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