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Follow the link to learn more about online privacy settings: kas.pr/8e7m... So here's something interesting, a laptop (or notebook if you prefer), that could actually save your life. Once used in the medical industry, this Epson ActioNote had a very specific purpose, and it still comes tooled up with all its kit. But I guess importantly, as well as all of that, does it run Doom?
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@Nostalgianerd 3 года назад

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@marcel5837 3 года назад

Putin will thank you personally.

@fffUUUUUU 3 года назад

*Kaspersky Eugen is former KGB officer.* Google it. Go install his "anti"-virus on your PC. Good luck!

@fffUUUUUU 3 года назад

@@marcel5837 ikr

@fffUUUUUU 3 года назад

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@fffUUUUUU 3 года назад

*Kaspersky software is officially banned from being used in all US Government bodies.*

@rGunti 3 года назад

1st rule of Tech: if it works, there is a way to run Doom on it.

@Quacka 3 года назад

Let’s go time to go get a game boy to test your theory

@singletona082 3 года назад

Doom and zork will be ported to everything.

@barry5 3 года назад

@@Quacka ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CiuiW6brp10.html

@TopHatJackStudios 3 года назад

My favorite so far has been DOOM on a calculator.

@Sinistar1983 3 года назад

@@Quacka tyrannosaurus tex and wolfnstein are proof that is very much possible.

@mkelly0x20 3 года назад

Yes, "Can it run Doom?" is one of life's great questions, like "If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around, does it make a sound?"

@sonicunleashedfan124 3 года назад

It does

@offrails 3 года назад

But the real question is, can the tree run Doom?

@rhdevelops6023 3 года назад

People always ask if something can run Doom but never if something can walk Doom.

@csdgay 3 года назад

no it doesn't, as sound is just vibrations in the air. its only sound when something is there to hear it

@techiewiskers 3 года назад

The thing about the tree is that animals might be able to hear it so technically it does make noise

@jasonc3a 3 года назад

Every diabetic heard "Medtronic" and thought: That Epson probably costs twenty grand.

@aaronblair9583 3 года назад

I was thinking $45k! My father had is pacer/defibrillator replaced three yrs ago. I was gobsmacked by the price. Thank God he was retired navy and they covered it. I made a passing comment "hey dad, see if they will let you keep the old one!" He died a year and a half ago. I put his old pacemaker on a chain and wear it around my neck. It still gives a low battery beep from time to time...kept him alive for many years, when I hear that beep it's like he isn't gone for a second

@jrandolphclark 3 года назад

LOL YES!!!!

@TheSkypetube 3 года назад

@@aaronblair9583 Wow that's really weird. Do you wear it all the time?

@locke103 3 года назад

their insulin pumps can kiss the greenest part of my ass.

@locke103 3 года назад

@Plastic Icon bruh

@anumeon 3 года назад

I have now officially taken my daily DOS of retro computing. :D

@KRAFTWERK2K6 3 года назад

Even a little Windose of 16 bit computing :P

@kitchenroam1509 3 года назад

pa dum tss

@niino4329 3 года назад

7:09 That looks like a blown up/shorted tantalum cap in the top right of the board.

@Ciakuz 3 года назад

I was just browsing the comments to check if anyone else has noticed :D

@dregenius 3 года назад

@@Ciakuz I was just browsing the comments to see if anyone else was just browsing the comments to see if anyone mentioned this.

@jamescabrie7952 3 года назад

I was commenting the checks for browsing and noticed anyone else

@circuitsandcigars1278 3 года назад

@@Ciakuz I was browsing the internet for toasted tantalum capacitors with which to put in the holiday snack bowl instead of stale candies

@dedr4m 3 года назад

I noticed this noting of noticeable notable note of noted burnt tantalum (AKA "tantrum capacitors" because, push them even slightly too hard and they loose their cool... literally!). Probably that cap saw regular current surges on power-up (Many regulators out there that would current limit thus avoiding burnt tants on the output.

@RetroBytesUK 3 года назад

Never trust people with glasses and a beard, just don't do it (looks in mirror experiences instant undermining of self trust).

@dboymax1 3 года назад

Oh the irony....

@jimparr01Utube 3 года назад

Agreed - although I am a person with glasses and a beard. You might like to consider the consequences of such silly proclamations. Or are you just angry at everything in general?

