Windows1 (1985) PC XT Hercules
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2017
- Windows 1 (first Windows released in year 1985 running on Tesla SMEP PP06 (IBM PC XT Clone) with 640 KB RAM 2x360 KB 5,25" FDD, 42 MB MFM HDD (Seagate ST251) and Hercules Graphic Card. This computer in pictures: photos.app.goo.gl/euFdeDBSLyJ...
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Ohhh the times when computers ask:
"Keyboard not detected, press Enter to continue"
WTF ??
@@Crono1973 Ohh, teenage detected :) Those times there were no plug&play (USB) keyboards present, but PS2 ones only. And you had to reboot in order BIOS to detect the keyboard :) Besides, in case of your keyboard is broken, I don't think people have spare keyboards...
i love the sound when computer startup
lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Reminds me of my old Atari Ste that had a built in keyboard and whopping 1 MB of RAM.
If you were lucky to have one of these in your house, back in the days, you were fortunate and your parents most likely had a good job.
Definitely. A computer was a luxury back in the day. The first computer our family had was in the mid-90s and was a hand me down. It had Wolfenstein 3D on it lol
my mom had one of this back in the eighties, she worked on the Tv-station.
i remember playing 4x4 prince of persia connan and some other games on that back when i was 4.
Like Mises said: The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow
Computer: yes is ones
Or if you lived in my neighborhood, your parents worked for IBM. :)
The heart rate increasing when you hear that retry noise from the floppy disk drive, and the relief when you see that the file number finally increased... oh my
yes that was scary as a child, then the error hits
I
It's amazing how much Notepad has not changed in almost 40 years.
It's not supposed to. It's a raw text editor like msdos editor.
@jeffisaliar yea, idk where he's getting at.
For all those who are making fun of this, it was an awesome thing of its time. The graphical representation of tools like calculator, clock, notepad etc. was somthing people had never seen before. Show some respect. People worked their asses off to get pc to where it stands today.
It’s 2020 and I now use mostly terminal for everything.
I think you're forgetting Xerox and Apple.
@@jari2018 you completely missed the point for your negative thinking
@@neilldehaan2522 I'll give you Xerox (where Apple stole their GUI-guys from), but Apple itself was bullshit to begin with.
Nah I genuinely think this is insane, and how foreign/ futuristic this must’ve looked to people at the time
this version is so old it's still displaying west germany on it
Well, this version was 1987 and Germany didn't reunify until the 1990s, so it would say West Germany.
@@Trev359 1989 was the reunification and the Mauerfall (berlin wall). In 1990 the GDR (DDR) dissolved.
danger bgm!
IcH bIn DeUtScH
But its running on Oracle VM Virtual Box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am in my 40's and it is super fun to see PC tech I could never afford as a kid.
Why does somebody need this useless piece of shit?
This was ground breaking at the time. I can't tell you how exciting it was if you weren't around before this. We all take these things for granted now. In the late '70s my friend had a TRS-80 with 4k memory and you loaded a program every time you wanted to use it by command prompt LOAD while simultaneously pressing play on the tape recorder, hoping the volume was set to the right level to eventually load the program into memory.
TRS-80 user here as well with hard core gaming such as Hunt the Wumpus. Man I was bad. I still have the game tune in my head to this day.
for yes reason on every experience i Join.
Przełomowe?🤣 Amiga 1000, produkcja 1985.
My dad had a VG5000, it had the same concept with the tape recorder. I wasn't able to write the games programs so I had to type the 2/3 A4 pages of code each time I wanted to play 😂
and if there was a single "hicup" with the tape you had to start over. I hated that
I saw this computer in my grandmas house when I was 8 and I was like: This is the future.
And now you are the president or something?
@@hofame198 top comment
like trump playing golf whilst splitting up US society whislt not having a clue of anything
and creating mistrust so much that people want violence
@@MrTiti LEAVE IT ALONE
@SublimeHawk6 LEAVE IT ALONE
@@creeper_countryball2015 what
Just LOVE that sound of the floppy disk drive's motor running!
I love the sound too 😃 This was a 3,5 drive, not a 5,25'
I to
I like too the sound
Thinking the same... haha
IAm loveing it
Fun fact - windows1's explorer (MS-DOS Executive) still can run on windows 10 and even all of the functions is working.
I always wanted to see this on actual hardware!
