8-Bit Donation Unboxing - June 2017

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  • @LGR
    @LGR 7 лет назад +1987

    Haha yep, that packing peanut scene is my nightmare.
    Looking forward to seeing some of this in future videos, especially that Kaypro!

    • @alleykat6273
      @alleykat6273 7 лет назад +5

      Lazy Game Reviews u own a kaypro

    • @danielhn93
      @danielhn93 7 лет назад +21

      I LOL'd when I saw him sit in the box. And probably laughed as loud as when I saw you get that one single packing peanut in the mail lol

    • @j25-games96
      @j25-games96 7 лет назад +6

      it seems like you just bought a shit ton of packing peanuts

    • @JesusisJesus
      @JesusisJesus 7 лет назад +18

      I'm going to ship you multiple boxes of packing peanuts.

    • @ThePS1Addict
      @ThePS1Addict 7 лет назад +4

      So awesome! Glad to see you chime in Clint!

  • @MidgetPower
    @MidgetPower 7 лет назад +193

    Canada uses the same plug type as the USA :) that is a European Adapter. Sorry the tape drive got destroyed. Very sad :(

    • @MrGoo514
      @MrGoo514 6 лет назад +9

      I was waiting for a viewer to correct the 8-bit guy.
      Merci!

    • @calebmezenberg137
      @calebmezenberg137 4 года назад +6

      I live in London Ontario, don't know why he got a European plug

    • @oppok5657
      @oppok5657 4 года назад +1

      @@calebmezenberg137 london ontario!?

    • @calebmezenberg137
      @calebmezenberg137 4 года назад +1

      @@oppok5657 yes

    • @chriswitmer9754
      @chriswitmer9754 4 года назад +5

      @@oppok5657 There is also a Paris Ont., a Scotland Ont., a Dublin Ont., Copenhagen, Seville, Vienna, and Lisbon. Where I'm from used to be called Berlin but was changed in 1916 because of a some ruff up going on in Europe at the time.

  • @TonimusMaximus
    @TonimusMaximus 7 лет назад +86

    I love that when someone hand delivers something, everyone looks incredibly awkward. Cracks me up every time.

  • @knightshousegames
    @knightshousegames 7 лет назад +189

    It's 2020.....The 8-Bit Guy hasn't been seen in months, except for in the form of near daily half hour long unboxing videos. His house is now completely full of "Old Commodore Stuff", the walls no longer visible, the floor now a narrow path between towers of non functioning 80s computers and collumns of floppy disk drives. His wife and kids serve almost exclusively to go to pick up new packages from the post office. He sleeps on a pile of bubble wrap just out of view of the camera, all of his waking hours consumed by opening packages. This is his future.

    • @kakoka1pro
      @kakoka1pro 7 лет назад +10

      lol omg this made me laugh so much

    • @darthrevan2063
      @darthrevan2063 6 лет назад +1

      Sounds like fun to me xd 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

    • @rebel450ca
      @rebel450ca 6 лет назад +1

      knightshousegames, you have broke me.

    • @Connie_TinuityError
      @Connie_TinuityError 6 лет назад +1

      Kiddo 9000 Not really when he is turning down so many donations in 2019.

    • @DanielElevators
      @DanielElevators 6 лет назад

      knightshousegames it’s 2019 not 2020

  • @danielmorrow5267
    @danielmorrow5267 7 лет назад +14

    David, your show.... - you said in this video you don't yet know what those tools are you were sent. The blue folding pocket with a few tools are tools for opening latch closed devices like tablets, cell phones, etc. I bought that exact folding blue pouch of tools myself just recently (serendipity?), from Amazon, and use them for that purpose (ie opening devices). Basically you insert a fine blade (ie metal, nylon, plastic) on those tools into a seam in the device and pry it open, carefully!), hopefully in a way that doesn't damage the device or marr it up any. The device can be closed back up simply by pressing the pieces back together. I love your show and the shared nostalgia experiences you have (my first real computer was a vic-20 and I later got a commodore 64 and computed for decades with it. Thanks and best wishes! Great show!

