Using A 21 Year Old IBM Thinkpad 390X!
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
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In today's video we're going to be cleaning up and using an old IBM Thinkpad 390X from 1999! This laptop features a 450MHz Pentium III processor and is quite thick! Let's see what happens :) #laptop #thinkpad #restoration
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Looks painful 😂
Hey! you NOT supposed to play duke nukem 3d with mouse, so of course it will be hard with touchpoint
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Hackintosh it!!!
The screensaver was called "The 60s USA" because, well... there was a lot of recreational hallucinogenic use at that time lol
You're probably right 😂
That Windows 98 startup sound, yes: It manages to be soothing and ominous at the same time. A minor masterpiece.
I am gonna find a way to make my ASUS TUF Gaming A15 to boot up with that sound
You need start up changer and also need to enable in the settings “Play startup sound” which is off by default but can be ticked on
"With the help of this Ethernet card, which is faster because it is red..." that's amazing. 😅
*RED*
Red represents that it's faster aka normal ethernet card is 10.2 gigabit per second and red one is 17.2 so ye
I have that exact internet card
@@vertyyy8234 I was today years old when I learned that red is ACTUALLY faster. I want red now!
Wait until somebody says that it wont make it faster. Lol
RED MAKES EVERYTHING FASTER!!!
Personally, I would have left that Quantas sticker on it. That's a bit of that laptop's history right there.
ThinkPad + Eucoliptus oil = Psivewri
Let me open it with my tick knife. Always like that
The “Baseball” screensaver was great. My dad always had that one on our living room Gateway 2000 PC. He also had a ThinkPad very similar to this one. What a nostalgic video.
I like how the design has barely changed
I always love your old laptop restoration videos.Keep the Good Work up man.your style of making video is just great man.
Recently restored my old Thinkpad 570E, and let me tell you. The Windows 98 startup sound is terrifying at 3 AM
Watch out dude
Yes it is
I don't believe that
@@NepgearGM6.1 what don’t you believe?
@@Junkob101 that the Windows 98 startup sound is terrifying
Great vid, one small correction: the daughterboard at 5:16 does not contain both the CPU and GPU: It is in fact a mobile module cartridge (MMC-2) processir board containing both the Pentium III CPU and Intel 443BX northbridge chip. I bet you could swap this out fairly easily for a faster processor module if needed. The plates are actually just pressure fitted onto posts: they can be pried off and pressed back down fairly easily.
It can be upgraded to 500MHz for sure. 650/750/850MHz may be an issue because of Speedstep. It was an issue with the 600X models that didn't originally come with a 650MHz CPU.
It's wonderful to see a notebook that old actually getting restored. They are still reliable nowadays.
Great work! ☺️
I cant stop watching your videos. I love watching videos like these. Thank you for makin this type of videos.
Great restoration as always!
I have IBM Thinkpad 390E, probably a little bit older than your laptop, I think they have the same graphics card.
It's amazing how they're so different in the access to the hardware.
Unfortunately, my unit condition is much more worse.
did he just switch to a perfect american accent for a second wtf
Time?
@@siddhoot 3:24 I think
I'm so used to the way he speaks, I didn't even realize it!
(I'm American.)
This video is awesome. I have a thinkpad t30 from 2002, it runs windows 2000, with a 60gb hard drive and 512MB RAM. I really like the design of the old devices- and the keyboards!
Bringing back memories❤️Thanks, Psivewri!♥️
Just bought a thinkpad 390 thanks to this video. Great machine.
Using this Ethernet card, which is faster
*because it’s red*
Like Char Aznable's MS-06S Zaku II?
69 likes lmao
red is sus
Eversince I got my Thinkpad E14 Gen 3 laptop earlier this year I've been fascinated with these things. This is honestly my favorite computer I've ever owned. The keyboard is so satisfying to use. It's really cool to see Lenovo kept IBM's excelent design going.
very interesting and instructive video! thanks Nathan!
I don't own a Thinkpad but those laptops are great because they are a strong build series of laptops.
