Update 5/5/21: Don’t read until you’ve watched the video! Spoilers… . . . . . The right monitor has been found in an ad from the shop my dad bought it from! It was (drumroll please)… . . . Phoenix P12. Which is _identical_ to the Prince monitor I suspected and showed in this video. Phoenix was the UK name for the Italian brand! Follow up video will come soon. Thanks for watching! 👍🕹️
Just came across a video by David aka the 8-bit guy published 12th May, he was informed by Computer Reset (Old hardware recyclers) that in late March some official apple 2e color monitors were found so it would seem the monitor did in fact exist.
I seem to recall 8bit guy saying that putting the monitor on top of the Apple ][ floppy drives was actually not a supported setup. I wonder if the weight issue was a component of why you shouldn’t do this.
Ok I just love this running gag about pretending to trip and fall with a valuable piece of computer hardware, first time I saw was the portable commodore and was horrified. I do hope if it ever happens for real, you will pan the camera and show us the actual damage to our utter horror. It will be great for clicks. Loved this episode.
Childhood memories are so hard to recall 100% accurately. I still recall certain Commodore 64 games that I played as a child and can’t recall the title or find them anywhere. I also recall the graphics looking better.
A lovely retro nostalgic video. Just what I needed as I am absolutely exhausted from my care duties. Time off isn't practical but a Retro Recipe is always uplifting. Nice one Perifractic!
Thanks for watching! Do you think I got the right one? Or is there one out there that’s a hybrid of the 2 I shortlisted that has eluded me until now? Comment below & cheerio!
I honestly think the one you found is A. Period Correct and B. If your Dad never bought the Apple II monitor, this is a likely candidate - I like it :)
One final thing, as this is the most I've written in comments at any time, it was lovely to see my name as a new patreon, Andrew Turner, thanks and good luck, looking forward to more Retro Recipes in the future, better than Netflix.
I am so glad you found this monitor, I can imagine the feelings you are having! I have been on a similar quest for years, trying to find one of the first arcade cabinets I ever played on back in the mid to late 70s. It was the first video game I had ever played and remember it well, but just cannot seem to find out what it was.
Congratulations on having bought a replacement monitor which, if not the exact model that you had before, is at least quite reminiscent of it! Good luck on your quest to confirm the exact model you had! I totally understand the nostalgic feeling of wanting an exact thing from your childhood or something that's as close as possible. I have our exact Commodore 64 and 1701 monitor from my childhood! And I just tested the monitor a few months ago and it still works! My (formerly our) 64 is still buried in the storage unit for now but I plan on getting it out and testing it soon. I have some drives too but our original 1541 was deemed "unrepairable" many years ago. My replacement was good when I got it several recent years ago. I'll test the drives again soon too.
I like the bit @11:40 when that pleasingly simple fix seems to have been no more than a cruel trick, then you get the amusing good news. No doubt there is a line somewhere in the original manual not to place anything on top of the drives!
Back in 2019 I finally found the monitor that I used with my C64 back in 1983/1984 which was a Sears SR 2000 Series color monitor. I still own my original C64, so it brought back a lot many memories when I put the two back together, so I fully understand the awesome feeling of finding your childhood monitor.
Nice! I always love your triumphant happy ending music coupled with the cheers - makes me want to punch the air! Sidenote - it is funny how obsessed we become over hazy memories of often third party accessories - I'd love to find the cassette deck I used to load my ZX games for instance, plus the 14in TV I used as a monitor. Identifying them from memory can be tricky!
I have no idea what tape player I used for my Spectrum, but I only had access to a Bush Ranger 2 B&W portable. Got no idea why that's stuck in my memory.....
I used to work in a computer store in Champaign, IL. We used to sell your "perspex" display covers to add to the front of various monitor, especially for white text displays. Sold a lot of them.
That is a VERY cool monitor, and I can imagine the chills of rebuilding your childhood computer setup. I know how I'd feel if I rebuilt my old Atari 800 setup again.
I'm so glad you found this monitor for your Apple ][e setup. It's a wonderful feeling isn't it, when you find something from your past that you thought had been lost forever? That's why I started collecting all the old computers I had back in the 80s, and other things from my youth too. Just this week I thought about trying to get my first ever stereo 'boombox' again, which I had as a 16 year old in 1982. I couldn't remember the model number, or even what it looked like exactly, I just knew it was a Hitachi something or other! After much searching of images on the interweb I finally came across it, and as soon as I saw it I knew it was the one! I just have to keep an eye on eBay now for when one comes up for sale. Love your channel and all involved, keep up the great work. Best wishes from Portsmouth in the UK :-)
Wow, that episode gave me the biggest blast of nostalgia I think I've ever experienced. Loved the old photos too, took me right back to that happy place!
