it depends exacly on the keyboard design but you can repair it by removing each key and cleaning under them and doing it on the keyboard board and the membrane assuming its that type
Oof I was using Windows XP, Windows vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, last Windows 10. In my family we upgraded computers often. The 3 versions of Windows I have the most memory’s with in the past are Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Windows XP.
@fff stupid you have projectors? Our teachers fell in love with Overhead Projectors No we also have some newer projectors, but the main part are still these things from the 90s
For sure. I find from my experience that Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and, Windows XP, all boot up faster and respond faster, than modern Windows 10. I've noticed that the number one problem that computer manufacturers make in today's time is increasing the amount of storage space in a hard drive. Doing this slows an operating system's speed, creating continual booting issues. If the public would only learn to work with less GB's they would have a faster computer. Instead, people choose to hoard files and other unnecessary data, filling their computers up to the maximum storage capability, simply because they can. Modern computers are nothing more than a compact bomb in a suitcase, that is destined to implode itself. Meanwhile, all of the older laptops I own with their original operating systems, not one of them has severely failed me. The only repair I've had to make, has been on a Windows 95 HDD. After a re-install, everything was good.
I seem to remember Optima computers being sold at Dick Smith stores, and their desktops were cheap too from memory. I also remember seeing reviews of their laptops on CNET Australia back in the early 2000s.
Your videos are definitely worth the wait. I once dipped my toes in these types of restoration videos, but quickly found out they're not for me... I don't remember how I found your channel, but I'm happy I did! You somehow managed to get me into these types of videos and I am very thankful. Love your content! Keep on making these quality videos! I make sure to turn off adblock just for your videos!
My mate used to work at the Tandy’s at Glenelg. He sold lots of these computers to thousands of people all over Adelaide! Nice video. Made me feel bloody good. Cheers.
If its a membrane keyboard you could carefully remove all the keycaps, remove the membrane on each of them, then clean the carbon contacts on both the membrane and the keyboard with iso. There is a slight chance if breaking the scissor mechanism but if you're careful enough it's doable.
Optima was quite a common monitor supplier in schools in Australia. Even made their own unique mice and keyboards (rebranded peripherals if I recall correctly).
I always love a bit of mystery hardware. I wish I knew why keyboards on laptops randomly stop working, I have an old ThinkPad T520 where the keyboard randomly stopped working.
@Matthew Bittle I mostly agree. I’d highly recommend against sticking XP on this laptop with the current specs. A dual boot of 98SE with NT4 or 2000 would be ok, assuming you can find the proper drivers for video, sound, network, etc.
Wow, never thought I'd see an Optima PC again! The high school I went to used Optima PCs up until 2009 when they were being phased out by Lenovo ThinkCentre & ThinkPad models (and white MacBooks for the teachers who wanted those). I remember when I started in Year 7 in 2008 there being labs full of beige box Optima Socket 478 P4 era desktops with big 19" Optima branded CRTs, and the "high end" lab in the main building having LGA775 Celeron D based Optima machines with black cases & 17" black flat faced CRTs, which were somehow running Vista (the beige ones ran XP), which ran super poorly. The beige ones got retired in late 2008 to early 2009 and the black ones held on until end of year 2011 where they got moved to the woodworking shop which was filled with asbestos lol, they decided to demolish that building at the end of 2011 and the 12 or so Optimas left got recycled at that point. I also remember there being a cart full of Optima laptops at one stage in Year 8 in 2009, they ran XP & had Celeron Ms in them and were about 14" in size. They felt cheap and kind of nasty and were probably just some Chinese OEM design Optima rebranded. In 2010 or so, being the nerdy kid I was I was friendly with the IT team and set up a lab of Lenovo ThinkCentres to replace the first set of black Optima desktops, as "payment" for this, I got to take one of the Optimas home as well as a few other bits and pieces (I still have an Optima mouse in a spare parts bin to this day). Out of a stack of about 45-50 machines, I chose one of the ones that was in the best condition, which if I remember right it was kept in a storeroom as a spare and never really got used. I ended up using this computer for about a year and a half as my main PC, and then for another four years as a server. Upgraded the CPU from a 3.06 GHz Celeron D 346 to a 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 650 and then later a 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo E6300, upgraded the RAM originally from 512MB to 2GB, and then later to 4GB when it became my server, and even threw in a GeForce 6600 GT until it died due to no airflow in the ATX desktop case about a year in. As for OSes, it came with that old Vista install (which is how I could tell it was in storage as most were upgraded to Windows 7 by the time they were decommissioned), installed my totally not pirated copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and then eventually it ran Server 2008 R2 and then Windows Server 2012 when it became my home server. The Optima machines mostly used standard desktop components, it used a pretty standard Gigabyte i945 chipset motherboard which drivers were on Gigabyte's website, and when I rebuilt it into a server in 2012 I got rid of the Optima case and put the board in a standard ATX case and filled it with hard drives. Was a pretty good machine despite it's low-end nature and saw use up until 2016 when I finally retired it. I'd love to find more Optima PCs or put out more information to the internet about them. Back in 2012 I did plan to start a website with another guy about Optima history as he also had a few Optima PCs and a history with them. We had a falling out though and he became really creepy and weird after that and started stalking me, so that project had to die as a result which was unfortunate.
