Dennis Ritchie was the inventor of the C programming language and co-wrote a book on it (with Brian Kernighan). So many programmers all over the world learned C from that book.
I have a pirated copy of K&R C in a box somewhere. Apparently it was cheaper for someone to photocopy and ring bind someone else's copy of K&R than buy their own copy. Can't remember where I found it.
I was like, "Wait, Ritchie himself???" */me goes back to writing firmware in oldschool c* .. I'm not completely sure LGR understands the provenance of this artifact.
The ILM/Lucasfilm badges at the start of the video are given out to ILM crew after projects have wrapped. It is a long standing tradition at the company to this day. Awesome video as always, Clint!
@razerow3391 he's more than a youtuber, but he's more of a gamer than a programmer. He'd be more thrilled getting a big time dev business card like Roberta Williams or other big time devs.
I used to work at a Circuit City (almost right up until the end) as a PC Tech and our store still used DPS - the circa 1980's Point of Sale system (bet you can't guess what we said that acronym stood for) - That software has a "DPS Access Menu" option in there, so this laptop likely had some form of connectivity to the DPS network at whatever store this came out of. Probably used to check out reports by store management/district management. I remember hating working on that POS system frequently. It was a nightmare on Black Friday - If someone tried to check their sales numbers that day, it would crash the entire store for a good 20-30 minutes while the main system booted back up. Pretty sure that's how I learned what a credit card imprinter was - yeah, we had those too...
Most of the stuff like that in my area gets taken by the people who work in the thrift shops and resold on Ebay for astronomical prices. We have a store not too far away that occasionally gets some cool old stuff...I got my Commodore 64, and VIC-20 from that place, both of them work, just don't have power supplies for them....they had several at one point, most were missing keys and stuff like that, the 2 I grabbed needed cleaned up a bit, but overall in good condition. I think I paid $5 each for them.
Thrift stores here do not, have never, and never will sell old PC's. It's considered "privacy and security risks" and "cant be guaranteed". Last time I seen old PC's at the thrift store was 2012 and they had a big freight pallet everyone dumped their old computer tech into. I seen several gaming PC's, beige econoboxes from the 90s, old DOS stuff, all left out in the rain and elements to get ruined before being shipped off to some third world african landfill for a 8 year old to melt down for a fraction of a gram of precious metals. There's a used PC store local to me that sells old PC's they get on their eBay store and that's the closest I get to owning old PC's. They charge high prices though, but when trying to get your childhood PC back, it was an acceptable cost.
I love these unboxing videos! Hearing about all the people that send things in, the little stories that go with each item's background is super fun. You always show respect and appreciation. :)
32:43 - Hey LGR.. That was a DVD that we handed at at E3 2001 which had the 2001 E3 trailers for Duke Nukem Forever & Max Payne on them. There was a metric ton of them produced. The content is easily viewable on youtube, so it's only reason for existence now is to say you have one. :) 36:56 - Those prints were things that were in the Balls of Steel Edition as I recall. Although they look physically bigger than what I remember that was packed in those sets. 37:16 - that was a DNF mousepad that Gearbox put out right around the time DNF came out.. I got one for free as I was working at Gearbox at the time, but I bought a second one because I thought they would go all bottom up before too long. But it's one of the most durable mouse pads I've EVER seen. It's amazingly high quality, and the one I bought myself is still sealed.
Joe, always good to see you here! I appreciate the added info and context :) And indeed, those prints are postcard-sized in my BoS Edition. Same art just larger.
My heart skipped a beat when I saw that Micron catalog. I exclusively collect Micron stuff and just this week acquired a Netframe 3100 server that makes a brief appearance @12:21. Very cool thing you have there. Catalogs rarely show up online, so to see one is extra special.
Did Micron actually make any of that stuff ? Set up as a memory manufacturer they now have 23% of the whole market. I was a bit disappointed when Clint didn't look who made the IBM Memory Module. I doubt if it was IBM.
@@MrDuncl I believe the only thing they actually made was the memory. From all that I have, and can tell, it appears they were mostly an assembler of high quality, well-matched parts.
Someone who used to be in my life pointed me toward your channel and it’s one of a few things I cherish from that relationship. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to watch your channel together before the relationship ended, but I am grateful that he pointed me here. I enjoy unboxing videos. They’re comforting so watching an unboxing video from your channel (an already entertaining and comforting channel) is special and extra enjoyable. That’s a nice little book on the evolution of keyboards. That’s definitely something I would be interested in checking out. I watch things like that on the History Channel all the time haha
I love the whine of that iMac's hard drive. Back in the day the noise was annoying, but it's been so long since most computer storage devices made any sound at all that it's now very nostalgic.
Me, my Mom, and Sister all worked for Circuit City in the 90s. That AS/400 backend was awesome for it's era. Not much in retail today is as good. Even with the passwords, the programs on the Toshiba is probably only the frontend to the AS/400.
@@bsvenss2 I think he meant unboxing videos made by 8-Bit Guy - that's why he speaks of videos, not just one video, and the sentence makes more sense anyway when read as unboxing videos of two sepalate TH-camrs/channels :) Now maybe I should check Tech Tangents, as thats the only one of these I don't already know and follow. ... Correction, seems that I have subscribed to that channel at one point or another :D
This is like nerd Xmas you have once or twice a year. It's awesome! I love watching these and sometimes I put these videos on to sleep to. Thanks for that !
That iMac sitting on top of a PS/2 is surreal. Also, with regard to the LC 575, I have a story. My mom was an elementary school teacher. My mom's school district issued LC 575s to teachers to use in their classrooms. They allowed them to take them home during the summer months. This was A) so the teachers could practice using them and B) so they wouldn't get stolen from empty classrooms. So, that meant I got to use it during the summer. I was 14 years old during the summer of 1994, and I used the CRAP out of that thing for the next few summers, mostly for drawing since we never hooked it up to the internet. We never had a useful computer in our house before (the CoCo 2 doesn't count because it felt useless and obsolete from the day my dad bought it because it was), so I was thrilled to get a chance to play with one at home instead of in a school computer lab. The irony was I really could have used a computer during the school year, but that's when it was in my mom's classroom.