I have a similar story about the disk drive I had on my c64. I was never able to recreate my original setting from back in the times. I only knew that mine was much smaller than a 1541 and that it had a metal case. About two years ago I found some very similar drive at a retro flea market. It was an oceanic drive. I still don't know the exact model but now my retro setup is a little more of my own 😀
I'm glad you found a monitor that matches the one you remember. I could tell when you placed it on top of the Apple that it really clicked in place for you.
Certainly takes me back, I had an Amstrad CPC 464 with a green screen monitor. It even had one of the funny 3" disk drives they used. My dad managed convince work to buy it, and of course I loved it for gaming, even though it was all green! I think they were meant to be better for office applications, word processors etc.. Not that CP/M got much of a look in, but we had that on disk along with some early work apps.
Oh my god, i had a b/w monochrome monitor from philips 1:39 with the same case. It was used, it missed the cover for the controls and also the case for the vga connector. I bought it with an used 386DX-25 and also a "new" 24pin dot-matirx printer for 800DM. The PC had 4,5 MB of Ram, as i bought it, because it used Ram Expansionscards that fit in the ISA Socket. Later i find out that on card was misconfigured and it had 5,5 MB of Ram. The date i bought the computer was tomorrow in the year 1994.
We had an old B&W tv, and it had an anti glare shield on it made out of plastic. We got it from an computer shop going out of business. It might have also had inputs for RGB.
Those desks were used in schools. I remember working in at least two schools that had them. Obviously used with the BBC micros and later the Acorn Archimedes computers.
Loved the render of your childhood set up. I too often dream of the room I had set up in the UK in the early 80s Spectrum 48K in one corner on a similar trolley to yours, Amstrad CPC thing to the right of it and then a BBCB in the corner - all on matching trolleys! The on the other side a console corner with a Coleco, Atari 2600 and Intellivision rigged up a TV, Vectrex on a table and then to the right of that the mighty Sharp MZ80A. I've still got a couple of them (Atari and Vectrex) but what I would give to walk back in that room!
I really enjoyed this recipode, I sometimes get my original hardware out and code something up - enormous satisfaction. It was playing around with my old Dragon 32 that lead to a career in programming that has lasted over 3 decades. I won't give my age away but I'm 50+ and I'm still coding every single day I'm at work. Really do look forward to your content each week. Chickenlips 64 - how dare you :-)
Great video. But they always are when you take us down memory lane like you did this week. The monitor's looking great on the IIe, and it's so good to see the set balanced back on. I kept fearing one day we'd see the entire thing tilt and watch you and Puppyfrantic slide hard to the right. One little problem, though.. That 1084. That poor 1084. I'm wondering: Can you say "My bairns... My poor bairns." just like Scotty did?
Oh my gosh!!! I wondered for years what was the model of the B/W TV that I used on my C64 for years, before it stopped working. I couldn't remember the model just when... it appeared as the first model of yours "wrong ones"!!!! The one I had was white but, as it was common in the 70s, the popular one was orange, like the one you had in the photo. Thank you as usual Perifractic!
A long time ago, a school I was attending in the UK was given a load of old Apple IIe computers and accessories by another school. The Prince M12-10-00 monitor was included. I remember the carrying handle, the perspex screen and it had a BNC video input. I think the guy who runs the Centre for Computing History also does film prop work, so you may have found two pages about the exact same monitor. Also, I think Nostalgia Nerd picked up an original Klick computer trolley a while back. By the way, there is a "two tier computer trolley" on sale recently, which is quite similar.
Great episode (as always)! I searched for my rare perfect commodore plus/4 monitor for over a year! Found it for 2 EUR at the end. And now i realise, why you like green low-res renders. Childhood memories. I will have to work on a Apple IIe version...
The first computer I had access to was a green screen Apple 2+ (my Mom brought it home on weekends from the school she taught at). Thanks for the nostalgia of the glorious green screen (Blitzkrieg was one of my favorites)!
Much of my childhood was spent with an Amstrad PC1512 (like the one in the video), however those machines are fairly hard to come by here in the US and they have to come with the monitor because of the proprietary power supply and interface
I have also been looking for some time, for that metal stand, because I wanted to recreate BBC Microcomputer setup I used as a kid at First School in 80s, except I never knew what it was called, although I did see one at place I worked at a Charity shop, but they wouldn’t let me buy it off them, also remember walking into room and my Sister was watching a soap on TV that actually had it as a prop in the background, also as I love Amateur Radio be useful to put radio equipment on.
@@RetroRecipes: "Noticing," LOL! It's a blast in the face! How can we not notice? Haha! You're welcome! Yes, it is very colorful and thus very pretty; nice job! Thanks for your comment love and likes too!
Don't forget that if you swap floppy controller card slots, you have to type a different PR# number to boot a disk from dos. eg. PR#6 if floppy card is in slot #6. Also, when using Locksmith, Copy][Plus, FID, and any other disk related software, you need to enter the new slot number instead of 6.
My Apple II has the same BMC monitor, it was definitely one sold with it. Be careful with the ‘handle’ area on top, I had to reinforce mine as the plastic was threatening to break.
