Hey VWestlife! We use them here in Australia for Decking screws. Drilling into decking planks, very good torque and the bit never jumps out of the screw when you over tighten causing damage to the wood. Come to think of it they should be using these inside computers instead of philips heads or those terrible torx
I'm in the US and I love robertson / square drive. It's even better than torx that they're trying to popularize (I've stripped torx before, never stripped a robertson), also the screw-holding power of the bit is great... can hold it at almost any angle and it won't fall off.
Wow, a Commodore PC! My dad had one for his business. Sure brings back memories. I used to write basic programs and play a flight simulator in 1 FPS :D
My dad bought a Commmdore PC 10-III, which I imagine is the model right before the PC 20. It was my very first IBM compatible PC made by the only company that I previously had computer experience with (I had a Commodore 64 and later a Commodore 128). Once I got the 10-III, I never looked back, moving forward with other IBM compatible PC's. :)
arduria We had the 10-II iirc. Me and dad was always fighting over if the screen should be in normal or inverted b/w mode (I preferred white text on black background) :) Shortly after this I got a C64 and stayed far away from PCs...
Back in school we had a classroom stocked with PC-10 and PC-20s and learned programming in Turbo Pascal. We used to laugh at these machines, they appeared so clunky and pathetic compared to our Atari STs and Amigas at home.
After watching Techmoan and LGR for years I just recently stumbled upon your channel. A shame it took me so long, because I'm hooked! Awesome stuff all around, and I'm especially fond of your historical chronicles/perspectives (the Commodore series has been excellent thus far) and your incredible restoration efforts. Keep up the amazing work!
Heh, I forgot to include the pronunciation guide on my name when I wrote that letter. You got "Augie" right -- just like "Augie Doggie." The last name, just for the record, is /dih-BLEEK/
I literally jumped out of my chair when I saw the name. There can be no way to mistake the name of an absolute LEGEND! I read your stuff for years on CBR.
LOL.. Westlock, Alberta.. Just a few miles from where I was born.. Damn the world is small.. I really did "Laugh out Loud" when you said you needed to go to the store to buy a square bit (called Robertson in Canada). EVERYTHING is square drive up in the frozen poophole of hoth. Its really a Canadian thing. When we moved onto our sailboat (in the Caribbean), I brought a TON of stainless screws with us. All Robertson drive. I have never found a Robertson driver in the 4 years we have been away from Canada. P.S. you can drive square heads with a flat head of the right size. If its the right size it will fit "corner to corner" in the square hole and work fine (as long as the hulk didn't tighten them).
Northcentral USA here, Robertson drive fasteners are used in the construction trades - not exclusively, and in my opinion a Torx fastener could be used instead, but you do see them often enough that we have a selection of bit sizes to deal with them as we find them in my trade.
I used to do CAD on a Commodore PC 20-III when I started at the company I'm still working at, 29 years ago. We also had a PC 60, which was a huge tower model with a 386 and 200Mb harddrive. Seeing that PC 20 surely brings back memories.
It's kind of a niche. I prefer Tandy myself, but you start to loose the appeal of these unique brand names when they adopt the generic PC compatibility. Maybe that's just me. Tandy was one of the first to be truly IBM/DOS compatible (even if the hardware was hit and miss), and that's what made them so popular (where the Commodore's was the low price) so it's not that surprising, but Commodore is remembered for systems like the VIC-20 and the C64, which weren't IBM/DOS compatible. So to me the PC-20 is just a PC with a Commodore label.
I nerded out a little when you leafed through the C64 floppies: the game titles, the double sided hole punch notch, the messy labels, writing on the sleeves etc.
Commodore xt clones were quite successful in Germany due to their good name from the C64. Also they struck a deal with the German railway to be the ones supplying the xt clones when they started computerizing.
Commodore PC 20, that brings back memories from when I was in high school. The first CD-ROM encyclopedia I ever used was on one of those machines. It was the 1989 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannia for MS-DOS. MS-DOS, the drivers for the SCSI card and the drivers for the external CD-ROM drive were all on one 360 Kb 5.25 inch floppy disk. The Commodore didn't even have a hard drive.
OMG, the PC20! That was the first IBM compatible machine I ever touched. They were massively popular in schools at the time. The HOURS I spent playing around with that machine!
4:49 - "Unfortunately these are high-density, so I can't use them with Planet X3." Is there something I'm missing here? If I recall correctly, you can format higher-density floppies to lower-density formats, you just can't do vice-versa. Depending on the drive you're using, you may have to tape over the second corner-hole.
