Thats my first PC. Mine was the venturis 433sx but it looks similar to this. Hearing yours start up brings back memories of when I either had to do homework on it or play Doom. Doom ran ok on the limited 4mb ram it had built-in (with boot disk) but it was a game changer literally when I upgraded the RAM to 12mb and got a sound blaster card. Also threw in another hard drive for a whopping 700mb of space.
@@dgpsartscrafts Mine was an Intel 486sx @ 33 MHz. Fine at the time but around 1997 it was getting slow. Trying to run the game full throttle it would pause while the cpu or cd drive would buffer.
These workstations we used at a defunct video chain here in the United States and they ran the Digital VAX OS. So cool to see you restore this vintage workstation. Would’ve loved to see it running the Digital VAX OS, but Windows 95 will do just fine.
I admire your determination to restore an old PC with little to no collectible value. Aside from being manufactured by a now defunct and historically significant US computer company, it's merely a Digital branded PC with the same generic hardware found in other machines made in the millions. I purchased a Digital PC server back in the mid-90s at a fire sale after the company closed its doors for good. After a few years, I remember chucking it away and keeping the hard drives.
Vintage does matter.. it brings me back to old days when seeing your restoration project.. and your video really worth watching, im enjoyed till the last.. hope for your channel growth.. you got one new subs here :)
This is more of a HowToBasic's take on how to restore a vintage computer case/PC. I genuinely feel sorry for this beautiful machine. So many levels of "wrong"....
@@kaydenandcolstew5763any old PC left out in a shed or a basement for a long time can easily get like that. Leaving aside plain old dust and stuff that flies in through the cracks and builds up over time, insects and rodents will also find ways to drag stuff in. It would not surprise me a bit if the rusted parts were from mouse or rat urine.
wow amazing job with the restoration and also well done with recordings, last month I got a Digital DecPC 425sxLP too, what you did to the metal chassis in water with battery etc to remove the rust was cool, you should make a video explaining the process in more details to us.
Know those systems well. Was my job when i started at Compaq to take the desktops and servers rotated out from minesites out the back and give them a light pass with compressed air to shift the bulk of the dust. Especially in the Pilbara, that red dust is like talc, clogs everything
looks like this unit had residence in the middle of a muddy cattle pasture for about 15 years. They just don't build em like they used to, goes through hell and still manages to work.
Washing the PCBs with distilled water, then isopropyl alcohol, is the best method. Also the metal sheilds from the connectors can be removed. Neat trick with the electrolysis though!
Hell yeah, I had like 10 of this exact machine. I got them from a palette of machines bound for the trash, I think they came from Bath Iron Works where they build ships. One of them was suspiciously heavy and I found it was completely full of heavy black dust, so.. that one went back into the trash. The rest I used for all kinds of stuff and still have one, but I'm afraid to run it because the power supply will be impossible to replace and they failed often on these machines. Those latches on the side are clever, but _impossible_ as they age.
I recently restored an old Pentium IV that i bought to an old office boss. It was very abandoned and buried in a huge layer of dust (and smelled to tobacco). The only thing can't save was the 40 GB HDD, some components burned. I replaced it with a 120 GB SSD (using a Ide to SATA adapter) and i installed Windows XP on it. The computer had 512 MB of Ram, so i replaced it with 2 modules of 2 GB, and i got an old Voodoo 3D from a flea market. Perfect to run Quake, Unreal, Quake 2, and Half-Life.
I have a Venturis 5133 machine. Thankfully mine was in much better shape than this one, but its a great retro machine. I have heavilly upgraded mine over the years.
Looks like it has Olivetti origins, the metal case design (in their documentation referred to as "Slim Tin Box") is 100% Olivetti, as used on their M4 and PCS line, but with some design tweaks to the external plastics, though I will give props to DEC for putting an actual ISA socket in the low-profile slot, Olivetti just put a pin header there which limits the use of that spot to a soundcard that is as rare as hen's teeth to find... :)
Some things won't dissolve in alcohol. For really dirty boards, start by washing with water and detergent. Also does a better job of removing grease and oil. I always rinse with IPA afterwards. Helps speed up the drying process too
Wow, I’ve not see a Digital branded desktop in over 25 years! At least they had the foresight to use coin battery instead of those soldered on Varta ones. I’m very surprised that the Quantum drive was still functioning for something that old.
