Smarties used to come in a round tube and the cap was plastic and has a letter embossed inside. The idea was to collect them and spell stuff out. Strange but true. Nestle really screwed them up. They were better when Rountree was making them.
Hi Adrian. I’m the Frank that gave you the VIC20 expansion card. I’m trying to contact my old friend who developed the schematics for this board (I designed the board itself). I should have taken a picture of the front and back of the card before I brought it to VCEF-East as I may need to give it to my friend, Thom as this was a project from waaaay back. I think you showed it enough so I can pull screen shots. Funny how a board like this that’s been hanging on my wall for 40 years may get a second chance.
Fun fact: those Dallas RTC chips are absolutely ubiquitous in older industrial electronics. Last factory I worked at, we had ~30 stamping presses ranging from 150tons to 800tons for steel stamping and most of them had one of those Dallas chips in there.
(@ around 22:30 or so). No, Adrian. Nixie tubes don’t have a filament; they’re cold-cathode tubes like neon bulbs. VFD’s (Vacuum-Flourescent Displays) though, DO have a filament (often 2 or 3), and they can operate like a triode radio tube (that lights up!)
The CSC Hard Drive Bible! They were selling those at a great discount at Micro Center when it opened out in Santa Clara years ago. Sadly, that Micro Center closed down a while back
Thank you for coming over to the FujiNet booth and seeing what we have. There's a LOT that the device can do, and I can help point you in the right directions for various capabilities (e.g. the Apple2 version has CP/M capability as well.) -Thom
It was nice seeing you at VCF East 🙂 I was with my friend, Tom who was running the "Amiga of Rochester" booth. He was doing soldering/desoldering and repairing boards and stuff. I was just there to help out if he needed anything!
Hey Adrian - Greg from Kennett Classic here. Thank you so much for the shout out! It was great to meet you and we really appreciated you stopping by to talk to Bill, Joe, and myself. Hope to see you again at a future VCF event! (Btw - Kennett Square is the mushroom capital of the United States; situated near the beautiful Brandywine Valley roughly 30 miles west-ish of Philadelphia.)
It was so cool to meet you and get your autograph on my computer panel! I wasn't there the first day and I didn't see Action Retro but I found everyone else I was looking for.
I got to meet you in person as one of the "on the way to the bathroom" crowd-we spoke a little about ham radio and you are a perfect gentleman just as engaging in person as you are in your videos it was an honor and pleasure meeting you in person! As far as the bathroom I am also diabetic and when you have to get to the bathroom especially with the medications you really got to go!!
*Waves* Hey Adrian! Was awesome seeing you again. Here's a list of things we accomplished during VCF East: * 2 A1200s * 1 CD32 * 2 Composite mods on Sinclair / Timeex systems * 1 575 Recap * 1 bluescsi sd card slot * Fixed a clone zx spectrum that had bad tantalums (shorted). I'm sure I missed something.
I got to meet (and hang out with you) at VCF Midwest, and it was a blast meeting you. I'm a fan of Ben Heck and the 8 Bit Guy as well as Crazy Ken and Clint from LGR, but honestly meeting you was the main reason I went to VCFMW, and hope to see you there in September. As for me, I'll be at CoCoFest in Chicago this weekend. Was wanting to do VCF East, but only have so much vacation time to go around...lol.
Hey, Adrian. Thanks for the VCF wrap up video. Good to know that Jerry is still doing work on those 3D glasses. The Foenix project sounds like an interesting project I'll be looking at.
Back in the 80s I owned a VIC-20 expansion bank just like that one except instead of the extra RAM it had 5 cartridge slots which were bank-selectable from a set of DIP-Switches. I am almost positive it was by the same company as it was externally powered and had a reset button in the same place as well as it's own fuse. I I had my VIC upto 32k of RAM along with the HES-Mon machine language monitor cartridge in it while I was working on my BBS program. What an awesome blast from the past AB. Fantastic! Thanks.
