Greetings and welcome to an LGR thing.
This right here is an IBM Thinkpad 380 XD.
This was recently donated to me from Greg.
Thank you very much once again, sir.
This one does need a little bit of work,
which is what we're going to be doing today.
And not only does it need to be cleaned, but I've already taken out the hard drive here,
which came in this little caddy tray thing,
and I've ordered a couple of replacements that are um,
you know, original IBM parts because that's what I like to do.
These are the
Travel star..? *chuckles*
They're not known for being um,
particularly reliable but they are original parts,
and these are supposedly tested and working.
So there's a couple options that I have right here, and that is the uh,
4-gig one, which is what it had in there,
and then there's also the 6.4 gig... You know, I was just going to put what it had in here
originally when I received it the other day, but when I looked at up online
It seemed that the 6.4 gig was the maxed-out option for this and I figured eh, you know, why not
why don't I just max this thing out to what it would have been
back in the day in the day, in like, uh, 1997?
So yeah, that's that's what I'm gonna do.
I'm going to put this one in here.
I also got this little, uh, Cmos battery here because the battery is dead
So uh, that needs to be replaced, and there's also some little nubs which we'll replace on the mouse
right there in the middle of the keyboard because otherwise those things are gross and
they wear down after a while,
and I like the feel of
a fresh...
nipple. *laughter*
Yeah, those little track point nubs? The things get gross over time, but, just going to leave it on here for now
That'll probably be the last thing,
it's like...
my sort of finishing touch you know, the cherry on top of putting these things back together and cleaning it up.
The first order of business is going to be the hard disk drive
and uh, that's just this little guy right here, so
There we go, model number DAR, uh
Twenty thousand nine thousand or something like that.
So yeah, the way this works is um, these actually have these little
sticky pads on the bottom here.
Here we go. And just sort of sticks in place like that,
um, but of course there's some screws that go in on the sides.
Yeah, this part just sort of lines up with those little... slots there.
And there we go!
See that it has a bit of extra space because this is not as thick of a 2.5 inch drive
But uh, you know that's fine. It'll do the job.
And that should just slide in place...
there we go.
Clean this up a little bit before I put that back on there because it's looking gross.
And yes, I do have a woodgrain toothbrush. That's just...
how I roll.
This should just slide right back into place...
there we go!
And yeah, the way that you get that back out is either
there's a screw that goes on here, unscrewed that, and then this you just sort of press in, like with a coin
In fact this is supposed to unscrew with as coin as well.
Okay! And yeah this is not the original power supply, but it's the original specs and it works just fine.
Next order of business has to do with the batteries,
um, for one thing the battery that's in here
is very dead, and I believe
it's making like a weird noise, so...
I'm just going to take it out entirely?
Because it's it's making a concerning sound I don't have a replacement for that right now
So we're just going to kind of run it straight off of B. Ac adapter
Next is the C mo's battery because yeah
We need a the clock and whatnot and that just goes right in here next to the ram
So we have the ram right there and then the battery plugs in right there?
Here we go
And we'll just take a little sticky thing off here
and it just sort of
Nestle's up underneath here a little bit because that's how the original one was so
There we go it should be
yeah, bios Sorted let's get some power to it and
See what we get hopefully it's not making that same sound
It was like a whining noise, and they would crack alone stuff. Just it scared me
I don't like that kind of noise coming from a battery
All right, so we've got error 161 there which
Makes sense and here the hard drive coming on there
and 163 which means of course we've got the
problems
With the cmos which is fine because I just replaced the battery for it
I was getting this error anyway with the other battery that was dead, but this was new so it should be good now
I always like this little like flapping duck or whatever it is
Mouse cursor that ibm had at the time the year is it?
Yep, that is it's got august right
There we go
Okay, so that error is fixed
at 64 Meg's of Ram in this one which is
Pretty well maxed out for the time and of course we've got nothing on
Here as far as to boot from so we're going to use is male gr. Boot disk with CD-Rom capability
this computer is really cool too because it is one of those that has
Apparently there was a cdr t in here. What was this copy of print master ah I had not actually opened the CD
Drive until now apparently that was jostling around in there got a little damaged. Hope it didn't mess up the drive
I was going to say
this was a pretty cool machine at the time because it did have this nice combo drive here, so you had the
High-Density three and a half inch floppy
The CD-rom which I think was 8-speed. Maybe 16. I should just be able to restart and get some stuff going on
Where is the link?
It did actually have you know windows and stuff on there, but everything was wrong like the version of windows was wrong
It was too new for it. It was filled with a bunch of software just honestly it was bloatware and
like a gigabyte of the drive was filled with
Just downloaded mP3s from like napster
Which was highly nostalgic, but is not exactly what I?