@destrozar Heh, someone _just_ commented how irritated they were that I said the emulated Disk II drive buzzer didn't sound exactly like a real floppy drive. Apparently since I'm so lucky to receive anything at all, I shouldn't share my views on items I receive for free... I'm sure _that_ policy would never backfire on a reviews channel!
@@LGR 🤣I had to rewind to catch the drama. That was the most non-negative comment I've heard about any product. I don't know how the hell they got that from your less than 2 second comments.
That was really cool to see that piece of Circuit City history. I worked for Circuit City in the mid 2000's. I remember all the Point Of Sale computers in the store ran a proprietary store management software they called DPS that was just black and white text you would just tab through the different fields and menus but it ran the entire store. It was old software (from the 80-90s it looked like) but I guess it was one of those "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kinda things. Sometime in the 2000's they added a "GUI" system that worked in conjunction with DPS called Magellan to do most common tasks like sales and returns but DPS still ran the whole store.
It's always a good day to see another offering from Matt Hrushka. I had the pleasure of working with him over a decade ago. Good dude, great submissions!
Just remember you can never make everybody happy. Somebody will always complain about something. But I am definitely happy watching this video so there's that.
I've never seen a big box release for Palm OS software, it was usually in DVD cases. Or loose CDs (like attached to Magazines, I have a couple of those) Later on the DVD case sometimes held both a disc and an SD card with the software built in. This was after the m500s came out. What a time. Visor Neo, nice nice. So early on Palm was a part of US Robotics, then 3Com and then it was it's own entity. They had their first party devices (like the III or the V or m500) but Palm also licensed out the OS. So there were many other Palm "clones" (but they were licensed) Like the Kyocera 6035, TRG Pro, Handera 330 and the Sony Clie line. Handspring was another licensee and they actually had the original founders there, they left when Palm was still under 3Com. I personally always loved the Handspring models, the Springboard slot was great. I still have a bunch of modules for them.
Absolutely, I like to watch these before I go to sleep and I often fall asleep with his soothing voice after half an hour or so, really helps me pick back up where I left off
I wonder what people think when they criticize you for little things, you seem so genuine and seem to care so much about the things fans send you and the thought people put into it. I always find these heartening and lovely.
I don't think they realise just how many people contact Clint and how he is only one guy with limited time. With 1.6 m subscribers he would get a lot of unsolicited sponsor offers and randoms wanting things. Then he has to work in the projects he wants to do, plus organise his own life. If he doesn't want to get burned out and quit altogether he needs to operate at his own pace. Having said that, I would probably feel a bit let down if I sent him something and it took him 8 months to open it 😅 If he hasn't a helper already, he probably needs someone to handle some of his stuff.
It's weird and impossible for me to understand, but also nothing new - especially on the internet. Some people are just dicks, and unable to stop and think how much they are demanding. It's especially true on the internet, but well known for being a thing in real life already before internet was even a thing - public figures always get it. Whats most infuriating about it for me is the entitlement these people think they have. Especially when they are just consuming content they havent even paid a dime for. What they don't realise is that when someone is giving them free content, not even pushing it for them but just putting it out there and it's completely up to them whether they decide to watch/listen/consume it, they don't get to make demands and the author doesn't owe them anything. *Doesn't owe them anything.* What is there that's so frigging hard to understand, I don't get. Sure, I have mocked certain TH-camrs sometimes, like flat earthers. But the difference is that I still don't act like they should thank god(s) that I exist. You can, and sometimes even should, make fun or even tell some public figures outright to fsck off, and take their trout with them - but it should be because things like spreading hatred, misinformation, etc. - not about them not releasing content fast enough, you personally not liking their style and stuff like that. It's a whole different ordeal, it shouldn't be based on feelings of personal entitlement and belief that the author owes you - that's what always infuriates me.
The Toshiba laptop: the battery is under the wrist rest, use your thumbs to push the two tabs on the front edge upwards, the wrist rest should slide towards you a little and then hinge upwards. There's a ribbon for the two buttons with a shield/re-enforcement flexible plastic piece, take care to make sure it's going back in to the hole leading under the keyboard when the wrist rest closes back down. Otherwise you risk bending it out of shape like I did, d'oh.
These videos are terrific! Like a combination of yard sale, Christmas, package arrived in the mail except I don't have to explain to MY wife where I would be putting this stuff.
I use my old Asus Eee as a mp3 and podcast player near my bed, running PuppyLinux. Around 2009, that little netbook could run World of Warcraft. I like the form factor of the netbooks.
The people that say these are pointless are idiots. These are some of my most favourite videos on your channel. I jump on these ones when I get the notification! Same for others channels. I love watching the fan mail vids. Always throws some surprises. Keep doing you. You didn’t get this many subs by being a rubbish creator, you got them because we love your content. Keep rolling Clint!
Honestly you could be a great old-tech museum curator :O just rows of neatly lined old hardware and software in a museum educating visitors on the history of technology and the business/manufacturing of early computers
This is cool, you got some odd ware! Also, whoever made that retrofitted Apple II disk drive, should also make a reproduction disk drive for Apple II, since it’s hard to even find a working 5.25 disk drive for Apple II since they’re over 40 years old and even Steve Wozniak was also searching for an old floppy drive for his old programs!
These are some of my favourite videos - it’s a fun dive into all kinds of tech curios and oddities and mini stories. A great variety show putting a whole bunch together.
i love these types of videos as we get to see your genuine reaction ... also its great seeing some really good old school tech and old school tech remade using modern componants
Clint: I want to let you know that, this kind of videos, gives me cozy vibes, idk, like hearing the video at background while working, it's fantastic. Thank you and greetings from Colombia, South America
Love these donation unboxing vids! Almost had a tear in my eye at the SB AWE64 value, I used one from the late 90s to about 2004 for all my Impulse Tracker needs!! Those were the days…
That’s cool that you jumped through the few extra hoops to open the hypercard project. I was curious to see it run and am sure the sender appreciated it too.
