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yes siree Bob my friends in today's video the young whippersnappers and our audience are gonna have a look at how the previous generation lived because believe it or not we did have your mobile computers it's just that to see that they weren't quite as sleek and sexy as a modern Ultrabook would be a gross understatement thanks to world of warships for sponsoring this video it's the free-to-play online strategy game that features millions of players battling to upgrade their armoury of ships weapons and well armored tuna at the end of the video or click the link below to learn more so step one I guess is to get this puppy booted up now this might not stand out to some of you but one of the first things I noticed about this thing is the power cord fascinating isn't it it's just a normal power cord there's no external power brick this thing has an internal power supply are you kidding me alright we're gonna get this plugged in now brought in the electrician who I borrowed this thing from he's got like a tech Museum in his basement that guy he actually told me the battery on this thing does work but lithium batteries don't age very well so I'd be surprised if it stays on longer than a couple minutes so we're gonna power here this is like so exciting he also told me that he pre-loaded my favorite game on it which I don't remember talking to him about retro games at any point so let's see what do you put on here Wow is that 80 Meg's of RAM that's actually pretty respectable for a computer of this era I mean it's not amazing but it's ok you know windows 95 so that makes this thing significantly older than Jake like we literally have people working here who are younger than this laptop I haven't heard that sound in so long all right so this is it this is the desktop experience it's a go any brighter no it does not wow that is not a fantastic display so I just wanted to check that RAM amount and I realized I don't actually remember how to access task manager in Windows 95 you can't just right-click the task bar monitors the system resources your programs are using like any program the resource meter uses system resources when it's running this may cause your computer to run more slowly in that great back when we had like 100 megahertz CPUs your computer would warn you about opening up resource monitor because it could affect your resource consumption Wow that is a fairly rudimentary resource meter well your system resources they're very 86% free as for your user resources same thing won't we try one of the other similar looking things here how about system monitor okay that's more like it so we're using about 40 Meg's of RAM on what we don't know I tried the two fingers swipe to scroll and all I did was move my icons around just like yeah yeah sure you know what it gives you an appreciation for you know modern grid arrangements and everything snapping into place right how BIG's our Drive Wow four gigs fat32 storage not beautiful I mean to put that in context this ultrabook has four times that in system memory all right so we're fired up let's get into what Brian thinks is my favorite game and action okay there's no way he would have guessed this but I actually played so many hours of 1602 ad back when the only gaming computer I had was a Pentium 90 desktop that I inherited from my uncle and his sound on if you don't happen to have something playing while you're making adjustments you can press down for a test tone I'm gonna need a mouse though in order to play this game USB didn't come around until windows 98 se if I recall correctly this laptop doesn't have USB actually no hold on okay oh so that's labeled mouse keyboard that is a ps2 port and I happen to have in my bag of Wonders a ps2 to USB adapter I'm gonna have to go digging deeper into the bag of Wonders and see if I have a ps2 mouse okay well we didn't find a ps2 mouse but I did find a ball mouse with USB so I am hoping that this will not bad yes my friends these were great for all sorts of things picking up all the dust off your desk and putting it in one convenient place to be picked off and disposed of later throwing these nice heavy rubber balls at people you didn't like man like hair and gunk wrapped around this gross before I settle in for my nostalgic gaming session though actually why don't we like take a closer look at this thing it's got some real problems compared to modern computers these bezels take up like as much at the top of the unit as the freaking screen does they're so big this touchpad is abominable though with that said I do appreciate the inclusion of dedicated left and right clicks here speakers suck and this thing is frickin heavy like it is it is chunky like you were carrying a briefcase if you had one of these but it has some advantages compared to modern devices so even though we weren't really able to plug in our you know modern Mouse to it very easily the i/o on this thing is substantial so check this out you've got your floppy disk reader you've got not one but two PCMCIA expansion slots so these could actually be used back in the day to add new ports to laptops go figure right we've got our rj11 modem port we've got the ps2 port we ended up using check this out that my friends yes that is infrared so I believe though instead of being used as just like a remote control or to like control your TV this was actually for wireless data transmission oh I know right we've got our printer port we've got a dock port VGA out serial and then all moving around finally my arm is like actually oh we've got our cd-rom drive and finally headphone microphone jacks yes my friend a headphone jack and check this out here's a feature you haven't seen in a while a removable battery now I mean 2.7 amp hours daddy's not a lot and it obviously isn't gonna work very well anymore but hey it had it oh wow seriously when there's an autorun you can't click anything behind it at multitasking there's so many things I completely take for granted these days alright let's fire up some corel wordperfect so back to the things that are good about it this keyboard is amazing compared to modern keyboards you might as well have a mechanical keyboard in your laptop like this is flippin awesome the layouts great it's got dedicated keys for home end page up page down it's got look at this travel listen to that like that that is a laptop keyboard and check this out it's even got remappable shortcut buttons like come on 1996 wasn't such a bad time I mean yeah there's no Windows key you know what those 1602 actually can be run on relatively modern machines and there is a game that I legitimately have not played since like 2002 when the classroom computers actually ran Windows 95 windows 98 and it's called the Aero unfortunately getting it seems like it might be a little tricky so a lot of you might not realize this but check this out Windows 95 is actually pre like the blue Internet Explorer icon this is when like Internet Explorer was the name because it was internet mail internet news and Internet Explorer what does internet News even look like what do you please select a folder where Internet mail should keep