  • @Trygve84
    @Trygve84 7 лет назад +198

    That Norwegian name you couldn't pronounce --- it's your second female viewer =)

  • @vwestlife
    @vwestlife 7 лет назад +63

    The Commodore 16 Datasette is the same as the C64 Datasette, just with a different color scheme and a different connector. It is possible to make an adapter to use a C64 Datasette with a C16, although the opposite adapter is more common to find, because the C16 and Plus/4 were not big sellers, so apparently Commodore had an overstock of the matching brown Datasettes that C64 owners adapted to use -- or perhaps because many C16 and Plus/4 owners upgraded to a C64 but wanted to keep their original Datasette.

    • @tomasla77
      @tomasla77 7 лет назад +1

      i love this channel...soo cool!¡

    • @augusli9716
      @augusli9716 7 лет назад

      hi

    • @salam5937
      @salam5937 7 лет назад

      VWestlife Its Nice To See You Watch The 8-bit Guy.. I Watch You All The Time! (Lol. When You Upload.. :P) Its Also Nice To See You Watch Other Tech RUclipsrs.. ;D! Cya!

    • @winnetouch
      @winnetouch 7 лет назад

      Hm... Don't have a commodore yet (can anyone send one my way, I'll pay the shipping ;P), but I do have a tape player I found in a friends house (he was a horder). The tape player is the same color as the breadbin c64 but it has a connector like the one in this video with a wide grey adaptor hooked up to it.

    • @calciumrods1779
      @calciumrods1779 7 лет назад +1

      I have a Commodore SX-64. It's portable for it's time, but you'd need a keyboard cable.

  • @Esperian
    @Esperian 7 лет назад +414

    "She might be my one and only female viewer"
    Excuse me, good sir ?
    :P

    • @thediamondgamerstdg9410
      @thediamondgamerstdg9410 7 лет назад +19

      Audrey Bélanger I'm also girl and I am 11 so maybe the younger

    • @rebelrailz.
      @rebelrailz. 6 лет назад +5

      Thediamondgamers I'm a year older than that :D Yay! Another younger viewer :>

    • @briana7475
      @briana7475 6 лет назад +1

      That wa me XD

    • @sarrahls2245
      @sarrahls2245 6 лет назад +3

      hey me too :D

    • @labrat8876
      @labrat8876 6 лет назад +2

      Audrey Bélanger Me, too!

  • @derpman2013
    @derpman2013 7 лет назад +509

    Canada does not have a different plug socket

    • @jimstone4496
      @jimstone4496 7 лет назад +39

      same plug as USA

    • @feieralarm
      @feieralarm 7 лет назад +53

      Yeah, unfortunately Canada has the same deathtraps as the US.

    • @derpman2013
      @derpman2013 7 лет назад +5

      im Canadian to

    • @scottrichardhill
      @scottrichardhill 7 лет назад +16

      I live in Detroit, and both sides of the river use the same plug lol

    • @bencybulski5534
      @bencybulski5534 7 лет назад +5

      pierce smedmor yep I’m from Canada same as US

  • @Karmy.
    @Karmy. 7 лет назад +67

    LGR and 8BG unboxing videos are great

    • @derrrtee
      @derrrtee 7 лет назад +1

      Nice prof picture

  • @robbyxp1
    @robbyxp1 7 лет назад +48

    Hakko is a decent iron. He's being very nice to you.

    • @dantootill
      @dantootill 7 лет назад +8

      Yep, those are like £140 in the UK. It will be so much nicer than that baseball bat he was using previously.

  • @evonneokafor
    @evonneokafor 7 лет назад +39

    I am another female viewer but I only recently joined after RUclips randomly selected your channel to me last month and I love what you do. Sadly I don't have anything to send to you but do keep up the good work.

  • @SketchTurnerZero
    @SketchTurnerZero 7 лет назад +2

    12:50
    I was happy to see something like this on your channel. Dmitri did great job!!
    Actuualy today this machines are really rare in Russia.

  • @dhanarsantika
    @dhanarsantika 7 лет назад +24

    i don't know why but i love seeing you unboxing at retro stuff

  • @victorman2227
    @victorman2227 7 лет назад +6

    The one at 12:58 is called Secrets Of The Ocean, and the one at 13:03 simply says electronics 24-01 Game on screen.

  • @QuinnElizabeth13
    @QuinnElizabeth13 7 лет назад +39

    Female viewer here! I love your channel! Can't wait to see another video with some tech history or a restoration of a computer!!

