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Say hey to aeden for saving these from the skip!
see anything you recognise?
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Some stuff has been on the “8 bit guy” channel!
Definitely the Exidy and the PET
AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! Tandata QL Modem Set! AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!
If you find a Commodore 64 I am buying, my mom was scammed by my real psychopath cousin in 1982 and was fooled to buy from his at retail price his shitty abused Commodore VIC20, it ruined my childhood since we went in every shop trying to buy games for it but obviously was too old. I have tons of traumas so I finished studying psychology at my 40´s my friend. This is for real!
I 'm so pleased that you were contacted to go through this treasure trove first - it's not so much that the items are "worth" £'s it's that some of these items will shortly just be pictures in a book or on the internet. Commodore Pet in the skip? Crazy.
more than the commodore pet, everything aaaaah! even the apple 3's madness
A little RIP to the previous owner, thanks for saving so much stuff. :) And so nice you and your friends could get wind of this stash, regrettably a lot of this stuff never gets to people still interested in them. :\ Wow seeing stuff I've never heard of, congrats on getting all that cool gear. ;)
Look Mum NoW Computer - RESPECT! Every town needs a warehouse for intercepting such treasure and making sure a bunch of otherwise-unemployable people can forge a livelihood by helping to sort, repair and re-use / re-house / re-sell landfill rescues. Should be govt backed and cover more stuff too. Sam, lead the way!
P.S. The Atari POKEY sound chip (400, 800, 130XE etc) is a great partner for the SID chip. 4 channels and some amazing PWM action to be had... hope ye find a way of making a POKEYSTATION!
17:12 - LCAR : London Computer Auction Rooms, which was quite near me - Enfield or Edmonton I think.
aha very nice! i wonder when he made it there. apparently arthur the person was a microbiologist engineer, this was in plymouth, so quite the trek up to london!
Wow! You've managed to unpack the contents of a decades worth of computer magazines from the 1980's.
Beautiful things! Very envious of the Apple IIIs. A local thrift store has a Lisa I wish I had the space and money for.
As morbid as this sounds, it's probably a good reminder to everybody with their own tech collections to have some kind of arrangement to get their stuff taken care of if something should happen to them. I know my wife isn't as knowledgeable - or enthusiastic - as I am about some of the kit I have; I should make sure she at least knows how to contact some of my makerspace friends to help her sort through it all if something bad happens.
bloomin heck a lisa nice!
> it's probably a good reminder to everybody with their own tech collections to have some kind of arrangement to get their stuff taken care of
Definitely. A very good idea.
So many of us have collections with real historical value and the idea of it going in a skip is heartbreaking.
Look mum LOADSA computers :)
Some BEAUTIFUL stuff there, Sam. Just amazing! So glad that you and Aeden could save these - a few things there that I'd LOVE to have :). I only wish I lived around the corner and could usefully volunteer.
The three box Tandata modem was for a Sinclair QL. I used one back in the mid 80's to connect to Prestel and various BBS. Ran up a MASSIVE phone bill. Grown-ups were not to happy :-(
A truly amazing find!.
Used to use the Exidy Sorcerer at school.
Friend and I spent months coding in Z80 machine code a basic sprites based version of Frogger lol.
The side slot held the cart containing Basic.
No synth chips in it, unlike the C64.
Used the MicroProfessor in college, cool unit.
The eddystone radio looked in mint condition & I believe that is a tube radio.
Glad it's gone to worthy people, able to appreciate the tech
I dream of loft finds like that! Those CUB monitors what a blast from the past!
Heartbreaking to think about all the cool stuff that got tossed in the skip :/. This is absolutely amazing. There's so much cool tech of yesteryear that people hardly even know about and so much cool stuff that will be lost in time.
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How sick of that joke are you? 🤣 In all seriousness, as if I didn't love your work enough, this was amazing to see, thanks for saving these amazing old things from going in the skip, the thought of that PET getting chucked breaks my heart!
Makes me wish I lived in the UK, I would be over there helping fix everything I could get my hands on!
Awesome video! Great to see the Exidy Sorcerer. I grew up with this machine and every fortnight, spending the weekend at my father's place, was Exidy Sorcerer time for me. Learned the basics of basic, Z80 assembly and CP/M.
The adventure games by Scott Adams are legendary!
My father still has the Sorcerer somewhere. Trying to find the time for a restoration...
