Wondering what that hole in the lower right of the faceplate is? I was wondering too, but an employee of the company informed me that that's actually where the remote control is stored! There's a spring loaded gadget behind it so you can press on the remote to pop it out. The strange shape is because the remote runs on a AAA battery, so it's actually shaped like that hole. Oh, I should mention - the "ground" lug which turned out to be an "equipotentiality" lug, this was new to me but if I understood it correctly: suppose you drag a battery-powered X-ray machine into the room. That generates several million volts internally, which should never make it to the chassis, but you can never be sure about that. Now you hook up a second, also battery powered machine, like an endoscopy monitor. At some point while you're working, metal parts from those two machines might touch, and if there's a 5MV difference in potential, you could have a really big problem. So you hook them together with the equipotential lugs, and it's basically the same as grounding, except you can't call it ground if there is literally no earth involved. Grounding is not as important as being at the same potential - like a high tension lineman on a bucket truck hooking themself to the line.
I'm just disappointed in the lack of want to talk about where you can stick it early on in the video. In the immortal words of Carlin, what if there's a new guy who doesn't know where he can stick it?
There is another reason for the equipotential point (as discussed in my class on medical devices), and that is patient grounding. You want a very good ground connected to the patient, and all machines used on a patient are to be bonded to that equipotential point, even if they are on wall power. The reason is this: let's say you don't have an equipotential point that is low impedence, and the patient is instead connected to two separate machines, which are plugged into the wall and earthed. The patient may or may not be bonded at the same physical point to one of those machines. Assume the two machines are on their own breakers. Now, assume a modest fault current occurs on one of the breakers, to ground, but the current isn't high enough to trip the breaker, and a GFCI is in place. The current through the ground wire of that branch will actually lead to a voltage difference (due to wire resistance) between the two machines connected to the patient. Since the patient is likely low resistance, considering medical devices are in use, so the skin isn't being very resistive, this modest voltage difference can generate a fatal current. I have some slides that do a great job of explaining this that I can try to rephrase, but doing this in a comment is hard.
The verb "ground" has pretty much no meaning in a hospital situation, if I understand correctly? Hospital electrical systems are self-contained from the mains grid (everything is on the other side of a giant transformer) so there is no ground, no earthing. That's why in hospitals you see a pictogram of a person inside a box, it indicates a different electrical system. Of course I might just be misremembering something I read a few years ago. Edit: A difference in electrical potential can still exist, of course.
@@3rdalbum Most ORs opt to use isolated power, but that’s not always the case. Isolated power, from my understanding, is grounded in the center of the transformer but L1 & L2 deliver the standard nominal 120v split between the two.
There might be some way to get it to play whenever you do a search on your web browser, but I wouldn't know how to it, and it would probably be really annoying.
I can finally say I'm one of those people who wished for a new video by X RUclipsr only to have it happen seconds later. Thank you for the content you and Daria provide for us.
There was a police cruiser in my town of Bangor, Maine around the year 2007ish that had the license plate "420 007"... like, what, were they the weed smoking James Bond cop on the force? I never understood that one...
@@CathodeRayDudethe disposable disks are different. Divx ;)(with the smiley behind it) for warez was named that for some reason i'm not sure of but the first iteration of that was a hacked codec to allow higher bitrates on the mpeg4 codec in windows. Delving into it would make a fun video i guess. Some company trademarked the divx :) name and stuff, anyhow you needed the codec and we didnt have equivalent for linux for a while Effectively yeah for good or worse it was like mp3 but for video in its effects for us, 'dvd' quality movies small enough to copy over the internet and person to person
You and Alec/Technology Connections are two of my favourite RUclipsrs. I love all the old computer stuff you talk about since I never got to experience these in my life or in the job force.
I'm not gonna lie... Stumbling onto this channel after years of watching Technology Connections I was, like: *gasp* "Two of them!?". I love how their video topics are different, yet... feel connected... through technology.
"Let's use this densely-packed space with big stonkin capacitors as the way for the air to flow out of the case" was somebody's thought process at some point
Hey Gravis! I actually work with the modern versions of this stuff. I have an SDC3 and a Control System and I think an old SPI AV router. All of which I’d love to let you evaluate. Fun fact: the SDC3 went on to actually control the AV router itself, eliminating the need for another little guy known as a “control system”. Let me know how I can reach out and show you a few things!
This device is just a recording module for endoscopies. You don’t need it to watch the endoscopy live. Usually, there’s a device that takes the signal from the endoscopy camera and sends the video to a monitor. If you want to record, you can use this device (or any video capture device) and pass the video signal through to the monitor. The screen is not meant for watching live video. It's just for controlling the recorder/printing interface.
This brought me back. I used to work for one of Stryker's competitors in the OR Automation field half a decade ago and we got one of these machines in a deal with a hospital to see what they were doing in comparison to our system. I was the one that tore it down and documented every aspect of it, I still have all the pictures I took. In the end we didn't get any useful info since our system was already better in most aspects. Although it's funny that you liked the software because that was one of the things we found we terrible with the system, especially when compared to our own.
12:18 well for once on the internet, HIPAA might be involved. It worked, you obtained no patient data, neither would you be able to recover from disk, as it was never stored there.
What kept him from being a valedictorian was him deliberately failing the test to cover his secret. A preganglionic fiber does not even remotely look close to a postganglionic nerve!
As I understand it, a Kensington Lock isn't necessarily about stopping someone from stealing a device. But. But. Ripping the device away from the Kensington wire connector will do permanent visible physical damage. Basically, anyone decent would refuse to buy a device with damage like that as it's practically a surefire sign of it being "hot". Severely limiting the black market value. At least, that's my uneducated understanding.
It also keeps honest people from swapping the machine into another cart of equipment and messing up inventory control or ruining a specific config that was unique for that cart. The box may have special licenses making a bare bones replacement useless. Also the maintenance contract could be with that specific department rather than the whole organization so a maintenance tech couldn't do their job until the original is returned. Even if you're not worried about meth addicts stealing stuff, sometimes it pays to secure it from your coworkers when not in use.
I think they don’t provide a video feed on purpose. They probably don’t want a doctor using the video feed with loads of latency and being embroiled in a lawsuit when it all goes wrong.
@@jacobwortley So the following versions of this did show a small preview. Eventually, the SDC and the Stryker SPI AV router control system were rolled into one device. This later evolved into the SDC4K (for use on portable carts with endocams, light sources, insufflators, and other equipment) and the ConnectedOR Hub which serves as the controller for routing and capture device. Those SIDNE ports are in use now for using the SDC4K/Hub to change settings on each connected device, turn monitors on and off, build surgeon specific presets.. etc. They use USB cables to this day but it’s just RS232 as far as I know.
