 Yes, sir E-Bob my friends in today's video The young whippersnappers in our audience are gonna have a look at how the previous generation lived Because believe it or not, we did have your mobile computers It's just that to say that they weren't quite as sleek and sexy as a modern ultrabook Would be a gross understatement So step one I guess is to get this puppy booted up now This might not stand out to some of you, but one of the first things I noticed about this thing is the power cord Fascinating isn't it? It's just a normal power cord There's no external power brick This thing has an internal power supply. Are you kidding me? Alright, we're gonna get this plugged in now Brian the electrician who I borrowed this thing from he's got like a tech museum In his basement that guy he actually told me the battery on this thing does work But lithium batteries don't age very well, so I'd be surprised if it stays on longer than a couple minutes So we're gonna run off wall power here. This is like so exciting He also told me that he preloaded my favorite game on it, which I Don't remember talking to him about retro games at any point. So let's see what he put on here Wow Is that 80 megs of RAM? That's actually pretty respectable for a computer of this era. I Mean, it's not amazing, but it's okay, you know Windows 95 So that makes this thing Significantly older than Jake like we literally have people working here Who are younger than this laptop I Haven't heard that sound in so long All right, so this is it this is the desktop experience So go any brighter No, it does not Wow, that is not a fantastic display So I just wanted to check that RAM amount and I realized I Don't actually remember how to access task manager and Windows 95. You can't just right-click the taskbar Monitors the system resources your programs are using like any program the resource meter uses system resources when it's running This may cause your computer to run more slowly Isn't that great? Back when we had like 100 megahertz CPUs your computer would warn you about Opening up resource monitor because it could affect your resource consumption. Wow That is a fairly rudimentary resource meter. Well your system resources They're very 86% free as for your user resources. Same thing. Why don't we try one of the other similar looking things here? How about system monitor? Okay, that's more like it So we are using about 40 megs of RAM on what? We don't know I tried to two-finger swipe to scroll and all I did was move my icons around just like yeah. Yeah, sure You know what? It gives you an appreciation for you know modern grid arrangements and everything snapping into place, right? How big is our drive? Wow Four gigs fat 32 storage not beautiful. I mean to put that in context this ultrabook has four times that In system memory. Alright, so we're fired up. Let's get into What Brian thinks is my favorite game And Actually, okay, there's no way he's gonna get that right. I mean, I'm not gonna get that right. I'm not gonna get that right I'm not gonna get that right. I'm not gonna get that right. I'm not gonna get that right. I'm not gonna get that right I'm not gonna get that right. I'm not gonna get that right. I'm not gonna get that right Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and click play And actually, okay, there's no way he would have guessed this but I actually played so many hours of 1602 ad back when the only gaming computer I had was a Pentium 90 desktop that I inherited from my uncle I For a test tone I'm gonna need a mouse though in order to play this game USB didn't come around until Windows 98 SE if I recall correctly This laptop doesn't have USB actually no hold on Oh, thank you, so that's labeled mouse keyboard that is a ps2 port and I Happen to have in my bag of wonders a ps2 to USB adapter I'm gonna have to go digging deeper into the Bag of wonders and see if I have a ps2 mouse Okay. Well, we didn't find a ps2 mouse, but I did find a ball mouse with USB So I am hoping that this will Not bad Yes, my friends these were great for all sorts of things picking up all the dust off your desk and Putting it in one convenient place to be picked off and disposed of later Throwing these nice heavy rubber balls that people you didn't like Oh man, I got like hair and gun crapped around this gross Before I settle in for my nostalgic gaming session though, actually, why don't we like take a closer look at this thing? It's got some real problems compared to modern computers these bezels take up like as Much of the top of the unit as the freaking screen does they're so big this touchpad is Abominable though with that said I do appreciate the inclusion of dedicated left and right clicks here speakers suck and this thing is freaking heavy like it is it is Chunky like you were carrying a briefcase if you had one of these but it has some Advantages compared to modern devices. So even though we weren't really able to plug in our you know Modern mouse to it very easily the IO on this thing is substantial So check this out. You've got your floppy disk reader. You've got not one but two PC MCIA expansion slots so these could actually be used back in the day to add new ports to laptops Go figure right? We've got our RJ 11 modem port. We've got the PS 2 port We ended up using check this out that my friends. Yes, that is infrared so I believe though instead of being used as just like a Remote control or to like control your TV. This was actually for wireless data transmission I know right. We've got our printer port. We've got a dock port VGA out Serial and then oh moving around Finally, my arm is like actually falling asleep holding this thing up It's oh, we've got our CD-ROM drive and finally headphone microphone jacks Yes, my friend a headphone jack and check this out Here's a feature you haven't seen in a while a removable battery now, I mean 2.7 amp hours That is not a lot and it obviously isn't gonna work very well anymore. But hey It had it. Oh wow, seriously When there's an auto run you can't click anything behind it Multitasking there's so many things I completely take for granted these days All right. Let's fire up some Corel Word Perfect. So back to the things that are good about it. This keyboard is amazing compared to modern keyboards You might as well have a mechanical keyboard in your laptop like This is Flipping awesome. The layout's great. It's got dedicated keys for home end page up page down. It's got look at this travel Listen to that like that That is a laptop keyboard and check this out It's even got remappable shortcut buttons like come on 1996 wasn't such a bad time. I mean, yeah, there's no Windows key You know what those 1602 actually can be run on relatively modern machines And there is a game that I legitimately have not played since like 2002 when the classroom computers actually ran Windows 95 Windows 98 and it's a game that I've been playing for a long time I actually ran Windows 95 Windows 98 and it's called Liero Unfortunately Getting it seems like it might be a