My 386 PC dream machine build 

Definitely. Those cheap AT cases just look like a proper computer, up on a desk with a CRT and crappy plastic speakers. The way it should be. :-)

@@nickwallette6201 Other than the crappy speakers I agree. LOL I had these external 10 watt Radioshack speakers that were awesome for my Soundblaster.

Thx a lot ! Glad you enjoyed it !

hehe ..... I sincerely hope you enjoyed ... make sure to checkout the other content and consider subscribing ... lots more where that came from.

I would like to eat this video

I know right?? "This is going to be for somebody who likes..." and then a list of all the things I like about vintage computing. #BeigeLife

Lot of people did that back then, I do not know why

The Apple logo made the computer cost a $1000 more.

@@fulkthered hahahaha

My socket 7 build (case used to house my childhood 486 back in the day) has an Apple Macintosh Quadra 650 emblem on the front of the case and ye olde toggle power switch. Just need an AT PSU or get the same case again and place my childhood 486 build in there again just like old times.

HAHAHAHAHA

Thanks.... In my latest video I installed Linux Slackware 1.1.2 on it from 1994. Everything was pretty much supported out of the box ... premium hardware :)

Glad you enjoyed it !

i remember it well trying to move everything into upper memory so you could free up the base memory. and then the games! oh my civ 2(wich i still play lol)

haha .... thanks a lot ... I really put a lot of effort in that intro and never been able to match it in latest videos :) Not really sure I should be proud of that :)

Glad you enjoyed it ... things sure have changed a lot indeed :)

Really glad you enjoyed it... lots of other material on the channel from that era.

Yeah it is a really nice case. You don’t see them all that often.

Hehe .. for some strange reason I am a sucker for old hard drives. Also have had a lot of issues with cf cards and corrupt filesystems with cf cards on my retro machines. Need to spend some time on it. But it is indeed very convenient to just insert a pre-filled cf card with all the software you’ll ever need.

@@RetroSpector78 Try a Disk On Module or DOM, they are used with industrial computers

@@RetroSpector78 I prefer using SD cards instead of CF cards on my retro PCs. They have pretty much never given me a problem!

TheFiend never really worked much with cf or sd in AT based systems. Have this ide 2 compact flash adapter but it’s always giving me trouble (read write errors, files / partitions disappearing / ....). Need to look into that.

RetroSpector78 its important to use CF cards that are industrial grade, they don’t have the removable bit. On eBay you get them from China for 5$. Works for me quite well on Pentium and 486.

Thx a lot. Really glad you enjoyed. Please consider subscribing if you like this kind of stuff.

Mikoyan Gurevic nice... seems like you covered the entire spectrum. Planning to do lots more builds here. Have a wide range of xt / 286 / 386 / 486 / pentium to cover, both desktops and laptops. Feel free to subscribe and let me know what you like to see more of here.

Some of these old hard drives are frustrating as hell to run for long periods of time. I've had more than a handful crap out on me. However, you can get the best of both worlds as it were by using a modern hard drive with Seatools for DOS to trick the system into thinking it's a smaller capacity. New hard drive, compatible, everyone's happy.

I bought one in 1992, it did service until 2006. After I upgraded to something a bit less pedestrian, I gave it to my mate who had started a small business and it served for 12 years in one of his servers. Bless the sturdy little thing. 😁

@@dschoene57 I got my mitsumi in 1993. I used it untill I sold it and bought a Conner 256mb QIC-80 tape streamer in 1995.

Right back at ya ... gonna be checking out your stuff too. Thx for the comment and sub.

My lord. My third time.

Me too :)

Found one

The rocket bounce :) This to me is one of the all time greats when it comes to early 90's msdos gaming. The thing had everything. Played so much of it back in the day.

You mean the Stunts gameplay ? It's a really great game ... spent hours with it as a kid.

@@RetroSpector78 Although I'm from another era(Need For Speed II and III Hot Pursuit) that game looks fun.

@@RetroSpector78 this without tell that the game works on a 286 machine 12 Mhz but if it's 25 MHz harris 286 better than better.

It was on the computer when I bought it.... the guy said he had an apple computer :)

@@RetroSpector78 I was only kidding. Glad you cleaned it up and made it look new again. Great video. Brings back lots of good memories and makes me wish I had some old hardware to play around with again. Miss those days some times. Cheers.

cleaning up apple was part of the cleaning process.

The Kombinator cool ... will definitely take a look and subscribe !

hehe ..... in my neck of the woods we need to take some English classes :) No idea why I said it like but in my head it always sounded like that :) But then again, "3" also sounds like "Tree" in my head and it also comes out of my mouth like that, like many people already noticed ... so still working on that :)

I managed to revive an old IBM at (5170) just recently .... it had battery leakage like you would not believe. Expansion cards + chassis were heavily impacted. But managed to clean everything and get it back up and running (video coming soon). Also had an old XT come in recently. Dirty as hell and cleaned it, repainted it and los really good. That one could be a good candidate for a 286 / 386 upgrade. Like the idea of having a 286 / 386 in a big XT sized case. I think lots of upgrades were done that way back in the day.

+Kcin Setay exaclty my thought, about looks of old computers. They look normal.. like computers, nerdy technical things, that are not for mainstream (at least, not on non-user level), so everything needs to look like common machine, hide the secret what's inside... not revealing it's "guts", and making it look "nice". Inside of computer never can look nice, common, it's just cables, resistors, radiators for heat spreading... they even make it all black and red now, looks simply disgusting, and LED, which is piercing to eyes, it's so ugly to eyes. I also like the fact that most of computers and all periphetals were white, not like today, almost everything is black. The most beatyful thing about old computers is, that they were only practical, didn't try to look them "classy" inside, like to change color of PCB, or putting some badass logos inside. No... the purpose was only so it is functioning, because it was already very expensive in those time, so it was only about components like they look, when they are put together, not to make them look "badass". Of course, you have option to buy such case also now, also white computer, but it's difficult to get, because most of manufacturers doing this "badass" stuff making for look, but that look is only for new generation. It's so weird. I also like old mechanical keyboards, which was without anything, just plain white simple keyboard. And same mouse (although, some companies, like logitech still doing good and generic-looking mouses, like G203 etc...) Anyway, I understand, what you wanted to say, and I'm also upset by these look of new computer and how everyone cancerous from new generation, need to use transparent cases, everywhere RGB lights, also on mouse... it's so wasting to put backlight on mouse. I don't like the look and style of new computers, I always feel that computer should look like this, plain and simple, technical, with a touch of mystery, what's inside. This new generation style, is ugly, I always feel something inside me, when I see these retro computer videos, that those computers are actualy nicer, and look like computer. You don't have a feeling, when you open it, that it looks like some psycho artists weirdo steam-punk kid would design the look of it... these retro computers from 80's and 90's , just look, like good old scientists from Silicon Valley in 80's design it. And it's good. I always enjoying it, when watching old retro hardware videos, how computer fronts, cases, components and cables look. Awesome feeling, that everything is "all right".

Not on the SBPro. That's a Matsushita, AKA Panasonic, interface. Some of the SB16s had Mitsumi interfaces though. (Or go with the SB16 Multi-CD and get the proprietary CD-ROM interface trifecta: MKE, Mitsumi, and Sony! :-D

Getting parts on ebay can add up ... no local listing / people that want to get rid of old stuff in your neighbourhood ?

RetroSpector78 I don’t really have a neighborhood - I live in a trailer house in the middle of the woods, and I’m a college student.

Thx !