LGR - The 99¢ 386! J. Bond A333CD
Added 2023-05-18 16:53:48 +0000 UTCThe name's Bond, J. Bond.
Got a simpler video this week! Taking a look at this J. Bond 386 PC, a system that I bought years ago for a whopping 99 cents. I never did make the video I planned to back then but in hindsight I'm glad I didn't. You don't find deals on vintage PCs like this anymore, unfortunately.
Also unfortunate is that this is another week where all my plans kinda fell apart. Ended up taking an impromptu trip out of town for the weekend, which postponed any productivity. So once I was back home on Monday I scrambled to come up with a video I could actually finish for Friday, and this was the result. Hence the uh, scattered rambly nature of the commentary.
This also turned into a bit of a headache to upload, no idea why. Since yesterday YouTube has been throwing errors at me I've never seen, things like "Processing Abandoned" where it simply refuses to process the video. Eventually after four attempts it finally accepted a video file that it liked. Now I'm trying to upload the final 4K version to go public tomorrow and it's been stuck processing for an hour now, so... who knows, wish me luck.
Hopefully this next week will be a better one, we'll see. Thank you for your support, it is truly appreciated!
Comments
speaking of 386's .. I just found my childhood 386 motherboard in my basement .. seems to be a Taiwanese board YANG AN YA-1 9151 E114139 94V-0 ... i found a handful of metions of it, but not *quite* my board.. Any suggestions on the best place to look/ask for specs on something like that? vogons? vcfed ?
Evan B
2023-06-11 02:05:49 +0000 UTCfruit of the loom cornucopia confirmed?
Shane Baker
2023-05-21 11:20:48 +0000 UTCBlood for the Blood God
Dave Velociraptor
2023-05-19 23:06:42 +0000 UTCI wish I would have started collecting computers a long time ago. Then again, I am glad I started when dumpster diving was still possible. Because now it's impossible.
Uncleawesome
2023-05-19 17:02:05 +0000 UTCCracked up reading the opening lines of the description for this video in the Clint narrator voice. Great video! I love that you cover such an overlooked era in loving detail.
frankie2chins
2023-05-19 12:37:07 +0000 UTCLooking up the FCC ID, it looks like J Bond Computer Systems Corporation filed their EAS for this model in September of 1991, and it was granted in October of the same year.
Headset Guy
2023-05-19 06:09:36 +0000 UTCI hope all is well. YT Studio has been spitting errors "you must be authorized" when I've tried to reply to messages over a day or so.
Jim Hooke
2023-05-19 01:28:10 +0000 UTCGlad to hear, Gareth! And yeah that color scheme is all kinds of nostalgic, so many games and programs used that particular text/character mode. Here's a Monopoly version that bears a resemblance: https://www.mobygames.com/game/6149/monopoly/screenshots/
LGR
2023-05-19 00:59:10 +0000 UTCLikewise for me! Always enjoyed the shared sounds with Goodbye Galaxy, too
LGR
2023-05-19 00:55:32 +0000 UTCI love Wolf 3D's PC speaker sounds. That's how my brother and I played it when we were little and they've been burned into my brain
Robert Launder
2023-05-18 23:34:27 +0000 UTCThis was a most enjoyable nostalgia trip, this era was when I was getting more proficient with computers - like Jason seeing X-tree Gold, Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups - my parents had an office in our house linked up with coax!), Word 6.0.... and those BIOS colours! They actually reminded me of a DOS version of Monopoly we used to play, will have to look it up!
Gareth P
2023-05-18 21:43:59 +0000 UTCStampDoom was a thing back then and my first computer, just 7 MHz more than this machine, didn't fare much better. ^^'
BastetFurry
2023-05-18 19:47:11 +0000 UTCMemories.. .X-Tree, ansi.sys and changing colors with escape sequences, and that god awful Office toolbar. And I honestly laughed out loud at bond, james fart.
Jason Wellband
2023-05-18 19:06:06 +0000 UTCPlaying Doom on a 386 sure is an experience lmao
Alyxx the Rat
2023-05-18 19:05:19 +0000 UTCHappy to illuminate the era then, John! 386-class machines are some of my favorites to revisit now and then, just a fun middle ground of performance where the 80s transitioned into the 90s
LGR
2023-05-18 17:57:36 +0000 UTCI've been in IT for 20+ years, and this is a whole era of computing I missed out on, so thank you, I remember my parents had a 386 box of some sort like this but all I can remember playing on it is Might & Magic and Test Drive maybe, but i was all about Sega and Nintendo at the time, my current computer collection consists of mostly Pentium III's and some newer stuff, a incomplete 5160, but a fellow co-worker gave me a 386 tower with Win95 that came from a school, super good condition with a 5 1/4 drive, its the only machine I left intact and didnt change anything like putting a SD card because it works still and I like the flying toasters screen saver thats installed. thank you I always learn something new!
John Piscopo
2023-05-18 17:47:42 +0000 UTCThanks, Nate
LGR
2023-05-18 17:04:01 +0000 UTCThis one is fully processed at 1440p already, it's just the 4K version for tomorrow that's still processing :)
LGR
2023-05-18 17:03:59 +0000 UTCJust goto wait for the high-def to process, don't wanna waste a LGR video on 360p!
TBthegr81
2023-05-18 17:02:37 +0000 UTCThanks for the upload, Clint! Hope all is well in your personal life.
Nate Greene
2023-05-18 16:56:21 +0000 UTC
