LGR - My Tiniest Desktop 486 PC! Unisys CWD-4002

Laid back format is fine. Still very enjoyable to hear your thoughts about stuff.

Thomas Fuchs

Love the short format. More please!

Shawn M Williams

Is it smaller than a 5 in floppy?

Rambling review is a great format for me. Also, KNOXVILLE! WOOHOO!

Rob Caporetto

The chilled back style works well here. I think for cases where like this particular machine, there's no real legacy to it - it feels like a nice approach. Quite enjoyed this one, and that is certainly a unique enough clone ;)

Markus Jaeger

You're a good rambler :)

Marnix

Welcome back, duke-voice! And yeah, this format seems both informative and entertaining enough, just mix it up with the more thorough ones and everyone stays happy (I think) :) Neat little retro-machine as well, it's actually not too bad.

Benjamin Hester

"Unscrupulous Nonsense" I love it.

mavrick

our office computers are about 1/2 the size of that. oh how I miss the large bulky boxes

Mat Cooper

Now this would be great for me and my limited desk space... off to ebay I go! Great video Clint!

Shapey Fiend

Your casual format videos have enough process, edits and segments to them they never feel prefunctory. Whatever you feel like doing on a day to day basis is the right choice.

Tom Schaack

wow! i'd love such a small pc with all those connectors ! Even ps/2 and LAN whaaaaaat :D

László Viktor Lajos

Great Video!

BastetFurry

Would still love me a TechTale once in awhile. :) Gravis for the Ultrasound, the Palm handhelds or the company i work for currently, GDATA, inventors of commercial AV. Or even leaving the PC territory for a bit and look at the war betwhen Microchip and AVR, with PIC and ATMega respectively, which Microchip won by buying AVR. So many Tales to tell. :D

Bryndal Dwyre

Another great video and yeah, the new style works really well. Looking forward to what you have next.

QUiKSR20

I like it, reminds me of the Apple Pizza MAC LC line of computers... Love these videos the only thing I dont like is after I watch them I want to go right to eBay and start building a vintage PC library in my basement to relive my childhood :) Keep em coming, That and the food videos so I have something to eat while I watch the tech videos ;)

Hey, a tiny Unisys 486 PC! Haven't seen one since I worked at a local Hospital in the mid-1990s ^^' I also do like this new review style Clint, it works really well and complements your more conventional hardware videos. Consider me sold (and big thumbs up! ^_^).

Sprite_tm

What's on the 'Unscrupulous Nonsense' disk?

Foone Turing

I think this format works out just fine! I can see it being great for machines like this, where there's not a huge amount to cover, just "here's this neat thing, what I'm doing with it, where it came from" basics.

LGR

Perhaps someday!

LGR

It would in theory, but where would I put it is my conundrum. Having one internally that's never removed would be fine, but I'd either have to lose the sound card or the floppy drive to have a CF card that's swappable without opening the case!

SammyToesis

That's one cool and tiny desktop, a nice touch that the monitor is heavier than it too.

floverSaeu09

Ahaha wow!! This is tiny!!!

Do you can make Tech Tales about Unisys ?

Brad Sparks

Liked the vid a lot. And have never seen this model of 486 before! Back in the late 90's I had access to a slightly larger 486 with similar connectors in the back that were outside of the power supply and I remember it going up in smoke because the blades inside the machine got shorted.

Loved the vid! Tiny observation but you wrote "Before" for both pc speaker and soundblaster comparison. Anyway, keep up the great work!

Steve Lovelace

I was sick of the beige design back in the day, but compared to the modern "gamer" design with black and red and aggressively sharp angles, it's pretty awesome.

TJ @ The Variety Show Podcast

Loved it! Might pick one up to start some DOS gaming on again. I'm sure it would play nicely with a compact flash upgrade.

Lindsay Michelle

These videos are good for people like me who watch a lot of Youtube videos and have less and less time as of late. I liked that it was to-the-point while still remaining entertaining. But don't stop making your longer stuff! I just relaxed to your Apple II Lego video earlier today, after all. :D And I hope you had a good trip to Tennessee! I just returned from my honeymoon last Saturday, so I guess we were both on vacation around the same time :)

Anders Enger Jensen

Lovely! And who doesn't love the old late 80s/early 90s beige design?! I'd much rather have those neat boxes from that time, than the gaming stations today. But hey, I'm old and slightly grumpy! :D

I'm a big fan of your more relaxed, extemporaneous stuff, so if this is what you've gotta do to cover the stuff you want to cover, I'm totally with you. (Not that there's anything wrong with your longer, in-depth stuff. Those reviews are also awesome.)

LGR

I mean, it's worth it if you don't mind the limitations! :) I can live without a 5.25" drive quite easily when it comes to a 486-66+. It's with older machines that they're more required for me.

aetherspoon

If some of us are looking to pick up a smaller 486, is this what you'd recommend? I would miss the ability to use a 5.25" drive, but I'm not so sure that's worth the huge amount of space a standard AT motherboard takes up.

The 8-Bit Guy

I've been looking for something like that myself.. because I hate the enormous size of most 486 machines. But I want to be able to put at least one 5.25" floppy drive in it so I can read/write to some older formats..

Michael Vokabre

O hai! <img src="http://vokabre.com/box/IMG_7244.JPG"> P. S. A slightly younger cute little Unisys CWD5001 with the manufacturing date of Sep. 9 1996. P. P. S. I like 4002 face design, never seen that one before, i wonder why they switched to more boxy one for the next machine.

Probably going track one down. I'd like to have a proper 486 machine, but space is going to be a big concern with my move coming up.

I love these style of videos, mainly because even if there's not much to say about it, just *seeing* stuff like this in action is why I came to the channel in the first place. You've also gotten better at the unscripted thing. I know your style shifted years ago, but this felt as coherent and interesting as any other video, which is great!

Renzo Thönen

I love seeing DOS games run on all sorts of machines :) This kind of video is certainly a great format for exotic pieces of technology, and it doesn't feel "lazy" at all, for lack of a better word.

LGR

Will fix on next draft, thanks!

steinaech

Note - it says before twice during the sound card bit

Sutekh94

Holy crap, Clint giving an (indirect) shoutout to another of my favorite YouTubers, High Treason! (guy who made the video shown at 0:39) And man, I always wanted one of these. So small and compact, yet it packs a healthy punch. I definitely wouldn't mind seeing more videos like this. =)

I like how compact it is inside, Pretty cool. And I like this style of video as well! so long as the occasional "old style" still pops up every so often. Should make your schedule alittle easier too!

Martin Ravensholt

Add an external Cd-rom drive and it's perfect for DOS gaming. Playing games like Full Throttle, Doom, Warcraft would be amazing on this machine. Of course Duke Nukem, although I think Duke3D would perhaps be more enjoyable on a Pentium class PC. I do remember playing it on my 486DX4-100 though, but only in 320 resolution, not the full SVGA, as my (at that time) sad Tseng ET3000 only had 512k of memory. It became a lot better with my Tseng ET4000 and 6000 cards.

Zem Hysong

Yes, I want to see more like this. You often mention how you have all these odd machines that might not merit a full video, so this is a good way to cover those. Also, more content is always nice.

Henrik Andersson

That was awesome, what a compact and capable thing!