$4,000 Laptop From 1997: Unboxing a NEW IBM ThinkPad 380ED!
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- čas přidán 6. 05. 2021
- What a rare treat! Thanks to an LGR viewer's generosity we're able to enjoy a new old stock IBM ThinkPad computer. Costing nearly $4,000 in 1997, it's a mid '90s notebook PC with a 166MHz Pentium MMX, 16MB RAM, 3GB hard drive, and built-in floppy and CD-ROM drives. Fantastic. Apparently it's spent a lonely life in the back corner of an office storage area, just waiting for someone to take it home. And after over two decades, that day has finally come.
● LGR links:
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/ lazygamereviews
/ lazygamereviews
● Here's an archive of the hard drive, boot disk, and recovery CD-ROM:
archive.org/details/thinkpad-...
archive.org/details/thinkpad-...
archive.org/details/thinkpad-...
● Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
www.epidemicsound.com
#LGR #Retro #Unboxing - Věda a technologie
That guy kept this sealed on his shelf for 24 years and decided to send it to a youtuber to unbox. Bruh, what a legend!
yeaaaaaa! hua huah
Funny if it was Ted Kaczynski
@@VioFax im not rich enough to buy stuff that im not gonna use 🤠
1,3 million views instead of just 1 unpacking. Thanks to the owner!
and please notice the typewitter like note thats with it
Laptop: *wakes from long slumber and realizes its 2021, that all of it's factory brethren are probably long gone by now*
*insert sad Windows 95 noises here*
Sleeping Compeauty
Dude is booting up the T-1000 in the era they should be dominating.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! Highlander: the Laptop Chronicles
dem poor brethren
New old stock is definitely my fetish
Something about seeing old products completely fresh and untouched is just magical
Consider yourself lucky - my equivalent would be like an indoor-preserved, never-registered '97 Toyota Avalon or Honda Accord. A bit harder to come by haha.
Absolutely. I work at a Mercedes-Benz oldtimer specialist and search for New Old Stock parts. Finding crates full of untouched sealed boxes from several decades ago and getting to open them and see what rare part is inside, feels like christmas every single time.
virginity
Magic cards!
Oh a guy with the quake logo
It´s crazy to think that the last time this box was opened was back in 1997 before it got sealed just to be opened in 2021 ! The box literally traveled in time !
"An acrid, rubbery, pepper note that hits the back of your throat, hinting at what pleasure it could have been had it not suffered the deterioration....A 97 I think...." - Clint, sampling the rare IBM Thinkpad 380ED.
LGR, Computer Sommelier Edition.
John Macnaughton, it seems it had been uncorked at some point in time.
Even I remember that smell. It's weird how I can still remember it. The plastics they use in todays electronics don't have the same smells. Obviously different plastics. I think some of the plastics of today seem more cheaply made. More fragile. Break more easily like potato chips..hah
"An excellent year."
I just want to say thank you to the person that sent this in so that those of us that watch LGR could all enjoy.
Yeah for real! It was an incredibly kind thing to do given the urge I would have had to experience that opening myself but instead they sent it in so LGR could enjoy it and so we all could as well! Thanks Matt!
Once I decided that I wanted to ejoy it rather than store it, it was a no brainer to ask Clint to unbox it. And yes... still a dificult decision, but let's be honest... the man knows how to unbox...
Thank you, @@polymatt ! You really made all of us happy !
Yes, thanks to Matt!!!!
@@polymatt That is a very good decision. We need more people like you in the world!
Man I could only dream of having a beast like this back in '97, capable of playing doom on a portable device.
Now that I have a tablet that can easily do it, I just use it to watch videos of people playing Doom on '97 hardware...
Watching this on surface actually :D
@@sebastianslapek That thing could play 200 instances of doom, and still have enough RAM to open 3 tabs in Chrome. Or 400 Dooms and 2 tabs in Chrome.
@@ondrejsedlak4935 haha, thats sad but true
@@ondrejsedlak4935 Imagine playing original fallouts on it
@@carinajuliet3148 Imagine going back in time and showing the og doom developers doom (2017) on the switch they’d give up on life on the spot 😂
Dude. I was working at Geek Squad about eight years ago and a guy brought one of these in asking if we could fix it. Got to say that was one of the best days on the job. Amazingly, it still worked for the most part. He had been using this thing since it was new. I would love to find a non-functioning one of these just for the case though. Switch out the screen and put new parts in it. Make a gaming machine out of it and stun people when I take it out on a long train ride. XD
I think people really undersell just how resillient these devices are.