The (assuming) excited noise when you read about the PS1 240p 480i adapter made me laugh so hard. I love these videos. Like going to someones birthday party. Can't help but to be excited for the other person.
I love watching these videos as they are. The effort you put into these, the editing, filming, all of that takes time, and I for one certainly enjoy and appreciate that in virtually every single video, I have learned and widened my scope of PC knowledge, in the best ways.
Those PATA/IDE 2.5" SSDs have been a godsend for maintaining all the ancient PCs the manufacturing plant I work at. The brand we typically order is "Transcend", but it wouldn't surprise me if they're all just rebadges of each other anyways. I've been converting stuff left and right and it just makes everything better and easier!
I had a green Handspring Visor in high school (in the US)! I loved that thing to bits, it was gorgeous. Sadly it was stolen when my family's car was broken into while we were out having dinner... seeing that box made me feel very nostalgic!
1998 Micron Additions catalog: Yeah, in the 1990s, Micron was a solid second tier PC clone maker, for those of us who couldn't afford IBM, Compaq, HP and AST. They competed directly with Dell and Gateway, but I never owned one because the word on the street (my street, anyway) was to avoid them because of poor tech support and relatively high prices. In retrospect, I don't remember the hardware standing out in any way, good or bad. Handspring Visor: Early 2000s Handspring handhelds were simply Palm clones. They ran the same software and worked the same way. If I remember correctly, they beat Palm to the table with USB sync as opposed to parallel port sync, but I may be remembering that wrong. When I bought my Palm, in 2002, there was little difference between Handspring and Palm. I could have saved some money by going with Handspring, but my employer at the time had a "toy budget" perk, and I had my heart set on a color screen (which Handspring didn't have yet), so I went with the Palm m505. A couple years later, Handspring differentiated itself from Palm by introducing and specializing in handheld/cellphone convergence devices, which I guess you can think of as precursors to smartphones, except that they weren't really all that smart. It was convenient to be able to make phone calls directly from a contact record, but I don't remember the convergence going much beyond that.They may have had e-mail integration, but Blackberry did that better, and by the time Handspring (or Palm, for that matter) got anything more than that figured out, Apple came out with the iPhone, which devoured all their lunches, as well as breakfast, dinner and midnight snacks. BTW, I still have my Palm m505, but at this point, it would need a new battery, and would have no way to exchange data with anything if it had a working battery, so it's pretty much a paperweight now.
I still have my Toshiba Satellite 2545xcdt from 1999 or so. I really liked it and used it well past it's intended lifespan. If I remember right, it has an AMD K62 333 in it. I loved that little laptop so much that, not only do I still have it 24 years year later, but I have run an AMD processor in every computer I've owned or built for myself since.
I had the OG Duke Nukem mousepad. (Shown at 24:35) That was my computer's pad for YEARS back in the day. I think I have it somewhere in storage. That brought me back.
I worked at a Circuit City until about six months before they all went away. They used some variation of that terminal-based point-of-sale/timecard software all the way until the end.
48:00 Check out the history of the ANITA (A New Inspiration to Arithmetic) calculator range. In 1961 they produced the worlds first electronic calculator. In the 1980s I worked in an office where there was one sat on top of a cupboard but I didn't know the significance back then. I was surprised the one you got given was so late. by then pocket calculators from the likes of Commodore were reasonably cheap and common place.
Handspring PDAs came after Palm Pilots. If I recall, the designers or someone involved with Palm Pilot started Handspring as an alternative. I love all this vintage tech too. I worked at Best Buy in 1999 and 2000 so all of this just floods back memories of explaining why ink costs more than the printer.
I used to squat in the church on the cover to the Abanoned book. It's so nice to see it! I really miss that place a lot. Shout out to Pastor Tony who squatted the nearby post office. Miss you, buddy!
Thanks for the great video as always Clint. The unboxing videos are super cool because of the random weird stuff people send. It's like an hour long oddware episode. So I'm not complaining at all lol
Handspring was created by the founder of Palm Inc. So yeah it is a Palm Pilot. Keep up the great work as always. Looking forward to the next LGR thrifts. I just recently went and re watched every single episode.
46:20 You underplay the incredible historical importance of Dennis Ritchie! He's arguably the most under-recognized giant in the history of computing. Not only did he co-create UNIX with Ken Thompson, he invented the C programming language! Our modern technological landscape would be unthinkable without Ritchie.
I remember the Rockwell calculator radio advertisement jingle. It went something like: "I really love my Rockwell, It really is so neat, Its got big green numbers, and little rubber feet."
The Victor adding machines in that book at 10:05... I had one of those, the one on the left. My grandmother used to work at the Victor assembly factory in Chicago. That thing was a _monster,_ it weighed like 35 pounds. lol. You could kill an elk with an adding machine.
I love the N52 type game pads. I got one from Comp USA when they first came out and fell in love with it right away. Razer still makes them, though they're called Tartarus at this point. I suck so bad at most games without it, lol.
I remember subscribing to a disk based 'zine in the 90's, full payment for the year up front, which folded after 2 issues. These days I think they'd pretty much have to offer a proportional refund by law, but back then all I got was a letter offering a (admittedly quite good) reduction on any other software the publisher was also selling. Being a kid I didn't have ANOTHER bunch of money to pony up despite the decent discount. Bah!
Thrifts and unboxing are my favorite of your videos. I don’t understand how anyone would question it. TIL what ludology is: the study of games. Lol you’re officially convent- approved! Congrats! I HAVE ROLLER COASTER TYCOON ON XBOX! I never played the PC version, but I liked it. That version of Winter Games must be REALLY old because the ski jumper has the skis parallel instead of spread out.