The physical difference between HD and DD floppies is that they use different ferrites for keeping up magnetic data. HD floppies are hence magnetized by stronger fields, and that is why DD-only drives can't deal with writing on them. Reading might work though, if the HD disk is first formatted to the lower size of DD, but I'm recalling that is not guaranteed either for all drives. On the other hand, it is possible to format at least 3.5" DD floppies to HD if you drill that HD hole on them first, but the disks won't then be very reliable. 5.25" floppies also might be more delicate with these things, as at least certain contemporary sources have warned that mere writing on a 5.25" DD floppy in a HD drive may render them unusable in a DD-only drive. I guess might yet experiment with these a bit some day.
I drilled the missing hole to some DD floppies and I were able to use them az HD discs. I can't recall any problem with them, while some HD discs died under my hand. However, I still can't get why a higher storage capacity disc is not good for the Planet X3
I've had no issue covering up the HD hole on 1.44MB floppies and formatting them as 720K. I do this a fair bit for my Tandy 1000HX, since 720K floppies are so hard to come by, but I've got boxes of useless 1.44MB floppies that I've just been overwriting and reusing. Do note though that if you're using a storage media (floppy or CF card) an XT system, you need to format it in the XT system before you transfer anything from a modern PC. Something funky about the way XTs did things that I haven't figured out yet, but I always have to format it in the XT first, otherwise it will never read it.
@@BlackEpyon The more I think on this, the more I recall covering the HD hole and formatting HD floppies to 800K so I could move data between my (then) modern Mac and an old Mac Plus.
I remember reading about those cat-shaped barcode scanners, but living in Europe I've never seen one. If you ever get a chance, maybe do a teeny-tiny info video about it? :) Anyways, wonderful to hear from you again, stay awesome!
He comes off as the biggest asshole in these unboxing videos. Free stuff and then he always has something backhanded to say to the person that gave it to him
Oh, come the fuck on. He has over 800k subs, he probably gets offers for all kinds of bullshit, and probably receives trash too. He's talked about this in videos. Also, it's pretty obvious he records his audios separately from the footage. What, do you want him to jump around like a 5 y/o to make all of you people that feel the need to comment on shit you don't even know about feel better? Get lost.
Even though it (the computer) said it was from Canada if you didn’t show the label I’d think “square screws must’ve been from Canada “ , we use those weird things....;)
I was on the network operations team for Digital Convergence. While the Cuecat was a commercial flop is was the beginning of something that most people utilize frequently today. David, if you want any inside background on the company feel free to reach out.
Awesome that you have a Commodore PC, my first IBM compatible machine was a Commodore PC, 286 12Mhz with 1MB RAM. Not sure if it was the same exact model as your one, but it was pretty close. Seeing that brought back memories :) Looking forward to the videos on that machine.
You can still find instructions on how to "declaw the cuecat" to remove the barcode encryption that the CueCat added to its scanned barcodes. See www.cexx.org/cuecat.htm#neuter
That Commodore P20 keyboard at the end of the video is actually a rebranded IBM model M, which is one of the best mechanical keyboard made in the world. They still make clones of it today.
CueCat! "All the rage" isn't quite right, though. It was a colossal failure, and a laughing stock during the Dot Com boom. Looking forward to the video on that one! :D
PerHedetun I must have had at least five free ones from magazines and so on. I recognized it before he even removed it from the box, and I swear I involuntarily shivered. I can’t imagine the amount of e-waste those things ended up generating.
They could read regular barcodes with software layer easily found at the time. Used them heavily for used book sale inventory listings back in the day when you could actually make a lot of money doing so.
@@oldtwinsna8347 Our school library used these $600 Folett PS/2 injected barcode scanners, so I find it ironic that we had to budget these things, but you were getting them as junk mail. I recognized right away that they are basically keyboard emulators (hence the pass-through PS/2 connectors). The Folett scanners didn't need any special software (you could just scan a barcode directly into a text file or spreadsheet), but supposedly the CueCat needed special software to decode the barcodes IT was made for. I have no idea if CueCat could just be used a straight keyboard emulator without software.
Hey a Commodore PC-20 III! As a college student I worked at a computer store and I used to sell a TON of those when it came out for christmas 1987. We had it bundled with the 1084s monitor and couldn't keep it on the shelves. That along with the Amiga 500 outsold everything else in the store (Atari ST, C=64, Apple IIgs IIe and IIc, Mac SE and IBM PS2-30) put together!
We're probably a similar age. Growing up in rural Canada, my early grades, we have Commodore Pets, in a small lab, maybe 6 of them. But then in the big computer lab were ALL commodore 64's. But I remember when the library got a brand new PC-10 III. No matter WHAT the computer was, if it looked different from what I was used to seeing, I was in AWE of them. Growing up in the 80's and 90's was the BEST time for computers.