Hi Adrian. It was a pleasure for me and my son Matthew to meet you at VCF East. Thanks for spending a few minutes with us and talking old tech. You may remember my son Matthew as he gave you the crowbar circuit schematic. Keep up the great videos.
I see the Bad Caps are still making appearances! So glad you've gotten so much enjoyment out of my corny joke/cartoons. Thanks Adrian, and thanks for all the content. 😊
Hey Adrian, was awesome meeting & chatting with you at VCF, glad I was able to replace your lost 🍎 sticker with a nice vintage one 😉😁 Have always been deeply impressed with your troubleshooting skill, thanks for such an awesome channel! Cheers! 🍻
OHHHH YEAH!! I thought it was from you, but you gave it to me early on (Friday?) Yes actually it would be awesome if everyone who gave me stuff put their name on it to help me remember! LOL
I started this video and realized I was running the words you were saying in my head....even though I had the volume way down. I think I've watched a few of your videos. :)
It was so awesome to meet you at VCF East. I got a ticket just for Friday to meet you, and what a surprise to meet Jeri, Bill, Fran, David, Alan ...super freaking awesome. Plus so many other people. Loved it. I am sorry to be "That Guy" that interrupts and makes a scene at your roundtable, but at least I can say I got a mention during one of your events! Definitely should have got tickets for the whole event. Looking forward to the next one, hope to see you again. Thanks from a huge fan of you and your channel.
Oh, you were very easy to find - I saw you multiple times on Friday and Saturday, but were already talking to people so I didn't want to interrupt. Still, I attended the Friday talk and all five of you were great! I'm glad you had a good time, I know I did.
I’m very much looking forward to VCF Midwest and hope to meet you there! Already secured permission from the wife unit to attend all days of the conference - can’t wait! I hope you come up with a way for us to track you down there - you are my #1 target for a handshake! :) Thanks Adrian!
I always get so excited when I see something on a fave channel that's Canadian as ketchup-flavour chips, or Coffee Crisps, anything like that. It's really funny to see people's reactions to the ketchup chips especially. I don't know why, they're mostly like salt and vinegar chips, just with a bit of tomato spice-ish flavour added in. Wish I could've made it to VCF! Looks like everyone had fun! EDIT: Smarties can be found anywhere in Canada afaik, but I see you found out they're originally from the UK. American Smarties are called Rockets here in Canada.
Adrian, it was great meeting you at VCF, thanks for taking a pic with me and my friend. Love what you do, sharing your knowledge and helping build this amazing retro tech community! Hope we meet again sometime so we can actually have a chat instead of me just being too excited to get past the "omg its adrian!" stage, lol.
I am glad you had a good time at VCF East! I feel for you on the battery issue. My H1N Zoom audio recorder seems to eat batteries and it also just silently dies without warning. So frustrating!
The facility in Wall was used by the Marconi company before WWI, and was used by the Aermy as Camp Evans during WWII and the Cold War, but Marconi himself died in 1937.
I really wish I could have made it to VCF East… Unfortunately, it fell on my on-call week. The life of a DevOps engineer… Gonna do my best to make it to VCF Southwest though!
The original Atari FujiNet was a complete revoluation (a revelation and a revolution together!). It goes so far beyond serving up disk images, and even beyond all the online access, it can even emulate different printers outputting to PDF files, do speech, CP/M. Definitely worth investigation!
The nixie tubes EEVBlog used those same ones and made a subscriber counter into his RUclips play button plaque. I don't know if he published the schematics for the board or not but it's an idea.
