Opening a Giant Pile of Retro Tech Oddities and Things!
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- First LGR donations unboxing for 2022, and perhaps the last one in this space before I move! Opening up tons of vintage hardware, software, oddware, computer games, and retro technology. Massive thanks to everyone who contributed - and also made offers to do so!
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USPS likes to thank LGR for keeping a whole post office employed with all the packages he receives.
😂
1.) He might have a spot reserved at the USPS.
2.) I’m waiting for someone to mail him a mainframe through the mail..
To be fair he said that’s 5 months so it’s not really that much
@@Thinker77 It'll happen someday.
@@Thinker77 A Mainframe that arrives upside down and with damage to the parcel.. :D
Time flies in a very strange way. Every time you're like "I haven't done one of these in 5 months!" I'm like "there's no way it's been that long, I was JUST watching one" - and I go back and check, and lo and behold, yep, it's been 5 months. WTF
Tell me about it 😞
I came here thinking the same thing
indeed
DONT REMIND ME. GOD, GETTING OLDER BLOOWWWSSSSS
the older we get, the passage of time starts to feel halved, then halved again and so on. scary stuff
LGR and King Gizz! The crossover I never knew I wanted!
Hello fellow gizzhead!! Omnium Gatherum is amazing!! Just listened to it an hour ago.
@@funcamp_ltd. It's fantastic!
had this vid playing in the background and my ears shot up when he said king gizzard, holy shit
Find someone that looks at you like LGR looks at a 70's woodgrain radio clock and you have truly found your soulmate!
Nearly an hour of procrastination! Thanks, LGR!!
Worth it tho
The PowerPC always reminds me of the time when I was interviewing for a tech job. I commented to the interviewer about the PowerPC sitting at his desk. His reply was, "No, it's a Mac."
Nice Cavalier
-ITS A CHEVY!!
PowerPC is the name of the processor. Motorola's mac clone was called the StarMax.
@@the_kombinator "nice cavalier" said by no one ever.
@@godslayer1415 LOL you're too young I guess for the Z24s with the 60 degree V6s. "Nice Cavalier" was heard by my ears many, many times two decades or so ago.
@@the_kombinator
I used to have a (bright blue) '91 Cavalier RS some years ago, and sure it had a few issues (including some MN car cancer) but the little 4 cylinder always got me from A to B. It even fired right up on a particularly cold ( -24° F) February late evening... And it pretty much always got around 25 MPG.
I really miss that little beast sometimes.
Omg thank you so much 💖 This video like a breath of fresh air. I am from Ukraine and currently with a group of people watching this in air strike shelter. Thank you for such calm and somber time⭐
@@kaitlyn__L Thank You 💕 If you want - you can 💖 Just knowing about your support means a lot. Really. So... Most sincere thank You 💕 Best wishes for You ☀️
18:55 now I know why Clint is the only boy who could ever reach me...
27:36 Back in 2012 when I was still in uni a housemate of mine complained that one of their compsci lecturers who was about to retire refused to update his course and it essentially required you to have a computer with a parallel/serial port to do his coursework. Even then, the first gen Core i chips were a fair few years old.
Dude that GE flip clock is a thing of beauty. As Indy would say “it belongs in a museum” but your shelf is just as good.
That’s my clock! Thank you for the kind words, I hope Clint enjoys it for many years to come!
Jippii. Another great moment.
Here we gooo!!! 👍
Subtitles said "Chuckling in miniature"?
In? 😂🤣
What a weird thing to say... or write. 😄
Thames Water is the water company that runs the water utility for London, I didn't know they had hired James Pond to do their "wet work" but that may explain why they charge me over £1000pa for something that constantly falls out of the sky in huge quantities for free in England.
As a fellow UK viewer I totally have the same question
Love these mail videos. Thanks for uploading them!
Thanks for watching them!
