Using A 21 Year Old IBM Thinkpad 390X!

Подписаться 294 тыс.

Просмотров 141 тыс.

50% 1

Video Sponsored by Ridge Wallet: www.ridge.com/PSIVEWRI Use Code “PSIVEWRI ” for 10% off your order.
In today's video we're going to be cleaning up and using an old IBM Thinkpad 390X from 1999! This laptop features a 450MHz Pentium III processor and is quite thick! Let's see what happens :) #laptop #thinkpad #restoration
► Gear I Use (Affiliate Links):
Dell G7 15 Laptop: amzn.to/32VOSux
Keychron K2 Keyboard: amzn.to/2F51NCh
Logitech G502 Mouse: amzn.to/351iae1
Benq 144Hz Screen: amzn.to/3jJk1YW
Fujifilm Camera Bodies: amzn.to/2EXdPxL
Fujifilm Lenses: amzn.to/3jY8xB9
Rode NTG3 Microphone: amzn.to/3jKWeHZ
Rode Videomicro Microphone: amzn.to/3hXoua4
Rode Wireless Go Microphone: amzn.to/3bsVaWr
Audio Interface: amzn.to/31XXVvV
Manfrotto Tripod: amzn.to/356r7Tq
RGB LED Light: amzn.to/3i2eNqL
Godox SL-60w Video Light: amzn.to/31Vtsyl
Apple iPad Pro: amzn.to/3h0i20H
► Become a channel member today! bit.ly/PsivewriMembership
► Follow me on Social Media
Twitter 🐦 / nathanpsi
Instagram 📸 / nathan_sivewright
► Send me stuff here!
Nathan Sivewright
Parcel Collect 10045 46100
Shop 3, 50 O.G Road
KLEMZIG SA 5087
Music Used:
"Past Sadness"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

Наука

Опубликовано:

9 июл 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 423

@psivewri 3 года назад

Big thanks to Ridge for sending over this wallet and for sponsoring this video! Definitely consider checking them out if you want one for yourself :) ridge.com/PSIVEWRI

@alex55234 3 года назад

Looks painful 😂

@Uterr 3 года назад

Hey! you NOT supposed to play duke nukem 3d with mouse, so of course it will be hard with touchpoint

@Midnight_407 3 года назад

@Howard25 3 года назад

you finally got verified 🎉

@DumDoger 3 года назад

Hackintosh it!!!

@haphaxion 3 года назад

The screensaver was called "The 60s USA" because, well... there was a lot of recreational hallucinogenic use at that time lol

@psivewri 3 года назад

You're probably right 😂

@RetroTechToys 3 года назад

"With the help of this Ethernet card, which is faster because it is red..." that's amazing. 😅

@HeenaPatel253 3 года назад

*RED*

@vertyyy8234 3 года назад

Red represents that it's faster aka normal ethernet card is 10.2 gigabit per second and red one is 17.2 so ye

@robloxianews7636 3 года назад

I have that exact internet card

@RetroTechToys 3 года назад

@@vertyyy8234 I was today years old when I learned that red is ACTUALLY faster. I want red now!

@lemurmad 3 года назад

Wait until somebody says that it wont make it faster. Lol RED MAKES EVERYTHING FASTER!!!

@jonrutherford6852 3 года назад

That Windows 98 startup sound, yes: It manages to be soothing and ominous at the same time. A minor masterpiece.

@jakelam6647 3 года назад

I am gonna find a way to make my ASUS TUF Gaming A15 to boot up with that sound

@filledwithvariousknowledge1065 3 года назад

You need start up changer and also need to enable in the settings “Play startup sound” which is off by default but can be ticked on

@FrontSideBus 3 года назад

Personally, I would have left that Quantas sticker on it. That's a bit of that laptop's history right there.