@@nilswegner2881 They were designed without graphics and for business and even with an add on, they never lost that stigma no matter the amount of GPU cores. But then again today's games are interactive movies and to me are not even close to appealing. The realism is what ruins it. Take away all the ability to imagine that a pixel was a space ship.
one day when I have the money im going to send you just a massive fridge, so then you'd have to figure out where to put it, plus I think the reaction to it would be realy funny on video. Just you confused about why someone would send you a fridge. Plus it would be a nice fridge with the double doors on the front and stuff. I think other people would laugh at it as well. Then I'd send fridges to other youtubers and watch them all be confused as well. I'll be the fridge bandit.
Depends on what system. 8-bits became the standard for the byte sometime around the 70's, I'm not sure exactly when, but before that, everybody had their own definition for "byte," which could be anywhere from 6 to 12 bits long.
Love all yours videos and even though I was around and feel nostalgia for most everything you show I continue to get surprised with things I haven't even heard of like the speech cartridge for to Coco and Commodore having made a PC compatible. Can't wait to see a Commodore part 6 featuring that beauty! 😁
Darn, now I feel old! I remember installing several computer rooms full of commodore pc-20's (I worked for a polytechnic, they where used to teach basic computing and typing)
Congrats on the Commodore PC! I also got one very recently, which as well suffered from battery leakage. Had actually to replace some small parts, but now it's working again. Didn't try Planet X3 yet, still waiting for the XT-IDE to get some mass storage option into it first.
Great stuff David, there is some really interesting things in this unboxing. That Rikki and Vikki game looked extremely impressive and WOW that PC-20. As always, looking forward to whatever you have coming next.
So cool! Because my dad was a teacher he not only had a PC-10-III, but also a PC-20-III, PC-40-III (286! 6/8/12 MHz) and finally a C486 (486DX 33 MHz, with turbo). All from Commodore. The 486 wasn't very well built, and it refused to boot if you had screwed in a certain screw on the back, and the standalone soundcard worked intermittenly the last months. We still got the PC-10 in storage.
Well...we really just don't use them in the US. We tend not to like working with oddball screws and bolts. We mostly use flathead screws, Phillips, or socket screws. Allen wrench screws really get on my nerves too.
@@ct6502-c7w I don't wanna be rude or anything, but Phillips and slot screws are literally the worst things to use for everything but a very small amount of applications. Robertson screws are beautifully designed and fix near every problem you've ever had with slots and Phillips. It's the main drive type up here in Canada and I'm disappointed it isn't more widely adopted. If I see one more American woodworker on RUclips use Phillips wood screws I'm going to cry.
Aw man, I remember CueCat, by 1998 or so, Radio Shack was literally giving them away (and 20 years later, Goodwill stores across the country were trying to sell them for $5 or more).
It was a clever but stupid idea, scan the bar code, and you get sent to a website where you can look up what you just bought. The "Internet of Things" before it was a thing, ahead of its time, since we now have cell phones that can scan QR codes and bar codes to do the exact same thing.
I Had a Cue Cat back in the day. Most of the bar codes i tried scanning would usually just bring you the product manufacturers website. (Assuming they even had one back then.). It was basically a web search with a cat shaped bar code scanner gimmick .
In a box somewhere, I have a Cue Cat still sealed in the envelope from when it was distributed at the CompUSA call center where I was working. I also have one or two CompUSA / Cue Cat shirts.
I can't believe Robertson screws and screwdrivers still aren't common in the US even though they're superior. As usual, the US refuses to go for the better option. 🤦
Its not just the US , most of the world does not use them. But pick on the US , I know its the cool thing to do. Robertson screws are better but they are mostly a Canadian thing .
The heck, there's a C64 version of Farming Simulator? I totally missed that news!
I want that
Oh dear Clint, to the internets.
It was orignally announced last april orignally it was believed to be an april fools joke as it was revealed on the first lol
Me too. Time to dig my C64 out of the closet.
@@FerrariKangaroo I'll probably just use a emulator on my Android tablet
8:02 *THE 1-BYTE GUY*
i can’t be the only one to notice that, can I?
You can also see a bit too much of his address...
I was going to say that xD loooool
i tried reading the address from there until i realised it's on full view at 9:15 lol
Nope... Definitely caught this too while watching
Double Nybble Guy
Those square screws are called Robertson. They're very popular in Canada (where they were invented) but not so much elsewhere.
hi vwestlife! didnt expect to see u here.
They are so much better than Philips screws.
VWestlife I work in a welding shop and the only reason I knew the name is due to the fact its part of the welding certification test
Side note, Henry Ford wanted to use the Robertson because it is superior but using them would have required him to pay a royalty.