that laptop bag really got me for some reason, it's like a mini version of the one my mum had (which still takes up soo much space behind the sofa) from like 2004.
It's so awesome that it has the ATI graphics card! I had a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT like 14 years ago and it was so limited by it's C&T GPU. An ATI would've been awesome!
2:00 Psivewri : that has to be the most epic startup sound of any windows opreating system Windows XP : THAT'S NOT FAIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Here in the USA, we have some PC manufacturers from the late '90s that no longer exist - Compaq, Packard Bell, Gateway/Gateway 2000 and eMachines. While HP and Dell are the 2 biggest manufactures, but there are several others beside those.
Thanks for another amazing vid! you and hamish from budget builds are my favorite tech youtubers, your videos are one of the last few good things in life. Thank you for all that you do
@@nerwin That was my thought. This is probably from some OEM and Optima just put their nameplate on it. I'd bet anything that there are lots of keyboards that are compatible with it. Get the keyboard working and that's a fantastic laptop for period-specfic games.
Love these videos. I have an old late 90's Compaq laptop which belonged to my older sister when she went to high school. It needs a restoration since the rubber coating is all sticky, and the hinges are loose. But otherwise it works, I even have the swappable CD-ROM and floppy drives for it.
How awesome! Thanks for making a video on such an interesting, rare laptop! The build design of this laptop reminds me a lot of Toshibas of the time period.
i had an old Compaq Armada 1530DM i got used for 20nzd i was shocked laptop was from 1995/1996 and has 1gb hdd 80mb ram and pentium 133mhz when i bought it the laptop was 20 years old and lady said her husband used it for work most days till around 2000 till he upgraded and the battery could still hold a charge almost as good as a new battery
That keyboard looks really familiar. I'm sure some bigger company made it and Optima used it instead of spending the R&D to make their own. Finding a replacement might be easier than you think.
Remarkable how a 20 year old 98 edition laptop's battery is holding charge to this day, but yet all my modern laptops from the past 10 years lost charge holding capabilities within 2 years
Got a UMAX Laptop of that Time. AMD K6 300 Mhz, 32 MB EDO Soldered to the Mainboard + 64 MB SDRAM, 2.1GB HARDDRIVE, and the Graphics Processor is a Trident
Very cool computer! Nice screen and graphics accelerator. So many laptops from this era were failures on both counts. My Toshiba from that era certainly was. Hope you find a keyboard at some point!
I'm not surprised by this. The reason why the 2018 is slower is because the designers added more features to make the chrome book faster. The addition of the features did the opposite, it slowed it down. Added= extra space. A laptop that was made in 1998 was made with the bare essentials, which really helps with the speed of internet accessibility and software usage. It fits the mantra "less is more".
I grew up playing deer hunter 2 on an old Pentium 3 system. Still have the game and play every once in awhile. Crazy that it's only 150mb for a complete install!
It was kinda funny when you said that the fan is loud. Our old school computers (finally replaced for quite powerful ones) were like this when you turned them on and used: Startup Engine ignition And liftoff You could even hear the turbopumps
Maybe there’s a model number on the keyboard unit somewhere that can be looked up? Would also love to see this thing maxed out. Upgrade the RAM to its max amount, upgrade the CPU to the most powerful one it can support, and change the HDD to an SSD if at all possible.
Dude, I love MS Encarta! That was such a good Encyclopedia. And those games in Encarta were so fun to play as a kid. Man I wish that program and wish I could get it again somehow. Would it run on Windows 10?