Old computers fascinate me for reasons I can’t really explain. I guess it’s the historical factor, especially since digital history isn’t preserved as well as textbook history. It’s always a treat to see old tech and learn how it works.
yess
Same
Ya, sometimes it's a big wakeup call to remind myself of those days and some of the hassles we used to put up with, along with the simple things we thought were a big deal at the time.
Am on ur side I never interacted with computers from the 90s like windows 95 and windows 3.1
At first I'm like what's going on? Then it all flashed back to me. Are we going to count up to 512k, 640k, or 640k with 384k extended memory. When we hit 640k and stopped, 1985 flashed back to how many times I sat through that memory check and watched my autoexec.bat scroll by as it set up each of the systems.
These days, if my personal computer mouse goes dead or whatever, I can just grab my work mouse, plug the usb dongle in, and keep working with no delay. Changing the mouse driver back then was hell. You had to have the driver on disk. There was no real internet to download it from. And you had to hope it worked because there wasn't much information out there to figure out how to fix it. You would end up rebooting 10 times before it was all working again. That memory count took a century when you were doing all that.
Now imagine
When you think about windows 10 in 2050.
seems like Paint had more options back in 85
...and watching this from linux
U r wrong
windows 10 will remain and get updated. but windows soon will die, you know?
@@ilove-sk4yi no
2007: But can it run Crysis ?
2020: But can it run Cyberpunk ?
1985: But can it run Paint ?
1985: Can run image 640x480 ? colorful? (don't expect to run more of 16 colors...)
@@eds2011 Ohh Amiga is coming ... :-)
2015: But can it run Doom?
1997: But can it run doom?
2041:But can it run Half-Life 7
2061:But can it run Cyberpunk 3077
2081:But can it run GTA 6? :)))
That is a very advanced machine for the era! I was working setting these up for the offices on the University of Iowa campus at this time. A Hercules card was a considerable step up from the IBM display card. The XT ran its 8088 processor at 8MHz, much faster than the original PC at 4.77. And a 40 MB HDD was a real luxury. Most had only 1 or 2 of the 360 KB FDDs. They came stock with just 64 KB RAM, but many upgraded to 256 KB. It wasn't till the AT came out that we saw much more than that.
Our team probably set up 2000 of these bad boys.
The Windows in this video is v1.04 of 1987, so maybe also the machine is post 1987
Go Hawks! I graduated from U of I BS in computer science 1986. I worked in Administrative Data Processing in the basement of Schaeffer Hall until1989 when I left Iowa city.
@@EarlHiggins We were there at the same time! I worked in the Weeg Magic Shop in the basement, probably 83-86. I was actually doing work-study, I was majoring in Chemistry. I later dropped out, and finished at the U of Minnesota, in Chemical Engineering.
@@michaelf7093 Ha, that's amazing. I interviewed in the spring of '86 at Weeg, sounds like I was interviewing to be your replacement? Interviewer was a woman named, I believe Chris Pruess or something like that. I didn't get the job…
Actually the XT was also 4.77 MHz. A lot of the clones were clocked at higher speeds though (thus the creation of the "turbo" button on many of them). The major deal with the XT besides more slots and memory capacity was the standard 10MB hard drive.
It's great to see this again. This was an amazing tool for the PC at the time. I spent more time in MS-DOS since I was using the PC to connect to local BBS's but I used CARDFILE and WRITE a lot back then. Thank you for showing this on RUclips.
The fact that a computer like this is still running at this day and age is amazing.
I would bet old tech against any new tech, as older stuff was properly engineered new stuff is engineered for a 1O year life cycle then bin. I mean they put a man on the moon with tech that your wrist watch outmatched nowadays 😄 if I have seen further I have been standing on the shoulders of giants .. ( sorry Newton for the poor paraphrasing)
Amazing how robust our tools were before planned obsolescence.
and yet everywhere i read people say hard drives last only 15 years max even if its unused.
@@boyinpyjamas Yes, because they are planned to fail to keep the consumer-worker actively feeding the capitalist machine.
@@ReasonMakes you realize i already stretched the number to people valuation. Companies and reviews give hard drives 3-5 years max. my 15 years was already very generous consideration if device used lightly. 15 years is estimated of 0 use just literally staying on a shelve which makes no sense. Only thing i can imagine going bad is losing oil in bearings or somehow air seeping into vaccum hard drives. Playing it safe giving just 3 years warranty to devices that can last for decades is really cheapskate. Good manufacturers could make good self advertisement giving 10 year warranty even if they would have to replace half of sold drives.