  • @VictorCampos87
    @VictorCampos87 7 лет назад

    There is a brazilian channel called *Manual do Mundo* (_"World's Manual"_ in free translate) and recently he showed up a PAL-M version of *Atari 2600* and it make me imediately remember about *8-Bit Guy* channel. And to my surprise, I am not the single one who remembered him. I didn't even know, but I have found a lot of other brazilian viewers that remembered about David Murray's channel there in the comments! I discovered that you have a lot of brazilian viewers that like you so much too! So, keep it up! Cheers from Brazil!

  • @bjgamertv3883
    @bjgamertv3883 7 лет назад +11

    8-Bit Guy, I have the same soldiering station as you do now, and i can say, its worked out great for me so far, hope you have fun with that :)

  • @aa-au
    @aa-au 4 года назад +1

    That TRS-80 tape drive - I have the exact same one for my CoCo. I think I got a silver one and it died within the warranty period. There was no quick "swap out" back then so they loaned me one of these, and the didn't ask for it back when my original one got repaired. My bonus I have 2 now :-)

  • @deathbyzuc
    @deathbyzuc 7 лет назад +36

    We have the same plugs
    -Canada

    • @starman8853
      @starman8853 6 лет назад

      ChuBin Shafter Yep lol

    • @xXdawgXx
      @xXdawgXx 6 лет назад

      Me too i’m from poland

    • @newagederpderp
      @newagederpderp 6 лет назад

      Caneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee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    • @jkholtgreve
      @jkholtgreve 6 лет назад +1

      SlimeBoy Eh? That’s interpreting....I wonder when they were all adopted and what the geopolitical significance was (I.e. if our electrical companies were investing s ton of money there in the 20s and pushed for the compatible standard).

    • @willpreston6881
      @willpreston6881 6 лет назад

      I wonder if Westinghouse Electric had anything to do with it, since they more or less standardized the major beats of the AC grid used in the US by the 1900s.

  • @darookmezd
    @darookmezd 7 лет назад

    It makes me glad to see that people helped in reusing/recycling these devices instead of just throwing them away.

  • @princess_daphie
    @princess_daphie 7 лет назад +411

    Emily isn't your only female viewer! love your vids, nostalgy rules :)

  • @Byudda
    @Byudda 7 лет назад

    As just a viewer of content I find 20ish minutes to be the perfect length to hold my attention. Keep up the great work !

  • @JxToF
    @JxToF 7 лет назад +56

    Female viewer , Emily is not the only one. you should do a poll! you'd be suprised

    • @BrennanYoung
      @BrennanYoung 4 года назад +1

      @erik masterchef those statistics can only show what percentage of *subscribers* identify themselves as female. Actual viewer demographics are far more difficult to know.

    • @havenmcgarity1472
      @havenmcgarity1472 4 года назад

      @@BrennanYoung "Identify" ?

    • @BrennanYoung
      @BrennanYoung 4 года назад

      @@havenmcgarity1472 by which I mean checking a checkbox in a form

  • @kungfuchelsea
    @kungfuchelsea 7 лет назад

    Another female viewer and lover of old tech checking in....hi! :)
    I absolutely love your videos, and they inspired me to finally learn how to repair electronics, specifically retro game consoles & cartridges - as I am a collector.
    I have also begun studying pcb basics in my spare time as well, because your video on BASIC and the 6502 chip was such a captivating look into the early days of 8 bit technology, that I was compelled to research it further. I had always wanted to learn this stuff, but never knew where to start until I came across your channel, so I just had to leave a comment to say THANK YOU DAVE!
    After I get some experience under my belt, I hope to be confident enough to repair whatever is wrong with my Sharp 19SV111 on my own, which I had never thought possible before. If you are ever lucky enough to get your hands on a 19SV111 yourself, I'd love to see a video about it, because it is such a unique and interesting piece of 8 bit history.

  • @tickledropstop
    @tickledropstop 7 лет назад +30

    I live in London, Ontario and i am totally perplexed by Andrew's gift to yuou (C16) in why its a Euro style plug. Here in Canada we use the SAME plug as you guys in the States...and living in London, Ontario too we most certainly dont use Euro plugs anywhere.
    My guess is he got the C16 euro shipped to him from the UK way back but used an adapter for Canada but didnt send you the adapter he was using since that can still be handy to him (at least that is what i would have done).