Thanks for posting a video about the Apple II Fujinet project. I actually bought one of these a few months ago for my Apple IIc. Aside from a few bugs in the earlier firmware, and the not so user friendly interface, it works pretty well. One thing that you didn't mention, and perhaps you will show when you do the video for Apple Fujinet, is that not only can you download Apple II disk image directly off of the internet with an Apple II, you can also use a modern PC to create a TNFSD server. This basically acts as a local file server for your Apple, so essentially you can store all of your favorite Apple II images in a folder on a Wndows PC (for example), share the folder using the TNFSD executable available on the Fujinet website, and connect directly to the share from an Apple II over wi-fi. The one main disadvantage that Fujinet has right now is the lack of support for some disk image types. It works really well with HDV images, but lacks support for PO, DO, and DSK. I have been begging the guys at #Fujinet to add support for these images, but I think that they are prioritizing other platforms over the Apple II. Perhaps if a big influencer like Adrian gets onboard, they will look into this issue more deeply. So Adrian, PLEASE do this video soon. It might just be me, but I love the Apple II and Mac videos, much more than I like Commodore videos, because I was an Apple IIc owner as kid and still am to this day. Lastly, I gotta say that if Fujinet starts to support other image types and not just HDV, this would be a huge game changer for the Apple II retro community. It would render the floppy emu obsolete, as the Fujinet is a ton more versatile.
Sorry about that! I know this was probably something that happened a lot. There were people I was wanting to find and talk to as well and I never found them 😞
Not sure if Adrian mentioned this (haven't watched the video yet), but Fran Blanche posted the round table on her channel. The sound quality isn't the best, but it's still listenable (though it's a bit more listenable through headphones than speakers). If you can't wait until the official VCF channel releases their recording of it, it's well worth a watch and a listen.
Hey Adrian - I don't know OBS, but do you have a way to put a set of audio level meters on your monitor? That might solve the problem of having your mic batteries die silently.
Or just bodge together a script, I'm guessing powershell has some way to list connected BT devices, from there you can poll it and do whatever you want to alert, like playing a sound. On linux bluetoothctl provides a really handy CLI interface perfectly suited for such tasks.
Yeah my son and I drove up on Sunday. I saw you hanging out around the telr table, but you looked pretty busy and kind of a hurry so I figured I would see you later. But I think you were heading out so I went all over the campus and didn't see you after that.
I live only 10 minutes away from there but my mother-in-law from Poland is staying with us and I couldn't make it. Now I'm sad I didn't just sneak out and stop by. It seems like it was a lot of fun.
What Up Adrian! Dave @ Uisagi..? lol I think that's it: That Machine he's been building is a Trip I'm hoping to locate a show like this in the Detroit area soon! Keep it Rockin Adrian! Dryden, MI
I would enjoy seeing you do a video on an MSX2, whether you decide to build the project you were given the PCBs for or have one imported to you. Also I love the hot pink EasyFlash case with the pink LED on the PCB (pink is my favorite color so I love anything being pink)
I have about a dozen of those apple stickers from 1986. I remember I was giving one each week by the computer sciences teacher, maybe for being the most knowledgeable about computers in class. After the 12 consecutive weeks of winning, I may have felt a little guilty about rewriting some of the lemonade stand program so that I always got the top score.
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I added some links to the description. One was an article on how Smarties (Candy) originate in the UK.
If I had owned a Credit Card I would have flown out to VCF East and would have sat on the Friday panel with you and the legend Bil Herd
Smarties used to come in a round tube and the cap was plastic and has a letter embossed inside. The idea was to collect them and spell stuff out. Strange but true. Nestle really screwed them up. They were better when Rountree was making them.
I'm so jealous you got to see the Centurion.
amazon sidewalk is live you should make something ...
@@memsom yeah, Roundtree chocolate was better.
Hi Adrian. I’m the Frank that gave you the VIC20 expansion card. I’m trying to contact my old friend who developed the schematics for this board (I designed the board itself). I should have taken a picture of the front and back of the card before I brought it to VCEF-East as I may need to give it to my friend, Thom as this was a project from waaaay back. I think you showed it enough so I can pull screen shots. Funny how a board like this that’s been hanging on my wall for 40 years may get a second chance.