After binging all the unboxing episodes, seeing one posted just two days ago is actually great timing! I love yer videos man, keep up the great content! I have yet to find a proper source of income so I have to get my retro computing fix from your videos, and they essentially keep me from wasting what little money I have buying old retro tech just to experience the childhood I never had. I definitely wish I was born in the 90s(or even the 80s) rather than 2001, just so I could have experienced the golden age of tech! Regardless, thank you for bringing us the experience some of us might never experience otherwise!
We still had BBC Micros in our school until around 1998. There were still a few kicking around after they were replaced with Macintoshes.
In my last year of primary school ('94-'95) there was an Acorn Archimedes in my class. Probably still had some of the BBC Acorns too. Those old things stuck around a long time.
Yeah same here . We had Archimedes until I left in 95. Still remember playing paperboy on the BBC . Had one room of windows pc running 3.1 and some other green screen machines. I don't know if macs ever really made it into UK schools in the 90s
I finished primary school in England in '96 and it was all Acorns - A3020s and 3000s, and some BBC Micros in the younger classes. The secondary school I went to had just got a load of Windows 95 PCs from RM, while one computer room was still all Acorn Archimedes with a Nexus network. Some BBC Micros were still floating around throughout the late '90s
Dude that GE clock is just so nice! Love it! The glow it has is just perfection
That was my clock! Glad you liked it, made my week!
RE: 30:55 ... we had acorn computers in 96 for a year or so before we got windows PCs. Funny, we used to play James Pond on them ... but not this Thames Water version! Swindon is very close to my home town.
Me at 38:38 : Wait, what....? Is it really...? WHOOOOOOAAAAAAA!!!! YES, YES, YES, YES!!!! I had that keystick in the 90's, got it as a christmas present. I'm looking for ages to find one again... great to see one still around.
Ooooh 50 minutes of LGR unboxing, now that's a treat!! 😻
Very impressed by the worn down arcade carpet at about 17:50. I could smell that stuff through my PC. It's incredible. Always love seeing LGR unboxing!
What a good way to unwind after work on a friday. Also I know I've seen it said before but I really appreciate the work that goes into your subtitles, "laughs in miniature" got a good chuckle
CHEERS CLINT!!!! Thank you for sharing in all the great "near-retro" stuff that you not only find, but that people share with you. You've brought back A LOT of memories to not just me, but I'm sure LOADS of your audience too!!!
Wishing you the BEST OF LUCKL on the upcoming changes and I hope things go smoothly for you!!! See you soon!!! :D
This channel was one of my very first subscriptions on RUclips. Not only an inspiration, but you have saved me a fortune because I get to enjoy so much stuff vicariously. So I look forward to seeing what changes are coming. And yes, that clock is lovely - I have a similar Sony one and it's a delight.
King Gizz is such a great Aussie band 🙌🏼🙌🏼
They rock! Best ozzy metal band...🤘
@@NathanChisholm041 they’re amazing live too!
Just to say, BBC Micros and Acorn machines were used in the UK well into 1996/97 from what I can remember. After that I moved onto a school that was using mostly windows stuff and then one that had the old coloured iMacs (at least for a while)
Can confirm. My school had Acorns as late as 96/97. I distinctly remember playing Arcventure on the Acorn in summer 1996
Re: your comment at 31:00: in England, we had Acorn computers in schools right up to the very late 90s. My school had a lot of Acorn 3000 series machines. Played a lot of SimCity and Mavis Beacon on those.
The Libretto 100CT has a NiMH CMOS battery from what I recall, so removing and replacing that should be a priority as it will probably have started to leak at this point, unless you know it has already been done. Looks like that one has escaped the common fault of having lines down the left of the screen, which is very common on the 7.1" TFTs that Toshiba used in the 100CT/110CT and ff1100. Also worth noting that the 100CT actually has a very early widescreen display of 800x480 - one of the most obvious differences from the previous models, which had a 6.1" 640x480 display.
The older Librettos (70CT and earlier) won't even display anything on the screen unless they've got a good HDD, but Toshiba had fixed that for the later ones like that 100CT.
