@@RudysRetroIntel Sit tight Rudy, I'm sure customs will be playing with your Nabu a little while before they decide to give it to you. LOL! Can you imagine a boarder agent saying "oh wow, Nabu! I had this when I was a kid! Let's play with it for a while!"? 🙂
This is some next level elite geek material. Well done. Kind of regret not buying one after Adrian's DB episode but I already have a huge pile of retro computers I don't use.
I vividly remember seeing this system running new at the time in 1983, in Ottawa Canada here, was just amazing, and so ahead of it's time, the only other system, I can think of that kind of used a cable modem, was the Mattel Intellivision's Play Cable system, early 80's
I can't wait for my NABU to arrive. It was a total impulse buy, on speculation that it'd be useful at some point, and sure enough the software became available within a couple of weeks. So cool. I'm looking forward to the MSX emulation and running CP/M on it. What a thing, for this super obscure and defunct system to become an overnight sensation like this.
@@andreaparks9044 Yeah, like Aaron said. I was messaging with the seller the other day and he's SUPER backed up with orders. It's just him testing and shipping, and he got his girlfriend pitching in, but he's just swamped right now, poor guy. He wasn't expecting what happened to happen.
@@RetroHackShack That is the plan, but at the moment I'm not done getting info to the hardware folks, and I'm creating a new build process for my source so that other people can hit the ground running when it is published.
Wish I could have been a part of the early NABU hacking. Unfortunately I couldn't buy one when I first heard of them because it was late in the month and I was short on funds. But by the time i had money to spend (had to wait until I got paid) the Ebay listing had ended. I was able to get in touch with the guy, and as it turns out, he had to temporarily suspend sales while he caught up with the huge deluge of orders he got, which is what I suspected was going on. (I can only imagine what his reaction was when he woke up one day to find his inbox on fire ;-) ) Unfortunately as of the time I am writing this, the Ebay listing is still down. I suspect that because of how busy we all get during the Christmas holiday, he may not be able to get through his order backlog until after the holidays. So there is hope.
@Retro Hack Shack, I just received a Nabu on aloan and I'll make a short video on it, but your video really does it the most justice, so I can't possibly do better! I'll link to this video in the description if that's OK!?
I paused at 10:38. I took a screen shot of the pinout diagram. I referred to it multiple times while assembling my cable. And I still wired it backwards, because I had forgotten that what you showed early in the video was wrong. The cutting room floor is a handy tool sometimes.
20:38 - I've seen that so many times over the years, where the diagrams online are reversed, or just plain wrong. lol I know this is probably stating the obvious, but now whenever I get a problem like that, and have the lid off a machine, I would recommend doing a continuity check (with the machine powered OFF) between the "TX" pins of the RS485 adapter, and the "RX" pins on the serial chip inside the NABU. That's often a good "sanity check", or at least a starting point to figure out some other issues. I've seen a few TH-camrs buying these machines now. It's amazing how quickly people have managed to get them running, including with disk drives etc.
RPI has built-in UART that can be converted to RS422 directly, although it requires soldering the pinheader to RPI-zero. There are dedicated RS422 hardware for RPI specifically. Actually I'm pretty sure rs422 can be bit-banged in software, although with no actual isolation, but it shouldn't be a problem in this case if the ground IS actually connected.
Yes, you do need a common ground, it is the current return path for both the positive and negative data lines. It might work without, but then the current will have to find a different return path, probably through the power earth, and then it might be susceptible to noise on the GND line and defeat the purpose of having twisted pairs for data... ( : Nice HackShack btw, keep 'em coming! : )
The controller looks like an F Jet, a later model based off the Channel F sold by Zircon who took over from Fairchild. There are some magazine ads out there somewhere.
As more stuff is released, it will allow more stuff to be produced... A lot of the games shown in the menu seem to be MSX ports (esp. from Konami), so I bet the MSX might be a good place to start for porting new games over. I bet the Nabu could theoretically play a killer game of Galaga or Bosconian...
so the idea was just that software would be downloaded over cable and played in strict local mode on the Nabu? wondering if there was any multi-user game play by interacting with a remote game server as that would have been awesome for a pre-internet world but guess cable was used in a kind of one-way broadcast manner only back in its heyday...
