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  • (electrical floppy drive intro)

  • Greetings, and here we are on LGR once again

  • with one of my favorite things, hehe.

  • We're unboxing yet another in-box IBM PC.

  • This one in particular being the IBM PC 5140,

  • otherwise known as the PC Convertible.

  • It was first released in 1986 for about $2,000,

  • although I think this particular configuration,

  • with all this stuff cost a little bit more.

  • And this was IBM's first laptop computer.

  • Now they had portables before this and, yeah,

  • some other various PC kind of spin-offs,

  • the PCjr and such, but this was the first one

  • to come as close to what we would call

  • a 'laptop' computer nowadays.

  • Of course, there's a ton of history,

  • and a bunch of things that go into this whole system,

  • and how it works, and what it was for

  • and what came before it and after it,

  • all these kind of things that I wanna do in a later video.

  • But just for today, because I am working

  • on some larger projects like that,

  • I do want to just talk about this in unboxing form

  • and get this thing opened up.

  • Because I found this some time ago.

  • Actually, I've had it sitting around for awhile

  • and just been waiting for an opportunity

  • to dive into it and see what's in here.

  • Because, yeah, it is new in the box

  • or at least as close to it as I could find.

  • It's definitely been opened up at one point or another,

  • but as far as I know, it's never actually been powered on.

  • So, yeah, we'll go ahead and get straight to it.

  • We're gonna start with this box here.

  • We've got a power supply,

  • and yes, there is a printer with this thing.

  • And (laughs) this is one of the most interesting aspects

  • of the computer.

  • We'll get to that, but, yeah for now, let's open up

  • this newish old stock machine and set it up.

  • (grunts)

  • I think actually this was the first IBM computer

  • to officially come with a 3 1/2 inch disk drive.

  • So that's another notable thing.

  • There's a lot of notable things, and like I said,

  • we'll be doing a more retrospective video in the future.

  • For now, I just wanna see what the experience was like

  • getting one of these from the shops back in the day.

  • (plastic crinkles)

  • Yeah, like I said, the seller did open it up

  • and do some other packaging, 'cause yeah,

  • I guess it was missing the original styrofoam inserts.

  • So yeah, that's unfortunate.

  • But alright, here we go.

  • I got one of those nice familiar chunky IBM PC power cables.

  • (plastic crinklage)

  • Oh, got an add-on card of some kind here and an IBM box.

  • What is this?

  • It's like a RAM upgrade.

  • (moar plastic)

  • So there is an IBM battery pack,

  • part number 2684331

  • Alright, looks like we have some instructions here

  • for installing that RAM card.

  • That's nice.

  • Oh yeah, the delightful guide to operations here.

  • That's a little different design than the other ones

  • that I've unboxed, still very nice

  • bit of IBM spiral-bound documentation.

  • And yes, there's the IBM PC Convertible Start-Up Diskette.

  • Oh yeah, love this stuff.

  • And I got a packet of

  • mm, something.

  • Okay, so interesting little registration card here.

  • Got a nice little adhesive bit that you can remove

  • and stick it together to, yeah,

  • let IBM know how much money you make and stuff.

  • Yeah, looks like a little quick set up guide.

  • Yeah, this little word-free, language-free thing

  • for, yeah, starting it up.

  • Basically, insert the disk and power it on and stuff.

  • Aw yes, (laughs) I love when computers come with this,

  • especially IBMs.

  • It's just nice classy stationery

  • and typed out welcome letter here.

  • And thank you for purchasing a personal computer from IBM.

  • Yeah, pretty standard stuff being like,

  • what is this though?

  • What is that?

  • Can you see that?

  • Yeah, if I shine the light through it, it says writing

  • and something else right there (laughs).

  • Oh and this fell out too, eh, license agreement, whatever.

  • Mm, I sense DOS.

  • Aw, now that is delightful.

  • We have a still-sealed DOS version 3.20

  • and this IBM PC DOS, not Microsoft DOS.

  • I mean, it's still by Microsoft, of course,

  • but yeah, this specifically for IBM PC Convertibles.

