That is some awesome stuff. That 4,800 yen screen saver from 1995 would have been worth about $50 contemporaneously, which accounting for inflation is about $100. They've been strangling anime fans for their money for over 25 years. Good stuff.
The anime Maison Ikkoku is a romantic comedy from 1986, one of my favorites. The manga artist was Rumiko Takahashi who is one of if not the most famous manga author in Japan. She also created Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, and Urusei Yatsura.
30:07 That looks like an anti-fade cover. When I was young some shops would have a yellow clear plastic sheet in the front of the shop window to stop fading. Without it all the colours except for blue would fade away.
@@LGR if yours has the 1.0 disc try to stick with that. Cathode ray dude used the updated software and his became slightly less functional after about 20 minutes. I just found one of the thrift store this past week and the 1.0 software has been fine.
That's not Ranma 1/2, that's Maison Ikkoku, by the same person though, really good 80's era slice of life. That screensaver is a trip, thanks for taking the time to load it up.
@@LGR theres something extremely ironic in those plastic highly disposable keyboards simulating wood and Budda as if they were a testament to nature and environment
had a double-take when you showed the Maison Ikkoku screen saver pack haha! Weirdly specific and underrated anime from the 80s. It's by the same creator as Ranma 1/2, so I could see why the sender got it mixed up!
Urusei Yatsura & Inuyasha would be better references millennials would get, since Urusei Yatsura just got a new anime, and many millennials saw Inuyasha when it aired on TV.
12:18 the anime is called Maison Ikkoku in Italy, and it is one of my earliest memories. It's a coming of age romantic comedy with definitely adult themes going on. Now I'm going to get my tears bucket now after remembering it :') That's a neat gift! cheers!
Yeah. That anime is definitely NOT Ranma 1/2. It is Maison Ikkoku. Totally different stories. However, both anime series are creations of Rumiko Takahashi.
45:00 - I've been a subscriber of Marc's channel for a really long time (Almost as long as yours Cilnt, been subscribed here since oddware with excessive beard) and popped when I saw the LGR Colaberation Video on his channel and completely assimilates the calculator (in a Non-Borg way of course). Always love these videos and smile and think "Yeah, I do remember that on store shelves back in the day" and the sheer amount of support the community gives Cilnt too.
Very cool! That Sound Blaster 4.1 set up brought back memories for me. Great kit. I then upgraded it down the line to a black 5.1 version that cost a big chunk of my student loan back in the early 00s. Good Times!
I had had no clue there was a screensaver of Maison Ikkou anime characters. I've read the manga and loved it over the anime. That and all the other items are great finds for your collection LGR.
Ahh, I love these videos. It is better than christmas. So many awesome things coming from fans, to a dedicated guy who really knows how to take care of it.
I just realized that the reason I like watching these videos is because it invokes the feelings I had as a kid at christmas. So I think you are on to something :P
The abacus wristnet was actually a pretty cool system at the time. Most major cities had a radio transmitter that would broadcast data to the watches. Things such as daily weather, news, stocks would get sent daily to the watches for free. With the subscription you were able to customize the data to your watch specifically. Each watch had a unique data id/serial, and you tied it to your msn account. It allowed you to tailor specific weather, news, stock info, sports scores, additional time faces/backgrounds. As well as being able to receive MSN messenger messages to the watch directly, pretty cool when you think about it, when folks would send you msn messenger messages they would typically appear on the watch in about 10-15min. The watches were not able to transmit any info, so it was plainly a "receiver". The antenna is located in the band (depending on the model, the clasp had a contact inside to complete the antenna circuit when closed. My friend and I snatched up one each when Tigerdirect were starting to clear them out (early 2000's?). Definitely one of the highest tech watches at the time. I believe fossil and swatch made these writsnet units. They had a cool induction charger bay/dock, and you would get about a day, 1.5 days max out of a charge iirc. I had one living on the outskirts of Toronto (50km away from the tower), and i would average around 40-60% signal strength I hope Clint does a full overview on the unit. Hopefully wayback machine has the original sites archived, there was alot of good info on them about how the system worked. In the settings menu of the phone it would also show radio frequency strength and battery % and a few other neat tibits. Smartphones basically killed this system off with internet connectivity.
Harry! Can you please share/sell the graphics used for those mousepads? Or maybe a place where I could contact you to buy some printed mousepads directly ?(Im from europe too)
@@Arella_aegyo Hi! I was actually thinking about making a 90s style website were I can share all the files. And then anyone can have them printed at their local printing company. As well maybe people can send their own designs so they can be shared on that website.
14:04 I recognize that art style. It was made by the famous manga (japanese comic books) artist, Rumiko Takahashi, creator of famous manga/anime like Ranma 1/2 or Yurusei Yatsura (also known as "Lum").
Clint, I have that Cambridge Soundworks speaker system, though mine was in a stand alone package with none of the other items bundles in like in the package you have there. I bought it in 99, and it has been in near constant use in my setups ever since. For their size, they put out some great sound!
Yeah I had the stand alone ones too. I remember they came with plastic tripods for the backspeakers but because they got in the way I taped them to the ceiling!