little tricky So a lot of you might not realize this but check this out Windows 95 is actually pre like the blue internet explorer icon this is when like Internet explorer was the name because it was internet mail internet news and internet explorer What does internet news even look like? What do you please select a folder where internet mail should keep your message it even talking about? internet news configuration holy crap I think we're fine So we're gonna have to download the game separately and then just copy it over to here Except one small problem, even though the game is small enough to fit on a single floppy disk. I Don't have any floppy disks. Is this pop out? Is this floppy drive removable? Holy crap. It is there must be like a catch somewhere for it. It definitely can anyway Also RJ 45 was considered a fancy pants feature back then none of that and of course even if windows 95 did support usb storage It doesn't have any usb ports and wi-fi. Oh Forget about it. That was still a twinkle in the eye of an engineer somewhere like that That's not a thing I'll be right back fortunately What is the thing is this old external? CD burner that I have and This spindle of CDRs that I happen to have kicking around like I still remember When if you had a CD burner you were the coolest kid in class like Yeah, they were slow and the software was atrocious also The blank disks were expensive. So when a burn failed it was like Actually a big deal like okay. There goes a few more dollars great. Thanks for that but You could move a whopping 650 megabytes of data in between machines or store it safely And that is exactly what I'm talking about And that is exactly what we are gonna do now I don't actually have burning software installed on this laptop because Why would I but I seem to recall Microsoft building it in at some point. Okay. How do you want to use this disk with a cd dvd player? Riero manage Finish burning Okay I'm burning a cd It's been a while Now when I say these things were slow like I really mean it I'm going at a speed that is about eight times what we would have had back then in the early days of cd burning I'm only writing like a mega files and it's still taking this long because there was the preamble and the um Like the the finishing process that had to be done on the disk regardless of how much you wrote to it So let's see if this works fortunately if it didn't I've got this whole spindle that definitely is not earmarked for Any other purpose so brian must have actually burned this for me. That's awesome Thanks, dude Hey, there we go Holy crap. I think it worked Liero windows 98 give her a second here. Gotta ramp up that disk. Okay, is this gonna work? Oh IRQ 5 Extended memory successfully initialized press any key Oh, yeah, Liero v1.33, baby Hey jake You want to play some liero? liero So it's local multiplayer only. Oh, so am I like wazed in your um Well, you're rfdg And then you need fire change weapons and jump if it helps at all mine's really not much better So there's a minimap down here Wait, I think I played this before No, there's a way to dig fast. Ah, there it is You hold the direction you want to go and then you press back so you like you spam back I think this keyboard has ghosting issues. Oh, I see so only one of us can like dig at a time Just get some explosives going on up in this biz stuck. Oh crap that was not what I meant to do Oh Crap slaughtered that slow reload is killing me here. No, I can't even aim. Oh no. Oh right the hook shot I can't change my weapons because you're holding down keys. Yes Yes No I can't change my weapon. No, you're done We have 14 lives are gonna be here all day Uh, yeah when you're better at the game and the controls are working it actually goes pretty quick Oh the grasshopper is really powerful What the hell? Okay, next point wins, I guess. Yeah Shoot I shouldn't have said that And i'm done thanks bud Now one of the other things I used my laptop for when I was a teenager was looking at pictures so the problem though Is that when you? Did that just use internet explorer to open a picture? It did it is downloading it from the cd rom drive Give her a minute um Oh, yeah, there it goes. She's loading. She's loading in skin tones We're really not handled very well on the default setting So, uh, you can hardly tell because the display is so bad But if you zoom in on this, can you tell how little color depth there is to this thing? Yeah, that's pretty bad. Oh man, look at it like loading in on the edges of the frame as you do see that Oh, it's spectacular now fortunately The default settings for the cd rom drive, which is the default settings for the cd rom drive, is that you can change the color palette from the default 256 to high color Or even true color Now with that said that didn't actually seem to do much for me and it might have been windows 98 where they had a built-in picture viewer Can I open this with something else like is this something that's been altered? Yeah, this is clearly no better The the bottleneck here may actually be the display you guys will just have to take my word for it 16 or better yet 24 bit color was was definitely a much better experience when looking at pictures on your laptop A better representation of skin tones for sure that is assuming that your dial-up internet connection could even download anything High res high high color. I think that's enough of me fooling around with this thing Let's get down to business And play some 1602 ad Is the sound not working? Did that turn it off or something? I remember this Uh, it's not a form of drm or anything. It's just that the sound assets were too big To actually copy over to the hard drive In-game music wouldn't work without the disk in So let's go ahead and close down the program and try that one more time isn't that great single player Oh lame the yellow and blue player got big ships to start So settling a southern island is good late game because you've got like cotton and all that kind of stuff But actually northern islands were better for food production We have to uh explore the island one moment, please Ooh cocoa and cotton hundred percent yield has ore deposits. Oh and there's ore there we go build a warehouse The controls are like so unintuitive man, I might go home tonight and like legit play this game Let's get a forester's hut going on over here I won't subject you guys to any more of that though So that's pretty much it. That's a look at not the laptop that I owned as a kid But one that is pretty darn close It was a hand-me-down actually from my half-sister's dad So it was already worthless then and it's even more worthless now So thanks for watching you guys Thanks to Brian for uh giving me this old clunker of a laptop to play with here And uh if you guys enjoyed the video you can hit that like button If you really enjoyed it you can hit subscribe if you disliked it well you can also hit that button But uh we're gonna have wow I did my entire outro out of order whatever go buy merch and um Join our forum yes