Yeah Clint. I really enjoy your unboxing episodes. Makes me want to send in some of my eclectic collections but you probably already have the items,,, lol. You're a great content creator. 👏 Just keep doing your thing ! Be you,,,,you're good at it ❤
I totally get the concept behind these videos, as I find them highly entertaining. I also like the LGR Thrifts, they pop up randomly on my TH-cam homepage :)
I worked at Circuit City briefly in 2004 (well after that 486 would have been used) and trained at an older store. All the POS and server systems ran DOS with a bespoke sales and inventory software. Then I moved to a brand new store that had new POS systems that ran XP with terminal emulators that interfaced with the DOS servers, so whatever is on that laptop was the same sales system they used until Circuit City went out of business.
thank you 🙏 your video’s are very cathartic to watch! love your energy dude ! keep following your passion it’s inspiring to see you carve out a life living a life doing what your passionate about! keep winning brother 💪🙏
32:59 Back in the day when I got a sealed box with a cd/dvd it came with a felt doughnut sandwiched between the top the disc and the case to prevent it from popping-out and moving. Unfortunately they stopped being shipped like that, over time, due to the disc mfg. costs being a lot less and it just wasn't worth the effort for them.
I don't have the time, money, or space for collecting these sorts of things. Realistically, I would only get a momentary "rush" doing it myself. Watching these unboxing videos gives me the exact same kind of rush and I don't have to spend money or worry about curating a giant collection and what not.
Great stuff. Just wondering if you have done a retrospective of the orchid soundwave 32. I have great memories of that card and my midi playback. Excelsior sir
these are always so much fun to watch. so much random computer stuff from all over the years! loved that apple II disk drive emulator would definitely be handy if I ever got a hold of one. that 40 year old Unix book though, holy hell it's even older than I am! some good stuff.
Wow, that unix manual is an amazing find! I'm just now finishing the "Unix, A History and a Memoir" by Brian Kernighan, a colleague of the late Dennis Ritchie. I grew up with their excellent book on the C programming language back in the early 90s.
i have weirdly vivid memories of looking at my dad's old duke nukem mousepad as a kid and cooking up cool stories in my head about the aliens on it(i was 5 and he would not let me watch him play the game) and seeing it reproduced so faithfully kind of blew my mind
That apple II monitor is just iconic. Just seeing it makes so many Cold War movies and media come flooding into my brain. Like not just the fact its monochrome and green but just everything about it even the glass of the tube it looks basically matte and brown. I feel like you have to have a lit cigarette in your mouth and also have an old rotary phone held between your cheek and shoulder whilst typing to fully do it justice.
Dennis Ritchie was the inventor of the C programming language and co-wrote a book on it (with Brian Kernighan). So many programmers all over the world learned C from that book.
Also invented unix right?
Still have my copy... :)
I have a pirated copy of K&R C in a box somewhere. Apparently it was cheaper for someone to photocopy and ring bind someone else's copy of K&R than buy their own copy. Can't remember where I found it.
I’ll have to ask my mom if she learned from that. She learned C on a TRS-80 (she calls it a trash-80) back in the 80s.
Didnt he dance on the ceiling as well?
A UNIX manual given by Dennis friggin' Ritchie himself?! That is a powerful artifact!
Yeah - that is important! I’m glad he mentions getting it into a museum at some point.
Yes! Totally understating the significance of the provenance there
I was like, "Wait, Ritchie himself???" */me goes back to writing firmware in oldschool c* .. I'm not completely sure LGR understands the provenance of this artifact.
This is what I was going to mention
this is the beginning of john titor's story
The ILM/Lucasfilm badges at the start of the video are given out to ILM crew after projects have wrapped. It is a long standing tradition at the company to this day. Awesome video as always, Clint!
Shame Lucas film doesn't make good movies anymore
@troublecluster I’m glad someone here knew that bit of lore!
Many ILM employees put them on ebay for a good sum. Especially Star Wars stuff, those cannot but procured anywhere else.
Wow... that UNIX manual really does belong in a tech museum somewhere!
I’m sure the Computer Museum in Mountain View has one.
Exactly what I was thinking! WHY WOULD YOU GIVE THAT AWAY!!!
As a software dev, I was shocked that you didn't freak out when you got the Dennis Ritchie business card.
I got legit goosebumps
Imagine getting a guide on using Linux from Linus Torvalds himself...
as a game dev it means nothing to me... Clint isn't a software dev he is a youtuber ffs 🤦🏼♂🤦🏼♂🤦🏼♂🤦🏼♂
He obviously knew who he is, but did not care.
@razerow3391 he's more than a youtuber, but he's more of a gamer than a programmer. He'd be more thrilled getting a big time dev business card like Roberta Williams or other big time devs.
holy crap Dennis Ritchie!?! That needs to be in a museum!
Indeed, the cocreator of Unix and the creator of the C language.
LGR's collection is pretty close
46:18 hold the phone. No way! That's freaking regalia, my dude. That book is priceless.
I used to work at a Circuit City (almost right up until the end) as a PC Tech and our store still used DPS - the circa 1980's Point of Sale system (bet you can't guess what we said that acronym stood for) - That software has a "DPS Access Menu" option in there, so this laptop likely had some form of connectivity to the DPS network at whatever store this came out of. Probably used to check out reports by store management/district management. I remember hating working on that POS system frequently. It was a nightmare on Black Friday - If someone tried to check their sales numbers that day, it would crash the entire store for a good 20-30 minutes while the main system booted back up. Pretty sure that's how I learned what a credit card imprinter was - yeah, we had those too...
Nice, thank you for the insight!
I had to learn how to use a card imprinter in 2009 for a retail job, gotta make sure the store gets their money lol
Mailtime videos are my favourite, Next to thrifts of course :) Dont ever stop making them!
Now that it's getting so challenging to find stuff in thrift shops these unboxing videos compensate for the shortfall nicely.
Most of the stuff like that in my area gets taken by the people who work in the thrift shops and resold on Ebay for astronomical prices.
We have a store not too far away that occasionally gets some cool old stuff...I got my Commodore 64, and VIC-20 from that place, both of them work, just don't have power supplies for them....they had several at one point, most were missing keys and stuff like that, the 2 I grabbed needed cleaned up a bit, but overall in good condition. I think I paid $5 each for them.
