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Very well designed machine. As I remember you could run CGA programs on a Hercules with a little utility called SIMCGA.

I had one of these computers with some custom hardware in it, that was used in a school's central clock and PA system. One of the cards was a terminal emulator of some sort. Neat to see one running as a normal computer! Love the Hercules card too. I've used a few of those over the years. I have an Acer 286 system sitting at work that I plan on making video about soon. The case actually looks a lot like that Epson.

Nice to see some old tec again. I remeber the first PC we had that actually worked, Tandon XT, 512 KB of ram, later upgraded to 640 KB, 10 meg MFM hard drive which then got upgraded to 20 meg a Seagate ST225 if I remeber right, loved the noise that thing made :) Happy days of computing that was, long live DOS :)

Sure brings back memories. Funny that I still remember the DOS commands and could probably run this machine no problem. I thought I had long ago forgotten DOS. Thanks for sharing.

Cool computer, I own a Epson Apex 100, I've had it for years, still works good. I've added a seagate st-225 to it recently and enjoy playing classic games on it.

@uxwbill If you leave iMovie's "Filter audio from camera" option unchecked, iMovie will make a high-pitched beep whenever it encounters dropped frames during the video capturing process. This beep will not be saved into the video file; it's just a warning that it encountered an error in the DV stream. A few very occasional dropouts are normal, and usually they won't even result in any noticeable glitching, but more frequent dropouts are a sign to change the tape or clean the head drum.

That machine has the 5 1/4 hard disk installed right? I love hearing those old drives spin up! I used to have an 8 inch HDD MFM interface.. What a sound that made! I beleive it was a whole 10 mb in size! You have a great collection of historical computer systems... Thanks for sharing!

@uxwbill that looks exactly like the first PC I ever owned, which was an Epson Equity II+ 286 machine but in an identical case. Ran windows 3.1 and of course dos 6.22. Originally came with an EGA card but this was upgraded to a vga one and also a sound blaster pro in later years. I remember getting a 200mb or so IDE hard drive for it and thinking "man, what am I going to do with all that space?" most of which went to games of course, I miss those days.

The impact printer sounds like it would be interesting to see I have seen Epson inkjets and scanners but I have never seen one of the impact printers they have made.

Another thing this reminded me of- Some years ago I found a driver that allowed the system to play normal sounds through the PC speaker, albeit a bit gritty sounding. I used it on an old Compaq laptop that had no audio card.

Love these videos. Keep up the good work.

Have you ever seen an Epson Equity Ie? That was their attempt at making a low-end PS/2 clone, and was the only computer besides the PS/2 Models 25 and 30 to ever use the MCGA video standard (a cut-down version of VGA).

Ahh... This kind of makes me think of a memory. My first "computer" I got to actually own was a Gateway 2000 Computer running a early version of Microsoft Windows.

Ahh good old dos:-) , ive had lots of enjoyment with DR dos/MS dos on my 1st pc. its was an elenex xt with a repacement 8086 cpu made by nec i think, it had two speed modes controlled by a dos speed command. I had a seagate 21mb mfm hdd on a western digitial card like the one in your machine, a video7 ega display card and a floppy drive card as the onboard interface was dead and i removed all the logic so the card would work. xtpro/norton/dsbackup and others were my favorites :-)

The Epson Equity 1+ was my very first computer back in 1988. Even new it was already a little dated as the 386 models were the hot new item. Mine was a 360K/5.25 single floppy model as that was all I could afford. No second floppy or hard drive - sometimes made for a lot of floppy swapping when working. Same green CRT. I kept and continued to use that same computer through about 1997, adding a second floppy, then a hard drive, then color graphics card and monitor as the budget allowed. I eventually built a 386 to replace my Epson. And sadly I junked the Epson because as we tend to do, we feel that old technology and hardware is useless and of no value. How I long to have that computer back. It was a big part of my life all those years. And now that I'm older I see it's true value. I have vowed to try and recreate that original computer. Can you please check and tell me what the model numbers are on the monitor and the keyboard? I may have to literally assemble it piece by piece. My quest started about a month ago and I have yet to find any Equity 1+ badged units for sale. Even pics or vids of that particular model seem scarce. Even the other Epson models I have seen for sale will usually be without their keyboard and monitor. So I thought I might ask you for those model numbers to have available as I'm searching. Thank you for taking me back with this video.

I changed my Windows Command Line color settings to reflect this type of display. Never owned a a monochrome screen but green-on-black is just cool.

I found the front panel and motherboard of a destroyed Equity 1+ at my college. I also found (and grabbed) an IBM Model M with missing keys in case that got destroyed in the future. The keyboard is as old as the college, which opened in 85, the keyboard has a copyright year of 1986.

Bill, The HP unit below this epson, is that an x86 based box ? Do you own or collect any non-x86 indusrial/scientific computers ? Thanks in advance for any response. Great video once again.

@crazycory25 Cardfile was a very simple database for keeping things like phone numbers and addresses. I never knew of anyone who actually used it, or any "electronic Rolodex" for that matter, because until the advent of PDAs like the PalmPilot (ancestor of today's iPhone), it was always easier and faster to keep a real Rolodex on your desk.

When I first looked at that case I thought it looked familiar, then it dawned on me, it is very similar to the Gateway 2000 cases used in the 386, 486 and early Pentium days.

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