Unfortunately the laptop wasn’t made in Australia. Optima wasn’t a manufacturer per say. They where what was known as a “white box” builder. Basically they would import on mass base systems from overseas + components. You would then spec up your machine and order it. They would make the few changes to the imported box, load the OS and drivers and ship it to you. I used to work closely with a similar company, Octek. With laptops, again there was a base, virtually complete machine imported. The white box builder would swap in/out ram, cpu, or HDD and that was it.
@Psivewri - I worked in education and we used to use Optima for our servers to operate the Library Catalogue. As a matter of fact, I still have the old optima unit that ran it. A pentimum 2. 2.4ghz.
I actually still have the Toshiba Satellite 330cds which says the manufacture date of November 14th, 1998. Still in very good condition running Windows 98 SE. Mine has 266 mhz Pentium mmx cpu with 96 mb of ram and its original 4.1 gb hard drive. I also have Office 97 on it. To me, I keep it as a collectable.
The CPU socket is uPGA2 in case you ever want to upgrade the CPU. You might get better luck on the web with Opera 9.64 or 10; it's slightly newer than Firefox 2.
The best browser for Windows 98 at the moment is RetroZilla. If you make sure to enable TLS in the about_config (colon instead of underscore), you can actually get around the web quite comfortably on Windows 98. Use it all the time to download stuff on my retro PCs, it works surprisingly well. If you want to get that keyboard going I fear that your only option is physically taking the keyboard apart. The keycaps should just click out. Of course those clips could break if you don't lift them in the way they're designed. For that reason it's best if you have a key to test it on that's not all too important. There must be some way to seperate the grid holding the keycaps from the membrane and then lift of the membrane to clean the contacts on the board and the carbon conductors.
This looks a lot like a Gericom Webgine laptop, screen and keyboard are familiar. Sold in the same period in Europe. They claimed to be made in Austria but infact underneath the stocker was another sticker it was assembled in Taiwan. Maybe Gericom drivers will work for this unit too.
You could try letting the whole keyboard soak in alcohool or some cleaning solution for a while since opening it is out of the question . I don't know if it would help that much but it is worth a shot
Runs all games like a dream! Ever need to wipe your hard drive? Just drag and drop ‘this pc’ into the recycle bin and boom not just hard drive wiped but the whole pc gone as well!
I have a notebook this age, it is so rare, that i couldn’t find a Power supply, it is a 4 pin connector. It is a IPC notebook with a Intel Pentium 233 MMX 96 MB RAM, and 3,2 GB HDD, CD ROM, and Floppy.
My xp machine I picked up from a pile ready to go to the tip is an Optima Work Pro. I can only find one article about it for a later model from 2004 with win xp on it. Mine has a sticker saying it came with 98se and is from 2003.
I’ve never used an Optima laptop in my life before but I do remember using Optima desktop computers and playing games like Chip’s Challenge and Klik ‘n’ Play back when I was primary school we went from Windows 98 to XP!!! Ahh good times!!! 😊😊😊
Something tells me Optima might have not built this laptop but rather Uniwill/ECS. That FN/CTRL/WIN/ALT key order was quite specific to them, and I remember seeing it on a lot of Gericom laptops made by Uniwill/ECS.
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it depends exacly on the keyboard design but you can repair it by removing each key and cleaning under them and doing it on the keyboard board and the membrane assuming its that type
Windows 98: Eucalyptus Oil Edition
Sounds good
'_' '_'
👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
@ autoonion LOL! That is a good one.
Supposed to be the title of this video
When I was in college, all of our desktop computers were Optima. Back then we were using Windows 95. Thanks for this bit of nostalgia.
Was that in Australia? I wonder if Optima shipped internationally
Oof I was using Windows XP, Windows vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, last Windows 10. In my family we upgraded computers often. The 3 versions of Windows I have the most memory’s with in the past are Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Windows XP.
@@i3_i9 for me it's windows 7 and 10, when I got into the age where I started using Computers Windows 7 was the main OS.
@@psivewri No I am in the U.S.A.
@fff stupid you have projectors? Our teachers fell in love with Overhead Projectors
No we also have some newer projectors, but the main part are still these things from the 90s
IM ADDICTED TO...
*Windows 98 start up*
I respect your opinion but I prefer ruclips.net/video/xFpxmsqfAKw/видео.html
Mood!