At least he got his money's worth.
I think Clint can easily identify computers, what brand of computer, the year they were made simply by smelling the computers themselves. A true computer Connoisseur.
More like a Compu-smeller.
A computer sommelier, if you will
Ha ha, unsealing the plastic and wafting it like a fine wine.
With just a slight bit of training, he should be able to tell which factory it was made in. See XKCD 2458.
ahah agree
Hey clint, I just want to give a quick shoutout for your subtitles. They are entertaining, yes, but they also make it possible for hearing impaired people to enjoy your fantastic videos. I don‘t think you get enough credit for it!
Thank you, it's my pleasure to provide them!
Welp. Time to rewatch 11 years of content, this time **with** subs on
Yes, thank you a ton for them. :) Just hopefully youtube finishes the big unboxing one you did recently soon. I went back and watched a huge part of your past videos with them on :D
Yes!! I am partially deaf and still improving my English, and I love to be able to watch these videos with subs to follow along easier!
yessss you have some of the best captions of any channel!! i watch a lot of things with the captions on because i have auditory processing trouble (and a toddler so most of my Video Time is when he's asleep lmaooo), and youre incredibly good at translating your verbal tone into the written word!
Very cool! My father's boss also had a ThinkPad in 1997 (I was 9), while the accountants had to be satisfied with ancient terminals and DOS. My father was a delivery driver for frozen food and the drivers were still working completely without computers at that time. One day on Saturday I was helping my dad with the inventory of his truck and we entered the company early in the morning and I heard the distinct sound of Doom coming from the boss's office. I shouted "Hey dad, your boss is playing on his computer!" and all I heard was the boss shouting through the closed door...... "No, I'm not!" 🤣I caught him, about entering inventory lists into the software and sending them to the head office, of course! 🤣Later, after the inventory, I played doom with the boss and showed him a few tricks and he gave me ice cream in return (it just so happened that there was a "damaged box" of ice cream sandwiches that had to be written off during the inventory), my father was amazed and didn't know that I was always playing on the neighbor's kid's computer 🤣Good old times!!
What's interesting about this video is it shows how insanely fast tech was changing at the time. The 90s was the era that consumer dollars hit the computer realm, and you can see that in what just two years did to the performance. It wouldn't be until about 2004 or so that the sheer variety of tech began to standardize. And even then, not until about 2010 before the rate of improvement finally slowed down.
I love how he's treating the laptop and everything with it with incredible respect, like a museum curator. His enthusiasm is obvious and really endearing.
I always appreciate how much respect LGR has for old tech. He's not quick to criticize retrospectively bad design, but instead, tries to look at it with the optimism that someone from the time-period might have had.
He's the Forgotten Weapons of electronics.
Forgotten Thinkpads.
And yet... editing. Adrianne Basement; I love him, but when he gives 15 minutes to candy sampling, that should just be a second channel. Entertaining in its own right, but not what I clicked for! 😖
This is actually incredibly accurate. Now I want Ian and Clint to do a crossover lol
@@Featherogue It'll be the most ambitious crossover of the decade.
1:56 Subtitles: "Version 1.666. [chuckles in evil]" Brilliant.
Even comes with Bonus Doom software!
This channel and Technology Connections are always a must to watch with subtitles on. 😆
@@Norweeg i only noticed alec put commentary in his subs recently. funny stuff.
5:50 "Hoo-hoo! [laughs in new old stock]" that one got me 🤣
There should be pentagram on disk.
Having been a PC gamer since the late 80's and an IT pro since 1997, this was very cool to see. Love it. Takes me back to a simpler time where everything was more exciting and magical in the IT world. So many types of OEMs to choose from, so many IT super stores to go to and the unbelievable exuberance of the emerging "information age." I rolled many of these (and many other) laptops out back in the day. Bravo a time capsule indeed. :)
Just in the first 6 minutes, I appreciate your attention to the donors wishes; you cut around the stickers that you could. Awesome stuff, Clint. Matt definitely picked the right channel to send this piece of history to for an unboxing.
