Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Hello everyone ... in this video we're going to be looking at this cool professional Siemens PCD-5T workstation (or server). A really nice early Pentium (60MHz) computer from Siemens Nixdorf.

It is unique and quirky enough to be featured here on the channel, and definitely checkout the cool motherboard on this thing !

Running SCO Unix and coming with an ISA video card, I'm guessing this PC wasn't being used for anything graphical.

Unfortunately, hard drive disaster struck again (twice) in this video, so we'll need to see how we tackle that in part 2 that you can find here : youtu.be/Hh4J1dJeTzM

But for now ... enjoy this one.

Chapters :

0:00 - Introduction
01:25 - The PCD-5T
02:54 - Starting the computer
04:58 - The Dallas RTC chip
06:59 - The missing CMOS setup
07:16 - The EISA config utility
08:04 - Searching for documentation
09:15 - The CMOS setup
11:37 - The hardware
15:12 - The motherboard
19:50 - Expansion cards
20:57 - Hard drive horror
23:44 - Hard drive replacement
24:53 - Future plans

#SCO #Unix #Siemens