This old 286 PC | Nostalgia Nerd
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00:00-00:49 Introduction
00:49-06:05 286 PCs
06:05-06:45 SqSp
06:45-15:36 The Epson PC
15:36-15:57 Credits
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@SuperG3X
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
sponsored ad 6.10 to 6.45.
@oso3470
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
I think you can use too in other applications, but the first utility is in videogames.
@MatthewHill
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
The first PC I ever owned was an 80286 AT clone with 1MB ram and a 40MB HDD. it was a considerable upgrade over my Commodore 64. I remember it fondly.
@Gorgen2k
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
My first pc was a victor 286 25mhz with win 3.1, and had first just a ega 16 color monitor. But i evently got a 256 svga monitor. Played alot of diff games like blues brothers, commander keen, but my two biggest games where Civ 1 and Dune 2. But i did struggle with last missons on dune 2, and i somehow got hold of xtgree gold where i figured out that i could open the savegames or the final misson file and through the hex editor of xtgree gold i could give me more starting credits and also remove some of the units of the enemey. Making the game easier. Was kinda my way of cheating in games.
@christhompson6010
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
first job i had at work shipping they gave me a 286
@rob_lightbody
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
My first PC was an Elonex 286 12mhz with 40mb hard drive, in 1990 with monochrome screen that could do VGA. I loved it at the time. It was for college work, where they had ps/2 of similar spec. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
It was replaced a few years later by a Pentium 60 which felt like an enormous leap forward
@perqvindesland89
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
How I loved computers back then, now it´s all ruined with politics and greed
@CZpersi
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
Prince of Persia on 286 AT with Hercules Amber monitor, running in a tiny letterbox mode… oh, the childhood memories.
@siege-79
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
Love this 👌🏾
@fetrasiadhenis2517
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
cool…. 👍👍👍
@ajc_ajc
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
I still remember unboxing a similar PC in my freshman year at computer engineering 🥲
@bernardopaul7861
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
Underdog ? So mamy among us viewers of 'Nerd played Sierra adventures on one of these orange -monitor 286's at our dad's office or home desk. The things were everywhere. By the way, we had the Epson 386SX, monochrome VGA and all, at my dad's home office.
@timotheegoulet1511
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
Friends family had one. Remember playing that Doctor J vs Bird game on it in monochrome think it was Hercules!
MDA mode lol. Cousin to MDMA mode!
@FrontSideBus
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
I never had a 286. I was an Atari boy back then and my first IBM compatible was a 33mhz 486!
@Australian_Made
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
In 1993, I built my SUPER DUPER
(for 286 based) Multimedia PC.
80286 @ 25MHz; 12 Meg RAM
Cirrus Logic 512k 256 Colour
VGA card; Running Windows
for Workgroups 3•10 in full
256 Colour @ 640 × 480.
SoundBlaster 8 × CD-ROM;
SoundBlaster 2•0 8 bit card,
BUILT IN stereo speakers
with built in amplifier, mounted
in spare 5¼“ FDD bay.
Running DOS 5•0 under
Windows for Workgroups 3•10
PLUS NE2000 Nerwork card.
I eventually obtained
eight CD-ROM Titles, which
RUN on my
286 Multimedia PC
super system.
( These were difficult to
find in 1993 )
I still have this system to
this very day (2025).
@Australian_Made
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
Wrong ….
The early 80286 systems
were 6MHz & 8MHz
You incorrectly said 4MHz
@Bobibion
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
way too many advertissements
@donngu
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
Photoshopped images of Deanna Troi in a bikini.
@Christopher-N
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
I miss that form factor: a monitor stacked on top of an under-monitor power center, stacked on top of the PC case. I miss disk drives that click, and 1x speed CD-ROM.
@privatethor724
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 am
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
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