@gtPacheko 3 года назад

What about mustache, goatee and glasses? I swear I'm not a hipster, this just makes me look less fat whilst I'm still exercising. Lost 4kgs in the last week bois LEEEEEEETS GOOOOO

@PaulTheFox1988 3 года назад

@@gtPacheko Excellent work with your weight loss! But with that mustache, goatee and glasses I'm afraid I'm gonna have to report you to the untrusty police, cause you sound like a bond villain :P

@gtPacheko 3 года назад

@@PaulTheFox1988 I'll be the anti-villain then. The one who shows up and everyone thinks will be bad, but I'll use my charm, good will and friendliness to win people's hearts with the ultimate goal of... Making them smile! For real though, after years of psychological trauma, treatment and months of being in a mental institution... I have a new outlook on life, one that's still developing but even with all the adversities and troubles of getting used to a society that rejects me at face-value (due to my past problems with addiction, violence and even my mental health issues), I'm still optimistic and want as many friends as possible. I've had to talk to my psychologist about what to do when people just don't like me for no apparent reason because that was making me quite sad honestly, she said it happens and I matter more, if they see others having fun with me, they'll want in too, or not, either way, they're not my life, my life is my life. Sorry for the rant, I just don't have many friends anymore :P

@jamesslick4790 3 года назад

14:55 "...once I "fdisk" ed the hell out of it.." 🤣I'm gonna use THAT in general conversation for ANYTHING that's a total "do over"!

@eDoc2020 3 года назад

Don't forget, if a Unix-like system is messed up your only solution might be to fsck it.

@KeithZim 3 года назад

When this was made track balls on computers were all designed to be thumb operated. If you wrapped your fingers around the back and rested your hand on the table while using your thumb to operate the ball I think you would be seeing it from the designers eyes.

@Nostalgianerd 3 года назад

That's the method I tried initially, however, the mouse buttons are horribly inaccessible that way. They're also switched as standard, which I guess is you can push down on the left button (which is on the right) using your thumb. But this is one trackball that doesn't mesh well with thumb.

@lander1591 3 года назад

@@Nostalgianerd This was a design choice to make the trackball uncomfortable to use for Gaming. Many more features have been added to "Business Machines" since (like Graphics Cards that are useless for actual Graphics) to try to limit the amount of "Gaming" that can be done on a machine designed for "work". These were the PC's a "Boss" would like to buy their "employees" for maximum work output and minimum "fun time".

@TheJaguar1983 3 года назад

Such a long way around to get the operating system installed. No wonder he got so excited when it worked.

@jamesslick4790 3 года назад

When I was using strictly text based DOS apps, Like Word Perfect 5 and Lotus III, This would have been a DREAM machine!

@dandelionmoodable 3 года назад

"...And that's what she sa--" OH NO YOU DIDN'T 🤣

@circuitsandcigars1278 3 года назад

I used to make electronic components for their pacemakers and defibrillators. The test was very high voltage and if there was a defect in the component it would literally vaporize.

@dontnubblemebro 3 года назад

I used to do that for fun! Remarkable what you can do with ~10uF of 8kV caps

@thewatchworks1372 3 года назад

Got to admit, that transition into your sponsor ad was pretty slick!

@twithnell 3 года назад

Medtronic is the company that made my wife's insulin pump.

@silver47official 3 года назад

How wonderful!

@fridaycaliforniaa236 3 года назад

Given how Epson is reliable nowadays, I wouldn't let my life in their hands lol

@wisteela 3 года назад

They used to make fantastic stuff.

@encorespod2135 3 года назад

They'll sell you a pacemaker... but it won't restart your heart if it runs out of $400 matte light yellow ink which it uses up even when in standby.

@fridaycaliforniaa236 3 года назад

@@encorespod2135 LOL

@DJ10ROCS 3 года назад

Love how excited you got when it finally booted! Top work! 💪

@MrCalldean 3 года назад

I love the fact that even with the world at your fingertips, we can still take days to have a full on fist fight with old tech - this just reaffirms my belief that I was once a Tech God, when called on to deal with the random shit that people still call "Rebooting". It was sooooo much more.

@SomeOrangeCat 3 года назад

Nostalgia Nerd: I will play Doom on everything. Mando: This is the way.

@dxanatos2 3 года назад

Boba Fett: Take a look at this:This suit can play doom.

@SomeOrangeCat 3 года назад

@@dxanatos2 I don't doubt it!

@64jimboy 3 года назад

Superb! well done for not giving up. Cheers for the video.

@jamesslick4790 3 года назад

1:35 I love how the license plate on the car to the right seems to have been digitally "blurred". It's a 1938 Buick. Probably taken in 1949. Chances of "doxing" the owner at this point seems rather.......... Limited. (Yes, that's a pun on a '38 Buick model.)