your message of been talking about Internet News configuration holy crap so we're gonna have to download the game separately and then just copy it over to here except one small problem even though the game is small enough to fit on a single floppy disk I don't have any floppy disks this pop out is this floppy drive removable holy crap it is there must be like a catch somewhere for it it definitely count anyway also rj45 was considered a fancy-pants feature back then none of that and of course even if Windows 95 did support USB storage it doesn't have any USB ports and Wi-Fi oh forget about it that was still a twinkle in the eye of an engineer somewhere like that that's not a thing how do I write back fortunately what is a thing is this old external CD burner that I have and this spindle of CDRs that I happen to have kicking around like I still remember when if you had a CD burner you were the coolest kid in class like yeah they were slow and the software was atrocious also the blank discs were expensive so when a burn failed it was like actually a big deal like okay there goes a few more dollars great thanks for that but you could move a whopping 650 megabytes of data in between the scenes or store it safely and that is exactly what we are gonna do now I don't actually have burning software installed on this laptop because why would I but I seem to recall Microsoft building it in at some point okay how do you want to use this disk with a CD DVD player the arrow men finished burning okay I'm burning a CD it's been a while now when I say these things were slow like I really mean it I'm going at a speed that is about eight times what we would have had back then in the early days of CD burning I'm only writing like a mega files and it's still taking this long because there was the preamble and the like the the finishing process that had to be done on the disk regardless of how much you wrote to it so let's see if this works fortunately if it didn't I've got this whole spindle that definitely is not earmarked for any other purpose so Brian must have actually burned this for me old awesome thanks dude hey there we go holy crap I think it worked the arrow windows 98 give her a second here got a ramp up that disk okay is this gonna work Oh aren't you fun extended memory successfully initialised press any key oh yeah the arrow V 1.33 baby hey Jake you want to play some wee arrow lis arrow so it's local multiplayer only Oh some I like Wasden your well your RF DG and then you need fire change weapons and jump if it helps at all mine's really not much better so there's a mini-map down here wait this before there's a way to dig fast ah there it is you hold the direction you want to go and then you press back so you like you spam back I think this keyboard has ghosting issues oh I see so only one of us can like dig at a time let's get some explosives going on up in this biz oh crap it was not what I meant to do Oh crass modern that's lower load it's killing me here no I can't even aim Oh No oh right the hurt shot I can't change my weapons cuz you're holding down keys I can't change my lovin now you're done we have 14 lives roomie your all day yeah when you're better at the game and the controls are working it actually goes pretty quick well the grasshopper is really powerful whoa okay next point wins I guess yeah shoot I shouldn't have said that atom gun now one of the other things I used my laptop for when I was a teenager was looking at pictures so the problem though is that when you did that just use Internet Explorer to open a picture it did it is downloading it from the cd-rom drive give her a minute oh yeah there it goes she's loaded she's loading in skin tones we're really not handled very well on the default setting so you can hardly tell cuz the display is so bad but if you zoom in on this can you tell how little colors to this thing like loading in on the edges of the frame as you you see that oh it's spectacular now fortunately many older computers you went into the properties much like you would today allowed you to here we go change the color palette from the default 256 to high color or even true color now with that said that didn't actually seem to do much for me and it might have been Windows 98 where they had a built-in picture viewer I can I open this with something else like is this something that's been altered yeah this is clearly no better the the bottleneck here may actually be the display you guys will just have to take my word for it 16 or better yet 24-bit color was was definitely a much better experience when looking at pictures on your laptop a better representation of skin tones for sure that is assuming that your dial up internet connection could even download anything high res high color I think that's enough of me fooling around with this thing let's get down to bidness and play some 1602 AD sound not working that trend offers uh it's not a form of DRM or anything it's just that the sound assets we're too big to actually copy over to the harddrive in-game music wouldn't work without the discount so let's go ahead and close down the program to try that one more time and that great single player Oh lame the yellow and blue player got big ships to start so settling a southern island is good late-game because you've got like cotton and all that kind of stuff but actually northern islands were better for food production we have to explore the island one moment please ooh cocoa and cotton hundred percent yield oh and there's or there we go build a warehouse the controls are like so unintuitive man I might go home tonight and like legit play this game it's gonna foresters Hut going on over here I won't subject you guys to any more of that though so that's pretty much it that's a look at not the laptop that I owned as a kid but one that is pretty darn close it was a hand-me-down actually from my half-sisters dad so it was already worthless then and it's even more worthless now world of warships is a free-to-play strategy action game that some would refer to as a thinking man's action game you can battle it out with seven million players worldwide and each in-game ship is based on 3d scans of real-life ships there are over 200 ships to unlock the historic USS Missouri and USS Arizona and there's four different classes of ships along with a bunch of upgrades weather effects and strategically designed environments so the action never ends and every match is different the game is getting continually updated so there's always something new to experience or achieve and you can click the link below to collect an exclusive bonus starter pack new players can register with code play Langley 2019 to receive 302 balloons a million credits the USS langley premium aircraft carrier three days of premium time and more so go check it out so thanks for watching you guys thanks to Brian for giving me this old clunker of a laptop to play with here and if you guys enjoyed the video you can hit that like button if you really enjoyed it you can hit subscribe if you disliked it well you can also hit that button but we're gonna have while I did my entire outro to board or whatever go buy merch and join our forum yes