This is nice to see!
A man salvaging parts from old screens, computers and more!
I’d to do this myself later in life!
The Xerox 820 is complete - the computer is a single board inside the monitor housing. The only thing you're missing is the 8 inch floppy drives.
That house is a goldmine! Those IBM’s will do pretty well as your office computer to do your accounting, wordprocessing and museum inventory database management on. They’re not particularly musical but they where the office worker’s trusty workhorse. They do need an MS-Dos boot disk though. Word Perfect and Lotus 1-2-3 where the killer apps for it. And odd thing about them is that they actually have a version of basic built in the bios rom, which starts if it can’t find a dos boot disk. Clone PC’s don’t have this. However IBM’s didn’t have a setup utility in the rom, they needed a disk for that whereas most clone pc’s have a built-in setup screen.
This was wonderful, and so nostalgic. I would be there hugging the old computers like long-lost friends.
Wow Sam, What a treasure trove! Laserdisc is a fun media to collect; Some things (films mostly) you can only see on that format. watch out for disc rot though; older discs weren't as durable as CD/DVD/Etc. Also, the Exidy Sorcerer is a rare and sought-after computer in some circles. It was released in 1978 and was made by Exidy, who were best known for making arcade machines. It stuck around until 1983. That right there is a class A find!
That loft reminds me of one of the "Commodore enthusiasts" that occasionally posts a video through the Amiga groups on FB...Piles of unsorted PETs and CBM machines all over the place with little care or regard. Unhealthy obsession and really no way to care for the old equipment if preserving and enjoying it really is your passion.
Oh! My! Word! You made me feel ancient! 😄 I had the SEIKOSHA printer. Excruciating slow and loud. It used a "uni-hammer" printing mechanism. Basically a long, stretched gear spinning behind the paper. In front of the paper was the ink ribbon and then a moving head with a single C-shaped hammer. To print a column of dots, the hammer was fired 7 times as the "gear behind the paper spun.
I'm picturing a server room now with terminals connected through your phone exchange and I get an extremely warm and fuzzy feeling inside me.
And, sheeeiit, that stuff is insane!
I used to work at an ecycling company, you would be horrified by the amounts of stuff I couldn't or wasn't allowed to salvage that went to scrap, often working vintage tech.
OMG we sure would!! Luckily I had dibs on this ITN skip (thank to Mak from Slimelight, who's sadly no longer with us..)
It'd be great if those companies really DID cycle a bit more and werent so uptight ;)
Awesome seeing the Apple III’s!! Almost positive that was the computer that apple actually told people to drop about 6 inches to fix it.
yep!!! drop test was real haha
Those TORCH communcators were basically hugely expanded BBC micros, if you take it apart you'll find a BBC micro mainboard, second processor etc etc etc. I wish you luck getting them to work, they were a nightmare to keep running when they were new.
My dad worked for ICL and they had OPD (One Per Desk) PCs *and* phones. Classic. I always wanted one. You need to get that bad boy working.
Oh man, that's almost sad to see. What a goldmine!
Many thanks for the nostalgia hit - most of this stuff dates from when I was in my teens, so I was completely geeking out the whole way through this. Looking forward to seeing what you can do with it all!
You have a Tatung Einstein TC01 there. That was the main feature of my teen years.
I bought one of those laserdisc players recently. They're kind of mad inside. Mine sort of works but the belt is gone so still working on it. That particular model uses a hene laser tube rather than a diode type. Also, be wary that it can only play LD's with analogue sound.. it'll play the video but lacks the decoder for digital audio!
There's a few videos out on TH-cam about the Exidy Sorcerer computers. My dad used to work for them and managed to get one when I was about 5 or so. I used to write basic programs into it. It has cartridges that fit into the right side of the computer that appear to be re-purposed 8-track tape cartridges with PCBs in them. If I remember correctly, the computer didn't do much of anything without these. Interested to see what you can do with it!
The TORCH is a recased BBC Micro with addition of the integrated monitor and modem. BBC's processor is a 6502, but the Torch has a Z80 second processor as standard so should be multi-OS (Acorn DFS & CPM).
Couldn't you use the TORCH as a sort of server for a network of BBC Micros? I seem to remember seeing something like this back in the 80's.
A Tatung Einstein!! Still got some bits somewhere - never used it for music but it had ports galore including a Midi IIRC.
