A PC tower dressed as an iMac? Unnecessary purple?? Count me in! Retro Tech Teardown

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• That first system is definitely a domain controller.

• Oh what a week!! We got a This Old Tony video the other day and now one from MikeTech!!! YES. I may have squealed a little bit when I looked at my feed notifications!

• Very good presentation, entertaining.

• 44:50 :))

• @37:26 Add some of Techmoan's "oooo yeah, take it off" music to this chapter and it'd be perfection 😛

• I had that Antec Gemstone (or alias thereof) which looked pretty much identical to this one. I assume it was cheap, and it looked novel for the time.
  I'm not sure if mine had no mounting point for an intake fan, or I didn't install one, but it had poor airflow, and the blower fan was crucial. That fan died after a year or two, with a strong burning odor. (Bad luck or it needed cleaning?)

• Should open the dead PS and show the spewing caps – lol -.

• I LOVE it!
  Both systems are still good.
  The Pentium 4 HT is still useable for most retro PC games.

• I had the Antec Gemstone case back in 2000 and I kept it until 2003. The 92mm fan duct was not super effective, and the sleeve-bearing fan failed on me once. I still have the ABIT BM6 motherboard, 256MB RAM, and PII-Celeron that was in that machine, but they now live in an In-Win A500 which is also period correct.

• …me sitting there knowing from the very begining that it's domain controller because there is no option to log into "local machine" the accounts you kept zeroing out aren't relevant until you try to go unto domain recovery mode. .

• I had exactly that case for my 1999 PC build, except it was purple. The go handle was really handy when trekking to friends' houses for Unreal Tournament.

• Random fact I am watching this video on a Pentium 4 haha

• the hardware is nicer then the actual cases.

• You seem surprised at the choice of case many times in the video. I had one of these cases because it was kind of funky looking but more so that it was literally the cheapest case you could buy at any computer parts store. They probably just needed a cheap case to throw their server parts into

• ^suod^sudo <– replace portion and rerun last command.

• That visual corruption during POST on that first PC was rather odd. Somehow defining multiple colors per character tile. I had seen a VGA hack which allows 4 colors per text mode tile (used in the late DOS versions of Megazeux) but this doesn't seem like that, but it's in a similar vein. Maybe CMOS settings not properly initialized after the battery died and it just sets a weird mode or some registers wrong? But yeah the video card could be faulty i guess, or maybe some odd hardware/firmware mod?

  I was using QBASIC in to the mid-2000s. I had a rather old PC and no high speed internet and it was a halfway decent language/IDE for messing around with stuff and making simple games.

  That second one looks almost like someone's more-modern retro build, or maybe a small business or something built it for some purpose.

  That first bit of dust that came out of the floppy drive settled in a rather suggestive shape. 🙂

• I enjoy seeing old PCs. Great video.

• The second PC front leds when it's on looks like Atom from Real Steel.

• shift & tab reverses the tab selection btw!

• Mike and his videos always give me warmth and comfort.

• Early SATA was many times only IDE mode

• Quantum was taken over by Maxtor. That drive is just the last of the Fireball series that was rebadged to Maxtor shortly after the takeover.

• Thanks Mike, you be my fav utuber! 😊

• Yar PC 1 flying that pirate flag.

• That imac style case was made by Sunte, in Germany. It came in black, blue, purple, green and a few others. I still have a black one

• Just to clarify, here's how it went:

  Quantum was gobbled up by Maxtor. Maxtor, in turn, was gobbled up by Seagate. It was just about an identical turnout to the Digital Electronics Corp > Compaq > Hewlett Packard acquisition chain as to who owned what.

• What do you mean "not leaving the house" ? What about saturday night ?

• hah, I remember that case, former pal of mine had one

• @MikeTech
  I cringe every time you use a brush or a qtip or cloth to clean up dust. May I recommend a vacuum with a HEPA filter picking up the dust and bits and a blower for dusting outside? Face mask for safety too! EDIT: Also, IPA is a great disinfectant for wiping down contact surfaces. Not trying to be one of THOSE dipshit people, this info is totally pro-your-safety and health. We all really like you and your channel. We don't want to see you get sick.

• Love this channel. The pacing and narration are on point, and your care and skill with handling vintage electronics are top notch and just simply a joy to watch. Thanks again, Mike!

• What in the name of sweet merciful crap is going on here? Why? Why?? LMAO!!! 😂😂😂

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