That looks so cool and not that pricey either considering. Too bad i dont need to build anything now/my current piano black box got similar minimal aesthetics but this one tickles me just right.
The Cubeor Kanto wooden case sells around 300 bucks, so it's like a mini-computer worth of a case. The sustainable birch wood can 'live' a little, so closing the doors is a more careful affair than is usual. Did you know that birch is the national tree of Finland? You can drink the sap with something and make tea. The leaves and branches are used tying them together in a 'vihta', the thing you can whip yourself with in a sauna - useful to aid circulation. Naturally, saunas help remove toxins always and improve relaxing. Cubeor has videos of putting together the insides of a PC, and how the components are placed differently than usual - airflow is really fine. A good-looking case.
I did a very large deployment of those Intermecs. It was a large trucking company and they did the version with 2G wireless WAN adapters built in. We found one actually used as a tire chock.
53:10 - Micropolis were known for their A/V rated hard drives (for use in video capture systems). They were also known for running incredibly hot and dying young. Which explains why you don’t see specimens very often these days.
Annnnnnnnddd no 5 1/4'' bays... Even with a supposedly "retro" case. I'm starting to get really sick of case manufacturers just ignoring them nowadays in favor of MOAR FANS that aren't actually needed for most users. And by the way, no, the bays can be used for much more than just optical drives. I myself have a SATA drive hot swap bay. It is so choice. lol
@@arnox4554 When I upgraded last year I specifically bought a Phanteks Enthoo Pro so I'd have options for future upgrades as needed. Full towers with front bays are becoming so rare these days, but this one has a three of them plus a fake fourth one that hides the front IO.
@@emerje0 I actually have that same case! It's a really damn good one except for two issues. One, there's a metal overhang over the PCI-e bracket area, so it makes screwing and unscrewing the metal brackets really annoying. And two, it's a heavy bastard. I dread having to pick it up at all.
Absolutely and thank you again! Getting lots of requests to cover it today now that I've posted a video about the Diamond Trackstar, which kinda does the opposite :)
@@LGR Yeah, i thought that was funny, basically the exact opppsite. I actually just emailed you about something I have that should pair nicely with it also.
My father had those exact same Cambridge Soundworks 4.1 speaker set when I was growing up. the set we had came with little legs for the rear speakers you would set up behind your computer chair. I remember my father and I playing half life 1 with them and getting spooked by headcrabs. if you left them on all day you would occasionally pick up CB radios from local truckers on them, and they would ALWAYS get that classic buzzing noise right before receiving a text message or phone call.
Nice, a Maison Ikkoku screen saver, I like these DOS-V, japanese Windows software, it's a unique kind of aesthetic with those pixelated graphics. I remember wanting a Ranma 1/2 software pack on a CD a friend had for his Amiga.
Until probably 2008 or so, blind folks in the US who got magazines from the Library of Congress National Library Service for the blind and print-disabled got them on flexible discs. Can't remember if like the cassettes they played back at a custom half-speed, but it's a good bet that they did. They didn't actually bother making them round though-they were square! Last time I used these things was early to mid 90s. Some years later the business card CD caught on and it kind of reminded me of those old square records. BTW Clint, Ranma 1/2 … literally anything can become an impromptu martial arts competition at a second's notice. The story about the 1/2 part is maybe something they just wouldn't do today, but I totally recommend the show otherwise because it's just ridiculous in the best way possible.
That Japanese Screensaver pack is from the anime Maison Ikkoku, written by Takahashi Rumiko back in the early to late 1980s. I recognized Yusaku and Kyoko on the cover!
I used to have that exact same Gravis ultrasound PnP card. It's a baller of a card. It Also features 9v phantom power on the mic output which happens to be enough to power most condenser microphones.
Ah, the ASP upgrade, this brings back memories - I still have the box (however not sealed), the chip and the card (in one of my retro machines). It was my second sound card (after the Soundblaster CT1320B 1.0 (with CMS on it)/1.5 (with CMS upgrade option - actually can't remember if I had CMS or not) where you now also have the empty box of) and actually, a colleague of my father recommended it and put it in my PC. When I later started upgrading the PC myself, I recognized the empty socket and the "ASP" on the invoice for the sound card which made me suspicious. The dealer, actually a very great local store back then, agreed on the mistake but as exchanging a meantime 2 year old card was not an option provided me the upgrade kit which I put in myself. The demos for Q Sound and Text to Speech were impressing, the disappointment was that nearly nothing supported this - I think there were one or two DOS/Early Windows 95 games that supported Q Sound and the 3D Pseudo Surround was noticable, but not much around for this.
@@EuropeanQoheleth Exactly, the majority of films were shit even back in the day. if you think about it, its kind of a limited medium for story telling, only so much you can do in that time frame. that's where Tv shows shine imo!
