I really like the idea that somehow that grandma was secretly a gamer super into tech and she told her family that she bought all those gadgets for "typing her genealogy research".
My great aunt and uncle fell into that category for a long time. Their Windows XP computer was loaded with games of various genres, Fighter Ace 2, the Microsoft Games collection that had Chips Challenge, Sim City. They had it going on!
Surely I am not the only one, but seeing someone open a whole bunch of cool tech makes me feel so happy knowing that this stuff will be used by someone who loves them rather than being tossed in a landfill. I love all of this too, but I know I don’t have the capacity or knowledge for it. Keep up the fun and exciting videos LGR!
@@RWL2012 that's not true. He tries to make videos of everything that gets sent in some form or fashion, and his point still stands, it's being taken care of
That old Sharp laptop is something else. I can't really blame you for just firing that up to mess with it. It looks like that sender's grandma really took care of her stuff!
@@shkeni i had one was a kid but in black with an amber screen (i think 4500, rather than 4501), seemed futuristic even in like 2002 when it was handed down to me lol
My big brother had one when he went off to college. I got to play with it when he got back. :-) Wrote lots of BASIC programs on that thing. It was a trooper.
I remember in college working in a mortgage title company office fixing PCs, and one of the old ladies asked me if I played Diablo. Old people can surprise you. She played more Diablo 1 and 2 than I did. Crazy.
Old people playing video games are awesome. I use to play Warframe and my clan leader was a 60 year guy from Boston. When he died from his cirrhosis of the liver some of us were invited to his funeral, apparently he hung out with us more than most people due to being stuck at home all day. John was a great guy.
My dad became addicted to FPS games when Wolfenstein 3D came out, and never looked back (so did I, for that matter). He's a decade passed on now, but now I'm the "old" gamer, and often play on-line with our kids who live a state away. 😛
I think the most interesting thing now about demos of games is how often the demos were created using earlier builds than what ended up being shipped as the finished software. Including things like changed elements, unique levels different mechanics.
Either that or they picked two or three of the best levels in a game. I bought James Pond, Robocop on the strength of the demo, and got bored with the real game before I got to the levels I enjoyed so much in the demo.
The Half-Life demo was like that. Had nothing to do with the actual levels in the game but served as a really excellent vertical slice of what could be expected from the full game.
I'm an expert on the Sim City trading card game! Clint will love it despite it's meh gameplay. The art is all made with actual Polaroid photos of buissnesses and houses of 1990-1994. Buissnesses could send a picture of thier storefront to get it made into a card in the game. Knowing the types of photos Clint likes to take he'll LOVE to look through them
I have a card of Time Square that I pulled that look so incredibly different than it does now, it's wild. You also have the inclusion of a lot of mom and pop stores that no longer exist, including alot of rad spaces for us nerds like arcades, video game and comic shops, and some of the first ever dedicated tabletop gaming stores.
Absolutely. Adrian Black has gotten a lot better, but man, watching some of his early videos were a bit painful with him making snide comments about the items!
I once sent some things to a TH-camr PO box and they said one of the items was really boring, and they skipped all the other things I sent lol... I was really excited and was eagerly awaiting the unboxing video... I am glad that LGR is as excited as I'm sure all the package senders have been.
@@squirlmy I had forgotten about 8-bit guy made uncomfortable comments as well. I agree they probably get a lot of trash and why they try to screen as best as can and only give out address when know what they are getting. But they do edit the videos, they should just not have included items they made snarky comments about!
I miss those days when software was physical and sometimes even hard to find. Getting a demo disk with a cool game could make my month! And then you could lend it to your friends and share the fun. Today software seems ethereal, temporary. Maybe I'm just getting old, sounding like my parents talk about the 45's-
Dude, I am so hyped for these demo disks. My vision of the videos on it would be 1 video a month, deep diving into a few per vid. Content for years man.
Geez, how do you react any more humbly than that to literally receiving books directly from the author, especially someone like Cline. And I mean, the genuine humility from Cline in just, the favorite youtube channel comment. Love it.
That's what I like about your video, your excited laughing when this old computer boot up put a smile on my face. I don't know how to express it correctly in english but I fell excited with/for you.
Yes! Even when some things aren't totally "safe", he excitedly decides to go for it. The excitement and happiness in those unboxing moments are contagious
Demo discs were how I played most of the PC games pre-2002 or so. 35 year old me would like to buy 12 year old me a bunch of PC games in their beautiful boxes. That little guy lived PC gaming through sheer imagination and the occasional magazine purchase from Software Etc
That CompUSA badge takes me back. I worked at the Raleigh location in the early 2000's and went from working the floor to working in the repair area. I also had the gold name badge, but mine was engraved. That was a fun 5 years.
At this point (Even though I don't want Clint to exhaust himself), the blerbs channel is necessary. It's probably the only way Clint can even consider keeping up.
