I never knew i wanted a mash up of Chris Packham, James Veitch, and Stuart Ashen; but here we are (Not to cast aspersions of plagiarism, i understand these are broad fields)
I used a telex message that used perf tape when I was 19. It was older than me, and bloody noisy! If you made a mistake, you either lived with it or started from the beginning.
I remember writing to punch tape from a commodore Pet at college. We wasted a whole spool of tape at Christmas making pixel art snowflake patterns (the holes in the tape are a literal representation of binary bits)
Yikes, Assembly and punch cards were just a bit before my time. When I started college in the early 80s, the class before me still used punch cards. They were learning COBOL, a quite verbose language. I heard stories of big drawers of punch cards, sometimes on the floor (the cards not the drawers - 52 pickup anyone?) . I myself was spared the cards, instead dealt with an online but invisible editor. And a secret list of commands to navigate around the hidden screen. Good ole days of programming...
As a retrocomputing enthusiast with really quite diverse other interests, including nature and cooking and a hundred other things, I just love the variety and general feel of this channel and all the stuff you do, and when you post something like this about old computers it's an extra special treat. Thanks for being so unpretentious, genuine and interesting.
Wow! I've been watching you for about a year now and I've watched almost every video of yours. Then you come up with this... I've seen you be crafty but this was amazing!!! I'm blown away by the sheer ingenuity and thought that went into this. Well done!!!
Nice work on the Terminal - When seeing the first minute of the video, it looked so professional I was looking it up to buy one - Excellent Build there
This channel eluded me for a long time and it has become one of my absolute favourites. Everything you upload is fascinating in some way and the joy I get from watching your videos is unmatched!
Just discovered your channel, and I gotta say I like your variety of stuff you put in here, like a mystery box, you never know what the next video will be about. Anyway I’m subbed. Take care!
My suspicions were aroused when you totally glossed over how you planned to connect that Arduino powered box to an ostensibly 50 year old terminal! Congrats on a great video.
I think it is actually possible - although the Arduino is set up for serial comms over USB, it can be configured to do old school serial over 4 pins (I have no idea how to make that change on here though)
I remember back in the day at the Altair users group, having a terminal was a luxury. I had to load the machine code directly from the switch panel. We used AM transistor pocket radios placed directly on top of the Altair for sound output. Oh, the nostalgia of it all. Paper tape, punch cards, continuous paper output. Yes, the good ol' days. These days all my computers are good for is streaming video, good and bad. Thanks for the very interesting video. I absolutely loved it.
This was so up my alley. I remember learning about the altair in computer tech class back in highschool, it fascinated me. I love this stuff and so appreciate your handiness and craftsmanship. I don't know what it is lately, all your videos are hitting it off with me-keep it up!
I'm glad you have fun showing off your projects, and doing whatever you like to do. It's almost always interesting, and it means you're less likely to get burnt out because you don't force yourself into doing 1 certain kind of content over and over.
Damn, AS!! That is fantastic! What a little work of art! Beautiful build, truly! Bravo- the more I watch your channel, the more interests I find I share in common with you. Amazing!
Limits are what make programming fun! My favourite programming environment is still my high school graphic calculator. 127*63 pixels, monochrome display, 28 global variables, up to 120 lists and 26 tables and slow as hell. I love it!
When I saw Franken in the title I assumed that meant something you built. But then you pulled it out and it looked so professional, I figured it was just some UK brand that never made it to the US. Very nice looking, you had me going and I'm old enough to have been around when terminals were still in wide use.
I now understand why people thought that everyone having a computer in their home was the craziest idea ever and no one believed they would become mainstream!
What actually happened was, the home computer industry was kind of scrambling around trying to convince the average person to have a home computer, and were suggesting you keep your recipes on it and all kinds of cockamamie things, and basically the only people really enthusiastic about computers were computer nerds who were into hacking, BBS's, the early games, etc. Then came AOL and this new thing called email. It was called "the killer app." yep they actually said "app" back in the late 80s. Email was something everyone wanted because it was easier and cheaper than writing letters and well, it really was kind of fun. Email is what got computers into average homes. Then the Web, which to most people in the US meant AOL. But yeah, it was email that made it mainstream.
