Can we bring the Mitsubishi laptop back to life?
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
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This is a follow-up on the Mitsubishi MP 286L laptop I attempted to resurrect in this video: • Let's check out the sy...
This is one of the systems I picked up while attending VCF Southeast and VCF West. I used to own this exact model laptop as a kid, and I'm certainly glad to have one again!
I think Mike regressed to his childhood...his voice went up and he was giddy with excitement as the beast came to life. Hope you survived the Hurricane safely!
That's the goal LOL. Thanks, the storm barely affected us (we were right on the edge). I feel for those who were in its path. Hope they have a speedy recovery. I know that feeling, having gone through Hurricane Michael in 2018 which destroyed nearly the entire city.
yeah michael really messed things up. had a lot of friends that went through that. if you were close I would have asked if you might have been interested in a few computers/parts. have started pairing down my collection a bit. most of these probably would need your brand of tlc.
Really satisfying to see if fixed. Don't worry about the high side caps Mike, those caps are constructed differently than the leaky ones and will be just fine to keep in there.
Thanks. I'm so glad there weren't any additional faults. Repair is the only option for this PSU as replacements and pinouts seem impossible to find. Now that I have a pinout there's a chance to put together a modern replacement without reverse-engineering this thing. Those caps looked brand-new!
Am I the only one who anticipates the clicking sound of the sacrificial hard drives for testing power supplies? 😂
Nope!
@@lastinline1958 oh good. I thought I was going crazy. 😂
That audible report is the best unintentional feature of them!
It's getting down to the wire, I think. They've been stout scouts for a while, but like good soldiers, they will die, but with honor and respect.
Ha, when I first started watching the videos, I thought the PSU was going to explode, then realize it was the bad drives. I tended to use a lot of SCSI in my early years, and especially those 10k rpm drives made a whole different sound when they went bad... like metal screaming!
the noises it makes are just lovely
Now I can take wonderful stepper-motor MFM drive sounds wherever I go!
"Your current rank is Gumshoe" 🤣 🤣 🤣
Apparently this is real detective slang.
I bet it is. Doesn't sound any less funny though 😂
Good stuff.
5:23 I think you need to set this to "Color Monitor 80 Characters/Line" in the BIOS because this laptop uses an EGA/VGA adapter internally (despite the LCD being monochrome). It probably has a 15-pin D-sub socket on the rear for an external monitor.
7:30 It's F7 to exit WordPerfect. You even had the cardboard cheat sheet right on front of you. 😃
Before OBD/OBD2/canbus was a thing, all car manufacturers built their own diagnostics protocol. I briefly worked for Snap-on around 2003 and wrote some of the software to interface with Renault and Peugeot. We used lots of laptops like these with diagnostics software like the one you show in the video, I actually still have one of the old 486s with a few tools on it (like comwatch), very cool stuff indeed, I would definitely keep that disc for archival purposes. But fortunately for all home-mechanics we can now use a generic tool to read out all recent cars, error codes and what not, makes life so much easier.
Did you ever interface with the Renault/Volvo Fenix 4.2 ECM? I built a switch/led/wire monstrosity to talk to that one without going to the dealership. Interesting experience to say the least.
@@thomasfrederiksendk I cant really remember what models I worked on. But I do know that I hardly ever visited real cars. We had a lot of simulations and ECUs in the office. I did help make some of those simulations, we once got a loan of a Mercedes diagnostic unit and I helped reverse engineer that so that we could replicate it later.
That is fascinating. Yeah I'll try to get these copied off and up to archive.org. Don't know how many people are still looking for it, but I bet there's at least one soul who will be highly appreciative!
@@miketech1024 Copying that old car diag software makes my 1986 Mercedes smile!
You should still totally do ur intro in that tank top :P
LOL it could happen. It's been stupid hot out in the garage lately. I can barely get through the intro/outro shoots without sweating...
Huge congrats on being able to repair the old power supply. Don't you just love the clunky noises the laptop keyboard and drives make!
These sounds are therapeutic to me!
But that reboot sound is a little bit not so reassuring. 🙂
Heh, car related stuff on a *Mitsubishi* 286 laptop. That just feels so appropriate!
The bulb being added to the load is like Poochie sppearing out of nowhere
'Lapcrusher', I like that nomenclature 😁. Awesome as always Mike.
F7 is the exit out of Wordperfect. 😁
Love your videos, Mike. I always look forward to Fridays because of you. Take care.
Glad to see you stuck with it to resurrect this vintage machine.
Couldn't leave this beast down!
Oh my god I remember playing the Apple 2 version of that Carmen San Diego game in school.
A missed opportunity for Paddle War ;)) Thanks for the tech nostalgia! Nice work.
The keyboard sounds lovely.
"I don't even know how to get out". There's a reason WordPerfect has that keyboard template! But F7 is an important key...quit and print. I guess knowing that means I'm old
Superb video as always
That's wonderful to see this thing working!