@@RetroHackShack As soon as we figured out the MSX was similar, we licensed great MSX games and in turn licensed some NABU titles as MSX, which is why you sometimes see a copyright on a NABU game. In Japan, they always changed the name, so the only game I remember was Tank Commander. I have a bunch of assembler source that are shims for MSX->NABU. They make it easier to port most of the MSX games. That stuff will be released when I clean it up for publication.
I really need to reverse engineer the keyboard some day. I got one of the ones without a keyboard in the box. Seem pretty stuck getting it up and going even.
Just an observation if the designers/creators had gone with the ZILOG Z800 they would been able to create a machine that could run all ZILOG Z80 programs as well as the ZILOG Z80A programs and could have had the ZEUS OS which was UNIX that was created for the ZILOG Z800 chip why didn't they or they could gone with a TMS99105A processor which would have allowed you to do the Home accounts as the TMS99105A had IEEE754 floating point.
I really need the Nabu emulated. As much as I'd love to own one of these, it's an old device. If it would break, I couldn't do anything. I'd have to convert power from 240V/50Hz and I still don't know if my TV/monitors support NTSC composite. So an emulator would come up handy.
The "Antarctic Venture" is a direct port of Antarctic Adventure from MSX (see the S. Pole written in Japanese, the ColecoVision version has it in English). But all Konami intro/copyrights have been stripped off. There is only a Konami logo left on the map. I wonder if they paid the license for these ripped-off games or it was just plain piracy...
Hey, man! Thanks for the long and detailed video! … and what about that PDP-11 front panel emulation lying on the desk (the one with the white and yellow switches)? Is there a new video planned? ;)
I did find a link for a seller on ebay, but it ended with 70 odd sold, so not sure what's going on with the 1000 odd reported by some. Anyway, I'm on the wrong side of the planet, transport is like twice the price of the Nabu (assuming I can find one) so it looks like I'm our of luck and will have to wait for an emulator etc.
The listing(s) got weird ocne ebay red-flagged it(them). The listing you mention was for 71. When I bought mine, from a different listing (the only listing at the time), it said 720 sold. Now it says 200.
Sorry. The cable looked basically the same. You can't go by the wiring colors in my vid since they are not standard. But if you use the correct pinout for the 5 pin din, the rest should work.
Those Fairchild Channel F controllers are considered by many to be the worst controllers of all time. Real wrist killers. Anyway, I saw this on Adrian's Digital Basement a few days ago and he mentioned that some groups of people have been making efforts to get it working like it did in the eighties via the NABU network.
@@RetroHackShack Turn down the smart-assery a bit, won't ya? I was merely saying that Adrian's video mentions the task that you are performing in this video. Sheesh.
It’s just a standard MSX typ TI graphic card. Like colecovision and others had Monochrome? Spectrum was not monochrome (I mean the name is spectrum) and the C64 had even higher resolution that this. Where is the smooth movement. It seems rather choppy to me? Not wanting ti sound rude so just checking
@@litjellyfish most Speccy games where monochrome and you could only have one colour in an 8x8 character. Not really worth the effort of typing that all in on a phone. I guess I didn’t expect someone to be that pedantic. And c64 graphics were horribly low res as you had to halve the resolution for multi-colour.
@@paullee3660 not most. I would say 50/50 and you could have two colors not one. Also yes half res for multicolor but you asked about those graphics and those are single color where C64 had 320x299 while this was like 256x209 I think. So nothing about being pedant by just laying out facts. I can tell you how they achieved it. Same as with all computers / consoles that used the TMS9918 graphics chip. Basically same as the C64 hires mode or the spectrum (but with hardware character mapping) no software scrolling. 32 single color sprites but only 4 per scanline and max 16 pixels So basically a MSX which apart from a bit more flexible color management is a bit weaker than a C64!m depending on how you see it.