Those days when pressing keys on a keyborad itself gave adrenalin rush. Felt like super geek.
Mice and touchscreens just killed it all )))
Very True
People now still spend more bucks to get mechanical keyboards that recreate those nostalgic clackety-clack sounds
@@d3vilman69 Unfortunately they wind up purchasing keyboards with Cherry (or similar knockoff) switches, so all they get is a bit of cheap shitty plastic going tickety tick.
@@Roflcopter4b Got to get the Model M!
Thanks for making and posting the wonderful video. The sound of the FDD made me feel nostalgic. I so loved working on DOS and Unix.
Wow, this takes me back to the beginning of my IT career! Before I even read the description I could tell a 5.25" floppy drive was in use by the sounds it makes. These were the days my friend.
Hallo das kann ich ihnen nachfühlen, mir geht es genauso, auch für mich war das der Anfang in der IT. So sehr man heute darüber lächelt, es war eine aufregende Zeit. Und bei dem Geräusch musste ich auch gleich an das 5.25 Laufwerk denken. Damals hat man noch jeden Chip persöhnlich gekannt 😀 und sich als Programmierer anhören müssen, Platz sparen um jeden Preis 😀😀😀
@@hanshase7324 next time type in english
Rich kids at that time be like: I have a computer which has calculator, calendar, notepad and even paint
His friends: 😯😮😨😱😵
It looks confusing but I was not born when this was around
Wonderful grammar: "be like"? Correct conjugation of verbs is very important unless you don't mind looking, well, shall we say, ......
@@kurtfrancis4621 Harvard wants to know your location
and has 1 game with it - reversi
@@kurtfrancis4621A youtube comment is different from an essay, fun fact
*11:51* A horse delivers your request to the CPU.
Richard Head 😂
Richard Head - 😎
LOL
🤣🤣🤣
Oh... Man... 😂
Nostalgia pura . Gracias por subir este video
I started my career working and supporting these machines. Still love DOS, it was so clear and easy to understand. Also upgrading to new versions was easy because you only had to focus on the new commands and features and they were very well documented as well.🙂
Imagine bringing a windows 10 computer back to 1984
Uh oh
people would be amazed at the techonology then look at the hardware specification and wonder just why windows and software is SO freaking slow and bug ridden when it technically should be instant for everything due to the hardware.....
The Win10 would be crashed without it's daily updates :)
@@fpepefpepe3167 Daily Dose Of -Internet- Updates
@@ukdashcamguy500 This computer easily not run the Windows 10. Imagine someone viewing the modern PC with Windows 10 and the owner of this computer asking how to connect to the internet...lol
That whining and hissing right to the center of the ear has never left my memory.
I'm playing on Windows XP and comparing it to Windows 10
ruclips.net/video/XAnJVums7ag/видео.html
Got ya dude I remember having this old Windows 3.1 desktop and it would been. All. The time
Mine still does that
That feeling that a window to another world was about to open, was real!❤
Amazing! Thanks for sharing such a great piece of history.
"Mom i need a new computer for my online classes"
"We already got a computer at home!"
Computer at home:
This is so true lmaoo
Kkkkkkkk
Online class be like in he this comp: frame per year
@@SuperJavaMan7 grammar be like:
@ShadowAngel yes and some of us remember how to use BASIC, which is more than todays kids can do
People in 1985: WOW THAT LOAD WAS SO FAST AND DIDN'T FEEL LIKE A YEAR AT ALL!
Oh, the good old days! My very first job was with a company in Walton-on-Thames that built IBM XT/AT compatible clones. This does brings back some great memories of the early days of PC's. Thanks for the great video.
This thing opened the memory floodgates. When I was going to school in the 80s, all you heard in computer labs, when you walked in, was the sound of all the computer cooling fans spinning at full speed. I’m surprised this thing is still functioning as it did 40 or so years ago. Amazing!!!
I'm crying. Many memories. So many sacrifices from many to achieve that wonder. The children of today despise her, without knowing that they are on the shoulders of giants.
yes...😒😒
I showed this to my dad, he told me that this brought back memories of when he and his dad first installed windows, went out to the garage, brought in a box, and showed me tons of floppy’s, telling me about what each one was for, and showed me tons of pictures taken by my grandma showing my dad and my grandpa installing windows 1.0 on the computer. Most showing my grandpa either mashing keys on the keyboard, or him fiddling with all the floppy’s while my dad is trying to read the manual. My aunt was seen in the back in some photos, and even seen messing with the inner components of the pc while my grandpa is yelling at her. Memories.