There was no need for it to have lots of latency. The video capture card can dump the current frame into a portion of video memory directly using DMA (well, that's what I understand). I had a video capture card in my computer in the 1990s and there was effectively zero latency when viewing the input on the monitor. However, I don't remember if it was still that smooth while recording, maybe it couldn't do that direct memory trick while recording.
Lol that button. It'd take five seconds per unit to dremel out a notch in the end for those button-pushing tubes for the wires to come out of... For the signals on ribbon, remember that circuit boards of that era don't have coax embedded in them, either, so at some point you have exposed wires carrying signals. I dug around to find what impedance mismatch you'd get assuming the back panel S-VID BNC connectors are 75 ohms (not a guarantee here but maybe?) and going into that ribbon cable side-by-side, with a ground wire between every signal cable and... It's not great, but it's not the worst. It's about as bad as plugging a 50 ohm source into a 75 ohm BNC (or vice versa), daisy-chaining that 2-3 times (it's somewhere between 100s and 150 ohms). That increased impedance actually helps reduce RFI, a tad, though. There's also some ways to mitigate reflections from the mismatch, too, like having a very precise length of ribbon (which is essentially unshielded balanced line) to cancel out reflections, but that seems unlikely here given the other hacks involved. And it's shielded by being in the case, so the main concern is RFI at the frequency of whatever video is; I bet if you configured the CPU to run at a multiple or even fraction of the video signal frequency, you'd suddenly see tons of interference. I wonder if they picked a CPU specifically to avoid that, or if it wasn't a risk in that era anyway... Maybe there just aren't any components running at that frequency?
You don't need coax on PCBs. if you really want signal integrity you can put the trace on an inner layer and surround it with ground planes with via stitching. Also SD composite video is really tolerant of a lot of things. it has a bandwidth of about 6 MHz, so you can treat it pretty badly and it be fine. I've seen people run it completely unshielded, no coax, for 10 meters bundled up next to 48 V high current lines radiating massive amounts of EMI from motor drivers and still get a usable picture.
I think that's essentially what he means by coax on board. Also, isn't a 2ghz celeron kinda rare? Compared to the billions of 1.8ghz models I've come across.. Adds to that internal RFI theory for me.
So an interesting tidbit: I have worked in a few Hospital IT departments and Dicom was on the network list that is an imaging server over the network that hospitals use for storing patient images and video also we use to hate opening up surgery PC's because they where always full of patient DNA.
DICOM is not the server. DICOM is the medical standard for storing image/videos (sort of like JPG but with lots of extra metadata) AND the communication standard that medial imaging devices use to talk to each other. A modality (like this device) is the equipment used to capture the images. This includes cart based devices like this one as well as whole room CT/MRI scanners. The PACS is the system that all modalities send the images to after capture. The PACS is what a radiologist uses to view the images and provide a diagnosis to the requesting doctor. The PACS is also responsible for keeping the records in an archive (either directly or another system meant for archival storage).
It took me several seconds to realize you weren't talking about records of the patient's genetic sequence, but... Ahem... "Foreign matter". I kinda want to know, but I kinda don't.
Stryker is quite diverse! They are mostly known for making ambulance stretchers. They are the most common ones, known for their yellow and black colors. They also have bariatric stretchers which I have electric motors to lift the patient up and down.
Oh how I love computers like this. Not so much the off the shelf pc stuff, but all the custom stuff. Especially the batshit "there's a commojn way to do this, but we had to invent our own way" stuff
The optical drive being DVD-RAM and not just a standard DVD burner makes a lot of sense. Take pictures, take them where they need to go, show them to whomever needs to see them, erase them when you're done and the disc is ready to go again!
What you describe can be mostly done with a DVD-RW. With the DVD-RAM it's even better in a way - no need to do the whole erase process, and you can add extra materials at will without the multi-session hassle too.
DVD-RAMs were basically just multi-gigabyte flash drives in the era when flash storage was still measured in megabytes. It's shocking that they weren't more popular - although I suppose the cost and hassle of buying a DVD-RAM drive and installing it in your computer was more of a barrier to entry than just buying an external card reader, or using a USB drive, which you could more easily transport and plug into another computer... and were less prone to being damaged... and were smaller. Actually, yeah, it makes sense that DVD-RAM didn't catch on with consumers.
The second input without an output was used for things like a camera in the corner of the room capturing everyone while they were working. These things were just as much for liability as anything else. Almost wonder if you can find a modern panel to retrofit. That whole case is just unique enough it might be worth checking into.
The desktop 845/865 chipsets only have one display pipe, so no independent dual head output. The mobile chipsets from the same generation (830/85x) do have two pipes. All those chipsets support VGA and DVO outputs, and 85x even has a builtin LVDS output. Starting with the 915 chipset SDVO replaced DVO, and even the desktop chipset variants gained a second display pipe.
@@CathodeRayDude Also -- that AGP card was an "ADD" card. AGP Digital Display. It was a feature of the 845G chipset, in that it could use an add-in AGP card to offer a DVI output (or in this case, LVDS) instead of the built-in VGA port, without having to replace the whole GPU. There's no driver for it because you're still using the 845G as the GPU, it's just using a different DAC (in the video card architecture sense, not necessarily literally an analog conversion, obviously.) EDIT: .... and then you Google it immediately after I paused the video. Welp, that ought to learn me. (But I suspect it won't.)
I was about to do a long writeup about encoders, but scrolled down the comments first, only to see you reply! Ville!!!! Of course you also watch this sort of stuff. I assume that you have also stumbled over "tales of weird stuff", if not, head over now, and marvel over who is also trying to be an influencer (which i will never let him live down) :)
@@CathodeRayDude Basically, the AGP slot, or later (SDVO) PCIE slot, is multiplexed in a chipset specific way. This was done by most manufacturers with chipset integrated graphics, in a chipset specific manner. Intel, VIA and SiS were doing it at the time. Parallel or later serial pixel data, a clock, and some i2c, is pushed over to the respective encoder chip. These encoder chips were often made by Chrontel, Silicon Image, VIA and SiS, and allowed for extra DVI, LVDS, VGA, or TV (in its various guises) display outputs. Such chips were also found on higher end versions of discrete graphics cards (a geforce2 was a likely culprit), where the lower end ones just left the encoder and ancillaries footprints empty on the same PCB. So there is no FB copying going on, this is just an extra "output" after the display engine has serialized the final pixels that are heading to a display.