They're original in design, though it was similar in architecture to many systems that came out around the same time, MSX, Colecovision, and a few others. They're made in korea, as is printed on the side of the box, and rumor has it by samsung. It came out before msx so it's not a clone of that, just uses the same sound, processor, and video chip
I saw these pop up on ebay and almost impulse bought one myself (also knowing nothing about them). I figured it'd just end up sitting in a closet collecting dust so I passed. Kinda wish I had bought one now. XD
The seller will have more up on eBay hopefully in the next 2-3 weeks once he's caught up on shipping the ones already sold. His plan is to sell them in smaller batches to be able and keep up.
@@LotoTheHero No problem. I've chatted with him a few times about it. Indeed he was pretty shocked at the demand thanks to Adrian's original video aka "the Adrian effect" LOL!
@@SatanicMac No idea if he will raise the prices or not. I didn't think to ask him about that when we chatted. Let's hope for people who haven't purchased one yet the prices stay the same or close. I would think the shipping fee would stay the same per unit. Mine weighed about 19 LBS according to the shipping label.
the ebay seller got something like 500 orders in a couple of days and stopped relisting more of his stock to get a chance to ship out the current backlog. he'll likely be a few more weeks in getting those out before relisting them.
Suddenly Nabu is the new black:…:) or Nabu fever… Ton’s of video on this system, not sure I can't share the excitement about it…. (edited so some people are less unhappy about my dissenting opinion )
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. And have a Happy New Year. My NABU Saga: I haven’t been able to keep up with or appreciate “NABU Fever”. For the past 6 weeks my life has been hijacked. The reason is simple, my life was consumed by handling, testing, and shipping NABU items. This includes countless hours of warehouse management (of my NABU Stack). In that time period I shipped 578 orders (671 packages). I dedicated all my time to getting all the orders out as soon as possible. (I apologize for the delays.) I shipped on average over 100 items a week. I could do no more. My account had been suspended by eBay because of the (unusual?) circumstances surrounding it. So currently I cannot list my items on eBay and eBay owes me a lot of money. I shipped the last of the orders (from Adrian’s 2-day order surge) on Friday (12/30/22). That was the highlight of the day. A day to celebrate - so I thought. So that Friday I called eBay to see when I can relist my NABU items and when I can get the money that they owe me. eBay’s Response: My account will be suspended until “all” the orders have been “delivered”. Wow! Approximately 35% of my sales are out of the country (USA). So, it will be weeks before all those orders are delivered. So, it looks like I am going to be in "eBay Jail" for a while. Oh yes, so for the rest of that Friday, I was outside from 8:00 PM to 4:00 AM on “warehouse management duties”. And I moved 125 NABU Computers and 20 Adaptors into the house. (Ready for testing.) Hopefully, I don’t sound like I’m complaining. I just wanted to explain why you haven’t heard from me. I am very happy that the NABU Computers are selling and all the activity (read enjoyment) that is surrounding them. Also, this was a test, and my 68-year-old body has passed it with flying colors. Tired - yes; sore - yes; but 8 lbs. lighter and stronger than last year. Ha! Epilogue: Don’t worry. When my account is restored, I will have plenty of NABU Computers to sell. At that point I will moderate the listed amounts so I can process the orders in a timely manner. Now excuse me, I have to catch up with 6-weeks of phone calls and emails. There will be many apologies. In the meantime, I am considering selling the NABU Computers on another platform. I feel that I am being treated unfairly by eBay. I am open to suggestions for alternate selling platforms. Any ideas? PellMill, LLC
Do you have any keyboards separate from the units? I ordered one of the units with no keyboard and I wanted to change my mind but things were not working with ebay.
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It's a great time to be a NABU owner.
Yep
Mine is in the mail. :)
@@RudysRetroIntel Sit tight Rudy, I'm sure customs will be playing with your Nabu a little while before they decide to give it to you. LOL! Can you imagine a boarder agent saying "oh wow, Nabu! I had this when I was a kid! Let's play with it for a while!"? 🙂
@@geekwithsocialskills Lol!!
For most of the world, it’s the only time to be a NABU owner.
FINALLY!!!
A video on the NABU Personal Computer that makes the appropriate Phantom Menace references
This is some next level elite geek material. Well done. Kind of regret not buying one after Adrian's DB episode but I already have a huge pile of retro computers I don't use.
being packed away in the box it's as though these have time traveled to a time when they can be appreciated and brought to life
25 years ago these would have been junk. Now they are treasure.
