The Aprils Fools joke was the only Aprils Fools joke that actually fooled me today. It was so casually inserted and unexpected I actually believed it was real until the very last second. Thank you for that.
The disk for the HAWS weather station may be salvageable if you cut it open, remove the "cookie" (the actual floppy disc inside), clean it with soap and water, and then put it into a new jacket from a donor disk. Other people have done this to successfully recover data from disks that had gotten moldy.
Agreed, well played! The whole time, I kept thinking how funny it would have been if you had found the head before finding the note, and then, April Fools!
Yes! And I got fooled too! I primarily watch RUclips for entertainment these days ahead of normal TV but omfg April 1st meant I was starved for decent content. Everything was blatantly obvious silly videos, no real content. Wish other RUclipsrs followed in David's footsteps, that was a perfect April fools.
Amdek tried to sell this same disk system for several other micros of the time. They were offering systems for the Apple ][, TRS-80 Model III, TRS‑80 Color Computer, the IBM PC, and the Atari 400/800. These disks held a maximum of 1mb of storage. They were double sided in that you would eject the disk, flip it over and reinsert it to use the other side. I worked for ZEBRA SYSTEMS, INC. in the 1980's, and we sold a disk system for the Timex/Sinclair 2068 made by Timex of Portugal that used these disks called the FDD-3000. I don't have one of those disk systems, but I do have several disks kicking around here.
You both got me on the wax head joke!!! I think real friendship is putting you head in a box of packing peanuts just so your buddy can make an aprils fools joke in their video :P
Just FYI, the amstrad disks have a metal protector that retracts ... hence they look a little metallic. There is a standard ferrous disk under the metal cover.
3:24 Aww, I like how the cover has a scaled down one of that mascot that was featured in the original PC commercials. 6:12 "...that looks like it was done on a real typewriter" 😌 9:33 I had to go back to that bit to realise it was some kind of Futurama reference. 16:12 *I can very much imagine Leo as that "famous computer programmer", helping maintain freedom of choice within the GNU/Linux ecosystem, and saving it from mass destruction by closed-source corporations.* 12:58 Oh wow, it includes one of many designs of Famiclone controllers... maybe it was easy for him to obtain...
When I hear of B-17 Bomber this is all I think of Nerd: "Now let me introduce the Intellivoice voice synthesis module. What the fuck is that? Well it makes your games talk, Yeah. Now at the time the idea of having voices in video games was a new thing but unfortunately only a few games were compatible like B-17 Bomber" *Cuts to B-17 Bomber intro screen* Voice Synthesis Module: "Mattel Electronics Presents Beee Seventeen Bawmer" *Cut to the nerd* Nerd: *repeating the system* "Beee Seventeen Bawmer" *Cuts back to intro screen* Voice Synthesis Module: "Beee Seventeen Bawmer" *Cuts to nerd taking out the game* Nerd: "Alright Fuck the game lets try bombsquad!"
The Head Museum from New New York, nice Futurama reference. Along with the shipping date: January 9th, 2010 which I think is the last day Fry was alive in the 21st century until Bender blew up his apartment which brought Fry to the realization he was Lars.
I remember reading some article about that.. IIRC: x-ray machines have a near-none chance of erasing or corrupting storage media (CDs, Flash, ROM, magnetic) (The context was for people traveling through airport scanners)
Well UV erases UV-erasable EPROMS with the window on them. These were cassettes so I'd say it's magnetic media, not ROMs like solid state. The only way to erase them with UV would be to nuke them until they melt :-)
LAST name, please use that gray poop between your ears. Good luck figuring out just which Julia sent in the package. Now off you go, don't come back until you find her.
Hey how to get your Bart vs the space mutants working look up a video on RUclips called disable the 10 nes chip on a nes it turns off the consoles security so you can boot other region games
12:08 (bottom left) I love ya david but ya can't talk about how your not gonna show someones name and then immediately show it without getting a comment.
It was her last name she didn't want shown. so I sill honored her request. I had already filmed opening the container before the P.S. section of the note said not to show her last name. So I just had to totally edit out the part where I showed the name on the package. so it was fine.
I lived next to Dickson and if you ever go there you will find it a bit of a time warp where the biggest thing people look forward to is going to WalMart each week.