I used to have a stack of these 390s both in the x and e variety. I can tell you that some of them had "Trident" video adapters that were 4mb dedicated and they actually ran windows xp pretty decently for being pentium 2 and 3 machines. The docking station I once had for them was AWESOME, it gave you more everything including cardbus sockets and it was these laptops that gave me my life long love for laptop docking stations and docking technology!
2:23 MAN, that takes me back.
The screensavers are my favorite part of going back to classic versions of Windows. Makes me sad Windows 10 buries them.
These Thinkpads were my favorite laptops. As a typist, these laptops had a full keyboard and it was a joy to use.
This video brings back me in my childhood in 2014-2015 when I had an old Thinkpad computer with a rotative screen and a pen and I remember I spend my days on this computer chatting with my friends on some virtual worlds, watching my first animes or drawing random things on Paint. That was the good old days…
Watching on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon. Love the old Thiccpads!
Nice vid Nathan keep up the great work
Thank you for posting a new vid 😊
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9:45 Oh man, HOVER!!! I loved that game! Haven't seen it in well over 20 years
The mouse nipple was amazing and I would use one today. The Thinkpad was a very robust machine back then when it was actually mauufactured by IBM too.
I'll agree, the hinge design like that on plastic laptops isn't great. But IBM and later Lenovo improved it with the magnesium-alloy body paired with the two pegs.
Thank you Psivewri, very cool
Great video❗️I remember when this came out, I was working for Compaq Computer Corp. 👨💻 and this was competing with our CPU’s
Love from Bangladesh. I never missed your any video since 2019
4:22 sounded like auto tune for some reason 😂 love the channel as well!
A lot of nostalgia in that laptop and it reminds me when I was a kid drawing on microsoft paint
Very nice video ! Looking forward to those macbook airs. I have a macbook pro early 2015 - still working strong and if you had to clean you'd be impressed cause Ive kept it clean and scratch-free!
4:45 Apple designers definitely should watch this.
My oldest Thinkpad is a T22 from around 2002. That screensaver named the 60's was supposed to represent how one saw the world when on the drugs like LSD at the time. And I loved the Mystery screensaver and theme. Ran it a lot for my daughters as they loved it.
I have an ThinkPad 390X, too. It has the Celeron 400MHz, 128 MB RAM and a very big hard drive with 80 GB. My hinges are OK, they are not cracked. Unfortunately one of the foldable feets are missing. But it's a good retro laptop, it has floppy and CD drive in the same device and it has excellent input devices. Got mine from eBay for about 20€.
You know you're going to have a good time watching the videos he makes
I'm so early! Amazing videos, I absolutely love your videos! Keep up the great work
@Christian Grenier still early
Yes a nother IBM thinkpad video I really like these
Now I know how to pronounce psivewri
4:20
Awesome. Still have a Thinkpad 600E from 1999 sitting here and a Thinkpad T40p from 2003. :-)
that hinge design is WAY better than some of the more modern hinges. that thinkpad's hinge is screwed directly into the laptop metal chassis, on most modern laptops, its screwed into the plastic top or bottom case...
Nice to see thiner bezels than on current production :)
I love old laptops like these.
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watched this on my 13 year old HP Compaq 6710b that still holds up in 2020 and has awesome sounding speakers on it
I'm watching this video on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420
T430
Love my T430 and T440p
Me on X220
I’m watching it on an IPhone 11 Pro
*420*
old laptop keyboards are soooo much better than today
You make the best videos
That IBM desktop background is awesome. Can you upload it somewhere?
The occasional stutter I noticed on 3D games could easily be the use of a slow hard drive. I remember having a laptop 20 years ago and while it was pretty damn fast in everything, the drive was the reason behind such stutters. I actually added a USB 2.0 drive to it which improved it a lot. Weird. Completely fixed the issue when I got one of the first, or the first?, 7200rpm drive for laptops of the time.
Cool video.
"Laptops have come a long way" True, but with multiple sacrifices like reduced port selection, non-removable batteries, and soldered components that used to be user upgradable in some cases.
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bUt iTs tHiNnER sO iT fITs iN yOuR bAcKpaCk bEtTeR
I watched a video about this sort of thing about an hour ago which describes a business strategy called planned obsolescence. The title of the video is call "This is why we can't have nice things". The whole point of them making batteries irremovable is to force you into spending a lot more money on a whole new laptop. It's so wasteful.