15:42 Oh my gosh, there it is. The Freelancer demo disc from PC Gamer. That's how I discovered Freelancer and good lord I played that demo for MONTHS, straight until I actually bought it, and then I continued to play THAT for over a decade. So glad to just get a glimpse of that old CD sleeve again after all these years! And the Dungeon Siege demo disc shortly after, wow! I never got the demo disc for Dungeon Siege, my dad got a copy of the game from a co-worker and I snatched that thing up IMMEDIATELY. I still revisit DS2 from time to time as well!
It struck me as odd a while back how many of my favorite TH-camrs watched each other's stuff... but then, I figure they are *my* favorites because we are all interested in the same things, so it kind of makes sense they would also be fans of each other's work.
sir, your channel is truly a oasis of nice emotions here on the platform... no drama, no toxicity, only love and cool things... must say a unique place
OH WOW!!! @ 30:28 you show a brochure from The Vintage Computer Federation in Wall, NJ (I have NO IDEA where in NJ that is) which is my home state and I've been wondering if there is any type of retro computer museum or something like that around here.... I'm guessing it is up in North Jersey (which is the stereotypical image the world has of New Jersey) but I'm in South Jersey (which is TOTALLY DIFFERENT with LOTS of WOODS and FARMLAND and MARSHES and just a lot of OUTDOORS type areas, it's like a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STATE) and it's a REAL PAIN to go up North to visit family or go to places, but I think it might be worth the journey :) - THANKS for showing this Clint, and THANKS to ANDY for sending this goodness in!!! (I still have yet to send in my 386 Laptop lol)
Atari Portfolio... Im hunting for one of this for centuries, they are very rare to find in the place i live, and somebody just sent you one working for free. Lucky you!
I have got two, one was bougjt and used by my father and he gave it to me around 1997 and the second one I got from a teacher who had no need for it anymore around 1999. I live in Germany, by the way.
@@malte9999 well, i live in Belarus and this makes things more complicated... This devices never was sold officially here, so they rarely popup on local auctions and advertisement boards... So, the only way to get one - is ebay, but, since Belarus not in EU, this is also a bit tricky.
@@hingeslevers sadly it doesn't 😅 in super ideal conditions (perfect paper with no creases, very clear staves, no changing time signatures or too many dynamics / articulations) it gets relatively close, but even with those it can be inconsistent. Modern ones are better, but still not perfect
Could also be the disk. I remember those colored memorex disks were some of the last ones in normal stores like Target, and I recall having a lot of problems with them.
@@AndrewAMartin I once had a damaged floppy that claimed to contain a multi-gigabyte file. All sorts of things can happen with bitwise errors on magnetic media.
Been in the field for three weeks and finally found a spot that gets reception. First recommended video and clicked on it right away. Frickin’ love this channel.
I feel you on the packing peanuts. I was sent something that was packed with them and I was furious. They got all over my house and blew all over my yard while I was trying to dispose them (3 trash bags worth!). I work in warehousing and shipping so I knew that they were completely unnecessary for what I bought. Don't use them folks!
so if i theoretically want to send something to my theoretical enemies, i should package it in packing peanuts? just a whole butt load of them when it is completely unnecessary?
As someone who has worked in a packaging capacity in the past, not only are they they worst to deal with they are also garbage for their actual purpose of protecting what you are shipping since your item will settle to the bottom of the box providing no protection from the bottom. Use brown paper folks, it's reusable and recyclable as well as having a million other uses for those inclined.
@@awesomestuff9715 a Single Micro SD card, wrapped in a ton of bubble wrap, then a whole roll of tape. Then place if in an over sizes box full of packing peanuts, then tape all over the box. Then place said box in a wooden crate alongside with more packing peanuts. Plus finally to help keep the crate shut is to use PVA glue with nails to secure it shut. All for a Micro SD card.
I'm glad the package made it to you safely! Thank you for the great video and I look forward to seeing what you do with the Palm! I hope he battery hasn't gone flat on it after years of sitting in a box.
Love to see how people care about oddware and have tons to send, specially when famous ones send stuff and appreciate the work, like the Ready Player One author. Keep being awesome Clint
That classic game pc gamer disk actually had way more than just the 12 games listed on the sleeve. If you opened the disk in explorer rather than running the pc gamer interface it had at least another 12 games hidden in a file folder on the disk
Dude, this is like, the best Christmas ever over and over for you, that is so awesome! I mean our parents had a decent idea with what we would want, but of course, as a fellow nerd, our desires are so niche, and literally every box is full of custom tailored to your niche wants so well! Really cool that you can share it with all your viewers, most of us wouldn't know half of the goodness of any of that. I tended hate old tech as soon as I could get something faster, now have a special appreciation for what it was then and to whom it means so much to now.
