Setting Up An Unused 1986 IBM PC Convertible 5140!

Found a new old stock IBM 5140 to unbox and set up! MS-DOS 3.21, monochrome CGA graphics, and even an attachable printer that goes around back. Will do a more in-depth video on it later, but for now let's enjoy it like it's 1986.

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[scruffythejanitor]

I love how you have become a freaking connoisseur of IBM design, documentation, and computers. You seriously sound like a sommelier at points.

[zoomzabba]

I didn't know IBM was in the Ultra-wide display market.

[ZImpresive]

IBM: "this system will make some business man really happy and successful!"
34 Years latter
"Greetings"
*10 Print "Farts"*
wood grain!!!!

[comradeurod]

Clint, your channel is slowly becoming a bigger database about IBM PCs than IBM themselves. Very interesting, loved the video as always, thanks for sharing this thing with us

[pierrepetuya]

I actually bought one of these from a “catalog” after placing my order over a landline and then waiting almost two weeks for it to show up. I believe it was like $650 in 87 or 88. Sadly he did not show how the printer clipped to the ass end of it. You could knock out your fresh document on dot matrix thermal paper ready to throw in the copier to have it transformed into a real readable usable paper suitable for presentation before the toxic chemicals in the thermal paper could seep into your skin and cause liver damage. It was loud and slow and thoroughly impressive. Yes it did have a battery built in but no hard drive. when doing word processing when you went to edit you would have to put in different disks to perform functions.
Even living in San Jose at the time I would break this baby out in public places and everyone would walk by staring at this portable pinnacle of technology in awe.

[MrVolksbeetle]

That LCD is smeary! Such blurry memories are becoming slightly less fuzzy, I love it!

[slayrsaber]

Fill and send that registration card to IBM :)

[leggeddog]

"It's probably just toxic plastic.." *Does weird, high laugh*

uh hu :p

[bubbawv]

The "writing" you could see in the paper while shining light on the back is the paper watermark. That is how you could tell if a letter was on high bond paper when that was a thing of importance.

[AdamChristensen]

New old stock IBM on LGR? This is what I live for!

[MarkyShaw]

I have fond memories of these convertibles. I bought a second hand Toshiba T1200 that I used in highschool in the 90s, years after after the things came out. It had a damn power switch to turn on/off the internal 10mb hard drive to conserve battery power. My friends at the lunch table would turn it off while I was trying to play Prince of Persia. Bastards. The display wasn't great but it was still magic to me to be portably computing in the first place. Never seen the removable display before!!! Awesome...

[emdotrod]

CNN: Man Found A 32 Year Old New in Box Computer And Setting It Up For The First Time

[TOMORROWSPHERE]

LGR needs a late night unboxing segment. Candles, red velvet table covering, glass of wine and a satin backdrop while sultry jazz is playing. These unboxings are getting hot! :D Great show as always!

[Koutsie]

can we bottle the perfumes of old computers ?

[aidangettel]

I love these IBM I take care of an elderly gentlemen who worked for IBM almost 40 years. Who helped oversee the installation of the SABRE computer system which was used to track air traffic through the US. He also oversaw the teams that tracked the results of the 1964 Olympics in Japan where he got to be drinking buddies with the son of the emperor. And the subsequent British Olympics where he stayed with one of the ladies in waiting to the queen and her husband. Anything IBM brings back memories which is good due to the fact he suffers from early onset Alzheimer's.

[ThisDoesNotCompute]

There seems to be some surprising similarities between the PC Convertible and the Apple IIc, especially with the way IBM did the cantilevered monitor stand. (The IIc had an optional LCD screen that looked a lot like the Convertible's as well.)

[HuggieBear]

This was the first laptop I saw in person. My instructor brought hers to class one day. I was in awe of the thing. It was so much smaller than the 286 machines were were learning on.

[brittislove]

I said it before and I'll say it again: This guys enthusiasm is probably the best part of his videos. The love, care, and enjoyment makes it incredible

[kpanic]

I just imagined Clint coming home after a pretty stressful day, collapsing in his old armchair, reaching behind to grab a Model F keyboard, taking a deeeep whiff... <dukevoice>Ahhh... much better...</dukevoice>

[milo]

flex tape guy: "Thats alot of damage!"
Clint: "Thats alot of dos!"