    • @CommanderWiggins
      @CommanderWiggins 7 лет назад

      ZcrAyZ I was so confused, I didn't see the Ontario and thought "Wait, London isn't in Canada!"

    • @black_squall
      @black_squall 7 лет назад

      Dorchester, here.

    • @CaalamusTube
      @CaalamusTube 7 лет назад +1

      So many dual UK/Cn. citizens. Even though that's NOT a UK plug... just saying, there's more EU/Cn. cross pollination consumer electronicswise.

    • @FairyCRat
      @FairyCRat 7 лет назад

      Caalamus Yeah, we use it in all of Europe except for the UK and maybe some other countries.

    • @SianaGearz
      @SianaGearz 7 лет назад

      You can't use a 220V European Commodore power supply on a passive adapter when you have 110V, you need a step down transformer. Or just use an existing 110V Commodore supply or build a new one.

  • @newtair
    @newtair 7 лет назад

    Normally I hate unboxing vids because they're often just excuses for companies to peddle their crap to the masses. But this lacks that aspect, and its just plain fun. Love your channel.

  • @AstaMuratti
    @AstaMuratti 7 лет назад +27

    another female viewer here, with greetings and best wishes)

    • @10010011001100110101
      @10010011001100110101 5 лет назад +1

      H-h-hi will you be my g-gg-girlfriend

    • @respt46
      @respt46 5 лет назад

      Will you should've left the d off at the end of the word girlfriend.

  • @melotrashcontent
    @melotrashcontent 3 месяца назад

    Cant believe time passed that fast... This series was one of my favorite on this channel.

  • @MaximNightFury
    @MaximNightFury 7 лет назад +30

    must've gotten a clone according to the thumbnail

    • @neighborvadim594
      @neighborvadim594 6 лет назад

      Tyler Furrison -Formerly CollinG Tech- I

    • @zork34
      @zork34 6 лет назад

      Inb4 people start saying "furfag" or other shit terms.

  • @GarryFMason
    @GarryFMason 7 лет назад

    I used to work for Commodore and loved this trip down memory lane. wonderful

  • @MK-jo1gi
    @MK-jo1gi 5 лет назад +4

    Heh. 'Pond' software for the Bear Essentials uses the same font and logo design as 'Ocean' used to have.

  • @teresaf.blanco8747
    @teresaf.blanco8747 7 лет назад +2

    13:07 I have that exact "game console" but in black and I had some fun with it.
    Aaah... that times where something like that was fun.

  • @Gretchen1978
    @Gretchen1978 7 лет назад +63

    You’ve got plenty of female fans!

  • @billelkins994
    @billelkins994 7 лет назад

    At 13:43 the 8k ram board is from 1978 and was out of the Heathkit H8 computer. The H8 was an 8080a machine. It had a front panel with a 16 key keypad featuring an octal monitor program driving a 9 digit seven segment display. 040 100

  • @Venorpion
    @Venorpion 7 лет назад +14

    That sega genesis was a witness of murder, dude.

  • @Bigelowbrook
    @Bigelowbrook 7 лет назад +1

    I can't wait to see that KayPro II running. I learned WordStar on that machine and many of the keyboard shortcuts are still used in modern editors. It also had a spell checker in it and that's when I learned I didn't have to remember how to spell any more. ;-)

  • @jacketylon
    @jacketylon 6 лет назад +7

    You just earned a sub for saying "Who needs an apple watch?"

  • @MsHUGSaLOT
    @MsHUGSaLOT 7 лет назад

    19:30 that's exactly what my desk looked like in 1985. :D
    My old 1050 disk drive works, I even upgraded it when I was a teenager using the US Doubler kit. But I lost the front bezel so it looks like it's broken and falling appart. I wish i could replace the front bezel and make it complete again.

  • @echoedinnocence
    @echoedinnocence 7 лет назад +169

    I'm a female viewer! :) love your videos!

    • @TheLittlepauline
      @TheLittlepauline 7 лет назад +14

      Me too!

