LGR - Charity Auction IBM NetVista from RetroManCave (Patreon)

https://youtu.be/pbrGuiCh_ug

Originally this video was just going to be a quick one for LGR Blerbs, but then reality occurred. So instead, it's an impromptu unscripted LGR Thing!
This past week I've had no less than three different projects go awry in depressingly irksome ways, which meant that all of a sudden none of the half dozen hours of footage I'd recorded could be used for anything. At least not by Friday, not without ruining the rest of my week scrambling to catch up and force creativity. And that never ends well.

As a result, here's a rambling look at a computer that isn't anything special. Except it is because of the context! Back around the end of April, Neil of RetroManCave held a charity auction for a number of these IBM NetVista PCs he'd restored. Wanting to support the cause, I went ahead and put in a healthy bid on one of them -- and won! It ended up taking over a month to arrive due to all manner of shipping and customs nonsense, and in the end the box showed up looking like it had endured an armed skirmish or two.

Thankfully it was still very much intact and working fantastically. I hope you enjoy this half hour of late 90s/early 2000s computing. Now to see if I can get even one of the previous projects back in action 😬