Someone threw these vintage computers in the garbage! Let's see if we can get them working! 

You can hear the salesman telling them " it has a WD Caviar , 2GB, more storage than you'll ever need, its future proof"

No stupid loud intro, no clickbait, and no annoying music. You got my like.

It was not a spider, it was a web developer!

When that Windows 98 desktop showed the diving theme and the starfish cursor, it reminded me of how my late father had his computer(s) set up. He LOVED the themes, used them constantly, and would call me up frequently, asking what was bogging down his system. :) RIP Dad.

Damn the tech is easy on the eye and so is Mike

I used to do the same sort of PC archeology so it was fun to tag along. And I appreciate that you saved the giant spider. Our local recycling center used to set out systems of this era for free. Now they throw entire PCs into dumpsters and chase off "scavengers" who might try to save them from being shredded. Frustrating.

So happy to see you release the spider outdoors. I've never understood the widespread fear and even hatred of spiders; most are completely harmless, all are beneficial environmentally; and none will bite a human without provocation. There are many good spider-related videos on RU-vid, by bona fide trained wildlife personnel, aiming to clear up the unfair myths surrounding these creatures.

The second computer taking time during the first boot could be because Windows detected changes in hardware and was working with switching drivers and changing settings. At the second boot everything had stayed the same, so it was just a normal boot.

I found this extremely relaxing, and also extremely nostalgic. Me and my dad used to work on old pcs together and seeing that celeron really brought back some memories!

The "ringing" sound that you hear from the cover when you open up those old PCs always brings back fond memories! I've been trying to get back to rebuilding my old PC collection to boost my spirits up due to ill health and watching videos from fellow collectors like yourself is also a very important part of it as well. Thank you Mike for your videos! They definitely do help! 👍👍

Looks like some kind of wolf spider. Pretty harmless but very useful in nature 😊 All that hardware looks very familiar. My 1st pc also had VLB (1 VLB slot), it was a 486dx2-66. I wish I had 16mb ram back then 😁 Those AOpen cases were simple but pretty good. They had pretty reliable power supplies.

"Boring modern computers not worth a second glance" *could* be retro gems in 30 years, just saying.

Sweet find! That VLB system would've been an excellent late DOS game performer in its day with not only the VLB video card, but also that VLB drive controller. Coupled with that 100 MHz DX4 chip, it's perfect for early 3D games like Duke Nukem and Heretic, and of course, DOOM. I also dig that 'Vanilla Darth Vader' style front bezel.

Man that brings back fond memories. I still remember my computer running an AMD K6-233 processor. Good times. I miss those days. Thanks for the memories of better days. Cheers

Back in the old days you never knew what cards you would find in old machines.

Nice to see mid 90's rigs and hard drives still working in them!

Aww, that spider was adorable.

12:00 that case is basically identical to one sold for the Amiga 1200 back in the late 90's called the "Power Tower 1200".

I worked for Shaw cable back then. From 1997 on up until nicks came built in onto the MB. The NIC was installed and supplied by Shaw when broadband was launched. I installed 1000's of them.

Thank you for not harming the spider and letting it loose. It seemed gentle but in similar situations so many others would just kill it. But you didn't

Good job with the spider! I used to work on these types of machines in an antiquated computer lab. But the spider got you a like and subscribe!

Amazing find, and great that you saved it from being lost in the landfill. Enjoyed that. Too cool that it was a Dx4-100 in that first one.

Wow. Whoever had those systems built had an eye for quality add-in boards. Official name-brand Creative Sound Blasters in every single system, and even a VLB card made by Number Nine.

Love your videos and your witty commentary! Please make more 🙂

this brings back the memories for sure. i fiddled and repaired a lot of them over the years. i enjoyed them so much i used the chassis/towers of the non functional ones as gaming rigs and daily drivers. i replaced all the old internals with all modern internals. i sure wish i could find more of them old towers.

I appreciate you going through all that old software....oh the memories...

I remember bringing home computers from the trash with my grandpa as a kid. Such good memories this is so nostalgic lol I love watching your videos

Great video, also appreciate the gentle touch with the spider!

This is right up my alley. I used to do the same thing back in the 90s and early 00s by looking at yard sales for unwanted tech.

i'm so jealous. this old tech has some special kind of charm. i could dig all day in these old things - and im not even from that time.

Hi Mike. Came across your new channel and just wanted to respond with: you have a new follower 🌈 It’s always exciting finding old computers and see what’s inside them. Keep up the good work and I shall be looking for more content 👍

Sweet ! reminds me of my dumpster diving era, between 2011 and 2016 I was going about once a week to the nearby recycling center and usually came back with a computer or more. Even then AT stuff was very scarce but I did snatch some really awesome parts. I miss that so much, but it was the guardian of the recycling center who let me grab stuff, when he stopped working there it was much harder to get permission.