I've actually just completed my Libretto collection, with at least one from every generation - although I don't yet have a working 20CT, as that model has a bad habit of blowing fuses (I'm not 100% sure if it's just because it was trying to charge on a stronger amperage charger than the original, or if it would do the same even with the battery removed - and I can't use the original 1A chargers as they are 100V only).
Stepdown stuff might be useful/more powerful fuses to prevent them poppin on using stronger amperage chargers
Generally speaking, the amperage on chargers and other power supplies only matters if there's some kind of communication protocol to allow them to tell the thing you plug into them how much is safe to draw. Otherwise, the amperage rating is just saying "the thing you plug into me had better not draw more than this or I might blow a fuse/catch fire/etc." (Ohm's law says that the amps are determined by the output voltage of the supply and the resistance of the load you plug into it. In water metaphor, the rate of flow is controlled by the pressure from the supply and the diameter of the tube.)
Ah yes that finally explains you and your brother's names, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Clint 😃
I want to thank you for the closed captions. I sincerely appreciate the effort put into them on the majority of your videos. It means a lot
My pleasure!
Fun fact about the school computer comment, my elementary school had a lab of Apple IIe machines, usually referred to as "the younger kids computer lab" until around 2003 when the building was tipped over and rebuilt. For a long time I figured the Apple IIe was just a contemporary computer for 2001 when I was using it, I had no clue how old they were by then
I was in a rush and cleaning stuff out and didn't blow out that old mac clone. I feel exposed 😅, sorry about that Clint!
Love those old flip clocks. My dad got one when he was in high school (sometime in the early 70's) that lasted till 1992 when it stopped working. Was reminded of it about this time last year when Technology Connections did a video about them.
Think it was titled "Why These Aren't Digital" or The Digital Clocks Aren't Digital". I would link it if RUclips didn't delete shared URL's.
That Libretto 100CT is a lil MMX powerhouse! I have two and love them like my children! (don't tell my ACTUAL child that, although she wouldn't be shocked) :)
The James Pond - Thames Water - Archimedes - Mashup was all kinds of levels of nostalgia for me.
*chuckles in dust bunnies*
I love watching with closed captioning.
I unknowingly used an Apple II in a school as late as 2007, in a second or third grade classroom. The teacher made it clear to put the game in before powering on, and one of the few games there was a Number Munchers one. There were some older PowerPC macs as well, if I recall correctly...
I live in Essex England and Thames water is the company I have to pay for my water. We had Acorn Computers in my school up until I left in 1999 but they were Risc PC's at that point. When I started at that school we had Archimedes A5000 I think.
I love Asuka 120%! Jealous you got a physical copy.
Me too!
Um… By the way… the bad news is the not-famous Japanese dark fantasy web game Eden's Ritter Glenze collabs with Asuka 120%. The reason why I called it bad news is because Eden’s Ritter Glenze has an alternate R-18/NSFW version besides the non-NSFW version, and the developers of Eden’s Ritter Glenze confirm that three Asuka 120% heroines they collab with will have their own NSFW scenes in Eden’s Ritter Glenze. It appears that Eden developers borrowed Asuka 120%'s IP/copyright temporarily from present Asuka 120% developers/copyright owners…
But the good news are:
1. There’s gonna be a remake for the first Asuka 120% games, and
2. There’s gonna be a new 3D based sequel for Asuka 120%, most likely it’s SFW hopefully, as they will have online multiplayer mode. 🙏
I grew up in South East London and my school still had acorn archemedies computers in 96 when I left, they still had some BBC micro computers too, and at least one old macintosh in the art department.
Thames Water is one of the companies in the UK set up after the UK utilities were privatised and responsible for the supply and treatment of water and sewerage for the London and South East areas. It was common for some such companies to produce special software for showcasing what they did in schools as well as when they'd have school trips to a site, they're probably quite uncommon as they wouldn't have had a very big run or distribution.