Reminds me of my first computer, a Pet 2001, except the Pet's metal housing was so strong you could stand on it. That's how I painted the walls and ceiling of my bedroom.
When I was a kid and got bored during summer break I would break into my parents home office and pillage loose-leaf paper, plain blue ballpoint pens, glue sticks, and scotch tape. Then I'd cut and mark and glue and dinker around until I'd made a little computer,about the size of a box of poptarts. Of course, it was just a paper shell with some of the lines and marks to evoke the idea of a computer (this was around the time we got our first computer- a tandy 1000), but I'd left an opening on the side of the monitor to allow a new 'screen' image to be slid in, and even a little 'floppy drive' that you could slide tiny paper disks into. I ended up making several, all different, and giving a few away to friends for their kick-ass troll doll houses. In case it wasn't obvious, it was the 90's. This video just sent me back in time to experience the desire, determination, elation,and satisfaction of making those little paper computers. That's something my adult self would do well to bring into the present. Thank you for sharing this with us!
This isn't my kind of thing personally, but what an amazing job you've done. A pleasure to watch right to the end. Thank you for your videos Shrimpy Boy.
This is a seriously nice build. Good work! Just a word of warning, however-- laser cutting vinyl is considered dangerous because it puts off highly toxic fumes. (It puts off chlorine gas) But regardless, I love this project!
Love this video, takes me back to the days of green screens (that used to burn the image), programming in Basic, no mouse and just good fun! Talented on the build, well done you! Thanks from Catalonia
This computing unit reminds me a lot about the Olivetti P6066, which 40+ years ago was a top notch 32 bit computer and had quite a weird keyboard layout, light ... and noises. Your computing unit is a pretty unique piece of technology of which you can be very proud of!
You had me going. I was in the industry for decades, since the late 70's. I have seen Dec, IBM, Lear, Hazleteen Adds and many others but NEVER a Franken.. I was starting to think it must be an oddball from Europe..LOL You did a nice job with your DIY Franken and I love the colors.. I am using an IBM 5155, luggable through a serial port while I am looking for a deal on a VT 220 or 320. Nice videos and I have enjoyed them.. Regards, Glenn
"The limitations of this tiny screen".. Mate, it was considered astounding when the Apple II got the ability to go from 40 characters wide, to 80 characters, using the enhanced 80 column graphics card. Took hours to replace the cards for all the systems in the lab, using the little hex wrench. Got the silver version after going through the certification program.
Ehh, it's alright. Its not supposed to withstand 20+ decades of use, it does what its supposed to do with relative minimal effort and skill requirements. I quite like simple and elegant solutions.
The lack of reinforcement on those joins is giving me heebie jeebies though And you made that beautiful nameplate out of diffuser material but without illuminating it!? I still like it *_; )_*
this tech was a little before my adolescence and im not really a nostalgic person anyway, but i realise an impressive build. im a gui pleb, even with modern Linux derivatives, but this looks awesome. very well done. reminds me of 80s futuristic movies.
Awesome Shrimp, love the music and the build, glad to see you matched the pair up. It was sort of ODD before and now it's EVEN, sometimes you've just got to BYTE the............ Can't think of another WORD. 😆
By Grabthar's hammer and the suns of Warvan, I love the colours on the Altair/Frankenterminal setup! It's like it's been taken straight from the the original Star Trek set! :D
20Goto10....Oh the memories of my Acorn Electron, and writing that tiny programme and seeing it run, and getting really technical by getting the screen to flash different colours along with whatever you had written 😆 Sadly that's about as far as my programming skills ever reached, and the only time I visited the computer room was to register for school in the mornings. Has given me a very healthy respect for the amount of work that must go into what we take for granted in games such as Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty.