    • @EvilKimau
      @EvilKimau 7 лет назад +9

      Niki Horner yup another one checking in

    • @Hepglon
      @Hepglon 7 лет назад +8

      *waves* And another one!

    • @efid9605
      @efid9605 7 лет назад +8

      I'm a female viewer too!

    • @veemyu
      @veemyu 7 лет назад +7

      Me too, girl nerd here ._. :3

  • @dogerytp41
    @dogerytp41 7 лет назад +1

    13:00 Russian "Electronica", the classic is "Wolf and Eggs"

  • @ReddoX30
    @ReddoX30 7 лет назад +3

    That Sega Genesis paint job was awesome!

  • @NeilRoy
    @NeilRoy 7 лет назад

    Koodos to all the generous viewers. You restore my faith in humanity. And I remember the Commodore 1200 baud modem. It was my very first modem and you were dead on about it. All my friends who were on BBSes had 300 baud modems, so mine was the fastest. It cost me $115CDN at the time and got me started online to this day. I ended up running my own BBS with it using a variety of BBS software like EBBS for the C64 as well as others and eventually also ran BBSes on my Amiga later on. Good times.
    I'm a little jealous about those TRS80 games. It was one of the first computers I ever used, the TRS80 model 1 and 2 mainly. I recall LANDER being a great game on it as well as some Star Trek ones and it started me programming. My first game I made was a Lander game on the TRS-80 actually.

  • @xINVISIGOTHx
    @xINVISIGOTHx 6 лет назад +9

    that Joust

  • @michaelolz
    @michaelolz 5 лет назад

    My late uncle was VP of sales for Control Data. I remember a long time ago he brought me a box of 5.25" floppies. When I saw that box around 18:30 it reminded me of that. Really good disks but I remember they didn't have reinforced hub holes. Not sure how important that was.

  • @zozo1671
    @zozo1671 7 лет назад +5

    The small box at 2:04 comes from Belgium :)

  • @Datan0de
    @Datan0de 7 лет назад

    Great stuff! I enjoyed this video waaay more than I'd expected. Nice to see some hardware and software that I either used to have or still have in my collection. That Total Telecommunications modem brings back a lot of memories! That was my first modem, and I continued using it into the early '90s. I've never heard of anyone else who had one.
    Definitely going to pick up a ZoomFloppy now!

  • @McRocket
    @McRocket 7 лет назад +4

    Amazing. I wonder what the value of all this stuff would be on eBay? Rather astounding how generous these people are.

  • @warwagon
    @warwagon 7 лет назад

    God, I love this channel! I could watch an 8 hour 8-Bit Donation Unboxing. I just want to see where he puts all these things.

  • @Harveygod
    @Harveygod 6 лет назад +2

    Tim's letter (20:43) says the Mac LC III was from his high school Music Teacher class. I went to high school with Tim and took the same class with him.
    I used a computer that 8-Bit Guy has now. Pretty cool day.

  • @mrpw1402
    @mrpw1402 7 лет назад +186

    *gets notification from 8-Bit guy*
    Cracks a cold one with the boys

    • @magsec5
      @magsec5 7 лет назад +5

      Michael Walker keeping it frosty with cable ties.

    • @Charky_Creations
      @Charky_Creations 7 лет назад +6

      And Emily!

    • @benjaminreeves4516
      @benjaminreeves4516 7 лет назад +3

      I didn't know it was may 2017, old memes. normies just get worse and worse

    • @evanbelsky433
      @evanbelsky433 7 лет назад

      I saw the notification at camp.... Had to wait till I got home to properly watch it... haha

  • @JasonBrimblecombe
    @JasonBrimblecombe 7 лет назад +14

    Someone gifted you a Hakko FX-888D soldering station? Very lucky! Best soldering iron on the market.

    • @rasz
      @rasz 7 лет назад +1

      Its an ok under $100 station for beginners/amateurs.
      Overall its on the bottom of the list for acceptable soldering irons. What you really want nowadays is at least integrated heater/sensor cartridge design like Hakko T12 fx951($250)/JBC C245 CDB(~$450), or cheap induction heating Quick 202D ($100).

  • @SPCmuncie
    @SPCmuncie 6 лет назад

    3:05 Correction (and no I am not a Canadian): Canada does actually use the same plug type as the US, the product could have just been imported or the person who donated it previously lived in a PAL region.