Waiting for next friday 😄
Sweet! Glad you were able to fix it!
Thank You , Mike !
Was great to see this follow up video on the Mitsubishi laptop thanks.
So happy to see this thing come to life! I heard some excitement like I haven’t heard in many years. I have to see this brick of a computer. It makes my heart soar to see you so excited working on computers, your first love. It’s a crazy coincidence that this computer has cars on it. Can’t wait for future videos of all the other tech you found.
So historical these old machines❤
Glad you could bring it back.
Great job Mike, its always nice to see old hardware back up for work.
Very cool
great channel, have a new sub from me definitely. you've got a lot of knowledge and passion without coming across over the top like some other channels do at times.
My first Mobile phone was a Mitsubishi. Enjoy your videos, cheers .
i loved the sound the hard drive made it was like a spooky zombie sound imo would of been perfect for a month later from today
also we used to have a carmen santiago game my mum loved it thanks for the throwback
This is awesome! I'm currently enjoying a similar experience with a compaq prolinea i picked up which was my first computer years ago. It was already sadly outdated when i got it, but i loved it. Now i have a nearly identical model...and a few dollars to upgrade it a bit.
Glad you got it going :) can probably ignore that email I sent about a power supply option.
That passive matrix display... gotta love the ghost city.
My first VGA computer had a monochrome monitor. Those gaming tests brought back memories. Although on a CRT I didn't have to put up with all the movement blur.
Procomm Plus was indeed a terminal program for dialup services and BBSs. Written and published by Datastorm, based in Columbia, Missouri.
Another popular one was Telix. It looks like it uses the same key bindings as Procomm. I'm not sure which came first!
Glad that system ended up in your capable hands. I very nearly picked it up myself when I saw it at vcf west
Thanks! I almost couldn't believe my eyes when I found it. Been looking for one forever, but I couldn't even remember the model number and for some reason was misremembering the brand as a Zenith... It was a long time ago. Soon as I saw it, ALL of it came back to me which was a wonderful feeling!
Fantastic job with the repair! Do you make an image of any of the working hard drives you come across to preserve whats on them?
Very entertaining short series. You should do an edit join of both parts. And maybe add win 3.0 before taking it to the coffee shop.
Hey man glad to see this up and running nice work. Remember, it's only hoarding if you don't use the stuff.
Don't forget about the relevance of control+break in DOS...
It is amazing that the drive in that machine actually has no bad sectors! A stepper drive which may have been left not parked.
I wonder if those programs you found on there could actually still be useful for some people working on older cars.
Most monochrome LCDs used CGA, but mapped the 16 colors (and 4 color palettes) to different shades of gray, that’s probably why it’s throwing that display mismatch error
Great vid!!! Random question...you wouldn't happen to have a Antec SX-830/840 case?
Yay Borland Turbo C/C++! I used that on a similar specced laptop, albeit in around 2008...
I remember back in 1991 my cousin David had an Amstrad LT286 'laptop' that this reminded me of. I remember looking through all his files and trying to play games on it. Pretty sure I deleted some important files accidentally too lol 😂
Nice recovery, glad it was a relatively easy fix, great to see that hard drive in such good shape. For the age of the machine and the software that code scanner was probably pre-OBD and would have included different adapters for Ford ECC, ABS, and airbag systems, as well as completely different adapters for Chrysler Lean Burn and Renix systems.
That screen was much more readable than the one in my Compaq LTE/286.
Hopefully not too many headaches from the hurricane.
Ah the WordPerfect key map on this laptop. Back in the late '90s I used WordPerfect 5.1. When I was in high school in the mid-90s, they had HP PCs with MS-DOS. I was a senior when Windows 95 cam eout
This was actually my favorite video. Actually showing a little personality, I like it.
My first laptop was a hand me down NEC Multispeed. It was outdated when it was given to me, but the fact that I had a laptop in 1991 made me feel rich.
I vaguely remember having an NEC Ultralite that seemed impossibly thin for its age. I can't remember much about it (was very young) but I remember it having a 2MB solid-state drive and a long, skinny battery. The screen had a blue tint. Wish I could remember the model number. I ended up cracking the screen doing dumb kid stuff...
Carmen San Diego on a monochrome laptop. Awesome. Even though short nice video.
F7 to exit Word Perfect 5.1. Used it all the time way back when.
That commander Keen looks like what I think it would if it was released on the original gameboy.
Something to check while you have that working is to see if there's any capacitors up in the lid that need changed, given there is likely a backlight circuit up there plus everything for brightness/contrast. I have a feeling because it's the early 90s there might be surface mount caps up there that need tended to just like the Powerbook 100 series. Can't hurt to check and you'll feel a lot better about it afterwards. I'd also doublecheck the motherboard itself for any dodgy caps, if the PSU is leaking caps, the board may be too.
as far as the hard drive is concerned... if it's a JVC interface, you want to go in and recap that drive too as nearly all JVC drives have surface mount caps on them that WILL leak and WILL go bad. preemptive replacement is recommended. I did it on my one Zenith laptop's drive and it not only helped it spin up better but gave it a substantial increase in throughput performance, probably back to wherever it was when new.