@CathodeRayDude Ah, you figured it out just after that. Should've watched further before heading straight to the comments. The Sil164 you found on the capture board, is actually the most numerous video encoder chip you will find on such an ADD card (dell sold those by the hundred thousands). This was the era when DVI (based on the panellink standard invented by Silicon Image itself), was quickly capturing the market, and Siicon Image made a killing selling this exact chip all over the place. VIA ended up making a fully compatible version in the vt1632 (both formfactor, pinout and register space). As for linux compatibility of the i845, YMMV, but Ville will know all about it. This was before my views on linux display driver development (badly named as "modesetting") were generally accepted, and the first employees of the intel linux graphics team (in 2006) had extremely limited interest in actual display driver development. They only did the basics for the i945, and could not be bothered catering for earlier hardware. I caught them on a 2008 conference (XDS edinburgh) complaining that they just could not get this hardware new anymore and that they therefore could not support it. Me pointing out that there is a ton of embedded board makers were still actively shipping boards with very interesting display combinations was of course seen as me being a nuisance again (just like they treated my earlier views on display driver development). So yeah, you might run into a lot of issues, nothing impossible to solve but likely a pretty big chunk of fixing a linux kernel display driver for 20y old hardware which was produced during the capacitor plague era. As for the LVDS cable, you should be able to figure out the pinout, and rewire it with another connector if needs be. But finding graphics cards or motherboards that expose LVDS , where the end result is more useful than the existing setup is going to be tricky, and generally it will not be worth it.
I recently bought a usb-c endoscope that plugs into your phone. My plan was to use it for poking around the ceiling to run cables. Unfortuantly the led lights on it are so dim its almost impossible to see anything. I also couldn't help but stick it into my mouth and look at my teeth.
A lot of these LED things are terrible, I was lucky enough to find an old-fashioned coherent fiber bundle scope with a krypton bulb in the handle. Picture's weird but bright enough, it's like looking through a beehive edit I meant honeycomb
I had to have a second hip replacement because Stryker recalled the one I had for releasing metallic components into the body...no grounding post included.....
If you have a framebuffer it should be pretty darn trivial to overly data over it even with old FPGAs. You'd basically just pick from the data stream of the video signal or the framebuffer and digitally "race the beam" because the digital signals still have all of the CRT beam timing stuff in them. There's an old project to do that with HDMI, it was really cool. It used a FPGA for everything, the DMCA killed it because of HDCP.
The little "pop" sound that you use to indicate text on screen sounds *exactly* like the way my partner and I pop our lips, which we do regularly. When we're watching your videos we always have to double-take because we can't tell if it was us or the video! It's very cute and makes us giggle. I just started the video so no-comment about the little guy yet :3
got this in my feed as i get ready to attend to an endoscopy exam. great work as always with this preternaturally large Little Man . Now Get out of my damn house
Haven't watched all the way yet so you may comment, but this is also unique being medical equipment. It's components and design has to be certified and is using better parts and under more scrutiny than other little guys may be. The ground post may likely is there to attach to some of the peripherals that go in and touch a person.
I had a colonoscopy once, I was put out because I didn't fancy being awake for it. They inflated me like a balloon and the pain was so bad it woke me up and I puked over the front of one of these units, only to fall back into unconsciousness. I woke up later on and wondered if I'd dreamt it... I hadn't. They had to swap in a spare and subsequent appointments were delayed. Oops.
Locking up during cold boot is a sign of capacitor trouble. If there is already a dielectric soak and some charge during turn-on, the voltage is less likely to collapse to brown-out. Also electrolyte is better behaved when just warm enough, not too cold, not boiling hot. That speaker is from the Foxconn parts bin. Ribbon cables are fine. Just run every second pin as ground. You were thinking of PCI Bus Master feature essentially for the video card. I wonder if that existed, but i very much doubt that! You can't do AGP GART without setting address translation from the OS, and the real problem is, PCI Bus Master card wouldn't really know where to retrieve the image data, essentially the video surface potentially isn't even in the global memory map except when in VGA/VESA modes and doesn't really have a fixed known base address. If a chip supports MPEG2 then it guaranteed also supports MPEG1 even if the functionality is not exposed in software. I have already seen Chinese video capture cards made from an MStar monitor scaler chip, then some sort of camera USB chip and then an RGB to HDMI converter for loopback out. A monitor scaler chip is also perfect to do light inline video processing since it has low latency of about a handful lines of rolling buffer and it has a feature to insert graphic overlays, used for bootlogo and OSD.
Well this is a surprise, medical Little Guys are fair game? I test those on a daily basis at my job. (Not for the company featured here, one of their competitors. They have a big capital letter as their logo.)
Used to order so many of those screwdrivers when they were Hitachi D3D-BL when I ran a warehouse doing DFO return stock teardown trailers (basically the stock they don't want, Dell sells to the highest bidder). A vessel #1 and #1/2 tip will last forever.
Huh. I only knew Stryker from their ambulance equipment. They make stretcher systems that are electrically or hydraulically operated. If you see a stretcher with a thick yellow frame, it’s probably a Stryker. They also make special seats that go up and down stairs. Those have saved so many backs of ambulance crews…
The attenuators in the audio path could be to implement some kind of automatic gain control (AGC) so that a best effort is given to having audible vocals without horrendous clipping, given that surgeons have a lot more on their mind than setting levels and maintaining mic distance etc. etc.
I was employed in a school that required all teacher laptops to be locked down with Kensington style locks. Compaq had somehow designed tracks on the board to run under the lock tang. So when someone did exactly that and ran off with a locked laptop, enough circuit board was torn off that the board became unserviceable. Laptop was recovered sometime later, that's how we worked this out.
Right shame about that AGP card and LVDS for the panel. Could definitely do something useful with it if it was a tiny bit more modern. As something to consider - that chassis could still be modded to have a nice and modern touch screen. IIRC there are a few modern mobos with an internal DP header for signalling, which coupled with the right touch panel would lead to something quite useful
Seems like a normal 30pin LVDS connector Check if the pinout on that connector is correct, get a 10$ LVDS-to-HDMI card and replace that useless 845 board
I can confirm that modern endoscopes are indeed self illuminating. They do usually have lights on the end. I'm learning to work on guitars, and I bought an endoscope to help me see inside of hollowbody and acoustic guitars.
Nice! A reason for having the audio chip combined with the video capture is that it allows the audio chip to have it's clock synchronized with the video capture clock. This solves the classic "PC doing video stuff" (that is not HDMI or Firewire) where you need to clock the recording or playback with the speed of the audio device, and if it's speed differs ever so slightly from the video hardware then you need to either drop a frame or display a frame twice every now and then. Probably deemed good enough for consumers watching their (fully legally obtained) video files on their computer, but for sure not OK when recording medical procedures. Btw re the Siemens and Philips chips that have names like SAB or TDA and whatnot, the naming convention is called Pro Electron and is/was used by most European manufactures, and stems from the early vacuum tubes. SAB = Microprocessor, so thus the Siemens licensed / second source 8088 chips were called SAB 8088. S = digital ICs, T = analogue ICs. Over the years they reused initial letters. The letters A for germanium and B for silicone discrete semi conductors were originally early vacuum tube designations.