I love how he pays attention to these things. I used to watch videos by Ashens but then he did a video where he was invited to an archive and he totally disrespected the items as he handled them, never again did I watch him.
@@benm3382 I get it, Ashens can be entertaining but his humor gets to a point where its like "dude shut the fuck up, you are just being crude and immature"
The way Clint talks about the box before he even opens it is relationship goals
Weirdly accurate.
The way he opens the box so gently is relationship goals lolol
@@kellypatrick5667 the way he sniffs those fresh ports is relationship goals
@@ryanunderwood1798 It sounds weird when you put it like that, but I totally do the same thing whenever I unbox new old stock hardware...
I never understood the concept of a guy having a woman's picture as his profile.
Forget imaging the disc, I want a rip of that promo video. Nothing says nineties like cartwheeling in your business suit against cool rock music
Same. I feel like it's just begging for people to mess around with, like I could see Regular Car Reviews inserting a CZcams Poop of it right in the middle of one of their videos randomly or something.
We should get together and create a 90s video, with the same image quality etc. For real. It would be awesome :D
absolutely
It's in the hard drive dump linked in the description: archive.org/download/thinkpad-380ed-hdd/380ED.zip/380ED%2FTPDEMO%2FMEDIA%2F1LOOP.MPG
@@stevethepocket "Regular Laptop Reviews"
In 1997, playing realistic video on a PC was still fairly new and would have seemed really cool to a lot of new users when starting this thing up.
Especially since that demo is in MPEG-1 format.
Oh, totally. At the time, playing video alone was almost impossible and took forever, with insanely low resolution. Even up to 1999, it was like that. You just didn't even bother, as it was so bad and took so long. This particular type of laptop was only for rich people, really, I didn't know a single person who had anything like this.
The ThinkPad 380ED was the first computer that was in my house when I was just a child and it was the one that made me understand that computing was my thing, I squeezed it so much that I managed to make it work until Windows XP and after working so much one day It did not turn on again but I still have it saved as a souvenir.
I almost forgot how many ads where crammed into PC boxes. I remember my parents saving all that paper work "Just in case they needed it" They never did.
I guess if I paid over $3,000 on a computer, I would keep everything too, even if some of it is useless.
Now they cram the ads into the PCs...
They are wonderful for the nostalgia, though.
@@captaiawesome2260 yeah! At that time none of knew anything about them. So it was scary to even delete a file.
@@doubtful_seer I love old game catalogs!
The black rubber gloves, red cloth and subdued blue lighting give this a whole early 90s Adult Film vibe 😆
The real question is, which scene to which you are referring.....🤔🤣...asking for a friend
Plus the smooth jazz and Clint saying things like "Mmmm. Ooh. That's tight."
I feel almost feel bad for the owner. It's like watching some sweaty palmed dude having his way with your new gf, while you look on with *mixed* emotions. :-)
"Tonight, on the Red TrackPoint Diaries..."
Gotta have that mood lighting before you insert your battery
You know you made it when a fan trusts you enough to lend you something amazing like this to do the first unboxing so the internet can see.
13:01 "it doesn't smell as good as it would've completely brand new" - the kind of minutiae for which I love this channel.
This was way more sensual than I expected
The sniffffffff
😆
First day?
Think of how many relationships have been consummated with canyon.mid playing in the background.
A classy office computer like that? You have to be sensual, you have to take her to a nice restaurant, get some top self wine, go to an opera, have some candles lit, some mood lights. You have to make it a moment too remember.
"Don't use your laptop inside a volcano, don't throw it off the cliff."
User guide was not totally boring it seems.
Kinda inaccurate for a ThinkPad, tbh, it can easily survive a fall of a cliff and a few hours of volcano usage.
I think that was just him ad-libbing. I paused and read it and I don't see any of that actually mentioned. It is, in-fact, rather boring, which I guess is appropriate for IBM.
I love it
@@mikeey6804 Kind of a woosh, but yes true.
@@googleadministrator3994 Eh maybe so, I guess it depends on one's inference of OPs original comment. Didn't occur to me at the time they might have been joking, I had actually missed that bit completely at first and rewound and checked cause I thought "Oh wow that sounds neat".
...