Thanks , Made me recall as a small kid, the Vendex systems being sold at the Vroom & Dreesman (a Dutch department store, which went bankrupt some years back). Back in the late 80's. Made by a Philips Computers, great memories checking that computer section back then, with Laser computers as well a pretty black MSX 2, with sweet games. V & D was a big name here in the 80's and even 90's till it went the way of the dodo like most large dep. stores, in the 2000's.
Thanks Clint you make great content and your responsible for my renewed interest into synth. Because of your video TH-cam sent me more videos and it kinda snowballed into my first album! Please keep making videos on random stuff!
Hey Clint! One of my favorite TH-cam channels of all time, always looking forward to what you've got yet! That parcel from Ernie was amazing, that's so cool to find out a touch with celebrity!
I'm 20 now and I've never used a single one of these, but it's so cool to see this kind of stuff and just bask in what was once cutting edge tech and see Clint so happy to see this cool stuff sent in.
I would absolutely watch a full video of you just going through demo discs! Techmoan did that video where he unpacked all those minidisc players long form and then edited a highlights video for anyone who wanted the quick version, maybe give that a shot?
Yeah, the demo disks should probably be a quasi-unboxing video, plus other videos on whichever ones seem fun and/or interesting to do (a) separate video(s) for.
Watching your videos in no particular order, and having found your channel only in 2023, it’s fun to see you open packages on items I have already seen videos about.
4:08 Small typo on the Atari serial number plaques there: "This product may be covered by one or MOR of the following U.S. patents" They do look awesome tho
I love how you sneaked that LPL reference in there. I had one of those bags back in the day and it was awesome that they had a pocket for every little accessory that had to do with a ThinkPad. It should have though because it was like $199 it memory serves correctly. It was a very nice, well built bag.
I love that you received a CompuDyne modem. I still have the CompuDyne 486DX-50 desktop from the same era. So many fond memories of using that system as a kid as well as restoring it to use again now that I'm a "bigger kid". Thank you for the delightful content on your channel.
I know nothing about retro tech, but LGR's Channel always fascinate me. I just got laparoscopic surgery for appendicitis, this video kinda soothe me and make me forget my pain for a while i dunno why.
That’s so awesome that a man that has sold millions of books takes his time out to send you something .. even better it’s signed so you can keep it in your family forever 😀😀
Definitely didn't expect to see King Kong Bundy when I clicked on the video, yet there he was. Awesome video with all this amazing swag from our great community!
It’s funny. Grew up in 90s, got into building my own gaming PCs in early 2000s. I have zero inclination to ever go back, or build a retro rig because the fun for me was largely, as things improved. My mind is blown by the 6900 gpu I have today, and this crazy amd proc sits at like 1% usage most games lol But this channel Clint? You’re reviving a long stagnant joy for PCs and gaming in me by proxy. Reminding me of things that really brought me joy, shaking me free claws of corporate leviathan the gaming industry has become. The demo discs. Right? Just wanted something new, and fun to try. Owning a game, or having bunch dlc, or preordering so can get the Taco Bell deluxe skin and two months advanced battle pass deal…has nothing to do with why I love gaming. Old or new. Thanks for being you dude. And for sharing all this cool old and odd stuff from my youth and beyond. PS. To the degree I dug out old UT2k4 discs, hooked up external blu ray drive to my fancy new-front-drivebayless rig and installed it for first time in over a decade. 4k ut2k4 @60fps is a trip dude lol and it just works, even windows 11, like how wild is that? lol And I finally took time to get a copy of Duke 3D. I know, I know, but I was a wolfenstein 3d and doom kid, no fing way get the Duke past my mom 😂 had hard enough time rationalizing killing demons to her. But ya. Glad humoured algorithm and checked out this channel, cos finally enjoying a gem of an FPS I never got to play as a kid.
17:17 Demo disks were life to me as a teenager. We'd visit all the gaming stores in town and ask if they had any loose discs. Sometimes they'd be from old gaming mags (and had fallen off), or other times they'd be the leftovers that gaming companies had shipped to the game stores to hand out. I remember an MDK2 disc that was like that. Either way, when we didn't have a lot of cash, that was how I checked out any new games at all. Miss those days, a lot!
Oh man. That Compudyne logo hit me real good. My first PC was a Compudyne (also from 1991!) 286 that we immediately upgraded to 386. Eventually, my siblings and I had great memories suping that thing up with various cards and upgrades until about 1997. Really cool to see!
30:10 I have the PS1 version of KISS Pinball. It has imagery of the band, but none of it's music. There's also only 2 tables. It does allow you to swap the disc out of your PS1 & put in a music CD of your choice, though.
Same. I had like ten years worth with PC Gamer spelled out on the spines and most of the demo discs. Kept a few of my favorite issues but can't keep it all. I've found most of the issues as PDFs, though, so that's a good substitute without the physical storage demands.
Perhaps you could make a channel specifically for Demo Disks. Imagine comparing the demo to the real games, as well as sharing the gold you find with us other retro pc gamers
My favorite demo CD was ROTT (Rise of the Triad). I had it for about a week or so before I went and bought the full game. My buddy and I would spend hours via modem play. Great stuff!