How you could fix that oil spilled disk: Cut the top of disk open, take out the magnetic disk, put it on a towel, clean it with Windex and a cotton swap inwards to outwards not in a circle and put it in a donor disk case. May work... :)
You don't even need a donor disk case. The oil can be stripped clean off the case and left to dry for a few days. The label can be easily re-printed. I'd hate to see another disk sacrificed just to make that one work. Then afterwards the data can be copied to that working second disk.
I heared him saying, he couldn't find the disk online, so it maybe worth the "sacrifice" (i personally save some DD disks and rare disks, most of the rest goes to the trash...) + a bad case can damage the magnetic disk.. + There is protetive stuff inside, which i probaply soaked, too...
Probably the first first April fools in years that had me laughing out loud. The Commodore WAX? Also great donations. Looking forward to hearing more about the max.
So I'm guessing that the HAWS diskette doesn't work? I know it had stuff on it but you never mentioned if it worked or not. I was going to say hang on to it because I believe drive savers can recover old floppy data too, just in case you can't find a copy of that diskette.
7:01 ...please perform the following steps: 1. Turn off disk drive. 2. Turn on disk drive. 3. Turn off disk drive. 4. Turn on disk drive. 5. Turn off disk drive. 6. Turn on disk drive. 7. Turn off disk drive. 8. Turn on disk drive. 9. Turn off disk drive. 10. Turn on disk drive. 11. Turn off disk drive. 12. Turn on disk drive. 13. Turn off disk drive. 14. Turn on disk drive. 15. Turn off disk drive. 16. Turn on disk drive. 17. Turn off disk drive. 18. Turn on disk drive. 19. Turn off disk drive. 20. Turn on disk drive. 21. Turn off disk drive. 22. Turn on disk drive. 23. Turn off disk drive. 24. Turn on disk drive. 25. Turn off disk drive. 26. Turn on disk drive. 27. Turn on disk drive. (thanks to PackerFan Gamer for reminding me about this step!) 28. Insert head vibration protector.
Been collecting retro Nintendo games for my whole life and can honestly say I never noticed this and quickly looking over some of my games it seems true. Thanks for a really useful piece of information!
Although the wax head was funny, you can't expect us Futurama fans to let you get away with putting New New York as the sender's city, and then expecting to believe the US Postal Service would let someone put that as the return address. Very funny, but we saw it coming.
Thank you everybody so much for donating your stuff to David! I wasn't born around those times so thank you David for prolonging the legacy of the old computers so people like me could learn of the ways of the old. And also that legitimately scared me.
Sorry if you already know this, however, the 3" floppy disks have a metal shield over the magnetic media, the little white plastic tab on the side of the diskette can be used to retract this shield.
10:01 Clever trick. 13:21 The iBookGuy? 13:51 May contain packing peanuts. 13:58 "One certain woodgrain-loving RUclipsr." Heh, you forgot to call him lazy. 16:21 Contagious laughter.
He talks as if he disowns "The iBook Guy" from existence. I'm really sad as I loved the content and towards the end it was getting really good. I was excited to see a old iBook G4 could still handle the modern web without too much hassle. Maybe if he had used an adblocker and flash blocker, he would have gotten much farther than his first results.
As soon as I saw the city and state you are from; I had to pause the video, clean my glasses, and do a double take! It’s not every day you get to see a RUclipsr unbox something from the place I call home!
The media of the 3" Amstrad disks isn't silver, that's the metal protector, similar to the sliding one of a 3.5" disk. On the side of the disk is a slider which is pushed when the disk is inserted into the drive, and that moves cover out of the way for the drive head.
The discs aren't silver on the 3" Amstrad "floppies", those are metal shutters that open when the disc is inserted into the drive, revealing the normal magnetic floppy disc inside. My Amstrad 6128 used them. You can open it manually by sliding your finger nail down the side of the casing, the opening slider mechanism is found there.
Not entirely sure why but I had a sudden flash of nostalgia when you showed the 2 floppies of Time Works Word Writer 128. I spent many many hours on my C 128 which was my first ever computer.
I had the exact same 2XL talking robot as a young child in the 70's... It was great, it even told you off if it thought you were pressing the wrong buttons on purpose too.... lol
As a note, the "Silver" media on those 3" Amstrad CPC floppies is the shutter. There should be a white tab on the side you can slide down (with a pointy something like a pen) to slide back the sprung shutter and look at the media underneath.