El Huervo's stuff is fantastic, I totally dig the "Do Not Lay Waste to Homes" EP.
Take good care of that keystick. Scored many goals with it in the past.
And speaking of IBM speakers, just released a video on some IBM Aptiva computer monitors. Ahh, go figure.
Certainly will, thank you again for sending it over!
Massive congratulations and good luck with the move! I remember you saying your house was tiny and you only had one small room for your vintage and retro computer exploits, so having more space and even a set is going to be awesome!
44:02 Looks like the power supply is set to 230V, in case you missed it ....
As soon as I saw that, I went to check the comments and leave one if nobody else mentioned it
Oh wow, that CD-ROM drive! I had a 1X one of those as my first CD-ROM drive. Thing was finicky as Hell and wouldn't read even some commercial CDs. But I agree, using it was SO satisfying! :)
They still had Archimedes at my school in the mid/late 90's, although PC's were mainly used.
That clock radio is amazing. It looks like it could have just as easily been part of a 70s or 80s car dashboard!
Not sure what 80s car that could be. I remember the wave of LEDs and LCDs and VFDs (especially vfd clocks) that sprouted by the 80s. Never mind the digital dashboards. The 1984 Corvette seemed so cool and futuristic … at the time. Then reality set in.
Re: Sidewinder - there was a bin in Redwest D (or E?) where prototype recycling went. Probably in a few of the labs. They were often scavenged.
I been waiting for this for 5 months. U have NO IDEA how lucky u are
18:33 "Good for you." - has been a while since I audibly guffawed during a YT video :D
I remember getting my first Mac in 2008, and realizing they don't have the spiral-bound manuals anymore. I was a sad panda. The Mac was great thankfully!
I desperately wanted a Toshiba Libretto in 2007-2008, but had to settle for something like the Fujitsu Lifebook. People had never seen a computer that small, and it was an instant conversation starter. Life before Netbooks!
Almost forgot to turn on the snarky subtitles..."chuckles in dust bunnies"
OOOOh that Gradius vinyl !!!! I would so love that !!
28:01 That board would make one heck of a "Swiss-Army PC". Seems it would cover so many generations of add-on cards! What a score!
Among industrial/embedded boards, this isn't actually all too special or odd. Not that it isn't cool, but they're not exactly super rare. In industrial environments you often have bits of hardware that operate for 20+ years, and those will of course use the latest connectors of their time. Exchanging such machines would often be SUPER expensive and might require big changes in the plant in general, so having access to these standards is a very valuable thing.
Especially serial connections are still very common, and not all of them play nicely with USB converters. Also ISA slots. Some pieces of equippment came with their own proprietary control cards, for which it may be impossible to find more modern replacements, even if the company that made them still exists. Which is a big if in itself.
I've seen 486 PCs still running and controling important things as late as about 5 years ago. (Not that I think that this is a good practice, but companies will be companieyng I guess.)
And they're expensive AF. The board alone USED goes for over $600 cdn on Ebay.
That clock is awesome! I had one almost identical to it for a number of years, but it just had a tiny light bulb to light up the time, not a black light with luminescent numbers... VERY cool! Hope to hear the nasty sound of that alarm in a future video (if it's as awful as mine was).
Had one also, as a kid. White plastic case, Philips I think. Stood right next to my bed. Made a snoring noise, all day, all night. I always tried to stay awake and see the flop to the next full hour or echo numbers: 22:22, 23:23; 0:00
APS, the manufacturer of the external hard drive assembly for the Mac clone you got, actually made Mac clones themselves. The machines were called M Power, but they are exceedingly rare, as shortly after the late 1996 announcement they had been chosen to make the clones, they were bought out by the Canadian provider of all stuff Mac, LaCie.
the aptiva speakers and keyboard ! i had the same in the late 90's
I'm in Australia, my school had 2 Acorn computers in each classroom, and they were in use until replaced by Apple iMac G3's around 1999/2000.
