Compaq 486 PC exploration, restoration and upgrade - Part 1 REUPLOAD

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• RA

  @raptorchow329 · 3 years ago

  That video was so good, I think I'll watch it a second time right now!

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• PR

  @printerpr0n · 3 years ago (edited)

  I ran into Rod Canion's leg as a kid  running around the original office location when my mom was working a nightshift. Both my parents worked at Compaq. I had that 286 with the amber screen and my mom had this 486, as well as the original portable. This video took me back. Discusions around the dinner table about this new thing called EISA. Was such a great company until Rod was out and Eckhard Pfeiffer drove destroyed it.

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• AN

  @andycristea · 3 years ago

  Now THAT's a 486! EISA, PCI and SCSI <3

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• PE

  @petekeightley2973 · 1 year ago (edited)

  My first computer was the Compaq 386s. It's what started my PC journey, and now I have a cupboard of old working systems that haven't been turned on in years.

• ON

  @onelife151 · 3 years ago

  love those old machines they also helped warm up the room in the later months.

• LO

  @loganjorgensen · 3 years ago

  Excellent video, you really framed your personal history and a lot of Compaq lore quite well.

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• CH

  @chriskalkman3815 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Nope! I love those “old computer” start up noises!

• DA

  @dave4shmups · 3 years ago

  I missed this video the first time, and I just finished watching it.  You really did a great job with it!  My first PC was a Compaq Presario that a wealthy uncle sent me in December of 1998, when I was in Christmas break from college.  It was completely unexpected, and it was a fantastic PC.  It had a Pentium II, an ATI graphics card, and came with Windows 98.  It also came with the game Moto Racer-not in a big box, but in a CD sleeve.  My parents liked it enough to get their own Compaq Presario the next month, and that one came with the game Incoming.  I don’t know if Compaq had some deal with game publishers or developers.  I no longer have it, and I really wish I did, because it went to an electronics recycler before I got into retro computers and started watching YouTube channels like LGR, your channel, etc.  It was a desktop tower PC.

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• EJ

  @ejstacey · 2 years ago

  YouTube randomly suggested this to me, and being a nostalgic 486 fan, I had to watch. I really like an appreciate how you described the reasons behind getting into stuff like this. Really articulate and accurate. Great work!<br><br>On to part 2 I go...

• CL

  @cleffei · 3 years ago

  Always liked this video so I&apos;m glad copyright BS isn&apos;t taking it away from us now lol

• DX

  @DxDeksor · 3 years ago

  320x200 definitely is a 4:3 resolution, just like when you said that we&apos;re conditionned to think that PC = tower because of the past 30 years, we&apos;re also conditionned by LCD technology to think that pixels are always perfect squares, when in the 90&apos;s CRTs could display non square pixels<br><br>320x200 isn&apos;t meant to be shown at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLUTFtjCUP8&amp;t=970">16:10</a> aspect ratio as it could make you think, it is meant to be stretched vertically :)

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• TH

  @thegaybear · 2 years ago

  I am so jealous of you. When I was a kid, my dream machine was a 486 dx2 66