I seen the same ..I was working at a landfill near a colledge town out here in the southwest.lo should have seen them come in by the hundreds!!everyone was buying but didnt know wtf to do witthem when they quit working.lo.most of them it was operator error.or didnt know what scandisk was ..lo every 6 months for 3 years i went from atx .88.to ax to sx to atsx to dx tosxdx to fxuit rxx gxtx asexx fuckitxxx ..lo.models were upgrading faster than the colledge idiots could afford to buy them.I sold parts off them for months at the same as new back then.well a little less.a 128 mem.slot dimm 40$used but i throw an extra for 20/hellu was badass if you had more than 512 system mem.thats where ram disk came into play.remember ramdisk.
Cara, que história emocionante :')
What clothes were they wearing at that particular time? Was it winter or summer?..
@@Nostalgicguy2242 Professor?
High Stakes?
Haha.. Yea.. the 5.4" black plastic floppy.. I hated those floppy disc. The 3.5" drives are small and more sturdy and less likely to damage. Then came along with cds.. bluerays… usb.. and online download.. Boy time, where did all the time have went and just zoom by....
Thank you so much for the memories. I just love reliving the former computer days. To tell you the truth, sometimes I wish I could repeat those days over so I could really dive in more than I had done before.
I loved this video, thank you so much for reminding the sweet days of computing.
Computer: Press any key to continue.
User: Where's the any key.
that is a real question asked to a technical service.
Simpsons...
*pressing reset key*
Press power button.
Xd
Me: How can i upgrade this computer?
RUclips: Change the playback speed to 2
U p g r a d e t o W i n d o w s 2 . 0
@@gergo2074 yea it works
So incredible! Many thanks!
I remember buying a copy of Windows 1.0 at my university's book/computer shop. It was merely a curiosity as I had no software to run on Windows at the time, so I played a bit with Clock and Calendar then went back to DOS and Word and resumed my productive work 🙂
When programming was hardcore and used every bit of memory (no pun intended).
when booleans were actually 1 bit
@Nazar Solovei Byte = 8 bit so saying every bit works
@Nazar Solovei oooh, Thanks for the explanation
i ruined the 69 likes ur welcome
But you can store eight Boolean values in a byte and bit mask them which was done all the time.
Paint has the same functionality even today!
Yes
It's called just Paint, not Be Like Picasso :P
@@WTFBOOMDOOM idk dude, Ringo Starr did some pretty sweet picasso-styles in paint. Really it's all you need
jajajaa, yeahhh it doesn't changed very much from that time!!
It kind of has less, even. Well apart from colour obviously.
Thank you for remembering how old I am. Remembering each sound from 5,25 inch floppy to harddisk positioning and the keyboard typing like it was yesterday when I was using such a PC.
🥲🥲🥲🥲, yep, but what a time.
Thank goodness for this video in case I ever need to start one of these.
This old PC didn't even have a battery-backed clock! It still boots up thinking that it's back in 1980...
Ahhh... those were some of my best memories! 😊
Unless the battery has simply died...
Wait.. it's.. not 1980?
@@thebestspork - back at the start of the 80s you needed to specifically purchase a battery-backed clock as an add-on card for your PC. By the end of the decade they became standard, of course.
@@pauligrossinoz oh I didn't know that! Must admit I always assumed that time persistence was not a luxury. Thanks for informing me.
Is this thing even Y2k equiped? Lol
Back when you actually had to know something about computers to use them...
@Alladeen Mdfkr You don't get it, do you? Even something as trivial as visiting a website like Google or RUclips would've been much more difficult back then!
@@Peter_Parker361 not least because the web didn't exist at the time.
@@Peter_Parker361 Visiting a website like RUclips is not even "trivial", at least not "under the hood". The web structure is immensely complex today, and so are servers and browsers with all their levels, protocols, subsystems, parsers, etc. And to actually understand the advanced compression techniques used in most video formats, you actually need about two-three years worth of math studies at university level. After that we have the CPU with microcode translation, register renaming and speculative execution, the memory system with several levels of associative caches and the inner works of the dispatcher, file system and operating system in general. Most people using computers today don't have a clue about most of this. Pretty different from when the computer was still young (say in the early 40s to mid 70s, or longer, in many cases).