@eDoc2020 3 года назад

I don't think it's digitally blurred. The entire picture looks a bit smeared to me. Most likely the camera was shifted slightly during the exposure.

@z80dad61 3 года назад

Really enjoyed this video! I really have to commiserate with you I spent a TON of time putting DOS 6.22 on just modern a thin client. VM Virtual Box is by far the best way to get this done, I didn't know about that guide (Its great). The thing that I found was there was so much extra crap out there that is basically just bad advice for doing excactly what you are trying to do. Just love what you've done here; this is great!

@cornel9472 3 года назад

I didn't know doom was that vital for your survival

@fensoxx 3 года назад

One of your best in awhile man, thanks

@MatSpeedle 3 года назад

I used to work at Tyco Healthcare/Covidien who were very much linked to medtronic and configure these laptops for the field engineers who would then head out and train the doctors how to use these. There are all sorts of weird medical laptop combos out there. Cool to see one again

@karlreading3201 3 года назад

Extra points for sheer effort - i would have booted it out the window well before u managed to get it working, so well done!

@petirgarda1005 3 года назад

Smooth transition into ad, if there weren't any notification about it, i'd figured it was part of the content. Luv your vid mate.

@StefanBacon 3 года назад

That's a pretty solid looking tiny computer. I quite like it. Glad it has helped people.

@BobM925 3 года назад

My first ever experience of Doom was on a similarly powered notebook, albeit with a smeary colour screen. Memories!

@Nurse_Xochitl 3 года назад

Must of been like an LSD trip. 🤣

@RetroTechChris 3 года назад

Glad you discussed the idea of mounting the CF card with VirtualBox! That's a great little procedure.

@ucmRich 3 года назад

this is one of my favorite vids you've done pal. many thanks for this!! :-D

@altpudding4776 3 года назад

patient: what u got there doc? doc: this? unzips his bag ...DOOM...

@silver47official 3 года назад

*tumbleweed*

@Monkey_SK 3 года назад

I was genuinely happy for you when you got it to boot. I mean it really doesn't matter but you did it, well done!

@CH32mix 3 года назад

this would be a good video for the doscember thing some youtubers are doing, excellent find!

@nightrazer85 3 года назад

My god, that.. was indeed a very nerdy and time consuming approach. Well done.

@treedoor 3 года назад

Everybody gangster until their drug dealer busts out one of these.

@silver47official 3 года назад

Speak properly.

@silver47official 3 года назад

@@nw3473 What does that matter? Too many people talking like idiots!

@noahhultgren1710 3 года назад

This is how languange evolves and changes. If not for this we would still be speaking in old English, it's the natural way languages develop.

@silver47official 3 года назад

@@noahhultgren1710 Talking like some scumbag rapper is not natural.

@emirvmendoza 3 года назад

I'm so early, no one has even commented a summary of why this laptop could save my life yet.

@IvanOoze1990 3 года назад

Emir people like you irritate me.

@emirvmendoza 3 года назад

@@IvanOoze1990 I know, right? I also irritate myself.

@StephenMatrese 3 года назад

My wife and I both have one of those those pumps! It’s so cool that you covered what this was actually for

@seshpenguin 3 года назад

Awesome! Vintage laptops are cool, but seeing one in this medical device is so cool! You get to know what the machine was actually used for.

@cURLybOi 3 года назад

CF cards are basically native IDE, so the problem with reading might have been just formated as FAT32 instead of FAT? since 1993 DOS cannot use FAT32?

@Nostalgianerd 3 года назад

Come on. I ain't using FAT32.

@eDoc2020 3 года назад

Since that has been ruled out it's probably a mismatch in the CHS geometry and/or a lack of cylinder alignment. You need an fdisk which sees the disk as the same virtual geometry the BIOS has and which starts partitions on the first sector of the CHS track. Modern systems don't use CHS and also tend to start partitions on megabyte alignment. You can use Linux fdisk. In the advanced menu you can enable DOS compatibility and change the geometry it uses.

@cURLybOi 3 года назад

@@eDoc2020 hey thats a good point. i remember using EzDrive or something to allow 20gb hdd on my 386. i had to setup specific geometry (totally unrelated to the actual drive) that would load the loader from mbr and that enabled the rest of the drive

@KRAFTWERK2K6 3 года назад

This thing is basically an early form of a Medical Tricorder that also happens to run DOOM. :]

@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker 3 года назад

This whole video is just completely the freaking best! 🤣😂🙌

@raddaks2039 Год назад

I got one of these in an estate auction about 15 years back. It runs Commander Keen great! Mine came without the medical equipment and with an external floppy drive with a wonky PS/2 + parallel port connector that worked great until... just today. I'll be following the IDE copying steps next lol. I'm having similar problems getting the IDE drive to recognize in any external system.