@Mrwhosethesus 3 года назад

ThinkPad + Eucoliptus oil = Psivewri

@BenyaminLimanto 3 года назад

Let me open it with my tick knife. Always like that

@GibsonSwag 3 года назад

I like how the design has barely changed

@Garrettdx1988 3 года назад

The “Baseball” screensaver was great. My dad always had that one on our living room Gateway 2000 PC. He also had a ThinkPad very similar to this one. What a nostalgic video.

@Junkob101 3 года назад

Recently restored my old Thinkpad 570E, and let me tell you. The Windows 98 startup sound is terrifying at 3 AM

@zguyofficial6206 3 года назад

Watch out dude

@dmo848 3 года назад

Yes it is

@NepgearGM6.1 3 года назад

I don't believe that

@Junkob101 3 года назад

@@NepgearGM6.1 what don’t you believe?

@NepgearGM6.1 3 года назад

@@Junkob101 that the Windows 98 startup sound is terrifying

@dzvxo 3 года назад

did he just switch to a perfect american accent for a second wtf

@siddhoot 3 года назад

Time?

@brennanprice2372 3 года назад

@@siddhoot 3:24 I think

@thebasketballhistorian3291 3 года назад

I'm so used to the way he speaks, I didn't even realize it! (I'm American.)

@nitrax8629 3 года назад

Great vid, one small correction: the daughterboard at 5:16 does not contain both the CPU and GPU: It is in fact a mobile module cartridge (MMC-2) processir board containing both the Pentium III CPU and Intel 443BX northbridge chip. I bet you could swap this out fairly easily for a faster processor module if needed. The plates are actually just pressure fitted onto posts: they can be pried off and pressed back down fairly easily.

@herrfaust2020 3 года назад

It can be upgraded to 500MHz for sure. 650/750/850MHz may be an issue because of Speedstep. It was an issue with the 600X models that didn't originally come with a 650MHz CPU.

@randomworkbyab6483 3 года назад

I always love your old laptop restoration videos.Keep the Good Work up man.your style of making video is just great man.

@tsentertainment14842 3 года назад

Bringing back memories❤️Thanks, Psivewri!♥️

@arianhoxha5593 3 года назад

I cant stop watching your videos. I love watching videos like these. Thank you for makin this type of videos.

@sp3ckulatitus695 3 года назад

It's wonderful to see a notebook that old actually getting restored. They are still reliable nowadays. Great work! ☺️

@stuff31 2 года назад

Just bought a thinkpad 390 thanks to this video. Great machine.

@dors5969 3 года назад

Great restoration as always! I have IBM Thinkpad 390E, probably a little bit older than your laptop, I think they have the same graphics card. It's amazing how they're so different in the access to the hardware. Unfortunately, my unit condition is much more worse.

@CesareVesdani 2 года назад

I don't own a Thinkpad but those laptops are great because they are a strong build series of laptops.

@skelly.1119 3 года назад

Using this Ethernet card, which is faster *because it’s red*

@dormcat 3 года назад

Like Char Aznable's MS-06S Zaku II?

@haseenabadshah5381 3 года назад

69 likes lmao

@billyhamlol2354 3 года назад

red is sus

@Quishee 3 года назад

old laptop keyboards are soooo much better than today

@jamesbuckley5346 3 года назад

This video is awesome. I have a thinkpad t30 from 2002, it runs windows 2000, with a 60gb hard drive and 512MB RAM. I really like the design of the old devices- and the keyboards!

@RK90RK 3 года назад

very interesting and instructive video! thanks Nathan!

@BensOnTheRadio 3 года назад

The screensavers are my favorite part of going back to classic versions of Windows. Makes me sad Windows 10 buries them.

@robinfuijk Год назад

Eversince I got my Thinkpad E14 Gen 3 laptop earlier this year I've been fascinated with these things. This is honestly my favorite computer I've ever owned. The keyboard is so satisfying to use. It's really cool to see Lenovo kept IBM's excelent design going.