Way to go, Dude! Hopefully you can find one of those mobile cart desks that used to be so popular in the 80's and 90's. I am betting you could make one. My Amiga 1200 was setup on one similar all those years ago because when I got married, our first apartment was small and it helped to be able to move it around.
That was a fun trip. I have 2 similar sort of memories, I had a Grundig portable TV in my room for my C64, 1984, but no pictures, I wasn’t a camera person I suppose. But the one I’d love to figure out is my Dad brought home (very out of the blue) one of those TV game machines, the Pong clone types, it wasn’t Grandstand, but very like it. My memory just isn’t clear enough to figure out which one it was. I’d really love to remember. Mind you, I do remember my first handheld system, the Galaxy Invader 1000 ! Also from 80 or 81. 😃
I always wanted a CUB monitor but spent years with a B/W portable telly instead! Used a wheel on the front to tune it in.. Good luck with the search, unfortunately I have neither monitor you've searched for, but do have good memories of the trolley table you described
Really don’t know why, but CUB monitors looked so cool :-) I had a 14” Nikkai (I think) portable TV, along with a set top aerial my dad propped up on an old wire coat hanger in the corner near the ceiling to try and get a better signal, and a long garden cane on hooks beside my bed as a ‘remote control’
What a nice video! My doggie doesn't really jump that much, he's a little bugger and every time he jumps that high he messes up the landing :P I guess your monitor is right, and I like how you're trying to recreate exactly what you've got, while most of my setup building is getting, and showing my girlfriend, the stuff I wanted as I a kid and my parents, well, provided in a way that anticipated the meme "Mom I want X / We got X at home / The X at Home: " The Perspex reminded me of that: my very first computer was a C64C, stuck on a small office desk, small size, no more bigger than a school desk, with a 1541-II, a CM80 Philips Green Monitor and a Datassette. Of course, I would have preferred a 1702, but I couldn't complain, parents do what they can and what's best with stuff they have, so I just "requisitioned" and old Philetta Royale from the storage room (it was big as my torso, as I was a kid, I almost toppled like you in the skit twice) and fitted a mechanically mounted/no solder connector to an analog RF antenna cable to play games better. But my father was an accountant, at first he worked from home too, then he moved in a small office across the road, then in another slightly bigger across the other road (that later became my office, when I started freelancing as a lawyer, thing that allows me to stay really close to family). The seller of his main office supplied peddled him Perspex plates to glue over monitors to reduce glare and "shield from radiations". The second one was of course a sales pitch, but he basically glued them on every single monitor we owned. Every single one. I still have a CRT in a crate in the office with some Perspex glued on that I can't remove without messing with the plastic So, when I had to rebuilt my setup, and show it to my girlfriend, I just requisitioned the old desk in that office, the bigger one, the one my dad using while working from home with an Olivetti M250 (I now use a larger IKEA desk), got hold of a PVM color monitor, a 1571 clone drive, some action figures and old digital games, a couple I had, others my parents told me to avoid as they were "silly" (well, a Gundam isn't silly :P), a Fastload and everything I wanted back then and now I got. Even reassembling the Master System II I used to share the Philetta with
My memory of game I played at school, is something I been trying to find for 20 years. It was a text adventure, I truly believe it was called sherlock gnomes, and the music at the start was Toccata and fugue (classic vampire theme). No memory of the system used, but I thought it was a BBC Micro. Thank you for reading my story.
Love this! I often have half remembered computer games pop in to my head. It's great that we live in a time where we can just pop them into an emulator and relive those moments again.
I got an Apple ][ system second hand with an Apple Monitor ///, which is green with long persistence pixels. It actually made a pretty cool Amiga monitor because it almost entirely eliminates interlace flicker. And it's significantly sharper than a 1084.
Do you have any recollections of muscle memories of where you reached to power it on/off or adjust settings? We are the same age and I can easily close my eyes and picture myself at the age of 11 or 12 reaching for various controls on the "monitor" I had... which was an NEC telly as I was using RF on my 8 bit machines... Wasn't til I got an ST and Amiga that I was able to ditch the cursed RF...
Ha, I also had that monitor on my Apple II+ clone, but it died after 1 or 2 years. I had to replace it and bought a cheap Philips amber monitor (cheap for that time, it was 129 Deutschmark). That monitor still functions today even if I have a backup as I found some years ago a real Apple II green monitor that was put out for recycling (it was with a Mac Quadra for which I had no use 15 years ago and regret to have thrown away, what an idiot I was).
Ere I resume watching this, after 1:47s, I suspect he had an Apple Colour Monitor 100. It is an RGB display, and I own two of them, and they have 'green' mode buttons. The 100 has some anti-glare design elements and a motorised angling device. I can send photos of mine if this would help.
I totally get the nostalgia factor -- I have the Apple //c I purchased new in 1984, and it still works. I won't part with it. I've been working on collecting TRS-80s, which were the first computers I learned to program on, back in middle school. The look of them has to be correct, with the original Model 1 monitor.