@____-gy5mq 3 года назад

I'd like you to change the name of your channel to nostalgia bird for a week.

@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 3 года назад

@@BenjiThatFoxGuy he's not verified though?

@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 3 года назад

@@BenjiThatFoxGuy that's what I mean I don't see a checkmark when I go onto his channel. If you mean the checkmark you see in comments that should be normal

@Christopher-N 3 года назад

'Bird' is slang for a woman, and the British have a history of cross-dressing for the stage.

@mediaproductions3557 3 года назад

Haha nice Segway in to the sponsors advert 🤣

@clintthompson4100 3 года назад

Its always great to see someone take old hardware and make it do things that the original creator never intended it to do, and hey isn't that what we all thought was your patient asking what their numbers were and you tell them they have 200 health 50 shotgun shells and 200 armor and all they really wanted to know is what their insulin numbers were. Great stuff.

@Sedric-and-Charlie 3 года назад

I love watching these videos with the captions on. I assume they're copied from the written script so there's always little deviations where you improvised a line

@Dr.Quarex 3 года назад

I think about the hot dog theme sometimes. It was proof that even my desire to do unusual things intentionally had its limits. I think I only lasted about 10 minutes with it before switching back to something else.

@livefreeprintguns 3 года назад

For future reference, 16 heads and 63 sectors are the defacto settings that should be used if you were to do something similar again. I didn't catch too much of the values changing but the cylinder size should change automatically when setting the other values.

@8wealthyone8 3 года назад

cool geek fiend . pls make more . your good!

@markgoldspink5109 3 года назад

Best Kaspersky advert ever. 0:38 - should have left it as 'Kaspersky? .... yes'

@VinceR3000 3 года назад

yeah I got suckered into that without realizing

@johnathin0061892 3 года назад

You deserve a gold medal for getting that thing to boot again

@raafmaat 3 года назад

You should look up some other versions of doom that have been altered to play fine on older dos machines :)

@Turborulla 3 года назад

Good info💛

@nickwallette6201 3 года назад

Dear Mr. Nerd: It’s quite common for old drives that those USB IDE adaptors don’t work. I bought up a bunch of old 386/486/Pentium era drives and had to test them all. I had a Linux box with all the tools I needed, but the USB adaptor wasn’t having any of it. Had to get a PCI card with an IDE interface and add a hot-swap drive caddy instead. That did the trick. I still have it set up, with an added SATA bay just to cover all the bases. Highly recommended if you do this sort of thing - which, of course, you do.

@producerevan88 3 года назад

13:14 you naughty naughty nerd you 😅🤣

@captaindagonsworldoffunstuff 3 года назад

The way I deal with situations like that is to just format the drive to have somewhere to boot and I use file maven 3 to hook up the computer to another computer trough the LPT port for file transferring, then I just install the preferred version of dos.

@MinimalEffortMedia2015 3 года назад

Heeey Medtronic, my dad works there.

@ZipplyZane 3 года назад

I hope there are images of that hard drive or some other way to get it going, as it would sick if you lost the thing that made this particular laptop unique.

@TechGorilla1987 3 года назад

Slightly off topic, but my step mother had a giant stroke. She now has a heart monitor (not a pacemaker) installed under her skin. It's got a reader device that sits in a cradle. The first time you sync/read the chest unit, it syncs with the base. It periodically takes readings wireless from across the room. The then sends that data via cell phone to the cardiologist. Medical technology is progressing at a wondrous pace!

@Lilithe 3 года назад

7:10 YIKES is that a tantalum capacitor? Brown amongst the yellow ones.

@madmax2069 3 года назад

Lmao 15:39 perfect timing for an ad, and then (that KFC Christmas snowman ad) saying "why does it have to be so piping hot"

@EvilCoffeeInc 3 года назад

I had to do something similar to install DOS on a Zenith laptop last year. It had a 60MB hard drive limit in the bios so I had to use something called Maxtor EzBoot (A Dynamic Drive Overlay) to get the system to recognize my 1GB CF card. Weirdly, mine wouldn't work unless I used the DDO software. It's good that you got the CHD settings to work, my bios wouldn't even accept the "correct" values when I had them set manually.

@sparcie420 3 года назад

regarding big drives: why didnt you use a dynamic drive overlay tool?

@brettrudy2245 3 года назад

That sponsor segue was smooth as butter.

