Opening a Big Pile of Retro Tech You Sent In! 

The fact the ink sat around so long and dried up in a Duke Nukem Forever pen is basically the most fitting thing ever!

Clint now needs a McLaren F1 for his new laptop

That poster with Clint's face was too good

Congratulations to the person who sent the Compaq, you broke Clint for a hot minute

The weather station package put me in a wistful mood that perhaps one day LGR will be simply a small weather station broadcasting over short band radio from the foothills of Appalachia

Man, the fact that you stop to read Em's letter and wish her well is super cool. Thanks for being part of the awesome side of the internet.

Slightly irrelevant but thanks for having accurate captions - I’ve got sensory processing issues and I basically can’t watch videos with people talking without captions and it’s just so much easier for me when the captions are actually correct! I know it’s kinda strange to comment on but I definitely appreciate it

Few things are as pure as Clint’s giggles when opening fan mail lol

Storage Company: So, how many lots do you want to rent? LGR: Yes

Thank Clint for featuring my gift! Glad the mug arrived safely before christmas!

lights: goodbye Clint: STAY FESTIVE DAMMIT!

"Cool shirt, that looks like a parallel port... but... it doesnt have the right amount of pins???" - Clint 2020, with the most LGR comment ive heart in a while. You are a beautiful human beeing sir, dont you ever change. Just incredible.

As a Guatemalan, I have to admit that I got a bit excited to see Guatemalan coffee in this video (specially coffee that comes from small rural producers). Hope you enjoyed it! We have very good coffee here!

You've got mail! What an appropriate sound for a mail call video.

that K-pop group was huge at that time... it's really cool to see a bit of my country in your videos sometimes! Greetings from SK!

One day shitty notebooks and posters for 2013 games are going to be considered as retro tech. Crazy to think about it.

I once owned an ATI Stereo F/X sound card. (without video) There is one on eBay for ~$300. FCC ID is from 7/29/1991

Clint's voice makes me sleep better

Hey Clint, the weatherstation is an awesome donation! I installed a few of those when I was working for a technology service group as part of a dairy co-op. Dairy Farms have to track the weather and keep records because they are also out spreading manure on their fields. They can't spread it when it's raining or going to rain, because too much of it ends up in the surrounding creeks and rivers. They can get audited and have to show when there was rain and how much related to when they spread manure. Fun Stuff!

I like to think that past LGR and future LGR are separate entities both trying to run the channel but past LGR keeps putting off problems on future LGR causing this animosity between the two

That Duke poster.... Wow that was a good "Got'cha" right there... :) Hail to the king (of retrotech) baby...

That shopped Duke poster is hysterical LOL

Very interested to see a Windows 1 install.

"I will single handedly Re Populate the Entire Earth" - Duke Nukem, Land of the Babes

That packing peanut made me genuinely feel happy

I really hope we get to see Clint Nukem merch at some point; that’s incredible

That Quarterdeck memory manager (QEMM) brings back memories. I used to use QEMM a long time ago. Those of you who remember MS-DOS days, remember the struggle to get enough memory in the first 640 KiB to run some games like Wing Commander 3. With QEMM, I was able to get about 620 KiB available, which was more than enough to run pretty much every DOS game.

Idk how you can hold yourself back from opening these when you get them. I get excited when my meds show up.

That Compaq laptop and dock sure bring back memories, I used to deploy them to users... they weighed a ton, completely over the top and $$$$$ too! FYI - There are two spring loaded things above the LED indicators & battery button, these depress down to accommodate a large monitor stand attachment on top... once those spring loaded things depress down, they provide a recess to lock in the monitor stand to stop it sliding around. An absolute behemoth once all assembled together. 🤣

Now all you need to do is speak to Vinwiki about finding a McLaren F1 to borrow for an Oddware episode.

42:14 A docking station for a docking station! How Inceptionous! ^_^

Back in the day, we had schools around the state receive these as part of a grant. Students set up weather stations at many of the schools and they remained in place for a long time. I had forgotten about these gems!