Я правильно понял, он помыл материнскую плату и другую электронику водой с моющим средством? Электнонику. Водой. С шампунем. И она начала работать. И все поверили.😁
@@vintagematter Well then you can try natural UV light as well to see the result. 8BitGuy did such thing in the USA trying retrobrighting using the sun itself
@@vintagematter nope. People trying this for themselves are gonna get shocked or killed doing what you did if they don't discharge the capacitors but you don't even have a disclaimer. Also ipa is not corrosive enough to cause any issues. It's just good practice to not use soapy water or a conductive liquid to clean electronics. The only part of ipa that is conductive or corrosive is the water content in it. Pure ipa is not conductive or corrosive. Again, you're a monster.
I've seen more than my share of machines in fairly similar condition. Been working in IT since 2000. I probably still have a storage bin somewhere that might have an old floppy drive and some of those IDE cables. I've never outright washed a motherboard, but I have legitimately put my disassembled mechanical keyboard through the dishwasher on more than one occasion. 😂 It's better than a decade old and still works just as well as it did new. My first computer was a Tandy 1000RL. It was completely run from floppies. There was a hard drive option for it, I believe, but mine didn't have one.
@@vintagematter actually no - you can wash all electronics with water and soap none of that ever happens, electronics are all coated and even if not you just need to dry the water out
@@vintagematter I used to regally scrub smaller circuit boards from old games consoles and handheld games using plain tap water and a soft brush, but then they'd go in demineralised water with a corrosion inhibitor in my ultrasonic cleaner for a long, but low intensity cycle at a medium temperature. After that I'd usually blast them with IPA to displace any remaining water, and leave them in a warm place for at least 4 days before they'd go anywhere near power again. Things like Gameboy Pocket boards would usually come out of that looking BETTER than new, because pretty much all of them left the factory with flux residue caked all around the power socket solder points. I've still got a few of the Gameboy Pockets I did this to, and all still work flawlessly. I actually had one of these apart to do some upgrades a few months back (IPS screen, Li-PO charge board, clean power regulator, upgraded speaker). It had been deep cleaned as described somewhere between 7 and 10 years ago, and still looks perfect inside.
"Stained glass windows". :D Sorry. Near 30 years makes it almost a medieval artefact in the IT world. :D It's Windows 95. The first version of the OS that had "Mass market" appeal. Up to then, Windows was still just a basic graphical user interface that the average seasoned MS-DOS user just feel was getting in their way. Even up to Windows 3.11 you still really did need to have at least a basic understanding of MS-DOS to do anything more than simple tasks. 95 was (For the time) rather pretty, and it also did a hell of a lot of hand holding for new users. It really helped bring computers out of the workplace and into early tech adopters homes.
I've got one like this. The HDD is due for a replacement as it's screaming in agony 😅 Probably should check the battery as well. Miss AUS. Cheers from Norway! (subbed)
Its look already clea dude its look better then new its just need a good wipes and done you don't have to spend or make 27min long fake video i mean i get it u need story to bring audience but at this time its look totally good and clean with some dust on it
With the strictest use of the term "Computer" there was not only Analogue computers (The Babbage difference engine, and the Enigma machines are two mechanical computers that spring to mind), but there was also Biological computers. The word "Computer" originally referred to someone who worked doing complex mathematical calculations. They were usually in offices surrounded by other "Computers" who would be calculating things like total incomings and out goings of a company, tax returns, and various other cost/statistical data. Accountancy firms used to be the main employer of "computers", then they slowly replaced them with what passed as a digital computer back them. The name of the "Computer department" would remain the same, so the word "Computer" slowly became connected to the mass of valves, relays, wiring, and punch cards that took over the role. It sounds stupid, but I was once curious why the word for computer SOUNDS like "Computer" in most languages, and during my reading I came across the English usage history of the word........ It's never a waste of time to learn something new, even if that new knowledge might not have any practical use. :D
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Thats my first PC. Mine was the venturis 433sx but it looks similar to this.