I vividly remember seeing this system running new at the time in 1983, in Ottawa Canada here, was just amazing, and so ahead of it's time, the only other system, I can think of that kind of used a cable modem, was the Mattel Intellivision's Play Cable system, early 80's
Play Cable! I couldn't remember the name.
I can't wait for my NABU to arrive. It was a total impulse buy, on speculation that it'd be useful at some point, and sure enough the software became available within a couple of weeks. So cool. I'm looking forward to the MSX emulation and running CP/M on it. What a thing, for this super obscure and defunct system to become an overnight sensation like this.
where did you order it from? I cant find the ebay listing
The listing is down at the moment. It should come back up once the seller has caught up. www.ebay.com/itm/394319978146
@@andreaparks9044 Yeah, like Aaron said. I was messaging with the seller the other day and he's SUPER backed up with orders. It's just him testing and shipping, and he got his girlfriend pitching in, but he's just swamped right now, poor guy. He wasn't expecting what happened to happen.
"You're not ready for this, but your kids are gonna love it"
Nabu creator, circa 1984
Wow, big promotion! Lotsa detail in one spot!
Thanks Leo. And thanks for all the great NABU programs! I hope they can all be archived properly at some point.
@@RetroHackShack That is the plan, but at the moment I'm not done getting info to the hardware folks, and I'm creating a new build process for my source so that other people can hit the ground running when it is published.
Some decent emulation of it would be amazing, especially for us pal/230v people
Just discovered this channel. Loving it!
Thank you!
both my brothers in law worked on this thing. One did coding, the other did graphics.
Awesome
The games are amazing. The system resolution is really high.
The hardware is really good.
High? Compared to what. It’s lower than say C64 that was released before this
I am so impressed with this and its only been a week !!!
Nabu could have been the French Minitel for North America - Internet-like capabilities a decade before Internet becomes a thing for the general public
Yes
The NABU has almost exactly the same architecture as the first generation of MSX computers, so it should be possible to easily port games for it.
Wish I could have been a part of the early NABU hacking. Unfortunately I couldn't buy one when I first heard of them because it was late in the month and I was short on funds. But by the time i had money to spend (had to wait until I got paid) the Ebay listing had ended. I was able to get in touch with the guy, and as it turns out, he had to temporarily suspend sales while he caught up with the huge deluge of orders he got, which is what I suspected was going on. (I can only imagine what his reaction was when he woke up one day to find his inbox on fire ;-) ) Unfortunately as of the time I am writing this, the Ebay listing is still down. I suspect that because of how busy we all get during the Christmas holiday, he may not be able to get through his order backlog until after the holidays. So there is hope.
@Retro Hack Shack, I just received a Nabu on aloan and I'll make a short video on it, but your video really does it the most justice, so I can't possibly do better! I'll link to this video in the description if that's OK!?
Sure
I paused at 10:38. I took a screen shot of the pinout diagram. I referred to it multiple times while assembling my cable. And I still wired it backwards, because I had forgotten that what you showed early in the video was wrong. The cutting room floor is a handy tool sometimes.
For an 1983 home computer system, the games actually look pretty good.
Agreed
20:38 - I've seen that so many times over the years, where the diagrams online are reversed, or just plain wrong. lol
I know this is probably stating the obvious, but now whenever I get a problem like that, and have the lid off a machine, I would recommend doing a continuity check (with the machine powered OFF) between the "TX" pins of the RS485 adapter, and the "RX" pins on the serial chip inside the NABU.
That's often a good "sanity check", or at least a starting point to figure out some other issues.
I've seen a few TH-camrs buying these machines now. It's amazing how quickly people have managed to get them running, including with disk drives etc.
RPI has built-in UART that can be converted to RS422 directly, although it requires soldering the pinheader to RPI-zero.
There are dedicated RS422 hardware for RPI specifically.
Actually I'm pretty sure rs422 can be bit-banged in software, although with no actual isolation, but it shouldn't be a problem in this case if the ground IS actually connected.
Yes to all of that. In this case I wasn't sure which OS I was going to use so the generic adapter was what I chose.