I have built over 300 of the first machine you opened... it brought back some memories. I used to work in a computer store in the mid 90s.

Wow u did it congratulations 7k plus Fantastic All the best Dave London uk All the best 🎉

New to your channel, really enjoyed the video. You've got yourself a new subscriber.

EZ subscribe, you had me at dumpster diving. I built most of my computers from dumpsters and even had a pretty nice NEC flat view CRT monitor I used for years from an electronics surplus store dumpster that was damaged on the side... but nothing a Free Kevin bumper sticker couldn't fix!

Great computers and arms!

Found your channel tonight and it brought back so many fond memories. Keeep up the good work. I have the same watch face as you.. All the best. In the late 80s my friend asked me to fix his xt. I got the hard disk out , slammed it on the table and it wound up. Problem solved for a while

Oh man, that took me back!! The first computer I ever bought (used) was a 486 DX 100 or maybe 133.... but it is long long gone now! Great video man!

wow - you should model! so gorgeous! Awesome video too.

Awesome finds! Just subbed 👍 I just recently sold my first machine which was a Pentium 75mhz. Same top case that comes off in one piece. Built like a tank.

i’ll be 100% honest with ya, clicked for the guy but i stayed for the content, great video!

Thanks for the quality content buddy, definitely brings back memories.

29:50 nice to see how you do with the spider. he seems to have fear, not knowing whats going on and looking for a hide behind the cables. poor little spider. great you free him.

5:42 DX4-100, LFG!!! Man, watching you slide the heatsink on and off... I completely forgot what it used to be like back in the day lol.

Thank you for treating the spider with respect.

Great to see these old 90s/00s PCs so well dissected. You do a great job of describing what all the parts are. It brings back so many memories of this era of PCs. That spider was pretty relaxed... he was beautiful. A wolf spider I think. I'm glad you're the kind of guy to treat him nicely and put him outside.

Seeing the sound and video cards (and 3D accelerators) being extracted from these old systems give me something of a geekish pleasure. Most likely because they were the items I lusted after during my formative computing years back in the 90's - happy days!

i used to actually work on that stuff. i had so many s3 virge video cards. they were on special somewhere, so i put them in many computers i sold. the way the heat sink clips and ram clips worked are bringing back memories.

That third system is an AOpen barebones probably sold around 98 or 99, the slotket adapter alone was worth picking it up. with a little time, some cleaning, and a re-cap, it would make a really good turn of the century gaming machine.

Great find and nice bit of PC archaeology!

Nice finds, especially that 486DX.

as a computer enthusiast , i also look for that old system. it makes me unwind and relax..

As a general rule of thumb, 8 quick beeps during POST is a video problem in the vast majority of those older systems.

glad i found your channel.....this is my wife's RU-vid acct that i use * i dont have one*...but I used to love OCing old school tech, and still love seeing it!! just now getting back into OCing after stopping back in 2007.

First off, seeing the innards of these old machines brought back memories of my old Intel Celeron desktop (I don't recall the model, we got it back in 1996 or so), and my old eMachines eMonster, after which I'd start building my own PCs. Nice finds! Secondly, thank you so much for gently scooping up and releasing that spider. I'm sure he's happier, and I know I am!

Your videos are really well done! You deserve lots more subs! Keep it up. Subscribed

Great video, that 486 mobo and chip is an amazing find.

Greetings from Sydney, Australia. Found you via a YT recommendation. Cheers!

The way you handled that spider said a lot about your character. Good job! 😊😊 Happy subscriber. A little jealous of all your retro finds though! I can't find anything this old local to me.

Well done in defeating the "Guardian" on the third system .. quite the boss fight .. I used to love finding out what bits and bobs old systems i found actually had .. I used to work for a computer dept and often got to keep old /retired PC's

The Aopen case is one I previously owned - have looked for months to find one but no luck! Nice haul :)

I've heard of 'bugs' in a system...but a spider big enough to almost be called a small tarantula was not expected. 🤣 In all seriousness this was a cool trip down memory lane. Cheers.

1994 was the 1st year after I graduated from college . I remember the computers being so expensive I never even thought about buying one... So cool to look back at what I missed .... Thanks !

This video earned my sub for sure, thank you for not killing the spider.

Certainly brought back some memories!

I see the previous owner was a person of culture as well with their Underwater theme.

LOL I got you, I would also loose my shit if I saw 3 old computers at the side of the road! At systems don't come by cheap less so free. Congratulations they seem to be in excellent shape

Yo…. I am WAY more afraid of a dead cockroach than a live wolf spider. Kudos for being gentle with it. You just leveled up your karma!

This is the first time I've seen you on RU-vid, But I instantly subscribed

We had the exact case in the middle! Cool to see :)

Stumbled into your channel, since I have been a tech since the late eighties, I found it interesting. Most back in the day called VLB "video local bus". Very hard to find VLB cards these days. I am planning on a retro system lan gaming meet soon.