It looks good, it’s made you happy so does it matter if it still could be the wrong one. Is it at least lighter so it doesn’t squash the disk drives? Great repisode👍🏻
I remember a monitor like this from a bbc micro (i think). The computer I first played frogger on it at school. (I typed this just before the end of the video when you mentioned frogger). .if I ever see that frog again I have words for it that an adult should only know. stupid frog. :P On a side note; You brought memories back of those really long English cast iron Victorian ornate radiators. I remember the computer being next to it and it being the warmest place in the class.
OMG "I watered your rug in the living room" lol lol that made me choke on my coffee when I read it!! Love all your Video!!!! P.S. my favorite one's are the Amiga one's and my Most favorite's are the Commodore 64 one's (Can you tell what I had growing up? lol)
Reminds me of Killingly Central School when I was knee high to a pole cap in showing the Apple IIe with that screen. And I wanted that computer that does not exist. But I wanted the color one.
In school it was BBC micros but they did have one section of other computers. I'm pretty sure one of them was an Apple II. I don't ever remember it being on.
the BBC tv Ran a 80s TvShow For kids on BBC2 The Adventure Game, They used Apple 2e's if you were to look at an old copy of that Show it maybe the Monitor that you had come to think about it they may have used Tv Kit feed it into the show ?
Even if it isn't exactly the same, it is beautiful. Besides, the memory can play tricks and be very unreliable. It looks great and you seem almost happy 😄👍
Well that put a big smile on my face as it's always great to see old tech in all it's glory. I did laugh at the monitor being to heavy and your 100% right that is a nice monitor. Great video as always guys even with them dad jokes haha 😉 keep up the super work and roll on the next video, oh and who knew Puppyfractic was so good at water dancing. Take care 😊
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Update 5/5/21: Don’t read until you’ve watched the video! Spoilers…
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The right monitor has been found in an ad from the shop my dad bought it from! It was (drumroll please)…
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Phoenix P12. Which is _identical_ to the Prince monitor I suspected and showed in this video. Phoenix was the UK name for the Italian brand! Follow up video will come soon. Thanks for watching! 👍🕹️
Nice Triumph 2500. Was that PI or S? On a second look, it could be TC, rims are definitely from a TC.
@@donnied8127 I really don’t remember but we loved it. We got a white 2000 after that!
Just came across a video by David aka the 8-bit guy published 12th May, he was informed by Computer Reset (Old hardware recyclers) that in late March some official apple 2e color monitors were found so it would seem the monitor did in fact exist.
Now all you need is a copy of Petscii Robots for Apple II!
yes :)
Then I can have it on my 2 favourite computers!
yes
I seem to recall 8bit guy saying that putting the monitor on top of the Apple ][ floppy drives was actually not a supported setup. I wonder if the weight issue was a component of why you shouldn’t do this.
Haha, of course, Dave! 😁
Ok I just love this running gag about pretending to trip and fall with a valuable piece of computer hardware, first time I saw was the portable commodore and was horrified. I do hope if it ever happens for real, you will pan the camera and show us the actual damage to our utter horror. It will be great for clicks. Loved this episode.
Hopefully it won’t but yes if it does I will! Then again the Amiga 4000 PSU blowing up on camera was real ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I kinda want a short of just puppyfractic jumping at the water. That's freaking adorable!
Childhood memories are so hard to recall 100% accurately. I still recall certain Commodore 64 games that I played as a child and can’t recall the title or find them anywhere. I also recall the graphics looking better.
Good, I'm not alone. 8-)
A lovely retro nostalgic video. Just what I needed as I am absolutely exhausted from my care duties. Time off isn't practical but a Retro Recipe is always uplifting.
Nice one Perifractic!
I pressed Like before I even watched this video. That's what you call confidence.
I actually do exactly that with ALL my subs. That's why I subbed in the first place. :P :)
Thanks for watching! Do you think I got the right one? Or is there one out there that’s a hybrid of the 2 I shortlisted that has eluded me until now? Comment below & cheerio!
I honestly think the one you found is A. Period Correct and B. If your Dad never bought the Apple II monitor, this is a likely candidate - I like it :)
Back in the days you may be to small to see those knobs on top...
There’s tons of them in schools in Australia mate. Make some phone calls.
Over the years i learnt this: if it feels right, don't ask for more!
@@batteryjuice3041 Patrons get early access to the videos. :)
One final thing, as this is the most I've written in comments at any time, it was lovely to see my name as a new patreon, Andrew Turner, thanks and good luck, looking forward to more Retro Recipes in the future, better than Netflix.
What a wonderful compliment! Thank you for your kind words and support Andrew 👍🕹️
I like big chassis and I cannot lie , so true !
I am so glad you found this monitor, I can imagine the feelings you are having! I have been on a similar quest for years, trying to find one of the first arcade cabinets I ever played on back in the mid to late 70s. It was the first video game I had ever played and remember it well, but just cannot seem to find out what it was.