Yes, you do need a common ground, it is the current return path for both the positive and negative data lines. It might work without, but then the current will have to find a different return path, probably through the power earth, and then it might be susceptible to noise on the GND line and defeat the purpose of having twisted pairs for data... ( : Nice HackShack btw, keep 'em coming! : )
I can't wait for the entire thing to run on a RPI and I will absolutely poke at it once it gets to that level.
The controller looks like an F Jet, a later model based off the Channel F sold by Zircon who took over from Fairchild. There are some magazine ads out there somewhere.
I'm guessing all the NABU computers have sold since they're no longer on eBay.
Actually, another commenter said there will be more once the seller catches up with existing orders. Hopefully at the same price. Fingers crossed.
The chassis ground helps with signal integrity.
I have one of those i got from Grafton Fleamarket in MA USA
York University is actually in Toronto. :)
Whoops! Thanks for catching that.
@@RetroHackShack No problem. I think the confusion is because NABU was based in Ottawa.
Thanks for all the great videos (and the RBGtoHDMI!)
Yeah. Exactly. I had Ottawa on the brain.
There's an odd thing in the video: at 41:59 there's a jump cut back to talking again about Leo not wanting the software to get out.
You think you no better then the Gungans? Mesa like XD
Cool!
Very interesting NABU... 😲
Very cool video, kinda knocked sideways as to how fast the software appeared!
For sure
Amazon has solderless DB8 connectors that can give it that pro look. The way the ports are oriented in diagrams vs reality drove me nuts
As more stuff is released, it will allow more stuff to be produced...
A lot of the games shown in the menu seem to be MSX ports (esp. from Konami), so I bet the MSX might be a good place to start for porting new games over. I bet the Nabu could theoretically play a killer game of Galaga or Bosconian...
Actually, the NABU came out before the MSX. I think one of the games was ported TO the MSX. But some could have come the other way as well.
so the idea was just that software would be downloaded over cable and played in strict local mode on the Nabu?
wondering if there was any multi-user game play by interacting with a remote game server as that would have been awesome for a pre-internet world
but guess cable was used in a kind of one-way broadcast manner only back in its heyday...
Yeah. It was download only for the general public.
@@RetroHackShack As soon as we figured out the MSX was similar, we licensed great MSX games and in turn licensed some NABU titles as MSX, which is why you sometimes see a copyright on a NABU game. In Japan, they always changed the name, so the only game I remember was Tank Commander.
I have a bunch of assembler source that are shims for MSX->NABU. They make it easier to port most of the MSX games. That stuff will be released when I clean it up for publication.
@@leo.binkowski Awesome! Thanks for the info.
I really need to reverse engineer the keyboard some day. I got one of the ones without a keyboard in the box. Seem pretty stuck getting it up and going even.
Just an observation if the designers/creators had gone with the ZILOG Z800 they would been able to create a machine that could run all ZILOG Z80 programs as well as the ZILOG Z80A programs and could have had the ZEUS OS which was UNIX that was created for the ZILOG Z800 chip why didn't they or they could gone with a TMS99105A processor which would have allowed you to do the Home accounts as the TMS99105A had IEEE754 floating point.
pro tip: use manual focus when filming a CRT and you are waving your arm around. :)
I bought them in 1989.
I bought one, the seller still hasn't shipped it but I'm still hopeful.
RS 422 is differential, it's (TX+ TX-) and (RX+ RX-). It's a pair of wires each way similar to CAT5.
I really need the Nabu emulated. As much as I'd love to own one of these, it's an old device. If it would break, I couldn't do anything. I'd have to convert power from 240V/50Hz and I still don't know if my TV/monitors support NTSC composite. So an emulator would come up handy.
Seems like it is coming soon if they can get it into work.
The "Antarctic Venture" is a direct port of Antarctic Adventure from MSX (see the S. Pole written in Japanese, the ColecoVision version has it in English). But all Konami intro/copyrights have been stripped off. There is only a Konami logo left on the map. I wonder if they paid the license for these ripped-off games or it was just plain piracy...
Hey, man! Thanks for the long and detailed video!