  • Interesting, so that means it probably, yeah,

  • doesn't come with any 5 1/4 inch disks (laughs).

  • Huh. (slides)

  • And just by comparison here, here's my normal copy

  • that I use of DOS version 3.3,

  • and you can see on the back there

  • that it mentions that it has, of course, 5 1/4 disks

  • but also, all these other computers supported.

  • I'm assuming this will support whatever computer as well.

  • It's just it doesn't, it's not made for them exactly.

  • Okay, time for the main event.

  • (rip and tear)

  • Oh, that's nice.

  • It's still in some kind of a shrink wrap deal here.

  • So I don't know, if it came like this

  • from the factory but either way,

  • it looks immaculate under that plastic which is nice.

  • 'Cause I actually used to have a PC 5140, years ago,

  • and it was in just the worst condition

  • that I never did a video on it.

  • It was bad.

  • It just needed too much work, so this is lovely.

  • Alright, this is potentially the first time

  • this has been opened (laughs).

  • (pleasurable plastic ripping) Ooh.

  • (quality plastic tearing) That's some quality plastic.

  • Man.

  • (sweep, swipe)

  • (inhales deeply)

  • Mm, yeah that smells fresh.

  • (plastic crinkles)

  • Oh, wow, aw, there's a little, tiny little broken chip

  • of something there, so it got knocked around at some point.

  • It seems like there's just some fragile bits of plastic

  • here where this really high quality metal handle

  • goes into place.

  • It just sort of bumps up against that.

  • Anyway.

  • Aw, haw haw haww.

  • And there we go.

  • This is the IBM PC Convertible,

  • and it's awesome (laughs).

  • Look at that.

  • You don't see these too often, at least I don't,

  • like the inserts for the little 3 1/2 inch drives.

  • Typical, that's only a 5 1/4 inch thing,

  • but these, that's awesome.

  • Wow, and they're nicely shaped and everything.

  • It's really cool.

  • So yeah, I see like a film or something on here.

  • I don't know if that comes off or what

  • or if that's like inside.

  • Hopefully, it's not coming apart in there or something.

  • I don't know.

  • Like I said, the seller said,

  • they'd never turned it on before, so who knows,

  • who knows what's going on here.

  • Yeah, it should go like that 'cause

  • that's where the little latch goes,

  • so get that reattached real quick.

  • Yeah, just a little bit of Gorilla Gel should help.

  • Being that this is an actual functional latch piece though,

  • I wanna be careful in the future for sure.

  • Alright, gonna let that dry, but as you can see here

  • it's just the sort of mechanism

  • where the whole thing lifts up like that

  • and brings up the disk drives and everything.

  • Not gonna latch it fully,

  • 'cause it's still drying that little part,

  • but yeah, it's just a really cool design, I think.

  • And this whole screen actually comes off.

  • Let's see, where is it?

  • There it is.

  • (laughs) Like this.

  • So here's the convertible aspect of this thing.

  • So you could actually take this off,

  • and there was a monitor mount.

  • You might've seen it on the box earlier.

  • And you could put a full CRT in here,

  • and there you go, you've got this neat looking little thing.

  • Almost looks like a Tandy 1000 HX or something here,

  • a little smaller, narrower anyway (keys clicking)

  • yeah, no numpad but still very, very nice keys. I mean...

  • Haw.

  • It's not exactly like a clicky keyboard, but pretty quality.

  • (inhales deeply)

  • There's just something about the way

  • these old keyboards smell,

  • especially when they've been sealed up like that, like new,

  • 'cause it seriously still smells new.

  • It's that slight new car smell.

  • It's wonderful.

  • It's probably just toxic plastic and paint though (laughs).

  • Okay, and put that over there for now,

  • and let's get those other two things opened up,

  • because of course, gotta have some power.

  • (tape pops apart)

  • (laughs) That old Scotch tape.

  • (plastic crinklage) It's so yellow now.

  • And here we go, this is almost PCjr-like

  • but thankfully, not as weird proprietary crap going on.

