Unboxing a Trash Picked 2000s Mystery PC!

Thanks to HeroRareheart for the donation!

It's time for another episode of Viewer Donations! This time around, I've been sent a mysterious desktop PC that was found in the trash. Let's unbox it!

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[HeroRareheart]

I can't belive you got a display out, I couldn't get it to do that no mater what I did. I was able to get a terminal output though. Like I said, the PC was brand new. No user accounts on it or anything, someone just built or bought this and tossed it out 15-20 years later. That computer is honestly my most bizare find, the Compact Portable being thrown out makes some sense but this just doesn't. I would love to see you go over that book, it had so really nice stuff in it which I think you'd love.

P.S. Xenia>Tux, I'll take the badass trans fox over the doppy penguin any day ;p

[MarcoGPUtuber]

I never have to pick through trash to find an MJD video.

[albertstadt]

I ran an electrical repair shop for a charity store system until 2006. To test computer stuff, I had a Pentium 2 233 mhz mobo screwed onto the wall above my workbench. Your loose mobo brought back memories!

[Eyetrauma]

Re: “why would someone build a custom computer, open it, then leave it in the box?”
I watched a video from another creator where they did a retro unboxing and they’d said they only had the system because they had an automation system (for irrigation, I think?) and they bought *two* so there’d be no downtime if one failed. It never did, hence the pristine new system.

[kkaysix]

My parents took all my old PCs to the recycling site when they sold their old house :( I remember leaving behind a Frankenstein Packard Bell case which originally had one of those slot loading Pentium 2 233mhz (MMX!) which I somehow managed to upgrade to a later motherboard and processor despite a lot of proprietary case connections and also a self built PC from the early 2000s plus a brand new ATX case from around the same era which I never got round to using

[TheReviewer]

I would absolutely watch you flip through a piece of history like that netscape book! I think it would be interesting to see the types of things people were "astounded" by in the recent past like the 90s/00's. Also to really get an idea of just what was possible back then.

[BlackFantasy]

It's always curious what other people throw away. I've never found anything like this and doubt I ever will.

[tree_bark]

I had the exact same PC case. Unfortunately it wasn't in as good of a condition as yours, because the previous owner was a chain smoker and the inside of the case was covered with tar.
It is very sturdy and weighs approximately 17.000 tons even when empty.

[SinKillerJ]

Tux Racer could be a whole video in itself. Started as an open source game, became a ticket spewing arcade machine, then theres Planet Penguin Racer which went all LibreOffice.

[Alex-xshf]

You never forget to entertain us Michael keep up the good work man 😁

[WhtKenny]

OMG! an in-win box! I remember back in the day when PC towers were all no-name beige cases, and then all of a sudden getting an in-win case was the thing to do!

[juanignacioaschura]

6:06

Fun Fact: The side panel ducting was the result of a pair of standards Intel released in 2001 and 2002:
- Thermally Advantaged Chassis (TAC)
- Chassis Air Guide (CAG)

Of course, Intel being unable to make their Pentium 4 chips run cool, they released these sets of standards to case manufacturers so they could build designs that would help keep the chip cool.
TAC mandated that the air flow had to have neutral pressure, with an intake fan at the front and an exhaust at the back (and according to Intel, the exhaust fan had to be at least 92mm in size and provide 55CFM of free air airflow).
CAG was a component of TAC and consisted of a side panel with venting and a duct to ensure outside air was specifically channeled through the CPU cooler and heatsink.

Intel claimed these standards helped avoid internal temperature rises above 3°C and keep ambient temperature inside the case below 40°C.

Intel abandoned TAC and CAG with the switch to the Conroe generation (Core 2 chips), as it was unnecessary by that point and besides, there wasn't widespread adoption from the case manufacturers, both standards were not subsets of ATX and AMD chips didn't require TAC and CAG to run cool and perform properly.

[toaster]

Oh my god Tux Racer brings back so many childhood memories.

[CRYPTiCEXiLE]

i'm very good with unix-like system and its always fun to watch people figuring out stuff and congrats.. we all been there at one point and honestly the learning and figuring out stuff in these system to me personally is the most fun way of these kind of systems... now that i know a lot it is freaking boring :(

[andresbravo]

Might be good to see another Donation video Michael. That’s awesome.

[ariadnavigo]

Such a nostalgia trip seeing GNOME 2.x and KDE 3.x there! ❤️❤️❤️

[michaelstechnology]

Everyday there is a new MJD video, the day automatically gets better

[AstralTeaLeaf]

I enjoyed the full footage of the Office 97 video and I would absolutely enjoy a video of you just flipping through that book too.

[EuFariaVideos]

15:30 OMG i used to play this game in my pc, i buyed a Magazine CD Games and it have this game

[Akselmoi]

It's nice to see retro linux content. I hope to see more of it :)