So yeah you're right it was probably a woosh 😂
I think I had this exact model when I was growing up. My uncle gave it to me after his work upgraded him, and I loved it so much. It couldn't really run anything apart from some old flight simulators and Diablo, as well as the demo for Delta Force which I played to death. By the time I reached high school, I primarily used it to make all sorts of non-RPGs in RPG Maker 2K3 and sold them for a bit of extra cash. The hardware always seemed to be faulty and my uncle replaced the motherboard twice, but I loved it up until it stopped working a third time and I finally got a proper, up-to-date desktop.
Oh man, that demo video gave me chills. I love the little promotional easter eggs that would come on computers prior to the early 2000s. The last time I saw a great promo video was actually from a 2004 AsRock motherboard. The motherboard utility disk came with a promo video that included a tour of the AsRock offices, and a was hosted by a woman in a silver outfit that looked like something from Space Channel 5.
Playing DOOM with black gloves is the next level of playing DOOM
🤘 However playing River Raid in tactical military gloves is something much better. You feel like a real fighter pilot. I know something about that! :🤘
*plays doom with the entire doom guy outfit*
@@irrigamii Ha, you have such outfit?
Somebody needs to make a scented candle with a late-90's computer smell.
Watching this thing install Doom is like inventing a time machine and going to the past to watch your grandparents learn to walk. So cute!
I love 1997. The best year of my life. Life actually felt good in that time. No heavy technology and no social media and net, it felt so chill and carefree back then!
It's definitely harder to be optimistic the older I get. But the world has always been bad. You have to choose to be happy in your circumstance unless you absolutely need a circumstance change.
Nostalgia and being younger back then will do that. The world has always been a bit crap though.
I was born In 1999 so I don't remember anything from then. But I think objectively the 90's were the peak of humanity. Shit has got worse
@@olsonbryce777 People keep saying nostalgia, but society has degraded. Life has has ups and downs and were in the down period.
@T Destroyer Maybe since everything is politicised & force fed now? I guess when more people waken up then it should get better but then again.
I love how that intro video is focused entirely on preventing buyer's remorse!
I call it "post purchase justification disorder". Not going to lie, I'd buy this stinkpad. I love 'em.
I think it's mostly as an attract and demo screen for use in stores. That would be why the password was available.
@@kaitlyn__L they're torturing refugees in ft hood texas
@@MMGtheSERBIANqyqypoa To quote Nathan Rutherford, "Apples and oranges, Carla." Ease up, Comrade Bot-ovich.
only you DON'T have buyer's remorse for this piece of history
The Internet is full of epic moments, and I consider this to be one of them.
I had one of those back in the day. Went through a few ThinkPads in my life. Remember it like it was yesterday. :)
(The TrackPoint is still superior to a TouchPad because you can type and use the mouse at the same time.)
1:57 [chuckles in evil]
I just love your subtitles xD, keep the good work
I love these new old stock unboxing. Thanks for sharing.
The fact that Canyon.mid was ready to go means it was fate that this computer would sit waiting in its box since 1997 just for LGR to unbox it in 2021.
This takes me back! That was my FIRST laptop, I bought it on ebay in 1999 for $350. I had no idea it was originally $4000!
It went down that much in two years? Jeez, I wish the PC gaming market was like that today. My graphics card from 5 years ago is still pretty valuable.
@@KedViper reason for that is business laptop's tend to get liquidated pretty fast since they come out whit one pretty much every year. Meaning if you keep your eyes open you can snag some of these laptop's for real cheap. i've been buying used business laptop's for year's and still get 1k - 2k laptops for 300-500 used after few year's and this is in europe.
@@KedViper also tech advanced really really fast, you could get this for 4k in 97, and in 1999 it was so obsolete that it couldn't run the newest windows, let alone newer games. This laptop is 150 ish mhz, and the pentium 3 of 1999 hit 1.4ghz
@@marcusborderlands6177holy shit I had no idea.
Glad I clicked on this video, I did not know these machines depreciated that much, it's a lot more than now. I think it might be due to the fact eBay isn't as big as it is & there wasn't that many tech-literate people out there as well.
