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LGR - IBM PC 5170 Upgrade Special! 640K RAM etc. (Patreon)

Published:
2017-04-19 14:30:20
Edited:
2017-05-01 17:52:10
Imported:
2021-03

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UPDATED: a few minor tweaks to factual info

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IBM PC AT: 1988 Upgrade Special! 640K RAM, Adlib etc

This new old stock IBM 5170 computer has just been unboxed. Now it's time to upgrade like it's 1988! 128K+512K RAM, 8MHz Intel 80287, 1.44MB 3.5" disk drive, and an original Adlib sound card.

Comments

Anonymous

"Why is it not showing up?!" Oh how I remember the old days XD This is why my retrobox is my 486 and not 286 XD

Zapfenelch
>>4770835

What do you mean with "old days"? :D A few days ago I changed just the SATA port for my SSD and my PC was like "I can't find your operating system anymore"

Thomas Fuchs

"There's links; they exist!" hahaha

Anonymous

I remember the old man doing a lot of stuffing around like this, use to watch/help haha. Great fun.

Anonymous

Nice job on the drive-rails. I've had to do similar things. FYI the Adlib can do PCM samples.. but it has no DMA or buffer, so it was rarely used since it required dedicated CPU time to accomplish it, just like the PC-speaker. Also, while most modern USB floppies are only 1.44, some of them can do 720K. I found one for $15 that does both 1.44 and 720K and have found it very useful for dealing with my ancient PCs. LHX was also one of my childhood favorite DOS games.. but I agree the Adlib sound isn't very impressive, ironically the PC-speaker intro is actually impressive (as far as PC speaker music goes) since it does a lot of arpeggio to make it sound like there are multiple voices.

Anonymous

more things like this, please!

Anonymous

Goodies for the 5170! And they make this already amazing time capsule even better! I'm sure there's more in store, will stay tuned for what comes next. Thanks for yet another awesome PC hardware video Clint (big thumbs up! ^_^).

Anonymous

Love your hardware videos! They're my favorite thing on your channel! Keep 'em coming!

Anonymous

That seemed like a stressful upgrade! I admire your patience, and glad you got it all working in the end. :)

Anonymous

Such a sweet setup dude.

Anonymous

Ad-Lib! You should check out <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.cs.cmu.edu/</a>~tom7/abc/ and see if the code there works on non-emulated hardware.

Anonymous

Quite enjoyable video, this. I love the old Adlib music, and never realized that that game had such great sound. Looking forward to what comes next!

Anonymous

I really enjoyed this video, really glad I can watch you deal with problems and fix them without me having to get all stressed about it. :D

Anonymous

Loved watching the trouble shooting - those replacement drive-rails were an ingenious solution! And unf. That whole Crescent Hawk's Revenge box and contents. Or just the Battletech art in general. *fans self*

Anonymous

I wonder what the proper GUI environment would be. I guess it does not have enough memory for OS/2? I know that we had a IBM 286 with windows 3.11 on it when I was a kid, but it was a big tower, so probably a later machine.

LazyGameReviews
>>4792115

No GUI was ever sold with it to my knowledge, they only sold version of PC-DOS for it, with v3.30 being the one in 1988 when this was made!

Anonymous

Watching you working on that computer reminded me when I was doing the same on my 486 and Pentium 100 back in the 90s. Installing a CD-ROM back then made me feel like I was a top engineer at NASA or something...

LazyGameReviews
>>4850467

I can relate to that! I remember the first time adding a video card and then a CD-ROM drive, it was an addictive rush. If you liked this, I recommend my 486 PC build video too! It's quite a journey :)

Anonymous

The game at the end reminded me of a 3d game called DarkSide that I played (at a snails pace!) on my MDA fitted 5150 as a kid. So I figured I'd download it and give it a go! How spoiled we are in 2017. Anyway great video, thanks for sharing. I enjoyed watching it almost as much as you enjoyed making it I'm sure.

Anonymous

Let's be honest... putting a sound card in a PC back then must have been equal to the level of excitement of our ancestors when they finally had sliced bread.

Anonymous

I love it when a plan comes together 😎

Anonymous

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