5:48 Psivewri spitting some rhymes
Lol
Yoo he do be rapping dho
You can also use an ice cube tray for keeping your screws organized.
Love your videos
Nathan's been blazing it up
I had exactly the same model. The hinge will break if you keep using it. Apart form that, amazing machine for the time.
That intro animation fits just perfectly.
I had an alarm for this
You beat me by 3 seconds. :)
Worked out great
Not for first comment but just so I could see it immediately
I picked up a old IBM ThinkPad A21m, its in very good shape, it came from a local seller who was cleaning out his attic, he was selling other branded laptops as well as a lot, but i bought only this thinkpad because its was in such great shape, no wear what so ever, so i think i am very lucky with this one! It has a 800mhz pentium 3, 256gb of ram and a 100gb ide hard drive, its slow, but it has a ati rage mobility m with 8mb's of dedicated memory and plays 3d games very well, and i modified the thinkpad a bit, under a flap, i found that the build in modem and ethernet happened to be on a mini pci card, so i took the laptop appart, i installed some wifi antenna's from another machine, and i replaced the mini pci ethernet card with a wifi card, so now, this laptop has build in wifi which works great under windows 2000, and for the ethernet solution, i have a xircom one like you have, but my card has 2 additional rj12 plugs, one for data and one for fax, and the red color of the xircom card matches the black and red theme ibm had going on their thinkpads up to this day with lenovo's thinkpads. Great laptop i must say :p
Takes me back Thanks :-]
I love your videos man
I still have external 3.5 floppy for this, also a CDRom.. 🤣🤣
I would totally have one of these as a writing PC!
- over 20 years old
- purchased off Twitter
- shipping paid with a crap load of stamps
Ooh, this is going to be a good episode!
go fast because it's red ahahah! good video like every video
I used to have a 390e. XP didnt run too bad
3:06 ah yes, I’m from the USA and I remember everything looking like a 2D reflective ball back in the day
More vids like this please!
The startup sound.. it feels like a drug 😂
I enjoy your videos
Nice, no battery error when it starts lol
me: * takes my broken laptop to the service center*
the guy at service center: sorry we can't...
Psivewri: Hold my eucalyptus oil
I might do a video on my channel about mine. I have a thinkpad 390 that was upgraded with a 300mhz PII, 512MB of memory and a 64GB MSATA drive in an IDE caddy. I love that thing dearly and is my goto retro system due to space issues.
its my fist time hearing the correct pronunciation of psivewri
Try using a tool to hold the pointing nub so you can effectively clean it and paint it.
good looking laptop
I find a Magic Eraser works well on these old Thinkpads. I've made them look SO much better by using that and a little bit of water. Don't go too crazy with it, but a little bit should go a long way
when the "screen saver" use more processor power and battery than just simply leaving it on the desktop lol
As technology progressed creativity got left out in the wayside.
the seal in the background really greets me
House Screensaver giving me teletubby vibes
i had flashbacks to my childhood with this xD
cool laptop
I'm sorry...
Right before 9/11, Psivewri to control tower: 9:21
:D
God, I feel old. I remember when those were new. LOL 😂
i got a t61 a 2007 laptop got windows 10 running on it, 4gb of ram and an ssd. Very poor to use, bad and even struggles loading web pages and word. But i love it.
Yep, the 390 series Thinkpad definitely have a flaw in the hinge area. I bought a 390E from Ebay (it was intact in the pictures) and when it arrived, the hinge part and the plastic was completely destroyed. So I had to send it back and get a refund. Many of the 390s I see have broken hinges (especially the left hinge). A sad design flaw. I don't think other TPs have this sort of issue
I'm excited to see those "Dozens of Macbook Airs."
I've watched many of your videos.
Where can I find a cleaning tool like yours? such as a spray , lens cleaning
thanks
eucalyptus oil + ridge wallet = psivewri ;-)
A video after long time
I have the Windows 98 one in my preserved pile as I buy and sell regular the gem it is and how well it runs for its age of course I’m keeping it it also has a dvd drive which I’m sure is a retrofit from IBM