  • (laughs) But yeah, just a nice little brick here.

  • (plop) I think it's a 15 volt, 2.7 amp.

  • Yeah.

  • And that just goes in the side, right here.

  • Well. It should. There it is.

  • (laughs) And look at that, it's even got a little,

  • tiny little orange power button,

  • instead of the big red orange switch

  • that the PCs typically had.

  • But yeah, look at that, it's still orange, red, whatever.

  • And lastly, hey, hey, hey, this is one of the things

  • that has always interested me about this machine

  • and that is the PC Convertible Printer,

  • another convertible aspect.

  • They called this the Convertible,

  • instead of just a portable or whatever for multiple reasons,

  • and this is one of those reasons.

  • Aw man, look at this little guy (laughs),

  • a little tiny ink ribbon cartridge.

  • Now, this is pristine.

  • Ahh.

  • Okay, got a little feeder tray here.

  • Yeah, man, so this is a,

  • it's like a full dot matrix printer,

  • and it's just in a nice little compact unit.

  • Look at that.

  • The PC Convertible Printer.

  • I love all the little original inserts and stuff.

  • (satisfied sigh)

  • So the way this works (laughs),

  • you've got a little plastic piece

  • that comes off the back here,

  • and this, it just connects in place

  • almost like a PCjr sidecar,

  • but this is a laptop computer.

  • Oh, okay, I gotta move the little latch there.

  • Okay, there we go, and once that's in place, yeah,

  • you have a computer that is really, really long (laughs).

  • It just becomes this absurd deal

  • when you start adding these expansions on the back,

  • but the fact that you can have

  • a laptop with a built-in printer is just great.

  • And of course, there were other laptops later on

  • that had built-in printers and portables

  • before and after this with built-in printers.

  • It's not the only thing that does anything like this,

  • but it's one of the coolest, I think,

  • just in terms of its overall form factor and design.

  • And I don't know.

  • I just think this looks really great, as well,

  • just from a design perspective, and it should considering

  • this was an industrial design by Richard Sapper.

  • Well, let's go ahead and get DOS going on this things

  • and see what it can do really quick.

  • (laughs) I've been itching to try one of these

  • that actually works properly.

  • Time for some of that DOS.

  • (plastic crinkles)

  • I've never actually had this version of DOS

  • brand new like this.

  • Ooh. (deeply sniffs)

  • Sorry, I know my smelling and stuff

  • of these things can get creepy for some people,

  • but I, man, this is just still so special to me.

  • Look at all this.

  • Okay, got some things here, and what is it?

  • Yours free.

  • The Directory.

  • Yeah, I've showed the actual directory

  • in one of my other unboxings.

  • I gonna read this first.

  • Installing DOS, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

  • Got a nice little reference card here

  • for a lot of your most common DOS commands.

  • Well (laughs), a lot of these are not common at all,

  • but it has them anyway, because IBM.

  • So yeah, DOS Reference.

  • Oh, it's got nice little color things going on.

  • I dig that.

  • Look at the little DOS bird or whatever.

  • What is that guy?

  • Doesn't actually say who he is.

  • Just he's all through here though.

  • Here's a update package for the PC Convertible itself,

  • that's nice, 10 pages, five sheets and a label.

  • DOS also comes on two diskettes.

  • Both diskettes are in back of the DOS Reference

  • in a plastic (speaks gibberish).

  • They were really adamant about you keeping

  • that information in mind, I guess,

  • 'cause they give you an entirely separate label to place

  • on here to remind you about that, but yeah.

  • Apparently, there's a couple little updates

  • in here for the Convertible itself.

  • So yeah, otherwise, it's just generic DOS 3.2 here,

  • but cool, nice that it came with that.

  • Here we go, PC DOS version 3.21.

  • I'm gonna keep that out, 'cause we're gonna be using that.

  • (plastic crinkles)

  • (metal clicks)

  • (pages rustling)

  • That's a lotta DOS.

  • Okay, let's get this thing started up.

  • Okay, just gonna try it unexpanded,

  • in its lovely original form for now.