Ah! The Heathkit Hero 1! Back in my high school electronics class, we built one of those as the class project that year. The following year our class project was a heathkit H86 terminal computer. Z80 based and ran CPM. I lived in Niles, Michigan and Heathkit was headquartered just a little ways north in Benton Harbor. Being an electronics nerd and ham radio op, my dad and I went up to the Heathkit store quite a few times to buy electronic kit goodies.
Somewhere, there's a cave where Clint lies on a pile of vintage tech and makes dragon noises.
Somewhere in the multiverse, probably.
@@Paul_Ivanish I don't think we need an alternate universe for this to be true...
Lol, this comment has made my day
Variant Clint, the multiverse is an odd, strange, and depending on where you look obsolete place.
Any doujinshi writers out there want $50?
I'm glad I could make you laugh with Cool Crab and Greetings Hotdog! I felt sending them to you was the right place for them. :-)
They're so cool! 🕶🦀🌭
My favorite send as of a quarter way through the video.
🕶️🦀🌭
Very cool Hot Dog! I'll be looking up the web site soon.
Made me laugh too. Excellent design work!
I really like the idea that somehow that grandma was secretly a gamer super into tech and she told her family that she bought all those gadgets for "typing her genealogy research".
My great aunt and uncle fell into that category for a long time. Their Windows XP computer was loaded with games of various genres, Fighter Ace 2, the Microsoft Games collection that had Chips Challenge, Sim City. They had it going on!
She was wrecking fools in WoW
It made me chuckle seeing that boomslang get pulled out of that box. Grandma was definitely a gamer bro.
@@alexsilva28Not far fetched, I have an aunt in her 60s who still raids to this day
Surely I am not the only one, but seeing someone open a whole bunch of cool tech makes me feel so happy knowing that this stuff will be used by someone who loves them rather than being tossed in a landfill. I love all of this too, but I know I don’t have the capacity or knowledge for it. Keep up the fun and exciting videos LGR!
@@RWL2012 that's not true. He tries to make videos of everything that gets sent in some form or fashion, and his point still stands, it's being taken care of
It'd be cool if he was able to do a RetroManCave-style museum/meetup space, but that's a huge amount of effort.
@@RWL2012 some may not be used but it's still appreciated.
@@EasyMac308 I hope to someday! I've looked at a few properties over the past year, so here's hoping it's doable in time
@@LGR - if you do get a space, it will someone's great great grandperson's "Computer Reset".... :)
That old Sharp laptop is something else. I can't really blame you for just firing that up to mess with it. It looks like that sender's grandma really took care of her stuff!
That thing still looks like the future.
@@shkeni i had one was a kid but in black with an amber screen (i think 4500, rather than 4501), seemed futuristic even in like 2002 when it was handed down to me lol
My big brother had one when he went off to college. I got to play with it when he got back. :-) Wrote lots of BASIC programs on that thing. It was a trooper.
Does it run Doom?
Sharp Laptop: My time has come
Some of these handwritten letters have made me realize penmanship is incredibly important when it comes to writing "CLINT"
Don't be a Clint.
Same goes for "CLICK".
kerning matters
There is also FLICK and Pom.
Old local band in Australia was called "Clint Flick". Kerning was important for gig posters.
That little spark of joy when he’s unraveling the “voodoo stuff”. You’re awesome Clint. You’re way to genuine and that’s why I will always watch.
I remember in college working in a mortgage title company office fixing PCs, and one of the old ladies asked me if I played Diablo. Old people can surprise you. She played more Diablo 1 and 2 than I did. Crazy.
Old people playing video games are awesome. I use to play Warframe and my clan leader was a 60 year guy from Boston. When he died from his cirrhosis of the liver some of us were invited to his funeral, apparently he hung out with us more than most people due to being stuck at home all day. John was a great guy.
My dad became addicted to FPS games when Wolfenstein 3D came out, and never looked back (so did I, for that matter). He's a decade passed on now, but now I'm the "old" gamer, and often play on-line with our kids who live a state away. 😛
I think the most interesting thing now about demos of games is how often the demos were created using earlier builds than what ended up being shipped as the finished software. Including things like changed elements, unique levels different mechanics.
Or not even using the final name.
Either that or they picked two or three of the best levels in a game. I bought James Pond, Robocop on the strength of the demo, and got bored with the real game before I got to the levels I enjoyed so much in the demo.
The Half-Life demo was like that. Had nothing to do with the actual levels in the game but served as a really excellent vertical slice of what could be expected from the full game.
