I Bought Out This Bankrupt Computer Store's Inventory

If possible, depending on what's still in one piece or not, would love to see a pc built with as many of these retro parts as you could fit. Building the goofiest looking rig with the most bombasticly 90's/early 00's guts.

Linus: “Some of this stuff has been sitting for years” PC enthusiasts: Allow me to introduce myself

Linus: "You need it? Take it!" Also Linus: "You stole this from the office"

3:36 - be real careful trying to run a lathe with a usb to parallel adapter. Every last one of them was notorious for being utterly useless for anything other than printers. Many of the pieces of software that existed at the time manipulated the control registers of the parallel port directly and were extremely sensitive to timing. Running it over USB completely breaks all of these applications because the timing isn't guaranteed at all. I have some old parallel port microcontroller programmers for AVR, PIC, etc. and they uses bits in the parallel port to drive clock lines among other things.

I love that you can still see his nerd side especially when it's a trip down memory lane.

No one’s probably gonna read this, but the Zalman analog 5.1 mixer was probably for the Zalman 5.1 headset which was available, there were 3 speaker drivers in each ear cup!! To give you that surround feeling!

"come touch my hard drive"

Everything about the cpu guard had me laughing. Especially since an MSI update decided to turn my custom cpu fan curves to off a few months ago and I only caught it when I noticed the sheer heat coming off during a Phasmo game. Could have used that lovely tone.

"Oh, I legitimately might need that for my lathe." That's why we keep piles of old tech around. For that one instance in ten years of randomly needing one thing.

5:52 I used to work for Time Warner and can totally confirm that cable companies spend millions to make 3rd party capture devices obsolete.

Why am I enjoying this so much. It's making me feel old It's making me feel like my pc is outdated It makes me sad of how much fun I had when I was younger doing pc builds It also makes me miss actually building PCs and not just repairing them. But it makes me so happy

Would love to see more content like this, watching you either laugh or geek out at all this old tech, not to mention explaining to a degree how they function is really freaking entertaining.

I love how Linus is like a kid who got his childhood dream in the entire video.... and then proceeds to understand that he no longer needs any of these by throwing them all into the pile

"back when i was ghostwriting for hardware kanuks" I'm starting to realize I want a full biography of Linus. They're even got a store to sell it on already 😄

Watching Linus just genuinely geek out instead of just kinda rolling along with a script and talking for the sake of making the video long enough is always a good time

2:48 clumsy Linus is clumsy😂😂

Everytime he just tossed something to the floor I had to fight the urge to scramble out of my chair!! Not only did I want some of that stuff, I have current need for one or two of those items! Having been an engineer who has had to surf E-Bay on far too many occasions for bits and bobs of older tech that had suddenly become "mission critical" for an entire company, sometimes paying multiple times the original cost... this video was almost a horror show as much as a humorous stroll down memory lane!

Linus: “Come touch my hard drive.” Me: Looks more like a floppy to me.

Honestly, some of this stuff needs to be in a museum.

Linus that "drive bay" you said "this is even before me" is actually a swappable hard drive caddy. And they were brilliant. The idea was you can have one hard drive for business work , one for gaming or if you have multiple people sharing a computer, they all had their person install/hard drive. Just slide one in, turn the key. Unturn key, pull it out and in goes a different one