@@herrbonk3635 My comment is not worthy of your reply, Mr. Bönk! (;
Yeah these days everyone with a mobile device acting as if they discovered how to start fire :sigh:
Amazing! I love throw back hardware and software. Very fond memories. 😊
Great work
masterpiece
You have old hardware still work.
And windows 1 floppy are still working great
OMG I had this in 1988. The beep sound after the ROM reaches 640Kb brings many memories to me.
Yes, it was very cool... and I still can remember the scent of those hardware everytime we enter the computer classroom.
Me, a kid: *am I too young for this?*
kB
I'm surprised the memory test took as long as it did.
On my 512k XT clone, the memory check was slow but not this slow.
@@龗 hi Too, I am Deem
Son: mom I want a new Computer
Mom: no, we have a computer at home already
Computer at home:
I dont see nothing wrong here
The computer is working good than my Windows 7 mac
@@verycoolhuman690 windows 7 mac???
@@NoNamelolxd laptop*
🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️😑😑😑
This video touch my heart thank you very much for making
I have to admit it is fascinating to see Windows 1.0 for the first time. The first version of Windows I ever used was 3.0, and I was an elementary school kid at the time. 🖥️
Я немного работал в 3.11, но мне просто повезло. У матери на работе стоял один очень старый компьютер, совсем слабенький, памяти в нем хватало только на 3.11. Воспоминания
@@user-fp1sk8re2m Honestly, Microsoft Windows didn't feel like a legit icon-based operating system until Windows 3.1, anyway. My family had upgraded to Win 3.11 by the time the computer in my high school video production class had 3.0.
I remember how frustrated I was teaching the teacher in class. It was that big of an advancement! 😆
Windows 3 came out before this thing booted up
This was an initial installation I believe. Subsequent boots ought to be faster.
ROFL!
@@justinl9077 Exactly. This is the installation of the OS onto the HDD.
thats funny as hell...as gorilla.bat
dos game..lo
@techie number1 5.25 floppy drive
13:20 he finally opens paint
No it's full install process, not only run
I see nothing Hercules about it
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OMG what is that slowly. But very interesting. It was nice to see that. Thank you. Nice Retro!
2020: wow 640 kb of ram, so "powerful"
1980: let me present the world's most powerful computer!
Nowadays we have 16 GB ram😅🤣🤣🤣
@@Ahmed.365 In the future we will have 16TB ram 😄😄🤣🤣
Internet Explorer 8 🤣 x 2020
i have 8GB ram lol i feel so powerful
I want to see the future world when computers will have 1TB of RAM, that will be amazing!!
640 kb ram.... you definitely should install chrome
128kb kkkk
can can always download more ram
Ya mean wam
Nah. Gta 5 with uhd next gen graphics shaders
We all had computers with very low RAM and they still ran any browser quite well. The browsers from nowadays and most apps are designed to eat up a lot of unnecessary resources, just so you're forced to upgrade your PC from time to time. It's all a marketing thing.
Great video. Took me in my past days..👍
I enjoyed this video very much and it brought back a lot of memories, particularly the installation of Windows from multiple floppy disks. I had (and still have) an original Compaq “luggable” since it weighed about 30 pounds. It had 256 Kbytes RAM and dual 3.5 inch floppy drives. I bought it in 1983. I haven’t fired it up in quite a while, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it still ran.
But I was disappointed that you didn’t load two or more apps and have them run simultaneously, with one of them being the clock so that you can see that it was multitasking. Now that was awesome, even though it was “cooperative” rather than premptive multitasking. Each application had to explicitly release the CPU for another application to run, and Windows would decide which one of the ready-to-run applications would execute. But if all applications were well-behaved (i.e. not selfish!) it sort of worked, as long as you didn’t mind waiting while applications were swapped to floppy disk (!)
And viewers would get a chuckle to see that Windows 1.x did not have overlapping windows but instead had tile windows. I know, I still have my version of Windows 1.03 which was actually a little older than the 1.04 version shown in the video.
i love that read sound.. damn
It sounds like my old washer
overdoing the key strokes lol
I also like it.