I came
You are indeed a cool person :)
I'm addicted to Windows 95 startup.
For sure. I find from my experience that Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and, Windows XP, all boot up faster and respond faster, than modern Windows 10.
I've noticed that the number one problem that computer manufacturers make in today's time is increasing the amount of storage space in a hard drive. Doing this slows an operating system's speed, creating continual booting issues. If the public would only learn to work with less GB's they would have a faster computer.
Instead, people choose to hoard files and other unnecessary data, filling their computers up to the maximum storage capability, simply because they can.
Modern computers are nothing more than a compact bomb in a suitcase, that is destined to implode itself.
Meanwhile, all of the older laptops I own with their original operating systems, not one of them has severely failed me. The only repair I've had to make, has been on a Windows 95 HDD. After a re-install, everything was good.
11:40 General Psivewri: "A fine addition to my collection"
Nicegy019 nice Star Wars reference 😂
I love that wallpaper at the end there on the laptop 😂
1:06 You are a real gentleman, respect.
11:13 😂 Can't do any longer for acting like the keyboard is working.
I seem to remember Optima computers being sold at Dick Smith stores, and their desktops were cheap too from memory. I also remember seeing reviews of their laptops on CNET Australia back in the early 2000s.
@Daily Dose of Little Kid Once a major electronics retailer in Australia.
Your videos are definitely worth the wait. I once dipped my toes in these types of restoration videos, but quickly found out they're not for me... I don't remember how I found your channel, but I'm happy I did! You somehow managed to get me into these types of videos and I am very thankful. Love your content! Keep on making these quality videos! I make sure to turn off adblock just for your videos!
Thanks! I need all the ad revenue I can get 😅
My mate used to work at the Tandy’s at Glenelg. He sold lots of these computers to thousands of people all over Adelaide! Nice video. Made me feel bloody good. Cheers.
That startup sound always brings me back to retro games and the clickity clackity of your HDD while your PC loads Windows. Ill always miss those days.
Beautiful laptop. I love W98, soooo good memories!
Surprisingly to see this name again especially on RUclips. My brother used to work in Optima assembling their PCs.
I was hoping you'd play the startup sound one more time, and you delivered :D Super neat little Aussie laptop.
"I love how they were able to make a paperclip so lovable"
Uh, chief, you sure about that?
it is nicer than any voice assistant like siri and google assistant!
*sarcasm*
@@howtofixyourtech9945 You are absolutely correct.
Michael Lin yeah I am just kidding :)
Clippy is an awesome office assistant.
Windows 98 Was really ahead of it's time when it was released!
Yeah
@@redemundo2447 imagine being a OS when your a human irl
@UCty8_WqW7ni6XSvqVtSRVPA ^^
@scottxd31 actually using windows in your using yt name or pretending to be a OS, microsoft will do roda rolla da on you
If its a membrane keyboard you could carefully remove all the keycaps, remove the membrane on each of them, then clean the carbon contacts on both the membrane and the keyboard with iso.
There is a slight chance if breaking the scissor mechanism but if you're careful enough it's doable.
I love the Windows 98 Startup too. its just so epic and beautiful!
OMG Optima, all my school computers were from that brand back in primary school. Memories!
Optima was quite a common monitor supplier in schools in Australia. Even made their own unique mice and keyboards (rebranded peripherals if I recall correctly).
I always love a bit of mystery hardware. I wish I knew why keyboards on laptops randomly stop working, I have an old ThinkPad T520 where the keyboard randomly stopped working.
Oh Encarta- so many hours looking up whatever popped up. It’s where I learned all I know about hovercrafts (which isn’t much).
Can confirm we had a bunch of Optima computers at my primary school, from the classrooms to the libraries
2:05
Windows Xp: Am i a joke to you?
It'd run if it had a 233mhz or higher with 128mb or 256mb of ram XP will install and run only a little slow
@Matthew Bittle I mostly agree. I’d highly recommend against sticking XP on this laptop with the current specs. A dual boot of 98SE with NT4 or 2000 would be ok, assuming you can find the proper drivers for video, sound, network, etc.
@@DavidWonn 2000 pro with sp4 and usp5 installed as the second os yes
Thank you for posting this awesome video! Vintage laptops are the best!
Vintage laptops are the best :)
I don't know why, but you make the kind of videos that you can watch over and over again...