My first pc I used was in grade three and it was an Atari 400 useing the poke and plot command to make a moving Santa sled across the sky for a class project for Xmas back in 1982 or 83
Weekend evening somewhere in 1997: ''Gotta get the KY Jelly while the Lust! is loading'' *sounds of ultra compressed 11025Hz audio AVI videos in the backround*
I enjoy all your videos. Im not a collector but love the retro tech because it was new tech when i was of that age hehe. In this video it was fun to see Kid Pixs and those ergonomic keyboards
The flexi disk sparked a primal memory. Has LGR ever covered the scannable software that used to be distributed in “strips” in magazines? They had a reader wand that plugged into a serial or mouse port, and you’d scan and it would type a program in basic into the computer (typically AppleSoft Basic).
My first PC experience at school was also the Apple IIe and IIgs starting in kindergarten (1988). I fondly remember those times as some of my earliest memories. Computers were so interesting to me. I still remember putting the Oregon trail disks in the huge 5.25" floppy drives. The sounds the computers made when you booted them. And the little screen savers with the apple going back and forth on a line. It was a special treat to go to the computer lab as that was the only room in the school that was air conditioned.
Ahhh yess... Cambridge Soundworks brings some memories. Back in early 00s i was configuring a system for a customer who happened to purchase DTT2200 system (SB Live 5.1 bundled with 5.1 Cambridge speakers). When i heard EAX and a song in AC3 with instruments separated into different channels on those tiny yet crazy powerful speakers, i knew i had to have one. Next day i've ordered exactly same set for myself and i'm using most of it until now - for more than 20 years. Most of it, because my SB Live! unfortunately died when a faulty power supply in my old desktop fried the whole system, but even in 2.1 configuration the speakers sound unlike anything else.
Oh man, that Sony Vaio P series brought back some memories of me being fascinated at the sheer miniaturization of the damn thing back in the day. I don't know about that specific model, but i definitely remember seeing that series for sale here in Portugal. IIRC they phased them out for the Sony Tablet S series (the ones with the folded magazine style!) of which i did own one!
One of the most peaceful and calming types of videos to show up in the feed. Love these, especially great to watch while doing mindless chores at work. Thanks for this!
That woodgrain PC case feels like it'd be a great fit for an XP machine. Could go even older but much older and you dont really need that much cooling, and while it's wood the style is definitely more modern than an 80s/90s feeling machine
I have a couple flexi-discs myself! They don't last nearly as much as vinyl, and sound worse when they're new, but some are still made and they're cool to have as collectors items. They used to sometimes come on the sides of cereal boxes.
Kid Pix 3D was on all of the school computers when I was in elementary school - I've got so many fun memories messing around with it when I had free time in the library back then!
Those mouse pads from Harry are beyond awesome! By any chance did he upload the master images anywhere, or perhaps a link for buying from him? Would love to add a couple of those to my collection, and I’m sure a lot of others here would too!
That Sony Viao! I've wanted one of those (or similar) for YEARS. They're so expensive but the design is so wonderful while also being so woefully weak. The GPD laptop devices feel like a nod to it at least. That netbook era seems so specific and strange now, existing in the time where smartphones weren't smart enough but the idea of a desktop was starting to look archaic.
Great episode, I got a few super christmas gift ideas out of it, one of them being that history of the computer book. I will give it to my niece, as an encouragement that it's cool to like computers too, when you are a girl. Oh, and I will buy that wooden PC case for myself
21:26 That Sony Vaio had the highest resolution screen for the size at the time it came out. It is just small enough to put into a big pocket and the keyboard is just big enough to be comfortable. It is perfect for writers on the go and has a dongle attachment. There are also 6 hour batteries that you can still order for it. It is an excellent mini laptop. I searched through so many old and new small laptops before I decided to get one and it was worth the wait. One of the best purchases I ever made.
oh man i had completely forgotten about the simpsons intel commercial! man, what a nostalgia blast. reminds me of all the novelty mice and stuff you used to be able to buy as well. i miss that era of pc weird, honestly
1.04.20 : I still use those Cambridge Soundworks speakers with my current PC. I got them for my very first PC, that I got when I moved out on my own 22+ years ago... Tried other speakers from time to time. Never found any that sound better than these tiny things.... :)
I like these videos, I can live vicariously through you and I don't need to find a place to store all these things. That's your problem. lol :) Have a good rest of the year Clint.
Quick blurb about reed switches - I was in Japan in 2019 and all of the ATMs at the 7-11s had a glorious hyper-retro reed switches numerical keypad. And that is one of the millions of reasons Japan is so special. ( I remember going to Citibank with my mom in 1978 and the teller machines used pretty much the exact switches the 7/11 ATMs in Japan would use 40-somethi g years later.)
The Creative package with the Cambridge Soundworks speakers is awesome! I did a review of the CSW Model 12, a stereo inside a suitcase, a few years ago. The video didn't get much love but those units are so cool! Great video as always, like we were with you opening the packages, thanks for sharing the experience 👌
We had that MPC Wizard at the computer shop I worked at back in the day. I don't remember if we ever had the Creative Labs full multimedia kits, but we certainly sold that model of the Creative surround speakers. We did often use boxed "full multimedia kits", but they weren't Creative Labs. I can't remember if they had a brand name on them, I think some company just boxed the parts and sold them as kits to shops. I keep wanting to get one of the old multimedia kit boxes we used, I have a client who still has one sitting on a shelf in their office. I didn't remember Celerons were around in the 98 era.