Hey VWestlife! We use them here in Australia for Decking screws. Drilling into decking planks, very good torque and the bit never jumps out of the screw when you over tighten causing damage to the wood. Come to think of it they should be using these inside computers instead of philips heads or those terrible torx
So nice to see you have the Commodore 64 edition of Farming Simulator. I actually thought of your channel when they first announced it!
Wow daggerwin I didn’t think you also watch him
Wow suprised to see you here daggerwin
Wow. Didn't expect you to be here
Hey there daggerwin
You’re the best at what you do :) keep going!
David, you’re always so careful about obscuring your address... I’m afraid you missed one. 5,000 floppy disks on the way!
The shipping container should show up by Tuesday 🛳️🚛🛣️🖥️💾🖨️🗿
Send him some Canadian screws too!
And don't forget the packing peanuts. He loves those things! ;)
Notice he never obscures the senders PHONE NUMBER!
Lets all appreciate the Canadian at 8:42 who uses a superior fastener called a Robertson Screw (also a Canadian invention)
Anything that makes me take a trip to the store and buy stuff just so I can *open it* gets no love from me.
@@joesterling4299 hey you being unprepared isn't the fault of the screw
ikr, i wish we had that in america i hate stripping screws
I'm in the US and I love robertson / square drive. It's even better than torx that they're trying to popularize (I've stripped torx before, never stripped a robertson), also the screw-holding power of the bit is great... can hold it at almost any angle and it won't fall off.
with leaked address...
ready to receive 10 bags of packing peanuts Dave
I never thought I’d get enjoyment from watching a guy open his mail
8:02
"Ship To: The 1-BYTE GUY"
I see what you did there
Puts on sunglasses says something clever... Yeaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
When I saw "The1ByteGuy", I was like: Oof, another guy that has copied The8BitGuy for another time and it has failed...
Wow, a Commodore PC! My dad had one for his business. Sure brings back memories. I used to write basic programs and play a flight simulator in 1 FPS :D
I worked in a camera/computer/electronics shop back in the day and sold a few of these.. ah the memories
My dad bought a Commmdore PC 10-III, which I imagine is the model right before the PC 20. It was my very first IBM compatible PC made by the only company that I previously had computer experience with (I had a Commodore 64 and later a Commodore 128). Once I got the 10-III, I never looked back, moving forward with other IBM compatible PC's. :)
arduria We had the 10-II iirc. Me and dad was always fighting over if the screen should be in normal or inverted b/w mode (I preferred white text on black background) :) Shortly after this I got a C64 and stayed far away from PCs...
Back in school we had a classroom stocked with PC-10 and PC-20s and learned programming in Turbo Pascal. We used to laugh at these machines, they appeared so clunky and pathetic compared to our Atari STs and Amigas at home.
After watching Techmoan and LGR for years I just recently stumbled upon your channel. A shame it took me so long, because I'm hooked! Awesome stuff all around, and I'm especially fond of your historical chronicles/perspectives (the Commodore series has been excellent thus far) and your incredible restoration efforts.
Keep up the amazing work!
*completely ignores the hilarious joke at **8:01* *"The 1-Byte Guy"*
LOL. Thanks for pointing that out.
ikr
Noticed it too :D
lol, priceless.
Nice!
Heh, I forgot to include the pronunciation guide on my name when I wrote that letter. You got "Augie" right -- just like "Augie Doggie." The last name, just for the record, is /dih-BLEEK/
I literally jumped out of my chair when I saw the name. There can be no way to mistake the name of an absolute LEGEND! I read your stuff for years on CBR.
Build a huge building so you can get more stuff.
Check out the newest video!
Wow those NES plug convertors were really neat. Lots of neat stuff you got over the last little while!
during the whole unboxing , you can see that he is suffering.
@Martin M Constantly
I can't wait to see the in-depth reviews of some of the products you unboxed!
LOL.. Westlock, Alberta.. Just a few miles from where I was born.. Damn the world is small..
I really did "Laugh out Loud" when you said you needed to go to the store to buy a square bit (called Robertson in Canada). EVERYTHING is square drive up in the frozen poophole of hoth. Its really a Canadian thing. When we moved onto our sailboat (in the Caribbean), I brought a TON of stainless screws with us. All Robertson drive. I have never found a Robertson driver in the 4 years we have been away from Canada.
P.S. you can drive square heads with a flat head of the right size. If its the right size it will fit "corner to corner" in the square hole and work fine (as long as the hulk didn't tighten them).