Wow, never thought I'd see an Optima PC again! The high school I went to used Optima PCs up until 2009 when they were being phased out by Lenovo ThinkCentre & ThinkPad models (and white MacBooks for the teachers who wanted those). I remember when I started in Year 7 in 2008 there being labs full of beige box Optima Socket 478 P4 era desktops with big 19" Optima branded CRTs, and the "high end" lab in the main building having LGA775 Celeron D based Optima machines with black cases & 17" black flat faced CRTs, which were somehow running Vista (the beige ones ran XP), which ran super poorly. The beige ones got retired in late 2008 to early 2009 and the black ones held on until end of year 2011 where they got moved to the woodworking shop which was filled with asbestos lol, they decided to demolish that building at the end of 2011 and the 12 or so Optimas left got recycled at that point. I also remember there being a cart full of Optima laptops at one stage in Year 8 in 2009, they ran XP & had Celeron Ms in them and were about 14" in size. They felt cheap and kind of nasty and were probably just some Chinese OEM design Optima rebranded.
In 2010 or so, being the nerdy kid I was I was friendly with the IT team and set up a lab of Lenovo ThinkCentres to replace the first set of black Optima desktops, as "payment" for this, I got to take one of the Optimas home as well as a few other bits and pieces (I still have an Optima mouse in a spare parts bin to this day). Out of a stack of about 45-50 machines, I chose one of the ones that was in the best condition, which if I remember right it was kept in a storeroom as a spare and never really got used. I ended up using this computer for about a year and a half as my main PC, and then for another four years as a server. Upgraded the CPU from a 3.06 GHz Celeron D 346 to a 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 650 and then later a 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo E6300, upgraded the RAM originally from 512MB to 2GB, and then later to 4GB when it became my server, and even threw in a GeForce 6600 GT until it died due to no airflow in the ATX desktop case about a year in. As for OSes, it came with that old Vista install (which is how I could tell it was in storage as most were upgraded to Windows 7 by the time they were decommissioned), installed my totally not pirated copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and then eventually it ran Server 2008 R2 and then Windows Server 2012 when it became my home server. The Optima machines mostly used standard desktop components, it used a pretty standard Gigabyte i945 chipset motherboard which drivers were on Gigabyte's website, and when I rebuilt it into a server in 2012 I got rid of the Optima case and put the board in a standard ATX case and filled it with hard drives. Was a pretty good machine despite it's low-end nature and saw use up until 2016 when I finally retired it.
I'd love to find more Optima PCs or put out more information to the internet about them. Back in 2012 I did plan to start a website with another guy about Optima history as he also had a few Optima PCs and a history with them. We had a falling out though and he became really creepy and weird after that and started stalking me, so that project had to die as a result which was unfortunate.
that laptop bag really got me for some reason, it's like a mini version of the one my mum had (which still takes up soo much space behind the sofa) from like 2004.
Great video, I love those late 90s laptops.
Since Optima is Australian, it ACTUALLY runs 86 sʍopuᴉʍ
I'll sort myself out
I don’t know about other folks but find that worth a giggle.
It's so awesome that it has the ATI graphics card! I had a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT like 14 years ago and it was so limited by it's C&T GPU. An ATI would've been awesome!
2:00 Psivewri : that has to be the most epic startup sound of any windows opreating system
Windows XP : THAT'S NOT FAIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Here in the USA, we have some PC manufacturers from the late '90s that no longer exist - Compaq, Packard Bell, Gateway/Gateway 2000 and eMachines. While HP and Dell are the 2 biggest manufactures, but there are several others beside those.
Clicked on this video so fast! I grew up on windows 98! Such a throwback
Thanks for another amazing vid! you and hamish from budget builds are my favorite tech youtubers, your videos are one of the last few good things in life. Thank you for all that you do
This Is Some Kind Of Compaq Clone, Resembles one and looks just like the keyboard on my 2006 hp compaq
If he finds the right model clone, the keyboard might fit!
@@nerwin That was my thought. This is probably from some OEM and Optima just put their nameplate on it. I'd bet anything that there are lots of keyboards that are compatible with it. Get the keyboard working and that's a fantastic laptop for period-specfic games.
Love these videos. I have an old late 90's Compaq laptop which belonged to my older sister when she went to high school. It needs a restoration since the rubber coating is all sticky, and the hinges are loose. But otherwise it works, I even have the swappable CD-ROM and floppy drives for it.