Those Amstrad floppies were used in the various Amstrad CPC models, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Plus 3, and Amstrad's PCW range of word processors, although from 1991 the word processors came with 3.5" drives instead. These drives were also used in the Tatung Einstein. That's a metal shutter covering the data tracks - it rotates when inserted in the drive
I REALLY LIKE watching videos like this when people send stuff to a youtuber. cause there so many things that get shown that i didnt know they existed and if its something cool. i will go look it up and learn about it.
I loved that April Fools spoof. That was *Q U A L I T Y C O N T E N T* Looking forward to seeing your repair and restore vids on the not working items, as well as the rest of the Commodore history series. Speaking of lovely fonts, I've recently run across a couple of great fonts of the archetype, VCR OSD Mono, and Sydnie.
I look forward to your Timex Sinclair video. I recently purchased a MPC-1 drum machine from the early 80s that actually uses a ZX-81 through a link cable to program drum sequences. That got me interested in learning about the system.
That 2XL unit reminds me of the updated version that came out in the 90's. The newer version used standard cassette tapes instead of the 8-track tapes of the original. There was even a short-lived kids quiz show based around it featuring Marc Summers and a giant version of the toy.
the amstrad disks are 3 inch discs - common in the UK before 3.5 inch won the race. the metal bit slides away and protects the media which is normal magnetic disc material
The Amstrad disc is a 3inch CF2 standard disc, the media is the usual dark brown colour behind a metal shield shutter, the shutter is moved aside to expose the media by sliding a white tab in a groove on the side of the disc. I used them on my CPC6128 but I know the Sinclair Spectrum +3 has the same drive as also did the later Amstrad PCWs. Also I believe Einsteins used them as well. They are hard to come by now and were expensive even back when I was using them.
Just pointing one thing out because nobody else has noticed, the silver part of the amsoft disk is actually a cover door, it was just packed efficiency, which may explain its thickness.
Jesus, that "wax head" segment legitimately creeped me out. I think you may have missed your calling as a horror director.
Who was that guy, anyway?
16:10
Same
Yeah, and I really thought for a moment, "is this a rubber gum computer kids toy head? naaa, too realistic!"
Looks like Lowspecgamer
Prepare to be sent actual wax heads now.
SeanHodgins and possibly real severed heads 😱😬
Next on The 8-bit Guy channel: "Commodore Se7en"
@@ReConan65 cursed comment
“What’s in the box?!” Segment
@@user-tb5ns7hc5i les see whas in the box!
Me: wow that is a very realistic wax figure
*Eyes Open*
*AHHHHHHH*
I was really convinced that it was a Wax casting but when i saw the eyes AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
The positioning kinda preps you for it though.
That scared me shitless omg
I threw my phone, i didnt expect that. ;-;
Yeah, I jumped. Well done.
The Aprils Fools joke was the only Aprils Fools joke that actually fooled me today. It was so casually inserted and unexpected I actually believed it was real until the very last second. Thank you for that.
This @@xzone1269 kid is going places. Not any good places, but definitely... places.
@@stanleysmooth Ehh, those places aren't that helpful, statistically speaking. Hopefully his family gives him more hugs or he meets good friends
The disk for the HAWS weather station may be salvageable if you cut it open, remove the "cookie" (the actual floppy disc inside), clean it with soap and water, and then put it into a new jacket from a donor disk. Other people have done this to successfully recover data from disks that had gotten moldy.
"Washing floppies with soap and water" wow I haven't done that in 25 years. It certainly does work, I just can't believe I'd forgotten about doing it.
Hillary cleans her server with a cloth.
Fellow great content maker Kevin to the rescue! Love what good partners my YT tech faves are.
That's more or less what I'd do too. It's remarkable what a low-tech solution can accomplish.
I actually read your comment in my mind with your voice.
Best April Fools prank I've seen. I was like holy crap that wax head is creepy realistic. Well played.
Agreed, well played! The whole time, I kept thinking how funny it would have been if you had found the head before finding the note, and then, April Fools!
Epic!!!
I was thinking "why would someone send a wax head?" Thats creepy in and of itself.
Holy smokes... a Commodore MAX!
It Also shocked me when i saw it.
Ikr
I'm sure next month he'll get an Apple I serial number 1.
So true
Only if "anonymous" is in fact, Steve Wozniak.
Yeah there's an April Fool's prank I did not expect even slightly. That's hard to do these days. Nice work!