My local thrift stores all have clothes and old microwaves. The closest thing to technology they get are cameras.
Thrift stores here do not, have never, and never will sell old PC's. It's considered "privacy and security risks" and "cant be guaranteed". Last time I seen old PC's at the thrift store was 2012 and they had a big freight pallet everyone dumped their old computer tech into. I seen several gaming PC's, beige econoboxes from the 90s, old DOS stuff, all left out in the rain and elements to get ruined before being shipped off to some third world african landfill for a 8 year old to melt down for a fraction of a gram of precious metals.
There's a used PC store local to me that sells old PC's they get on their eBay store and that's the closest I get to owning old PC's. They charge high prices though, but when trying to get your childhood PC back, it was an acceptable cost.
@@ferretyluv And the cameras are from the 1800's.
@@wildbill23c you mean 1980's? 😂 1800s stuff would be AMAZING. I'll just assume you were being facetious...
I love the unboxings. This channel is awesome.
I love these unboxing videos! Hearing about all the people that send things in, the little stories that go with each item's background is super fun. You always show respect and appreciation. :)
Thanks, I’m glad you’re enjoying!
32:43 - Hey LGR.. That was a DVD that we handed at at E3 2001 which had the 2001 E3 trailers for Duke Nukem Forever & Max Payne on them. There was a metric ton of them produced. The content is easily viewable on youtube, so it's only reason for existence now is to say you have one. :)
36:56 - Those prints were things that were in the Balls of Steel Edition as I recall. Although they look physically bigger than what I remember that was packed in those sets.
37:16 - that was a DNF mousepad that Gearbox put out right around the time DNF came out.. I got one for free as I was working at Gearbox at the time, but I bought a second one because I thought they would go all bottom up before too long. But it's one of the most durable mouse pads I've EVER seen. It's amazingly high quality, and the one I bought myself is still sealed.
Joe, always good to see you here! I appreciate the added info and context :)
And indeed, those prints are postcard-sized in my BoS Edition. Same art just larger.
I love watching your videos. They're amazing. Your voice is really soothing for me, so it's a nice listen when I'm feeling really horrible.
Thank you, I’m glad to hear they help in any way at all :)
I agree. I like to see the strange things he reviews. But when it’s bed time I leave it on and he ushers me off to dreamland.
@@andrewr5504 I do that too!
@@LGR You have the perfect, what they call "radio voice" for narration-style videos.
we all agree, your videos are like comfort food 😂
An hour of LGR? OK!
Ahhhh, that was so satisfying, I need a smoke lol
Clint has such a calming voice when explaining things. I can sit here all day and chill 👌
Welcome🎉
An hour video? Heere we go
@@microbuilderit's 2023 switch to vaping my guy
My heart skipped a beat when I saw that Micron catalog. I exclusively collect Micron stuff and just this week acquired a Netframe 3100 server that makes a brief appearance @12:21. Very cool thing you have there. Catalogs rarely show up online, so to see one is extra special.
Did Micron actually make any of that stuff ? Set up as a memory manufacturer they now have 23% of the whole market. I was a bit disappointed when Clint didn't look who made the IBM Memory Module. I doubt if it was IBM.
@@MrDuncl I believe the only thing they actually made was the memory.
From all that I have, and can tell, it appears they were mostly an assembler of high quality, well-matched parts.
Someone who used to be in my life pointed me toward your channel and it’s one of a few things I cherish from that relationship. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to watch your channel together before the relationship ended, but I am grateful that he pointed me here. I enjoy unboxing videos. They’re comforting so watching an unboxing video from your channel (an already entertaining and comforting channel) is special and extra enjoyable. That’s a nice little book on the evolution of keyboards. That’s definitely something I would be interested in checking out. I watch things like that on the History Channel all the time haha
This channel has been a comfort watch for me for over 10 years. So relaxing and laid back. Thanks Clint!
I love the whine of that iMac's hard drive. Back in the day the noise was annoying, but it's been so long since most computer storage devices made any sound at all that it's now very nostalgic.
Agreed, it’s downright comforting.
VWest , loved that "last analog radio" stuff 🧐
Me, my Mom, and Sister all worked for Circuit City in the 90s. That AS/400 backend was awesome for it's era. Not much in retail today is as good. Even with the passwords, the programs on the Toshiba is probably only the frontend to the AS/400.
LGR and 8-Bit Guy’s donation unboxing videos led me to Tech Tangents and Adrian’s Digital Basement
What was the 8-Bit Guy's donation? A Dremel and 1000 paperclips? *roflmao*
@@bsvenss2 I think he meant unboxing videos made by 8-Bit Guy - that's why he speaks of videos, not just one video, and the sentence makes more sense anyway when read as unboxing videos of two sepalate TH-camrs/channels :)
Now maybe I should check Tech Tangents, as thats the only one of these I don't already know and follow.
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Correction, seems that I have subscribed to that channel at one point or another :D
This is like nerd Xmas you have once or twice a year. It's awesome! I love watching these and sometimes I put these videos on to sleep to. Thanks for that !
That iMac sitting on top of a PS/2 is surreal.
Also, with regard to the LC 575, I have a story. My mom was an elementary school teacher. My mom's school district issued LC 575s to teachers to use in their classrooms. They allowed them to take them home during the summer months. This was A) so the teachers could practice using them and B) so they wouldn't get stolen from empty classrooms. So, that meant I got to use it during the summer. I was 14 years old during the summer of 1994, and I used the CRAP out of that thing for the next few summers, mostly for drawing since we never hooked it up to the internet. We never had a useful computer in our house before (the CoCo 2 doesn't count because it felt useless and obsolete from the day my dad bought it because it was), so I was thrilled to get a chance to play with one at home instead of in a school computer lab. The irony was I really could have used a computer during the school year, but that's when it was in my mom's classroom.
