Great video. I also have a 2011. I upgraded the cpu to a Harris 286 25mhz running at 16mhz, made the ram module and the riser card and added a picomem to have a bigger hdd and adlib sound running the audio through the monitor speaker
10:14 Your vacuum-cleaner will surely find them. Watch the friendly tingling noise in the cleaner hose. Things only get *really* clean, if you can hear stuff going up the hose ... 🙂 Every part has a unique sound: transistors, solder blobs, small capacitors and bigger spiders.
The ram card should get the holes for the plastic lever arms included on the Gerber files, as well as the key slot. Thingyverse has the STL files for the plastic levers.
9:38 These chips might have coated contacts, since they might been intended for sockets. I had that already back then when I modified a PS/2 SVGA card for an additional 1MB of VRAM. Using some fine sandpaper on the lower, outer edge fixed that in later attempts.
I watch and enjoy all your videos right to the end, yet I don't have or plan to get any computers older than circa 1997. I guess quality has universal appeal. 😊
I always thought the form factor on these was super cute. I feel like if they had brought them to market a few years earlier they would have probably been a lot more successful, although maybe it didn't really matter in the end.
This is a good project to mention that there are fluxes that are more 'aggressive' than others when it comes to cleaning the pins/connectors. I keep a tiny amount of the angry stuff to clean really dirty stuff, but it is an absolute requirement to clean the board after use.
10:15 - I use to think 0402 caps were small and then I got into watchmaking..... and then I also tried designing some very compacted PCBs, yeah 0201 and 01005 are massive headache if dropped on the floor, same with watch parts, they often tend to be the size of a spec of dust.
Nice video, not many people have built that weird little card :) I just wanted a platform to test things like 16bit scsi and xtide, and various sound cards on the 2011.
I hate to admit how many times I laid out a 7805 for a 7905 and made the same mistake. :) 3 times before I finally got the gutteral gut punch when I hear the sequence 7905.
15:45 since the riser comes so close to the lid, could you glue some kind of guide to the lid so that the riser gets held straight up instead of falling over from the weight of the cards? Kind of like how the 5150 has those guides on the front of the case where extra long expansion cards would be guided into to hold them straight up?
I have a 2011 with the "famipack" bundle... Lots of software and games plus the rare proprietary soundcard with midi ports... Cumbersome because of upgradability limitations but it is such a well made and fascinating machine
Yeah really nice looking machine, unique and compact but there are also the disadvantages of the almost no space inside for upgradeability... I was ready to accuse the riser designer but I don't think there are a lot of things to be done there, those ISA slots (even the 8 bit one) are huge for that little case and maybe an MCA riser would be better for that PS/1 to put one of those nice sound card clones for the MCA BUS and get rid of it entirelly. Nice video as always, cheers from Greece!
Watching this it make one wonder if you could crowbar any more ram on by swapping out the onboard ram chips with an additional PCB to allow for larger chips?
@ thank you, good to know. Unlikely I will ever get one, as my wife doesn’t want me to fill up the basement like I would when working. Of course those were all related to Amdahl front end processor equipment and a number of Fujitsu server systems. Would keep the house warm if I was running extended tests during the winter.
Could you install the components from the back of the board on the front instead? Would give more clearance at the back and looks like they should fit without interfering with the slots or cards.
You can push down the pin of the pen to make it wet again. I am also curious why you buy so many PCs, what is your plan or what do you do with all of them?
Yeah I really don't like this computer. I've always hated small computers. Even now. I recently decided to build a media streaming server with the free Jellyfin service. I had some spare parts (AMD 3600x + B550) and bought some new parts. It's bare bones. Almost nothing to it. Just the ram, NVME, and a small low form factor Intel A310 GPU. The mid tower is almost empty. But I can put anything in it. I don't like how even with adapters you still struggle with this machine.
I don't like that it was a simple money grab to soak the few people remaining at the time that held to "nobody gets fired for buying IBM". It was all out of date before it even hit the market, and required expensive, proprietary cards.
You have to switch it yourself, click on the "gear" icon and audio track and choose the original. There's a browser extension to disable translations, its called "RUclips Anti Translate" and available for Firefox and Chrome and Firefox or Chromium based browsers.
@@ruben_balea The problem is i like to download the videos with jdownloader 2, but then i get a random audio-track not even german. 🥸 Or i get german, but the translation is so bad i dont understand a thing .. - Sure it's a creators thing, if they disable it, the videos only get the original audio. Happily many big creators already switched off this crap.
Great video. I also have a 2011. I upgraded the cpu to a Harris 286 25mhz running at 16mhz, made the ram module and the riser card and added a picomem to have a bigger hdd and adlib sound running the audio through the monitor speaker
10:14 Your vacuum-cleaner will surely find them. Watch the friendly tingling noise in the cleaner hose. Things only get *really* clean, if you can hear stuff going up the hose ... 🙂 Every part has a unique sound: transistors, solder blobs, small capacitors and bigger spiders.
Love that we're in an age that we can just build missing components
The ram card should get the holes for the plastic lever arms included on the Gerber files, as well as the key slot. Thingyverse has the STL files for the plastic levers.
9:38 These chips might have coated contacts, since they might been intended for sockets. I had that already back then when I modified a PS/2 SVGA card for an additional 1MB of VRAM. Using some fine sandpaper on the lower, outer edge fixed that in later attempts.
9:40 The trick with old chips is to sand the chip legs all over with 400 grit sandpaper then they will solder very easily.