Wanted for this machine, so I'm just redoing everything alright. See if it actually saw the CD drive
And it did perfectly fine, so that's good doesn't seem the drive seems to be you know ruined or anything alright
So let's just run fdisk, and this is the version that came with Windows 95, Osr2
Includes the large disk support thing which we want because this is a 6.4 gig driver
I don't want like a ton of partitions current fixed drive is
Number one, which is the only one in their end. No partitions are defined, so let us Define one
with all that size
Yes, they define. My integrity let's doing that. I'm gonna make work up I
Must restart my system. Yes, all right
Nice, okay. Let's go over to format and drag going oh
Yeah, so we got the full six point. Whatever gigs sweet
coffee and
Memories I
have quite a fondness for these ibm, thinkpads largely because
Around 10 or 12 years ago. I was in between jobs, and I would go to local goodwills of course
No surprise there, but no they used to have laptops a ton of Ibm thinkpads in particular
For like 5 bucks and you could also buy the blanked out hard drives separately for another
I don't know 5 bucks or something it was really cheap
So you can get a whole working system usually for around ten to fifteen dollars depending on the unit. Yeah. It was cool
I would get those and I would do what we're doing here. You know just
Plop the hard drive in there
I would
Install windows and get on nice and fresh and clean it up a little bit throw it on ebay and make me a little bit
Of a profit which was nice because it didn't have a job so yeah
That was about a year or so that I did nothing
But I would do I'd repair jobs for people
You know just friends and family and a couple local businesses and also go to Goodwill
and just fixed up different computers like this in fact some of the
Machines that I still have in there are from that time
I think I sold all the laptops that I fixed up except for one I kept one thinkpad
But the my main capture PC was one of those
Just blanked out
Computers, you know it was a desktop you get everything in there - the hard drive, and maybe the ram for 10 bucks
I really miss when they did that because now they just take any machine like this
And it just gets straight-up recycled so you can still buy like at least around here
Dell computers those are the only ones they sell though that that's that's it. And they're like
$150
awesome
Get that windows installation started
oh
scandisk the Blank Drive
You'll be okay. We're go to check though. We might not be okay. I agree to your outdated agreement
Yeah, okay. Let's look for everything please
because I want everything we have no network but
This will do
Alright, it looks to have found pretty much everything that it's got going on
Unknown monitored, I mean I would just go plug and play monitor for now because you know whatever. We'll see if the
Ibm has any specific drivers for this panel?
I'm sure they do now you might be noticing these black edges around the picture in the middle there
and that is because this display is made for 800 by 600 resolution and
There's no hardware scaling actually in the display. So it just doesn't it does doesn't even bother so like lower res things like this
Right here is a shrunk down
Instead of stretching it and honestly that's fine because take a look at this here's a Gateway solo 2100 laptop
That does scaling and it's disgusting it just doesn't do it properly because the integers don't match up
Completely between like the lower res upscaling to 800 by 600 so I would rather have the black bars than ugly
Scaling so I'm okay with that in this case. Oh yeah, I've got some fresh windows
Yeah, that floppy disk
I've done this so many times, but like getting ready to run windows 95 for the first time still
Just trigger something in my brain. I'm like ooh
What's it Gonna be like?
When does 95 was so exciting like what it first came out?
I just couldn't believe that the fact that that had a start menu instead. It's the program manager was so cool to me and
Yeah, I was so happy to upgrade to 95 when I did which didn't happen until 1997 actually
Okay, why is it doing this?
yeah, it's looking for these cad files, so
What we're going to do here is
boot from that boot disk again
Copy over all those windows files all right
So we're just going to make a win95 directory here, and then we're going to go over to the CD
Drive switch over to that directory, and I'm going to copy all of the cab files
to the
thing
That should get pretty much everything we need so it won't be trying to look for a cD drive when it doesn't have the drivers
To look to the drive through 95, it's just a weird Catch-22, but this works
It's also handy to just do this anyway, so you don't have to dig out a windows 95
CD-Rom anytime you're trying to you know upgrade drivers
Or adding a new piece of hardware or software or something that needs something off of that windows 95 CD
So if you've got the space for it which obviously do with over 6 gigs then that yeah?
