Exploring a PC Built by Bond, J. Bond – The 99¢ 386

My mom worked in a pharmacy in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and backed up records daily on a tape drive just like this. They took the tapes home every night.

I remember using J. Bond mouse driver in DOS. It was small enough to fit into the upper memory block, so it was ideal for freeing enough conventional memory for the more demanding games like Falcon 3.0.

You are so right about vintage computer price inflation. In early 2007, I bought a working Tandy 1000 HX with a CM-11 monitor and manuals for $50. You will pay well over $500 for that today.

that red and green DOS prompt styling is sick...wish I would have thought to try that back in the day!

There is something about Win 3.11 Icons, windows style, etc. that I will never forget, always nostalgic about it. I also played a bit with OS/2 Warp, those were the golden days of computing.

MI6 machine

Looks like you won Ebay on this one...what a steal! I guess the "not in working condition" scared everyone else off.

Cut my finger on a 1993 PC yesterday - good times! I, too, acquired a 99p 386 from eBay around the same time. It required a 220mi round trip, however, but I still have that machine and love it. My dad disposed of our first PC (also a 386) so this was the perfect replacement. Love going back to it sometimes because of the simplicity of the games. A more innocent time.

I remember the 386 days because my PC friends were all in on building PCs rather than buying pre-built. They were building 386 VGA systems by the late 80s which put all us 68K users on notice!

Oh my - Wolf 3D with a PC speaker on a 386. So many hours of my youth spent on that. Relating to finding PCs, I was lucky enough to find the exact make and model of computer I had growing and was able to buy it last summer. An AST 386/25 SX. I had an ebay saved search and as soon as it came up I bought it for a not unreasonable buy-it-now price. It even came with the matching keyboard. I gave it a good cleaning and inspection when I it arrived and it everything worked as it should. I guess my point is while the online prices are not as good as they used to be, and true deals much harder to find, if you really want one or two machines for a collection it's still cheaper than a lot of hobbies :)

"Let's look at this " type of video is one of my favorite type of video 😂😂😂

It's insanity what the vintage market has turned into. In the late 90's and 2000's, you couldn't give an old 386/486 machine away. They were thrown away by the millions.

From circa 1998 to around 2003 I ran a little AMD 386-40 on Linux with 32 megabytes memory. It was connected to the internet via DSL and ran my mailserver and a nameserver for my domain. This was LONG before anyone offered free nameserver service, or even email service for your domains, so you had to DIY or pay quite a lot. I was pretty proud of the thing being able to do all that on a machine that was pretty slow and obsolete for the early 2000s. Finally had to retire it because of the spam problem. I wanted to run some spam filtering software, but the little 386 was vastly under-powered. I hesitated getting rid of it because it held a lot of nostalgia even then, but thought "well... if I really want one of these things again, I can just pick one up cheap at a thrift store". 20 years later and it would have been worth several hundred bucks I guess. Oh well.. I think I came out ahead not having to drag it around and store it somewhere for the past 20 years. But those 386s were some of the first computers that could do real tasks.

That shirt you're wearing seems vintage itself, woah. Such a chill vibe to this video, and it's a nice little story from the nice find to exploring it.

That shirt is somethin' else, man. Pure style.

There is something about tape drives that lent me a sense of ease. Used to backup tons of really important machines to LTO tape. You rotate through your tapes, and the off-day tapes are on a shelf somewhere. And you know. You absolutely know. That if the shit hits the fan, you’ve got like 6 tape backups ready to go and one of them has got to work.

14:50 OMG.. My dad had a tape drive that i used frequently as well. I INSTANTLY remembered the exact noise the drive made when you inserted it in, each tone shift as it read the tape lol. Brings me back. (My dad's drive was external, connected though the parallel port and had a pass-though for the printer).

That tape drive brings back memories when I was in high school. They used to backup their network storage onto one of those and the computers used to run Novel Netware with another program called OASIS. At the end of the day I would see the Librarian insert a tape and go into some sort of backup software and you would hear the exact same noises that tape drive did.

The blood toll to engage the machine spirit must be paid.

it's been a while since i watched an LGR vid, time to binge them all. i do miss those oregon trail device vids and ms dos games feature