How awesome! Thanks for making a video on such an interesting, rare laptop! The build design of this laptop reminds me a lot of Toshibas of the time period.
One of my most favorite screen savers of Windows 95 to Windows XP was the one with the pipes
I remember my father using the same laptop when I was a baby, thanks for the nostaligia
It's really amazing how far laptops or as I like to call them notebooks have become.
ok that wallpaper is pretty cool, I want it
I love the interest you have in these machines and operating systems. I may be getting hooked... 😀
i had an old Compaq Armada 1530DM i got used for 20nzd i was shocked laptop was from 1995/1996 and has 1gb hdd 80mb ram and pentium 133mhz when i bought it the laptop was 20 years old and lady said her husband used it for work most days till around 2000 till he upgraded and the battery could still hold a charge almost as good as a new battery
yeah, kinda reminds me of my ol' compaq armada 1590DT that i got for free back in august 2010
Like you I never heard of them but I'm glad that their memory lives on in this video!
That keyboard looks really familiar. I'm sure some bigger company made it and Optima used it instead of spending the R&D to make their own. Finding a replacement might be easier than you think.
My oh my. This is beautiful. Very 2000's like.
Another great video mate! Gotta love some of that Windows 98 nostalgia!
I love how the Win98 startup sound phases through mono and stereo
Remarkable how a 20 year old 98 edition laptop's battery is holding charge to this day, but yet all my modern laptops from the past 10 years lost charge holding capabilities within 2 years
Our school was kitted out with Windows XP Optima towers. I really miss them.
Got a UMAX Laptop of that Time. AMD K6 300 Mhz, 32 MB EDO Soldered to the Mainboard + 64 MB SDRAM, 2.1GB HARDDRIVE, and the Graphics Processor is a Trident
your voice is nice to listen too!
Love to see the processor upgraded and the keyb fixed though
Very cool computer! Nice screen and graphics accelerator. So many laptops from this era were failures on both counts. My Toshiba from that era certainly was. Hope you find a keyboard at some point!
Ur right that’s the most best startup sounds I ever heard on my pc it kinda sounds real on my pc
A RUclipsr with golden voice
I got a 2018 chrome book that is slower than ur 1998 windows,wow!
I'm not surprised by this. The reason why the 2018 is slower is because the designers added more features to make the chrome book faster. The addition of the features did the opposite, it slowed it down. Added= extra space.
A laptop that was made in 1998 was made with the bare essentials, which really helps with the speed of internet accessibility and software usage. It fits the mantra "less is more".
I grew up playing deer hunter 2 on an old Pentium 3 system. Still have the game and play every once in awhile. Crazy that it's only 150mb for a complete install!
these are the kind of videos that get me asleep at night.
Really looking forward this to be upgraded to the max
Love your vids!
Just the time when I thought the day couldn't get better
Psivewri uploads a video
2:06 That must be the most beautiful start up of a sistem I've ever seen
Windows XP:I'm I a joke to you?
XP Start up sound ehhh yea
XP install sound "NOW WERE TALKING!"
You posted this video on August 1 but in America is still July 31
Logic
lol
Timelines are magic
It was kinda funny when you said that the fan is loud. Our old school computers (finally replaced for quite powerful ones) were like this when you turned them on and used:
Startup
Engine ignition
And liftoff
You could even hear the turbopumps
What ASMR videos?! This is what I call relaxing and satisfying
I had an Optima laptop during year 11 and 12. Great solid machine. We bought it from Dick Smith Electronics. Unreal Tournament 2004 just ran on it.
The startup sound and the 3D maze screen saver actually scares me when I was a kid
I don't know how
Maybe the rat in the maze scared you? I know it scared me!
@@psivewri There was a rat in the maze? I never remember there being one. 0.o
@@ElNeroDiablo I do! and when it flips everything upside down I remember it giving me a headache too >
Perhaps the speed of the maze overwhelmed you.
Maybe there’s a model number on the keyboard unit somewhere that can be looked up? Would also love to see this thing maxed out. Upgrade the RAM to its max amount, upgrade the CPU to the most powerful one it can support, and change the HDD to an SSD if at all possible.
