Came here from David "The 8-Bit Guy" Murray's channel. We have similar experience with the old computers. I am older so I was a mechanical Cash Register Technician in my 20's. The early Data Terminal Systems electronics used core memory. The shop sent me to some schools to learn the new electronics, but I spent most calls logic probing and board swapping. Then I worked as a machinist for the Navy and later a toolmaker for the Auto industry. I remember buying a new Vic 20 with all the peripherals for 600 bucks. The first time I wrote a CBasic program I ran out of memory, so I quickly sold it to a guy at work. Logged into CServe once but didn't spend the money. I then got a TRS 80 model I from an electrician at work and it came with a real Teletype printer. He had doubled the memory by piggy-backing the chips and gave me about 10 years of the program listing magazines Tandy put out for it. I spent many hours typing in those and trying to beat it at chess. I would watch TV while it thought about it's next move - sometime took 4 minutes IIRC. Came with Electric Pencil word processing. An Epson Clone with a 20mhz V20 chip started me into the PC world. I spent MANY hours on BBS systems and had the phone bills to prove it. AOL and CServe had good message boards, but I remember once downloading ONE picture from AOL and when I came back from mowing the grass it was 90% done (I had 3 acres and a push mower !) . Before I retired I had a COmpaq server in the garage and about 14 computers networked in the house with coax. I am now living in a condo and running DOS and Linux on a Dell 3ghz model 960SFF (no room for anything bigger) hooked up to my 60-inch LCD TV. I look forward to watching many videos and have just subscribed to your channel. Thanx 4 letting me bend your ear.
I worked with this guy for a few years... one of the smartest and most laid back people I've ever worked with. DJ was one of the guys that just got it. Knew all kinds of different things about different products. The absolute go-to guy when we ran into weird issues... has a mind built for troubleshooting/figuring stuff out. Also has one heck of a sense of humor...
Found you through the 8-bit guy. Excellent welcome video. Looking forward to exploring the channel. Old computers and tech talk fascinate me. Keep it up.
Me too I'm coming from the 8-bit guy video you made and when I saw your video here it reminded me of the good old time of the BBS'es and Fidonet as well, I think I'm the same generation of you and I thought it would be nice to see more of your stuff so I decided to subscribe. Greetings from Belgium :)
Loved the modem days LOL Compuserve was the king when I was into modems and BBSs. My first PC was a TRS-80 Color Computer with a 300 baud manual connect modem. WOW that was way back in 1981. Looking forward to some great videos.
Great videos, instant sub. Have you thought of a series of videos about installing and setting up BBS software in different platforms? C64.PC, Apple2 ... it would be great!
well i remember my dad doing data processing in the late 50's and going on from there. i did keypunch in college in 76 moved on to a trs80 then an amega and a tandy 1000 and all the way up to the dell w/windows 10 upgraded from a win7 current wow take me back talking about BBS had forgotten those and then aol and another one then local computer shops but thanks for the trip down memory lane i have a couple of years on you LOL
Hey thanks, I mean... it is seriously abridged... but a little bit about me I think goes a long way to letting you all know where I'm coming from when I post these vids. :)
Had a 386sx with one megabyte of ram and forty megabytes of hard drive space. "386" this one must be fast, was my first thoughts about that machine. I found out, uncomfortably fast, that wasn't really the case. But it was my introduction to PC's, after some use of a Amiga 500 and 3000.
Nice work! What i'd like to see is more obscure machines much like the P112 SBC.. Btw, That equipment of yours is absolutely beautiful, Is that an HP distortion analyzer to the far left? The tandy machines so happen to be among my favorite units, As i believe they did the "all in one" form factor for say, Model 4 right! There was no reason for the PET to have an external FDD for it's size :p
Close! It's a VHF Signal Generator. :) Though along the lines of what you were thinking, one of the boxes on the upper right is a Sinadder 3. The Model 3 and Model 4 were both all-in-one units, there were some others that were similar. I don't have any of those anymore. I agree with you about the PET - they did that mainly because it was cheaper to do without drives, I think. That, and they did things very weird with their IEEE-488 disk drive setups. The P112 is a neat little SBC, I need to check back with the Fuzix crew to see where the development is at for that - one of my hopes with that machine was to make use of the additional serial ports it has to do some serial multi-user/multitasking stuff. I could probably do it well enough in CP/M or MP/M, but something about playing with Fuzix is more interesting to me on that platform.