And a BT Tonto (OPD?) - another from my earlier (though not earliest) programming days! My work one had a colour screen and an external 3.5" drive. As you say, it wasn't anything more than a Sinclair with two MDs, a phone and a modem - I only ever hooked it up to BBs in the day. Had loads of those plug-in modules but I can't recall what we used them for.
Footnote: Fry and Laurie had one of the B&W OPD/Tonto screens sat on the desk in one or two of their sketches (but no keyboard) IIRC.
Look mum lots of computers!
I remember seeing those CUB monitors at school and they blew my mind. Like, a TV dedicated to computer stuff you didn't have to fight the family for, and no dodgy signal via coax aerial plus. They had a really nice picture for the time and look eminently stackable.
What an absolute gold mine of old computers! The Manuals and books are probably valuable as well! You can remove the yellowing of the plastic using hydrogen peroxide and UV light!
The CUB monitors are straight out of my childhood !
I'm really pleased that the old computers were saved from the landfill. But I'm also envious, of course. 🙂
My computers and video games aren't all jumbled up, but I also often wonder what will happen to the junk if I get run over by a truck tomorrow.
A few years ago, however, I experienced something comparable with a very large arcade (IIRC 3,000 m²?) with hundreds of arcade machines. Scrap collectors broke open the cabinets, smashed all the picture tubes just to get at the copper coil. What a shame.
Aaah that is the motherload! Good call on striking a deal with Dave on those Commodore's, they'll be in good hands. Xerox keyboard could be a good fit for Chyrosran22?
So much for "... NO COMPUTER" 😀
Wonderful mailbox from the departed fella. RIP to him, thanks for blessing us with this.
The exidy Sorcerer is a computer to keep. It has expansion units (including a BASIC one of course), a pretty good operating system, and it could run CP/M if you had a hard drive. Can be expanded to a decent amout of RAM (for the time: 48K if I remember correctly). I wrote so much software for that thing!
That apricot computer is very rare dude if you have an opportunity to work on it you should do some funky things to it , you could hook up old hardware to it for data tracking and possibly your telephone exchange to track how many channels it went through or just hook something up to the single tone and make an instrument out of it!
Definitely the motherload of vintage computers there Sam. I think Adrian (Adrian’s Digital Basement) could the Tandy model 2 keyboard. Wish I still had my. CoCo and CoCo 3
Reel to reel tape recorders were my first electromechanical disection, from jumble sales, in big wooden boxes. Its so important to have experience of dismantelling something, its a pity more stuff thats thrown away couldn't be given to schools to dismantle. lessons can explain how the device works, electronicaly, where the materials come from. A lesson just for taking things apart, they can go for recycling afterwards , doesnt have to be perfect the alternative was to scrap it whole. more fun than a rat .
And then after a long LONG time ....
You get to when you can put it TOGETHER :)
I think Bloop Museum might be interested in some of your question mark items, like the memotech or the apricot. Be sure to archive your floppies and paperwork!
The North American variant of the Sirius-1, the Victor 9000, was my very first PC. I got it second-hand. Really brings memories flooding back of writing short stories in WordStar.
It's quite a notable machine for its era, offering better speed and more memory as a PC clone at a very competitive price. It came with DOS and CP/M 86. And that Keytronic foam-and-foil keyboard was tops!
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Love the laser disc collection! I've got that same player, sadly doesn't quite work. What a great haul!
What a treasure-trove! Hopefully some software and manuals were salvaged as well, as those are often rarer than the computers themselves! (or at least equally rare, especially with the more obscure/shorter-lived companies and all that)
I'll have to check out the other channel and see how you got on with getting some of these running!
That Apricot was the first computer I ever used. It boots in MS-DOS and has a proprietary GUI called "Activity" -- if you don't have a mouse you move the arrow around with the numpad. It can run GW-BASIC, and ours had the usual word processor and spreadsheet etc that every 'serious' early 80s computer had. Music-wise, I don't recall it doing anything more exciting than a simple beep, so probably not much use to you!
I remember the keyboard having an LCD which would display the prompt if there was no monitor. Not much use, but I still loved it as a kid.
@@genericpenguin it would display what the function keys did, e.g. in a word processor it'd have cut, copy, paste.
@@amyworrall9246 Good to know! I never had any of the applications (apart from DOS).