Recently watched the latest Red dwarf there were some great retro props in that. They should enlist you as a prop maker for the next series. Great job. Regards from a rainy Derbyshire.
As soon as I saw that flat screen I knew it wasn't a vintage terminal... however! you've still got a machine inside (the thin client box) that's much more mowerful than the computer it's term'ing to... What you needed to do was build up a terminal emulator circuit just from 74 series logic chips, just like the originals ;) (I had the pleasure of having a look inside a proper VT100 terminal a while back and it was literally all just massive arrays of 74 logic chips... fun stuff! I was hoping we'd see more of the Altair Mini. Nice Lockdown project though!
Yeah, the Axel box has a Geode processor in it - could probably almost run Windows. I would like to build a machine from just the gates (or even a Z80 and other bits). Maybe one day...
You should tell scammers that you’re having problems with your computer and show them this one.
Nature walks, scambaiting, weird food tasting, and now this? Sir, I find your content variety extremely interesting. Keep up the great work!
And plus each of those are great quality content
Whats next one might ask, i am intrigued..
I, too, want to live in an Atomic Shrimp world.
He's so resourceful..
I never knew i wanted a mash up of Chris Packham, James Veitch, and Stuart Ashen; but here we are
(Not to cast aspersions of plagiarism, i understand these are broad fields)
Atomic Shrimp: *reveals that it isn't a real terminal*
me: we've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and quite possible, bamboozled
We've been smeckledorfed!
Hornswaggled!
@@alyshay82597 That's not even a word and I agree with ya!
Don't forget, entertained.
@@jamescumbria4499 well, wait till you hear about every other word
I called it. I thought, "Oh, that's surprising "Franken" is actually a thing. I'd have guessed it's a Frankenterm he built himself".
Me, always the slow boat. But getting some good laughs from those who got the joke!
it's beautiful... i watch everything you upload, you're just such an entertaining but calm character. love the resourcefulness so much, godspeed
This reminds me of when I learned how to code using assembly language and punch cards. Oh God...the horror...
I used a telex message that used perf tape when I was 19. It was older than me, and bloody noisy! If you made a mistake, you either lived with it or started from the beginning.
Yeah, I remember!
I remember writing to punch tape from a commodore Pet at college. We wasted a whole spool of tape at Christmas making pixel art snowflake patterns (the holes in the tape are a literal representation of binary bits)
I first learned Cobol using punch cards. So hard to remember how much of improvement RPG was. Getting exited over 1st time seeing 8 inch floppy. Sigh.
Yikes, Assembly and punch cards were just a bit before my time. When I started college in the early 80s, the class before me still used punch cards. They were learning COBOL, a quite verbose language. I heard stories of big drawers of punch cards, sometimes on the floor (the cards not the drawers - 52 pickup anyone?) . I myself was spared the cards, instead dealt with an online but invisible editor. And a secret list of commands to navigate around the hidden screen. Good ole days of programming...
I’m not even interested in this stuff but I watch and learn in pure amazement.
As a retrocomputing enthusiast with really quite diverse other interests, including nature and cooking and a hundred other things, I just love the variety and general feel of this channel and all the stuff you do, and when you post something like this about old computers it's an extra special treat. Thanks for being so unpretentious, genuine and interesting.
Wow! I've been watching you for about a year now and I've watched almost every video of yours. Then you come up with this... I've seen you be crafty but this was amazing!!! I'm blown away by the sheer ingenuity and thought that went into this. Well done!!!
Nice work on the Terminal - When seeing the first minute of the video, it looked so professional I was looking it up to buy one - Excellent Build there
This channel eluded me for a long time and it has become one of my absolute favourites. Everything you upload is fascinating in some way and the joy I get from watching your videos is unmatched!
This channel continues to be entertaining and bewildering in equal measure. Favourite channel by far.
Wow, extremely impressive work! I knew you were handy after building the Wobble Dog, but this is on another level.
Anthony Libardi The Wobble Dog, a classic!