@alex55234 3 года назад

Thank you for posting a new vid 😊

@daokifey 2 года назад

This video brings back me in my childhood in 2014-2015 when I had an old Thinkpad computer with a rotative screen and a pen and I remember I spend my days on this computer chatting with my friends on some virtual worlds, watching my first animes or drawing random things on Paint. That was the good old days…

@mcquangnguyen5562 3 года назад

Thank you Psivewri, very cool

@TEchWIse2203 3 года назад

Nice vid Nathan keep up the great work

@RamLaska 3 года назад

2:23 MAN, that takes me back.

@adiposerex5150 3 года назад

These Thinkpads were my favorite laptops. As a typist, these laptops had a full keyboard and it was a joy to use.

@SYIBOI 3 года назад

I used to have a stack of these 390s both in the x and e variety. I can tell you that some of them had "Trident" video adapters that were 4mb dedicated and they actually ran windows xp pretty decently for being pentium 2 and 3 machines. The docking station I once had for them was AWESOME, it gave you more everything including cardbus sockets and it was these laptops that gave me my life long love for laptop docking stations and docking technology!

@Kenaz82 3 года назад

Watching on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon. Love the old Thiccpads!

@rafiurislam27 3 года назад

Love from Bangladesh. I never missed your any video since 2019

@ligma3652 3 года назад

Hi psivewri :) love your videos! from The Philippines 🇵🇭

@Ben.N 3 года назад

Nathan's been blazing it up

@ethandobbs6239 3 года назад

You know you're going to have a good time watching the videos he makes

@jackf1684 3 года назад

I'll agree, the hinge design like that on plastic laptops isn't great. But IBM and later Lenovo improved it with the magnesium-alloy body paired with the two pegs.

@Zen-Koru 3 года назад

Yes a nother IBM thinkpad video I really like these

@georgek3004 3 года назад

I'm so early! Amazing videos, I absolutely love your videos! Keep up the great work

@georgek3004 3 года назад

@Christian Grenier still early

@bradygough8781 3 года назад

You make the best videos

@carltonleboss 3 года назад

I love old laptops like these.

@rapidthejoe 3 года назад

A lot of nostalgia in that laptop and it reminds me when I was a kid drawing on microsoft paint

@dylanc2806 3 года назад

that hinge design is WAY better than some of the more modern hinges. that thinkpad's hinge is screwed directly into the laptop metal chassis, on most modern laptops, its screwed into the plastic top or bottom case...

@billfreeman5201 3 года назад

The mouse nipple was amazing and I would use one today. The Thinkpad was a very robust machine back then when it was actually mauufactured by IBM too.

@paulwinstersalboro7908 3 года назад

MY FAVORITE CHANNEL PSIVEWRI THANK FOR YOUR VIDEO BLESS YAAAH

@cee128d 3 года назад

My oldest Thinkpad is a T22 from around 2002. That screensaver named the 60's was supposed to represent how one saw the world when on the drugs like LSD at the time. And I loved the Mystery screensaver and theme. Ran it a lot for my daughters as they loved it.

@mikemiles3068 3 года назад

Great video❗️I remember when this came out, I was working for Compaq Computer Corp. 👨‍💻 and this was competing with our CPU’s

@Frannydaddy1 3 года назад

Love your videos

@kepuexeold 3 года назад

I have an ThinkPad 390X, too. It has the Celeron 400MHz, 128 MB RAM and a very big hard drive with 80 GB. My hinges are OK, they are not cracked. Unfortunately one of the foldable feets are missing. But it's a good retro laptop, it has floppy and CD drive in the same device and it has excellent input devices. Got mine from eBay for about 20€.

@RamLaska 3 года назад

9:45 Oh man, HOVER!!! I loved that game! Haven't seen it in well over 20 years

@aksiyonbizde3016 3 года назад

That intro animation fits just perfectly.