My favourite part of this series is thinking "Aahh we probably saw just about anything now, video is about to end" and then seeing there is 30 more minutes to enjoy!
I love this series. It’s been great learning not just how people have been repurposing and specializing computers but especially the wonderfully weird ways it’s been done.
Having seen these things from the “customer end” the lack of video preview and quality video in general on the console is because this is used by a team. The user of the machine only needs a preview, the live feed goes out to the biggest screen they could cram into the room. Always loved knowing my butt was being broadcast to a 75 inch screen.
I once got a Sony PVM monitor from an endoscopy setup. Kinda weird that the same monitor i use to review VHS cassettes and other media was once be used to display the human poop tunnel from the inside.
When I seen the name a knew exactly what this thing is geared towards. Stryker makes all kinds of medical equipment including stretchers. Auto-load units for ambulances so forth and so on.
"Stuff gets stolen out of hospitals constantly." Tell me about it. Somebody stole an M&Ms dispenser from a local one, so I donated a new one. The things people do...
the reason I like Little Guys is because it's refreshing, interesting content. I do not want to watch yet another gaming pc build. industry specific machines are totally my jam. thanks for this.
9:42 The USB drive probably had a format it didn’t know how to work with, like maybe exFAT. Maybe it NEEDS NTFS (because it’s XP). Maybe it needs FAT32 (because of the software). You could have also put a CD in and that probably would have worked regardless. If you fixed this during the video or something, I won’t remember to come back and edit my comment so I’ll just say this now I’m not even a third the way through the video.
Man those old overly excited iFixit commercials on JayZTwoCents were good. Just seeing a screwdriver tray with a bit of blue plastic is enough to make them play in my head all these years later.
Geutebruck DVRs from the early 2010s also have a completely in house designed video capture card. I recall the chassis being half regular ATX case and half a cage for all the custom circuitry required for the I think 16 composite inputs for CCTV cameras that’s driven by a custom video capture card. It’s been so long since I worked with them that I can’t remember too much about them but this reminds me a lot of them. Lots of Analog Devices and Xilinx Spartan chips from memory
I bet they dont let you preview the camera, because they dont ever want a doctor to think that delayed preview is acceptable to operate on. And they don't want to confuse them about when it is and isn't recording.
Johnny: … and this is The Endoscopy Challenge Bam, wielding the 988 like a serpent: ahaha gross, this goes in your ASS dude haha Steve-O, distant, gazing hungrily at the VX1000: …yeah, dude…
The LED leads in the power switch seem to have held up quite well, actually. This machine was in service for unknown number of years (probably since 2002) and was only recently sent to the recycler?
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Wondering what that hole in the lower right of the faceplate is? I was wondering too, but an employee of the company informed me that that's actually where the remote control is stored! There's a spring loaded gadget behind it so you can press on the remote to pop it out. The strange shape is because the remote runs on a AAA battery, so it's actually shaped like that hole.
Oh, I should mention - the "ground" lug which turned out to be an "equipotentiality" lug, this was new to me but if I understood it correctly: suppose you drag a battery-powered X-ray machine into the room. That generates several million volts internally, which should never make it to the chassis, but you can never be sure about that. Now you hook up a second, also battery powered machine, like an endoscopy monitor. At some point while you're working, metal parts from those two machines might touch, and if there's a 5MV difference in potential, you could have a really big problem. So you hook them together with the equipotential lugs, and it's basically the same as grounding, except you can't call it ground if there is literally no earth involved. Grounding is not as important as being at the same potential - like a high tension lineman on a bucket truck hooking themself to the line.
I'm just disappointed in the lack of want to talk about where you can stick it early on in the video. In the immortal words of Carlin, what if there's a new guy who doesn't know where he can stick it?
There is another reason for the equipotential point (as discussed in my class on medical devices), and that is patient grounding. You want a very good ground connected to the patient, and all machines used on a patient are to be bonded to that equipotential point, even if they are on wall power.
The reason is this: let's say you don't have an equipotential point that is low impedence, and the patient is instead connected to two separate machines, which are plugged into the wall and earthed. The patient may or may not be bonded at the same physical point to one of those machines.
Assume the two machines are on their own breakers. Now, assume a modest fault current occurs on one of the breakers, to ground, but the current isn't high enough to trip the breaker, and a GFCI is in place. The current through the ground wire of that branch will actually lead to a voltage difference (due to wire resistance) between the two machines connected to the patient. Since the patient is likely low resistance, considering medical devices are in use, so the skin isn't being very resistive, this modest voltage difference can generate a fatal current.
I have some slides that do a great job of explaining this that I can try to rephrase, but doing this in a comment is hard.
какой крутой корпус собрать бы в нем современное что нить было б интересно ) интересно было бы на это посмотреть )
The verb "ground" has pretty much no meaning in a hospital situation, if I understand correctly? Hospital electrical systems are self-contained from the mains grid (everything is on the other side of a giant transformer) so there is no ground, no earthing. That's why in hospitals you see a pictogram of a person inside a box, it indicates a different electrical system.
Of course I might just be misremembering something I read a few years ago.
Edit: A difference in electrical potential can still exist, of course.
@@3rdalbum Most ORs opt to use isolated power, but that’s not always the case. Isolated power, from my understanding, is grounded in the center of the transformer but L1 & L2 deliver the standard nominal 120v split between the two.
you can't fool me, I know a microwave when I see it, that's a microwave
A microwave that occasionally lets you check for colon cancer.
@@scott8919 the spiciest burrito
I'm microwaving back.
my first thought was "a pc meant to go inside of a microwave??"
Are y'all AI? lmao
Beginning of the video: “Oh boy! A microwave review!”
End of the video: “Geez, what a weird microwave.”
yeah, pretty shit microwave. it doesn't even heat up food
Crap now you made me notice that there's a microwave video on my recommendations bar on the right ^^;
The “let’s ask the internet” jingle goes through my head every time I have to google something
I wanna put it on my soundboard
It's so good and I would also put it on my soundboard.
There might be some way to get it to play whenever you do a search on your web browser, but I wouldn't know how to it, and it would probably be really annoying.
I can finally say I'm one of those people who wished for a new video by X RUclipsr only to have it happen seconds later. Thank you for the content you and Daria provide for us.
Who's Daria? his missus?
@@joeynebulous816girlfriend, yes.
cat
so X Tuber?