1:57 - I had a pc set like this and I managed to revive it a dozen years ago 😅 • watching from Melaka, Malaysia 🇲🇾✌🏻

You know they are old, when they are yellow with a turbo button 😀 Subscribed

This encourages me to finish working on the computers I have to clear some space and bring other ones. I don't think I've ever encountered any computers that old on my trips to the flea market. I mostly see ones with Pentium 4 socket 775 motherboards.

Wish I had known of your channel years ago. Ran out of room, finally had to send all my ISA cards and a lot of my PCI and AGP cards off to a recycler. I -wish- (and no, I'm not going to try running a business) there had been a store that sold old parts I could have just handed the parts over to.

I think I can speak for the spider when I say Thank you!. That got you a new follower 😊

Great video, thanks for posting it. Enjoyed it alot. New sub!

skin crawled at the reveal of that big ass spider, that is one of the things that worries me about fixing old tech is the horrors i potentially bring into my home lol. Also huge respect for handling it like a champ and respecting it in the end.

That is a nice find! I am now fixing up a packard bell a950 with a 233 mhz pentium. It even had the monitor, speakers, mouse and the keyboard looks unused in the box. It was a $15 yard sale find from last year.

Got an SX25 here bought in 1994, last used and still has my CV on. First pc i made up was a Pentium 800 in 2000, had to use jumpers.

Those modern computers right will be your bread and butter in perhaps 15 years or so

It is like going back in time... but feels like it wasn't that long ago, if you were me. I started getting into PC computers towards the end of 1994. Montgomery Wards, CompUSA, Fry's Electronics, Hard Drive Depot, Weird Stuff Electronics, to name a few.

Respect for not killing the spider-buddy.

On the first computer (the baby AT system) the IO board had VLB because it also had headers for Primary and Secondary IDE and Floppy Inferface. I remember some systems had them because they didn't have any motherboard interfaces, others had these cards because they had a 'high speed' drive interface chip for IDE (PATA) drive performance. Some of these cards needed a proprietary driver to work correctly which would result in the drive data silently corrupting if this driver was not installed and configured to run at boot time even though the system appeared to work correctly without the driver. This I know from persnal experience as an IT technician for many years. The PCB jumpers would allow configuration either as the main IDE interface or as a secondary interface allowing up to 8 drives to be installed. Other jumpers would configure the parallel port. On the second system, the Soundblaster AWE64 was one of the earliest wavetable synthesis sound cards and was considered a high-end card. The sound card in the third is decent as well.

VLB IO cards were SUPER common back in the later 486 days. Especially with the AMD 586's, etc.

I have a closet full of these old systems. Two of those LVB boards that work!

Nice finds… wish I had that sort of luck around where I live.

really cool video... thank you

hello, that was a wolf spider you encountered. these old units are neat to see. stay well

Whoa,you took that spider deal VERY seriously!!😅

We built so many of those AOpen systems back in the day! I think I have a couple in my collection :) Also have one in a case like the far right. Great find!

Love your videos very interesting

I found a 386 system in the trash about a month ago. All I really got was the neodymium magnets from the hard drive. Cool!

You're cute. The most yellowed computer is the only one I consider vintage..I also like the look of this particular vintage case the best.

Many, many years ago I was working for a company that integrated touch screens on monitors and the warehouse was in the same building as an IBM storage facility. I came to work one day and they had a 20 yard open top dumpster in front of the loading dock at the IBM place. The workers were literally throwing PS1's, PS2's and IBM Jr. complete systems into the dumpster, monitors, keyboard, you name it. Some were even new still in the original boxes! They told me they were purging all the old outdated AT hardware. I asked if I could get some of the stuff and they told me I could take as much of the crap as I wanted. I completely filled my car with IBM PC's and even stacked a bunch of the systems in a corner where I worked. The next day the dumpster was gone. I got at least 30 complete systems and a ton of parts and peripherals out of that dumpster. They tossed away at least 300 to 400 systems and at least that many monitors. Almost all of the PS2 and PS1 systems were functional and working and I sold almost all of them at a flea market near where I lived. That's was got me interested in PC's in the first place.

Oh man have I been looking for that Aopen Case for a while..

I stayed for the pc stuff, but I subbed for saving the spider.

That sound blaster in the first computer represents somewhat of a sweet spot for SB16 cards and pure DOS: * Old enough to not have a Type I "hanging note bug" for MIDI * Old enough to use jumpers for configuration (no "plug and pray" issues in DOS) * New enough to have a decently quiet audio signal path (especially compared to other sound blaster cards) * Old enough to still have a genuine Yamaha OPL3 FM Synth chip (not Creative's harsh emulation for OPL3) Nice find and teardown!

i used to sell pcs back when these were new, and the one on the left at the start of the video, the case came with two sets of buttons, one blue / purple set and a pink set, so you could choose which you preferred :D