Congratulations on having bought a replacement monitor which, if not the exact model that you had before, is at least quite reminiscent of it! Good luck on your quest to confirm the exact model you had! I totally understand the nostalgic feeling of wanting an exact thing from your childhood or something that's as close as possible.
I have our exact Commodore 64 and 1701 monitor from my childhood! And I just tested the monitor a few months ago and it still works! My (formerly our) 64 is still buried in the storage unit for now but I plan on getting it out and testing it soon. I have some drives too but our original 1541 was deemed "unrepairable" many years ago. My replacement was good when I got it several recent years ago. I'll test the drives again soon too.
Videos like this are what I love about this channel!
That’s really heartwarming feedback, thank you sir 👍🕹️
I like the bit @11:40 when that pleasingly simple fix seems to have been no more than a cruel trick, then you get the amusing good news. No doubt there is a line somewhere in the original manual not to place anything on top of the drives!
Triumph 2000, my dad had one the same colour as yours, and I now have a red one..
Back in 2019 I finally found the monitor that I used with my C64 back in 1983/1984 which was a Sears SR 2000 Series color monitor. I still own my original C64, so it brought back a lot many memories when I put the two back together, so I fully understand the awesome feeling of finding your childhood monitor.
* Or... one that's very reminiscent of it, anyway.
Nice! I always love your triumphant happy ending music coupled with the cheers - makes me want to punch the air! Sidenote - it is funny how obsessed we become over hazy memories of often third party accessories - I'd love to find the cassette deck I used to load my ZX games for instance, plus the 14in TV I used as a monitor. Identifying them from memory can be tricky!
I have no idea what tape player I used for my Spectrum, but I only had access to a Bush Ranger 2 B&W portable. Got no idea why that's stuck in my memory.....
That Triumph brings back memories. My dad had one and it was the first car I ever drove, aged 13. I haven't seen one since I moved to the US in 1979.
Me too! Triumph 2000.
I used to work in a computer store in Champaign, IL. We used to sell your "perspex" display covers to add to the front of various monitor, especially for white text displays. Sold a lot of them.
That is a VERY cool monitor, and I can imagine the chills of rebuilding your childhood computer setup. I know how I'd feel if I rebuilt my old Atari 800 setup again.
I'm so glad you found this monitor for your Apple ][e setup. It's a wonderful feeling isn't it, when you find something from your past that you thought had been lost forever? That's why I started collecting all the old computers I had back in the 80s, and other things from my youth too. Just this week I thought about trying to get my first ever stereo 'boombox' again, which I had as a 16 year old in 1982. I couldn't remember the model number, or even what it looked like exactly, I just knew it was a Hitachi something or other! After much searching of images on the interweb I finally came across it, and as soon as I saw it I knew it was the one! I just have to keep an eye on eBay now for when one comes up for sale. Love your channel and all involved, keep up the great work. Best wishes from Portsmouth in the UK :-)
Cheers Chris! My nephew went to Uni in Portsmouth so I've visited a few times. Lovely place.
Cool, a Triumph MkII 2000. My dad had one of those too.
Bingo!
Wow, that episode gave me the biggest blast of nostalgia I think I've ever experienced. Loved the old photos too, took me right back to that happy place!
I have a similar story about the disk drive I had on my c64.
I was never able to recreate my original setting from back in the times.
I only knew that mine was much smaller than a 1541 and that it had a metal case.
About two years ago I found some very similar drive at a retro flea market.
It was an oceanic drive. I still don't know the exact model but now my retro setup is a little more of my own 😀
When I was a kid I would stay in front of the green monitor for so long, that when I finally got up I saw all the world in pink for some minutes 🤣
It still happens when you work with greenscreen video for too long, or just after being inside chromakey studio for more than hour = )
Well, I reckon you’ve found why people recommend stacking the drives on the side!
But that monitor looks brilliant. Nice work!
I'm glad you found a monitor that matches the one you remember. I could tell when you placed it on top of the Apple that it really clicked in place for you.
Certainly takes me back, I had an Amstrad CPC 464 with a green screen monitor. It even had one of the funny 3" disk drives they used. My dad managed convince work to buy it, and of course I loved it for gaming, even though it was all green! I think they were meant to be better for office applications, word processors etc.. Not that CP/M got much of a look in, but we had that on disk along with some early work apps.
Oh my god, i had a b/w monochrome monitor from philips 1:39 with the same case. It was used, it missed the cover for the controls and also the case for the vga connector. I bought it with an used 386DX-25 and also a "new" 24pin dot-matirx printer for 800DM. The PC had 4,5 MB of Ram, as i bought it, because it used Ram Expansionscards that fit in the ISA Socket. Later i find out that on card was misconfigured and it had 5,5 MB of Ram. The date i bought the computer was tomorrow in the year 1994.