Exactly. They are like archeological findings
I'm an expert on the Sim City trading card game! Clint will love it despite it's meh gameplay. The art is all made with actual Polaroid photos of buissnesses and houses of 1990-1994. Buissnesses could send a picture of thier storefront to get it made into a card in the game. Knowing the types of photos Clint likes to take he'll LOVE to look through them
I have a card of Time Square that I pulled that look so incredibly different than it does now, it's wild. You also have the inclusion of a lot of mom and pop stores that no longer exist, including alot of rad spaces for us nerds like arcades, video game and comic shops, and some of the first ever dedicated tabletop gaming stores.
I swear, no one else seems as happy and grateful for the things people send in than Clint.
Absolutely. Adrian Black has gotten a lot better, but man, watching some of his early videos were a bit painful with him making snide comments about the items!
I once sent some things to a TH-camr PO box and they said one of the items was really boring, and they skipped all the other things I sent lol... I was really excited and was eagerly awaiting the unboxing video... I am glad that LGR is as excited as I'm sure all the package senders have been.
@@squirlmy I had forgotten about 8-bit guy made uncomfortable comments as well. I agree they probably get a lot of trash and why they try to screen as best as can and only give out address when know what they are getting. But they do edit the videos, they should just not have included items they made snarky comments about!
I love that this thumbnail goes from 80's to 90's/00's, left to right.
I Remember late 90s/early 00s, demos everywhere! Magazines, cereal boxes, fast food places, give-away at every cash register etc.
I miss those days when software was physical and sometimes even hard to find. Getting a demo disk with a cool game could make my month! And then you could lend it to your friends and share the fun. Today software seems ethereal, temporary. Maybe I'm just getting old, sounding like my parents talk about the 45's-
24:06 it a ps2 passthrough, goes in the keyboard socket for power. Old net cameras used to do that as well!
Indeed! Seems that it might draw the required current from the PCMCIA slot, but the PS/2 port is used for 5V DC
My first thought was ADB, but pausing, I noticed that there are six pins. ADB only has four.
CompUSA cosplay - that was so funny!
It's funny until you learn it's a sexual thing.
@@shhhquiet3927 😳
@@shhhquiet3927 That's even funnier
Sign up for TAP - trust me!
Dude, I am so hyped for these demo disks. My vision of the videos on it would be 1 video a month, deep diving into a few per vid. Content for years man.
Geez, how do you react any more humbly than that to literally receiving books directly from the author, especially someone like Cline. And I mean, the genuine humility from Cline in just, the favorite youtube channel comment. Love it.
*Clint
@@kami-kun_va Twice even. Blame Dvorak somehow.
That's what I like about your video, your excited laughing when this old computer boot up put a smile on my face. I don't know how to express it correctly in english but I fell excited with/for you.
Yes! Even when some things aren't totally "safe", he excitedly decides to go for it. The excitement and happiness in those unboxing moments are contagious
@@blahza12345 contagious! That the word that was eluding me previously. 🤦♀️ My brain need a reboot today
Demo discs were how I played most of the PC games pre-2002 or so. 35 year old me would like to buy 12 year old me a bunch of PC games in their beautiful boxes. That little guy lived PC gaming through sheer imagination and the occasional magazine purchase from Software Etc
That CompUSA badge takes me back. I worked at the Raleigh location in the early 2000's and went from working the floor to working in the repair area. I also had the gold name badge, but mine was engraved. That was a fun 5 years.
"Cybiko extreme Blerb here" hand gestures in front of camera.
Just saying, gonna need that Blerb.
At this point (Even though I don't want Clint to exhaust himself), the blerbs channel is necessary. It's probably the only way Clint can even consider keeping up.
@@IndygoEEI Oh for sure, the blerbs channel is like the best thing for him and us!
"Old fragile glue about to crack" is basically my middle name... LOL
15:42 Oh my gosh, there it is. The Freelancer demo disc from PC Gamer. That's how I discovered Freelancer and good lord I played that demo for MONTHS, straight until I actually bought it, and then I continued to play THAT for over a decade. So glad to just get a glimpse of that old CD sleeve again after all these years!
And the Dungeon Siege demo disc shortly after, wow! I never got the demo disc for Dungeon Siege, my dad got a copy of the game from a co-worker and I snatched that thing up IMMEDIATELY. I still revisit DS2 from time to time as well!
I like to think he was able to identify that Voodoo card by smell alone XD
aw yeah, nearly an hour of retro tech unboxing goodness! i always binge the unboxing series whenever i am down, thank you for the upload LGR
Nice LockPickingLawyer reference
It struck me as odd a while back how many of my favorite TH-camrs watched each other's stuff... but then, I figure they are *my* favorites because we are all interested in the same things, so it kind of makes sense they would also be fans of each other's work.
lol I didn't pick up on that reference until just now
Seeing Ernest Cline make Clint happy also made me happy!
The only place Ready Player Two should go is straight into the bin though. Awful book.