I think NT 4.0 has the more badass startup sound but both deserve to be heard at least once
Was waiting for this vid 🙌
Dude, I love MS Encarta! That was such a good Encyclopedia. And those games in Encarta were so fun to play as a kid. Man I wish that program and wish I could get it again somehow. Would it run on Windows 10?
if you download it, right click and go to properties to emulator something and set it to windows 98
What the Psivewri I just woke up and first thing i see on youtube is your new video because i live in europe Thats cool!
Errors are red
My screen is blue
Oops!
I think I deleted System32
My primary school had optima desktops and monitors back on 2012-2014 but they stopped using them when we were issued laptops
Unfortunately the laptop wasn’t made in Australia. Optima wasn’t a manufacturer per say. They where what was known as a “white box” builder. Basically they would import on mass base systems from overseas + components. You would then spec up your machine and order it. They would make the few changes to the imported box, load the OS and drivers and ship it to you.
I used to work closely with a similar company, Octek.
With laptops, again there was a base, virtually complete machine imported. The white box builder would swap in/out ram, cpu, or HDD and that was it.
@Psivewri - I worked in education and we used to use Optima for our servers to operate the Library Catalogue. As a matter of fact, I still have the old optima unit that ran it. A pentimum 2. 2.4ghz.
I actually still have the Toshiba Satellite 330cds which says the manufacture date of November 14th, 1998. Still in very good condition running Windows 98 SE. Mine has 266 mhz Pentium mmx cpu with 96 mb of ram and its original 4.1 gb hard drive. I also have Office 97 on it. To me, I keep it as a collectable.
The CPU socket is uPGA2 in case you ever want to upgrade the CPU. You might get better luck on the web with Opera 9.64 or 10; it's slightly newer than Firefox 2.
That is a really cool laptop.
That looks like a pretty solid retro gaming laptop
The best browser for Windows 98 at the moment is RetroZilla. If you make sure to enable TLS in the about_config (colon instead of underscore), you can actually get around the web quite comfortably on Windows 98. Use it all the time to download stuff on my retro PCs, it works surprisingly well.
If you want to get that keyboard going I fear that your only option is physically taking the keyboard apart. The keycaps should just click out. Of course those clips could break if you don't lift them in the way they're designed. For that reason it's best if you have a key to test it on that's not all too important.
There must be some way to seperate the grid holding the keycaps from the membrane and then lift of the membrane to clean the contacts on the board and the carbon conductors.
This looks a lot like a Gericom Webgine laptop, screen and keyboard are familiar. Sold in the same period in Europe. They claimed to be made in Austria but infact underneath the stocker was another sticker it was assembled in Taiwan. Maybe Gericom drivers will work for this unit too.
F1 Car: explodes
Psivewri: I wasn't aware that F1 cars were filled with explosives
Man i like classic stuff
Great video !
Really enjoy all your videos! Always look forward to them keep it up mate! 👍😷
My school had optima desktop computers with monitors and all accessories and was lucky enough to get a monitors from them
You could try letting the whole keyboard soak in alcohool or some cleaning solution for a while since opening it is out of the question . I don't know if it would help that much but it is worth a shot
This laptop for the time was a BEAST!
Runs all games like a dream! Ever need to wipe your hard drive? Just drag and drop ‘this pc’ into the recycle bin and boom not just hard drive wiped but the whole pc gone as well!
I have a notebook this age, it is so rare, that i couldn’t find a Power supply, it is a 4 pin connector.
It is a IPC notebook with a Intel Pentium 233 MMX 96 MB RAM, and 3,2 GB HDD, CD ROM, and Floppy.
I can't find even a common win98 laptop so if this one is rare then it is REAL rare
My xp machine I picked up from a pile ready to go to the tip is an Optima Work Pro. I can only find one article about it for a later model from 2004 with win xp on it. Mine has a sticker saying it came with 98se and is from 2003.
Aye nice to see a laptop made in your home country
I’ve never used an Optima laptop in my life before but I do remember using Optima desktop computers and playing games like Chip’s Challenge and Klik ‘n’ Play back when I was primary school we went from Windows 98 to XP!!! Ahh good times!!! 😊😊😊
Something tells me Optima might have not built this laptop but rather Uniwill/ECS. That FN/CTRL/WIN/ALT key order was quite specific to them, and I remember seeing it on a lot of Gericom laptops made by Uniwill/ECS.
The first computer I ever used was an old pentium with 2gb ram, In 2009 (I was a 2yr old kid back then!)
for some reason, it sounds good through headphones not likely for an old laptop speakers