… and what about that PDP-11 front panel emulation lying on the desk (the one with the white and yellow switches)? Is there a new video planned? ;)
I did find a link for a seller on ebay, but it ended with 70 odd sold, so not sure what's going on with the 1000 odd reported by some.
Anyway, I'm on the wrong side of the planet, transport is like twice the price of the Nabu (assuming I can find one) so it looks like I'm our of luck and will have to wait for an emulator etc.
The listing(s) got weird ocne ebay red-flagged it(them). The listing you mention was for 71. When I bought mine, from a different listing (the only listing at the time), it said 720 sold. Now it says 200.
York University is in Toronto, not Ottawa.
"Hackerman"has one
I wish you would have shown us what the cable looks like after the modification. I did the same thing and I just keep getting FF as a response.
Sorry. The cable looked basically the same. You can't go by the wiring colors in my vid since they are not standard. But if you use the correct pinout for the 5 pin din, the rest should work.
@@RetroHackShack I did, I double checked it, looked at the pin out, and I still can't get it to work.
Perhaps take a look at the information on DJs website. He has more information there.
@@RetroHackShack I did that as well.
Is it me, or did a couple of minutes of the conversation repeat at the end? Great video anyways.
Too bad you didn't try for the Easter Egg in Pac-Man.
I did. I didn't work for me.
Is there already a way to mod MSX1 games to run on the Nabu ? That would be so great !
Everything looks like a C64 to me
Can it print "Crysis" 60 times per second? 😮😅😊
Those Fairchild Channel F controllers are considered by many to be the worst controllers of all time. Real wrist killers. Anyway, I saw this on Adrian's Digital Basement a few days ago and he mentioned that some groups of people have been making efforts to get it working like it did in the eighties via the NABU network.
Uh. Yeah. That's what this video is about.
@@RetroHackShack Turn down the smart-assery a bit, won't ya? I was merely saying that Adrian's video mentions the task that you are performing in this video. Sheesh.
Not being a smart ass. It sounded like maybe you didn't watch it which happens a lot.
@@RetroHackShack No worries. I sent the link to your video to Adrian in case he wants to see what's involved in getting the NABU up and running.
Thanks. We have been talking about it back and forth for a month or so. So he is aware.
Was it designed by NAD designers?
Any information on how it achieved those arcade quality graphics? Not monochrome like the Spectrum or chunky like the C64. Smooth movement too.
It’s just a standard MSX typ TI graphic card. Like colecovision and others had
Monochrome? Spectrum was not monochrome (I mean the name is spectrum) and the C64 had even higher resolution that this. Where is the smooth movement. It seems rather choppy to me? Not wanting ti sound rude so just checking
@@litjellyfish most Speccy games where monochrome and you could only have one colour in an 8x8 character. Not really worth the effort of typing that all in on a phone. I guess I didn’t expect someone to be that pedantic. And c64 graphics were horribly low res as you had to halve the resolution for multi-colour.
@@paullee3660 not most. I would say 50/50 and you could have two colors not one.
Also yes half res for multicolor but you asked about those graphics and those are single color where C64 had 320x299 while this was like 256x209 I think. So nothing about being pedant by just laying out facts.
I can tell you how they achieved it. Same as with all computers / consoles that used the TMS9918 graphics chip. Basically same as the C64 hires mode or the spectrum (but with hardware character mapping) no software scrolling. 32 single color sprites but only 4 per scanline and max 16 pixels
So basically a MSX which apart from a bit more flexible color management is a bit weaker than a C64!m depending on how you see it.
What sound chip is that?
How can you use a mouse and keyboard if they aren't connected?
I used VNC which emulates the mouse and keyboard on the remote system.
Is that made in Canada? And what is the sound system based on?
They're original in design, though it was similar in architecture to many systems that came out around the same time, MSX, Colecovision, and a few others. They're made in korea, as is printed on the side of the box, and rumor has it by samsung. It came out before msx so it's not a clone of that, just uses the same sound, processor, and video chip
I saw these pop up on ebay and almost impulse bought one myself (also knowing nothing about them). I figured it'd just end up sitting in a closet collecting dust so I passed. Kinda wish I had bought one now. XD
The seller will have more up on eBay hopefully in the next 2-3 weeks once he's caught up on shipping the ones already sold. His plan is to sell them in smaller batches to be able and keep up.
