IBM's Eduquest: The Only Good 90s All-In-One

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• OI

  @oil_moon · 7 months ago

  You've no idea how much I genuinely appreciate the use of "two of them" as a running gag on this channel

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• RP

  @rpgspree · 3 years ago (edited)

  FYI: I found that a metal-tipped mechanical pencil works great for fixing bent pins. First get the led out, then carefully slide the bent pin into the hollow pencil tip and <i>carefully</i> reorient the pin back inline with the adjacent pins. If the pin is really crooked, you can use the tip to help straighten the pin out as you work it in. You can look at the bottom of the chip edge-on to check how straight the pin is with its row and column. It might take some slight tweaks to get it aligned well. This will work even if the tip is a little bigger than the pin, it&apos;s just awkward. <br><br>I&apos;ve saved more than a few CPUs with this trick and have not broken a single pin either. Not to say that&apos;s impossible, it&apos;s just never happened to me and I hardly have a surgeon&apos;s skill.

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• SM

  @smugshrug · 3 years ago (edited)

  As a former Aptiva owner, I&apos;ll have you know that I thoroughly enjoyed sliding the absolutely useless plastic door up and down the front of my case while Windows 95 was loading.

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• HA

  @harrisonfackrell · 1 year ago

  Your story about going on an entire sidequest for the CMOS password only to forget what you needed it for is very relatable.

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• TA

  @tayzonday · 3 years ago

  I was so excited that the 486 DX2 had a math coprocessor to play Descent at higher FPS. I dreamed of owning one at the start of 7th grade, but by the end of 7th grade my Dad bought me a Pentium 90.

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• IN

  @inagy86 · 3 years ago

  This video just made me realize that this constantly sidetracked storytelling gives a much more lifelike experience, because if anyone attempts to revive such old hardware this shows very clearly how much buried knowledge you have to dig through to make it work again.

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• SU

  @SuperDerek · 3 years ago

  I would absolutely watch a video series of CRD talking about 5 -10 strange PCs that he only has 5 minutes of ramblings to say about any of them. Like a &quot;weird PC roundup&quot; video series. I&apos;m not sure if it&apos;d be any easier or more difficult to produce, but weird PCs and CRD snark is what fuels me.

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• JI

  @Jimgress · 3 years ago

  I just want to say you’re an absolute hero for inexplicably making an Evangelion reference in the middle of a video about an semi-obscure IBM PC all-in-one. I don’t really know why, and honestly it doesn’t matter why you do it, just please keep doing these random references coming. <br><br>Despite the high quality of content and effort coming out of this channel it is somehow my absolute favorite thing about it.

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• TO

  @TommyCrosby · 3 years ago

  The way you go on a full tangent about all the CMOS thing just to talk about the CDROM is amazing. It&apos;s like a full video by itself inserted in the main one.

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• MR

  @Mr_L1n4x · 3 years ago

  As a technician I hate working with All in Ones especially the modern ones that&apos;s just a soldered motherboard connected to a screen, but this would&apos;ve been incredible to work on and I&apos;ve seen something similar in some schools and offices where the &quot;All in One&quot; is just a small form factor PC mounted on a monitor with a &quot;case&quot; on the back <br><br>I absolutely love this because is the best of both worlds and sure there are some sacrifices like little to none PCI ports and using RAM form laptops instead of desktop but for maintenance and portability purpose they&apos;re the best

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• NI

  @nickanat · 3 years ago

  That endless brightness knob was a feature a lot of education/kiosk-aimed displays had back in the day to keep people from breaking them. I remember it was common on the terminals that were used as timeclocks at a certain grocery store about 2 decades ago.

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• RA

  @RabbitEarsCh · 3 years ago

  This is by FAR your highest-effort &quot;two of them&quot; ever. I love this so much. Never stop making high-effort blink-and-you&apos;ll-miss-it memes.

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