  • @TingFeng77
    @TingFeng77 7 лет назад +15

    that thumbnail....

  • @stopmotionj2455
    @stopmotionj2455 7 лет назад

    I really like the donations unboxing videos, it is always fun to see what you get. I'm really looking forward to the video with the C64 sound sampler.

  • @TrollingAround
    @TrollingAround 7 лет назад +5

    Love how "Pond software" has borrowed the "Ocean software" logo :D

  • @lbsiuk
    @lbsiuk 7 лет назад +1

    I never knew that Clint loves packing peanuts so much. Maybe I should send him a box full of them.

  • @loganmacgyver2625
    @loganmacgyver2625 7 лет назад +7

    I thought I'm the only Hungarian viewer. nice to see there are others too

  • @TaguroSuper
    @TaguroSuper 7 лет назад

    I was born in the late 80's and these kind of vintage items made me aware what computers are in my mom's office. It makes me feel younger watching these videos. 🤣

  • @TehVulpez
    @TehVulpez 7 лет назад +299

    There are pretty much only three comments here, copied over and over again:
    *LOL, THUMBNAIL!!
    *Canada has the same plug as US.
    *I'M A WOMAN.

    • @nickeq3819
      @nickeq3819 7 лет назад +4

      lul

    • @papagunit
      @papagunit 7 лет назад +4

      Vulpez Vulpez *LOL meta comment!

    • @iamvonimmel
      @iamvonimmel 7 лет назад +6

      Don't forget "Hi Clint!"

    • @Advection357
      @Advection357 7 лет назад +1

      Fucking hell... literally ^

    • @Siknik64
      @Siknik64 7 лет назад +2

      The estrogen levels are through the roof.

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi 6 лет назад

    16:11 For just a few frames, you can see “3.99” marked in white on the back of the Commodore calculator. At one point it was in a thrift store!

  • @IntellitechStudios
    @IntellitechStudios 7 лет назад +3

    Canada doesn't have a different plug style from the US, that was a European model.

    • @Khloya69
      @Khloya69 7 лет назад +1

      ThatGTAFan720 yeah that guy who sent from Canada must of imported from EU

  • @NicMG
    @NicMG 7 лет назад

    I really like these videos, It's like Christmas circa 1980s all the time!

  • @padistedor
    @padistedor 7 лет назад +16

    RIP cassette drive 😥

  • @LeftyLabs
    @LeftyLabs 7 лет назад

    You have some generous viewers! Congrats on the Hakko FX-888D soldering station. I have one and it was worth every penny. :)

  • @michaelcreech1804
    @michaelcreech1804 7 лет назад +7

    As Luke Skywalker once said "I like nachos with my Nintendos!"

  • @ClockUnClock
    @ClockUnClock 6 лет назад

    Im a female viewer! Love you videos ever since "iBook G4 Is it Obsolete" Keep up your fantastic work!

  • @ladyorange2012
    @ladyorange2012 7 лет назад +113

    I'm a female subscriber :) Great selection of donations.

    • @williamafton342
      @williamafton342 7 лет назад +2

      OrangeHedgeh0g2o12 ruclips.net/video/Lrr_VVtyUA8/видео.html

    • @ionymous6733
      @ionymous6733 7 лет назад +4

      I'm happy for you and your X chromosomes.

    • @sixfr0nt
      @sixfr0nt 6 лет назад +4

      I am female as well!

    • @karuma6635
      @karuma6635 6 лет назад +1

      oh god a sonic oc!

    • @jasminemartin7076
      @jasminemartin7076 6 лет назад +3

      So am I!

  • @DGC64
    @DGC64 3 года назад +1

    3:06 8-bit guy: Canadians have different power supplies
    Most Canadians: bruh

  • @spartonberry
    @spartonberry 7 лет назад +3

    Pond Software? Is that some kind of relation to 8/16-bit era game company Ocean? (due to similar name and almost the same logo)

    • @pondsoftware
      @pondsoftware 7 лет назад +2

      They were a big Ocean, we are a tiny Pond :)

  • @MaximusCircus
    @MaximusCircus 7 лет назад

    Seems you have a lot of fans from Norway. Cool! I like that I am not alone! Keep up the good work David!