You could never accuse Clint of being ungrateful!
probably the leeches sending in their kickstarter projects and seething that he didn't promote it in time
@destrozar Heh, someone _just_ commented how irritated they were that I said the emulated Disk II drive buzzer didn't sound exactly like a real floppy drive. Apparently since I'm so lucky to receive anything at all, I shouldn't share my views on items I receive for free... I'm sure _that_ policy would never backfire on a reviews channel!
@@LGR 🤣I had to rewind to catch the drama. That was the most non-negative comment I've heard about any product. I don't know how the hell they got that from your less than 2 second comments.
@@sleepwalkusa135 Exactly this. Influencers are a scourge and they think everyone has to bow down to them.
@@LGR Bro you just gotta shrug off those negative comments, you have a mountain of positive comments from fans that love you 👍👍
That was really cool to see that piece of Circuit City history. I worked for Circuit City in the mid 2000's. I remember all the Point Of Sale computers in the store ran a proprietary store management software they called DPS that was just black and white text you would just tab through the different fields and menus but it ran the entire store. It was old software (from the 80-90s it looked like) but I guess it was one of those "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kinda things. Sometime in the 2000's they added a "GUI" system that worked in conjunction with DPS called Magellan to do most common tasks like sales and returns but DPS still ran the whole store.
It's always a good day to see another offering from Matt Hrushka. I had the pleasure of working with him over a decade ago. Good dude, great submissions!
Agreed on all counts, Matt is good people!
Just remember you can never make everybody happy. Somebody will always complain about something.
But I am definitely happy watching this video so there's that.
Love this format!! don’t change anything it’s fantastic. I go back all the time and re-watched them
I've never seen a big box release for Palm OS software, it was usually in DVD cases. Or loose CDs (like attached to Magazines, I have a couple of those)
Later on the DVD case sometimes held both a disc and an SD card with the software built in. This was after the m500s came out. What a time.
Visor Neo, nice nice. So early on Palm was a part of US Robotics, then 3Com and then it was it's own entity. They had their first party devices (like the III or the V or m500) but Palm also licensed out the OS. So there were many other Palm "clones" (but they were licensed) Like the Kyocera 6035, TRG Pro, Handera 330 and the Sony Clie line.
Handspring was another licensee and they actually had the original founders there, they left when Palm was still under 3Com.
I personally always loved the Handspring models, the Springboard slot was great. I still have a bunch of modules for them.
A huge thank you for the timestamps Clint :) makes it way easier to find a specific unboxing after we watched it spoilerless once.
Absolutely, I like to watch these before I go to sleep and I often fall asleep with his soothing voice after half an hour or so, really helps me pick back up where I left off
I would like to see timed comments though, it would help me separate the comments based on the items
I wonder what people think when they criticize you for little things, you seem so genuine and seem to care so much about the things fans send you and the thought people put into it. I always find these heartening and lovely.
I don't think they realise just how many people contact Clint and how he is only one guy with limited time.
With 1.6 m subscribers he would get a lot of unsolicited sponsor offers and randoms wanting things.
Then he has to work in the projects he wants to do, plus organise his own life.
If he doesn't want to get burned out and quit altogether he needs to operate at his own pace.
Having said that, I would probably feel a bit let down if I sent him something and it took him 8 months to open it 😅
If he hasn't a helper already, he probably needs someone to handle some of his stuff.
Some people are dicks, but I believe content creators like to hear feedback, it helps them achieve higher ratings
It's weird and impossible for me to understand, but also nothing new - especially on the internet.
Some people are just dicks, and unable to stop and think how much they are demanding.
It's especially true on the internet, but well known for being a thing in real life already before internet was even a thing - public figures always get it.
Whats most infuriating about it for me is the entitlement these people think they have. Especially when they are just consuming content they havent even paid a dime for. What they don't realise is that when someone is giving them free content, not even pushing it for them but just putting it out there and it's completely up to them whether they decide to watch/listen/consume it, they don't get to make demands and the author doesn't owe them anything. *Doesn't owe them anything.* What is there that's so frigging hard to understand, I don't get.
Sure, I have mocked certain TH-camrs sometimes, like flat earthers. But the difference is that I still don't act like they should thank god(s) that I exist. You can, and sometimes even should, make fun or even tell some public figures outright to fsck off, and take their trout with them - but it should be because things like spreading hatred, misinformation, etc. - not about them not releasing content fast enough, you personally not liking their style and stuff like that. It's a whole different ordeal, it shouldn't be based on feelings of personal entitlement and belief that the author owes you - that's what always infuriates me.
The Toshiba laptop: the battery is under the wrist rest, use your thumbs to push the two tabs on the front edge upwards, the wrist rest should slide towards you a little and then hinge upwards. There's a ribbon for the two buttons with a shield/re-enforcement flexible plastic piece, take care to make sure it's going back in to the hole leading under the keyboard when the wrist rest closes back down. Otherwise you risk bending it out of shape like I did, d'oh.
These videos are terrific! Like a combination of yard sale, Christmas, package arrived in the mail except I don't have to explain to MY wife where I would be putting this stuff.
I use my old Asus Eee as a mp3 and podcast player near my bed, running PuppyLinux.
Around 2009, that little netbook could run World of Warcraft. I like the form factor of the netbooks.
The people that say these are pointless are idiots. These are some of my most favourite videos on your channel. I jump on these ones when I get the notification!
Same for others channels. I love watching the fan mail vids. Always throws some surprises.
Keep doing you. You didn’t get this many subs by being a rubbish creator, you got them because we love your content.
Keep rolling Clint!
Honestly you could be a great old-tech museum curator :O just rows of neatly lined old hardware and software in a museum educating visitors on the history of technology and the business/manufacturing of early computers
This is cool, you got some odd ware! Also, whoever made that retrofitted Apple II disk drive, should also make a reproduction disk drive for Apple II, since it’s hard to even find a working 5.25 disk drive for Apple II since they’re over 40 years old and even Steve Wozniak was also searching for an old floppy drive for his old programs!
