Vintage Computer Teardown and Test: Let's check out the Baby AT towers from the Franklin eWaste haul 

You have an understated confidence in what you do and your videos are well paced and well narrated mister. Very enjoyable 👍🏻🙏

Love this channel. It's like watching the satisfying thrift find but better because you go thru everything and show it off and fix it if necessary. Your channel will go far in the future. Lots of 40 something guys/gals out there (me included) that appreciate this stuff.

I love ❤️ watching your channel everyday!! Not only do I get my daily fix of vintage computers from when I was a kid. But I get to watch an extremely handsome, 💯 husband material, stud-muffin! 😍

Love your videos. I miss all the sounds computers made back in the day. So refreshing watching you tare into vintage computers.

I enjoy your videos. Partly for nostalgia (I was heavy into computers when I was a teen in the mid-90s and still work in tech) but also because of the clean, slow, methodical progress of the videos and lack of flashy editing. I am way too old for the "yo yo yo wazaaaaap" type videos that most people seem to want to make, and your tempo is a nice and enjoyable contrast to those! Keep up the good work!

This is a channel I'll definitely be watching more on.... The fact that all the machines he picked up are considered special makes me feel good about rescuing P4s

Goes to show that the retro computing scene is still going strong. Next time I come across an old computer I'll have to video the process. Subscribed!😀

Hell yeah, a new video from my favorite hot stud! I could watch videos of you repairing old PCs all day. I love how carefully and intelligently you handle these old systems. Another excellent video! My first PC had this exact case - it was a 486. I have good memories of playing Theme Hospital, Rollercoaster, Doom, and so on. Keep up the excellent work, Mike!"

I LOVE vintage computers too! Especially 386, 486... I really really envy you. Thank you for sharing your enjoyable experiences.

Watching you work on those computers while I type away at my terminal consoles is oddly therapeutic

Looks like the pieces of wood you took out were used as a guide for whatever was being plugged into the back of the motherboard (probably the AT keyboard plug). The gap between the case and the motherboard was fair distance apart and this helped to guide the plug right in instead of being fiddled around with causing annoyance by the user.

Hey Mike! I love your channel and 100% support what you do for these older systems.

I love all of these videos start to finish. thank you.

If anyone deserves that 200 PC haul its you man. Content for years :)

I wish your channel infinite growth.

Loved this video. I could put these type of retro-tech exploration videos on repeat while I work and watch all day :D Thanks!

Hey Mike, another great video. Loved the rubber duck @35:06! And a lack of wildlife.

Really enjoy watching the video. Keep up the amazing work Mike.

The first machine has a Tyan S1590S super socket 7 motherboard. The first motherboard I bought when I got into computers. That board is long gone but I kept the box and software. I just purchased one off of eBay a few months ago. I also picked up an Enlight baby AT case too. Similar but not the exact case I used to have. Both reasonably priced. I also still have the original ATI Xpert 98 video card for that machine. I believe the Yamaha YMF719 ISA sound card I have is from that pc too. I’m in the process of rebuilding my old machine. I’m enjoying the videos. Thanks.

I think you're already getting more confident in front of the camera and with the commentary, looking forward to all your content from the rest of the massive haul, channel growth is good already. 👍

Can't wait to see more from the haul and the repair video on that poor VLB motherboard. Hopefully you can revive it.

I got addicted to this channel pretty fast. « Things escalated quickly » XD

Very interesting retro systems, like!

I love this. Every one is like a little box of surprises!

Awesome video dude!

LOL. I had to replay the "bath" scene to double check... I saw what you did there with the rubber ducky! A great video Mike. Is so relaxing just to sit here on a Saturday morning, cup of tea in hand, cat on the lap... watching you take apart / describe these beautiful machines so well. Great job, and thanks. :)

Love this channel... and all the old PC's

Again, amazing content, and skills, loving the resurrections!!!!!

Thanks! I enjoy your teardowns.

Awesome video! Love them!

Another awesome video 🎉

Those Derek minitowers! So nostalgic. I built many systems using those,

I really enjoy your videos! Your obvious passion for the subject matter really shows through :)

This video was sooooo relaxing to watch!

I'm liking what I'm seeing from you so far with these old rigs, I'm subbing along for the ride 😀

Another great video, please keep it up! It helps scratch a bit of the retro PC itch I have.

Really loving this stuff. Brings back memories. 16GB hard drive with Windows 98. The most power and memory you will ever need! Thank you for posting. Love and blessings from Ontario Canada.

Love the content man, I could watch your videos all day! Keep up the great work!

Old days. Love those sounds. :)

Loved watching what you did with this haul. Love that they went to a great home! We'll reach out when we get more, cheers!