That clone made my allergies flair up from just looking at the internals! 😂😂🤙🤙
Hello Clint! I enjoyed your excitement at unboxing all the awesome stuff people sent you.
I admire your big box PC collection. You have good taste in computer games. 🙂
You NEED to immediately start a new video on "The Ultimate In Christian Software"... that's hilarious 😂
I'm not even intrigued by vintage technology, or so I thought. Yet here I am, 36 videos of yours watched in a week, more in the queue. Never, EVER change.
Absolutely love these Retro Tech Mail unboxings. Amazing and very nostalgic.
In reference to the James Pond edutainment title, I'm from the UK and we had Acorn Archemedes in High School for the first few years, so that would have been 95 to about 97, I even remember them having a RISC PC sat in a corner and the grumpy IT guy being very excited about them. We then moved to Windows 98 machines built in bulk by some local company; we even had a TFT flat panel in the library, it was... awful.
Schools in some poorer areas of the UK were still using Apple IIs,BBC Micros and Archimedes computers right up untl the late 90s. My own secondary/high school still had several Archimedes computers available specifically for design and technology work as late as 1997/98.
Clint, glad to see the GE get there in mostly okay condition, I’m so glad you like it. Seeing you open it made my week.
I sent you an email with some photos on where to reattach that knob. Can’t wait to see it in the background of some future videos. :)
Thanks, I got it! Much appreciated on the clock once again, it's such an awesome piece 👍
I am so jealous of that clock man, great vid!
Oh wow, I loved the SideWinder Dual Strike. I went through two of them LOL
I love Mount Mitchell. I used to live right off Pisgah highway, then west Asheville, then Hendersonville Rd, then Alexander and now live in Seattle and there really isn’t anywhere as beautiful as Asheville and that area.
That is the beefiest CD-ROM drive mechanism, holy cow! 25:27
15:18 those are such iconic covers now. Man, it feels like a life time away.
Dude! King Gizzard is going to be band right up your alley.
I appreciate you showing off the music!
To help give you some idea of what the James Pond stuff is... Thames Water is a water supplier in for the Thames Valley, London, Glocestershire, Surrey etc in Southern England. They're the largest water supplier in the UK. I used to live near their headquarters in Reading, Berkshire and new numerous people who worked for them.
I'm a Pastor and have been watching you for years! Love the channel. Gotta get my hands on a copy of Church Office! 😂
As a Gizzhead I totally wasn't expecting that record.
I recognize the song played (Evil Death Roll demo) as it's off of my favourite album from King Gizz (Nonagon Infinity). One of the better bands of this generation IMO along with The Viagra Boys.
I still used an A3020 in school till around 97 then they started slowly phasing them out for PC's, in the UK anyway, it had a ECONET, we also had a few RISC PC's and some other various models, I think the "server" was an A5000, but this was all a while ago now!
That sounds familiar. I know our school upgraded their suite from Acorn 3000 series machines to RM Computers running Windows 95 in ~1999/2000.
@@jackrmcconnell I can't remember the make of our PC's, they were too running 95 and Office 95/97 I expect they were the same or very similar being education etc, we had some very early "WANG" branded PC's in the maths suite but they were only ever used by 1 teacher as far as I recall they were there when I started secondary in 95 I think they were DOS or 3.1, the later ones were just grey boxes I remember one had dial up internet and they put a lock on the phone line to disable it.
Dude yes! That Church Office Pro is hillarious. A testament to a time where the same software where marketed, packaged and sold separately to different target costumers.
ok, the Libretto is sweet, but what really makes my fall in love with is the silver Pentium MMX label
My high school still had some Archimedes by the time I left in 1998. I don't recall which classes used them, as there were quite a variety of machines in different departments. The Art dept had a single solitary Amiga 2000 that sat in a cupboard unloved and unused. The computing classes were instead all kitted out with early 90s Macs of various kinds - if you were lucky you got one of the faster 030 models. There were also still a lot of BBC Micros in use, particularly in the CDT dept where they were still being used for CNC machines and stuff like that. I remember using Econet with a shared printer and disk drive, if anyone remembers that.