These are some of my favourite videos - it’s a fun dive into all kinds of tech curios and oddities and mini stories. A great variety show putting a whole bunch together.
i love these types of videos as we get to see your genuine reaction ... also its great seeing some really good old school tech and old school tech remade using modern componants
Clint: I want to let you know that, this kind of videos, gives me cozy vibes, idk, like hearing the video at background while working, it's fantastic. Thank you and greetings from Colombia, South America
Love these donation unboxing vids! Almost had a tear in my eye at the SB AWE64 value, I used one from the late 90s to about 2004 for all my Impulse Tracker needs!! Those were the days…
The Adelaide guys run some of the best retro meetups in Australia 👍
Just watching one of your vids last night on the Microbee - that's a fascinating machine there.
That’s cool that you jumped through the few extra hoops to open the hypercard project.
I was curious to see it run and am sure the sender appreciated it too.
The (assuming) excited noise when you read about the PS1 240p 480i adapter made me laugh so hard. I love these videos. Like going to someones birthday party. Can't help but to be excited for the other person.
I love watching these videos as they are. The effort you put into these, the editing, filming, all of that takes time, and I for one certainly enjoy and appreciate that in virtually every single video, I have learned and widened my scope of PC knowledge, in the best ways.
I love these unboxing videos and it's great to see you give time and gratitude to every single person sending things to you 🙏
Those PATA/IDE 2.5" SSDs have been a godsend for maintaining all the ancient PCs the manufacturing plant I work at. The brand we typically order is "Transcend", but it wouldn't surprise me if they're all just rebadges of each other anyways. I've been converting stuff left and right and it just makes everything better and easier!
I had a green Handspring Visor in high school (in the US)! I loved that thing to bits, it was gorgeous. Sadly it was stolen when my family's car was broken into while we were out having dinner... seeing that box made me feel very nostalgic!
1998 Micron Additions catalog: Yeah, in the 1990s, Micron was a solid second tier PC clone maker, for those of us who couldn't afford IBM, Compaq, HP and AST. They competed directly with Dell and Gateway, but I never owned one because the word on the street (my street, anyway) was to avoid them because of poor tech support and relatively high prices. In retrospect, I don't remember the hardware standing out in any way, good or bad.
Handspring Visor: Early 2000s Handspring handhelds were simply Palm clones. They ran the same software and worked the same way. If I remember correctly, they beat Palm to the table with USB sync as opposed to parallel port sync, but I may be remembering that wrong. When I bought my Palm, in 2002, there was little difference between Handspring and Palm. I could have saved some money by going with Handspring, but my employer at the time had a "toy budget" perk, and I had my heart set on a color screen (which Handspring didn't have yet), so I went with the Palm m505. A couple years later, Handspring differentiated itself from Palm by introducing and specializing in handheld/cellphone convergence devices, which I guess you can think of as precursors to smartphones, except that they weren't really all that smart. It was convenient to be able to make phone calls directly from a contact record, but I don't remember the convergence going much beyond that.They may have had e-mail integration, but Blackberry did that better, and by the time Handspring (or Palm, for that matter) got anything more than that figured out, Apple came out with the iPhone, which devoured all their lunches, as well as breakfast, dinner and midnight snacks. BTW, I still have my Palm m505, but at this point, it would need a new battery, and would have no way to exchange data with anything if it had a working battery, so it's pretty much a paperweight now.
Those mousepads at 24:00 are wild! 🔥🔥🔥
Micron was like Tech Data of today. When you looked at the magazine I saw an ad for 8x8. They have moved to VoIP resellers.
It doesn't matter how often these are posted, It's always so special to see an unboxing upload!
I still have my Toshiba Satellite 2545xcdt from 1999 or so. I really liked it and used it well past it's intended lifespan. If I remember right, it has an AMD K62 333 in it. I loved that little laptop so much that, not only do I still have it 24 years year later, but I have run an AMD processor in every computer I've owned or built for myself since.
I had the OG Duke Nukem mousepad. (Shown at 24:35) That was my computer's pad for YEARS back in the day. I think I have it somewhere in storage. That brought me back.
I worked at a Circuit City until about six months before they all went away. They used some variation of that terminal-based point-of-sale/timecard software all the way until the end.
48:00 Check out the history of the ANITA (A New Inspiration to Arithmetic) calculator range. In 1961 they produced the worlds first electronic calculator. In the 1980s I worked in an office where there was one sat on top of a cupboard but I didn't know the significance back then. I was surprised the one you got given was so late. by then pocket calculators from the likes of Commodore were reasonably cheap and common place.
Wow, that Disk II floppy emulator build is clean AF
@8:35 the 2-pin header is most likely an SPDIF connector which will work with an optical TOSLINK adapter.
Could you have ever imagined when you started you'd have a 9 year old drawing Clint fan art? So cool
Handspring PDAs came after Palm Pilots. If I recall, the designers or someone involved with Palm Pilot started Handspring as an alternative.
I love all this vintage tech too. I worked at Best Buy in 1999 and 2000 so all of this just floods back memories of explaining why ink costs more than the printer.
I used to squat in the church on the cover to the Abanoned book. It's so nice to see it! I really miss that place a lot. Shout out to Pastor Tony who squatted the nearby post office. Miss you, buddy!
Thanks for the great video as always Clint. The unboxing videos are super cool because of the random weird stuff people send. It's like an hour long oddware episode. So I'm not complaining at all lol
Handspring was created by the founder of Palm Inc. So yeah it is a Palm Pilot. Keep up the great work as always. Looking forward to the next LGR thrifts. I just recently went and re watched every single episode.
Really glad you liked the Neuroblast diskzine and that it worked on the G3!
Core Memory Unlocked at the sight of that Circuit City Price Busters logo. I opened so many CDs with that sticker as a child.
Beard looks good, LGR! Like your channel, you age like a fine wine. Thanks for the awesome content - keep up the good work!
46:20 You underplay the incredible historical importance of Dennis Ritchie! He's arguably the most under-recognized giant in the history of computing. Not only did he co-create UNIX with Ken Thompson, he invented the C programming language! Our modern technological landscape would be unthinkable without Ritchie.