That Sharp calculator brought back some memories. My dad used to have one of the later models and used that thing for family bills & eventually when he got started as a CPA.
@12:10 that, is a really good anime. WOW oh yes! wow, Wall Papers were a thing back in the day! Really nostalgic! people don't care about them anymore! hahaha 🤣🤣
For the computer case, consider building an emulation machine. Maybe something that would faithfully emulate anything from an Atari 2600 to a PS3, from Dos to Windows 11. You don't need to throw an Nvidia 4090 into it. PS3 runs well on my 1650 Super, as does PS1 & 2. Maybe figure out a way to output a Composite/S-Video signal and use a TV as a monitor for the older games/systems. Absolutely love the case.
Oh man that tiny lil sony vaio looks so cool, would have absolutely loved one of those at the time. Seems like a great machine for reading 00s visual novels in bed.
Clint you *ARE* among the legends. You deserve to be in that book.
Well I appreciate that :)
@@LGR hey
@@LGR could you please do the PC 98 and Corpse party?
Real shit
We need an *LGR: After Dark* for that Lust game. 😂
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@@TheNiteNinja19 LMAO
and we really need to know what else was on that receipt 😆
@@philcarter9738 Do you *really* want to know? I think I can do without. lol
LGR crossover with Leisure Suit Larry (R.I.P Jan Robson )
That is some awesome stuff. That 4,800 yen screen saver from 1995 would have been worth about $50 contemporaneously, which accounting for inflation is about $100. They've been strangling anime fans for their money for over 25 years. Good stuff.
The anime Maison Ikkoku is a romantic comedy from 1986, one of my favorites. The manga artist was Rumiko Takahashi who is one of if not the most famous manga author in Japan. She also created Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, and Urusei Yatsura.
I'd love to put this on my 486 😸
@@oldmanonyoutube Came here to essentially say this. I will point out Rumi-sensei whenever I see her in the wild.
To be fair, most anime fans (to which I can count myself somewhat) react to new products or merchandise like Gollum: "It mussst be mine!"
30:07 That looks like an anti-fade cover. When I was young some shops would have a yellow clear plastic sheet in the front of the shop window to stop fading. Without it all the colours except for blue would fade away.
31:43 There I am! I’m glad I could send something in, even if it is just a scanner mouse. Thanks Clint!
What a weird little doohickie, I can't wait to test it 😄
@@LGR if yours has the 1.0 disc try to stick with that. Cathode ray dude used the updated software and his became slightly less functional after about 20 minutes. I just found one of the thrift store this past week and the 1.0 software has been fine.
That's not Ranma 1/2, that's Maison Ikkoku, by the same person though, really good 80's era slice of life. That screensaver is a trip, thanks for taking the time to load it up.
As shown on-screen at 12:09, yes :)
There's a link to download it in the video description if you're interested!
@@LGR Oops I must have been looking away at that moment. TBH your package openings and thrift videos function as ASMR for me, in the best of ways.
Creator - Rumiko Takahashi
I am happy to see the keyboards I sent you arrived in one piece! Thanks for featuring them in your video.
Thank you again for sending them!
thanks for the laughs wow
@@LGR theres something extremely ironic in those plastic highly disposable keyboards simulating wood and Budda as if they were a testament to nature and environment
lol the buddha one
So glad the sound blaster box made its way to you! Happy to contribute to the ever growing LGR museum of tech ✌🏻
You're a legend
had a double-take when you showed the Maison Ikkoku screen saver pack haha! Weirdly specific and underrated anime from the 80s. It's by the same creator as Ranma 1/2, so I could see why the sender got it mixed up!
One of the most underrated anime/manga series of the 80s (probably my second favorite of all time). A lucky find for the sender.
Rumiko Takahashi? She's written _a _*_lot_* of manga over the years.
Urusei Yatsura & Inuyasha would be better references millennials would get, since Urusei Yatsura just got a new anime, and many millennials saw Inuyasha when it aired on TV.
@@kintozero3169 Inuyasha got a new anime recently too (Yashahime).
I think it was her only seinen, as well.
12:18 the anime is called Maison Ikkoku in Italy, and it is one of my earliest memories. It's a coming of age romantic comedy with definitely adult themes going on. Now I'm going to get my tears bucket now after remembering it :') That's a neat gift! cheers!
Yeah. That anime is definitely NOT Ranma 1/2. It is Maison Ikkoku. Totally different stories. However, both anime series are creations of Rumiko Takahashi.
26:43 I never actually intended there to be actual packing peanuts. 😂
@@Rosiestoned Birthed
@@Rosiestoned it was the post office who put them in
@@snipe4402 They do that? Unprompted?
@@More_Row I guess so
That was one of the funniest gags I’ve ever seen.
I still have that Cambridge Soundworks speaker system. I have been using it for the last 24 years, and it has been fantastic that entire time.
