I always called it Mainframe myself, but "Do It Yourself" is the name, according to a website I presume was made by someone who still has the inlay card :/
My brother’s an electrical engineer. Showed him this song, can confirm it’s ubiquitously hilarious to both people who know loads and know none about computers
It was almost true in the early 2000s. There was an abundance of IDE Disk drives and 233Mhz Processors. My first PC was build from scrap material I got from a dump and or stuff I got because people pittied me. My first PC was build in the bathtub, because I had no other insulated case avaible. Three weeks later I found a case, an old computer, around 1,3m high with 5 Slots for IDE Drives. I had almost 2,5Gig of SPace on my four Disk drives combined. ANd then Games needed 600 and more MBs of space. Stupid shit, only my biggest drive could handle something like this, but there was the OS installed. Problems of young computer fans. It was fun, but I cant imagine something like this happening today.
@@huzaifa8665 Oh Xbox and PlayStation: five hundred dollars worth of shit. Don't get me started on Nintendo, cheap plastic made for kids. They make big bucks from gamers so they never want it known That you can build a console from the things you find at home!
I first heard this song on Vince Emery's tape, "The Funniest Computer Songs". A copy was given to one of my colleagues who played it at one of the DECUS symposiums years ago. They loved it!
This is either the inspiration for or a derivative of another song, DNA, I happen to have in my library, about a man building a DNA sequencer from things around the home.
Do It Yourself is the right name. I've got access to an old filk songbook called "Save the Wails" and it lists a song named "Do It Yourself - Bill Sutton". I can get your more information if you want.
damn i cant find this guy on spotify or wikipedia, its like he doesnt exist edit: no one else has posted so heres the lyrics (at least i think those are the lyrics) I went to buy computers, and they said a million bucks For a brand new mainframe IBM, now that price really sucks So I looked at all the pictures, and I chose to build my own For you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home Now, take the CPU, you see it's only just a box With blinking lights and whirring fans and lots of cable slots So I spent an evening working with some wire and bulbs and pins Then I hauled it to the basement and I plugged the freezer in Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home Well, next I needed tape drives, my tape drives were a steal I climbed into the attic for my dad's old reel-to-reel Some cable and some binder twine, and soon it was complete: My CPU and tape drive at a price no one can beat Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home So then I looked for disk drives, but it didn't take me long Function follows form, they say, or have I got that wrong? I found a drive with five new modes that blows the rest away: Cottons, linens, wash and wear, rinse, and lingerie! Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home Well, I had to have a console just to make my system run Without a fancy console then my system wasn't done So, I tied a ten-buck typer to a broken TV tube And now I've got a console that can write the evening news Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home I've had my system running - I'll admit it's not the best The data isn't right, and the response time is a mess It crashes every hour, and it isn't worth a damn But I'm satisfied because it runs just like an IBM! Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home Yes, you can bulid a mainframe from the things you find at home
Whoever is in charge of the closed captions on You Tube is...um...less than accurate. But it's kind of funny. (It's not just this song, but some of the errors here are truly spectacular.)
@@platypipope328 To be honest I can't even find out his age, the first person who I thought he was turned out to be a painter, he doesn't exist on a simple search.
I went to buy some comics, and they said 200 bucks / for an entire manga series, well now that price really sucks / so I looked at all the pictures and decided to draw my own / 'cause you can make a manga with the ink pens from your home...
![Bill Sutton - Do It Yourself [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Oi4W0UPa_xs/mqdefault.jpg)
And here we see a WH40K Ork assembling a computer
Sam Purple Extra fans and blinky lights make it start up faster
Remember to paint it red
amd more dakka
should've painted it red, so it runz fasta!
@@strongback6550 purple fans for extra silent cooling and red blinky lights to start it up fasta
> “It crashes every hour and it isn’t worth a damn, but I’m satisfied because it runs just like an IBM”
Bill Sutton throwing some serious shade here
The console that can write the evening news is a real zinger too
He’s not wrong though about IBM mainframes. Although asan ex Fujitsu mainframe guy I may be biased
As someone that works for IBM, I uh... really can't argue with that one
My mans really spent three whole minutes winding up for an IBM roast. Amazing.
My brother’s an electrical engineer. Showed him this song, can confirm it’s ubiquitously hilarious to both people who know loads and know none about computers
Specially cause it’s like, super outdated. Adds to the charm I think
From my dad who worked with ICL, IBM and Fujitsu Mainframe computers he could not believe how shit IBM systems were
I hate that outside the stellaris community and some of /tg/ he's basically unknown despite the fact that he makes awesome music
I only discovered him because a /tg/ admin played one of his songs at the end of a round,I would have never found it otherwise
Bill Sutton is well known in the filk community
CM13 got me to him, by way of other filk music.
the fact that weyrdmusician seems to have the only surviving copies doesn't help either
WAIT I WAS WRONG, HE HAS A BANDCAMP:
billbrendasutton.bandcamp.com/track/do-it-yourself
The outdated PC reference itself makes this song belongs to the museum. XD
Id say anything from the 80s does
It was almost true in the early 2000s. There was an abundance of IDE Disk drives and 233Mhz Processors. My first PC was build from scrap material I got from a dump and or stuff I got because people pittied me. My first PC was build in the bathtub, because I had no other insulated case avaible. Three weeks later I found a case, an old computer, around 1,3m high with 5 Slots for IDE Drives. I had almost 2,5Gig of SPace on my four Disk drives combined. ANd then Games needed 600 and more MBs of space. Stupid shit, only my biggest drive could handle something like this, but there was the OS installed. Problems of young computer fans. It was fun, but I cant imagine something like this happening today.