@@geekwithsocialskills hopefully without a price hike, They **WERE** cheaper even before all this ahha
@@geekwithsocialskills Thanks for the heads up. That makes perfect sense. I'm sure he wasn't expecting the demand to be what it was for these.
@@LotoTheHero No problem. I've chatted with him a few times about it. Indeed he was pretty shocked at the demand thanks to Adrian's original video aka "the Adrian effect" LOL!
@@SatanicMac No idea if he will raise the prices or not. I didn't think to ask him about that when we chatted. Let's hope for people who haven't purchased one yet the prices stay the same or close. I would think the shipping fee would stay the same per unit. Mine weighed about 19 LBS according to the shipping label.
ebay is sold out. i checked. :(
I don't think so. I think he just took down the auction for now until he can catch up.
the ebay seller got something like 500 orders in a couple of days and stopped relisting more of his stock to get a chance to ship out the current backlog. he'll likely be a few more weeks in getting those out before relisting them.
The Star Wars snippets soon become tiresome, but an interesting video nonetheless.
Suddenly Nabu is the new black:…:) or Nabu fever…
Ton’s of video on this system, not sure I can't share the excitement about it…. (edited so some people are less unhappy about my dissenting opinion )
It isn't (compared to other old systems), because someone had CP/M up and running just after a few hours. If you say a C64 is useless, then yes.
You sound useless
@@axemanracing6222 that maybe true, but seems a bit overkill….again this is my opinion. No need to argue, no need for convincing. It is ok to disagree
@@witness1013 anyone with a different opinion gets immediately attacked. You sound intolerant.
@@atarimex2643 No worries ;-)
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.
And have a Happy New Year.
My NABU Saga:
I haven’t been able to keep up with or appreciate “NABU Fever”.
For the past 6 weeks my life has been hijacked.
The reason is simple, my life was consumed by handling, testing, and shipping NABU items.
This includes countless hours of warehouse management (of my NABU Stack).
In that time period I shipped 578 orders (671 packages).
I dedicated all my time to getting all the orders out as soon as possible. (I apologize for the delays.)
I shipped on average over 100 items a week.
I could do no more.
My account had been suspended by eBay because of the (unusual?) circumstances surrounding it.
So currently I cannot list my items on eBay and eBay owes me a lot of money.
I shipped the last of the orders (from Adrian’s 2-day order surge) on Friday (12/30/22).
That was the highlight of the day. A day to celebrate - so I thought.
So that Friday I called eBay to see when I can relist my NABU items and when I can get the money that they owe me.
eBay’s Response: My account will be suspended until “all” the orders have been “delivered”.
Wow!
Approximately 35% of my sales are out of the country (USA).
So, it will be weeks before all those orders are delivered.
So, it looks like I am going to be in "eBay Jail" for a while.
Oh yes, so for the rest of that Friday, I was outside from 8:00 PM to 4:00 AM on “warehouse management duties”.
And I moved 125 NABU Computers and 20 Adaptors into the house. (Ready for testing.)
Hopefully, I don’t sound like I’m complaining. I just wanted to explain why you haven’t heard from me.
I am very happy that the NABU Computers are selling and all the activity (read enjoyment) that is surrounding them.
Also, this was a test, and my 68-year-old body has passed it with flying colors.
Tired - yes; sore - yes; but 8 lbs. lighter and stronger than last year. Ha!
Epilogue:
Don’t worry. When my account is restored, I will have plenty of NABU Computers to sell.
At that point I will moderate the listed amounts so I can process the orders in a timely manner.
Now excuse me, I have to catch up with 6-weeks of phone calls and emails.
There will be many apologies.
In the meantime, I am considering selling the NABU Computers on another platform.
I feel that I am being treated unfairly by eBay.
I am open to suggestions for alternate selling platforms.
Any ideas?
PellMill, LLC
Do you have any keyboards separate from the units? I ordered one of the units with no keyboard and I wanted to change my mind but things were not working with ebay.