These vids are a blast from the best.

Excellent, So much hardware nostalgia. I upgraded so many computers of this era in the mid 1990s. Keep up the great work on the channel.

Those barrel batteries are timebombs

This was a great video. Thank you

Love those cases, i gotta find one. great video :)

This is turning into one of my favorite channels. As a collector of old computers, I love your videos.

Excellent video. You make hardware repair and teardown entertaining even to an incurable software guy like me.

I remember using some of those cases on my builds back then. 👍

Great channel and you'll go far with it 👍

Mike, you are awesome. I have been watching and enjoying, but this is my first comment. Thanks so much for reviving and giving love to all these old computers! Makes me so fondly remember building PCs with my Dad in the 90's and playing all my favorite old games and simulators :) Gonna subscribe now, can't believe I haven't yet!

I love this particular style of case, would love to find some of my own

Looks good! I forgot about the turbo button programming. Last saw those in person when I was in high school working at a local pc repair store.

Very interesting. And very nice finds, it is so rare to find AT cases in such a good shape w/o yellowing. And AT mainboards with AGP are not very common neither. The duck in the bath made me well laugh :D

Be still, my heart! Knoppix to the rescue! xx

A trip down memory lane, my computer experience started with 286 and Dos 3 ish, I remember these 386 internals well, lots of happy hours spent tinkering with this type of machine back in the day.

I remember the first time I stuck a screwdriver into a power supply while it was plugged in and powered off, like it was yesterday. August 13, 1997. My Pentium 66mhz system never powered up again.

Really Nice. As i am seeing, your channel grew a lot in the last week!

"Hoopajooped" is now my new favorite technical term. Right up there with "Borked".

MikeTech, I'm glad to see you're finally tearing these suckers down. It's like vehicle fixes and restores. I have brothers who do that sort of stuff, seen some on RU-vid as well. I like it, same reason I like to watch computers get dissected and maybe revived. Bring it on!!!!!

When I had my first PC, the cpu was a K6 233. It got so hot I changed it for a MMX just a week later. The store were I bought it asked me what was the white paste I used on the heatsink, they had never seen this :) The explanation is electronic is one of my hobbies, so it was logical for me to use thermal paste. Things have changed ...

Great video, I found myself checking your channel throughout the week to see if I'd missed anything after that load of relics you got last video. I'm quite impressed by how far back and how extensive your knowledge is. And yet, you look like you're 10 years younger than me, what gives! I loved the rubber ducky and your Patreon tier labels lol! Also whoever's sick I hope they got well quickly!

Amd k62 500 in a 386 case.. First ever sleeper build, Netware was nearly allways used in colleges and schools in the UK the wood also looks like a school college workshop fix. thanks for the video.

Good video, enjoyed it all. I wanna see some of those laptops you got also lol.

Good vid, with all those vintage computers you should have content for a while. Looking forward to seeing the channel grow.

I love the dedication to repairing that 486 board. Most people would have just tossed it.

The reliable "one screw wonder" technique for hard drive mounting has stood the test of time. My protégés have learned it from me, and they'll ensure it endures.

Love this channel...i remember back in those days, when I got my first pc's.. 386 sx and 486 DX. All those jumper settings. Nothing was just PnP. Sometimes I miss the noises from the harddrive, floppy drive, 33k (56k)modem . Soundcard was a pain to get it working right.

Kind of content I enjoy :D

Awesome and very interesting keep up the great content 😅

nice video, I remember one of the pc (amd) was like mine in late 90s,

wow, true retro

Nice one 👍 😊 Had a day from hell and a killer migraine, but this cheered me up a bit 😄

45:42 An American judging date formats, now that beats everything! 😂 FYI that's the Chinese date format (albeit with 2 digits for the year instead of 4), which also happens to be the ISO one. It's a convenient format because it allows for easy sorting by date. That's my first comment on one of your videos, keep doing what you do, it's relaxing to watch, but also informative on the repair side of things.

I am amazed with your "no fear" attitude when your playing with these machines lol....... I would never play around like you do..... keep making vids please.

I like your videos on old PCs you have a new SUB.👍

can say I have a few k6 500s myself, they were great cpus. Still love that GUI bios. sadly they didn't catch on, oddly I didn't see a similar interface again until I got a modern system.. I hate those batteries, I lost a stack of motherboards to these things because they leaked before I could get back to where I had the boards stored. nice memories with scandisk, a lot of time spent looking at that over the years lol. that was a nice keyboard passthrough, sadly I wish more of the at cases had them.

YESSSSS!!!!!! New video!