  • @JimHetrick1
    @JimHetrick1 7 лет назад +7

    Where do you keep all this stuff!?

    • @joaquincarrillo5354
      @joaquincarrillo5354 7 лет назад +4

      wondering the same thing thats a lot of stuff, and a lot more to come

    • @L1701
      @L1701 7 лет назад +7

      Jim Hetrick He has a special TARDIS room. It's small on the outside, but HUGE on the inside.

    • @joaquincarrillo5354
      @joaquincarrillo5354 7 лет назад

      Sure he can store all this now but if this keeps on in some months he will have rooms filled with stuff lol his house wont be enough

  • @ching-chenhuang8119
    @ching-chenhuang8119 7 лет назад

    In 2:23 I think that's a hardware MIDI card, I remember buying one back in the late 90s. Connecting this to the MIDI port of certain soundcard, and in game you will have much much better MIDI music effect.

  • @JohnDRobinsonelectronicdrums
    @JohnDRobinsonelectronicdrums 7 лет назад +4

    is pond software a dehydrated version of ocean software ? :)

  • @bojcio
    @bojcio 5 лет назад

    I love the official donation of the tape drive followed by a handshake. All its missing is journalists and a bunch of flashes going off.

  • @MineMiguel40
    @MineMiguel40 7 лет назад +7

    3:05 we use the same one

  • @alexiafox74
    @alexiafox74 7 лет назад

    3:06 Canada outlets are the exact same as the US, though that plug seems to be for Poland

  • @mikemancini1924
    @mikemancini1924 7 лет назад +15

    Canadians don't have a different plug style.

    • @ajl9491
      @ajl9491 7 лет назад +11

      Except for our women....

    • @SianaGearz
      @SianaGearz 7 лет назад +1

      I... don't get it, sorry.

  • @dimensiongamer534
    @dimensiongamer534 7 лет назад

    sitting in a box like that is super nostalgic that was the other half of the fun at christmas when i was young was playing with the boxes lol

  • @EdenEye6
    @EdenEye6 7 лет назад +13

    You have 2 female viewers. I'm a girl and I love your show. ❤️

  • @ToddGallant
    @ToddGallant 7 лет назад

    So you worked for AST, David? I did desktop tech support for AST Advantage computers at a call centre here in Canada from 1997-1999. Weirdly fond memories of those days.

  • @99nerka
    @99nerka 7 лет назад +42

    Holy smokes! Those russian handhelds.... i am so jelous of you right now, had few of those when i was like 6. Sadly they are lost to me now. The one with wolf and rabbit was most popular as it was based on popular in post soviet blocks russian cartoon.

    • @AdmiralHorror
      @AdmiralHorror 7 лет назад +1

      Surprisingly enough, this particular one features Mickey and Minnie mouse, i.e. it is the exact clone of Nintendo's original. I think this version is much more rare than the one with Wolf and Hare, at least I've never seen one before.

    • @exajoel
      @exajoel 7 лет назад +3

      99nerka Я ждал этот коммент)))

    • @ian-gs2ky
      @ian-gs2ky 7 лет назад +2

      russian spy spotted!!!

    • @matthiaso57
      @matthiaso57 7 лет назад +1

      i had one of these myself, played for hours. Wolf & Hare with the wolf catching eggs rolling down the ramps left and right .. Ibam from (East) Germany by the way, not russian. But I think my mother bought it in Moscow, Minsk or Kiev.

    • @RCAvhstape
      @RCAvhstape 7 лет назад +4

      In Soviet Russia, Gameboy plays you!

  • @LMacNeill
    @LMacNeill 7 лет назад

    Oh man -- I had one of those 1200-baud Commodore model 1670 modems back in the day. I was *SO* excited when I finally was able to get one of those!! Upgrading from 300-baud to 1200-baud was *unbelievable*!! Amazing how slow that is today, though.
    Another piece that I got, which excited me greatly back in the day, was a Commodore SFD-1001 floppy drive. *Really* a rare thing -- it had an IEEE-488 interface on it, like the PET floppy drives, and it required a special cartridge to run it on a C64. But it would format a standard 360K floppy disk with 1.05MB of capacity!! It used both sides of the disk simultaneously, and it stuffed the tracks closer together. It worked surprisingly well, all things considered. I wish I still had that drive -- bet it'd be worth quite a bit to a collector today. But I gave away all my C64 stuff in the late '90s sometime. Oh well...