I laughed at that too! good ol' robertson!
robertson drive screws are everywhere in modern-ish electrical light fittings here in the UK
Northcentral USA here, Robertson drive fasteners are used in the construction trades - not exclusively, and in my opinion a Torx fastener could be used instead, but you do see them often enough that we have a selection of bit sizes to deal with them as we find them in my trade.
I used to do CAD on a Commodore PC 20-III when I started at the company I'm still working at, 29 years ago. We also had a PC 60, which was a huge tower model with a 386 and 200Mb harddrive. Seeing that PC 20 surely brings back memories.
It's kind of a niche. I prefer Tandy myself, but you start to loose the appeal of these unique brand names when they adopt the generic PC compatibility. Maybe that's just me. Tandy was one of the first to be truly IBM/DOS compatible (even if the hardware was hit and miss), and that's what made them so popular (where the Commodore's was the low price) so it's not that surprising, but Commodore is remembered for systems like the VIC-20 and the C64, which weren't IBM/DOS compatible. So to me the PC-20 is just a PC with a Commodore label.
I remember those Commodore PCs from back in the day. Commodore's last gasp before bankruptcy, unfortunately.
That PC20 is in great shape. I can't wait to see the next Commodore Doc. I don't know much about the Commodore PC series at all.
There is a really good documentary on the channel MIGs Yesterchips. It is in German though so you'd have to use subtitles
After painstakingly taping over your address on every small package it's there in plain sight on the big wooden box at 9:18 :)
lol
RUclipsr Fail
Hope he sees this
House raid by fans incoming
also a sender address could be seen through the tape at 5:08
Hi David. I live in Brazil and I watch your videos because I appreciate technology like you. A hug.
Thank you 8-box Guy
That last one is the most hilariously over done packing job I've ever seen. I love it.
"Neat, uhh, I'll try this out later"
You sound like a spoiled kid on Christmas morning. LOL
The Retro Tech book is really good. I enjoyed reading it and seeing the hardware and software I had in the 80’s and 90’s
“Here comes the climax”
“I tried various methods to get the top off”
I nerded out a little when you leafed through the C64 floppies: the game titles, the double sided hole punch notch, the messy labels, writing on the sleeves etc.
It would be cool if you would make a video on repairing commodore pc.
He most certainly will
Look up and subscribe to Jan Betas channel. Hours of video pleasure and Jans a great guy worth supporting! He got me into the Hobby.
I always get super hyped when you announce new videos coming up. Nice and interesting unboxing!
Any particular reason you left Sarah's phone number uncovered at the beginning?
Exactly what I came to the comments to see if anybody had mentioned it. 0:38 shows the phone number clearly.
And his own address on the wooden box. David is sloppy, I really dislike that.
To The GAMES it’s crazy after all the effort he goes to, then just does that.
It's a business phone
No, it isn’t
These unboxings are really relaxing to watch, for some reason.
Dave, you might want to blur the text at 9:17 with your address
Wow, it's written so big on the box, but I totally missed it before...
brb, sending him a 1080Ti.
I honestly didn't notice. Pointing it out isn't helping since he doesn't read comments. Would be considerate to delete this comment.
chiefpacman don’t worry his mates in the know will tell him via email when he wakes up to read it.
i.ibb.co/pRbjLyG/davie.png
Hehehhehe *stalker mode engaged*
Commodore xt clones were quite successful in Germany due to their good name from the C64. Also they struck a deal with the German railway to be the ones supplying the xt clones when they started computerizing.
Purolator + Robertson screws, that's obviously coming from Canada...
Hmm... did not realize Purolator was a Canadian thing.
One of the best channel's on RUclips! Keep up the good work!
There's a flash of your home address on the package at 9:18. You might want you redact that.
I loved that Tiny Toons game when I was a kid. I haven't thought about it for probably 15 years. I love the nostalgia.
Just a little note, on your thumbnail image you misspelled January
Hmm… I wonder what a "Janary" looks like…
He also didn't censor his address well enough / at all in several scenes.
@@kbhasi 3 months before "Smarch"
Commodore PC 20, that brings back memories from when I was in high school. The first CD-ROM encyclopedia I ever used was on one of those machines. It was the 1989 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannia for MS-DOS. MS-DOS, the drivers for the SCSI card and the drivers for the external CD-ROM drive were all on one 360 Kb 5.25 inch floppy disk. The Commodore didn't even have a hard drive.
Bernouli disks? Better get LGR.
Your and Clint's unboxing videos are my absolute favorites.
Love it! :)
But do any of these new items Spark Joy?
OMG, the PC20! That was the first IBM compatible machine I ever touched. They were massively popular in schools at the time. The HOURS I spent playing around with that machine!
4:49 - "Unfortunately these are high-density, so I can't use them with Planet X3."
