Unboxing & Enjoying an $1,899 PC from 1996! AST Advantage 622

Opening and testing a minty AST Advantage 600 series! A lower-mid-range Windows 95 desktop computer from the mid 90s that bundled lots of software and games with a 100MHz Intel Pentium CPU and a whopping 8 megabytes of RAM. Let's get this one up and running for (maybe) the first time!

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● Archived images of the model 622 restoration media:
https://archive.org/details/ast-advantage-600-restore

● All background music licensed from:
http://www.epidemicsound.com

00:00 An intro and overview
02:28 AST Research history
05:26 Unboxing the PC!
12:41 The computer itself
14:27 Inside the case, battery check
17:42 A light cleaning
18:02 First power on!
20:49 Windows 95 setup
22:06 AST OEM software
25:10 Hover!
26:05 MIDI music test
26:58 More AST bundled software
28:56 Microphone test – it's awful
29:21 Fun & Learning...?
29:58 Data disc, AVI files
30:33 Eco: East Africa
32:06 Mayo Clinic
32:57 What is a Bellybutton?
34:20 Welp, lots of things don't work
35:30 Oregon Trail II
37:13 Raptor Call of the Shadows
39:08 Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition
42:04 WinQuake
44:17 Tomb Raider for DOS
46:14 Valuing the undervalued, outro

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