Just discovered your channel, and I gotta say I like your variety of stuff you put in here, like a mystery box, you never know what the next video will be about. Anyway I’m subbed. Take care!
My suspicions were aroused when you totally glossed over how you planned to connect that Arduino powered box to an ostensibly 50 year old terminal! Congrats on a great video.
I think it is actually possible - although the Arduino is set up for serial comms over USB, it can be configured to do old school serial over 4 pins (I have no idea how to make that change on here though)
I remember back in the day at the Altair users group, having a terminal was a luxury. I had to load the machine code directly from the switch panel. We used AM transistor pocket radios placed directly on top of the Altair for sound output. Oh, the nostalgia of it all. Paper tape, punch cards, continuous paper output. Yes, the good ol' days. These days all my computers are good for is streaming video, good and bad.
Thanks for the very interesting video. I absolutely loved it.
Forget the montage, I want a full detailed build video.
You are the most interesting person I have ever found on RUclips. Never regret clicking on a video. Thanks for the variety of content you put out :)
This was so up my alley. I remember learning about the altair in computer tech class back in highschool, it fascinated me. I love this stuff and so appreciate your handiness and craftsmanship. I don't know what it is lately, all your videos are hitting it off with me-keep it up!
"Life is a conundrum of esoterica" - Uncle Monty
Your channel reminds me of this quote
Amazing! As somebody from a younger generation, I found this really interesting. Your channel is brilliant by the way
He's a resourceful RUclipsr....
I'm glad you have fun showing off your projects, and doing whatever you like to do. It's almost always interesting, and it means you're less likely to get burnt out because you don't force yourself into doing 1 certain kind of content over and over.
Wow, fantastic build, I didn't know you were into retro tech. I subscribed when you were melting bits of old plastic - best decision I made!
You never cease to amaze. I loved it!
Damn, AS!! That is fantastic! What a little work of art! Beautiful build, truly! Bravo- the more I watch your channel, the more interests I find I share in common with you. Amazing!
Limits are what make programming fun! My favourite programming environment is still my high school graphic calculator. 127*63 pixels, monochrome display, 28 global variables, up to 120 lists and 26 tables and slow as hell. I love it!
When I saw Franken in the title I assumed that meant something you built. But then you pulled it out and it looked so professional, I figured it was just some UK brand that never made it to the US. Very nice looking, you had me going and I'm old enough to have been around when terminals were still in wide use.
a play on "Franklin" ;)
Wow what a neat project 👌❤️
A.S your content never fails to amuse, inform and surprise us.
I thoroughly enjoy the language style of your video description text, Mr. Shrimp, not to mention your fabulous creative work.
I have no idea what 90% of this meant but I could happily watch/listen to you all day.
I now understand why people thought that everyone having a computer in their home was the craziest idea ever and no one believed they would become mainstream!
What actually happened was, the home computer industry was kind of scrambling around trying to convince the average person to have a home computer, and were suggesting you keep your recipes on it and all kinds of cockamamie things, and basically the only people really enthusiastic about computers were computer nerds who were into hacking, BBS's, the early games, etc. Then came AOL and this new thing called email. It was called "the killer app." yep they actually said "app" back in the late 80s. Email was something everyone wanted because it was easier and cheaper than writing letters and well, it really was kind of fun. Email is what got computers into average homes. Then the Web, which to most people in the US meant AOL. But yeah, it was email that made it mainstream.
Reminds me of my first computer, a Pet 2001, except the Pet's metal housing was so strong you could stand on it. That's how I painted the walls and ceiling of my bedroom.
When I was a kid and got bored during summer break I would break into my parents home office and pillage loose-leaf paper, plain blue ballpoint pens, glue sticks, and scotch tape. Then I'd cut and mark and glue and dinker around until I'd made a little computer,about the size of a box of poptarts.