@rettile546798 3 года назад

I've found while doing a backup on an old Compaq Contura aero 4 / 33c, Windows 10 cannot see the drive (or hangs), While Windows 9X Or Windows XP can normally see the drive and Copy the contents of it

@safirahmed 3 года назад

Getting Star Trek: A Final Unity to work would be a real challenge.

@EnAimBoy 3 года назад

Ouch! That was a Linus level Segway. Great video

@gashetauwu1932 3 года назад

This was one of the most natural ways a commercial was implemented on a video I didn't realize the commercial till I watch the ad and he says marvel's about it xd

@Lachlant1984 3 года назад

Were you able to get a backup of the Synchromed software from the hard drive before it passed away? If you did, you could probably set up a partition just with the Synchromed software on it, then the other one as a DOS partition? What will you do with the medical programmer equipment that came with that notebook PC since obviously you can't use it?

@crystalsheep1434 3 года назад

This is amazing

@DrYak 3 года назад

For next time you need to use a large (e.g.: 8GB) Harddisk drive on an ancient 386/486 machine (that only understand specific Cylinder/Heads/Sectors): there are drivers, that one can install on the boot sector: e.g.: EZ-Drive or OnTrack. Once booted, they replace the BIOS's disk routine (Int 13h) with ones that understand modern drives, and then continue the normal booting. That's how I used to do it with my actual old 386/486 PCs back when I was a kid. A slight upgrade would be to plug-in a parallel port sound card for FM music (e.g.: OPL2LPT or OPL3LPT if you don't want to solder it yourself) or a 16bit PCMCIA soundcard for full sound effects and FM and/or midi music (don't know about driver availability, but I would be surprise if they didn't attempt to support enough Soundblaster compatibility make sure Doom is supported)

@Tim_3100 3 года назад

Great video

@aara-tg7kc 3 года назад

Wonder if the compusa in the comparison was meant for dos, considering it was pretty competitive with the thinkpad in that scenario

@danielhabazin 3 года назад

wow, yogoslavia was a option in the 6.22 installer? that really is nostalgia

@Alucard9050 3 года назад

Thanks! This might actually get me off my ass to rehab my old, similar subcompact, the Compaq Contura Aero 4/25

@TheErador 3 года назад

Re the trackpad i think it's supposed to be thumb operated from the side

@micahottaway8455 3 года назад

PC Dos 7 from IBM was the best version of DOS as it it had a utility that could free up conventional memory exceptionally well. It made DOS gaming awesome back in the day as many titles available from earlier times required lots of conventional memory.

@gern0tk 3 года назад

Yeah, in Germany it sold under the brand name "Novell Dos 7" and I remember my teenage nerd self running into a computer store getting its shiny red package as soon as it was released. The second killer feature was the "stacker" disk compression tool that worked faster and more reliable than Microsoft's "Double Space" solution. My hard drive had only 52 MB and Novell DOS allowed me to squeeze about 70MB onto it.

@micahottaway8455 3 года назад

Those were two different brand here in the US, but I wonder if the two were under the same development umbrella????

@KRAFTWERK2K6 3 года назад

14:27 that moment when you try to set up an old system and Yugoslavia still appears in the MS-DOS installer language selection. *moment of Silence for Yugoslavia*

@SkylarsTerribleMemes 3 года назад

wonder if that synchromed thing could be used for hrt

@Moi_Gospodin1337 3 года назад

17:38 wow! Thats impressive! Nice hardware :D

@Leeki85 3 года назад

You can simply write disk images into SD card and use it in SD2IDE interface. PCem is better than VirtualBox because it supports most retro hardware, so you can make a virtual copy of your computer and install everything using convenient virtualization. Windows 95 drivers included. Then I use WinImage to write HDD image to SD card and it will just work.

@KowboyUSA 3 года назад

That glorious moment when success is achieved computing in vintage hardware!

@cpace123 3 года назад

Yep used to sell those epson note books

@jobearesto9746 3 года назад

lol love this little machine. very retro

@SchardtCinematic 3 года назад

Lol don't know why but I thought this was an LGR video. Clint M loves his Doom.

@kjamison5951 3 года назад

Patient:”So, my meds are good and I’ll live another day, ha ha?” Doctor: “Neither of us will be alive if I don’t complete this level!”

@Nurse_Xochitl 3 года назад

Me: Don't worry, I'm fighting the disease inside you, 1v1.

@Lachlant1984 3 года назад

I wonder what modern medical equipment programmers use to program them? Do they use off the shelf laptop PCs or do they use a more purpose built system? I presume these days they probably use purpose built computers.