Same.
Man every time one of these comes out, it's like a trailer for everything that's coming up.
45:00 - I've been a subscriber of Marc's channel for a really long time (Almost as long as yours Cilnt, been subscribed here since oddware with excessive beard) and popped when I saw the LGR Colaberation Video on his channel and completely assimilates the calculator (in a Non-Borg way of course). Always love these videos and smile and think "Yeah, I do remember that on store shelves back in the day" and the sheer amount of support the community gives Cilnt too.
Ayyy old timers unite! I first came around with the old sims 3 reviews and I've stuck around since. Good stuff!
Very cool! That Sound Blaster 4.1 set up brought back memories for me. Great kit. I then upgraded it down the line to a black 5.1 version that cost a big chunk of my student loan back in the early 00s. Good Times!
I had had no clue there was a screensaver of Maison Ikkou anime characters. I've read the manga and loved it over the anime.
That and all the other items are great finds for your collection LGR.
Ahh, I love these videos. It is better than christmas. So many awesome things coming from fans, to a dedicated guy who really knows how to take care of it.
I just realized that the reason I like watching these videos is because it invokes the feelings I had as a kid at christmas. So I think you are on to something :P
The abacus wristnet was actually a pretty cool system at the time. Most major cities had a radio transmitter that would broadcast data to the watches. Things such as daily weather, news, stocks would get sent daily to the watches for free. With the subscription you were able to customize the data to your watch specifically. Each watch had a unique data id/serial, and you tied it to your msn account. It allowed you to tailor specific weather, news, stock info, sports scores, additional time faces/backgrounds. As well as being able to receive MSN messenger messages to the watch directly, pretty cool when you think about it, when folks would send you msn messenger messages they would typically appear on the watch in about 10-15min. The watches were not able to transmit any info, so it was plainly a "receiver". The antenna is located in the band (depending on the model, the clasp had a contact inside to complete the antenna circuit when closed. My friend and I snatched up one each when Tigerdirect were starting to clear them out (early 2000's?). Definitely one of the highest tech watches at the time. I believe fossil and swatch made these writsnet units. They had a cool induction charger bay/dock, and you would get about a day, 1.5 days max out of a charge iirc.
I had one living on the outskirts of Toronto (50km away from the tower), and i would average around 40-60% signal strength
I hope Clint does a full overview on the unit. Hopefully wayback machine has the original sites archived, there was alot of good info on them about how the system worked. In the settings menu of the phone it would also show radio frequency strength and battery % and a few other neat tibits. Smartphones basically killed this system off with internet connectivity.
Those speakers and subwoofer are still my daily PC Tower sound option. Still works perfectly after all these years (1998).
This is the exactly kind of vibe I was needing tonight. An hour's worth of unboxing, yeaaah let's go
cup of coffee + LGR’s video = nice morning indeed ☕️
absolutely right!
add a wood grain coaster and its a great morning :)
Mine was an afternoon coffee with an LGR video 😆
Am actually taking a cup of ☕ in the morning while watching this vid, nice.
What a coincidence! I am glad you recieved the classic Macintosh mousepad at the same time you recieve the computer itself! 😉
Same, that was perfect timing!
Harry! Can you please share/sell the graphics used for those mousepads? Or maybe a place where I could contact you to buy some printed mousepads directly ?(Im from europe too)
@@Arella_aegyo Hi! I was actually thinking about making a 90s style website were I can share all the files. And then anyone can have them printed at their local printing company. As well maybe people can send their own designs so they can be shared on that website.
@@Arella_aegyo but meanwhile of course I can send you by email the files. Is there a way you can send a PM via TH-cam to share your email?
@@Harry-by2us even an Etsy store would be great, they look awesome and I'd love to get some
14:04 I recognize that art style. It was made by the famous manga (japanese comic books) artist, Rumiko Takahashi, creator of famous manga/anime like Ranma 1/2 or Yurusei Yatsura (also known as "Lum").
Urusei Yatsura (Those Obnoxious Aliens) Is the most fun from Takahashi.
Clint you are a wordsmith for the ages... ""I enjoyed perusing the last one, while taking a multitude of dumps". LOL
I used to have a couple "Bathroom Reader" books. They' would've gone well in Clint's bathroom, if he doesn't already have some of that series himself.
Clint, I have that Cambridge Soundworks speaker system, though mine was in a stand alone package with none of the other items bundles in like in the package you have there. I bought it in 99, and it has been in near constant use in my setups ever since. For their size, they put out some great sound!
A friend of mine had one back in the day! I remember that subwoofer going hard.
Yeah I had the stand alone ones too. I remember they came with plastic tripods for the backspeakers but because they got in the way I taped them to the ceiling!
Same. They're sitting right here on my desk. Listened to the vid through them.
That wood panel PC case is amazing! Looking forward to the build video!
That looks so cool and not that pricey either considering. Too bad i dont need to build anything now/my current piano black box got similar minimal aesthetics but this one tickles me just right.