Fun fact: those Dallas RTC chips are absolutely ubiquitous in older industrial electronics. Last factory I worked at, we had ~30 stamping presses ranging from 150tons to 800tons for steel stamping and most of them had one of those Dallas chips in there.
I'm getting the feeling that whenever Adrian tells us it's "super mini" it gets longer every time 😂
"Super" meaning "more than" so it's some amount larger than "mini". No contradiction here...
We have Smarties in Australia, very yummy!
Definitely not sick of Apple ][ videos.
The panel discussion was really fun! Fran did a good job recording it.
Working hard to go to VCF Midwest ! Thanks for letting me hangout with you and the bunch during the show ! :)
Smarties are British Adrian!!!
Yes you can get the VIC-20 cart connector. Digi-Key sells them new. There is one US company left still making them. About $10.
(@ around 22:30 or so). No, Adrian. Nixie tubes don’t have a filament; they’re cold-cathode tubes like neon bulbs. VFD’s (Vacuum-Flourescent Displays) though, DO have a filament (often 2 or 3), and they can operate like a triode radio tube (that lights up!)
It was really great meeting you in person at VCF-East, however brief! You're just as nice in person as I hoped you would be
The CSC Hard Drive Bible! They were selling those at a great discount at Micro Center when it opened out in Santa Clara years ago. Sadly, that Micro Center closed down a while back
Hi Adrian, personally I'm really loving all the Apple II content lately and would love to see more.
Thank you for coming over to the FujiNet booth and seeing what we have. There's a LOT that the device can do, and I can help point you in the right directions for various capabilities (e.g. the Apple2 version has CP/M capability as well.)
-Thom
Not sick of Apple II videos at all. More please!
It was nice seeing you at VCF East 🙂 I was with my friend, Tom who was running the "Amiga of Rochester" booth. He was doing soldering/desoldering and repairing boards and stuff. I was just there to help out if he needed anything!
Hey Adrian - Greg from Kennett Classic here. Thank you so much for the shout out! It was great to meet you and we really appreciated you stopping by to talk to Bill, Joe, and myself. Hope to see you again at a future VCF event!
(Btw - Kennett Square is the mushroom capital of the United States; situated near the beautiful Brandywine Valley roughly 30 miles west-ish of Philadelphia.)
We have them here in the UK also, only the orange ones are flavoured - with orange oil... Orange Smarties are the BEST!😋😁
You look so excited by the event. That's wonderful.
It was so cool to meet you and get your autograph on my computer panel! I wasn't there the first day and I didn't see Action Retro but I found everyone else I was looking for.
Conventions are so fun. Going to another one in just under 2 months. Glad you had a good time :)
Smarties are big in the UK too. We always had them in paper tubes rather than boxes though.
I’m not burned out on Apple II content. That’s exactly how I found your channel 😊
I got to meet you in person as one of the "on the way to the bathroom" crowd-we spoke a little about ham radio and you are a perfect gentleman just as engaging in person as you are in your videos it was an honor and pleasure meeting you in person! As far as the bathroom I am also diabetic and when you have to get to the bathroom especially with the medications you really got to go!!
*Waves* Hey Adrian! Was awesome seeing you again. Here's a list of things we accomplished during VCF East:
* 2 A1200s
* 1 CD32
* 2 Composite mods on Sinclair / Timeex systems
* 1 575 Recap
* 1 bluescsi sd card slot
* Fixed a clone zx spectrum that had bad tantalums (shorted).
I'm sure I missed something.
It's Sev. It was great to meet you at vcf east.
Nice!
Smarties were originally Rowntrees of York, England. My mother used to work at the factory in the 1950s!
I got to meet (and hang out with you) at VCF Midwest, and it was a blast meeting you. I'm a fan of Ben Heck and the 8 Bit Guy as well as Crazy Ken and Clint from LGR, but honestly meeting you was the main reason I went to VCFMW, and hope to see you there in September. As for me, I'll be at CoCoFest in Chicago this weekend. Was wanting to do VCF East, but only have so much vacation time to go around...lol.