...When all of April Fool's is condensed into one minute of a real video. Good job David, keeping the trolling to a minimum :D
And it was so good it catched me :D
Yes! And I got fooled too!
I primarily watch RUclips for entertainment these days ahead of normal TV but omfg April 1st meant I was starved for decent content. Everything was blatantly obvious silly videos, no real content. Wish other RUclipsrs followed in David's footsteps, that was a perfect April fools.
Not necessarily, but some people could see that kind of a joke that way.
I’m glad I was watching this on my phone in portrait mode. 😂
The Amstrad-floppies have the shutter internally. The silver part is the shutter. The media disk inside looks like any other floppy :)
Amdek tried to sell this same disk system for several other micros of the time. They were offering systems for the Apple ][, TRS-80 Model III, TRS‑80 Color Computer, the IBM PC, and the Atari 400/800. These disks held a maximum of 1mb of storage. They were double sided in that you would eject the disk, flip it over and reinsert it to use the other side.
I worked for ZEBRA SYSTEMS, INC. in the 1980's, and we sold a disk system for the Timex/Sinclair 2068 made by Timex of Portugal that used these disks called the FDD-3000. I don't have one of those disk systems, but I do have several disks kicking around here.
Every time I see you unpack something that is not working and promise a repair video I just can’t help but feel the urge to watch it right away.
You both got me on the wax head joke!!! I think real friendship is putting you head in a box of packing peanuts just so your buddy can make an aprils fools joke in their video :P
i would like this comment but its at 69 likes
I was like - Wax museum watches 8 bit? hmmm
Can't wait to hear that "BEE SEVVENTEEN BAUMER" HAHA
had to scroll down to see if someone said it hahaha
Niiiiiiiiiiiiice.
You'd get it if you watched The Angry Video Game Nerd.
Game: Bee Sev'nteeen Baaaomer!
Nerd: BEE Sivinteen BOMber.
Omg it played on my head
Just FYI, the amstrad disks have a metal protector that retracts ... hence they look a little metallic. There is a standard ferrous disk under the metal cover.
Dubious Engineering remember them well from my PCW 8256. Not the most reliable of discs!
mattsword I've never had an amstrad floppy problem.
even those that I used a lot still work.
is it possible that your 8256 drive was faulty?
vaso opel could have been! Seem to remember disc quality dropping in later years of the 3" disc, but equally by then, the drives were older too ;)
That N64 cartridge will survive. its made of NINTENDIUM.
Sadly enough they don't use that anymore for the switch...
I've had three dead N64 carts.
I prefer Nokium
Well, that tends to break the floor if you drop it 😂
Only the floor? Oh good, I thought it would go through the planet and cut it in half.
BEEE SEVENTEEN BAWMER!
Expected to find this in the comments. Was not disappointed!
spendle just as I went to go say it, I saw your comment
Poble THE CODE! THE CODE!
FIGURE OUT THE CODE!
Poble this won’t be eeesy
They'll never do it in time!
3:24 Aww, I like how the cover has a scaled down one of that mascot that was featured in the original PC commercials.
6:12 "...that looks like it was done on a real typewriter" 😌
9:33 I had to go back to that bit to realise it was some kind of Futurama reference.
16:12 *I can very much imagine Leo as that "famous computer programmer", helping maintain freedom of choice within the GNU/Linux ecosystem, and saving it from mass destruction by closed-source corporations.*
12:58 Oh wow, it includes one of many designs of Famiclone controllers... maybe it was easy for him to obtain...
Even after all the April fools videos I’ve watched and not fallen for today, yours got me 😛
When I hear of B-17 Bomber this is all I think of
Nerd: "Now let me introduce the Intellivoice voice synthesis module.
What the fuck is that? Well it makes your games talk, Yeah.
Now at the time the idea of having voices in video games was a new thing but unfortunately only a few games were compatible like B-17 Bomber"
*Cuts to B-17 Bomber intro screen*
Voice Synthesis Module: "Mattel Electronics Presents Beee Seventeen Bawmer"
*Cut to the nerd*
Nerd: *repeating the system* "Beee Seventeen Bawmer"
*Cuts back to intro screen*
Voice Synthesis Module: "Beee Seventeen Bawmer"
*Cuts to nerd taking out the game*
Nerd: "Alright Fuck the game lets try bombsquad!"