@kacpreusz9911 3 года назад

I'm watching this video on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420

@danielflores3363 3 года назад

T430

@mire873 3 года назад

Love my T430 and T440p

@KrasnyPetrograd 3 года назад

Me on X220

@sloppynyuszi 3 года назад

I’m watching it on an IPhone 11 Pro

@ilikeipods.mp3240 3 года назад

*420*

@moonster8 3 года назад

Takes me back Thanks :-]

@nicegy0197 3 года назад

"Laptops have come a long way" True, but with multiple sacrifices like reduced port selection, non-removable batteries, and soldered components that used to be user upgradable in some cases.

@someonehere4380 3 года назад

ikr

@MatchingUser 3 года назад

bUt iTs tHiNnER sO iT fITs iN yOuR bAcKpaCk bEtTeR

@richardvalvona1159 2 года назад

I watched a video about this sort of thing about an hour ago which describes a business strategy called planned obsolescence. The title of the video is call "This is why we can't have nice things". The whole point of them making batteries irremovable is to force you into spending a lot more money on a whole new laptop. It's so wasteful.

@ekedini 3 года назад

Very nice video ! Looking forward to those macbook airs. I have a macbook pro early 2015 - still working strong and if you had to clean you'd be impressed cause Ive kept it clean and scratch-free!

@Vincent-Singh17159 3 года назад

watched this on my 13 year old HP Compaq 6710b that still holds up in 2020 and has awesome sounding speakers on it

@georgmuse 3 года назад

Nice to see thiner bezels than on current production :)

@harveyinglis4352 3 года назад

I love your videos man

@JensKirch76 3 года назад

Awesome. Still have a Thinkpad 600E from 1999 sitting here and a Thinkpad T40p from 2003. :-)

@lasertech4488 3 года назад

4:22 sounded like auto tune for some reason 😂 love the channel as well!

@lukaszwos 5 месяцев назад

I had exactly the same model. The hinge will break if you keep using it. Apart form that, amazing machine for the time.

@bramvandenbroeck5060 3 года назад

I picked up a old IBM ThinkPad A21m, its in very good shape, it came from a local seller who was cleaning out his attic, he was selling other branded laptops as well as a lot, but i bought only this thinkpad because its was in such great shape, no wear what so ever, so i think i am very lucky with this one! It has a 800mhz pentium 3, 256gb of ram and a 100gb ide hard drive, its slow, but it has a ati rage mobility m with 8mb's of dedicated memory and plays 3d games very well, and i modified the thinkpad a bit, under a flap, i found that the build in modem and ethernet happened to be on a mini pci card, so i took the laptop appart, i installed some wifi antenna's from another machine, and i replaced the mini pci ethernet card with a wifi card, so now, this laptop has build in wifi which works great under windows 2000, and for the ethernet solution, i have a xircom one like you have, but my card has 2 additional rj12 plugs, one for data and one for fax, and the red color of the xircom card matches the black and red theme ibm had going on their thinkpads up to this day with lenovo's thinkpads. Great laptop i must say :p

@gp3328 3 года назад

I had an alarm for this

@BrianMui 3 года назад

You beat me by 3 seconds. :)

@tcp124 3 года назад

Worked out great

@gp3328 3 года назад

Not for first comment but just so I could see it immediately

@thebasketballhistorian3291 3 года назад

- over 20 years old - purchased off Twitter - shipping paid with a crap load of stamps Ooh, this is going to be a good episode!

@DaviASRocha 3 года назад

I would totally have one of these as a writing PC!

@anthonynorton666 2 года назад

You can also use an ice cube tray for keeping your screws organized.

@ihartmacz 3 года назад

That IBM desktop background is awesome. Can you upload it somewhere?

@pncake_ 3 года назад

its my fist time hearing the correct pronunciation of psivewri

@BurnedPinguin8630 3 года назад

More vids like this please!

