Rarest of the Rare | The Mindset II Computer

#computer #technology #retrotech  The Mindset II was the follow-up to the 80186 powered original Mindset computer, which debuted in 1984.  Facing tough financial straits, Mindset Corporation gambled that refocusing on the video and graphics professional market, offering a new model with 512KB of system RAM and 128KB of video RAM would save the company from insolvency.  Today these machines are unbelievably rare with just a handful having sold over the last fifteen years.  And I blundered my way into owning one!  Let's see if the machine lives up to the hype and take the first deep dive ever on Youtube of an ultra rare Mindset II computer from 1985!

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00:00 Introduction & Backstory
02:04 Darned Intelligent keyboards
07:36 Unpacking the Mindset II
10:37 Teardown and examination
15:45 Repair and testing
18:21 Software comparison
19:54 The tablet
20:51 Conclusion
24:54 Press that dislike button.  I dare you.

Mindset 2.10 BIOS HI Dump: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ny_m...
Mindset 2.10 BIOS LO Dump: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o8M9...

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