Hearing yours start up brings back memories of when I either had to do homework on it or play Doom. Doom ran ok on the limited 4mb ram it had built-in (with boot disk) but it was a game changer literally when I upgraded the RAM to 12mb and got a sound blaster card. Also threw in another hard drive for a whopping 700mb of space.
Haha yes doom was cool, I used to play Quake alot but this was a bit later.
@@vintagematter I still have the first Quake game and I can even play it on my phone.
An AMD 486 is nothing without his Soundblaster soundcard :)
@@dgpsartscrafts Mine was an Intel 486sx @ 33 MHz. Fine at the time but around 1997 it was getting slow. Trying to run the game full throttle it would pause while the cpu or cd drive would buffer.
No annoying music, no self indulgent editing, just keeping vintage systems out of the ewaste bin. Good on you sir!
thanks
Awsome well done
That machine probably still has 20 times the computing power nasa had when they put a man on the moon in the 60s.
Managed a fleet of 50+ of these running WinNT.... oh memories!
They make so much noise, maybe that is why I always had a headache haha, my computers were always on.
These workstations we used at a defunct video chain here in the United States and they ran the Digital VAX OS. So cool to see you restore this vintage workstation. Would’ve loved to see it running the Digital VAX OS, but Windows 95 will do just fine.
@@mbiehl2 glad you loved it, :)
I admire your determination to restore an old PC with little to no collectible value. Aside from being manufactured by a now defunct and historically significant US computer company, it's merely a Digital branded PC with the same generic hardware found in other machines made in the millions. I purchased a Digital PC server back in the mid-90s at a fire sale after the company closed its doors for good. After a few years, I remember chucking it away and keeping the hard drives.
Vintage does matter.. it brings me back to old days when seeing your restoration project.. and your video really worth watching, im enjoyed till the last.. hope for your channel growth.. you got one new subs here :)
thanks I'm glad you liked
Man, a 486 with not one but two PS/2 ports. And even two serial ports was a luxury.
Our family's first computer was a Digital Starion in probably 1996, funny to see these things still kicking around
This is more of a HowToBasic's take on how to restore a vintage computer case/PC.
I genuinely feel sorry for this beautiful machine. So many levels of "wrong"....
Thanks, for your feedback
@@vintagematterquick question why are the computer insides dirty?
@@kaydenandcolstew5763any old PC left out in a shed or a basement for a long time can easily get like that. Leaving aside plain old dust and stuff that flies in through the cracks and builds up over time, insects and rodents will also find ways to drag stuff in. It would not surprise me a bit if the rusted parts were from mouse or rat urine.
Not for you to reply sent for someone else plus I sent that reply like a month ago
@@kaydenandcolstew5763 dude, it was literally 7 days ago. Are you experiencing weird time dilation problems? 🤣
wow amazing job with the restoration and also well done with recordings, last month I got a Digital DecPC 425sxLP too, what you did to the metal chassis in water with battery etc to remove the rust was cool, you should make a video explaining the process in more details to us.
Will do next time, thanks
Know those systems well. Was my job when i started at Compaq to take the desktops and servers rotated out from minesites out the back and give them a light pass with compressed air to shift the bulk of the dust. Especially in the Pilbara, that red dust is like talc, clogs everything
Yes its bad, its the same with old cars.
old stuff gets sick, but never dies
I have the same case, but model is Venturis 575 an it is 75MHz Pentium machine, one of my favorite retro PS's.
Nice, i will probably wait a while before I restore the other Venturis I have.
Blast from past, nice job on restoring 🎉
Awesome Job, absolutely awesome.
I wish i had your Skills in Restaurations.
Greets from Germany
You have a new Follower
Thank You, I'm glad you liked it
looks like this unit had residence in the middle of a muddy cattle pasture for about 15 years. They just don't build em like they used to, goes through hell and still manages to work.
Yeah so true :)
as long as its not a barrel type battery, it has a good chance to survive.
Holy cow see a pc working like that again …
Damn i feel old 😅
Looks like it worked in a very dusty industrial warehouse....
I always wanted one of these computers..... for some weird reason, our school had them.