Same here
the second port is for dual wielding endoscopes. It requires a special skill stat and really high dexterity and perception stats.
one going up and one going down? What if they meet in the middle?
@@zebo-the-fat If they meet, they kith
then they snog
@@zebo-the-fatgosh what if they get tangled
@@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt Just unplug either and pull both through. Easy!
Patient ID: 69420
Patient diagnosed with a severe case of totally rad.
There was a police cruiser in my town of Bangor, Maine around the year 2007ish that had the license plate
"420 007"... like, what, were they the weed smoking James Bond cop on the force? I never understood that one...
22:37 - MPEG4 / Xvid was "You can fit an entire movie on a burned CD!" codec - for better or worse
For those of us who flew the jolly roger, yeah - commercially it just spent a couple years being a convenient way to share videos of the kids.
My pirate group of choice used a specialized code named kvcd that could fit 1.5 hrs of video on a single cd at the time
@@CathodeRayDudethe disposable disks are different. Divx ;)(with the smiley behind it) for warez was named that for some reason i'm not sure of but the first iteration of that was a hacked codec to allow higher bitrates on the mpeg4 codec in windows.
Delving into it would make a fun video i guess. Some company trademarked the divx :) name and stuff, anyhow you needed the codec and we didnt have equivalent for linux for a while
Effectively yeah for good or worse it was like mp3 but for video in its effects for us, 'dvd' quality movies small enough to copy over the internet and person to person
And the FLOSS version of DivX codec, the Xvid codec, was always the better choice. 😎
APEX dvd player's really changed the game very early on.
27:47 Who needs Unregistered Hypercam 2 when you have an endoscopy recorder?
Using modern software feels like a colonoscopy anyway...
"unregistered hypercam" mentions gives me flash backs
colonoscopy with prejudice and violence
These little guys get bigger and bigger. You seem to give them their vitamines.
Going through a colon cancer scare/check and THIS comes up in my recommended? Very funny RUclips.
Good luck, I hope tests come back clear.
@@CathodeRayDude Thanks. The results should be this friday. 👍🏻
@@christiangomez2496Hope your butt's alright 🤞🤞
@@Fabri91 You're killing me, Smalls.
@@christiangomez2496 don't worry, that isn't the part that's inserted
You and Alec/Technology Connections are two of my favourite RUclipsrs. I love all the old computer stuff you talk about since I never got to experience these in my life or in the job force.
I'm not gonna lie... Stumbling onto this channel after years of watching Technology Connections I was, like: *gasp* "Two of them!?". I love how their video topics are different, yet... feel connected... through technology.
two of them
A digital music jukebox with touch interface would be a pretty sick project.
Should also make a great Megatouch / Photo Play arcade game wannabe...
It's really fucking loud though but if you take out some of the extraneous stuff to make it cooler such that you could take out the fan it might work
You say you're not doing a skate video, but it clearly says "sk8" on the video card.
with a vx and everything...
2:40 this "Kensington inertia test" sounds like the job for cousin Eddy at ProjectFarm.
I thought the same thing! Farmebago!
ah i see you too are a person of culture
"Where does it exhaust?" Through the power supply. That was part of the reason the PSU was above the CPU in the original ATX case layout.
"Let's use this densely-packed space with big stonkin capacitors as the way for the air to flow out of the case" was somebody's thought process at some point
@@3rdalbum Worked well enough at the time
@@lemagreengreen Yep. And that is (part of) why, if you have a PSU from 1998-2006, you absolutely need to replace the capacitors in it _right now._
@@lemagreengreen I guess the air from the CPU wasn't that hot in those days.
Hey Gravis! I actually work with the modern versions of this stuff. I have an SDC3 and a Control System and I think an old SPI AV router. All of which I’d love to let you evaluate. Fun fact: the SDC3 went on to actually control the AV router itself, eliminating the need for another little guy known as a “control system”. Let me know how I can reach out and show you a few things!
@@lifetimeofworktodo woah. could be interesting, depending on how much they've changed - shoot me an email! cathoderaydude at Gmail. Thanks!!
I would have laughed so hard if the speaker just played a loud fan sound.
I feel like to "explore" this device properly, you should have used a small camera you fed in through the exhaust fan.
"meant to plug in a camera that you sho.." was brilliant 😂
just want you to know I've got this video playing while I'm rolling up joints
How were they?
@@rhysbaker2595 I got high
@@tituslafrombois1164 i am proud of you
Mean while 2 days later Im watching this while I game and smoke up on my bong.
Also hello from canada!
@@CathodeRayDude oh, hi :)
This device is just a recording module for endoscopies. You don’t need it to watch the endoscopy live. Usually, there’s a device that takes the signal from the endoscopy camera and sends the video to a monitor. If you want to record, you can use this device (or any video capture device) and pass the video signal through to the monitor. The screen is not meant for watching live video. It's just for controlling the recorder/printing interface.
Not playing Major Stryker on the Stryker was a total missed opportunity...
follow-up video when
This brought me back. I used to work for one of Stryker's competitors in the OR Automation field half a decade ago and we got one of these machines in a deal with a hospital to see what they were doing in comparison to our system. I was the one that tore it down and documented every aspect of it, I still have all the pictures I took. In the end we didn't get any useful info since our system was already better in most aspects.
Although it's funny that you liked the software because that was one of the things we found we terrible with the system, especially when compared to our own.
12:18 well for once on the internet, HIPAA might be involved. It worked, you obtained no patient data, neither would you be able to recover from disk, as it was never stored there.
What kept him from being a valedictorian was him deliberately failing the test to cover his secret. A preganglionic fiber does not even remotely look close to a postganglionic nerve!
That looks like the kind of computer rich people would have on their boat back in the day
Yeah and the boat would be named "Assman"
As I understand it, a Kensington Lock isn't necessarily about stopping someone from stealing a device. But.
But. Ripping the device away from the Kensington wire connector will do permanent visible physical damage. Basically, anyone decent would refuse to buy a device with damage like that as it's practically a surefire sign of it being "hot". Severely limiting the black market value.
At least, that's my uneducated understanding.
It also keeps honest people from swapping the machine into another cart of equipment and messing up inventory control or ruining a specific config that was unique for that cart. The box may have special licenses making a bare bones replacement useless. Also the maintenance contract could be with that specific department rather than the whole organization so a maintenance tech couldn't do their job until the original is returned. Even if you're not worried about meth addicts stealing stuff, sometimes it pays to secure it from your coworkers when not in use.
I think they don’t provide a video feed on purpose. They probably don’t want a doctor using the video feed with loads of latency and being embroiled in a lawsuit when it all goes wrong.