Seawolf I was searching for this comment
THE CODE, THE CODE, FIGURE OUT THE CODE!!!!
@@falapu04 "Another Visitor"
"Stay Awhile"
"STAAY FOREVERR!"
@@DespairMMX3030 Impossible Mission
@@falapu04 yep
Ugh, that face was creepy! :D
Christian Chapa you little sausage
The Head Museum from New New York, nice Futurama reference. Along with the shipping date: January 9th, 2010 which I think is the last day Fry was alive in the 21st century until Bender blew up his apartment which brought Fry to the realization he was Lars.
Omg! When hes face started to move i got scared! 😂😂
I must congratulate you! This is probably the first April Fools gag on RUclips I've laughed at in years. Bravo!
I hope XRaying them didn’t erase the ROMs
I remember reading some article about that.. IIRC: x-ray machines have a near-none chance of erasing or corrupting storage media (CDs, Flash, ROM, magnetic)
(The context was for people traveling through airport scanners)
the question is whether or not the baggage scanners are higher powered.
That would be a lightweight package, no reason to nuke it with too much X.
I think only UV does that
Well UV erases UV-erasable EPROMS with the window on them. These were cassettes so I'd say it's magnetic media, not ROMs like solid state. The only way to erase them with UV would be to nuke them until they melt :-)
coming back to this video, there’s still a lot to see on this channel.. keep up good sir!
12:00 says that person doesn't want their name said
*proceeds to show it*
tada66 as well as the tracking number giving away their location
He didn’t say it though🤫
LAST name, please use that gray poop between your ears. Good luck figuring out just which Julia sent in the package. Now off you go, don't come back until you find her.
My Sinclair plus 3 used those floppies too. Only stored around 173k from memory per side and were none too fast
Hey David. The wife and I really laughed at you and your buddy's April fools joke. Thanks a lot. We really enjoy your show. London, England +.
who is julian? they are supposed to be annonymous,
Julian assange maybe?
letter said female viewer probably a Julie
Because he/she wants to be anonymous you immediately feel the need to ask who they are?
I love this channel, it's just so happy and informative. I only found you last week, but you've made my insomnia far less depressing!
2:59 BWEE SEVENTEEEN BOWMBER
LOL AVGN
ruclips.net/video/4yn52NTdV0c/видео.htmlm43s
BOOOMB SQWAD
Oh man, nostalgic
THEY'LL NEYVER DO YT IN TIME
These floppy disks were sent by an annonimous person that didn`t want her name shown. Thanks for the donation Juliane!
B-17 BOMBER *insert avgn clip*
What were they thinking!?
BEEE SEVENTEEEEEN BOOOOOMBER
BOAUMER
*Voice internally returns*
Of course, complete with box and instructions
Hey how to get your Bart vs the space mutants working look up a video on RUclips called disable the 10 nes chip on a nes it turns off the consoles security so you can boot other region games
It's a moot point, as that cart's a US version, so he won't need to do anything special with it.
john Dingo-Fox/Zuit suit bunny or just get an NES top loader
12:08 (bottom left) I love ya david but ya can't talk about how your not gonna show someones name and then immediately show it without getting a comment.
It's just an error, I think he wasn't aware that he accidentally showed her name.
Its only her first name anyway.
It was her last name she didn't want shown. so I sill honored her request. I had already filmed opening the container before the P.S. section of the note said not to show her last name. So I just had to totally edit out the part where I showed the name on the package. so it was fine.
The 8-Bit Guy OK that makes sense
TheJoJmaster dead meme dude
I lived next to Dickson and if you ever go there you will find it a bit of a time warp where the biggest thing people look forward to is going to WalMart each week.
How you could fix that oil spilled disk: Cut the top of disk open, take out the magnetic disk, put it on a towel, clean it with Windex and a cotton swap inwards to outwards not in a circle and put it in a donor disk case. May work... :)
You don't even need a donor disk case. The oil can be stripped clean off the case and left to dry for a few days. The label can be easily re-printed. I'd hate to see another disk sacrificed just to make that one work. Then afterwards the data can be copied to that working second disk.
I heared him saying, he couldn't find the disk online, so it maybe worth the "sacrifice" (i personally save some DD disks and rare disks, most of the rest goes to the trash...)
+ a bad case can damage the magnetic disk.. + There is protetive stuff inside, which i probaply soaked, too...