  • @sr212787
    @sr212787 7 лет назад +14

    I'm a female and I love your videos! haha

  • @HeyWhoStoleMyCookie
    @HeyWhoStoleMyCookie 5 лет назад

    OMG! My grandparents had one of those brick games and I used to play it all the time! I'd completely forgotten about it until now :o

  • @kingastaszczyk9400
    @kingastaszczyk9400 7 лет назад +8

    Emily Kiewicz isn't your only female viewer, you have at least two :-)

  • @rollingtroll
    @rollingtroll 7 лет назад +1

    Hey, Vanja is another girl's name!
    Also the artwork said 'utne', which is the sender's last name :)
    CUT THE SHRINKWRAP!
    That tetris clone was my very first came 'console'. So cool to see one again :)

  • @ellenmadden8343
    @ellenmadden8343 7 лет назад +14

    Second female viewer reporting in!

  • @vcv6560
    @vcv6560 7 лет назад

    David, in case it's not been said the power plug from Samual was the CEE/7, it's 220V 50Hz found in France and former French North Africa.

  • @AveragePootis
    @AveragePootis 7 лет назад +4

    We need a video called "repairing and restoring a old commodore calculator"

  • @Saturn49YT
    @Saturn49YT 7 лет назад

    That AST Gridpad brought back memories. I had the Tandy Z-PDA ("Zoomer") branded version and used the heck out of it. It had an x86-compatible processor with some version of DOS and Geoworks in ROM. Geoworks was actually upgradable (or at least modifiable?) so you could run multiple applications at the same time. The built-in handwriting recognition was pretty bad, but you could upgrade it to Graffiti, Palm's short-hand, and then it worked remarkably well. I remember there was a Tetris game (clone?) available that made use of the D-pad and buttons on the bottom. I spent a lot of time playing that and Othello on it. I managed to connect it to a modem and do some crude e-mail checking on it. I also managed to print something to an original Apple Laserwriter with it, just because I could. Mine disappeared sometime in high school (stolen?) and I wouldn't mind getting my hands on one again.

  • @stephpicher
    @stephpicher 7 лет назад +4

    5:25: someone just get rid of evidence from a crime scene on you! :)

    • @odeiup
      @odeiup 5 лет назад +1

      Augie Chapin /r whoosh

  • @Si1983h
    @Si1983h 7 лет назад

    "Falling fast may cause unscheduled disassembly" made me laugh way more than it should, I'll be stealing that!

  • @EricAtRandom
    @EricAtRandom 6 лет назад +3

    "It has America Online installed!" - It has what? OOOOHHH ... I forgot AOL was abbreviated from something in ancient history!

  • @Dspace80
    @Dspace80 7 лет назад

    @2:02 going by the stamps, the package was posted in Belgium.

  • @alleykat6273
    @alleykat6273 7 лет назад +8

    the pond logo looks like the ocean logo

    • @NLind
      @NLind 7 лет назад +1

      ayyオイカorb ャulonlmao Been scrolling through the comments waiting for this. More than a coincidence more than likely...

    • @aumotion
      @aumotion 7 лет назад +2

      Definitely not a coincidence haha :) Isn't it great to see games still being developed for the c64 ?

    • @pondsoftware
      @pondsoftware 7 лет назад +7

      It's a tribute - they were a great Ocean, we are a tiny Pond :)

  • @Desmaad
    @Desmaad 7 лет назад

    Ooh! The 6-Pak! Definitely a must! Your copy looks like it may have been a pack-in.

  • @CodeBrew
    @CodeBrew 7 лет назад +12

    "I hate the people who send me stuff I dont want" lol, that's a little harsh

  • @Gio.Carbajal
    @Gio.Carbajal 7 лет назад

    Whoa! You have a lot of fans, and I'm one of them. Someday, I'll send you somethhing, but meanwhile I've got to tell you: You are amazing, David :D !

  • @lShishkaBerryl
    @lShishkaBerryl 7 лет назад +46

    Lmao I always find myself on channels with only 3 other females, hello fellow females!