I don’t know 90% of the stuff he covers but damm I love it
I'm at about 98%, and same haha
The Cubeor Kanto wooden case sells around 300 bucks, so it's like a mini-computer worth of a case. The sustainable birch wood can 'live' a little, so closing the doors is a more careful affair than is usual. Did you know that birch is the national tree of Finland? You can drink the sap with something and make tea. The leaves and branches are used tying them together in a 'vihta', the thing you can whip yourself with in a sauna - useful to aid circulation. Naturally, saunas help remove toxins always and improve relaxing. Cubeor has videos of putting together the insides of a PC, and how the components are placed differently than usual - airflow is really fine. A good-looking case.
I was just looking for a LGR mail episode yesterday and here it is! marvelous!
I did a very large deployment of those Intermecs. It was a large trucking company and they did the version with 2G wireless WAN adapters built in. We found one actually used as a tire chock.
53:10 - Micropolis were known for their A/V rated hard drives (for use in video capture systems). They were also known for running incredibly hot and dying young. Which explains why you don’t see specimens very often these days.
Oh wow a Mac Plus, my grandparents had one. I've played so many games of Squix on that.
The sound it makes when ejecting a disk. So nostalgia.
OMG, I remember using the Mac Plus as an adult! and you just made me feel very old. Not even just your parents', your "grandparents'"!!!!! 🤢
The Screensavor is from an anime called Maison Ikkoku. Sweet find! I love that series because of it's sweet 80s art.
Gamers Nexus needs to do a review of that case! It looks incredible!
Annnnnnnnddd no 5 1/4'' bays... Even with a supposedly "retro" case. I'm starting to get really sick of case manufacturers just ignoring them nowadays in favor of MOAR FANS that aren't actually needed for most users. And by the way, no, the bays can be used for much more than just optical drives. I myself have a SATA drive hot swap bay. It is so choice. lol
@@arnox4554 When I upgraded last year I specifically bought a Phanteks Enthoo Pro so I'd have options for future upgrades as needed. Full towers with front bays are becoming so rare these days, but this one has a three of them plus a fake fourth one that hides the front IO.
@@emerje0 I actually have that same case! It's a really damn good one except for two issues. One, there's a metal overhang over the PCI-e bracket area, so it makes screwing and unscrewing the metal brackets really annoying. And two, it's a heavy bastard. I dread having to pick it up at all.
I am glad that the PC Transporter Card found its way to you safely! Thanks again and hope it brings you some fun Clint!
Absolutely and thank you again! Getting lots of requests to cover it today now that I've posted a video about the Diamond Trackstar, which kinda does the opposite :)
@@LGR Yeah, i thought that was funny, basically the exact opppsite.
I actually just emailed you about something I have that should pair nicely with it also.
My father had those exact same Cambridge Soundworks 4.1 speaker set when I was growing up. the set we had came with little legs for the rear speakers you would set up behind your computer chair. I remember my father and I playing half life 1 with them and getting spooked by headcrabs.
if you left them on all day you would occasionally pick up CB radios from local truckers on them, and they would ALWAYS get that classic buzzing noise right before receiving a text message or phone call.
45:55 that Fry's price tag, that brings me back. RIP in peace, Fry's
Just wanna say Clint, life ain't always a blast, but your channel always cheers me up. Thank you for being you.
That wooden case is amazing! Maybe you could make a media center PC with it. Seems like it would fit well with an AV setup!
Nice, a Maison Ikkoku screen saver, I like these DOS-V, japanese Windows software, it's a unique kind of aesthetic with those pixelated graphics. I remember wanting a Ranma 1/2 software pack on a CD a friend had for his Amiga.
YES! I love hour long LGR's. Thank you.
Until probably 2008 or so, blind folks in the US who got magazines from the Library of Congress National Library Service for the blind and print-disabled got them on flexible discs. Can't remember if like the cassettes they played back at a custom half-speed, but it's a good bet that they did. They didn't actually bother making them round though-they were square! Last time I used these things was early to mid 90s. Some years later the business card CD caught on and it kind of reminded me of those old square records.
BTW Clint, Ranma 1/2 … literally anything can become an impromptu martial arts competition at a second's notice. The story about the 1/2 part is maybe something they just wouldn't do today, but I totally recommend the show otherwise because it's just ridiculous in the best way possible.
That Japanese Screensaver pack is from the anime Maison Ikkoku, written by Takahashi Rumiko back in the early to late 1980s. I recognized Yusaku and Kyoko on the cover!
"It's made of the same plastic as a cup of yogurt." Hahah classic.
I used to have that exact same Gravis ultrasound PnP card. It's a baller of a card. It Also features 9v phantom power on the mic output which happens to be enough to power most condenser microphones.
Ah, the ASP upgrade, this brings back memories - I still have the box (however not sealed), the chip and the card (in one of my retro machines). It was my second sound card (after the Soundblaster CT1320B 1.0 (with CMS on it)/1.5 (with CMS upgrade option - actually can't remember if I had CMS or not) where you now also have the empty box of) and actually, a colleague of my father recommended it and put it in my PC. When I later started upgrading the PC myself, I recognized the empty socket and the "ASP" on the invoice for the sound card which made me suspicious. The dealer, actually a very great local store back then, agreed on the mistake but as exchanging a meantime 2 year old card was not an option provided me the upgrade kit which I put in myself.