Those demo discs are the coolest thing!! So much nostagia right there. Really looking forward to that video Clint
sir, your channel is truly a oasis of nice emotions here on the platform... no drama, no toxicity, only love and cool things... must say a unique place
That cool crab and hot dog pin are amazing. I'd put them in my hair
OH WOW!!! @ 30:28 you show a brochure from The Vintage Computer Federation in Wall, NJ (I have NO IDEA where in NJ that is) which is my home state and I've been wondering if there is any type of retro computer museum or something like that around here.... I'm guessing it is up in North Jersey (which is the stereotypical image the world has of New Jersey) but I'm in South Jersey (which is TOTALLY DIFFERENT with LOTS of WOODS and FARMLAND and MARSHES and just a lot of OUTDOORS type areas, it's like a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STATE) and it's a REAL PAIN to go up North to visit family or go to places, but I think it might be worth the journey :) - THANKS for showing this Clint, and THANKS to ANDY for sending this goodness in!!! (I still have yet to send in my 386 Laptop lol)
I would be down for an unscripted episodic adventure with the demo discs
Perhaps a series of live streams of Clint loading and playing them...
@@icu22day sign me up
Atari Portfolio... Im hunting for one of this for centuries, they are very rare to find in the place i live, and somebody just sent you one working for free. Lucky you!
Yep… I just got one from the same dude in Houston…
@@rapscallion3506 unfortunately, seems its almost impossible to find one in Europe...
I have got two, one was bougjt and used by my father and he gave it to me around 1997 and the second one I got from a teacher who had no need for it anymore around 1999.
I live in Germany, by the way.
There are indeed a few, on german Ebay.
@@malte9999 well, i live in Belarus and this makes things more complicated... This devices never was sold officially here, so they rarely popup on local auctions and advertisement boards... So, the only way to get one - is ebay, but, since Belarus not in EU, this is also a bit tricky.
Easily the best way to spend my Saturday morning!
Ooh. Its Friday evening for me! :)
Agreed! Good to see a fellow Aussie here.
@@randominternetbro6562 me too.
Your from the future I see.
I see a bright future :)
I had no idea what almost any of these things were but the explanations and unboxing were transfixing!
Please make a video about that Midiscan software, it seems super interesting.
Yes, I'm highly sceptical of it actually working
@@hingeslevers sadly it doesn't 😅 in super ideal conditions (perfect paper with no creases, very clear staves, no changing time signatures or too many dynamics / articulations) it gets relatively close, but even with those it can be inconsistent. Modern ones are better, but still not perfect
@@AlexGelinas42069 Probably explains why that box looks near-mint, it was only used once!
I ran into the boxes for that Vendex a year ago at an estate sale-
Only to open them up to find they were full of stuffed animals. :-(
Really hope they haven't sent out a whole bunch of accidentally blank floppies for review 😆
Could also be the disk. I remember those colored memorex disks were some of the last ones in normal stores like Target, and I recall having a lot of problems with them.
I wonder if perhaps the data got wiped by EMI during the shipping process
@@Evildandalo If that were the case, I'd think that the disk would be completely blank, not have a 0 byte file...
@@AndrewAMartin I once had a damaged floppy that claimed to contain a multi-gigabyte file. All sorts of things can happen with bitwise errors on magnetic media.
@@jondorthebrinkinator I've got a 16gb USB with a 75gb file on it that's "hidden", and can't be renamed, moved, deleted or anything.
Wow the cool crab and hot dog pins made me smile.
Bout to get so much done around the house with this playing on the TV
Been in the field for three weeks and finally found a spot that gets reception. First recommended video and clicked on it right away. Frickin’ love this channel.
Once again something very good to watch. 😄
Go Clint go! 👍
And the video is so long too.
This will be great. ❤
No sponsored ads, no politics, just a man and his tech, I can see why you have so many subs.
Love your videos
I feel you on the packing peanuts. I was sent something that was packed with them and I was furious. They got all over my house and blew all over my yard while I was trying to dispose them (3 trash bags worth!). I work in warehousing and shipping so I knew that they were completely unnecessary for what I bought. Don't use them folks!
so if i theoretically want to send something to my theoretical enemies, i should package it in packing peanuts? just a whole butt load of them when it is completely unnecessary?
As someone who has worked in a packaging capacity in the past, not only are they they worst to deal with they are also garbage for their actual purpose of protecting what you are shipping since your item will settle to the bottom of the box providing no protection from the bottom. Use brown paper folks, it's reusable and recyclable as well as having a million other uses for those inclined.
@@awesomestuff9715 a Single Micro SD card, wrapped in a ton of bubble wrap, then a whole roll of tape.
Then place if in an over sizes box full of packing peanuts, then tape all over the box.
Then place said box in a wooden crate alongside with more packing peanuts.
Plus finally to help keep the crate shut is to use PVA glue with nails to secure it shut.
All for a Micro SD card.
Actually, please use them even more if they rile people up that much LOL
@@richkawaiipikachu genius
And in that microsd card, you put a file of the troll face in it saying "problem?"