Oh, if someone hasn't mentioned it yet Clint, the Stereo F/X was a sound card made by ATI back when the Sound Blaster was becoming popular. The VGA Stereo F/X was the same, but also was a VGA card as well. I see them now and then on eBay, and they ain't cheap, let me tell ya.

Need to fill that IBM mug up in an LGR foods episode.

As a german i can tell you, that neapolitaner stuff is super yummy!

Why is so oddly satisfying to watch someone else open up packages? Must be the whole unknown part. You got 44 mins of viewing time from me. Ha ha, hope you all have a great Christmas!

I loved Spiderman Cartoon Maker and The Journeyman Project growing up. I can't stop staring at the boxes in the background.

for that laptop beast, the software in question was likely "Mitchel on demand", it came on like 32 cd's and a floppy install, it was basically all the manuals for car repairs but in CD format in order to use it you had to swap CD's out alot and to save time I could see multiple drives being used

A whole episode dedicated to that chunky laptop at the end of the video please.

The Kodak picture disk and that APS film are my cousin’s first bridge to digital photography, there was a camera that let you see pictures digitally on a LCD screen before you developed the film. He used APS before he went fully digital!

It's like a ton of Christmas presents from around the world...

38:00 Maybe you can set up a retro Weather Underground community station!

Oh wow, a Kyro card! I had an internship as a hardware tester in the compatibility labs at Videologic (aka Imagination Technologies) at Kings Langley in the UK when they were developing the successor, the Kyro 2; my first tech job. At 17 years old was sat in the testing labs with 3 20-somethings who seemed like grown ups to me (but I realise now were basically snotlings too) with access to shelves of the latest hardware for testing the reference hardware on hundreds of different hardware configs; we had test rig machines where you would basically get a test spec sent down (say, PII-400, 32GB ram, X hard disk etc, windows 98r2 ) and you'd build it up, image it with requested operating system then test a list of games on it with the reference hardware. I got to build hundreds of different configs in the space of a few weeks, played a lot of delta force land warrior on the LAN with other teams using the internal phone system for teamspeak, and we had a rig in the corner hooked up to the holy red ethernet 100 mbit port labelled "NO FIREWALL" obtaining, uh, unlimited free trials of various media, 24/7. Decided right there and then I wasn't going to do the law degree my parents were pushing me to do LOL.

That "World's Smallest Laptop" magnet was something my grandparents had also! I haven't seen it in MANY years. Man, seeing one in this video brought back fond memories!

13:13 Plot twist: That was always Duke Nukems face.

Heh - Those ATi speakers were probably just given away as promo gear, usually at trade shows or other 'booth' type events. There's all kinds of stuff. I used to get t-shirts, rolls of stickers and other items for free from AMD in the early 2000s

The Lexbook - a laptop that sounds like a halloween coffin.

A suggestion for the wallet-thing: why not see if you can start a retro business card collection? See if you can't track down old cards for bigwigs in various tech companies, still active or defunct? It'd be something unique even in the retro computing scene, and could be a lot of fun to track down!

I just had to swab my own nose for a, as Adrian Black calls it, "human malware" test this morning, so this is a nice treat!

Ahhh Clint Nukem 3D, those were the days. XD

Ha! That clip of future LGR chewing out past LGR cracked me up.