The demos for Q Sound and Text to Speech were impressing, the disappointment was that nearly nothing supported this - I think there were one or two DOS/Early Windows 95 games that supported Q Sound and the 3D Pseudo Surround was noticable, but not much around for this.
It's quite amazing that we live in a time when the average movie is less entertaining that watching someone open packages for the same length of time.
Eh people keep bashing on the movies nowadays but there were always a lot of bad ones.
@@EuropeanQoheleth Exactly, the majority of films were shit even back in the day. if you think about it, its kind of a limited medium for story telling, only so much you can do in that time frame. that's where Tv shows shine imo!
Never gave it a thought when I was younger. But it is, indeed, entertaining.
I think its more the trash that has been shown on tv the last few years
My first pc I used was in grade three and it was an Atari 400 useing the poke and plot command to make a moving Santa sled across the sky for a class project for Xmas back in 1982 or 83
The creative speakers brought back some memories for me. I plugged them into my SB Live! and they sounded great ! Mine where the same model (UK)
Weekend evening somewhere in 1997:
''Gotta get the KY Jelly while the Lust! is loading''
*sounds of ultra compressed 11025Hz audio AVI videos in the backround*
And don't forget to play "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards" (I think that was the full title). Plus "Teen Queen" for the Apple IIGS.
Man you have good timing, I almost had to go do things...an hour of procrastination, here I come!
I think the Alf stickers were my favorite...thats some stick-on nostalgia right there lol
the way my ears perked up at the Ranma 1/2 screensaver software, haha. that's so cool and cute I love it!!!
I love seeing these videos coming out because I know some blurbs are in-store!
IBM had a plant in Scotland that was so big, British Rail dedicated a station to it: IBM Halt. It was 25+1⁄2 miles (41 km) west of Glasgow Central.
I enjoy all your videos. Im not a collector but love the retro tech because it was new tech when i was of that age hehe. In this video it was fun to see Kid Pixs and those ergonomic keyboards
The flexi disk sparked a primal memory. Has LGR ever covered the scannable software that used to be distributed in “strips” in magazines? They had a reader wand that plugged into a serial or mouse port, and you’d scan and it would type a program in basic into the computer (typically AppleSoft Basic).
That wooden case looks like it belongs next to a 70s hi-fi system, right next to the Tandberg r2r. 😍
I was thinking the same thing.
My first PC experience at school was also the Apple IIe and IIgs starting in kindergarten (1988). I fondly remember those times as some of my earliest memories. Computers were so interesting to me. I still remember putting the Oregon trail disks in the huge 5.25" floppy drives. The sounds the computers made when you booted them. And the little screen savers with the apple going back and forth on a line. It was a special treat to go to the computer lab as that was the only room in the school that was air conditioned.
This guy installed japanese windows 98 to test out a screen saver. True legend.
Ahhh yess... Cambridge Soundworks brings some memories.
Back in early 00s i was configuring a system for a customer who happened to purchase DTT2200 system (SB Live 5.1 bundled with 5.1 Cambridge speakers). When i heard EAX and a song in AC3 with instruments separated into different channels on those tiny yet crazy powerful speakers, i knew i had to have one. Next day i've ordered exactly same set for myself and i'm using most of it until now - for more than 20 years.
Most of it, because my SB Live! unfortunately died when a faulty power supply in my old desktop fried the whole system, but even in 2.1 configuration the speakers sound unlike anything else.
One note on that HALO scanner mouse is don't let the driver update as the last driver update that gets autodownloaded from their server will brick it.
Ahh yes I recall CRD mentioning that now. Thanks!
Oh man, that Sony Vaio P series brought back some memories of me being fascinated at the sheer miniaturization of the damn thing back in the day. I don't know about that specific model, but i definitely remember seeing that series for sale here in Portugal. IIRC they phased them out for the Sony Tablet S series (the ones with the folded magazine style!) of which i did own one!
One of the most peaceful and calming types of videos to show up in the feed. Love these, especially great to watch while doing mindless chores at work. Thanks for this!
Maison Ikkoku was a favorite of mine back in the day. Lucky find!
That Ultrasound card is simply gorgeous looking.
Recognized the store label for suruga-ya on the screensaver poly bag! lol
Thank you so much for uploading the screen savers I can’t tell you how happy I am!!❤
That woodgrain PC case feels like it'd be a great fit for an XP machine. Could go even older but much older and you dont really need that much cooling, and while it's wood the style is definitely more modern than an 80s/90s feeling machine
Definitely got a 'BTTF cafe 80's window display' vibe with that thumbnail
I have a couple flexi-discs myself! They don't last nearly as much as vinyl, and sound worse when they're new, but some are still made and they're cool to have as collectors items. They used to sometimes come on the sides of cereal boxes.