Probably the first first April fools in years that had me laughing out loud. The Commodore WAX?
Also great donations. Looking forward to hearing more about the max.
The april fools bit got me as funny at first, but now I'm kinda freaked out haha. Nice prank
The 8-Bit Guy always retro-brightens my day!
"Bee sheventeen bawmer"
xiaochicash Haha there it is!
Plus stop
Edit: Sry, autocorrect butchered that sentence. Plz stop.
8:43 I really love how the tone of David's voice suddenly changes here.
Can you do a review of a Casio Ct-700 on the 8 bit keys channel, please???????
I loved this unboxing and the sense of humour. The 80’s was such a exciting time for computers!
So I'm guessing that the HAWS diskette doesn't work? I know it had stuff on it but you never mentioned if it worked or not. I was going to say hang on to it because I believe drive savers can recover old floppy data too, just in case you can't find a copy of that diskette.
The joke was AMAZING! Keep up the good work David.
7:01
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24. Turn on disk drive.
25. Turn off disk drive.
26. Turn on disk drive.
27. Turn on disk drive. (thanks to PackerFan Gamer for reminding me about this step!)
28. Insert head vibration protector.
you for got to turn it off again
OH. You're right, let me edit my comment real quick!
And you edited it to turning it on twice in a row...
This channel is becoming a Commodore 64 channel, and that's pretty flippin sweet!
13:41 Yes, it should work on your NTSC NES, since the gamecode ends with USA.
I thought that wax figure was going to bite Davids finger! 😄👍🏻 1 hour long Commodore episode, yes please!
The wax head was great.
I love this channel, it brings back such nostalgia.
13:42 the cart says NES-Q5-USA so it should work fine
The Nintendo Seal of Quality is oval shaped. In PAL regions it used to be a circle.
Been collecting retro Nintendo games for my whole life and can honestly say I never noticed this and quickly looking over some of my games it seems true. Thanks for a really useful piece of information!
My package
Although the wax head was funny, you can't expect us Futurama fans to let you get away with putting New New York as the sender's city, and then expecting to believe the US Postal Service would let someone put that as the return address. Very funny, but we saw it coming.
Thank you everybody so much for donating your stuff to David! I wasn't born around those times so thank you David for prolonging the legacy of the old computers so people like me could learn of the ways of the old. And also that legitimately scared me.
Another wonderful video. Always my pleasure to view content of this consistent high quality.
You're the only one to sucessfully fool me today!
Sorry if you already know this, however, the 3" floppy disks have a metal shield over the magnetic media, the little white plastic tab on the side of the diskette can be used to retract this shield.
The April fool was really creepy XD
Forgot about the 2XL. My friend had one growing up. My most distinct memory is the laugh you would hear afterwards.
10:01 Clever trick.
13:21 The iBookGuy?
13:51 May contain packing peanuts.
13:58 "One certain woodgrain-loving RUclipsr." Heh, you forgot to call him lazy.
16:21 Contagious laughter.
iBookGuy was how this channel was called some 3 to 4 years ago.
I know.
He talks as if he disowns "The iBook Guy" from existence. I'm really sad as I loved the content and towards the end it was getting really good. I was excited to see a old iBook G4 could still handle the modern web without too much hassle. Maybe if he had used an adblocker and flash blocker, he would have gotten much farther than his first results.
I love that your friend kept laughing. Thanks for including that part in the video, it made me laugh and smile.
April fools joke actually disturbed me.
Hobo same thing :\
Looking forward to the 1 hour Commodore video, I didn't grew up knowing them existed but it is nice to see the history we all adore for decades :)
Sorry about the duct tape. xD
That's really nice you guys give all these ancient stuff to the 8bit guy so we can watch. Thanks!
No duct tape is enhought duct tape
As soon as I saw the city and state you are from; I had to pause the video, clean my glasses, and do a double take! It’s not every day you get to see a RUclipsr unbox something from the place I call home!
The packaging was great, but you forgot the packing peanuts.
Sorry? Nah, now you know next time to DOUBLE the amount of duct tape! :)
The media of the 3" Amstrad disks isn't silver, that's the metal protector, similar to the sliding one of a 3.5" disk.
On the side of the disk is a slider which is pushed when the disk is inserted into the drive, and that moves cover out of the way for the drive head.
The Bart vs the Space Mutant game is the American Version.