Aren't there already lots of videos about Apple II's though? Seems it's very easy to find those. I will certainly cover some aspects of common systems over the upcoming months/years/etc, but that's not likely to be the focus of the channel. :)
It's super a super common and mundane vintage machine for Americans, but it's very rare in Europe. I guess there's lots of videos about it already, but maybe give your perspective sometime!
Good point! Yeah, I *know* i will do *some* Apple II stuff at some point. Just I guess what I mean is those types of systems probably won't be the focus of this channel. :)
I tried to watch this video, but you have a very boring monotonous voice and I fell asleep sitting in my one person sofa. (Not joking) Do you have a more interesting video to suggest me? I'm discovering you thanks to the 8bitGuy episode you covered ;)
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I've always been jealous of early adopters of computers , and I love hearing the stories! Thanks for sharing.
I just watched 8bit's video and came here to check out the channel. I like what I see. Subscribed.
Came here from David "The 8-Bit Guy" Murray's channel. We have similar experience with the old computers. I am older so I was a mechanical Cash Register Technician in my 20's. The early Data Terminal Systems electronics used core memory. The shop sent me to some schools to learn the new electronics, but I spent most calls logic probing and board swapping. Then I worked as a machinist for the Navy and later a toolmaker for the Auto industry. I remember buying a new Vic 20 with all the peripherals for 600 bucks. The first time I wrote a CBasic program I ran out of memory, so I quickly sold it to a guy at work. Logged into CServe once but didn't spend the money. I then got a TRS 80 model I from an electrician at work and it came with a real Teletype printer. He had doubled the memory by piggy-backing the chips and gave me about 10 years of the program listing magazines Tandy put out for it. I spent many hours typing in those and trying to beat it at chess. I would watch TV while it thought about it's next move - sometime took 4 minutes IIRC. Came with Electric Pencil word processing. An Epson Clone with a 20mhz V20 chip started me into the PC world. I spent MANY hours on BBS systems and had the phone bills to prove it. AOL and CServe had good message boards, but I remember once downloading ONE picture from AOL and when I came back from mowing the grass it was 90% done (I had 3 acres and a push mower !) . Before I retired I had a COmpaq server in the garage and about 14 computers networked in the house with coax. I am now living in a condo and running DOS and Linux on a Dell 3ghz model 960SFF (no room for anything bigger) hooked up to my 60-inch LCD TV. I look forward to watching many videos and have just subscribed to your channel. Thanx 4 letting me bend your ear.
Thank you for serving.
I worked with this guy for a few years... one of the smartest and most laid back people I've ever worked with. DJ was one of the guys that just got it. Knew all kinds of different things about different products. The absolute go-to guy when we ran into weird issues... has a mind built for troubleshooting/figuring stuff out. Also has one heck of a sense of humor...
Nick H. Thanks, Nick! Great to hear from ya!
Found you through the 8-bit guy. Excellent welcome video. Looking forward to exploring the channel. Old computers and tech talk fascinate me. Keep it up.
I had no idea you had a channel. So glad to come across this!
Me too I'm coming from the 8-bit guy video you made and when I saw your video here it reminded me of the good old time of the BBS'es and Fidonet as well, I think I'm the same generation of you and I thought it would be nice to see more of your stuff so I decided to subscribe. Greetings from Belgium :)
Loved the modem days LOL Compuserve was the king when I was into modems and BBSs. My first PC was a TRS-80 Color Computer with a 300 baud manual connect modem. WOW that was way back in 1981. Looking forward to some great videos.
I learned Basic on a TRS-80 Model 2! Looking forward to your videos!
David sent me here! I'm so glad he did, subscribed and excited to see your new videos!
Great story. I worked in aerospace for 47 years so recognize the equipment I used in my jobs over the years. Thanks.
Found you from the LGR namedrop on his story about Computer Reset... Cool channel.