Wow! What a fantastic collection! Great to see it being saved.
Well done, good finds. When I can finally get out of Sydney and get to the UK, I will pay you a visit. I remember the CUB monitors... I'll have to get my BBC Micro and Archimedes up and running...
Random note for the Apricot - it runs a proprietary version of MSDOS (v3.1, I think?) as it has non-standard interrupts and won't run the regular version.
There should be a small orange-ish CRT that goes with it.
The Tatung Einstein used to use the 3 inch disks, and ran a version of CP/M although you could also get Spectrum emulator and I think it could read Spectrum +3 disks in the emulator. I don't remember much about the sound quality or music ability, although I think you could use one of the DIN sockets as a MIDI port.
The Echosoft looks like it's for a 48k Spectrum. Probably pre-dates the +2 and +3 so may not work on those as the bus connector power was slightly different.
The Turtle plotter will be probably for the BBC micro (we had one at school) or the Apple II
Hope that helps with the epic treasure trove
I always wanted to run an vacuum cleaner museum & in my life I have come across a few but sadly throughout the journey of life these have been lost to time. Great to see some people doing what I couldn’t do.
My dad bought a Sirius for work, it has it's own room and a kick arse A3 sheet feed daisy wheel printer in a sound proof box. It was used to generate rent letters and account rolls. he told me it was the equivelent to 15 ladies with type writers and wages and never made a mistake, when he ran the printer it sounded like a machine gun going off, it would go through big boxes of green/white lined paper. Must have been early to mid eighties some real history there. We also Has a PET at home it never did any real work but I remember playing space invaders on it!
That's some haul of classic tech.. great to save it from a skip..
Oh Sam if only I lived anywhere near you I’d love to come and help fix the ol pcs at the museum
That is an amazing collection to get hold of ! However THREE Apple IIIs ??????????????????? THREE!!!!! They are uber rare especially here in the UK and incredibly expensive back in the day
threeeeeee :O
I’m personally still amazed by the sounding of the C64 SiD music. I think it’s an endless source of electronic music inspiration. Anyway, nice vid, sweet memories! Impressive collection of mythical machines.
an the Apple /// front .. clean the floppy drive heads before ‘ using ‘ the floppy stack, or you can be transferring woes ... and if not stored correctly can have mold on the surfaces. Adriens’ Digital Basement had a piece on that.
So cool Sam! Congrats!
14:40 That floppy drive looks like a custom built SCSI floppy drive holder
Neil over on RMC may be interested in some of this stuff for his cave - if you've got something to spare. Maybe do a collab.
I've been watching your videos for about 4yrs, and I never realised that you were in Thanet!! (Margate lad myself.) I completely missed the museum opening video! Ill come visit you soon! PS. Literally once in a lifetime find :)
Ooooh, Music Construction Set! I had this. I also had Music Master and, of course Q Base and Protracker for the ST.
This is like a history of my career. You could get a touch screen add on for The Cub monitors back in the late eighties. We wrote some funky educational games for it on the BBC back in the day.
and I thought I struck it rich that one day I found five Commodore 64 (breadbin variant), five 1541 floppy drives, two Amiga 500, a Roland SH-2000, a Roland Jupiter 4 and a Sony CDP-101 (first ever consumer CD player).
Fun Fact: The Exidy Sorcerer is a topic in the story of SCP-079
Ha, I can remember getting the train from Northampton to Watford with a rucksack to pick up my Viglen BBC Micro case populated with two 5.25" floppy drives. It all worked fine and I still have it.
May be worth talking with RMC (retro man cave), I think they were wanting to do a video on, or looking for an Apricot.
The British version of American Pickers! Glad you found a good home for some of the stuff and hope the same went for the rest - especially given the renewed interest in all things retro-related.
When the Commodore Light Fantastic box came out I had a pang of excitement, remember wanting one for Xmas but got a Spectrum instead!
OMG Commodore Pet? What a find!
Wow wish I lived near you I did my computer o level on the exidy sorcerer. Loved to help you. I used to repair these systems.
Looks like I have my work cut out for me. It's going to be fun!
Mate, that is a banging collection! Even an A500 in there!
yeah!!! gunna use that one as spares for the a500 we have setup :)
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER make sure you get a copy of Another World running on it at least for a second
This reminds me that I've got an old luxury grade CRT monitor from Viewsonic just sitting in the floor. I should try selling it locally some time.