Of course, it was just a paper shell with some of the lines and marks to evoke the idea of a computer (this was around the time we got our first computer- a tandy 1000), but I'd left an opening on the side of the monitor to allow a new 'screen' image to be slid in, and even a little 'floppy drive' that you could slide tiny paper disks into. I ended up making several, all different, and giving a few away to friends for their kick-ass troll doll houses.
In case it wasn't obvious, it was the 90's.
This video just sent me back in time to experience the desire, determination, elation,and satisfaction of making those little paper computers. That's something my adult self would do well to bring into the present.
Thank you for sharing this with us!
This channel is literally all of my favourite things. Sooo glad I found it.
This truly is a variety channel, it's great. I'm always thinking what the hell is coming next!!
This isn't my kind of thing personally, but what an amazing job you've done. A pleasure to watch right to the end. Thank you for your videos Shrimpy Boy.
Please more of this! I love old tech and diy builds. Seems super fun.
All of this is completely over my head... I love it so much
This is a seriously nice build. Good work! Just a word of warning, however-- laser cutting vinyl is considered dangerous because it puts off highly toxic fumes. (It puts off chlorine gas)
But regardless, I love this project!
The laser cutter has an exhaust hose, but I generally try to avoid using it on plastics if I can
I love this channel I just watch anything posted who else has been here since 100k keep up the good work shrimp mate
wow this is an amazing project, this is why I love your channel
Genius level content on this channel. I could watch it endlessly. Cheers!
"more stimulating to use" and pure joy to watch. Thank you!
Love this video, takes me back to the days of green screens (that used to burn the image), programming in Basic, no mouse and just good fun! Talented on the build, well done you! Thanks from Catalonia
This computing unit reminds me a lot about the Olivetti P6066, which 40+ years ago was a top notch 32 bit computer and had quite a weird keyboard layout, light ... and noises.
Your computing unit is a pretty unique piece of technology of which you can be very proud of!
My word! Who would have thunk it? You're a proper geeky nerd with a delicious retro-70's design aesthetic.
Far out, man, far out!
In the early 80's I made tech for chemical, nuclear and petrochemical labs ... your FT80 is somehow more realistic!! Well done Atomic Shrimp
Mr Shrimp, my respect for you and your content (which was already pretty high) has just skyrocketed...
really wonderful job done with basic tools (excluding the "laser") and a very finished look. Well done.
I swear everything this guy does is just genuinely interesting
I must be REALLY old, I still have my original Altair 8800
You had me going. I was in the industry for decades, since the late 70's. I have seen Dec, IBM, Lear, Hazleteen Adds and many others but NEVER a Franken.. I was starting to think it must be an oddball from Europe..LOL You did a nice job with your DIY Franken and I love the colors..
I am using an IBM 5155, luggable through a serial port while I am looking for a deal on a VT 220 or 320.
Nice videos and I have enjoyed them..
Regards,
Glenn
Your attention to detail is amazing wow
A truuuuly beautiful build, good work man!
"The limitations of this tiny screen"..
Mate, it was considered astounding when the Apple II got the ability to go from 40 characters wide, to 80 characters, using the enhanced 80 column graphics card. Took hours to replace the cards for all the systems in the lab, using the little hex wrench. Got the silver version after going through the certification program.
love it. im working on a pi 4 arcade cabinet at the moment and im glad to see other fun builds
I'm sure someone will comment how you did the construction of the casing and the computers wrong... I thought you did an excellent job!
Ehh, it's alright. Its not supposed to withstand 20+ decades of use, it does what its supposed to do with relative minimal effort and skill requirements. I quite like simple and elegant solutions.
The lack of reinforcement on those joins is giving me heebie jeebies though
And you made that beautiful nameplate out of diffuser material but without illuminating it!?
I still like it *_; )_*
this tech was a little before my adolescence and im not really a nostalgic person anyway, but i realise an impressive build. im a gui pleb, even with modern Linux derivatives, but this looks awesome. very well done. reminds me of 80s futuristic movies.
I wish I could like this twice... So awesome!
I love how much of a jack of all trades you are!