I finished high school too in the mid 90s. I remember playing “where in the world is Carmen Sandiego in the late 80s/90s in school.
I left primary school in '96 and Archimedes were still king. Remember the first CD unit arriving in '94, the 'internet computer' in the library in '95/96 and a Acorn Risc PC with some sort of sound capture interface/microphone. Not a trace of an Archimedes when I went into secondary school, just the remains of Econet boxes and the cables having a hundred layers of paint on them that you could peel off in the back of the class.
Also forgot that every Archimedes in our school (one/two per classroom) was paired with either a mono or colour HP Deskjet 500 series, if you wanted a colour print you put the file on the disk and had to go to another classroom and ask nicely...
I had an Archimedes 3010 as my first proper computer. we had a few in my highschool, all the computer classes were done on 386s though. I quite liked it, but it was a bitch to get games for.
somehow managed to never see a BBC or anything acorn at school (uk - late 80s onwards)! only 480Z and then RM nimbuses. Seems they were everywhere else!
So weird, I was just binging some of these and now theres a new one! They're so laid back and relaxing to watch
I love mail time with LGR. Gives me the same happy feels as the Blues Clues mail segment once did. Nostalgia man
new-in-sealed-box IBM hardware of any kind is always cool to see.
the tiny arcades aren't known for any accuracy. however the tv looks a little like the Simpsons tv.
That’s quite a large package ya got there Clint!
I don't really know why, but I read this comment in Duke Nukem's voice
Spectacular unboxing Ep brother Clint! That portable Atari was 🔥🔥🔥 Looking forward to the next one bro'! More power to the channel and God bless from the 🇵🇭!
@2:06 mark you say that the inputs are inverted. At some point navigation from cell phones started bleeding onto other devices and it can get quite frustrating if you have a mix of old and new hardware and frequently switch between the two. Cell phone navigation is "data-oriented" rather than "control-oriented". When you gesture scroll upwards on a phone you'll move the screen content up and the scrollbar down. The person that designed the game menu is applying the same logic. When you press down you are moving the list not the chevrons.
On my old Lenovo X220 if I gesture swipe upwards (two fingers) on the touchpad within Chrome it will move the scroll bar upwards moving the screen content down.
On my newer Lenovo P1 gen 3 the same gesture in Chrome will move the page contents upward and the scrollbar down.
That now makes it make so much sense! Thank you! 💯
@@kaitlyn__L It actually never really bothers me too much to do anything about it. I only ever notice it whenever I'm moving frequently between two machines that have the opposite default behavior. I typically just figure out which way is up and move on from there.
I wasn’t expecting to hear evil death roll when I put this video on but I ain’t complaining
god I love king gizzard. so fun to play on bass
Every LGR upload makes me want to invest in rebuying my childhood.
Seeing a video from you made my morning!
I used to have that exact clock-radio beside my bed when I was a kid. Those flip-clocks with the neon numbers are still the raddest thing ever.
That is a lot of retro stuff! Nice vid btw
that church office pro is actually really cool a definite tool for a preacher.
Love your unboxing and always keep an eye out for at least small stuff you might like.
Good luck on your move! I recently got my own place a while back and still trying to figure out what goes where. :D
The opening, it's like looking at a still from the Computer Reset video! So much STUFF.
*Looks at files on floppy album*
“Impressive Compression”
what a great name for a band.
Archimedes was in schools until the very late 90s, probably even early 2000s in some places. In our school, they had the Acorn Risc PCS with x86 podules to provide a transition to IBM compatibles.
Awesome gets, and as someone who's been watching since your first video, I'm really excited about the new set. 👍🏻
"I appreciate the dedication to making it look like crap" 😂
That silvery packaging is anti-static so it's worth keeping around.