Good to see interest in the Torch machines. Yours look to be early versions as the boot ROM reports v72. The earliest known version that's been dumped is v71 from 1982, and was continually developed upto 1986. Your v72 hasn't been dumped so would be nice to have it archived.
I love the torch !
The 8 bit guy needs to see this!! Will lose his mind
Awesomeee!! LGR might want some of the stuff you dont need bro. Love the videos!!!
Maybe you can use the "one per desk" as a terminal. It should have an RS232 interface, so you can connect modern equipment.
Or modems, so you can let two terminals chat with each other via your telephone exchange.
it does :)
Been here before YTB done full video processing to higher resolutions.
360p baby!!!
16:32 my first computer was a Amiga 500+, I had a music video of Pink Floyd on 10 floppy disk 1.44" and to watch it all at once I had a tower of 10 floppy disk drives connected 🙈😂
It also had some programs for creating music on it...
That loft was indeed an amazing place for the nerds like us.
Laserdisc player together with a nice collection of movies? Not just one, but two IBM PC XT's, the machine of my early childhood? Apple IIe and III? Commodore 64C and P500? Dot matrix printers? NIB NOS One Per Desk? Other computers, monitors, keyboards? I'm totally geeking out. Joy forever.
And the RIFA capacitors are such a plague that it's ridiculous. Kill it with fire before it does it itself!
Wow! What a find! It's so nice to see so many of the old computers and that the Amiga 500 and C64 are there. :D Congratulations. Cheers. :)
A point to watch on the Sirius: some of them had 'constant linear velocity' floppy drives - they won't read standard discs. You'll need someone with a working one to make you a boot disc if there isn't one amongst the stuff.
Cub dark screen is an RGB monitor = had one with my Beeb. The Apricot is more than likely a CP/M machine. Yep Virglen is defintely a Beeb re-cased. The Act Sirius I think is CP/M, I use to play space wars on that machine it was the only game we had, my father had it for business, way before we got the Model B BBC. The Tandy TRS 80 I think is complete, my friend had one of those, it's just a home computer. BTW great channel!
I'm just glad it was saved there are only so many of those left I can't even get my hands on stuff like that honestly save even the bad parts bord repair is possible
14:48 I'll take a look at work, I think there is a Micro-Professor laying around in a big briefcase
Great find! If you happen to get rid of one or the other thing (Apple III ;)), we at the Digital Retro Park would love to help. ;)
Loving the welcome to the museum tune!!
Would be great to see that laser disc player running, but unfortunately very few of those early machines still work. It's not a modern semiconductor laser in there like in a CD or DVD player, it's a big old helium-neon gas tube, and it seems they don't stand the test of time.
Luckily got a bunch of spare helium lasers! Hopefully one fits then 👍
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Get in! Let the frankensteining begin... :)
I think that the floppy drive at 14:30 is for a BBC Micro. I got the same one with a BBC Micro lot that had come from a Nimrod airplane.
I just caught a glimpse on my lab's (hopefully not too near) future.
Hope my 40 years of Apples, Sinclairs, Commodores, Ataris, peripherals, docs, manuals, magazines and odd electronics will find their Sam and get a new life. I probably won't reach the end of my own to-do list - it's not that I'm planning to die soon or anything, it's just that the to-do list is MANY arms long.
In the end, the most valuable and irreplaceable thing is the knowledge of the previous owner. Imagine if he were there, helping you identify and connect everything.
I'm glad that these devices will be used by people who want to do something with them, and not just sell them for a lot of money!
One Per Desk -- Fancy box for a Sinclair QL.
Blessed with a 12 note octave . . .
¡Look at those beautiful old machines!
Wow, a retro computer guys dream loft. I just recently saved a big plastic tote of vinyl records from a house that was getting demolished on the property where we keep our cows on pasture. Looks like a bunch of old country and Jazz neither of which I'm much into. I just couldn't let good vinyl get demo'd like that though. I don't think any of them are in pristine condition. They were all standing on into stacked up in the plastic tote and there was a few mouse droppings on the edges :(
Clean up Keith, check discogs prices, good jazz 1to100+ for those that want it
wow, i'm so early that youtube hasn't finished processing the video yet :O it's only giving me 360p res.