😢😵
It was Scarry, because you never know when you will get media " track 0 error, disk is not usable." 😢
The Soviet Union was actually alive when this came out
I had been 6 years since then before the USSR collapsed
What does this do with you? - how do this feel for you? ☺️
@@ffgille He still scare USSR mad bears attacks :)))) Ох уж ети русские :)))
@@romansmirnov2087 No USSR anymore, Glory to Ukraine. Українці рулять )
yugoslavia too
Thanks for posting what a cool flashback! It would be 10 more years til I owned my first 486 PC with Win 3.1 however I did see it once or twice and thought wow the future is here 😂
Thanks! Brings back old memories!
I had a commodore 64 on 1982. They had the best coding team on earth, later on transferred to IBM after C=64's downfall. We've experienced 16 colours gameplay, had animation and drawing apps, and much more.
Amogus? Sus?... Hmmmm yeah
@@damiancho7977 what
I am watching you
@@damiancho7977 oh shut up
Sadly I had Commodore Vic-20 (thats 20k bytes). You actually used a cassette recorder and stored your info on cassette tapes. The one good thing it had was a slot for cartridges, like an 8-track.
1985:computers big
2020: *laptop*
2020: and PCs Gamers
laptops were even in 1983 but they were big
super bro u have remined me the old technology thanks bro....
Wow, this is a throwback. I was there in those days! Amazing how quickly we’ve gotten to where we are now.
Notepad is still the same.
2019, 34 years later.
Reversi, too! :) (Unsure if recent Windows version even have this. But when it did, it looked the very same.)
PAINT, too ;)
and I love it for its simplicity
Notepad is simple, quick and just works for what you need.
It still doesn't handle UTF-8 by default.
That disk drive grind brings back so many memories.
Crazy interesting....thanks for posting that
just the sounds alone are amazing! :D
Those keyboard sounds, though...
I can't get enough of it
This brought back alot of memories. Especially the sounds!
nostalgia at its very finest! ^^
Yeah...
640kb
I loved this. Those whirring floppies bring back memories. my first computer was a 10mb hard drive Olivetti. Someone gave me a windows 1.0 and I couldn’t figure out why I would want it since the DOS command line, and Lotus 123 was everything anyone would ever need!
Ça ma rappel des souvenirs du lycée on avait pour la première fois un cours d'informatique et c'était juste magique les sons du clavier et du disque dur, l'odeur dans la salle, le curseur clignotant en attente d'une exécution de cette machine incroyable
remember the days when 1.44mb was counted as a huge amount of storage
MB, not mb
@@takigan this also would of been a 360k system possibly.
@@takigan MO :)
i want a 1.4mb usb stick
@@SilverBullet93GT lol
Had my first PC in 1991 with win 3.11
And I remember my dad saying "wow, it's such a progress from windows1 !" )))
Windows 3.11 came out in '93.
@@TheUtuber999 yes, you're right.
It was a christmas present in 91.
And there was another year that I ran everything with DOS and Norton Commander before I got a copy of Win 3.11. But I definitely remember that dad had win1 at work several years before that.
Hearing that floppy drive brought a big smile to my face! The memories it brings back.
The noise of the FDD brings back memories. Been there done that, many times.
Imagine setting this up on hundreds of computers in an office.
I remember them very well. Today's generations have NO idea on how much things have changed.
@@kurtfrancis4621 I definitely appreciate my user friendly software today. As well admiring you pioneers of yesterday!
@Martin Dennis Lol!!! What a geek!
Been there. At least usually there was a netware network since I made the obviously wise choice to be a netware admin so I just loaded it on the server and installed from there or even just ran it from the server as some machines booted from a floppy and didn't even have a hard drive . DId that all the way up to Win 3.11.
my god do i remeber that .. i would hang myself if i had to do that .. what they have to do
These are what paved the way for anything today. This was a top of the heap PC for its day. I enjoyed learning the DOS commands and loading floppy drives. It's how we learned to appreciate all of the sweet rigs that are being built today. WE were the GUI (graphical user interface) of the day. Glad this still exists to show people how the computing world got its start. Although they had entire rooms of equipment to run simple commands before the PERSONAL computer, this was ahead of its time and outdated (like everything else today) in a few months. Good stuff!!
There are people out there who have never seen, let alone heard of a floppy drive.
A group of millienials drag a woman up to IT.
"We've found a witch may we burn her?"
"How do you know she's a witch?"