This is just something that I normally do anyway
I'm hoping that it's also going to find like the sound and whatnot but if not then that's okay
I'll just go and grab some drivers online or something or just from that
backup that I made of the drive that this came with
Hey guys, I found a disc drive. Do you need this yes? I do computer. That's okay. Yeah Eastern time
That is the correct time. I don't have a printer so screw you
mmm that classic windows 95 Splash startup thingy
Makes me happy all right, so it doesn't seem like we have any sound and probably don't have correct video drivers either
Yeah, we don't so we got 16 color and monochrome at 640 by 480 only so yeah
We at the very bare minimum are going to each sound and video, but let's see what else oh goodness
So there's a lot of things that it doesn't know what to do with well
Let me go see if I can find the drivers for those from you know
I don't know if Lenovo still had them up for download or
There's an archive of IBm stuff somewhere
I'm going to look for that first because I would rather get like you know the latest drivers before we do that though
I just got to see I got some dos games on this CD here
I wanted to see if it'll run commander keen I mean I know it will but I just want to see it do it like
PC speaker, ha
All right, oh
Man, that's awesome. Yeah, I was thinking that PC speaker was kind of loud
And it actually comes out of the speakers on the front of the computer, which is cool
Wow, what a loud like crunchy sounding PC speaker
That's great. It's like reverberating through my dining room here
Kill myself let's get the other sound and things going now, but that right there makes me happy
Mmm CD-rw 650 megabyTes
And we using this I just loaded it up with all the drivers and stuff that I could find
Which as I thought was pretty easy to track down it is an iBm product after all okay?
So I have loaded up the CD with things that I need first order our business here is going to be the video
which I have
Aptly named video
awesome
Hopefully that'll do it
nice
full screen
Finally as much better. We should be able to adjust the color depth as well
Yeah
16-bit is a thing let's apply that crap without restarting
Sweet give me them clouds
Except that. They're actually we could title them, but that's going to look stupid. Let's just go with
stitches for now
Yeah, there we go. Okay. Let's get some of these other things going we got audio
Listen actually as a setup program which is nice
Cirrus logic Crystal audio, I haven't actually tried this out with da stuff, so I'm curious all yeah, I
Love how when he tell windows 95 where the drivers are and it instantly forgets?
That's so annoying
Awesome. We've got a little speaker down here, so
Yeah
Let's try wave first
classic time for some of that canyon
sounds pretty sweet actually so I'm going to try a dos thing with going to be Duke Nukem 2 because it has ad-lib and
Sound blaster sound which I know how it should sound so it's a good test for me
It's pretty good
Of course my refrigerator is coming on
I ever buy and the Fm sound is really quiet even though I did
I think turned it up in Windows or whatever
Yeah, a lot of sounds are getting cut off like the sound blaster sounds
No, no sounds alright
Yeah, like right there. That sound didn't play all the way through
Okay, I'm not going to make you sit through all the other installation thingies here like you know nipple dot exe
That's just to get the trackpad the trackpoint working a little better, but I am going to do this here, so
Let me show you what this is going to be doing when you go to the properties at my computer you'll see that
there's this big blank spot here and
Well, you know if you have a computer, typically back then from a company
or actually even still from a manufacturer like ibm, then you're going to be seeing some information there, so these are actually the
Oem infos that go to
This particular thinkpad or at least there's some that I've downloaded that should be right so they go into the system folder here
And I'm just going to paste them
And there we go
so advil Ivm logo right there and
Some stuff that says what kind of computer it is and it's from Ibm and look we even get a little support information thingy
I know the phone number at a website so in case you have any problems like and call them right up
That's pretty much it for
What I'm going to be showing and as I'll fix that up here in a moment
But it's not pertinent to what I'm showing here today
but yeah, let's get this thing cleaned up and
Yeah
I'll just due to the nature of these computers having this sort of gray black finish. It's actually
Deceptively dirty, I'm guessing
This is just a water and vinegar mix, but yeah, you can see. That's a yeah
Yeah might not be the biggest difference visually, but it makes me feel better. Oh
Actually, it does feel better and look it actually got that little little spot off there
That's looking wonderful
That actually is pretty gross in there
Yeah, oh
Yeah, and I forgot to mention this does actually have a uSb on the back which is 1.0
Is still pretty cool for your computer from 97?
oh
Yeah looking good
All things considered this is actually in pretty good. Shape I
Seem like these speaker grilles have little you know get holes punctured in them and macaroni and cheese and poop gets in there
It's really gross sometimes
now if you wanted to it's actually really easy to just take off all of these keys and
Like give them a nice soak which I might do eventually right now. I just want to get it superficially cleaned oh
That's gross. Maybe the paper towel first on this that was nastier than I noticed it was but
twink
yeah, still definitely needs a deeper clean than that, but
Even just after a surface cleaning here. It's looking a lot better
less grimy
Oh yeah, and for the cherry on top a nice brand new nipple
Check that out.
Oh, that is a delightfully satisfying. Fresh computer!
Well, that's it for this video. I hope you enjoyed this little bit of a restoration
Dealio here pretty straightforward, but you know I thought it might be kind of entertaining to watch
Speaking of watching thank you for watching we'll see you in the next LGR