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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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…
"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.
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.
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!
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.
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...
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€.
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
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.
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
The model sequencing was: three digit base model number; next revisions: E, X, and finally Z. So 390, 390E, 390X, 390Z (but I don't think it ever got to 390Z). D suffix was used in the earlier models = CD drive. C for colour (earliest models only). Lower case "s" for dual Scan screen (only seen this with 701C/701Cs).
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
something that i think would be cool is high-end modern hardware in old technology. like if you were going to put like windows 10 and OLED screen on a windows xp laptop or OLED screen, touch id, and 5G on an iPhone 3
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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
no
you finally got verified 🎉
Hackintosh it!!!
"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!!!
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
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 😂
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.)
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.
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
I like how the design has barely changed
Personally, I would have left that Quantas sticker on it. That's a bit of that laptop's history right there.
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.
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
It's wonderful to see a notebook that old actually getting restored. They are still reliable nowadays.
Great work! ☺️
I always love your old laptop restoration videos.Keep the Good Work up man.your style of making video is just great man.
I cant stop watching your videos. I love watching videos like these. Thank you for makin this type of videos.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Just bought a thinkpad 390 thanks to this video. Great machine.
- over 20 years old
- purchased off Twitter
- shipping paid with a crap load of stamps
Ooh, this is going to be a good episode!
old laptop keyboards are soooo much better than today
I don't own a Thinkpad but those laptops are great because they are a strong build series of laptops.
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…
"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.
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!
Bringing back memories❤️Thanks, Psivewri!♥️
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'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*
5:48 Psivewri spitting some rhymes
Lol
Yoo he do be rapping dho
These Thinkpads were my favorite laptops. As a typist, these laptops had a full keyboard and it was a joy to use.
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.
You know you're going to have a good time watching the videos he makes
9:45 Oh man, HOVER!!! I loved that game! Haven't seen it in well over 20 years
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...
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.
very interesting and instructive video! thanks Nathan!
4:45 Apple designers definitely should watch this.
I'm sorry...
Right before 9/11, Psivewri to control tower: 9:21
:D
Watching on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon. Love the old Thiccpads!
me: * takes my broken laptop to the service center*
the guy at service center: sorry we can't...
Psivewri: Hold my eucalyptus oil
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 can also use an ice cube tray for keeping your screws organized.
That IBM desktop background is awesome. Can you upload it somewhere?
I love old laptops like these.
A lot of nostalgia in that laptop and it reminds me when I was a kid drawing on microsoft paint
3:06 ah yes, I’m from the USA and I remember everything looking like a 2D reflective ball back in the day
You make the best videos
Love from Bangladesh. I never missed your any video since 2019
Thank you Psivewri, very cool
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.
Nathan's been blazing it up
its my fist time hearing the correct pronunciation of psivewri
watched this on my 13 year old HP Compaq 6710b that still holds up in 2020 and has awesome sounding speakers on it
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I had exactly the same model. The hinge will break if you keep using it. Apart form that, amazing machine for the time.
Thank you for posting a new vid 😊
Try using a tool to hold the pointing nub so you can effectively clean it and paint it.
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. :-)
would be awesome if you would test out how linux distros would run on old machines.
perhaps something like puppy linux?
Great video❗️I remember when this came out, I was working for Compaq Computer Corp. 👨💻 and this was competing with our CPU’s
Nice to see thiner bezels than on current production :)
4:22 sounded like auto tune for some reason 😂 love the channel as well!
That intro animation fits just perfectly.
Yes a nother IBM thinkpad video I really like these
As technology progressed creativity got left out in the wayside.
I used to have a 390e. XP didnt run too bad
Crazy to think that this was just 21 short years ago
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
I would totally have one of these as a writing PC!
I'm so early! Amazing videos, I absolutely love your videos! Keep up the great work
@Christian Grenier still early
MY FAVORITE CHANNEL PSIVEWRI THANK FOR YOUR VIDEO BLESS YAAAH
the seal in the background really greets me
Nice, no battery error when it starts lol
The startup sound.. it feels like a drug 😂
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.
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
11:31 2D accelerators dont need cooling ussually. And chip next to cpu is chipset 100%.
Nice vid Nathan keep up the great work
Wow that laptop might have the slimmest bezels of the 90s to early 2000s.
I love that ibm wallpaper at 1:44 can i get that somewhere? please?
I have the one either before or after this one (390e) but with a shattered screen and no sound. Has a working battery and was free so I don’t complain
The model sequencing was: three digit base model number; next revisions: E, X, and finally Z. So 390, 390E, 390X, 390Z (but I don't think it ever got to 390Z). D suffix was used in the earlier models = CD drive. C for colour (earliest models only). Lower case "s" for dual Scan screen (only seen this with 701C/701Cs).
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
God, I feel old. I remember when those were new. LOL 😂
when the "screen saver" use more processor power and battery than just simply leaving it on the desktop lol
Would you consider uploading the restore CDs to archive.org? It is difficult to find all the drivers for old IBM stuff.
add some baking soda to the crazy glue before it drys, it makes it extra strong.
House Screensaver giving me teletubby vibes
I'm excited to see those "Dozens of Macbook Airs."
Takes me back Thanks :-]
I still have external 3.5 floppy for this, also a CDRom.. 🤣🤣
something that i think would be cool is high-end modern hardware in old technology. like if you were going to put like windows 10 and OLED screen on a windows xp laptop or OLED screen, touch id, and 5G on an iPhone 3
good looking laptop
Great video! I recently bought a Thinkpad 560X and 600E for $30 and have been working to get them fixed. Sadly the 560X doesn't turn on.
Nice. The 560 was super slim for the time. Both 560 and 600 models were still quality. 570 was part plastic crap, although not as bad as the 390.
F in the chat
@@thelettuceconsumer I got the 560x working with a new motherboard
One word: Tweezers. you'll get a lot less paint or ink on your fingers, and it helps a lot with detailed work. You're welcome.
Hi there! Got the same notebook and want to restore it and bring back to life. So can you upload the Recovery CD you got with yours?
Wow that 21 year old thinkpad has less bezel than my 3 years old thinkpad.
That old Qantas sticker was pretty cool, i would have left it.