We had an old B&W tv, and it had an anti glare shield on it made out of plastic. We got it from an computer shop going out of business. It might have also had inputs for RGB.
Now we need a second channel, just with you and your dog ❤️
Those desks were used in schools.
I remember working in at least two schools that had them.
Obviously used with the BBC micros and later the Acorn Archimedes computers.
Loved the render of your childhood set up. I too often dream of the room I had set up in the UK in the early 80s
Spectrum 48K in one corner on a similar trolley to yours, Amstrad CPC thing to the right of it and then a BBCB in the corner - all on matching trolleys! The on the other side a console corner with a Coleco, Atari 2600 and Intellivision rigged up a TV, Vectrex on a table and then to the right of that the mighty Sharp MZ80A. I've still got a couple of them (Atari and Vectrex) but what I would give to walk back in that room!
I really enjoyed this recipode, I sometimes get my original hardware out and code something up - enormous satisfaction. It was playing around with my old Dragon 32 that lead to a career in programming that has lasted over 3 decades. I won't give my age away but I'm 50+ and I'm still coding every single day I'm at work. Really do look forward to your content each week. Chickenlips 64 - how dare you :-)
Great video. But they always are when you take us down memory lane like you did this week. The monitor's looking great on the IIe, and it's so good to see the set balanced back on. I kept fearing one day we'd see the entire thing tilt and watch you and Puppyfrantic slide hard to the right.
One little problem, though.. That 1084. That poor 1084. I'm wondering: Can you say "My bairns... My poor bairns." just like Scotty did?
Oh my gosh!!! I wondered for years what was the model of the B/W TV that I used on my C64 for years, before it stopped working. I couldn't remember the model just when... it appeared as the first model of yours "wrong ones"!!!! The one I had was white but, as it was common in the 70s, the popular one was orange, like the one you had in the photo. Thank you as usual Perifractic!
Beautiful system. The 80 columns look fantastic.
Another great video, although rather the noise of reseting the circuit board was rather disturbing.
A long time ago, a school I was attending in the UK was given a load of old Apple IIe computers and accessories by another school. The Prince M12-10-00 monitor was included. I remember the carrying handle, the perspex screen and it had a BNC video input. I think the guy who runs the Centre for Computing History also does film prop work, so you may have found two pages about the exact same monitor. Also, I think Nostalgia Nerd picked up an original Klick computer trolley a while back. By the way, there is a "two tier computer trolley" on sale recently, which is quite similar.
Yes, Jason runs TV Film Props and the Centre for Computing History. He kitted out the office in the IT Crowd. It is the exact same monitor.
Great episode (as always)! I searched for my rare perfect commodore plus/4 monitor for over a year! Found it for 2 EUR at the end. And now i realise, why you like green low-res renders. Childhood memories. I will have to work on a Apple IIe version...
Great story and i can tell you put a lot of work and love and production into your videos. Wonderful.
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
Very cool to see you reconstruct that old setup! 😊
The first computer I had access to was a green screen Apple 2+ (my Mom brought it home on weekends from the school she taught at). Thanks for the nostalgia of the glorious green screen (Blitzkrieg was one of my favorites)!
Much of my childhood was spent with an Amstrad PC1512 (like the one in the video), however those machines are fairly hard to come by here in the US and they have to come with the monitor because of the proprietary power supply and interface
I got one here! Search out my "Chasing Tigers with the Amstrad PC 1512" video :-)
I have also been looking for some time, for that metal stand, because I wanted to recreate BBC Microcomputer setup I used as a kid at First School in 80s, except I never knew what it was called, although I did see one at place I worked at a Charity shop, but they wouldn’t let me buy it off them, also remember walking into room and my Sister was watching a soap on TV that actually had it as a prop in the background, also as I love Amateur Radio be useful to put radio equipment on.
I found a stand like that on fleaBay recently!
I really love the way you color the lighting in there now!
Thanks for noticing!!
@@RetroRecipes: "Noticing," LOL! It's a blast in the face! How can we not notice? Haha! You're welcome! Yes, it is very colorful and thus very pretty; nice job! Thanks for your comment love and likes too!
I use to work at a carrier company once and the guy I worked with use to eat those peanuts (packing material) and loved them. Apparently eatable. :)
monitor reminds me of set styles for some of those early British sci-fi shows, like UFO, starring Ed Bishop
Don't forget that if you swap floppy controller card slots, you have to type a different PR# number to boot a disk from dos. eg. PR#6 if floppy card is in slot #6. Also, when using Locksmith, Copy][Plus, FID, and any other disk related software, you need to enter the new slot number instead of 6.
My Apple II has the same BMC monitor, it was definitely one sold with it. Be careful with the ‘handle’ area on top, I had to reinforce mine as the plastic was threatening to break.
Always love watching your videos on Sunday mornings. Thx for the joy you bring us.
Oooh! The Triumph 2000 MkII (at 5:35 in this video) was my first car! :D
Granny's Garden FTW! I'd forgotten all about that game when it came up in that montage!