Haha, the Snickers says "大人ビター" "Adult Bitter", which suits me just fine. 😁
That is rather suspicious and weird. 😆
That display on the neat calculator thing is Vacuum Flourescent Display.
As a Maison Ikkoku fan, seeing that screen saver was great.
for that Sony little laptop i remember reading all the stuff you could do with it in a magazine that wasn't a Sony one.
5:53 i would totally buy those if i came across those in a shop
Kid Pix 3D was on all of the school computers when I was in elementary school - I've got so many fun memories messing around with it when I had free time in the library back then!
Those mouse pads from Harry are beyond awesome! By any chance did he upload the master images anywhere, or perhaps a link for buying from him? Would love to add a couple of those to my collection, and I’m sure a lot of others here would too!
I see that Harry is here in the comments as well!
That Sony Viao! I've wanted one of those (or similar) for YEARS. They're so expensive but the design is so wonderful while also being so woefully weak. The GPD laptop devices feel like a nod to it at least. That netbook era seems so specific and strange now, existing in the time where smartphones weren't smart enough but the idea of a desktop was starting to look archaic.
I just love watching you unpacking all the stuff I wanted when this came out ;-)
"Multitude of dumps"...Clint I needed that laugh today. The imagery not so much. You rock.
Great episode, I got a few super christmas gift ideas out of it, one of them being that history of the computer book. I will give it to my niece, as an encouragement that it's cool to like computers too, when you are a girl.
Oh, and I will buy that wooden PC case for myself
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That Sony Vaio had the highest resolution screen for the size at the time it came out. It is just small enough to put into a big pocket and the keyboard is just big enough to be comfortable. It is perfect for writers on the go and has a dongle attachment. There are also 6 hour batteries that you can still order for it. It is an excellent mini laptop. I searched through so many old and new small laptops before I decided to get one and it was worth the wait. One of the best purchases I ever made.
Awesome video as always! Btw, "Kanto" means a (tree) stump in Finnish. :D
oh man i had completely forgotten about the simpsons intel commercial! man, what a nostalgia blast. reminds me of all the novelty mice and stuff you used to be able to buy as well. i miss that era of pc weird, honestly
Had the pleasure of flipping the like-counter to 10K :D
1.04.20 : I still use those Cambridge Soundworks speakers with my current PC. I got them for my very first PC, that I got when I moved out on my own 22+ years ago...
Tried other speakers from time to time. Never found any that sound better than these tiny things.... :)
I like these videos, I can live vicariously through you and I don't need to find a place to store all these things. That's your problem. lol :) Have a good rest of the year Clint.
Quick blurb about reed switches - I was in Japan in 2019 and all of the ATMs at the 7-11s had a glorious hyper-retro reed switches numerical keypad. And that is one of the millions of reasons Japan is so special. ( I remember going to Citibank with my mom in 1978 and the teller machines used pretty much the exact switches the 7/11 ATMs in Japan would use 40-somethi g years later.)
Y'all ever heard of Oddworld right? Well.. instead of Abe's or even Munch's Odyssee... What if:
Oddware: Clint's Odyssee
😂😂😂😂
The Creative package with the Cambridge Soundworks speakers is awesome! I did a review of the CSW Model 12, a stereo inside a suitcase, a few years ago. The video didn't get much love but those units are so cool! Great video as always, like we were with you opening the packages, thanks for sharing the experience 👌
Aww, now i kinda want to find that Lust game.... for research purposes obviously..... Please upload it to the internet archive. :D
If it’s not up already you know I will 👍
We had that MPC Wizard at the computer shop I worked at back in the day. I don't remember if we ever had the Creative Labs full multimedia kits, but we certainly sold that model of the Creative surround speakers. We did often use boxed "full multimedia kits", but they weren't Creative Labs. I can't remember if they had a brand name on them, I think some company just boxed the parts and sold them as kits to shops. I keep wanting to get one of the old multimedia kit boxes we used, I have a client who still has one sitting on a shelf in their office. I didn't remember Celerons were around in the 98 era.
Congratulations on completing your moving and back to normal
Thank you!
That Sharp calculator brought back some memories. My dad used to have one of the later models and used that thing for family bills & eventually when he got started as a CPA.
@12:10 that, is a really good anime. WOW
oh yes! wow, Wall Papers were a thing back in the day! Really nostalgic! people don't care about them anymore! hahaha 🤣🤣
For the computer case, consider building an emulation machine. Maybe something that would faithfully emulate anything from an Atari 2600 to a PS3, from Dos to Windows 11. You don't need to throw an Nvidia 4090 into it. PS3 runs well on my 1650 Super, as does PS1 & 2. Maybe figure out a way to output a Composite/S-Video signal and use a TV as a monitor for the older games/systems. Absolutely love the case.
I love these videos they are very wholesome keep making awesome content LGR ! :)
Oh man that tiny lil sony vaio looks so cool, would have absolutely loved one of those at the time. Seems like a great machine for reading 00s visual novels in bed.
Nothing like calming LGR after a long day
A video with a book for which Clint was interviewed; featuring a photograph of him using a PC... This is the REAL Metaverse.