I think I have no more excuses to upgrade my very first computer (still perfectly working)! Thanks!!!
Perfect doscember project! I love that PCB design and manufacturing has become so possible.
What a little beauty!
I was screaming at the screen the moment you put in the card the tab was touching the casing
I watch and enjoy all your videos right to the end, yet I don't have or plan to get any computers older than circa 1997. I guess quality has universal appeal. 😊
I always thought the form factor on these was super cute. I feel like if they had brought them to market a few years earlier they would have probably been a lot more successful, although maybe it didn't really matter in the end.
This is a good project to mention that there are fluxes that are more 'aggressive' than others when it comes to cleaning the pins/connectors. I keep a tiny amount of the angry stuff to clean really dirty stuff, but it is an absolute requirement to clean the board after use.
Oh nice! Didn't realize this project got released. I'll have to order up some of the boards to build up my 2011.
10:15 - I use to think 0402 caps were small and then I got into watchmaking..... and then I also tried designing some very compacted PCBs, yeah 0201 and 01005 are massive headache if dropped on the floor, same with watch parts, they often tend to be the size of a spec of dust.
Nice video, not many people have built that weird little card :) I just wanted a platform to test things like 16bit scsi and xtide, and various sound cards on the 2011.
Awesome video as always!
I hate to admit how many times I laid out a 7805 for a 7905 and made the same mistake. :) 3 times before I finally got the gutteral gut punch when I hear the sequence 7905.
And then there's 7805 vs 78L05 ... I absolutely NEVER trusted my memory and messed that one up hehehe
Thank you! I have one of these and always wanted a sound card on it. 🎉🎉🎉
15:45 since the riser comes so close to the lid, could you glue some kind of guide to the lid so that the riser gets held straight up instead of falling over from the weight of the cards? Kind of like how the 5150 has those guides on the front of the case where extra long expansion cards would be guided into to hold them straight up?
Great video
Looks like the cpu cover makes for an built-in heat sink for that transistor :)
I have a 2011 with the "famipack" bundle... Lots of software and games plus the rare proprietary soundcard with midi ports... Cumbersome because of upgradability limitations but it is such a well made and fascinating machine
There are a other options for the 7905. You could cut off the metal tab (making is shorter) and then stick a heatsink on the back to dissipate heat.
Sounds like you need a PicoGUS and a breakout for a bracket for output, really.
Yeah really nice looking machine, unique and compact but there are also the disadvantages of the almost no space inside for upgradeability...
I was ready to accuse the riser designer but I don't think there are a lot of things to be done there, those ISA slots (even the 8 bit one) are huge for that little case and maybe an MCA riser would be better for that PS/1 to put one of those nice sound card clones for the MCA BUS and get rid of it entirelly. Nice video as always, cheers from Greece!
Definitely should fix that riser to move the cards back by about 15mm!
Watching this it make one wonder if you could crowbar any more ram on by swapping out the onboard ram chips with an additional PCB to allow for larger chips?
I forgot to mention. The expansion card actually has 4MB, but the 2011 only supports 2MB + onboard RAM.
@ thank you, good to know. Unlikely I will ever get one, as my wife doesn’t want me to fill up the basement like I would when working. Of course those were all related to Amdahl front end processor equipment and a number of Fujitsu server systems. Would keep the house warm if I was running extended tests during the winter.
wow I never would have figured that out. I thought those regulators were grounded on the contact point. lol
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When you going to do the XTIDE Universal BIOS upgrade ?
Could you install the components from the back of the board on the front instead? Would give more clearance at the back and looks like they should fit without interfering with the slots or cards.
Can you install an external floppy with th interface cable coming out near the mamory expansion card?
You can push down the pin of the pen to make it wet again.
I am also curious why you buy so many PCs, what is your plan or what do you do with all of them?
It's ok to complain about stupid. Just call it like it is. It's a good idea that is piss poorly implemented.
TBH I'm not a fan of tantalums, then again, let's let them go flamey in another 30 years hehehehe
That soldering iron and soldering job ☹️🤢🤮👎
CMS is never an obvious choice. It sounds horrible IMO. lol
Yeah I really don't like this computer. I've always hated small computers. Even now. I recently decided to build a media streaming server with the free Jellyfin service. I had some spare parts (AMD 3600x + B550) and bought some new parts. It's bare bones. Almost nothing to it. Just the ram, NVME, and a small low form factor Intel A310 GPU. The mid tower is almost empty. But I can put anything in it. I don't like how even with adapters you still struggle with this machine.
I don't like that it was a simple money grab to soak the few people remaining at the time that held to "nobody gets fired for buying IBM". It was all out of date before it even hit the market, and required expensive, proprietary cards.
@@mal2ksc yeah......that's exactly what this feels like to me. It just seems like a really crappy computer.
Oh no, auto-translated audio, thats just awful, please switch it off.
You have to switch it yourself, click on the "gear" icon and audio track and choose the original.
There's a browser extension to disable translations, its called "RUclips Anti Translate" and available for Firefox and Chrome and Firefox or Chromium based browsers.
It's a RUclips thing and not an EpicTronics thing; you can select English United States (original) under the cog.
@@ruben_balea The problem is i like to download the videos with jdownloader 2, but then i get a random audio-track not even german. 🥸 Or i get german, but the translation is so bad i dont understand a thing .. - Sure it's a creators thing, if they disable it, the videos only get the original audio. Happily many big creators already switched off this crap.