As mentioned in my full video on the Monorail computer, I was able to track down a complete Owner’s Kit for the computer. It includes the original restore CD, along with all sorts of manuals and documentation. Let’s check it out!
Archived Media: https://archive.org/details/MonorailRecoveryCD
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That computer introduction program is so awesome, I love it.
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bonafide, electrified Windows 95 PC!
Eudora was the mail client we used in school back in the day, so that brings back memories. I also remember many mindspring web sites, one of many alternatives to geocities back then. Great nostalgia!
The custom Monorail software (bot the installer and their launcher) looks like it is using Borland's custom controls. Microsoft didn't introduce standard progress bars until Windows 95 so they must have thought the slider was a good enough alternative.
micheal, where is compaq pc restoration part two??
Is your archive page MJD also or it’s under a different name??
Is it just me or does Monorail Mo His hat it kind of looks like an m&m Logo on his hat
this looks like the Pip-boy in Fallout 😉
at 21:10 is all the information true?
Eudora.. WS-FTP…
The memories..
i would put a 10.4 ips display in there
MindSpring was an ISP based in Atlanta and was actually a major player at one point before merging with EarthLink. My parents had MindSpring as our first ISP.
PP 286-DOS
11:59 I'm so disappointed that he didn't attempt to slide the slider across to "speed up the installation or something dumb"
i could have sworn clint from lgr had the compleat package with the restore disk.
MJD You Should Try To Install Windows 2000 On It
have u here'd of YouTube redux
its crazy to think that the irc program would probably still work if you somehow connected this thing to the internet. there are multiple IRC networks out there such as Libera Chat.
Dang how rare is that. I have never even seen one. Freakin cool. I bet LGR is drooling over this right now.
The reason for the encoder/decoder software was that back then sending binary file attachments by e-mail or usenet newsgroups was a complicated mess. You'd often have to encode the file from binary into text and paste into the e-mail/news post, or copy paste text from an e-mail/news post and decode it into a file again yourself. So nice of them to include that.
Surprised you haven’t heard of the Eudora email client. It’s a classic. Along with Pegasus from the same era.
I think LGR's pants dropped when this was made.
When I was a kid, MindSpring and then EarthLink was our first ISP until we finally got cable internet “for school”. I can remember it taking hours to download a game patch or mod and it taking hours even longer if someone picked up the phone and tried to make a call.
Technically the last video to have the old background
Why win95 have cd 💿 applications
Interesting, the Wayback Machine website has backup of the Monorail website dating back as far as 1997.
Mind Spring is internet Company that lasted from Feb, 1, 1994 to Feb, 4, 2000 (because a merger happened with Mind Spring Inc and the company EarthLink).
it looks like they took left over laptop stuff and put it in an all in one pc for the time. Like last generations stuff that was left over at the time.
S3
why don't u buy the mouse before u recording
It's a great day at MindSpring!
Eudora was the e-mail program I used back in 1994-2000.
In the Monorail Home Station App, the lady talking. Remind me of Half Life.
I've been a power user of Forté Agent back when Usenet was popular – a nice reminder of those times 🙂 The company and software are actually still around.
Things I learned from this video:
New things are added to the internet every day!
New things are added to the internet every day!
New things are added to the internet every day!
New things are added to the internet every day!
Moe is awesome. 🙂
MJD not knowing what Eudora is/was, that gave my believe in him a big hit. Eudora is internet history. Not knowing about it and being an internet enthousiast is blasphemous.
I like how they use a mall as an analogy for the internet. Ironic when you realize that the internet basically killed off malls.
Amazing, Monorail predicted new becoming a form of entertainment in the future, which is now.
hey man you're really awesome for uploading this to archive.
I called the Mindspring phone number as seen in the booklet in the vid, and a recording said “Hi! Welcome to EarthLink. To set up a new Internet connection…” I haven’t done any research as of yet, but it looks like they may have just been re-branded.
Edit: Yep, looks like on Wikipedia the two companies merged in February of 2000.
I kind of hoped you would archive the CD before you used it, just in case.
My sister just said you sounded like Kevin Flynn from Tron. Yeah, we got another you sound like comment, but at least this one is definitely positive and even makes some sense.
Could you emulate this to 86box if you know how to emulate old machines like this?
If you like the Monorail, see if you can get your hands on the iOpener internet appliance. Was another all-in-one SFF machine JUST for web browsing for … shall we say.. the less technically minded. I had a buddy who got one for free and we hacked the heck out of it. I can remember the specs, but I do recall we both cheered when we got doom95 running on it ;p
Windows 3.1 SDK widgets don't include a progress bar. Not specifically anyway.
The slider is a good way of back-porting 95 widgets to 3.1, that's actually really clever.
NEW THINGS ARE ADDED TO THE INTERNET EVERY DAY
I wish that Monorail is still around today 🙁
"Monorail Mo" looks like he's up to some bs.