Seeing some old school Bell test equipment behind you that we have in out COs - very cool!
I’m a sucker for test equipment of all kinds but telephony test gear is the best.
Great channel, glad I found it\subscribed. I was an animator, mostly games, in the 90s (worked in Dallas for a year). Gr8 equipment in background 🎯📡🚀
Great videos, instant sub. Have you thought of a series of videos about installing and setting up BBS software in different platforms? C64.PC, Apple2 ... it would be great!
Came here from your 8 bit guy vid...subbed)
well i remember my dad doing data processing in the late 50's and going on from there. i did keypunch in college in 76 moved on to a trs80 then an amega and a tandy 1000 and all the way up to the dell w/windows 10 upgraded from a win7 current wow take me back talking about BBS had forgotten those and then aol and another one then local computer shops but thanks for the trip down memory lane i have a couple of years on you LOL
Keep these coming, great stuff!
Nice to hear your background story :)
Hey thanks, I mean... it is seriously abridged... but a little bit about me I think goes a long way to letting you all know where I'm coming from when I post these vids. :)
Indeed it does, and like you said we feel a bit more connected as well :)
This is interesting stuff man. Tell me how many people were there on a BBS channel? What were the topics?
Thats a ton of stuff behind you, I'm sure you have more. Give us a tour, and maybe we'll be like 'that's cool, tell me more about that thing"
In due time, perhaps. :)
what is the best place to find old hardware stuff?
typically the same place that it's been sitting for decades.
If you record a video for each equipment you have behind you, you already have content for a while. Good luck
Had a 386sx with one megabyte of ram and forty megabytes of hard drive space. "386" this one must be fast, was my first thoughts about that machine. I found out, uncomfortably fast, that wasn't really the case. But it was my introduction to PC's, after some use of a Amiga 500 and 3000.
Enjoyed the intro. Not sent by 8-bit Guy. Onramp sent me. :)
he doesnt put the music credits in the description and its annoying me
Nice work! What i'd like to see is more obscure machines much like the P112 SBC..
Btw, That equipment of yours is absolutely beautiful, Is that an HP distortion analyzer to the far left?
The tandy machines so happen to be among my favorite units, As i believe they did the "all in one"
form factor for say, Model 4 right! There was no reason for the PET to have an external FDD for
it's size :p
Close! It's a VHF Signal Generator. :) Though along the lines of what you were thinking, one of the boxes on the upper right is a Sinadder 3.
The Model 3 and Model 4 were both all-in-one units, there were some others that were similar. I don't have any of those anymore. I agree with you about the PET - they did that mainly because it was cheaper to do without drives, I think. That, and they did things very weird with their IEEE-488 disk drive setups.
The P112 is a neat little SBC, I need to check back with the Fuzix crew to see where the development is at for that - one of my hopes with that machine was to make use of the additional serial ports it has to do some serial multi-user/multitasking stuff. I could probably do it well enough in CP/M or MP/M, but something about playing with Fuzix is more interesting to me on that platform.
Cool!
What company do you work for?
My first computer was a VIC-20. We share that with Linus Torvalds and Elon Musk.
All good company to keep.
What are the devices behind you?
looks like Mr. Carlsons shop
pretty cool 👌
I’d like to see a lot of Apple II coverage. Those are super uncommon in europe!
Aren't there already lots of videos about Apple II's though? Seems it's very easy to find those. I will certainly cover some aspects of common systems over the upcoming months/years/etc, but that's not likely to be the focus of the channel. :)
It's super a super common and mundane vintage machine for Americans, but it's very rare in Europe. I guess there's lots of videos about it already, but maybe give your perspective sometime!
Good point! Yeah, I *know* i will do *some* Apple II stuff at some point. Just I guess what I mean is those types of systems probably won't be the focus of this channel. :)
Did your grandfather work for TP&L?
CP&L actually.
i promoted u on instagram i hope some guys will come
I tried to watch this video, but you have a very boring monotonous voice and I fell asleep sitting in my one person sofa. (Not joking) Do you have a more interesting video to suggest me? I'm discovering you thanks to the 8bitGuy episode you covered ;)