"She has this strange thing in her hand she claims is computer storage."
Lucky. The first IBM PC that I used had 64k of ram. It also had a cassette port on the back. I did run AutoCad on that, but a redraw of a drawing of any size was a call to go to lunch.
@@locutus155
"What is this object, woman"
"Why...it is a CD-ROM m'lord. It has etchings made by a burning light that reveal instructions to a machine not unlike our beloved Computer"
"Nonsense!!! This is dark magic from 'The Time Before'. Burn the witch!!!"
no important software of note was authorized first on a PC. First www server and client, NeXT. Photoshop, Excel, Word, etc. etc first written on Macs.
Lots of good games on PCs I guess.
No, not top of the heap in '85. The AT was already available and so were 286-based clones, many of which were clocked faster than the original IBM.
husté video, mě tehdy bylo 12 a pamatuji si z té doby medvěda olympijského z Olympiády v Moskvě, o existenci něčeho jako počítač jsme neměli ani páru, maximálně jsme se setkali s prvními digihodinkami
I used to work for a company selling XT clones in 1985-1986. Boy, does this take me back to those days. The HD in the video is at least 5 years newer than the computer. We sold 5MB hard drives in those days!
seems like Paint had more options back in 85 then now with Windows 10
Windows 11 should revive them
than
@@jumpyjolt7015 Microsoft said there isn’t going to be a windows 11
Which one? The actual paint or paint 3d? I actually have both on one of my Windows 10 computers.... The problem with paint 3d is that the UI is stupidly complicated (and possibly broken?) for no good reason. Paint, on the other hand, is beautifully simple but has no transparency. In most cases, regular paint is so much better.. 😂
@@peterGu895 So is it gonna be Win12?
This takes me back. My customer was a large company which made their own microcomputers and wanted me to implement Windows on them. At the time I knew nothing about Windows but managed to get hold of the Windows 1 development kit.
It soon became clear that it wasn't going to work. The essential thing with Windows was that it worked by using BIOS functions to write to graphics memory which was automatically displayed by hardware. The microcomputer I was trying to implement it on had a graphics chip which you had to send individual commands to in order to do anything. So I patched the BIOS to write to local memory and wrote a cyclical task which sent commands to the graphics chip to update memory locations which had changed since the last time.
Sadly I found out that Microsoft had a horrible mixture of ways to write to graphics memory. Sometimes they used BIOS functions to write to the graphics memory and sometimes the software literally just wrote directly to it. On top of that of course, there simply wasn't enough processing power to do what I was trying to do. I did find a few bugs in the Widows software though. Often the functions were writing whole chunks of graphics memory although only a few bytes had changed, apparently because they had an error in the calculation of the number of bytes to transfer. If it hadn't been for Intel dramatically increasing the speeds of their processors over the years, Windows would never have made it. I remember that you could start something like 12 instances of the clock and a PC (not an XT) would freeze.
Виндовс это одна большая ошибка
Late to the game, but I fear nothing much has changed since then.
I developed a package back when, also writing to the BIOS, but used a function to do it. Thus I could adopt to changes.
Never the less, after decades of using Windows, I left for Linux.
Linux shares a lot of the weak spots of Windows, but at least, I don't pay for it.
Being a Developer myself however, I would line up the Developers of either Worlds and fire every second one of them. In both Worlds, they are absolutely lousy when it comes to error handling. Without the Internet, the kill ratio of PC's would be much higher.
Just the past few days, I wasted endless hours hunting down a problem why Thunderbird issues an error message when trying to use "share" and send a mail.
Research showed that the problem is known for nearly 12 years. No cause has been established, no solution. Works fine on one Laptop, but not the other. I tried all kinds of permissions etc to no avail. Finally de-installed and reinstalled and called the Program with the parameter to select a profile and it finally worked.
Nothing is more frustrating when one is not the common user, but tries out various things only to meet one obstetrical after another, of course all with meaningless error descriptions or none at all. You would assume that when in Linux you define a Browser in it's setup as the default one, that is it. Far from true.
There is an additional System Setting to be set. So sometimes the Browser setting is used, sometimes the System Setting. Constancy? Nope.
I still have no idea what Windows update is actually doing. It was supposed to get faster, but that is far from being the case. It gets worse every time. Of course it throws cryptic error messages at you and you look at the forums for solutions and become mentally a mass killer, cause the proposed solutions have nothing to do with the Problem.