It’s always a good day when LGR uploads.
Always
All the hair on my body perks up with goose bumps when I see an LGR vid 😊
And juuuuust as the weekend starts as well. It's the first thing I click on after work. (5pm here in Belgium)
Absolutely.
Couldn't agree more.
True
Can confirm, it's extremely fun to watch these videos! Thank you again for sharing all these with us.
These are my favorite lgr videos. So much cool stuff. Thanks for sharing 👍
I remember the Rockwell calculator radio advertisement jingle. It went something like:
"I really love my Rockwell, It really is so neat, Its got big green numbers, and little rubber feet."
I really appreciate you sharing that , I love old jingles....
The Victor adding machines in that book at 10:05... I had one of those, the one on the left. My grandmother used to work at the Victor assembly factory in Chicago. That thing was a _monster,_ it weighed like 35 pounds. lol. You could kill an elk with an adding machine.
I just love the sound those things make when you literally "crunch the numbers"
Thank you for the content and the people who send you items. Helps me and hopefully others unwind from a work day.
I love the N52 type game pads. I got one from Comp USA when they first came out and fell in love with it right away. Razer still makes them, though they're called Tartarus at this point. I suck so bad at most games without it, lol.
I got one back when I used to play Everquest and it was great to be able to program keys.
30:50 Everytime I see an Eee PC I think of Austin Powers' Mini Me going "EEEEEEEEE!" as he runs. LOL
I remember subscribing to a disk based 'zine in the 90's, full payment for the year up front, which folded after 2 issues. These days I think they'd pretty much have to offer a proportional refund by law, but back then all I got was a letter offering a (admittedly quite good) reduction on any other software the publisher was also selling. Being a kid I didn't have ANOTHER bunch of money to pony up despite the decent discount. Bah!
I love watching you unboxings so much! Well, all your videos honestly. Thank you for fueling my love for all thing retrocomputing
Thrifts and unboxing are my favorite of your videos. I don’t understand how anyone would question it.
TIL what ludology is: the study of games.
Lol you’re officially convent- approved! Congrats!
I HAVE ROLLER COASTER TYCOON ON XBOX! I never played the PC version, but I liked it.
That version of Winter Games must be REALLY old because the ski jumper has the skis parallel instead of spread out.
Yeah Clint. I really enjoy your unboxing episodes. Makes me want to send in some of my eclectic collections but you probably already have the items,,, lol. You're a great content creator. 👏 Just keep doing your thing ! Be you,,,,you're good at it ❤
That's quite a lot of donations to go through! But really cool items you've received. Thanks for sharing them with all of us.
Love these vids! So cool to see the neat things that might see in the future, kind of like early access to future content
I totally get the concept behind these videos, as I find them highly entertaining. I also like the LGR Thrifts, they pop up randomly on my TH-cam homepage :)
I saw "Tyrrany" on the Palm Pack and it unlocked a core memory of fighting my brother over who got to play it first.
Not every day you see vintage computer stuff from a nun ?!??! (10:46) Some crazy stuff in this haul. Cheers man
I worked at Circuit City briefly in 2004 (well after that 486 would have been used) and trained at an older store. All the POS and server systems ran DOS with a bespoke sales and inventory software. Then I moved to a brand new store that had new POS systems that ran XP with terminal emulators that interfaced with the DOS servers, so whatever is on that laptop was the same sales system they used until Circuit City went out of business.
I agree with you, these are fun and informative to watch. Plez continue until you want to quit.
thank you 🙏 your video’s are very cathartic to watch! love your energy dude ! keep following your passion it’s inspiring to see you carve out a life living a life doing what your passionate about! keep winning brother 💪🙏
Micron is still a thing (I have friends who work for them), and they're the ones behind Crucial.
They are considered to be strategically important to the USA being the only memory manufacturer there.
32:59 Back in the day when I got a sealed box with a cd/dvd it came with a felt doughnut sandwiched between the top the disc and the case to prevent it from popping-out and moving.
Unfortunately they stopped being shipped like that, over time, due to the disc mfg. costs being a lot less and it just wasn't worth the effort for them.
I don't have the time, money, or space for collecting these sorts of things. Realistically, I would only get a momentary "rush" doing it myself. Watching these unboxing videos gives me the exact same kind of rush and I don't have to spend money or worry about curating a giant collection and what not.
Great stuff. Just wondering if you have done a retrospective of the orchid soundwave 32. I have great memories of that card and my midi playback. Excelsior sir
these are always so much fun to watch. so much random computer stuff from all over the years! loved that apple II disk drive emulator would definitely be handy if I ever got a hold of one. that 40 year old Unix book though, holy hell it's even older than I am! some good stuff.
Wow, that unix manual is an amazing find! I'm just now finishing the "Unix, A History and a Memoir" by Brian Kernighan, a colleague of the late Dennis Ritchie. I grew up with their excellent book on the C programming language back in the early 90s.
I thought the Duke stuff would be the highlight for me but then you pulled out the Unix manual.
i have weirdly vivid memories of looking at my dad's old duke nukem mousepad as a kid and cooking up cool stories in my head about the aliens on it(i was 5 and he would not let me watch him play the game) and seeing it reproduced so faithfully kind of blew my mind
Wow, those Epyx games! World Games was one of the first few games I got for my PC because it was cheap and I knew it from the Apple II in school.
I really enjoy watching these unboxing extravaganzas. Please keep doing them in this format!
the thrifting and unboxing are my favortie episodes! your regular content rocks in the same level, keep up the good work👍💡
That apple II monitor is just iconic. Just seeing it makes so many Cold War movies and media come flooding into my brain. Like not just the fact its monochrome and green but just everything about it even the glass of the tube it looks basically matte and brown. I feel like you have to have a lit cigarette in your mouth and also have an old rotary phone held between your cheek and shoulder whilst typing to fully do it justice.
Honestly I LOVE watching unboxings of old things like these. Great video.