12:48 when you want to reinforce plastic repairs, you can just take a staple or a paper clip and heat it with a lighter, then sink it into the plastic parts at their jonction. After you put some epoxy and it's quite tough ;)
I'm guessing you're not a dad... "a quick re-cap"
Seriously though, great to see this classic running again. Trying to resurrect any old "lap crusher" (🥰) is a challenge.
I´ve got a Similar but older ? Mitsubishi Luggable, it is called Maxy. Has a Keyboard with roman and japanese caracters printed on, no HDD and two 1.44 Floppys. I´ve found only one article online that it even existed. It seems very similar, but not exactly the same as the MP 268, but now I finally have a hint, for looking on some Infos. Ps: The Psu on my was also destroyed by leaky caps. replacing those let it run one time, then it died again :(
That ghosting is so bad it's making my hurt just watching it XD
What's funny is that's totally normal for this display lol.
That strange sound that some old hard disk makes, are because the head is returning to the first position to start again. In the old time before you shutdown a computer, you needed to park the head, that was with the command “park”. Otherwise the head stays on the “reading” position on last time it was left, with it, the head being down pressing the platter and if you move it, sure it will scratch the that platter. Sometimes if it was a laptop, can go to some really nasty scratches that you can feel them even with the finger, marking the drive totally unusable.
The 44 pin to m.2 adapters are a life saver.
I was able to bring back many old laptops that needed drives. I even replaced my rtc batteries.
And they run really fast using the m.2 drives.
Does this have a serial port ?
I was able to install Windows 95 on my 286 laptop despite Microsoft telling me it wouldn't work.
Really cool
But the reason I have these old laptops is for the hardware serial port and DOS to run the Motorola and Kenwood Radios programming software
These old radios can't be read or programmed without a hardware old style serial port and pure DOS
We got some kind of laptop video.
One day those hard drives well get to retire, personality I'm hoping for a platter splatter
I'm looking forward to the day lol. It WILL be caught on camera!
@@miketech1024 Vcan wait to see it when it happens lol 👍
@@miketech1024I will salute them.
I had something similar to that way back, It was beige, and had a blue screen, a floppy on each side, and an Enormous battery that made it around 16 pounds. But for all that, it had the same kind of keyboard. Completely useless now, but I sure miss it.
If it had WP5 for DOS, I might get some mileage from it.
👍
From memory, to exit WP 5.1.. F7= Exit, Save document= N or Y, do you want to exit WP= Y... But it's been a minute since I last used it lol. Used to use it all the time on my Compaq Portable III.
I had WP6 for Windows. I thought I had it made, until 95. I think there maybe had been some kind of software addon for WP that could make it save docs with long file names. But I just forget. After I got Word2000, the point became moot.
Ayyyyyyy
@MikeTech If only you had the cable to connect your laptop to an older vehicle just to see what it looks like. I'll be at VCFMW in my 1995 Chevy G10 that has OBD1 and an ABS light that is illuminated, even.
I'll be at VCFMW also!
looks a really hard-to-use OS. Windows XP was my first use of a PC.
congratulations.. 👏👏👏👏👏
You repaired the latch and replaced the transistor and condenser. 😊
It worked so well that it made me feel good to see it.
LCD is the last 20th century and early LCD.
It is inevitable that the reaction speed is slow.
It's working normally.
If you attach a slightly dark film to the LCD surface, you can adjust the brightness simply.
It seems to be getting better.
Luckily it was fixed and I’m glad~!! 🥰😄 💐
And kids these days complain about 3ms monitor lag. They dont know how good they have it!
I'm sorry... I'm super late today.. i was busy with work..
try Spinrite 5.0 on this Mitsubishgi laptop 🙂
Maybe the perfect laptop for Minix
That does sound like fun!
I have one of these in my garage, but i know i dont have floppies and the internal HDD died years ago. What are your thoughts of putting something like a raspberry pi in here as new brains? Would it even work?
7:35 I can't help but wonder if that WordPerfect cheat sheet taped above the keyboard displays a key command to quit the application.
I really can only see the headings in the 720p I'm watching in.
At 13:44 I see "Alt = for menu bar" written in ink. That would probably display a way to quit.
Ah, wp51... almost as hard to exit as vim.
I took it as a good sign. It meant that WP loved me and wanted to work its ass off for me. 🙂
What is your tiktok sir?
Is this ASMR for retro techies?
Yes, with added eye candy.
💪🤤 sorry, what did you say?
Mechanics using mitsubishi to fix ford and crysler
Don't pull a hipster