Likewise, I am extremely skeptical when it comes to Cloud solutions. Like here on Yahoo, sometimes you see Comments, sometimes they disappear. You find them with youtubecommentsdownloader. Solution or explanation from Google? None to be found.
Sorry for the rant, but life with computers can be truly frustrating.
@@MBrieger - how boring would life be without a good rant now and again 😁
@@probablygraham Ask be about IT Job Agencies and I can write an Encyclopedia of Incompetence. 😂😂
Back in 1995 I saved the bios program from RAM to floppy. What I wanted to do was to use the Low Level Format part of the Bios as a program. Although I messed around with many parts of it, it only incremented the day number of the date by one each time the program ran. In the end, I couldn't stand it and gave up. I'm still not sure if I'm doing anything sensible. Do you think I may be close to the solution?
Wow. This is a blast from the past. I barely remember this OS. It's amazing just how advanced the Windows OS has become since then. From 1 to 95 to 98 to NT to XP (Xtra Problems) to 7 to 8 to 10 and now Windows 11. It's really grown.
look i agree with all you're saying and i'm not one to be blinded by nostalgia but there is no way you genuinely believe windows xp is trash
@@jaycreations2k12it‘s not the best
It's amazing to see how far we've come I'm sure this was top notch in 85
And yet I still use CALC.EXE, NOTEPAD.EXE and PAINT.EXE on a daily basis in my work!
Jokes aside, I find this to be really beautiful, it brings memories of my early childhood when my dad worked on PCs similar to this one
“ it is now safe to turn off your computer”
...not until 1995
More like: it is now safe to turn on your computer
XD
At power
You had to switch power off manually, let's say like on the power cord. It wasn't able to turn off by software.
ACPI wasn't a thing back then
I like the mechanical clanking noises of older pc.. The HD, floppy, some even when testing memory. Or when you first boot it up it makes this airplane noise. Wonderful
Thanks for the flashback! I remember this all too well! 😂 windows still takes as long to install, but of course, it's because of the thousands more files.
Thanks for posting this video since it really takes me back... The sound so the Seagate HD spinning up and homing the heads, the memory check, the floppy drive heads moving... even the glimpse back to Norton Commander loading. It's amazing to think I grew up in an era where this tech was just blooming and now there's so many fields and in-depth technologies that have evolved, I could have spent 24/7/365 and still not have been able to keep up with all the developements and evolutions over time. Cool vid! Thx!
Those old xt sounds take me back. Surprisingly relaxing
I made an autoexec.bat start up file that played the, "ta da da dat dada charge," sound. People paid me to put it on their autoexec.bat file. I wrote it in GWbasic.
@@indridcold8433 Can i get your autoexec.bat? I love to tinker with old systems on VM and trying that stuff sounds interesting..
@@rireki_riri I will find it. It was done for an MS-DOS 3.3 start disk. I will see if I can find the GWBasic programme that made the little startup tones.
@@indridcold8433 Thank you!
Meanwhile children grow up playing mobile games with a phone that has x1000+ more RAM than this evolutionary milestone.
Amazing video 🤩
It's really showing our ages when we remember these computers. Great video.
Yeah.. I remember.. some day, visit my uncle and first sit down on AT 286 and first 3 games.. Blockout, Prince of Persia and Wolfenstein 3D.. OMFG
Yes, you right...hmm
Are you talking about the jurassic boxes?
@@SirKolass yeah
@@SwiatLinuksa Castle Wolfenstein BEFORE the 3D . I remember it from well before 3D.
The best part of Windows 1 was definitely the quick boot up
Aye, if it only took 15 seconds nowadays !
*At least 5 Generations of Bavarian Chichillas have come and gone during this boot-up.*
*I was waiting for "Black Screen of Death" and "Windows is Restarting", then a Scream and a Pick-Axe coming out of nowhere. xD*
Idk its preety slow, maybe its good for you but my pc is much more faster and looks cooler than this shit
had plenty off to i me to go get a pizza if you could take your eyes off the screen! my freinds would unplug the meter at the back of the house just to get me outside to go ride and party.those crts were just mesmerizing
@@randymarsh8058 wtf are you talking about bakara?
Windows 95 and windows number three das words first program I learned how to use. Thank you for showing me what Windows 1 looked like
All those disks (5.25) for the install, the drive noises, the blaring fan, WOW this takes me back.