Jesus Christ I really have no concept on how stuff happened before I was born, sounds borderline archaice
@@yourlocalfestivefurry354 It's because they were
Now those 233Mhz CPUs and boards (Penitums, AMD K6-2, Cyrix/IDT) are selling at premium prices
Frankenputers are still a glorious thing. It's just a bit more plug'n'play these days.
Outstanding. Simply outstanding.
And to think that I just threw out enough cardboard boxes to assemble a mess of peripheral processing units....
Azhashan I’ll have you know when I was 6, my sibs & I roamed the stars and sailed the seas in big cardboard boxes powered by crayons...
Also known as, “Bill Sutton shit talks IBM for 3 minutes”
'NCR. They don't know anything'
Ave true to Caesar
Anthem of PC Master Race
YEAH
obligatory "consoles are PCs too" comment
@@TapOnX can you build an xbox
@@Nik-ny9ue Yes, you can build a console from the things you find at home
@@huzaifa8665 Oh Xbox and PlayStation: five hundred dollars worth of shit.
Don't get me started on Nintendo, cheap plastic made for kids.
They make big bucks from gamers so they never want it known
That you can build a console from the things you find at home!
This was made in the 80's but it still holds up
Honestly the catchiest Bill Sutton song imo
I first heard this song on Vince Emery's tape, "The Funniest Computer Songs". A copy was given to one of my colleagues who played it at one of the DECUS symposiums years ago. They loved it!
Must be an old tune. Most of the manufacturers mentioned are out of business.
A lot of filk is rather old, and in computer filks it shows
It was released in 86
Plus, y'know, referring to mainframes instead of PCs.
Funnily enough, IBM still makes mainframes.
When it was written, back in the 80s, Bill was working for a computer-company-but-not-IBM.
This is the most obscure song/channel i've ever seen but i love it
Great song. Bill Sutton has a kot of hilarious songs
This is either the inspiration for or a derivative of another song, DNA, I happen to have in my library, about a man building a DNA sequencer from things around the home.
Who's it by?
@@jobhunter5090 I'm fairly sure it's performed by the main vocalist of Puzzlebox.
I just finished my new PC Build and I chose this as the soundcheck-music
I think I'm too young to suppost to be able to understand the joke in the discription but I do.
Inlay cards are the cards in the cassette/CD case that has the song names and stuff.
Joke?
Do It Yourself is the right name. I've got access to an old filk songbook called "Save the Wails" and it lists a song named "Do It Yourself - Bill Sutton". I can get your more information if you want.
please do, these things are cool! and deserve to be preserved.
This song put all these old business out of business
damn i cant find this guy on spotify or wikipedia, its like he doesnt exist
edit: no one else has posted so heres the lyrics (at least i think those are the lyrics)
I went to buy computers, and they said a million bucks
For a brand new mainframe IBM, now that price really sucks
So I looked at all the pictures, and I chose to build my own
For you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home
Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang
Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything
They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known
That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home
Now, take the CPU, you see it's only just a box
With blinking lights and whirring fans and lots of cable slots
So I spent an evening working with some wire and bulbs and pins
Then I hauled it to the basement and I plugged the freezer in
Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang
Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything
They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known
That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home
Well, next I needed tape drives, my tape drives were a steal
I climbed into the attic for my dad's old reel-to-reel
Some cable and some binder twine, and soon it was complete:
My CPU and tape drive at a price no one can beat
Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang
Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything
They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known
That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home
So then I looked for disk drives, but it didn't take me long
Function follows form, they say, or have I got that wrong?
I found a drive with five new modes that blows the rest away:
Cottons, linens, wash and wear, rinse, and lingerie!
Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang
Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything
They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known
That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home
Well, I had to have a console just to make my system run
Without a fancy console then my system wasn't done
So, I tied a ten-buck typer to a broken TV tube
And now I've got a console that can write the evening news
Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang
Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything
They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known
That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home
I've had my system running - I'll admit it's not the best
The data isn't right, and the response time is a mess
It crashes every hour, and it isn't worth a damn
But I'm satisfied because it runs just like an IBM!
Oh, IBM, DEC, and Honeywell; HP, DG and Wang
Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything
They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known
That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home
Yes, you can bulid a mainframe from the things you find at home
When Bill has been talking shit about prebuilts since this song.
Bill made a computer the Ork way.
this came on as I was working on swapping my motherboard, good timing lmao
Whoever is in charge of the closed captions on You Tube is...um...less than accurate.
But it's kind of funny. (It's not just this song, but some of the errors here are truly spectacular.)
It is just awesome :)
who is this guy and how old is this old goat
Probably in his forties or fifties, this is from the 80s
@@qthedisaster1730 he's a grandfather so i'd say a tad older
@@platypipope328 When I said that I guessed he was in 20-30s, so 60s would be a better guess. Unless he was older at the time
@@platypipope328 To be honest I can't even find out his age, the first person who I thought he was turned out to be a painter, he doesn't exist on a simple search.
@@qthedisaster1730 twitter.com/bill31ab/media for a dead guy he uses twitter a lot
tg station my beloved
Amazing
Tape drives top of the order techwise don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
heard this on the Dr. Demento show
Could have called this one IBM diss track
do anyone know this bill sutton?
On a different video someone posted a link to his website: www.bsutton.com/
Cpt. Gavorn nope
I think he was at a con
Search for billdozer1547 on Twitch
:-) This song needs updated! lol.
Its from the 80s
I went to buy some comics, and they said 200 bucks / for an entire manga series, well now that price really sucks / so I looked at all the pictures and decided to draw my own / 'cause you can make a manga with the ink pens from your home...
cause you can draw a manga with those markers you have at home
BIG
WANG