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Glad you mentioned that it was a bit of a downgrade. I had a dual 2 GHz g5 I bought in 2004, replacing a heavily upgraded PowerMac G4, and while the g5 was faster, wasn’t radically so and hit that awkward phase when 24-bit audio became the ideal recording bit depth and HD video was taking off, and was ill suited for either (not to mention Apple jettisoned PowerPC support in snow leopard) thus making it the most disappointing computer I owned.

It's not bad for a machine that was designed in a week.

Interesting! I had a Sinclair ZX81 and an ATARI 800XL in the 80s! And later ATARI 1040 ST, Mega ST and TT.

Looking forward to seeing how you got the +3 going!

Where did you get the new PRam battery? I have looked everywhere and when I order “new” ones they arrived dead

The problem with those being shipped is that shipping cost more than the device, and it destroys the feet / handles, all bent :( / ...

It can need the heat transfer re-pasted (clean cpu/gpu dye and heat sink surfaces and apply new heat transfer paste, like arctic silver etc. I use Noctua; but sadly this is needed every 2 years. The original Apple paste was probably better as it last longer. SYmptom for me were picture going black on the display (gpu) or mar not booting all the way (cpu)

It's a good arms workout !

Nooooo! the right OS for those is 10.4.11 (or 12) Tiger or Suriken !! with classic etc. I savec one from ebay and feed it with ram and ssd from OWC macsales, and it's solid. just avoid the liquid cooled ones and you're safe (almost) I have a long story with those, I first had (new) a DP 2.7 with the right GPU, it leaked after 24/7 use from 2005 to 2016. (stable 97°C no cheating) So I "purchased" 4 of those and made two good. The NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL still rocks.

So I'm not the only ones that name my old machines :0 I usually try to use puns about what they are or names inspired by their repair and refurbishment process, lol My current project since mid-may has been a Gigabit Ethernet G4 PowerMac with dual 450MHz processors I've been tinkering with to essentially convert it to specs closer to late Quicksilvers or earlier single processor MDDs. I named her "Hela" because damn. It's had so many little things fail and was missing so many parts when I got it, it turned into an absolute money sink, lol

...also, with all those vents on the bottom, they werent thinking much about spilt office tea either. Its a mirracle some of these survived.

I wonder if they were trying unnecesarily to compete with the Sinclair ZXSpectrum and the impending (not very successful) Dragon 32 and SAMcoupe? Sinclair tried to do the Home Computer=Home Office too with the QL. That didnt work out well either.

You seem a bit dubious about the Tomy Tutor's claim to be a 16-bit computer. I believe it really is, technically, a 16-bit computer. IIUC, it uses the Texas Instruments TMS9900 CPU, which is the same microprocessor that was in the TI99/4A. In the TI, the architecture of the computer was horribly crippled, so that it had only 512 bytes of 16-bit memory (which the TMS9900 used as a register file), and had to access its 16K of 8-bit wide RAM through the video display processor. Furthermore the BASIC was _doubly_ interpreted, so it was even slower than necessary. I'm not sure how similar the architecture of the Tomy Tutor is to the TI99/4A, but the CPU is a 'real' 16-bit processor. I was glad to see the CD-i. Looking forward to future videos about that. I'm also curious about the Laser 310. The screen looks like a Motorola 6847 VDG like the Tandy CoCo 1&2 and the Dragon. Great video.

Nice job, but i have to admit i was struggling to get through the whole video because the music was annoying AF! Maybe consider at least turning the volume way down.

I have a similar issue showing only a cursor on screen but with a bbc+ model

0:22 I don't see the problem. I have 7 Mac pro (5 of them 2010, 1 2013, 1 2008). I love the Intel mac pro vs apple none upgradable mac now days

My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI 99/4a bought, as most of them were, at closeout prices after they were discontinued. I learned a ton with that machine and there were some very fun games for it. The TI was probably not too common in Europe since it didn't last very long at all. That was followed several years later by an Atari 800 when I was 12 and I was an Atari Kid from then forward. Your videos are great and hopefully you can amass a good pile of interesting retro for your museum!