It was great to see you there, Adrian! See you at VCFMW!
Hey, Adrian. Thanks for the VCF wrap up video. Good to know that Jerry is still doing work on those 3D glasses. The Foenix project sounds like an interesting project I'll be looking at.
Looking forward to the future FujiNet Apple II video ! 😊
Tested your way to desolder chips on c64 it worked great
Thanks for you and the channel keep up the good work
Oh man, in the same row with Jerri and others, that is sooooo cool!
the react to your previous self thing is pretty funny. not saying you should do it on purpose but i'm enjoying it this time.
Back in the 80s I owned a VIC-20 expansion bank just like that one except instead of the extra RAM it had 5 cartridge slots which were bank-selectable from a set of DIP-Switches. I am almost positive it was by the same company as it was externally powered and had a reset button in the same place as well as it's own fuse. I I had my VIC upto 32k of RAM along with the HES-Mon machine language monitor cartridge in it while I was working on my BBS program.
What an awesome blast from the past AB. Fantastic! Thanks.
If they had something like this in my part of the world (Brisbane, Australia) I would go in a heartbeat to check out vintage and retro tech...
Hi Adrian. It was a pleasure for me and my son Matthew to meet you at VCF East. Thanks for spending a few minutes with us and talking old tech. You may remember my son Matthew as he gave you the crowbar circuit schematic. Keep up the great videos.
I happened to be in the right place at the right time, I guess. It was great to meet you in person. Glad you enjoyed the festival!
I see the Bad Caps are still making appearances! So glad you've gotten so much enjoyment out of my corny joke/cartoons. Thanks Adrian, and thanks for all the content. 😊
Hey Adrian, was awesome meeting & chatting with you at VCF, glad I was able to replace your lost 🍎 sticker with a nice vintage one 😉😁 Have always been deeply impressed with your troubleshooting skill, thanks for such an awesome channel! Cheers! 🍻
Thank you for going back and turning on the captions, Adrian. Anyway, it sure sounds like VCF was a blast!
My wife told me to sign my name in the Hard Drive Bible. 😂 it's from me. It's more of a novelty than anything else.
OHHHH YEAH!! I thought it was from you, but you gave it to me early on (Friday?) Yes actually it would be awesome if everyone who gave me stuff put their name on it to help me remember! LOL
@Adrian's Digital Basement ][ yeah I got it to you before everything kicked off Friday. It was a long weekend. 😄
I started this video and realized I was running the words you were saying in my head....even though I had the volume way down. I think I've watched a few of your videos. :)
Adrian, I’m glad we got to meet at VCF East and have a laugh over that LS-120 drive!
Amazing to see spirit of retro restoration alive and kicking! Let's hope youngsters will carry that torch.
It was so awesome to meet you at VCF East. I got a ticket just for Friday to meet you, and what a surprise to meet Jeri, Bill, Fran, David, Alan ...super freaking awesome. Plus so many other people. Loved it. I am sorry to be "That Guy" that interrupts and makes a scene at your roundtable, but at least I can say I got a mention during one of your events! Definitely should have got tickets for the whole event. Looking forward to the next one, hope to see you again. Thanks from a huge fan of you and your channel.
Oh, you were very easy to find - I saw you multiple times on Friday and Saturday, but were already talking to people so I didn't want to interrupt. Still, I attended the Friday talk and all five of you were great! I'm glad you had a good time, I know I did.
I’m very much looking forward to VCF Midwest and hope to meet you there! Already secured permission from the wife unit to attend all days of the conference - can’t wait! I hope you come up with a way for us to track you down there - you are my #1 target for a handshake! :) Thanks Adrian!
The russian nixie tubes sometimes use the same metal shape for the No. 5 and the No. 2 so that is what looks odd.