Is there something I'm missing here? If I recall correctly, you can format higher-density floppies to lower-density formats, you just can't do vice-versa. Depending on the drive you're using, you may have to tape over the second corner-hole.
I think they aren't reliable because they've got a different material layout and density
The physical difference between HD and DD floppies is that they use different ferrites for keeping up magnetic data. HD floppies are hence magnetized by stronger fields, and that is why DD-only drives can't deal with writing on them. Reading might work though, if the HD disk is first formatted to the lower size of DD, but I'm recalling that is not guaranteed either for all drives.
On the other hand, it is possible to format at least 3.5" DD floppies to HD if you drill that HD hole on them first, but the disks won't then be very reliable. 5.25" floppies also might be more delicate with these things, as at least certain contemporary sources have warned that mere writing on a 5.25" DD floppy in a HD drive may render them unusable in a DD-only drive. I guess might yet experiment with these a bit some day.
I drilled the missing hole to some DD floppies and I were able to use them az HD discs. I can't recall any problem with them, while some HD discs died under my hand.
However, I still can't get why a higher storage capacity disc is not good for the Planet X3
I've had no issue covering up the HD hole on 1.44MB floppies and formatting them as 720K. I do this a fair bit for my Tandy 1000HX, since 720K floppies are so hard to come by, but I've got boxes of useless 1.44MB floppies that I've just been overwriting and reusing.
Do note though that if you're using a storage media (floppy or CF card) an XT system, you need to format it in the XT system before you transfer anything from a modern PC. Something funky about the way XTs did things that I haven't figured out yet, but I always have to format it in the XT first, otherwise it will never read it.
@@BlackEpyon The more I think on this, the more I recall covering the HD hole and formatting HD floppies to 800K so I could move data between my (then) modern Mac and an old Mac Plus.
I remember reading about those cat-shaped barcode scanners, but living in Europe I've never seen one. If you ever get a chance, maybe do a teeny-tiny info video about it? :) Anyways, wonderful to hear from you again, stay awesome!
8:02 pretty cool joke: "the 1-byte guy" you could have mentioned that :D
RE Pengo - this was one of my favorite arcade games from way back in the day!
He seems pretty insincere with his thank yous, didn't even say thanks for the c64 mini
He's been accused of that a lot in these unboxing videos. I think it may just be his personality.
He comes off as the biggest asshole in these unboxing videos. Free stuff and then he always has something backhanded to say to the person that gave it to him
Ongoing problem that, if he read his comments, he’d be aware of. It’s why I watch less and less of his videos.
Anyway...
Oh, come the fuck on. He has over 800k subs, he probably gets offers for all kinds of bullshit, and probably receives trash too. He's talked about this in videos. Also, it's pretty obvious he records his audios separately from the footage. What, do you want him to jump around like a 5 y/o to make all of you people that feel the need to comment on shit you don't even know about feel better? Get lost.
@@marcpjoyner you still come off as the biggest crybaby in the comment section of these videos, so cool it with the histrionics, dumbass.
You know when somebody litteraly says "oooh!" when seeing your thumbnail is that the videos are really good
Even though it (the computer) said it was from Canada if you didn’t show the label I’d think “square screws must’ve been from Canada “ , we use those weird things....;)
I can't stand seeing a package of Phillips wood screws.
You said 'Augie' perfectly. The superintendent in the 1990s of my HS was named Augie, short for Augustine. He was a really sweet guy.
You missed a joke on the shipping label @ 8:02, the dude called you The 1-Byte Guy! Hilarious! Haha
These are my favorite videos you make besides restorations.
Why not do what LGR did and buy a storage locker? I know that might seem like it's just perpetuating a problem but it seems to have worked for him.
Speaking of things LGR did, he also covered the CueCat in a Tech Tales video a while back.
David talked about that a few months back. He did the numbers, and it just doesn't make financial sense for him.
@@NormanRDolan
I made a CueCat video?
That's news to me!
Needs to build a shed, temp controlled all that stuff-would be a fun series to watch on its' own!
@@LGR I could have _sworn_ you did... Maybe I'm remembering things wrong...
I was on the network operations team for Digital Convergence. While the Cuecat was a commercial flop is was the beginning of something that most people utilize frequently today. David, if you want any inside background on the company feel free to reach out.
Robertson screwdriver bits not a big deal in USA?
Incredibly rare. Everything is standard (flat) or Philips.
4:51 You can still use high density disks as double density if you fill in the high density hole and reformat the disk.
There is a phone number visible at 0:39
Awesome that you have a Commodore PC, my first IBM compatible machine was a Commodore PC, 286 12Mhz with 1MB RAM. Not sure if it was the same exact model as your one, but it was pretty close.