Brilliant looks amazing, and love the Ford orange. Wouldn’t look out of place on the set of 2001 Space Odyssey
AWESOME Atomic Shrimp - love how even the shirt had a retro pattern
Awesome Shrimp, love the music and the build, glad to see you matched the pair up. It was sort of ODD before and now it's EVEN, sometimes you've just got to BYTE the............
Can't think of another WORD.
😆
you really captured that old computer vibe with the Franken, would love to see a full build vid!
I think I would have been more interested in this video from the get go if I knew you were building the terminal! Very interesting.
You truly are a man of many talents! Thank you for yet another really interesting video. Stay safe
It must have been such a pleasure building this...
Never a dull moment with Atomic Shrimp
The 8800 is definitely one of the coolest computers ever made, awesome video!
Neat custom build! Got a similar project going myself with an old teletype machine, trying to get it hooked up to the internet.
Atomic, You are what I envision my retirement looking like.. (From So'ton too)
Your voice is very soothing to listen to.
By Grabthar's hammer and the suns of Warvan, I love the colours on the Altair/Frankenterminal setup! It's like it's been taken straight from the the original Star Trek set! :D
Almost expected to be greeted by "Smooth educational jazz" music and the words "Greetings, and welcome to another LGR Blerb!"
Atomic shrimp: giving you random content everyday
I remember video terminals, and even *shudder* printing terminals. Glad those old days are gone!
Colour me impressed. Remarkable work Mr Shrimp. I doff the hat I'm not wearing. That's how impressed I am.
Retrotech? Excellent. Fan of Techmoan? 8-Bit Guy? So am I. Thanks, great video.
20Goto10....Oh the memories of my Acorn Electron, and writing that tiny programme and seeing it run, and getting really technical by getting the screen to flash different colours along with whatever you had written 😆 Sadly that's about as far as my programming skills ever reached, and the only time I visited the computer room was to register for school in the mornings. Has given me a very healthy respect for the amount of work that must go into what we take for granted in games such as Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty.
Brilliant project and excellent end result, well done 😁👍
Nice to see the 8800 Clone again! Keep up the great vids
Recently watched the latest Red dwarf there were some great retro props in that. They should enlist you as a prop maker for the next series. Great job. Regards from a rainy Derbyshire.
I'm new from the scambaiting vids, and getting used to everything you're doing. Its fun!
This man really out here making literal computers from scratch
As soon as I saw that flat screen I knew it wasn't a vintage terminal... however! you've still got a machine inside (the thin client box) that's much more mowerful than the computer it's term'ing to...
What you needed to do was build up a terminal emulator circuit just from 74 series logic chips, just like the originals ;) (I had the pleasure of having a look inside a proper VT100 terminal a while back and it was literally all just massive arrays of 74 logic chips... fun stuff! I was hoping we'd see more of the Altair Mini. Nice Lockdown project though!
Yeah, the Axel box has a Geode processor in it - could probably almost run Windows. I would like to build a machine from just the gates (or even a Z80 and other bits). Maybe one day...
@@AtomicShrimp ah yeah, the terminal probably had some form of CPU in it, an earlier 8-bit one
This is brilliant!
"Time to come clean with you..."
Gee, the LCD screen didn't give it away at all there 🤣
Jokes aside, keep up the great work, loving your channel :-)
The limit to his content is unstoppable
Wow, that's bringing back some memories, cheers!
This channel feels like what youtube was trying to be when it started off
You keep impressing me Mr. Atomic Shrimp.
As soon as I heard the name Franken, I had a feeling you might've made it... XD
Love the custom terminal. Great idea!
Lovely video. Love you.
I didn't know you were such a tech savy and builder, you could challenge Mosquito...
Mr Shrimp, you are quite the Wizard!
Thank you for sharing now i just need to fight my envy monster ;)
That first program reminded me of an Amstrad cpc 464 we had as young kids. Used to love writing in programs.
That's a beautiful design. Nice work.