@@jacobwortley So the following versions of this did show a small preview. Eventually, the SDC and the Stryker SPI AV router control system were rolled into one device. This later evolved into the SDC4K (for use on portable carts with endocams, light sources, insufflators, and other equipment) and the ConnectedOR Hub which serves as the controller for routing and capture device. Those SIDNE ports are in use now for using the SDC4K/Hub to change settings on each connected device, turn monitors on and off, build surgeon specific presets.. etc. They use USB cables to this day but it’s just RS232 as far as I know.
There was no need for it to have lots of latency. The video capture card can dump the current frame into a portion of video memory directly using DMA (well, that's what I understand). I had a video capture card in my computer in the 1990s and there was effectively zero latency when viewing the input on the monitor. However, I don't remember if it was still that smooth while recording, maybe it couldn't do that direct memory trick while recording.
Man, that screen is the prefect size for a piece of endoscopy camera control equipment. They shouldn't make them bigger than that.
Lol that button. It'd take five seconds per unit to dremel out a notch in the end for those button-pushing tubes for the wires to come out of...
For the signals on ribbon, remember that circuit boards of that era don't have coax embedded in them, either, so at some point you have exposed wires carrying signals. I dug around to find what impedance mismatch you'd get assuming the back panel S-VID BNC connectors are 75 ohms (not a guarantee here but maybe?) and going into that ribbon cable side-by-side, with a ground wire between every signal cable and... It's not great, but it's not the worst. It's about as bad as plugging a 50 ohm source into a 75 ohm BNC (or vice versa), daisy-chaining that 2-3 times (it's somewhere between 100s and 150 ohms). That increased impedance actually helps reduce RFI, a tad, though. There's also some ways to mitigate reflections from the mismatch, too, like having a very precise length of ribbon (which is essentially unshielded balanced line) to cancel out reflections, but that seems unlikely here given the other hacks involved. And it's shielded by being in the case, so the main concern is RFI at the frequency of whatever video is; I bet if you configured the CPU to run at a multiple or even fraction of the video signal frequency, you'd suddenly see tons of interference. I wonder if they picked a CPU specifically to avoid that, or if it wasn't a risk in that era anyway... Maybe there just aren't any components running at that frequency?
You don't need coax on PCBs. if you really want signal integrity you can put the trace on an inner layer and surround it with ground planes with via stitching. Also SD composite video is really tolerant of a lot of things. it has a bandwidth of about 6 MHz, so you can treat it pretty badly and it be fine. I've seen people run it completely unshielded, no coax, for 10 meters bundled up next to 48 V high current lines radiating massive amounts of EMI from motor drivers and still get a usable picture.
I think that's essentially what he means by coax on board.
Also, isn't a 2ghz celeron kinda rare? Compared to the billions of 1.8ghz models I've come across.. Adds to that internal RFI theory for me.
@@VM-lt9wl but 4 layer PCBs have been around for decades, so that kind of signal routing was absolutely an option
So an interesting tidbit: I have worked in a few Hospital IT departments and Dicom was on the network list that is an imaging server over the network that hospitals use for storing patient images and video also we use to hate opening up surgery PC's because they where always full of patient DNA.
DICOM is not the server. DICOM is the medical standard for storing image/videos (sort of like JPG but with lots of extra metadata) AND the communication standard that medial imaging devices use to talk to each other. A modality (like this device) is the equipment used to capture the images. This includes cart based devices like this one as well as whole room CT/MRI scanners. The PACS is the system that all modalities send the images to after capture. The PACS is what a radiologist uses to view the images and provide a diagnosis to the requesting doctor. The PACS is also responsible for keeping the records in an archive (either directly or another system meant for archival storage).
It took me several seconds to realize you weren't talking about records of the patient's genetic sequence, but... Ahem... "Foreign matter". I kinda want to know, but I kinda don't.
Stryker is quite diverse! They are mostly known for making ambulance stretchers. They are the most common ones, known for their yellow and black colors. They also have bariatric stretchers which I have electric motors to lift the patient up and down.
Oh how I love computers like this. Not so much the off the shelf pc stuff, but all the custom stuff. Especially the batshit "there's a commojn way to do this, but we had to invent our own way" stuff
The Doctor Bashir comment had me rolling! Just watched that episode of DS9 again recently
The optical drive being DVD-RAM and not just a standard DVD burner makes a lot of sense. Take pictures, take them where they need to go, show them to whomever needs to see them, erase them when you're done and the disc is ready to go again!
What you describe can be mostly done with a DVD-RW. With the DVD-RAM it's even better in a way - no need to do the whole erase process, and you can add extra materials at will without the multi-session hassle too.
DVD-RAMs were basically just multi-gigabyte flash drives in the era when flash storage was still measured in megabytes. It's shocking that they weren't more popular - although I suppose the cost and hassle of buying a DVD-RAM drive and installing it in your computer was more of a barrier to entry than just buying an external card reader, or using a USB drive, which you could more easily transport and plug into another computer... and were less prone to being damaged... and were smaller.
Actually, yeah, it makes sense that DVD-RAM didn't catch on with consumers.
@@alfo2804That and the whole DVD+R and DVD-R brewhaha.
"Well we won't talk about where you shove it"
I read "Stryker Endoscopy on the back" and was just "yep, he's reviewing a butthole camera, good, great"
The second input without an output was used for things like a camera in the corner of the room capturing everyone while they were working. These things were just as much for liability as anything else. Almost wonder if you can find a modern panel to retrofit. That whole case is just unique enough it might be worth checking into.
The desktop 845/865 chipsets only have one display pipe, so no independent dual head output. The mobile chipsets from the same generation (830/85x) do have two pipes. All those chipsets support VGA and DVO outputs, and 85x even has a builtin LVDS output. Starting with the 915 chipset SDVO replaced DVO, and even the desktop chipset variants gained a second display pipe.
Ahhh, that makes sense. Ty!
@@CathodeRayDude Also -- that AGP card was an "ADD" card. AGP Digital Display. It was a feature of the 845G chipset, in that it could use an add-in AGP card to offer a DVI output (or in this case, LVDS) instead of the built-in VGA port, without having to replace the whole GPU. There's no driver for it because you're still using the 845G as the GPU, it's just using a different DAC (in the video card architecture sense, not necessarily literally an analog conversion, obviously.)
EDIT: .... and then you Google it immediately after I paused the video. Welp, that ought to learn me. (But I suspect it won't.)
I was about to do a long writeup about encoders, but scrolled down the comments first, only to see you reply! Ville!!!! Of course you also watch this sort of stuff.
I assume that you have also stumbled over "tales of weird stuff", if not, head over now, and marvel over who is also trying to be an influencer (which i will never let him live down) :)
@@CathodeRayDude Basically, the AGP slot, or later (SDVO) PCIE slot, is multiplexed in a chipset specific way. This was done by most manufacturers with chipset integrated graphics, in a chipset specific manner. Intel, VIA and SiS were doing it at the time.