Seeing that brought back memories :)
Looking forward to the videos on that machine.
Some people still use cuecats today as normal barcode scanners
You can still find instructions on how to "declaw the cuecat" to remove the barcode encryption that the CueCat added to its scanned barcodes. See www.cexx.org/cuecat.htm#neuter
Wish I still had mine. But then I have my phone that can do it as well.
So, your (ahem, I mean the 8-bit Guy's) address is showing on the gigantic crate at the end of the video. I hope you see this soon.
That Commodore P20 keyboard at the end of the video is actually a rebranded IBM model M, which is one of the best mechanical keyboard made in the world. They still make clones of it today.
CueCat!
"All the rage" isn't quite right, though. It was a colossal failure, and a laughing stock during the Dot Com boom. Looking forward to the video on that one! :D
PerHedetun I must have had at least five free ones from magazines and so on. I recognized it before he even removed it from the box, and I swear I involuntarily shivered. I can’t imagine the amount of e-waste those things ended up generating.
They could read regular barcodes with software layer easily found at the time. Used them heavily for used book sale inventory listings back in the day when you could actually make a lot of money doing so.
@@robertmudry4242 Lot I figured out what it was before he removed it too.
@@oldtwinsna8347 Our school library used these $600 Folett PS/2 injected barcode scanners, so I find it ironic that we had to budget these things, but you were getting them as junk mail. I recognized right away that they are basically keyboard emulators (hence the pass-through PS/2 connectors). The Folett scanners didn't need any special software (you could just scan a barcode directly into a text file or spreadsheet), but supposedly the CueCat needed special software to decode the barcodes IT was made for. I have no idea if CueCat could just be used a straight keyboard emulator without software.
Hey a Commodore PC-20 III! As a college student I worked at a computer store and I used to sell a TON of those when it came out for christmas 1987. We had it bundled with the 1084s monitor and couldn't keep it on the shelves. That along with the Amiga 500 outsold everything else in the store (Atari ST, C=64, Apple IIgs IIe and IIc, Mac SE and IBM PS2-30) put together!
I know you usually cover up your address but I think it was on the side of the crate. Just an FYI.
We're probably a similar age. Growing up in rural Canada, my early grades, we have Commodore Pets, in a small lab, maybe 6 of them. But then in the big computer lab were ALL commodore 64's. But I remember when the library got a brand new PC-10 III. No matter WHAT the computer was, if it looked different from what I was used to seeing, I was in AWE of them. Growing up in the 80's and 90's was the BEST time for computers.
Thought that was an Amiga 2000 there for a second.
I noticed right away that it's a pc20... The Amiga 2000 has the 5.25 inch slot on the bottom and two 3.5 inch slots on the top
PC's of that time were nothing as good as Amiga or ST computers.
@@GORF_EMPIRE they sure weren't... And for me an old PC doesn't have the same feeling as an amiga
@@nilswegner2881 They were designed without graphics and for business and even with an add on, they never lost that stigma no matter the amount of GPU cores. But then again today's games are interactive movies and to me are not even close to appealing. The realism is what ruins it. Take away all the ability to imagine that a pixel was a space ship.
I love those giant iomega disks. They look like they're wearing very high pants.
You forgot to blur out your address at 9:15
Checked that address on google street, I thought I can see him washing computer or keyboard on the drive way, but no luck. :-P
He didn't need to cuz we need(ed) to know it to send the material
I love how the last box was addressed to “the 1 byte guy”
one day when I have the money im going to send you just a massive fridge, so then you'd have to figure out where to put it, plus I think the reaction to it would be realy funny on video. Just you confused about why someone would send you a fridge. Plus it would be a nice fridge with the double doors on the front and stuff. I think other people would laugh at it as well. Then I'd send fridges to other youtubers and watch them all be confused as well. I'll be the fridge bandit.
Watch him just use it to store all this stuff. That, or rig up some UV lights and turn it into a Retrobriting Chamber.
@Foolish Tongue I think I know the reason lol
You know you are the man when people beg to send you free stuff. Keep up the great work!
8:02 "THE 1-BYTE GUY" :-)
Depends on what system. 8-bits became the standard for the byte sometime around the 70's, I'm not sure exactly when, but before that, everybody had their own definition for "byte," which could be anywhere from 6 to 12 bits long.
Oh man, the Cue Cat brings back alot of memories of my childhood. Good times!
Box is from Canada, uses Robertson Screws hahahahah!
Love all yours videos and even though I was around and feel nostalgia for most everything you show I continue to get surprised with things I haven't even heard of like the speech cartridge for to Coco and Commodore having made a PC compatible. Can't wait to see a Commodore part 6 featuring that beauty! 😁
I'm not sure you want your complete address on the video. Showing on the wooden box side....