Way to go, Dude! Hopefully you can find one of those mobile cart desks that used to be so popular in the 80's and 90's. I am betting you could make one. My Amiga 1200 was setup on one similar all those years ago because when I got married, our first apartment was small and it helped to be able to move it around.
That was a fun trip.
I have 2 similar sort of memories, I had a Grundig portable TV in my room for my C64, 1984, but no pictures, I wasn’t a camera person I suppose.
But the one I’d love to figure out is my Dad brought home (very out of the blue) one of those TV game machines, the Pong clone types, it wasn’t Grandstand, but very like it.
My memory just isn’t clear enough to figure out which one it was. I’d really love to remember.
Mind you, I do remember my first handheld system, the Galaxy Invader 1000 ! Also from 80 or 81.
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I always wanted a CUB monitor but spent years with a B/W portable telly instead! Used a wheel on the front to tune it in.. Good luck with the search, unfortunately I have neither monitor you've searched for, but do have good memories of the trolley table you described
Really don’t know why, but CUB monitors looked so cool :-) I had a 14” Nikkai (I think) portable TV, along with a set top aerial my dad propped up on an old wire coat hanger in the corner near the ceiling to try and get a better signal, and a long garden cane on hooks beside my bed as a ‘remote control’
I have two of them they came with the tilt option.
Can I see?!
@@RetroRecipes like these?
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That monitor looks really nice on there.
Consider the Taxan monitors - they could have optional plastic/glass antiglare filter.
5:00 WOW! Two fire extinguishers! Safety first. Also, I notice weird things.
What a nice video!
My doggie doesn't really jump that much, he's a little bugger and every time he jumps that high he messes up the landing :P
I guess your monitor is right, and I like how you're trying to recreate exactly what you've got, while most of my setup building is getting, and showing my girlfriend, the stuff I wanted as I a kid and my parents, well, provided in a way that anticipated the meme "Mom I want X / We got X at home / The X at Home: "
The Perspex reminded me of that: my very first computer was a C64C, stuck on a small office desk, small size, no more bigger than a school desk, with a 1541-II, a CM80 Philips Green Monitor and a Datassette.
Of course, I would have preferred a 1702, but I couldn't complain, parents do what they can and what's best with stuff they have, so I just "requisitioned" and old Philetta Royale from the storage room (it was big as my torso, as I was a kid, I almost toppled like you in the skit twice) and fitted a mechanically mounted/no solder connector to an analog RF antenna cable to play games better.
But my father was an accountant, at first he worked from home too, then he moved in a small office across the road, then in another slightly bigger across the other road (that later became my office, when I started freelancing as a lawyer, thing that allows me to stay really close to family).
The seller of his main office supplied peddled him Perspex plates to glue over monitors to reduce glare and "shield from radiations". The second one was of course a sales pitch, but he basically glued them on every single monitor we owned.
Every single one. I still have a CRT in a crate in the office with some Perspex glued on that I can't remove without messing with the plastic
So, when I had to rebuilt my setup, and show it to my girlfriend, I just requisitioned the old desk in that office, the bigger one, the one my dad using while working from home with an Olivetti M250 (I now use a larger IKEA desk), got hold of a PVM color monitor, a 1571 clone drive, some action figures and old digital games, a couple I had, others my parents told me to avoid as they were "silly" (well, a Gundam isn't silly :P), a Fastload and everything I wanted back then and now I got.
Even reassembling the Master System II I used to share the Philetta with
My memory of game I played at school, is something I been trying to find for 20 years. It was a text adventure, I truly believe it was called sherlock gnomes, and the music at the start was Toccata and fugue (classic vampire theme). No memory of the system used, but I thought it was a BBC Micro. Thank you for reading my story.
How intriguing. Have you asked on the BBC Facebook group? Could be an obscure home brew title too.
That'll be Shylock Gnomes Investigates The Case Of The Transylvanian Terror by Selective Software in 1985 for the beeb
@@jameslangridge5878 Big thank you James, that is the game and I was able to play it on the BBC Micro website. 20 year mystery solved.
Love this! I often have half remembered computer games pop in to my head. It's great that we live in a time where we can just pop them into an emulator and relive those moments again.
The nostalgia is strong in this one and don't mean the video but the guy. 😁
It is one thing to look for something online, it is something else to actually have it in hand.
Love that Bob Ross impersonation at 2:10!
Great computer, great video, thanks for sharing with us 😃
The Prince monitors should be purple phosphor...
I got an Apple ][ system second hand with an Apple Monitor ///, which is green with long persistence pixels. It actually made a pretty cool Amiga monitor because it almost entirely eliminates interlace flicker. And it's significantly sharper than a 1084.
Yeah that thing looks right at home! Enjoy!