It was so great to meet you at VCF East. Can’t wait for next year!
Mouser stocks "VIC 20" card-edge connectors.
the VCF was a real blast, it was awesome getting to meet you in person!
Sounds like this video was a major frustration-fest for you Adrian! Still turned out well.
It was great to meet you and chat for a few minutes. The bigger YouTuners could actually benefit for a signing table.
O M G, sorry for being pathetic but HARIBO peaches is just fantastic!🤩
Thank you SO much for your due diligence on producing this vid. I feel like I was at VCF, almost. ;)
It was nice to meet face to face. I had a good time and I was surprised at the turn-out. Cheers!
No no no definitely not fed up with the Apple I videos these are helping with an Apple ii repair/refurbish please more 😊😊
It was nice to talk to you
It was great to see you at VCF East and meet my parents there. I remember the first video I saw was 286 adding IDE bios
I always get so excited when I see something on a fave channel that's Canadian as ketchup-flavour chips, or Coffee Crisps, anything like that. It's really funny to see people's reactions to the ketchup chips especially. I don't know why, they're mostly like salt and vinegar chips, just with a bit of tomato spice-ish flavour added in. Wish I could've made it to VCF! Looks like everyone had fun!
EDIT: Smarties can be found anywhere in Canada afaik, but I see you found out they're originally from the UK. American Smarties are called Rockets here in Canada.
I was there Saturday.. it was a great first experience.. I’ll be back next year!
It really was a fun festival. I can't wait to do it again. :)
Ketchup chips are AMAZING.
Adrian, it was great meeting you at VCF, thanks for taking a pic with me and my friend. Love what you do, sharing your knowledge and helping build this amazing retro tech community! Hope we meet again sometime so we can actually have a chat instead of me just being too excited to get past the "omg its adrian!" stage, lol.
The MSX PCB looks cool.
vic-20 cartridge connector is available, Digi-Key Part Number. S3353-ND
Holy cow, the Hard Drive Bible! Boy do I miss the Disk Drive Depot on Lawrence Expressway in Sunnyvale...
It was really cool to meet you in person, Adrian! I hope to see you at VCFMW if I get to go myself. (I gotta make sure my wife's happy first! 😂)
I am glad you had a good time at VCF East! I feel for you on the battery issue. My H1N Zoom audio recorder seems to eat batteries and it also just silently dies without warning. So frustrating!
Was cool to have Adrian sign my Coco disk controller cart. Been going there for years but was neat to meet people I watch on yt.
You should take a page from TechTangents and start streaming when you're doing a big project like those kits you mentioned around 22:50.
Ketchup chips are great but Ruffles All Dressed are the bomb.
The facility in Wall was used by the Marconi company before WWI, and was used by the Aermy as Camp Evans during WWII and the Cold War, but Marconi himself died in 1937.
I really wish I could have made it to VCF East… Unfortunately, it fell on my on-call week. The life of a DevOps engineer… Gonna do my best to make it to VCF Southwest though!
Fran is awesome. I'm also a guitarist and her pedals are a blast.
The original Atari FujiNet was a complete revoluation (a revelation and a revolution together!). It goes so far beyond serving up disk images, and even beyond all the online access, it can even emulate different printers outputting to PDF files, do speech, CP/M. Definitely worth investigation!
The nixie tubes EEVBlog used those same ones and made a subscriber counter into his RUclips play button plaque. I don't know if he published the schematics for the board or not but it's an idea.
Thanks for posting a video about the Apple II Fujinet project. I actually bought one of these a few months ago for my Apple IIc. Aside from a few bugs in the earlier firmware, and the not so user friendly interface, it works pretty well.
One thing that you didn't mention, and perhaps you will show when you do the video for Apple Fujinet, is that not only can you download Apple II disk image directly off of the internet with an Apple II, you can also use a modern PC to create a TNFSD server. This basically acts as a local file server for your Apple, so essentially you can store all of your favorite Apple II images in a folder on a Wndows PC (for example), share the folder using the TNFSD executable available on the Fujinet website, and connect directly to the share from an Apple II over wi-fi.