I had one of those 5280's that I dialed up to the 9s in the early 2000s. Had multiple hard drive caddies so I could swap and run different OSes. Loved it because it was a workhorse. Took mine everywhere. The modular ports could hold a floppy, CD ROM or a battery. That is why the battery has the door that extends to the right. You could put it in a modular port and pull the door over to cover the rest of the slot. At the time, with two batteries in the laptop, I would use it for tuning WiFi shot lines and scouting interference. I heard from a Compaq rep about a "workstation" base and hunted around for one. There was another, smaller base that didn't have speakers or the ISA slot that I had, but that usually stayed at work. Mine had a plastic monitor shelf that curved over the back and fit into those two sockets in the top front. The battery disk indicators were aligned to being able to max out each, and indicated which on was indicated by the quadrant of the machine the port was on. The IrDA in the base was really hit or miss but the one on the laptop always worked better. I tried using the Compaq Hardcard accessory in the ISA slot on the base, but it kept locking up, so I replaced it with an ethernet card. I remember the speakers as being pretty good as I used to listen to the GITS soundtrack on it often while working. Somewhere I have a picture of that machine, the dock, a Handspring Visor and a 17" CRT as my home workstation. Used that for about 4 -5 years before getting an IBM from work and using that moving forward. It also came with a "wireless modem" set up. It wasn't cellular, but an RF telephone accessory that worked with a base and a cordless modem. Was kinda cool as a gimmick. Could support 28.8 if you used the phone port on the remote or 33.6 if you used their special PCMCIA modem. Worked so long as you a) didn't really move around and b) no one tried to use another cordless telephone. Even when the phone was on a different line, it would still kick you offline with CRC errors. I kinda miss those workstation docks. Yeah, the new usb c stuff allows for more diversity, but give me one of those old LTEs or a MacBook Duo for looks any day!

I just found out my uncle died last night and the video really raised my spirits

In my grade school years i remember playing around with that spiderman cartoon maker back in the early to mid 90s lol it was quite a thing indeed .id watch a review of it , hint , hint lol

oh my gosh, THE JOURNEY MAN PROJECT TURBO , i remember owning it , oh man....Clint just gave me a rush of nostalgia , i remember exactly carrying that game home as i walked the neighborhood, eager to get home and play it....wonderful how such a random thing triggers a distant memory in your mind, thanks Clint.

I had that compaq laptop and docking station. For its time it was awesome. Bays were modular for sure. You are missing the part that lets you have a monitor sitting on top. One the best features was the built in speakers.

16:40. More Matrox nonsense I now need to own. Damn.

I love these unboxing vids man! Keep em coming

I don't even want it, but the fact that Doonesbury screen saver collection exists is awesome.

Wow! That Compaq laptop with its docking station brings back memories. I worked there for almost 20 years here in Houston. I clearly remember building many of those. It may be collectible someday!

I can already see the video: "Playing games and fixing an F1 car on Vintage Compaq Laptop, ft. Formula One driver Lando Norris"

Hi Clint, I owned a Compaq LTE 5000 until recently, mostly for Retro Gaming (640x480px active matrix display, OPL3 Soundblaster). I have tons of documentation and drivers laying around, so if you need anything for a video about the LTE series let me know.

holy crap what a vid. I was completely awestruck by that weather station kit, I am so absolutely looking forward to an LGR vid on that whole thing. And then when you opened that Compaq my jaw immediately hit the floor. Goodness goodness me.

Wow! Quarterdeck Memory manager was the shizzle back in the day. I used to use it to run multiple instances of WWIV BBSes so you could have more than one person able to log in to your BBS at a time. It really brings me back.

making that coffee crisp disappear is clearly the highlight.

I guess one bonus to having covid is I get to watch this right when it drops

@34:00 That sound of lid closing, that is ASMR levels of satisfaction!

I love when you talk a little calmer? I guess? It's like borderline asmr. With all the opening and materials and stuff makes it really relaxing.

12:46 I also made the sound out loud when I heard the cap pop off that tube XD

Obviously LGR has been a good boy....🎅🏽

Also, I had one of those Compaq laptops with the dock - identical to how you see it - in 2002. It was awesome. So expandable, so useful, great modular design. I loved this computer SO MUCH. If I remember correctly, you could get a CRT table that would sit over top of the laptop when closed and support the weight of the monitor. You could hot plug and unplug the laptop from the dock and "go". Again, one of my favorite laptops ever.