I'm glad the package made it to you safely! Thank you for the great video and I look forward to seeing what you do with the Palm! I hope he battery hasn't gone flat on it after years of sitting in a box.
That is so cool you got books from Ernest Cline. My favorite author!
Love to see how people care about oddware and have tons to send, specially when famous ones send stuff and appreciate the work, like the Ready Player One author. Keep being awesome Clint
Ok, not sure how my cat managed to start this video on my locked laptop but i caught her watching when i came home 😀
Smart cat
@@zepwarren2995 A cat with good taste in videos too!
That classic game pc gamer disk actually had way more than just the 12 games listed on the sleeve. If you opened the disk in explorer rather than running the pc gamer interface it had at least another 12 games hidden in a file folder on the disk
If it's slash resistant then call the LPL.
LPL's another one of my favorite YTber!
Dude, this is like, the best Christmas ever over and over for you, that is so awesome! I mean our parents had a decent idea with what we would want, but of course, as a fellow nerd, our desires are so niche, and literally every box is full of custom tailored to your niche wants so well! Really cool that you can share it with all your viewers, most of us wouldn't know half of the goodness of any of that. I tended hate old tech as soon as I could get something faster, now have a special appreciation for what it was then and to whom it means so much to now.
I love how happy he is on opening this stuff!
I had those demo cds too. Loved them. Have a box of them myself still.
yes another unboxing, love them. 😁😁❤❤
Greetings from The Netherlands. 👍👍
Thanks , Made me recall as a small kid, the Vendex systems being sold at the Vroom & Dreesman (a Dutch department store, which went bankrupt some years back). Back in the late 80's. Made by a Philips Computers, great memories checking that computer section back then, with Laser computers as well a pretty black MSX 2, with sweet games. V & D was a big name here in the 80's and even 90's till it went the way of the dodo like most large dep. stores, in the 2000's.
53:47 LockPickingLawyer reference right there! lol
Thanks Clint you make great content and your responsible for my renewed interest into synth. Because of your video TH-cam sent me more videos and it kinda snowballed into my first album! Please keep making videos on random stuff!
I love how Clint and I both say "Look at that!!" At the same time!
That you are Ernest Cline’s favourite TH-camr makes TOTAL sense your channel is the decoder ring for the Easter Eggs in the books and movie
I like the aesthetics of the letters, they seem sent from the past, like when Doc sent letters to Marty
Hey Clint! One of my favorite TH-cam channels of all time, always looking forward to what you've got yet! That parcel from Ernie was amazing, that's so cool to find out a touch with celebrity!
You got some nice MFM drives, especially that Maxtor. Hope they work.
Once again every video you put out seems to be exactly what I’m in the mood to watch. My favorite retro tech channel.
Mmh yes blue adidas box, my favorite.
I'm 20 now and I've never used a single one of these, but it's so cool to see this kind of stuff and just bask in what was once cutting edge tech and see Clint so happy to see this cool stuff sent in.
I would absolutely watch a full video of you just going through demo discs! Techmoan did that video where he unpacked all those minidisc players long form and then edited a highlights video for anyone who wanted the quick version, maybe give that a shot?
Yeah, the demo disks should probably be a quasi-unboxing video, plus other videos on whichever ones seem fun and/or interesting to do (a) separate video(s) for.
Watching your videos in no particular order, and having found your channel only in 2023, it’s fun to see you open packages on items I have already seen videos about.
"Comp USA" cosplay, you are the ultimate nerd.
All the old tech never gets old. The jazz music is a great touch for these videos
4:08 Small typo on the Atari serial number plaques there: "This product may be covered by one or MOR of the following U.S. patents" They do look awesome tho
I love how you sneaked that LPL reference in there. I had one of those bags back in the day and it was awesome that they had a pocket for every little accessory that had to do with a ThinkPad. It should have though because it was like $199 it memory serves correctly. It was a very nice, well built bag.
17:13 Lots of the games my dad brought for us abroad were demos. From DOS demos like Xargon to those black PS1 discs. Had fond memories of those.
RGB monitors are always welcome. It's amazing how vanishingly rare they've become.
I regret giving my old IIyama 21 inch monitor away some years back, it was old but worked great still.
I love that you received a CompuDyne modem. I still have the CompuDyne 486DX-50 desktop from the same era. So many fond memories of using that system as a kid as well as restoring it to use again now that I'm a "bigger kid". Thank you for the delightful content on your channel.
Ernest Cline watches LGR. I could definitely see that, but is still super cool!
A lot of great stuff. I can't believe Ernest Cline is a fan and sent stuff. That's crazy!
strange how this episode seemed to form a theme around "my relavite passed away, here's their stuff"
I know nothing about retro tech, but LGR's Channel always fascinate me. I just got laparoscopic surgery for appendicitis, this video kinda soothe me and make me forget my pain for a while i dunno why.
