My First PC - Gateway Essential 500C From 2000 Part 1

The first power up in over 10 years!

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[bbishoppcm]

Nice! I just pulled out my first computer - a Tandy 1000 HX my dad bought when I was five in 1989! Have fun!!

[isaac]

20:07 what the heck happened there? Wow. That thing is absolutely mint. I wish I had all of that information about my first PC, let alone my first PC. It WAS a Dell Dimension, I'm not sure what kind, I think it was a 4600. Windows XP, and some really generic keyboard, mouse, speakers, and a really old, HP or something, 17" or so flat panel monitor. It was an EARLY flat panel, and it was junk, it always flickered and never worked right. CRT's did it better. My uncle got it, and then I think it got tossed when he died. I didn't have ANY of the packaging or information on it, since my dad got it used. But it served me well for 5 or so years.

[JFD]

Dude!

Not only is this a throwback to the early days of your channel, it's a throwback to the early 2000's itself.

Full short disclosure, I've been playing a community-upgraded version of Max Payne, whose disc image I've [ahem] 'acquired' from a certain site [ahARCHIVEDOTORGem]. In short, from a throwback game session to a throwback video. ahhhh . . . XD

Incidentally, my old Compaq FS740 and its JBL speakers still work, (nigh) flawlessly! Although, the monitor's control buttons can be sensitive, and the speakers may need a pluginandout session on the headphone jack for the speakers to even fully work, and that's after a contact cleaner spray in the ports... (I never did quite completely disassemble the right speaker, no thanks to a STRIPPED SCREW. x.x)

I also got that same jeweller's screwdriver set, only the clear plastic is not fully intact...

47:30 - ...I see I'm not the only one that thought the opening setup sound from the Creative Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold disk would make a cool bootup noise! :D

(...or was it the 3D Blaster? I forget which.)

[EmersonCollie]

I got my first computer as a house warming gift in 1999. I bought my first house on August 4, 1999 at the age of 23. I never used a computer before other than an Apple II at school in the mid 80's. So for five months, the computer sat in the smallest spare bedroom all set up, just no internet. At that time I wanted to get (at the time) The Bellsouth Americast for the TV's in my house. I was told that it discontinued and while I was on the phone, Bellsouth was telling me about their new DSL Internet service. I said sure, I have a computer that I wanted to start using and look things up online so I got that instead. The next day, the cables was hooked up to that room and one thing I noticed, I didn't hear any dial-up sounds or the "Welcome, you got mail" voice. They said no, DSL is the next step up. AOL had the Welcome, you have mail part. My parents computer that had the AOL was a 1996 Tandy computer from Radio Shack. A few years later Radio Shack sold Gateway computers. I didn't know much about computers back then. If it wasn't for the house warming gift, chances are I would have bought a Tandy computer for myself.

Sadly, my first computer was a Emachines and it died after about 5 years of using it everytime I came home from work and over the weekends.

Stickdeath was one of the first websites I enjoyed. Those animated shorts that I would watch was awesome. Oh and that page going from folder to folder when downloading. Then going on Kazaa to listen to music. I miss all of that, even being in my early 20's, I miss that the most.

[tallboyyyy]

My first computer I got back about 1998. It had the thunder clap startup sound too. I believe that sound came with sound blaster cards. My first computer I had built for me by a local computer store. It was an AMD K6-2 450mhz processor, 128 MB of PC100 ram, 6 gig Western Digital hard drive, Sound Blaster card and a 40x cd rom drive. I don't remember what it had for video but it wasn't anything special. I still have it but the hard drive is locked up.

[AMDRADEONRUBY]

Nice pc love your video In my book Norton was a heavy resources user.. I have older pcs too. Old P1 P2 etc a not working Commodore 64 I'm happy now we can have a good Free AV (Windows Defender) this Norton is so vintage thanks for the comeback in the 90-00 windows 2000 was my favorite Windows.

[oldradiosnphonographs]

I have a Essential 450 from 1999 I put windows 2000 on, it’s my favorite old school windows machine.

[dannptf]

Listening to this with my Gateway 2000 Computer Speakers ( Altec Lansing ACS41) and matching subwoofer..great sound!

[WalterKnox]

my first ever computer was one of these, i was like 6 and the monitor died and my mother threw the whole computer away and bought a cheap acer all in one. I found a full tower version with a pentium 3 in it at an e waste center and managed to sneak it into my car, I had the hardest time finding drivers, and i guess it was my lucky day because one day i was in a thrift store and happened to find that little gateway disk binder with the system restore disks which had all the drivers and stuff that would have come on the machine. i would still like to find one just like my original one, but still pretty good systems for what they are.

[TheBehemothHyper]

Also at some point can you find an eMachine T1840?

It would be cool if u and Harley could find one cause that computer was part of my childhood!

Also if you get it, you should install a rear 80 MM case fan to help exhaust the heat from the PC and also replace the Power supply cause the 250 watt power supplies they use have a tendency to fail and kill up the motherboard.

[TheBehemothHyper]

At 3:26 two USB 1.0! Looks like USB 2.0 cause There both black

And this is MATT5200 lol surprised!

[CJFoxthewhitefoxden]

That’s cool! My family had a Gateway computer like that. Only it was 400mhz and a pentium II. And a Boston acoustic speakers. Mods where at 56k modem and CD burner. (Forgot the name of it)

[FrostbiteXZ]

man i had a pc like that before but it had windows xp on it but i'm sure it wasn't meant for windows xp but it still ran and i played some old games on it for a while lol and the monitor i had the same exact one was pretty good for the time also great video Spats ;D

[jshockley]

I always liked the Winamp starts intro

[aldiakaroofus]

Nice blast from the past! I got my 1st PC in November 2000!

[Madness]

We used to call 'em Cow-puters or Guernsey Boxes! :D

[Trance]

I was super late to the computer game. Mom bought an E-machines in 2004 just so I didn't have to go to the school library and type up my papers. I used to have a CRT monitor that did that exact same "snapping" thing and the picture would spazz. Also, I believe the the OEM of that gateway monitor is MAG Innovision.

[ChadQuickW]

Fantastic walk down memory lane. Also so great to see your kitties there helping out ❤️

[colin_]

Very cool stuff! Always fun to go down memory lane, right?

[davidzeringuethefanman]

I really enjoyed the video and also my favorite computer