  • Got everything plugged in, so let's power it on

  • and see what happens.

  • (computer beeps)

  • Ooh.

  • Doing the RAM check there, should have 256K by default.

  • (computer buzzes)

  • Nice.

  • (computer beeps) And there we go.

  • Got the little disk insert graphic there,

  • very IBM PS/2 like.

  • But yeah, this is a, sorry, it's kinda hard to see,

  • I mean, this just always gonna be hard to see.

  • This screen is never good, even when it's brand new.

  • (key clicks)

  • Non-system disk?

  • The heck (laughs), that's definitely a system disk, yo.

  • There we go.

  • Alright, so asking for the current date which is.

  • (keys clicking)

  • Alright, and there we go.

  • We've got DOS version 3.2

  • and yeah,

  • unfortunately, it does look like there is a bit of a line

  • through the display there.

  • That's unfortunate, but eh, so it goes (laughs).

  • But to be honest, I didn't buy this to use very much.

  • Mostly, I just want to do a video on the history of it,

  • and just show it in action and such,

  • because, yeah, it's just a fascinating machine.

  • If I really wanted to use an IBM PC,

  • I'd use any number of my dozens of other ones that I have,

  • because they're all gonna be better than this.

  • But it's just the fact that its form factor and design

  • and everything is just so friggin' cool to me.

  • So yeah, if I really wanted to use this better,

  • I can easily just swap out this screen,

  • for probably, I think my other screen actually

  • looked a little better than this.

  • So, I don't know.

  • There's extra parts and stuff online.

  • We'll see what happens when I (laughs) get around to it.

  • But yeah, hmm, got DONKEY.BAS, classic.

  • (computer buzzes)

  • Hmm, device I/O error.

  • (keys clicking)

  • (computer buzzes)

  • (laughs) Well, there may be some issues with this drive.

  • It just needs to be cleaned

  • or maybe it's a belt issue or something.

  • We'll see.

  • I still have the other ones, so if I really need

  • to start swapping out some parts and whatnot,

  • 'cause that's always a thing (laughs), seems like.

  • I wanna try the other drive. (keys clicking)

  • (computer buzzes)

  • Well, I got a directory, perfectly, the first time there.

  • (keys clicking)

  • Let's run that Donkey.

  • (computer buzzes)

  • Alright, well, opened up that perfectly too, so

  • (key clicks)

  • it seems to the B drive is in better shape.

  • (game clicks)

  • (game beeps) (game clicks)

  • (laughs)

  • (game beeps) (game clicks)

  • (game over music)

  • Best game Microsoft ever made.

  • Yeah, that's the IBM PC Convertible.

  • (keys clicking)

  • Yeah, working nicely for the most part.

  • Unfortunately, with that little line through the screen

  • and of course, the A drive needs a bit of attention,

  • and this little thing is a bit weird,

  • and there's a slight bit of film or something

  • coming off around the edges of the screen.

  • Okay, so maybe this is not as brand new as

  • I hoped it would be (laughs).

  • Granted, it was never sold as brand new.

  • It was new, old stock, so you never know

  • how these things have held up

  • being in storage for over 30 years.

  • Always a complete and total crapshoot.

  • So, yeah, let's see if it boots again.

  • (computer buzzes)

  • Yeah, no, (laughs) it is an intermittent at best

  • when it comes to that A drive, for sure.

  • So, I'll take that apart and see what's goin' on with it.

  • And then hopefully, get this thing all nice and working,

  • so I can show it off in another video,

  • and do a proper retrospective with the printer.

  • Because seriously, that printer is the coolest thing,

  • so yeah, we'll get to that at some point.

  • But anyway, thank you very much for watching this video,

  • a bit of filler while I'm working on,

  • more involved videos of things that actually work.

  • So yeah, that's about it for this.

  • And if you'd like to see some other episode like it,

  • I've done quite a few IBM unboxings at this point,

  • and stuff like this.

  • This is what I do here at LGR every single week.

  • And as always thank you very much for watching.

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