Thank you for sharing such a joyful session. It kept me genuinely entertained, and some parts even excited. My boss sends you a message: "thank you for making this guy waste nearly an hour of his shift". It told him not a single second was a waste of time lol
My very first computer that I ever bought for myself was in May of 1997. It was an IBM aptiva the one with the fancy MMX as well as Windows 95 of course
I recall sending away for the name plate that was mentioned in this video and I had it on the front case of that aptiva which must have weighed in excess of 30 lb!
Wonderful memories reviewing all the form factor and stylistic choices that were inherent to that magical time of marketing and advertising for IBM home PCs!
i love how Clint gushes over old tech, im so glad someone in this world has so much love for old computers
I was thinking the same. It’s lovely someone in the community shared with him this rare treasure.
I totally get it though. I think I'm roughly the same age as Clint so this series of laptops was around when PC's were starting to get really interesting for us. I can totally imagine being 13 and starting this thing for the first time in 1997 and how cool it would have been. Also it would have been total fantasy since PC's (and especially laptops) were so expensive back in the day. The price of this thing would have been like a quarter or half of the income both my parents made after taxes in a year!
He's making me regret all my old tech that THREW IN THE EFFING TRASH. /cry .... I kept most of it till around 2004ish but I felt like a hoarder and got rid of my tandy 1000 and my old 386 and my pentium 2 400mmx. I actually kept all of the floppy disks and CD roms until i had to move 2 years ago and just let it go in the trash.
I'm similar but more into retro smartphones and tablets circa ~2010-2013. Getting everything to work, every app to function on say an HTC Thunderbolt or Galaxy Note 2 is a neat challenge. I got quite a few via Amazon, some new in box. They're neat time capsules from a more interesting time, when phones were fun.
And if you want to be sent a fresh vintage laptop for free (limited trial), all you have to do is produce computer related content about two times a week for ten years, learn extensive computing history, have an atomic personality, and leave offerings to a sacrificial stone.
You really show respect for the items people entrust to you. I am sure thats why they send them in. Thanks for the review.
Found your channel thru this video and I ain't leaving without subscribing. Your enthusiasm plus the feel-good BGM are immaculate!
20:00, lmao! “Hhmm, Y2K compatibility.” 😏 I was 11 years old when people freaked out about Y2K and still remember it like it was yesterday.
18:55 "I swear I am not TRYING to sound dirty with this, it just happens!" I get that, I get that.
This is the ultimatest computer porn if there ever was.
20:02 "Hey Flurbnerb, what time is it?" I thought for a second you had a strangely exotic wife speaking from another room...
I died laughing at the Flurbnerb thing, it was so out of the blue.
What is it?
@@yaetu3252 Probably what he calls his Alexa.
@@naglejshij How to change Alexa's name
Open the Amazon Alexa app on your Android or iOS device.
Tap the three line menu button on the top left of the screen.
Select Settings, then Device Settings.
Tap on the Echo device you want to change. You can only change the wake word of one Echo speaker at a time.
Scroll down and tap 'Wake Word.
If Clint has a girlfriend/wife, I'm sure he's already bought her a woodgrain-pattern swimsuit. 😉
Brilliant and how exciting this must be for you to do this for a living. I'd LOVE to have a channel like yours and to be able to experiment and play around with retro tech all the time. Never stop doing what you're doing, I love your work and material. I'm going to keep an eye out for something that you might find useful.
Find anything?
@@chivalrous_chevy1163 I actually haven't gone and looked anywhere yet lol. Been so busy, but I honestly intend to check out our local thrift stores and see if I can find anything rare/unique.
I love how we've been using the same software for 30 years but just polished over time. They got it right back in 95.
Thanks to the patreon for letting us all experience this together. Seriously! I also wonder if any IBM employees watch this, and what they think!
Had to share it. And I tweeted @ IBM to see if they'd give me an extended warranty :)
@@polymatt Thank you so much for your generosity, it was a real treat!
@@polymatt you might have more luck with your car’s extended warranty. lol
@@polymatt have you got it back from Clint yet? ;)
@@polymatt Thanks Matt it was a good idea to archive this unboxing, people will enjoy the experience for years to come, also has a wealth of information on what these products actually came with from the factory. Very smart move
"Uploaded 10 Minutes ago". Well... time to call it a week, get home and watch some LGR (it's 4:30pm where I live). Have a nice weekend, everyone!
Thanks, you too!