Darn, now I feel old! I remember installing several computer rooms full of commodore pc-20's (I worked for a polytechnic, they where used to teach basic computing and typing)
Does Farming Simulator for C64 come with Denuvo?
Probably, as Denuvo really wants to port it to any machine that moves! :P
But in all seriousness, no Farming Simulator game comes with Denuvo.
Yeah I was thinking of Bus Simulator 18
@@Tatsh2DX Bus Simulators exist now? Good god.
SolarstrikeVG and apparently there's enough demand to warrant using Denuvo copy protection which I'm guessing is not cheap.
@@Tatsh2DX Jeez, Denuvo soon gonna show up on 4K Blu-Rays if it keeps going on...
Congrats on the Commodore PC! I also got one very recently, which as well suffered from battery leakage. Had actually to replace some small parts, but now it's working again. Didn't try Planet X3 yet, still waiting for the XT-IDE to get some mass storage option into it first.
How have you got through your whole life to this point not owning a Robertson bit..
pinfarmer I have a whole set. I’ve never had to use them...yet
lived 20 years in Canada, Robertson were everywhere.
20 years in the States, absolutely none to speak of.
@@_Thrackerzod Those door hinges have these weird Phillips/Robertson hybrid screws, don't they?
@@toooooooooooooooool Something else Canada is better at :P
Be an American I guess.
I don't know why, but I could watch your unboxing videos for days on end
Hi FD. Otherwise known as floptical.
@@_Thrackerzod ah yes. Sorry. Running on 25 year old memories.
Great stuff David, there is some really interesting things in this unboxing. That Rikki and Vikki game looked extremely impressive and WOW that PC-20. As always, looking forward to whatever you have coming next.
0:39 Why aren't you covering peoples private phone numbers?
I've noticed you've neglected to do so several times over the years.
So cool! Because my dad was a teacher he not only had a PC-10-III, but also a PC-20-III, PC-40-III (286! 6/8/12 MHz) and finally a C486 (486DX 33 MHz, with turbo). All from Commodore. The 486 wasn't very well built, and it refused to boot if you had screwed in a certain screw on the back, and the standalone soundcard worked intermittenly the last months. We still got the PC-10 in storage.
It's so bizarre seeing Americans react to Robertson screws.
We are a strange peoples
Well...we really just don't use them in the US. We tend not to like working with oddball screws and bolts. We mostly use flathead screws, Phillips, or socket screws. Allen wrench screws really get on my nerves too.
@@ct6502-c7w I don't wanna be rude or anything, but Phillips and slot screws are literally the worst things to use for everything but a very small amount of applications. Robertson screws are beautifully designed and fix near every problem you've ever had with slots and Phillips. It's the main drive type up here in Canada and I'm disappointed it isn't more widely adopted. If I see one more American woodworker on RUclips use Phillips wood screws I'm going to cry.
@@ct6502-c7w Not using Torx heads?
Aw man, I remember CueCat, by 1998 or so, Radio Shack was literally giving them away (and 20 years later, Goodwill stores across the country were trying to sell them for $5 or more).
It was a clever but stupid idea, scan the bar code, and you get sent to a website where you can look up what you just bought. The "Internet of Things" before it was a thing, ahead of its time, since we now have cell phones that can scan QR codes and bar codes to do the exact same thing.
SHIP TO THE 1-BYTE GUY
I Had a Cue Cat back in the day. Most of the bar codes i tried scanning would usually just bring you the product manufacturers website. (Assuming they even had one back then.). It was basically a web search with a cat shaped bar code scanner gimmick .
9:16 now everyone knows your address
I remember seeing a Commodore PC20 in Toys R Us back in the day.
9:15 who's address is that? xD
You can use HD diskettes as 2D by taping the extra hole at the corner of the diskette.
Love how ungrateful this guy is in his in boxing videos.
You know he could always just not make them? Why are you being ungrateful?
In a box somewhere, I have a Cue Cat still sealed in the envelope from when it was distributed at the CompUSA call center where I was working. I also have one or two CompUSA / Cue Cat shirts.
always kinda sounds ungrateful?
Hey David, The Nostalgia Nerd would be proud if he saw your book in the video right now!
I can't believe Robertson screws and screwdrivers still aren't common in the US even though they're superior. As usual, the US refuses to go for the better option. 🤦
Its not just the US , most of the world does not use them. But pick on the US , I know its the cool thing to do. Robertson screws are better but they are mostly a Canadian thing .
@Timothy R Even here we're kicking ourselves for not going for metric...
@@jimjones994 There's many things to pick on the US for.