Yes it says USA on the cart.
The discs aren't silver on the 3" Amstrad "floppies", those are metal shutters that open when the disc is inserted into the drive, revealing the normal magnetic floppy disc inside. My Amstrad 6128 used them. You can open it manually by sliding your finger nail down the side of the casing, the opening slider mechanism is found there.
DUDE the part at 9:50 spooked me man
The silver on the Amstrad disk is actually a metallic protection cover for the internal floppy. It slides back when you insert the disk in the drive.
Amstrad floppies are T H I C C
And the silver is not the disk, it is a cover that slide away when the floppy is inserted.
Yes, there is a mecanism you slide on the side that uncover. And by the way, the format is simply called 3" disk.
Think I've got a couple of them in a drawer somewhere
Not entirely sure why but I had a sudden flash of nostalgia when you showed the 2 floppies of Time Works Word Writer 128. I spent many many hours on my C 128 which was my first ever computer.
*I was pretty sure they sent you John Romero's head* ->> flashback to *DOOM's Icon of Sin*
Мандибрики і Цирупопики !oremoR nhoJ ,em taeb tsum ouy, emag eth niw oT :P
Redhotsmasher LOL
I had the exact same 2XL talking robot as a young child in the 70's... It was great, it even told you off if it thought you were pressing the wrong buttons on purpose too.... lol
1:25 you think he ever got it back in?
As a note, the "Silver" media on those 3" Amstrad CPC floppies is the shutter. There should be a white tab on the side you can slide down (with a pointy something like a pen) to slide back the sprung shutter and look at the media underneath.
6:08 - Dharma Initiative logo from LOST.
Yay good to know im not the only one to know this!
the Munk Station
6:09 from the Dharma Initiative?
15:00 shouldn’t this have been for The 64-bit Guy?
At 9:30 the greatest unboxing ever........
Those Amstrad floppies were used in the various Amstrad CPC models, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Plus 3, and Amstrad's PCW range of word processors, although from 1991 the word processors came with 3.5" drives instead. These drives were also used in the Tatung Einstein. That's a metal shutter covering the data tracks - it rotates when inserted in the drive
April Fools!!! Happy Easter, David and Leo!!
I REALLY LIKE watching videos like this when people send stuff to a youtuber. cause there so many things that get shown that i didnt know they existed and if its something cool. i will go look it up and learn about it.
BEEEEE-SEVEN-TEEN BAWLMER!!!
2 years later and I still let out an involuntary shreak at the April fools joke. GJ
I loved that April Fools spoof.
That was *Q U A L I T Y C O N T E N T*
Looking forward to seeing your repair and restore vids on the not working items, as well as the rest of the Commodore history series.
Speaking of lovely fonts, I've recently run across a couple of great fonts of the archetype, VCR OSD Mono, and Sydnie.
Will there be an episode of SSI-2001? Really waiting for it.
2:58 only real avgn fans know whats up
I look forward to your Timex Sinclair video. I recently purchased a MPC-1 drum machine from the early 80s that actually uses a ZX-81 through a link cable to program drum sequences. That got me interested in learning about the system.
6:08 Dharma Initiative logo?
That 2XL unit reminds me of the updated version that came out in the 90's. The newer version used standard cassette tapes instead of the 8-track tapes of the original. There was even a short-lived kids quiz show based around it featuring Marc Summers and a giant version of the toy.
You seem to be really getting ahead of your mail.
I think you can open a museum at this point.
6:08 - 6:11 Dharma sticker!
the amstrad disks are 3 inch discs - common in the UK before 3.5 inch won the race. the metal bit slides away and protects the media which is normal magnetic disc material
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The Amstrad disc is a 3inch CF2 standard disc, the media is the usual dark brown colour behind a metal shield shutter, the shutter is moved aside to expose the media by sliding a white tab in a groove on the side of the disc.
I used them on my CPC6128 but I know the Sinclair Spectrum +3 has the same drive as also did the later Amstrad PCWs. Also I believe Einsteins used them as well.
They are hard to come by now and were expensive even back when I was using them.
Ok that was pretty funny! April Fools! 😂
the dryness of the wax head part was supreme, just completely glossed over lmao
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Just pointing one thing out because nobody else has noticed, the silver part of the amsoft disk is actually a cover door, it was just packed efficiency, which may explain its thickness.