Thanks man, miss those days when i could do that, purchase a hamburguer and enjoy the moment, now i work until 21:00
I had an early IBM Thinkpad 486 laptop in the 90s. It cost $8500 with all options. It was a great computer!
My dad has used ThinkPads for work for as long as I can remember. They upgrade his machine through a program every few years or so and they are some of the first computers I've ever remembered or seen. Even now, they are still some of the coolest laptops I've ever seen, and they have such a cool and unique history both for notebook computers and for IBM.
Yeah, except now Lenovo make them and they have become poor quality, badly supported, pieces of junk. I wish IBM was still making them.
I love how clint handles that thing and respects the wishes of the owner. THATS how you do it 😁👍👍👍
"Hey Flerbnerb, what time is it?"
That got me laughing pretty good. Thank you, I needed that.
Now this was an amazing video seeing this old school ThinkPad still working and pretty much brand new and still in it's original box.
Thank you Matt, for sharing such an amazing experience!
33:24 the bluescreen cracked me up, ah good ol´ windows 95 :D
This thing had been sitting in that box since I was 20 and I’m now 43. I miss 1997.
I was 17 in 1997. I really wished I could've smelled the 90s coming off that when he opened the bags for the documents and laptop.
I wouldn't mind going back to 97!
I was 3 in 1997 but i still wanna go there. In 1997 i would be able to afford A HOUSE ! I hate todays economy :/
@@fila1445 hey, I hear Nicaragua is cheap this time of year :)
@@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731 I bet it smelled like a freshly opened pack of Marvel Masterpiece
I'm a year older than you. In 1997 I lost my virginity, voted in my first General Election (and watched the Tories get kicked out of office after 18 years) and took my first aeroplane flight. Nowadays, my current dry spell has lasted 11 years, the Tories have been in power for 10 years and will probably stay there for another 10, and I haven't been abroad for 17 years. I also miss 1997.
I love how all these old stuff comes with a lot of boxes and paperworks, feels like really buying something, not like new stuff and pc components where they come with less to nothing of that
all them trees tho
im so glad i found your channel brother! keep up the goodwork!
Not gonna lie, Clint's absolute joy at seeing, opening, and using these amazing things is just pure loveliness. It reminds me of the joy I get when I see something I really like. So, so good.
13:05 Clint has such a way with describing the odors of vintage electronics
This was my first laptop model! Used to play AOE on the school bus, with it, circa 2003/2004.
Awesome video! Loved this old new stock! Props to the person who sent it in too!!
this win95 startup sound, i'm melted on my chair! oh god it's so good feeling!!!
I fully drowned into a rush of flashing memories from my childhood. Oh the feelings...
Lol! Right?
Clint huffing the ports and providing tasting notes is my favourite thing ever lmao
Yeeeessss! Describing the notes of pepper and acid as he inhales the fragrance like a 5 star chef LMAOOOOO ❤
smelling new/old books has the same dopamine boost
@@mangckyatmamon spot on, I never thought of that!
agreed
Wow nearly 1 MILLION people have been witness to this unboxing. That's pretty incredible. Thanks for sharing the experience LGR.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
I really hate how much the world has changed. I'll keep building and living in my bubble from yesteryear
this may be the most gentle unboxing i have ever witnessed on youtube
I love the dramatic contrast between your almost reverent level of respect for old hardware, and then naming your voice assistant "Flerbnerb".
Naming it Flerbnerb keeps it from thinking you're talking to it during normal human to human conversations.
Yesj
Minute 20:03 for those that would like to know the time mark.
That killed me 😂😂
yes
Lol it's amazing to see how modern thinkpads have an eerily similar keyboard design.
you know the old saying, if it ain't broke...
You might be surprised by how often IBM used the same keyboards. Makes it relatively easy to find a replacement if needed.
I worked for IBM in the early 90s when the first ThinkPad models were just being introduced to the market. It was instant love at first sight and I still have my 760XL running OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach working flawlessly to this day.
36:36 "Everything will be gone. This place will be forgotten."
"Not by me it won't."
Perfect, definitely chuckled.
Watching this on my modern work-issued Thinkpad, and I'm fighting the urge to say to it: "look, it's your grandpa!" XD
That's too funny!
