago lol

I have the same external drive to use on my Compaq. It was the only parallel port CD ROM drive I could find on Ebay that wasn't at a crazy price! Mine was NOS and so far is working really well so no need for repair work thankfully :D. Its definitely a big beast and takes up a good amount of space on the desk.

I remember back in 1991 or 1992 we would borrow a parralel CD-Rom drive (1x or 2x) from my Dads work and have great fun going through the few demo discs we had especially a Sierra Sampler CD

The first computer I personally owned was a later revision of this model. It came with a cd-rom and Windows 95. I loved it. It was a great computer back in early '95.

Wow, holy shit, windows 3.1. Brings back so many memories. I didn't think these computers still work anymore. Keep up the great retro work!

I love watching these videos. Flint is the man!!

I love the Blues Brothers reference there. Smooth thinking Clint. Haha.

I love LGR hardware videos. (That's not to say I don't like the other video's, they're all good!)

Whohooo This PC remainds me on old days :-) We used this as a Door Control PC :-) Good Job

Yep. The first CD-ROM drive I used (in around '93 I think) was a single-speed parallel-port interface. Horribly slow, but back then it was amazing! You could get shareware CD's at the time (before everyone had the internet), and that provided hours of fun looking through all the software. Also, in college I had that exact ZIP drive, parallel port.. Sooo sloooowww, but I loved it!

Ohh man those speakers are awesome haha. I have exactly the same set up at the cottage. Tho mine are considerably more yellow. Gotta love that sweet 90's off white color!!

this felt like a druaga1 video, hehe. cool video! :)

Some what random but i had a set of those labtec speakers when i was younger, i was obsessed with them since they had bass control knob!

I have the Presario 433 still working. You just made my nerd teenage dream come true.

That's a pretty formidable tripod for such a diminutive camera! Good Gawd, OVERKILL!

That Compaq drive is so beautiful

those compaqs were in my computer class in school in 95 I love those things, memories of wolfenstein and a multiplayer tank game I can't recall

The first home computer we had was an Compaq Presario, a newer type than this, with speakers too, they were under the corners of the screen, and Windows 3.11. Too bad it has been thrown away, it was super expensive when new too... I miss using DOS and trying to get games working with too little RAM and Hard Drive space, I played DOOM, Hexen and WarCraft 2 into the 2000`s on that one. A time when you finally got the game running, you actually deserved to play it, and that was an achivement in itself.

On my Presario 425 I had as a kid I installed a soundblaster and spliced the power to the hdd. That got routed through the second isa (pci?? I can't remember) slot along with the ide cable from the soundblaster. In other words, I had an internal 4x cd-rom next to the computer. Worked great for years. 👍🏻

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I grew up with computers like this but seeing this all again I'm thankful for modern pc's, where basically the only moving parts are the cooling fans.

LGR IS LOVE.

I had a Backpack parallel port CD-R drive back in the day. Used it with my PII 400 Compaq Presario desktop in college. As it was pretty much impossible to use the PC when trying to burn a disc, I would always start the process before I left for class, all the while praying the job would complete successfully while I was away. Most of the time it worked fine, but when it didn't, it was always frustrating because errors with the CD disc or software often took the whole computer down, costing me time and wasting the media, which wasn't exactly cheap back then.

That Paintbrawl music... Totally made this video worth watching.

Woooo, nice nearly musical keyboard shredding mayhem! I need this to break my brain!

Oh my god this brings back memories!!!

I used almost that exact model of backpack drive when I was in high school... I went to a computer camp during the summer, and we had one of those that we'd take around to all of the computers to use in turn... Mostly to burn CDs of PowerPoint choose your own adventures we made (this was right after hyperlink support was included in PowerPoint haha)

Excellent Video. Glad to know i'm not the only person who tucks their T-Shirts into their trousers as well.

a Parallel Port CD-ROM? Damn now THAT is oldschool, totally forgot about such devices.

Never thought I'd ever see one of those backpack CD-Rom drives again. But should have known if any channel would show one it would be yours. LOL. I had one of those given to me, but never used it. The AC adapter was the most interesting part aside from the sound card upgrade port.

Once upon a time, this was top of the line technology. How did I get so old?

I love those old cd rom install screens

from what I can see from the reflection off the computer, you have a nice kitchen.

You know what I subcribe because your channel is very very interesting

I'd be having a total 90s nostalgia nerdgasm, but the yellowing throws me off. Everything else is on point, especially those Labtec speakers.

I believe the yellowing is caused by a type or bromide in the blastic, which is a flame retardant. Also just came across your channel a month ago and have enjoyed everything I have watched since. Especially the thrift videos. :)

Once a friend and I had to make copies of a set of medical CDs, the cd writer we had on that moment was a parallel external unit, I don't remember the brand but had beige and green exterior, its came with adaptec software and the max record speed was....1X. Damn!, that machine was slow and tricky, if you walk near the desktop the software would show you a "Buffer low or buffer empty" message and the record fails. We left the recorder working and get out of the room really! its was the best way to do the job.

I managed to bag a DataWise CD-ROM parallel drive a few months ago locally from Freecycle with software and some iOmega Zip stuff. Plus I got a Compaq Presario 522 CDS cheap of eBay about 2 years ago, which has both a CD-ROM and a floppy drives. Better yet it has internal speakers (has on board SB Pro compatibility)! I feel pretty lucky to say the least!

Nice speakers! i just loved them with the computer also that power supply port on the case is just weird i didnt ever had seen one like this one. it looks like a ps/2 port but with a missing connector hole.

I was restoring a Sega Genesis and opened it up to find tons of rust on the inner RF shielding, didn't even matter that it was there really but I sanded it all down and sprayed it with a nice even coat of rustoleum primer to stop it from rusting further. Not sure why but it's super satisfying to know it won't degrade any more I guess.

you don't know how good it is to hear another human being utter "redbook cd audio" in the proper context