Just watched a video of that Myst "Demake" awesome stuff and very funny! You should definitely do a vid on it!

Coffee Crisp, a nice "light" snack. It's kinda related to Kit Kat.

Had this in a playlist waiting for me to be ready to watch, and it actually got me in more of a Christmas spirit! Great stuff, always fascinating to see what comes through to the inbox.

I still have one of those IBM PS2 Model 25 Collegiate mugs. In the fall of 1987, I was a freshman at Purdue University and got a postcard in my dorm mailbox promising a free gift from IBM if you came down to the campus computer center and checked out the Model 25. I hiked down there, looked at the machine and got my free mug. I don't think they sold many through that promotion because a) the school year had already started so most people already had a computer if they were gonna buy one, and b) most of us were dead ass broke.

My dad had a IBM coffee mug as well h got it in 1999 for a event

Merry Christmas! I can't wait until you delve deeper into that Compaq.

Hell yeah! I am glad you got that Tony Hawk in! I was worried it would be damaged on shipping.

Dont know why. But i find your unboxings/mail calls very soothing. Maybe its because of the great donations.

that compaq laptop is the final boss when you beat all the other laptops

32:58 It's _almost_ oddware, but it looks too useful to be (and isn't exactly obsolete yet, as Powerpoint controller remote things are still used to this day).

8:13 Clint, I only recently stumbled on your channel. I don't care for the tech or the stuff...ok maybe I do a little, but I enjoy your tone and presentation more. Telling the stories of the 90s, which I remember through TV and magazines. Wishing you nothing but the best for 2021...Keep safe, my friend!

When I started at General Motors in 1998, all 8th levels and above had those Compaq laptops and docking stations! All were running GM COe (Consistent Office environment) which was just Windows 3.1 rebranded.

It can't be a LGR video if Clint doesn't sniff something

You should get a CentOS mug with that IBM mug.

12:48 Couldn't believe my ears. My mouth had just finished making the "thump" when you made it too. Total double take moment. Can't control these kinda things. :)

Being a photo tech at Walgreens in the early to mid 2000s, I remember Advantix film and having to develop it with this annoying reader we had to attach to the photo machine and the people who brought it were always the most oddly specific about things

There we go, 44 minutes of being jealous haha

"Oh honey he's teasing you. Nobody has three CD drive!"

THAT_WAS_AMAZING!!! Really looking forward to the Lexbook video. Bring it on! Aaaand that compaq. Holy moly, yes please! Would be cool if it had one CD burner. Loads of good video material in this video! 43:17 Shoutout to Jason Torchinsky. Make sure you check his videos, Clint. He's pretty much the car equivalent of you. Oddware on wheels.

Christmas is every month over at LGR lol.

Maybe you could help out Rowin Atkinson, he's always crashing his F1 XD

I think tracking weather is enjoyable as you get older because it's a complex system with many nuances... it's not a clean and cut thing. My favorite thing is to track hurricanes during hurricane season using websites like tropical tidbits because there's so much data you can nerd over and it's fun to make your own models! Plus it's an essential skill here in Florida basically hahaha

So many cool things! Can't wait to see that Bomber game, thay copy protection looked wild. And that Compaq monster thing.

Who else pauses on the letters people send in to read the whole thing?

*sees the posters* Well, your LGRcade is coming along...

The speakers at 11:50 are Walkman speakers I believe. I had a similar set when I was a kid. Used it mainly when camping etc. Very useful to listen to some music in my tent without being tethered to the Walkman itself by the crappy cheap headphones the whole evening.

That weather station takes me back to my school days and we had (I think) the same one as part of a UK school weather research project. I remember many cold days on the school rooftop having to check the data with more standard tech to make sure our data was correct from the PC, Will make a great video for you ..

The DOD still used redhat for some of our missile defense control software

"When I go home"? Today I learned Clint doesn't shoot these videos at home!