That’s so awesome that a man that has sold millions of books takes his time out to send you something .. even better it’s signed so you can keep it in your family forever 😀😀
I actually watched this whole thing- that was really fun! Thank you!
When we consider how much filming and editing went into this hour-long production, I feel like we've spent the last week at LGR's place 😋
I’ve been hiding behind his massive big box wall for the past week. Send help.
Definitely didn't expect to see King Kong Bundy when I clicked on the video, yet there he was. Awesome video with all this amazing swag from our great community!
Enjoy the Cyrix, Hope it works out for ya! Looking forward to a video if it does. Take Care
It’s funny. Grew up in 90s, got into building my own gaming PCs in early 2000s.
I have zero inclination to ever go back, or build a retro rig because the fun for me was largely, as things improved. My mind is blown by the 6900 gpu I have today, and this crazy amd proc sits at like 1% usage most games lol
But this channel Clint? You’re reviving a long stagnant joy for PCs and gaming in me by proxy. Reminding me of things that really brought me joy, shaking me free claws of corporate leviathan the gaming industry has become. The demo discs. Right? Just wanted something new, and fun to try. Owning a game, or having bunch dlc, or preordering so can get the Taco Bell deluxe skin and two months advanced battle pass deal…has nothing to do with why I love gaming. Old or new.
Thanks for being you dude. And for sharing all this cool old and odd stuff from my youth and beyond.
PS. To the degree I dug out old UT2k4 discs, hooked up external blu ray drive to my fancy new-front-drivebayless rig and installed it for first time in over a decade. 4k ut2k4 @60fps is a trip dude lol and it just works, even windows 11, like how wild is that? lol
And I finally took time to get a copy of Duke 3D. I know, I know, but I was a wolfenstein 3d and doom kid, no fing way get the Duke past my mom 😂 had hard enough time rationalizing killing demons to her. But ya. Glad humoured algorithm and checked out this channel, cos finally enjoying a gem of an FPS I never got to play as a kid.
I always wanted a atari portfolio. I worked at a commodore store when I was 15, and we sold them. It was very cool
17:17 Demo disks were life to me as a teenager. We'd visit all the gaming stores in town and ask if they had any loose discs. Sometimes they'd be from old gaming mags (and had fallen off), or other times they'd be the leftovers that gaming companies had shipped to the game stores to hand out. I remember an MDK2 disc that was like that. Either way, when we didn't have a lot of cash, that was how I checked out any new games at all. Miss those days, a lot!
Please do a Demo Disc series. We lost that with Funhaus, we need it from you!
I miss that show. Just ain't the same after they booted Adam Kovic.
Oh man. That Compudyne logo hit me real good. My first PC was a Compudyne (also from 1991!) 286 that we immediately upgraded to 386. Eventually, my siblings and I had great memories suping that thing up with various cards and upgrades until about 1997. Really cool to see!
Digital Research CD drive, the first CD drive to come with CP/M installed out of the box! 😅
30:10 I have the PS1 version of KISS Pinball. It has imagery of the band, but none of it's music. There's also only 2 tables. It does allow you to swap the disc out of your PS1 & put in a music CD of your choice, though.
I recycled those PC Gamer magazines around 10 years ago. 😭
I'm a little surprised they are hard to find. I can think of at least one friend who collected them to spell out PC GAMER on the shelf.
Same. I had like ten years worth with PC Gamer spelled out on the spines and most of the demo discs. Kept a few of my favorite issues but can't keep it all. I've found most of the issues as PDFs, though, so that's a good substitute without the physical storage demands.
Clint “I gotta find me one of those” I love it when he changes his voice. The robot section in the book.
Perhaps you could make a channel specifically for Demo Disks. Imagine comparing the demo to the real games, as well as sharing the gold you find with us other retro pc gamers
Giant Bomb had their "Demo Derby" series which isn't too far off from what you described =)
And then he breaks the discs once he's done with the demo.
@@BlackMage666 Will that be with or without the Rule 34?
My favorite demo CD was ROTT (Rise of the Triad). I had it for about a week or so before I went and bought the full game. My buddy and I would spend hours via modem play. Great stuff!
That moment when the laptop works and he keeps doing things with it. So much joy.
Oooh, I love it when another one of these pops up! The extras from Vanishing Pearl are so rad!
wow getting those books signed by the author is amazing!!! Armada is prob my fav
Looking forward to the Timex video. That watch was basically magic when it came out.
God. Cyrix. That takes me back!
Me too. My first 486-like system had a Cyrix proc. 😉
Ah! The Heathkit Hero 1! Back in my high school electronics class, we built one of those as the class project that year. The following year our class project was a heathkit H86 terminal computer. Z80 based and ran CPM.
I lived in Niles, Michigan and Heathkit was headquartered just a little ways north in Benton Harbor. Being an electronics nerd and ham radio op, my dad and I went up to the Heathkit store quite a few times to buy electronic kit goodies.