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Great video! To your question: I grew up with a ColecoVision. I have no idea how hard to find they are today, but to me, it was a nice console and a far cry from the Atari 2600 in terms of graphics and sound.

It's fun to watch you try out all of these old systems. You might try the MAME emulator as it has support for a lot of old (and obscure) computer systems, the MSX1 driver seems to work pretty well. It can be useful to learn about these systems by using MAME and the software lists. My favorite Atari Flashback is the Flashback 9 which has an SD card slot. I grew up on Atari 2600, then Apple II, then Amiga 1000.

oh goodness the katagana keyboard on the tomy tutor! what an interesting little machine...

Greetings from Croatia 😊 Atari 800xl guy... Tone 😮

I've got a similar problem. Managed to buy 10 to complement one I had an another that did not work, and now I have 13 cheese grater Macs, and one is a G5 with missing fans. I haven't named them yet though. Some of them probably need a name and a home that shows them some love and attention. All had missing drives and cards that were taken out from a sound studio.

"shoddily put together in the best way possible" great autobiography title

Bill herd days it was the raspberry pi of its day....im not being funny but that ic count is higher than a spectrum

I know this is unrelated but give the Quran a read, also that g5 when it was released it was a beast

One comment to improve your videos: drop the background music!

there's something so nostalgic about the sound of a BBC keyboard.

"Promo SM"

Very nice! Thank you. 😃

4:48 I was getting sooo invested in that epic battle for that screw's freedom from the tyranny of the evil warranty sticker by the end of that clip and it cut right before we could bear witness to the glorious victory JESS NOOOOOOO!!!! :V

"Don't turn it on, take it apart!" - that's what Dave said... I'd at least use a dim bulb tester. If shit happens, it won't hit the fan. Watching you discombobulate and recombobulate the oldie... It fills me with determination. I love it that you don't hide the mistakes. No one is perfect and we really should get rid of the illusion that if you're not perfect, you shouldn't do stuff and show it. We're real people. We make mistakes and learn from them. Rome wasn't built in a day. Oh, Micro Men was nice! A bit too skewed on the BBC side, but I still liked it. And just look at Sophie Wilson! I had to try eating with DMM probes as chopsticks, here's the result: ruclips.net/user/shortsZeXaZAbKi3g

Nice fix with the RAM enable issue there Jess... Calling the DC power cabling "shoddy" is a bit harsh. The designers have taken care and expense to route relatively high current capacity leads to multiple places on the board to ensure reliability (near the RAM for example).

Don’t worry, I just bought 7, only 2 are working. I am trying to see if I could cannibalise the non working 5 and hopefully have at least one more working, so that I can use them during winter. The case is beautiful, would try to repurpose those that cannot be revived. Just dismantle a really rusty one due to leaking LCS.

If the G5 logo's on there twice, it's a DP. Once is dual core or single cpu

Ginger's got quite a rack, (processors) doesn't she ?😊

. . . Gem? Microsoft cloned the screen as Windows . . . 😮

These cases break if you look at them funny. Is there anyone that produces new ones with less shitty plastic?

Love the naming convention of your G5 Power Mac(s).

There's nothing wrong with Dell computers today. In fact it's all I buy.

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Hi, Jess B. I loved the way you did not use a load of jargon. Like some repair channels do. Nice video. Stay safe to you and your loved ones. 💻

try baking soda and super glue to weld plastic and other stuff

Love the special effects on the CPU heatsinks at timestamp 15:40 ;-)

I love the idea that you name your machines :-)

Yes, please do a video when you recap one of these boards. I have an interest in seeing how that's done!

Nice vid, man

ah, the computer of my childhood! i was introduced to midi sequencing with a cracked version of Cubase and my fathers Korg X5DR using the ST. i love your content and your collection!

Nice video Jess. We had a 1040FM years ago, sadly it went to the tip in 2012 before I got interested in old computers. It was in very nice condition like your machine. I have four ST's now, although two are very yellow indeed. One of them doesn't load some games, I wonder if is something to do with an older TOS version. However in your case you seem to have a later machine, but TOS may possibly explain the compatibility.