@Ben.N 3 года назад

House Screensaver giving me teletubby vibes

@MohsenTheKnight21 3 года назад

I enjoy your videos

@gangsterboy81 3 года назад

The startup sound.. it feels like a drug 😂

@Trusteft 3 года назад

The occasional stutter I noticed on 3D games could easily be the use of a slow hard drive. I remember having a laptop 20 years ago and while it was pretty damn fast in everything, the drive was the reason behind such stutters. I actually added a USB 2.0 drive to it which improved it a lot. Weird. Completely fixed the issue when I got one of the first, or the first?, 7200rpm drive for laptops of the time. Cool video.

@recordcollector0665 3 года назад

3:06 ah yes, I’m from the USA and I remember everything looking like a 2D reflective ball back in the day

@mehdisol7094 3 года назад

when the "screen saver" use more processor power and battery than just simply leaving it on the desktop lol

@pielichiewicz 3 года назад

4:45 Apple designers definitely should watch this.

@garyreardon11 3 года назад

good looking laptop

@Sauceyjames 3 года назад

Nice, no battery error when it starts lol

@Agent08_Alexandros 3 года назад

the seal in the background really greets me

@Johnhdv540 3 года назад

i had flashbacks to my childhood with this xD

@swagmoney6994 3 года назад

I used to have a 390e. XP didnt run too bad

@nixcusp4941 3 года назад

5:48 Psivewri spitting some rhymes

@annapurnalolla8185 3 года назад

Lol

@indudhiman1187 3 года назад

Yoo he do be rapping dho

@megathe2136 Год назад

I miss the way laptops used to be like this. Its modular easy to upgrade and easy take apart.

@WinPC99 3 года назад

I find a Magic Eraser works well on these old Thinkpads. I've made them look SO much better by using that and a little bit of water. Don't go too crazy with it, but a little bit should go a long way

@freduah4253 3 года назад

go fast because it's red ahahah! good video like every video

@aegonthedragon7303 3 года назад

I have the one either before or after this one (390e) but with a shattered screen and no sound. Has a working battery and was free so I don’t complain

@herrfaust2020 3 года назад

The model sequencing was: three digit base model number; next revisions: E, X, and finally Z. So 390, 390E, 390X, 390Z (but I don't think it ever got to 390Z). D suffix was used in the earlier models = CD drive. C for colour (earliest models only). Lower case "s" for dual Scan screen (only seen this with 701C/701Cs).

@d.d.m2208 3 года назад

Try using a tool to hold the pointing nub so you can effectively clean it and paint it.

@appleandmotion6182 3 года назад

Hey Psivewri I got a machintosh plus but with no boot disk do you know how to make one?

@arnavranjan1913 3 года назад

Now I know how to pronounce psivewri 4:20

@ecmorgan69 3 года назад

God, I feel old. I remember when those were new. LOL 😂

@aryanjain8721 3 года назад

A video after long time

@chawin007 3 года назад

I've watched many of your videos. Where can I find a cleaning tool like yours? such as a spray , lens cleaning thanks

@CoRektOh 3 года назад

As technology progressed creativity got left out in the wayside.

@jsteve_15 3 года назад

I'm excited to see those "Dozens of Macbook Airs."

@RetroTalk 3 года назад

I might do a video on my channel about mine. I have a thinkpad 390 that was upgraded with a 300mhz PII, 512MB of memory and a 64GB MSATA drive in an IDE caddy. I love that thing dearly and is my goto retro system due to space issues.

@karlvanlith878 3 года назад

I still have external 3.5 floppy for this, also a CDRom.. 🤣🤣

@llllll508 3 года назад

Good Idea for video

@Vincent-Singh17159 3 года назад

damn that was awesome

@JakeJoris 3 года назад

I've got an ibm 390E and I think the IDE controller is failing, because I can't install windows, the installer fails to copy some of the files. If I try installing windows on the hard drive with another PC, when I put the hdd back into this ibm, then it doesn't let me install any applications and soon after it fails to boot.