Your employer issues you ThinkPads? Damn I'm jelly. I work in a large multi-billion euro IT company and they issued us a second-hand 14" Dell Latitude :< Only time I got ThinkPad was when I briefly worked in IBM Onsite 15 years ago.
working on it right now as we speak lol. too bad 480S sucks though.
Me too, I have like 5 or 6 thinkpads but with Lenovo logo, my favorite is the P70
@@AlejandroKar98k I remember having a true IBM ThinkPad back in the early to mid 20s or so? Before it became Lenovo. It had a P4 at 1.7ish Ghz. A Whopping 16mb of VRAM and was it 386MB or 512MB of RAM? Can't quite remember. Too bad it suffered a severe booting issue. Had to try 10 or so times before it would POST everytime it rebooted.
Loved the voice at 14:20 lol. I’m more into cars than computers but I know that feeling when you see something incredible like this
the excitement you get when powering it on and when the video plays .
"Only one ED and that was a long time ago." Glad to hear things are looking up for you.
That was amazing, Clint. It's a real treat to see a completely pristine machine that works right out of the box after 24 years! Thank you to the lender who allowed Clint to share this with the world!
Excellent video! Thanks for nostalgic memory trip...
(Thanks for subtitles by the way!)
I opened this video on tab at the day you posted it, but watched this only now. a year and 3 months later.
"I am not TRYING to sound dirty"
Later: "The volume knobs are touching, OoOOo"
How about "Excited computer geek hand juice."???
That one had me laughing.
"Putting the disk in there for the first time, OoOOo"
Nipples, worth their weight in gold.
12:47 Clint smelling hardware always makes my day :')
That genuinely had me going "oh for fucks sake Clint, that's how rumours start" - but it's always fun to see him enjoy himself with some good old nostalgia.
Thank you man, really cool video! Cool laptops :3 I have ThinkPad notebook too and I really like this laptops model line. Good luck!
such a beautiful time-capsule!
I bet with how much he cared for things in the box of this laptop that Clint will return it in excellent condition, the guy is just that kind of guy...caring and considerate.
Oh, you know he did.... he's awesome with this old gear! I bet there wasn't a single fingerprint of his on it when it went back! ;-)
@@stevesstuff1450 Even replaced the CMOS battery - he didn't really have to, but he is a nice guy :)
Thank you Matt H for allowing Clint to open this on stream. So amaJnf
Clint playing POD on two Thinkpads at the same time is peak LGR content
My dad worked for IBM for 25 or 30 years. We had a bunch of these. I'd always get his hand me down when they issued him the newest version.
Wow, what awesome video. Those floppy and hard disk sounds, just wow.
You're the best, Clint! I've never heard anyone else discuss a bouquet of aromas that an old computer gives off.
My uncle had one of these. He kept bragging about the "active matrix" display. The only thing he brought up more often was the cost, which was out of reach for a regular working person.
Ahh yuppies and their thinking conspicuous consumption was cool. Times have changed
@@BigboiiTone They HAVE? Have you seen Instagram lately?
Very cool video. I also have a few Think pads. The cleanliness is crazy. Thank you
That's really cool you could do this. I am a Thinkpad fan and seeing one from the 90s unboxed is really neat.
I just love to see Clint treating that laptop with so much respect and care. I bet when the owner watches this video, it is the moment of his/her life.
I remember my mom bringing home her boss's laptop in 96 and letting me play "mouse pointer-ghost trails" fuzzy solitaire lol
14:28 The color of that cloth is glorious!
Great video as always.
I have found someone who gets more excited than me with these Unboxings LOL. This brings back memories. I was a network administrator in 1997. Our state agency purchased 14 of these for our training room. We had 27 sites spread throughout the state. Once a month every new employee would come to the main office for a 4 day training using these laptops. We put Windows NT on these.
Thank you to you and the owner for this fun unboxing.
Can’t be the only one smiling during the first boot. Such a nice feeling.
Not gonna lie, I almost cried.
Those subtle clunking noises as DooM is written from A: to C: ugh I almost cried.
'97 is when I was working at Computer City, owned by the Tandy Corporation. I loved upgrading those old laptops, they were much easier to take apart than today often having screws on top to remove the keyboard.
What a GREAT video man. Thank you so much for making my lunch break interesting 😊
We had one of these as an ex government lease laptop, it was still chugging away in 2016. Such a great design. Love the vid!