Washing the PCBs with distilled water, then isopropyl alcohol, is the best method. Also the metal sheilds from the connectors can be removed. Neat trick with the electrolysis though!
thanks
Loved this! Please don't stop making videos like this.
No worries :)
I really love your vid!
Hell yeah, I had like 10 of this exact machine. I got them from a palette of machines bound for the trash, I think they came from Bath Iron Works where they build ships. One of them was suspiciously heavy and I found it was completely full of heavy black dust, so.. that one went back into the trash. The rest I used for all kinds of stuff and still have one, but I'm afraid to run it because the power supply will be impossible to replace and they failed often on these machines. Those latches on the side are clever, but _impossible_ as they age.
@uzimonkey yes the latches are annoying haha, I have another one, although it's key locked, and I haven't even tried to power it on.
I recently restored an old Pentium IV that i bought to an old office boss. It was very abandoned and buried in a huge layer of dust (and smelled to tobacco). The only thing can't save was the 40 GB HDD, some components burned. I replaced it with a 120 GB SSD (using a Ide to SATA adapter) and i installed Windows XP on it. The computer had 512 MB of Ram, so i replaced it with 2 modules of 2 GB, and i got an old Voodoo 3D from a flea market. Perfect to run Quake, Unreal, Quake 2, and Half-Life.
Nice, well done, im always looking for voodoo card
Great, but
I can not stop looking at the misaligned energy star label
Hmm yes you are right, its fixed now in RL :)
Le pones una tarjeta de sonido y queda impecable hermosa restauración
I'd probably max it out (probably 2x32MB sticks) and jump it to a AM5x86-P75. Other than that, awesome job!
Yes true i could have done that, although wanted to leave it original :)
Yes it can work if you replace the original motherboard and do a good cleaning recommended
I have a Venturis 5133 machine. Thankfully mine was in much better shape than this one, but its a great retro machine. I have heavilly upgraded mine over the years.
Wow that's cool
Yes it will live again because it worked fine before it was dipped in mud....
in mud, why would i put it in mud, and no it didn't work beforehand.
@@vintagematter that is what so many of these channels do
@@novafurry please look at my community post
That is dust,reddish dust which told me it was from Australia before a word was spoken. Mud would cake on-that is dirt/dust.
@@PC4USE1 well said right on
486 DX2-66,same as my first computer.
Repaired comp like that once
LOL i had one... Kids be like whats that 😂
Hi, excellent, but my brain freeze on FDD. Anyway It had worth it to watch it completely.
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Outstanding work brotha 👍
Thank you
Looks like it has Olivetti origins, the metal case design (in their documentation referred to as "Slim Tin Box") is 100% Olivetti, as used on their M4 and PCS line, but with some design tweaks to the external plastics, though I will give props to DEC for putting an actual ISA socket in the low-profile slot, Olivetti just put a pin header there which limits the use of that spot to a soundcard that is as rare as hen's teeth to find... :)
Oh true, that's interesting
All the parts look brand new . Someone just poured a bucket of sand on it 😂
can you buy new parts for this system thanks
Stop with the negativity already! It was a 486dx after all!
When I first saw the thumbnail of the video I feared that this would be one of those horrible fake restorations but thankfully it is not!
Thank you glad you like it ;)
My first pc has the same cpu... I think a heatsink should also be attached to the CPU
Does yours have a heat sink?
i actually have another system, but its locked, i will have fun trying to open it.
@@vintagematter Yes, definetly. I remember because i replaced the motherboard (memory upgrade SIMM to EDO)... '90s pc tuning :)
3:31 If you could wait 20+ years, then you could clone a cat from that dust and then restore that 50 year old PC, just as a bonus
Nice work @Vintage Matter
thanks
Water and electronics don't mix... isopropyl 100% achohal would have been thr right way to do this
When we produced motherboards here in Australia, we washed them in water then dried them before packing, this was back in the 80s
Some things won't dissolve in alcohol. For really dirty boards, start by washing with water and detergent. Also does a better job of removing grease and oil. I always rinse with IPA afterwards. Helps speed up the drying process too
Wow, I’ve not see a Digital branded desktop in over 25 years! At least they had the foresight to use coin battery instead of those soldered on Varta ones.