Do you have any recollections of muscle memories of where you reached to power it on/off or adjust settings? We are the same age and I can easily close my eyes and picture myself at the age of 11 or 12 reaching for various controls on the "monitor" I had... which was an NEC telly as I was using RF on my 8 bit machines... Wasn't til I got an ST and Amiga that I was able to ditch the cursed RF...
I'm sure it was round the back or maybe on top because I was smaller then
Great film 🎥 yet again... That monitor looks like it belongs there...! Good match. Oh ..when will we see Acorn / BBC micro vids . ?
Glad you like it! BBC video will likely be delayed while I sort out some family matters that need my energies back home
Ha, I also had that monitor on my Apple II+ clone, but it died after 1 or 2 years. I had to replace it and bought a cheap Philips amber monitor (cheap for that time, it was 129 Deutschmark). That monitor still functions today even if I have a backup as I found some years ago a real Apple II green monitor that was put out for recycling (it was with a Mac Quadra for which I had no use 15 years ago and regret to have thrown away, what an idiot I was).
Ere I resume watching this, after 1:47s, I suspect he had an Apple Colour Monitor 100. It is an RGB display, and I own two of them, and they have 'green' mode buttons. The 100 has some anti-glare design elements and a motorised angling device. I can send photos of mine if this would help.
I totally get the nostalgia factor -- I have the Apple //c I purchased new in 1984, and it still works. I won't part with it.
I've been working on collecting TRS-80s, which were the first computers I learned to program on, back in middle school. The look of them has to be correct, with the original Model 1 monitor.
Excellent stuff as always - thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Have you ever checked out Adrian's digital basement? It's a gold mine of apple tech info.I loved that water dance from Puppyfractic.................
Love the mid 70s blue Triumph 2000
It looks good, it’s made you happy so does it matter if it still could be the wrong one. Is it at least lighter so it doesn’t squash the disk drives? Great repisode👍🏻
I remember a monitor like this from a bbc micro (i think). The computer I first played frogger on it at school. (I typed this just before the end of the video when you mentioned frogger). .if I ever see that frog again I have words for it that an adult should only know. stupid frog. :P On a side note; You brought memories back of those really long English cast iron Victorian ornate radiators. I remember the computer being next to it and it being the warmest place in the class.
Thanks. The BBC usually came with a CUB monitor which was similar but didn't have the front perspex.
OMG "I watered your rug in the living room" lol lol that made me choke on my coffee when I read it!! Love all your Video!!!! P.S. my favorite one's are the Amiga one's and my Most favorite's are the Commodore 64 one's (Can you tell what I had growing up? lol)
What program were you running to adjust the monitor? The one that displayed the test pattern with the colors, fonts, and sample picture?
I think it's on a Beagle Bros utility disk
Memories mate! Miss my setup like this! 👏
Another fascinating video. Your dad looks very familiar! Is he in the entertainment industry, too?
He was not no. Maybe he just looked like me, or vice versa!
@@RetroRecipes that’s probably it. I’m seeing you in Dadfractic. 😁
Reminds me of Killingly Central School when I was knee high to a pole cap in showing the Apple IIe with that screen. And I wanted that computer that does not exist. But I wanted the color one.
13:50 Ladyfractic asks: "Umm... do you need me to leave the room for a while..." :-D
Is it light enough to avoid the diskette problem?
Yup because it's monochrome not colour
Cute doggo, indeed. Great documentary of your life... ...
Haha, I love your little dog side-bits!
Love these trips down memory lane. On a side issue Star Wars Andor is filming near me in Cleveleys, England. Are you in it?
Ah no, I'm in California 😊
@@RetroRecipes that’s a shame, I was hoping you might be in it and I can buy you a pint down at the pub
it very much reminds me monitor made in Poland back in the 80's: Unitra Neptun 156 II
I can´t even remeber my first computer but I do remember playing loads of demos on it like Duke nukem 3d or demo of Command and conquer 95.
In school it was BBC micros but they did have one section of other computers. I'm pretty sure one of them was an Apple II. I don't ever remember it being on.
the BBC tv Ran a 80s TvShow For kids on BBC2 The Adventure Game, They used Apple 2e's if you were to look at an old copy of that Show it maybe the Monitor that you had come to think about it they may have used Tv Kit feed it into the show ?
Interesting lyrics to your song.
I remember those Klick trolley's. We had one at school that had our BBC Micro B and printer on it
I need that Astro Wars machine back in my life.
whats that song at 13:15, pls ? Cant find it on your playlists :)
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Even if it isn't exactly the same, it is beautiful. Besides, the memory can play tricks and be very unreliable. It looks great and you seem almost happy 😄👍
Lol almost
Well that put a big smile on my face as it's always great to see old tech in all it's glory. I did laugh at the monitor being to heavy and your 100% right that is a nice monitor. Great video as always guys even with them dad jokes haha 😉 keep up the super work and roll on the next video, oh and who knew Puppyfractic was so good at water dancing. Take care 😊
9:04 had me LOLing for ages!
I particularly like his eyebrows!
It was the 1000 yard stare that got me