Parallel or later serial pixel data, a clock, and some i2c, is pushed over to the respective encoder chip. These encoder chips were often made by Chrontel, Silicon Image, VIA and SiS, and allowed for extra DVI, LVDS, VGA, or TV (in its various guises) display outputs. Such chips were also found on higher end versions of discrete graphics cards (a geforce2 was a likely culprit), where the lower end ones just left the encoder and ancillaries footprints empty on the same PCB.
So there is no FB copying going on, this is just an extra "output" after the display engine has serialized the final pixels that are heading to a display.
@CathodeRayDude Ah, you figured it out just after that. Should've watched further before heading straight to the comments.
The Sil164 you found on the capture board, is actually the most numerous video encoder chip you will find on such an ADD card (dell sold those by the hundred thousands). This was the era when DVI (based on the panellink standard invented by Silicon Image itself), was quickly capturing the market, and Siicon Image made a killing selling this exact chip all over the place. VIA ended up making a fully compatible version in the vt1632 (both formfactor, pinout and register space).
As for linux compatibility of the i845, YMMV, but Ville will know all about it. This was before my views on linux display driver development (badly named as "modesetting") were generally accepted, and the first employees of the intel linux graphics team (in 2006) had extremely limited interest in actual display driver development. They only did the basics for the i945, and could not be bothered catering for earlier hardware. I caught them on a 2008 conference (XDS edinburgh) complaining that they just could not get this hardware new anymore and that they therefore could not support it. Me pointing out that there is a ton of embedded board makers were still actively shipping boards with very interesting display combinations was of course seen as me being a nuisance again (just like they treated my earlier views on display driver development). So yeah, you might run into a lot of issues, nothing impossible to solve but likely a pretty big chunk of fixing a linux kernel display driver for 20y old hardware which was produced during the capacitor plague era.
As for the LVDS cable, you should be able to figure out the pinout, and rewire it with another connector if needs be. But finding graphics cards or motherboards that expose LVDS , where the end result is more useful than the existing setup is going to be tricky, and generally it will not be worth it.
I recently bought a usb-c endoscope that plugs into your phone. My plan was to use it for poking around the ceiling to run cables.
Unfortuantly the led lights on it are so dim its almost impossible to see anything.
I also couldn't help but stick it into my mouth and look at my teeth.
Okay but did you ever use it for its intended purpose?
@@rhysbaker2595 I did but the driver told me to get off his bus
A lot of these LED things are terrible, I was lucky enough to find an old-fashioned coherent fiber bundle scope with a krypton bulb in the handle. Picture's weird but bright enough, it's like looking through a beehive edit I meant honeycomb
There might be a hidden brightness adjustment?
@@renakunisaki I've seen the low priced endo cameras, the little 0402 white LEDs just can't make that much light.
No need to diet anymore, I’m a little guy now
Steve McDicheal?! Boy his baseball career went way out of left field!
I had to have a second hip replacement because Stryker recalled the one I had for releasing metallic components into the body...no grounding post included.....
That camera is really going places!
If you have a framebuffer it should be pretty darn trivial to overly data over it even with old FPGAs. You'd basically just pick from the data stream of the video signal or the framebuffer and digitally "race the beam" because the digital signals still have all of the CRT beam timing stuff in them.
There's an old project to do that with HDMI, it was really cool. It used a FPGA for everything, the DMCA killed it because of HDCP.
The little "pop" sound that you use to indicate text on screen sounds *exactly* like the way my partner and I pop our lips, which we do regularly. When we're watching your videos we always have to double-take because we can't tell if it was us or the video! It's very cute and makes us giggle. I just started the video so no-comment about the little guy yet :3
got this in my feed as i get ready to attend to an endoscopy exam. great work as always with this preternaturally large Little Man . Now Get out of my damn house
Haven't watched all the way yet so you may comment, but this is also unique being medical equipment. It's components and design has to be certified and is using better parts and under more scrutiny than other little guys may be. The ground post may likely is there to attach to some of the peripherals that go in and touch a person.
I had a colonoscopy once, I was put out because I didn't fancy being awake for it. They inflated me like a balloon and the pain was so bad it woke me up and I puked over the front of one of these units, only to fall back into unconsciousness.
I woke up later on and wondered if I'd dreamt it... I hadn't. They had to swap in a spare and subsequent appointments were delayed.
Oops.
That's probably why it can't store video locally, haha
@@3rdalbum Well, that and HIPAA.
This PC is meant to be plugged into you.
1:05:00 My entire garage screams useful. My wife disagrees
Locking up during cold boot is a sign of capacitor trouble. If there is already a dielectric soak and some charge during turn-on, the voltage is less likely to collapse to brown-out. Also electrolyte is better behaved when just warm enough, not too cold, not boiling hot.
That speaker is from the Foxconn parts bin.
Ribbon cables are fine. Just run every second pin as ground.
You were thinking of PCI Bus Master feature essentially for the video card. I wonder if that existed, but i very much doubt that! You can't do AGP GART without setting address translation from the OS, and the real problem is, PCI Bus Master card wouldn't really know where to retrieve the image data, essentially the video surface potentially isn't even in the global memory map except when in VGA/VESA modes and doesn't really have a fixed known base address.
If a chip supports MPEG2 then it guaranteed also supports MPEG1 even if the functionality is not exposed in software.
I have already seen Chinese video capture cards made from an MStar monitor scaler chip, then some sort of camera USB chip and then an RGB to HDMI converter for loopback out. A monitor scaler chip is also perfect to do light inline video processing since it has low latency of about a handful lines of rolling buffer and it has a feature to insert graphic overlays, used for bootlogo and OSD.
"Ooh, this was not wiped" -- I'm sure that's a phrase that machine has heard before.
Well this is a surprise, medical Little Guys are fair game? I test those on a daily basis at my job. (Not for the company featured here, one of their competitors. They have a big capital letter as their logo.)
I wonder what kind of injuries baseball players suffer that lead to endoscopies. Poor Sleve
The second input is so you can work both ends at the same time.
"I see the problem, there's a camera in here!"
you beat me to it! 😬
Used to order so many of those screwdrivers when they were Hitachi D3D-BL when I ran a warehouse doing DFO return stock teardown trailers (basically the stock they don't want, Dell sells to the highest bidder). A vessel #1 and #1/2 tip will last forever.
Well if they are inserting the whole computer inside the patient during the endoscopy, they are doing it wrong.