Amazing! That's a superb ratio of working vs non working stuff! Looking fordward to the motherboard repair video. About the weird memory placement on the first PC, I'm pretty sure those AT cases can have the motherboard tray removed, they usually have one or two screws on the back. Too bad there were no ISA soundcards, no need for sound on those "office" machines xD!

Seeing the Novell logo gave me a bad flashback to the late 90’s. Couldn’t wait to get rid of the netware server and install Linux! Fun memories, thanks for the vid!

Dang, you voided the warranties on all of that 30 year old RAM by taking it out of the motherboard. lol In all honesty, I love your videos. Fantastic haul, and I can't wait to see what mysteries the other PCs hold! Luckily no spiders this time!

Not sure if I mentioned it already - the beeps when you first powered on the Tyan build is a S3 GPU specific beep that happens if you don't plug in a monitor. IIRC the last one to have this beep is the AGP Trio 3D/2X.

You should keep the motherboard in that case. The fact that it is unusual makes it unique.

You deserve way more subs than you currently have

That third pc reminded me of those old sun burnt smoker's machines that would belong to some friend's relative. I'd open a pack of bleach wipes and wipe down everything before I'd touch anything. A boot floppy with MacAfee virus scan was also part of the routine.

The piece of wood probably holds the keyboard connector in place. I had an issue way back with my 486. I would frequently move the PC and disconnect/reconnect the keyboard, and the connector came loose and didn't have a proper contact to the motherboard. I had to wiggle it around to a certain position so it would work. This probably serves the same purpose.

0:35 Funny you should say terrifying sound... When I was a kid and recordable CD's were new, I bought one without knowing anything about it. I just thought "blank cd, like blank floppy right?" So I got it home and threw it into my dad's computer. It spun up. And kept spinning up. And kept spinning up. It got so fast that I started freaking out and ejected the drive. The drive had spun the disc up so fast that when the tray opened, the disc was still spinning in the tray. It became unstable and shot out of the tray, landing on the floor and proceeding to spin a few more times.

Loved that rubber duck in the bath 😂 BTW, about the mouse - while serial mice are hot-pluggable, they were not PnP, so you would have had to do some sort of search for new devices, or restarted the computer after plugging in the mouse. I think that was the reason Windows didn't recognize it while it worked just fine in DOS.

On the old dd, if you opened a second terminal and run 'watch -n 60 "kill -URS1 $(pidof dd)"' it should print the progress on the terminal the dd process is running on. More specifically, send the SIGUSR1 to the dd process to see the progress. The rest is fluff to make it work as a single command. :)

18:18 "But you know what? I'm gonna leave it on there!" You MONSTER! How could you deprive us of "The Peel™"?? Just joking, as with all your videos, you have an amazing knowledge and vibe with retro tech! I'm looking forward to your future videos! Also want to point out that I love the rainbow watch face!

It's been a long time, but I sort of remember the trick with WIndows 95 is to boot into Safe Mode, then delete all the hardware under Device Manager. When you reboot, it should go ahead and re-detect and re-install all the proper drivers. I remember moving between some very dissimilar hardware, and it actually worked. Having said that, there is probably a not insignificant chance of destroying the install.

Those old hard drives reminds me of a geiger counter or radiometer sound.

00:23 At my workplace in the early '90s my supervisor's office computer used that same case. The brand name on it was Belmont, LOL. They must have used a million different brand names on that case.

i love your videos ,keep up the good work man >3 cheers

I had one of them batteries leak in an Amiga 500(Amigas and Atari STs were more common in the home this side of the pond, x86 machines were typically only found in offices until the mid '90s), thankfully it was isolated to the expansion card the battery was connected to, but my heart sank when I saw it. The machine worked, but unfortunately it meant finding a new expansion card as most Amiga software requires 1mb RAM. On the first machine, I didn't even know they still made ATs at that point in time. I guess it must've been a specialist motherboard or something.

Geeze, I'd a give a nut to have any of those smaller AT chassis. You have a goldmine of highly desirable chassis. The beat up 486 chassis looks to be an early form of Enlight chassis.

yup...you're still cute

You're taking a long time to finish off that can of Pepsi, it'll be flat soon! 🤣But great videos, I really look forward to watching these. 😬

The answer to the WHY of the foreign items near the AT keyboard connector is..Mechanical support or strain relief..sometimes wedged "Just so" the keyboard would work..else it would not.

I remember the good old days when CD drives had headphone jacks! PS - First time subscribbler!! Tee Hee! 😆

Hope Nana's video card becomes a recurring thing lol. Also they make modern coin cell battery adaptors that fit into the socket of a Dallas RTC, so there's no need to buy a brand new Dallas RTC, meaning it more or less will function like any other PC at that point.