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May 5, 2000, a very average day for the very average business supervisor. Though in just a couple of hours, it would quickly turn into a day of utter chaos and turmoil. Nearly every install of brand-new computer software damaged beyond repair, over 13,000 pieces of malware detected in just one office building, and soon, over $20 billion in damage seen all across the world. What happened? These catastrophic events were the work of a new computer worm that was circulating the internet: “ILOVEYOU.” Quite an ironic name, but it was derived from the fact that the worm would disguise itself as a love letter coming from a secret admirer. The worm could subsequently enter the Guinness Book of World Records because the foremost “virulent” What exactly allowed it to purpose this an honest deal damage, and the way did it paintings? The virus originated in the Philippines and was created by two programmers, Onel De Guzman and his friend, Reonel Ramones. It was allegedly developed by taking other ...

Greetings, and welcome to an LGR thing! And today, let me introduce to you, this fine computer. A buddy of mine was recently wanting to build a PC,  so I said I’d help him do it, with his chosen specs being an AMD Ryzen 5 1600X CPU, 16 gigs of Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM,  a 500 gig 960 EVO M.2 SSD, a 6 gig GeForce 980Ti Super Clocked video card, a Fractal Design Define C case, and MS-DOS 6.22.  Oh just- I’m kidding, he didn’t pick that. I did. Suffice to say, this is just for a bit of fun.  I do not recommend installing DOS on a modern PC; There’s a whole host of compatibility issues,  Legacy support is an interesting subject to me, as you know, the fact that modern PCs still technically run  all sorts of older compatible software, including old Microsoft operating systems like MS-DOS, This, straight onto the SSD  from floppy disks and everything. Um, yeah, let’s try to make that happen because  I’ve actually never done this with a computer th...

Welcome! I guess I don’t have mail... how sad. What am I . Why am I on AOL 4.0 on Windows 8.1? Whelp. That’s because this is LGR, and greetings. You know, nostalgia does weird things to you, so. I am going to be showing you how to run this on Windows 8.1. What the heck, I didn’t click on anything. At least, how to run it that way . They’re actually getting rid of this, and, uh. If you saw this tweet here that I posted a couple weeks ago,  I actually did a video on Combat Tanks, and I wanted to show the AOL Games section, and yeah, I’ve got this working and I tweeted about how to do it. People have been trying to do it since then, and, uh, well. I’m still trying it out. And then they put up this message at the beginning that says, oh, this is no longer going to be a supported version of AOL after June 30th, 2015. So! If you want to try this out, then follow my instructions here in this video... ah, before it’s too late. Cause I’m... I don’t know if I, like, reminded them that their ...

Greetings! LGR here with an LGR thing and today, I would like to put a CD-ROM connected to this Compaq Presario 425 which.. now my favorite computers. It’s an all in one design I’ve had it longer than I had any of my other PCs. And yeah, It’s very yellow but I kind of like it like that It was.. It’s just gotten yellow over time no smoking or anything. I had it for more than half its life. So, err.. yeah here’s the thing I.. erf.. it only has a 3.5 inches floppy drive right there and that the only way that you can get data onto this thing unless you connect it to a network. You need to pretty much.. get an external CD-ROM and that’s what I’ve done here with this Backpack CD-Rewriter I found this at Goodwill years ago I mean like. I don’t know men 8 or 9 years now probably. And hum, so far I don’t know...I just haven’t.. I just haven’t.. erf.. really thought about it too much until recently when I had this thing out and I’m like and I’m like Dang I still never installed that CD-ROM drive...

Well the ARM based Macs are here. And despite any concerns anyone might have had, it looks like this transition will be just as smooth as the last... two. Yes, by this point, switching architecture is like a party trick for Apple. Even Bill Gates has remarked on how well they pulled it off in the past. But speaking of Microsoft, there was one notable thing that the Mac could do during its brief stint in the Intel world that it couldn’t do before and likely won’t be able to do now: run good old Michael soft Binbows. Yeah, yeah, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, etc. By now, none of this is really news, and while buying a Mac to run Windows is still kind of an unusual thing to do, there were certainly some advantages to at least being able to do it. Developers could test their programs on both OSes with the same computer, my friends when I was in school often did their work on macOS and then rebooted into Windows to play games. And while people have been working valiantly on ...

 It’s time to look at another computer that I find fascinating and been wanting to talk about, and now’s the time to do so, because arbitrary reasons. This is the Hewlett-Packard J2301B Wide Area Network Internet Adviser. With an E4594A-T1 telco under cradle. What even is this? Well, It is the most complicated and bulletproof laptop I own. Although calling it a laptop is a bit misleading; It weighs 20 pounds! (9 kilograms) You do not want this thing on your lap, and there’s no practical reason to own this nowadays; it’s just enjoyable overkill. I just like having silly machines like this and as soon as I saw it on eBay some years back, I had to have one, and... well, this is the one I picked out! My machine was manufactured by HP in 1998, but the division responsible for it is now known as Key sight, which itself is a spin-off of a spin-off of HP known as Agilent. And you’ll see a lot of internet advisor machines under the Agilent brand. They did really well for themselves too! In ...

Greetings and welcome to LGR Oddware where were taking a look at hardware and software that is odd, forgotten, and obsolete! And today it is the IBM 8516 CRT touchscreen from the beginning of the 1990s. And yeah you can touch and draw and do all kinds of things that you would normally do with a mouse or light pen or whatever else -- just with your fingers! And so let’s see what this thing is and what it can do. All right so this is the IBM PS/2 Model 8516 13-inch CRT touchscreen monitor first introduced in June of 1991 for a suggested retail price of $1695 US dollars, holy crap. That would be almost $3,100 at the time of this recording, not a cheap price for a 13-inch VGA monitor back then.  It was built by IBM to be compatible with PCs running DOS, Windows 3 -- and IBM OS/2 of course, because they were still pushing it rather hard when this came out. And as advanced and awesome as it was for its time it was not the first of its kind as far as touchscreen CRTs, not by a long shot....