I’m very surprised that the Quantum drive was still functioning for something that old.
Yes I'm glad it was the coin style battery :)
Tenías que haber cargado Doom...
It’s not fake I’ve seen worse conditions ones
Picks up grey old man crotch hairs at 4:02
@@nathanhale3006 yes its very possible
e pensar que isso chegou a custar uma pequena fortuna no lançamento......
Esos gabintes están preciosos. Yo quisiera conseguir uno de IBM, y ponerle componentes modernos.
Your Windows 95 system is too old today to have Windows 10;pro and more
Nah bruh windows 10 is late we have windows 98 and 2000
5:09 Other Dishwashing Liquids Are Available.. 😊
Great👍
캬.. 추억 돋네..
486DX2 라니..
내가 고딩때 쓰던 컴 사양이네.
Trabalho incrível 😍
I didn't know you can dip Electronics in water like that....I thought you HAD to use IPA
Я правильно понял, он помыл материнскую плату и другую электронику водой с моющим средством? Электнонику. Водой. С шампунем. И она начала работать. И все поверили.😁
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I wonder if you could run OpenVMS on it?
hmm i don't know
I'm a new subcriber where did you get that pc to the junk shop
Got this from a skip bin
Nice work. Lucky that the corrosion had not gotten to the traces. Did you deoxit any of the ports?
I am not sure what deoxit is?
@@vintagematterexpensive 😅. It’s a contact cleaner, arguably the best.
thats floopy disk😢😢😢 never clean it😢😢😢
It was new no need :)
Never watched a mime restore a pc before 😂
I have no understanding lol
Oh well. All else fails, clean the case up and find a way to put some modern hardware inside
Yes true
That looked like it had been sitting in the arse end of someone's garden for 20 years...
haha it was in shed, although condensation could of played a part in rust
I think you should consider retrobrighting the plastic parts using hydrogene peroxide and UV lamp.
Here in Australia the UV is very high.
@@vintagematter Well then you can try natural UV light as well to see the result. 8BitGuy did such thing in the USA trying retrobrighting using the sun itself
09:00 Try watching the video you muppet.
You lost me the moment you put the power supply and motherboard into soapy water. You're a freaking monster. Use ipa or stop.
its completely fine, IPA is more corrosive ;)
@@vintagematter nope. People trying this for themselves are gonna get shocked or killed doing what you did if they don't discharge the capacitors but you don't even have a disclaimer. Also ipa is not corrosive enough to cause any issues. It's just good practice to not use soapy water or a conductive liquid to clean electronics. The only part of ipa that is conductive or corrosive is the water content in it. Pure ipa is not conductive or corrosive. Again, you're a monster.
@@vintagematter Definately not true.. But okay...
What game was that?
Good job!
How old is this?
Looking good!
1995
Depends how long ago u buried it in dirt
I don't have time to bury things sorry
I've seen more than my share of machines in fairly similar condition. Been working in IT since 2000.
I probably still have a storage bin somewhere that might have an old floppy drive and some of those IDE cables.
I've never outright washed a motherboard, but I have legitimately put my disassembled mechanical keyboard through the dishwasher on more than one occasion. 😂 It's better than a decade old and still works just as well as it did new.
My first computer was a Tandy 1000RL. It was completely run from floppies. There was a hard drive option for it, I believe, but mine didn't have one.
haha yeah i have washed many things in the past, lots of keyboards and mouses :)
Washing electronics in water. Did you ever hear about corrosion.
Corrosion will happen if it's not distilled.
@@vintagematter actually no - you can wash all electronics with water and soap none of that ever happens, electronics are all coated and even if not you just need to dry the water out
@@JusticeNDOU Yes true
@@vintagematter I used to regally scrub smaller circuit boards from old games consoles and handheld games using plain tap water and a soft brush, but then they'd go in demineralised water with a corrosion inhibitor in my ultrasonic cleaner for a long, but low intensity cycle at a medium temperature. After that I'd usually blast them with IPA to displace any remaining water, and leave them in a warm place for at least 4 days before they'd go anywhere near power again.