The one main disadvantage that Fujinet has right now is the lack of support for some disk image types. It works really well with HDV images, but lacks support for PO, DO, and DSK. I have been begging the guys at #Fujinet to add support for these images, but I think that they are prioritizing other platforms over the Apple II. Perhaps if a big influencer like Adrian gets onboard, they will look into this issue more deeply. So Adrian, PLEASE do this video soon. It might just be me, but I love the Apple II and Mac videos, much more than I like Commodore videos, because I was an Apple IIc owner as kid and still am to this day.
Lastly, I gotta say that if Fujinet starts to support other image types and not just HDV, this would be a huge game changer for the Apple II retro community. It would render the floppy emu obsolete, as the Fujinet is a ton more versatile.
I did see you at VCF, but there were so many people around, I never got chance to come up and say hi.
Sorry about that! I know this was probably something that happened a lot. There were people I was wanting to find and talk to as well and I never found them 😞
That ZIF-equipped VIC20 could be simply named the ZIF20, because why not... :D
I approve.
Not sure if Adrian mentioned this (haven't watched the video yet), but Fran Blanche posted the round table on her channel. The sound quality isn't the best, but it's still listenable (though it's a bit more listenable through headphones than speakers). If you can't wait until the official VCF channel releases their recording of it, it's well worth a watch and a listen.
I love seeing you do the audio rather than just a straight voice over!
Hey Adrian - I don't know OBS, but do you have a way to put a set of audio level meters on your monitor? That might solve the problem of having your mic batteries die silently.
Or just bodge together a script, I'm guessing powershell has some way to list connected BT devices, from there you can poll it and do whatever you want to alert, like playing a sound. On linux bluetoothctl provides a really handy CLI interface perfectly suited for such tasks.
Yeah my son and I drove up on Sunday. I saw you hanging out around the telr table, but you looked pretty busy and kind of a hurry so I figured I would see you later. But I think you were heading out so I went all over the campus and didn't see you after that.
I was there and would have loved to have bumped into you. A table would be great.
Nixies are cold-cathode tubes, no filament. They are essentially neon lamps.
Sorry I missed VCF, I just couldn't get over there this time. I grew up in Wall and my aunt worked at Camp Evans in its heyday.
As a kid, I loved Seabrook's tomato crisps. I never thought about ketchup and chips.
I can taste them in memory mmm
I live only 10 minutes away from there but my mother-in-law from Poland is staying with us and I couldn't make it. Now I'm sad I didn't just sneak out and stop by. It seems like it was a lot of fun.
What Up Adrian! Dave @ Uisagi..? lol I think that's it: That Machine he's been building is a Trip
I'm hoping to locate a show like this in the Detroit area soon!
Keep it Rockin Adrian! Dryden, MI
please keep making the apple ii content!
i would love to see you build up that msx hopefully someone can send you a BOM for it. you probably have some of the chips already i expect!
I would enjoy seeing you do a video on an MSX2, whether you decide to build the project you were given the PCBs for or have one imported to you. Also I love the hot pink EasyFlash case with the pink LED on the PCB (pink is my favorite color so I love anything being pink)
I wish I could’ve attended VCF East and meet you in person. Maybe next year. Being from Montréal too could have brought an interesting conversation.
Assuming the Vic-20 connector is 44-pin card edge with 3.96mm spacing, they are readily available still.
Is it just a 44pin JAMMA connector? Yeah, I don't think we'll be running out of them any time soon.
I have about a dozen of those apple stickers from 1986. I remember I was giving one each week by the computer sciences teacher, maybe for being the most knowledgeable about computers in class. After the 12 consecutive weeks of winning, I may have felt a little guilty about rewriting some of the lemonade stand program so that I always got the top score.
that video was ultracroquante!