Huh. I only knew Stryker from their ambulance equipment. They make stretcher systems that are electrically or hydraulically operated. If you see a stretcher with a thick yellow frame, it’s probably a Stryker. They also make special seats that go up and down stairs. Those have saved so many backs of ambulance crews…
The attenuators in the audio path could be to implement some kind of automatic gain control (AGC) so that a best effort is given to having audible vocals without horrendous clipping, given that surgeons have a lot more on their mind than setting levels and maintaining mic distance etc. etc.
i looked at the thumbnail and thought "is that a microwave??"
and it still looks like a microwave to me from the first 15 seconds of the video lmao
I was employed in a school that required all teacher laptops to be locked down with Kensington style locks. Compaq had somehow designed tracks on the board to run under the lock tang. So when someone did exactly that and ran off with a locked laptop, enough circuit board was torn off that the board became unserviceable. Laptop was recovered sometime later, that's how we worked this out.
I didn't even notice the audio whine of that thing so you did a good job editing out the volume of it.
11:29 "Sleve McDichael"
Patient ID: 69420
Right shame about that AGP card and LVDS for the panel. Could definitely do something useful with it if it was a tiny bit more modern.
As something to consider - that chassis could still be modded to have a nice and modern touch screen. IIRC there are a few modern mobos with an internal DP header for signalling, which coupled with the right touch panel would lead to something quite useful
Just be aware that sometimes that port is to receive a DP signal and embed it in a USB-C video stream
Seems like a normal 30pin LVDS connector
Check if the pinout on that connector is correct, get a 10$ LVDS-to-HDMI card and replace that useless 845 board
From the era when embedded PCs were structural building blocks
I can confirm that modern endoscopes are indeed self illuminating. They do usually have lights on the end. I'm learning to work on guitars, and I bought an endoscope to help me see inside of hollowbody and acoustic guitars.
I know absolutely nothing about these old PCs. But I love your commentary, and the way you approach videos . Keep being you .
You could use the chassis and touch screen to make a sweet Pentium II era LAN party box with dual Voodoo2 cards.
Nice!
A reason for having the audio chip combined with the video capture is that it allows the audio chip to have it's clock synchronized with the video capture clock. This solves the classic "PC doing video stuff" (that is not HDMI or Firewire) where you need to clock the recording or playback with the speed of the audio device, and if it's speed differs ever so slightly from the video hardware then you need to either drop a frame or display a frame twice every now and then. Probably deemed good enough for consumers watching their (fully legally obtained) video files on their computer, but for sure not OK when recording medical procedures.
Btw re the Siemens and Philips chips that have names like SAB or TDA and whatnot, the naming convention is called Pro Electron and is/was used by most European manufactures, and stems from the early vacuum tubes. SAB = Microprocessor, so thus the Siemens licensed / second source 8088 chips were called SAB 8088. S = digital ICs, T = analogue ICs. Over the years they reused initial letters. The letters A for germanium and B for silicone discrete semi conductors were originally early vacuum tube designations.
But can it screen capture DOOM?
Its funny, I just finished rewatching Quick Start yesterday. This will go great with my lunch break at work, exactly an hour. Close enough, at least.
My favourite part of this series is thinking "Aahh we probably saw just about anything now, video is about to end" and then seeing there is 30 more minutes to enjoy!
9:20 I have to tell you, I really appreciate the live color commentary on the Windows XP Embedded boot sequence.
I’m so happy Sleve McDichael is still kicking around. He’s up there with Onson Sweemey as one of the greats.
I love this series. It’s been great learning not just how people have been repurposing and specializing computers but especially the wonderfully weird ways it’s been done.
Having seen these things from the “customer end” the lack of video preview and quality video in general on the console is because this is used by a team. The user of the machine only needs a preview, the live feed goes out to the biggest screen they could cram into the room.
Always loved knowing my butt was being broadcast to a 75 inch screen.
I once got a Sony PVM monitor from an endoscopy setup. Kinda weird that the same monitor i use to review VHS cassettes and other media was once be used to display the human poop tunnel from the inside.
When I seen the name a knew exactly what this thing is geared towards. Stryker makes all kinds of medical equipment including stretchers. Auto-load units for ambulances so forth and so on.
hearing you said "I'll be your doctor today" made me smile greatly! felt like a nice playground talk.
"Stuff gets stolen out of hospitals constantly."
Tell me about it. Somebody stole an M&Ms dispenser from a local one, so I donated a new one.
The things people do...
the reason I like Little Guys is because it's refreshing, interesting content. I do not want to watch yet another gaming pc build. industry specific machines are totally my jam. thanks for this.
Pressing that power button causes me physical pain, and I can never unsee it.
When a Little Guy becomes the Chunky Lad.
9:42 The USB drive probably had a format it didn’t know how to work with, like maybe exFAT. Maybe it NEEDS NTFS (because it’s XP). Maybe it needs FAT32 (because of the software). You could have also put a CD in and that probably would have worked regardless.
If you fixed this during the video or something, I won’t remember to come back and edit my comment so I’ll just say this now I’m not even a third the way through the video.
11:20 - Plot twist, there is a sim card buried somewhere inside and this thing is synced with an actual hospital that now doesn't have any doctors
“And here we have an endoscopy capture device, which I will demonstrate its capabilities for you now!”
Man those old overly excited iFixit commercials on JayZTwoCents were good.
Just seeing a screwdriver tray with a bit of blue plastic is enough to make them play in my head all these years later.
I got a lot of colonoscopies as a kid 20 years back and the childrens hospital had the setup you show in the ad copy its fun seeing this more closely
Geutebruck DVRs from the early 2010s also have a completely in house designed video capture card. I recall the chassis being half regular ATX case and half a cage for all the custom circuitry required for the I think 16 composite inputs for CCTV cameras that’s driven by a custom video capture card. It’s been so long since I worked with them that I can’t remember too much about them but this reminds me a lot of them. Lots of Analog Devices and Xilinx Spartan chips from memory
I bet they dont let you preview the camera, because they dont ever want a doctor to think that delayed preview is acceptable to operate on.
And they don't want to confuse them about when it is and isn't recording.
Gravis M. D.
Do Kensington Lock series. You can test how well items hold up when a good amount of force is applied.
13:59 you should review the Canon Selphy series one day, it's a cheap-ish consumer dye sublimation printer. Works very well.
It was more interesting than I expected. Some curiosities in it.
Johnny: … and this is The Endoscopy Challenge
Bam, wielding the 988 like a serpent: ahaha gross, this goes in your ASS dude haha
Steve-O, distant, gazing hungrily at the VX1000: …yeah, dude…
When I worked at Jabil Circuits we built a lot of Stryker medical circuit boards.
The LED leads in the power switch seem to have held up quite well, actually. This machine was in service for unknown number of years (probably since 2002) and was only recently sent to the recycler?