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LGR - The 99¢ 386! J. Bond A333CD

🕑 Added 2023-05-18 16:53:48 +0000 UTC

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Evan B

speaking of 386's .. I just found my childhood 386 motherboard in my basement .. seems to be a Taiwanese board YANG AN YA-1 9151 E114139 94V-0 ... i found a handful of metions of it, but not *quite* my board.. Any suggestions on the best place to look/ask for specs on something like that? vogons? vcfed ?

Shane Baker

fruit of the loom cornucopia confirmed?

Dave Velociraptor

Blood for the Blood God

Uncleawesome

I wish I would have started collecting computers a long time ago. Then again, I am glad I started when dumpster diving was still possible. Because now it's impossible.

frankie2chins

Cracked up reading the opening lines of the description for this video in the Clint narrator voice. Great video! I love that you cover such an overlooked era in loving detail.

Headset Guy

Looking up the FCC ID, it looks like J Bond Computer Systems Corporation filed their EAS for this model in September of 1991, and it was granted in October of the same year.

Jim Hooke

I hope all is well. YT Studio has been spitting errors "you must be authorized" when I've tried to reply to messages over a day or so.

LGR

Glad to hear, Gareth! And yeah that color scheme is all kinds of nostalgic, so many games and programs used that particular text/character mode. Here's a Monopoly version that bears a resemblance: https://www.mobygames.com/game/6149/monopoly/screenshots/

LGR

Likewise for me! Always enjoyed the shared sounds with Goodbye Galaxy, too

Robert Launder

I love Wolf 3D's PC speaker sounds. That's how my brother and I played it when we were little and they've been burned into my brain

Gareth P

This was a most enjoyable nostalgia trip, this era was when I was getting more proficient with computers - like Jason seeing X-tree Gold, Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups - my parents had an office in our house linked up with coax!), Word 6.0.... and those BIOS colours! They actually reminded me of a DOS version of Monopoly we used to play, will have to look it up!

BastetFurry

StampDoom was a thing back then and my first computer, just 7 MHz more than this machine, didn't fare much better. ^^'

Jason Wellband

Memories.. .X-Tree, ansi.sys and changing colors with escape sequences, and that god awful Office toolbar. And I honestly laughed out loud at bond, james fart.

Alyxx the Rat

Playing Doom on a 386 sure is an experience lmao

LGR

Happy to illuminate the era then, John! 386-class machines are some of my favorites to revisit now and then, just a fun middle ground of performance where the 80s transitioned into the 90s

John Piscopo

I've been in IT for 20+ years, and this is a whole era of computing I missed out on, so thank you, I remember my parents had a 386 box of some sort like this but all I can remember playing on it is Might & Magic and Test Drive maybe, but i was all about Sega and Nintendo at the time, my current computer collection consists of mostly Pentium III's and some newer stuff, a incomplete 5160, but a fellow co-worker gave me a 386 tower with Win95 that came from a school, super good condition with a 5 1/4 drive, its the only machine I left intact and didnt change anything like putting a SD card because it works still and I like the flying toasters screen saver thats installed. thank you I always learn something new!