Things like Gameboy Pocket boards would usually come out of that looking BETTER than new, because pretty much all of them left the factory with flux residue caked all around the power socket solder points. I've still got a few of the Gameboy Pockets I did this to, and all still work flawlessly.
I actually had one of these apart to do some upgrades a few months back (IPS screen, Li-PO charge board, clean power regulator, upgraded speaker). It had been deep cleaned as described somewhere between 7 and 10 years ago, and still looks perfect inside.
@@vintagematter Once you add detergent, it's no longer distilled.
Congrats on "restoring" an already working PC you mucked up a few days prior to filming
What makes you think that?
Amazing job!
Thank you!
what windows is running on this pc
Win95
@@vintagematter vintage windows
"Stained glass windows". :D
Sorry. Near 30 years makes it almost a medieval artefact in the IT world. :D
It's Windows 95. The first version of the OS that had "Mass market" appeal. Up to then, Windows was still just a basic graphical user interface that the average seasoned MS-DOS user just feel was getting in their way. Even up to Windows 3.11 you still really did need to have at least a basic understanding of MS-DOS to do anything more than simple tasks. 95 was (For the time) rather pretty, and it also did a hell of a lot of hand holding for new users. It really helped bring computers out of the workplace and into early tech adopters homes.
@@vintagematterToo "modern" to my taste. I was expecting "Windows 3.11 For Workgroups".
good job what kind of cleaner you used ?
For plastics dish washing liquid and water, for deep cleaning the yellowed plastic hydrogen peroxide 12%
@@vintagematter thank you
send it to LGR that will be better...
Don't water kill eletricals
sure if you turn it one while its in water
@@vintagematter i thought it was always
@@joshuaward000nope! Let it dry out for a long time and it will work!
😮 Oh. A "digital computer". Thats very rare
Yes don't see many like it now days
Yeh, never knew digital computers existed, this is quite amazing.
@Moonlightshadow-lq4fr yes they were around for a while, but the company later sold to acer
alif ba ta tsa
I've got one like this. The HDD is due for a replacement as it's screaming in agony 😅
Probably should check the battery as well.
Miss AUS.
Cheers from Norway!
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Its look already clea dude its look better then new its just need a good wipes and done you don't have to spend or make 27min long fake video i mean i get it u need story to bring audience but at this time its look totally good and clean with some dust on it
I clean it and removed the rust, because its my passion ;)
When they put electronics in water to clean them. I stop watching
When we produced motherboard in Melbourne back in the 80s we always washed them in water, before packing them.
Why mush use water to wash motherboards and power supply ?! Can just use isopropyl alcohol cleaner right don need waith few day
Thats what i call the ROOTS CLEANING
>keeping the enrergy star decal
meh, not my taste.
fake
huh what do you mean
@@vintagematterit’s not fake
What a waste of time.
i enjoyed doing it
Old computers are better than new ones
There is no such thing as an analog computer
Huh
Please google "analog computer".
I had just woken up lol sorry, but I feel like statinf that it's digital is not needed as that is what most people will think
@@untrust2033 haha yeah I had just woken up and my brain was not functioning properly
With the strictest use of the term "Computer" there was not only Analogue computers (The Babbage difference engine, and the Enigma machines are two mechanical computers that spring to mind), but there was also Biological computers. The word "Computer" originally referred to someone who worked doing complex mathematical calculations. They were usually in offices surrounded by other "Computers" who would be calculating things like total incomings and out goings of a company, tax returns, and various other cost/statistical data.
Accountancy firms used to be the main employer of "computers", then they slowly replaced them with what passed as a digital computer back them. The name of the "Computer department" would remain the same, so the word "Computer" slowly became connected to the mass of valves, relays, wiring, and punch cards that took over the role.
It sounds stupid, but I was once curious why the word for computer SOUNDS like "Computer" in most languages, and during my reading I came across the English usage history of the word........ It's never a waste of time to learn something new, even if that new knowledge might not have any practical use. :D
appena ho visto che lavava la mobo e l'alimentatore un tecnico del PC è morto...ed anche io!!! ANIMALE!!!!