Sorry I couldn't finish this video - there was a similar place in the Bay Area, Weird Stuff, that went out of business a few years ago. Their prices were similarly too high. The last time (ever) I went there they had a fairly old looking LED scrolling display, marked as untested. I asked what they wanted for it they said $50, which struck me as quite high for an untested board. I offered 10, with the expectation that they'd come back with something more reasonable like 25-30, but instead the guy YELLED at me "He said 50!". I turned my back on him and walked out. Seeing the overpriced legacy stuff brought that memory back for me.
I used to work around the corner from weird stuff. I would go over on my lunch break and look around. Too bad they had to close. Pretty much all those surplus places are closed now.
At first I was astonished by the outrageous pricing. Then I saw the color code sale price chart at 5:09 with the potential of up to 80% off. They'll need it!
Just visited the South store. Didn’t pick up anything but will go back. The south store seems less organized than the city store and I didn’t see price tags on most items. Staff was great. Great video!!
The final cable says MICRImage not MICROImage. MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition and is the printing system used for the routing and account numbers on checks. The cable is to connect a check reader to a POS system.
The tape deck on the xerox sunrise was probably there to play back tapes made with a voice recorder (by the boss in his office - to be written down later by an assistant). The tape deck even seems to have a little speaker below
At 2:32, that's a Thermaltake Level 10 GT case which I definitely would have bought if I'd known they existed back when they were being sold. I looked it up only after seeing it here.
As I was watching your video I got excited when I recognized the logic board on the left side of the popular electronics magazine. That board came out of one of the Crey Supercomputers. Last December I treated myself to a piece of hardware history from the Crey X-MP supercomputer. I own one of the memory boards that is housed in a pixie glass display case that came with a certificate of authenticity 11:25
That “parallel” to SCSI cable is likely just the latter. SCSI has so many different connectors that you need a bit of a war chest to connect any two things. DB25 was common on Macs and Zip drives. The HDB50 interface was common on PC cards and some external drives, like portable CD / CD-ROM drives, the Jaz drive, etc. Most external SCSI stuff used the Centronics 50-pin connector. Then there was Wide SCSI, which moves us up to HDB68. Any of those connect to any other, so it’s useful to have DB25 to HDB50, DB25 to Centronics 50, HDB50 to Centronics 50, and adapters for some of the above, plus HDB68 to HDB50, and a slot bracket with IDC 50 ribbon connectors to HDB50 to transform external to internal or vice versa.
There were funny parallel to scsi adapters though, just to add confusion. and then theres the zip 100 plus drives that will do either parallel or scsi out of the same plug.
I think the cable that you showed around 13:22 that is labeled HP is an IEEE-1284 DB25 Male to MicroCentronics 36 Male Parallel Printer Cable. They were used on the HP LaserJet 1100.
My psychiatrist uses a Bose radio. That monitor swivel probably could have fit in a carry-on. In Seattle they have a computer museum called 'The Living Computer Museum'. It has a mainframe and a Xerox Alto. Of course, the Xerox Alto was being fixed when I was there.
Cool. Nice to see other vintage stops. But uhh yeah those prices were in orbit. Not sure how they stay in business. $45 for a rubber-dome $3 thrift store 101 key keyboard? I think not.
10:54 yes just an external fan with an easy-reach power button that hooks into the slots on the side of the Apple II. You can plug the computer and monitor into the back of the fan. Don't know if they were at all effective at cooling but they are popular enough that you can buy a new-made version at Reactivemicro.
I always find a bin full of scart cables at my local thrift shop, and I think scart cables are more common to find than composite cables where I'm from
That weird looking Thermaltake case is the Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition and it wasn't cheap back then. Even today people on ebay are selling these for 200 USD or EUR. It's "successor" (more likely a later model from the Thermaltake "Level" series) is the Thermaltake Level 20 Tempered Glass Edition for 750 EUR.
I visit thrift stores in any area I visit. One thing I always look for is unusual cables. Usually 25 cents to one dollar. Several times it has paid off when I buy old electronic gear that didnt come with any cables. I did find one of those Sony video cables, never knew for sure what it was for until now!
Those old computer prices were about 30x too high in my opinion! CRT monitors for $200? They have to be kidding! More like they pay you $5 to take it away!
I run an E-waste facility and I charge to take CRT's. The funny thing is I have never had anyone ask to buy a CRT from me. Sure, I have saved a few for myself for my own collection but in the end, I pay to ship them off to a special handling facility. To see CRT monitors on sale for those prices blows my mind! And this isn't the only place I've seen high prices for CRT's which are the bane of the e-waste industry and carry the worst reputation from a potential pollutant standpoint, deservingly or not.
no way. i go here so often. i- i could be going here today! mostly a museum due to the prices, but they have everything you could think of. the “everything in here is x dollars each” bins might have some good deals though. usually very quiet in there which is nice, even saw a drone being flown around the store by employees a few times, it makes me terrified the blades will collide with something and hurt it though.
Much of the computer gear I see in this video I have personally thrown in the dumpster or sent off to a recycler. I remember one school district had 25-30 pallets stacked full of old Apple computers. Apple II's to the colorful iMacs. They were offered free to teachers, students, or parents that wanted one. Very few takers. I assume they eventually had to pay someone to take them.
The 5 pins DIN can be used to connect cassette recorder to an MSX machine (at least my Sakhr AX-170) The USB to parallel is maybe to connect old devices to laptops in the period of time when parallel connectors are not included in laptops anymore (I know this because of my experience in some old marine equipment) Thanks
Those prices are REDICULOUS! Pure gouging. Regardless of what a collector /might/ pay for an item, it's still 30-40 year old tech with almost no use, warn out product that has most likely been through multiple owners and is likely to fail at any moment if not already dead. An ancient yellowed Apple composite CRT is not worth $150. $55 for a Sun mouse? You couldn't give this stuff away 15 years ago and now it's demanding a premium price? Just how many vintage collectors do they think there are to support this? @21:21 that's a Mac 25-pin/DB-25 SCSI connector with with a SCSI-2 connector on the other end. NOT PARALLEL. Unfortunately they share the exact same plug but if you connect a PC parallel device to a one it will damage it.
I go to RE-PC once a month or so. It’s sucks they’re closed on Sun because weekends are my only free time. By the way, that last cable said “MICRimage” and “MICR” is the coding with magnetic ink on checks, so it may have been part of a point-of-sale system.
I used to go there regularly at around middleschool age, heh... They used to have a few huge shelves in the back corner with the weirdest old computers dumb terminals, etc. stacked precariously. I loved staring at and even digging through those shelves, and was rarely bothered there by other customers who mostly stayed out in the safety of the tables and sorted bins... back then floppy drives were a buck, i bought piles to scrap for robotics, apple and mac drives especially for their geared eject motors. external apple drives for their perfect project-boxes. Heh! I'm a bit ashamed at having thought these things' abundance as waste meant I was doing a service by gutting them. 13W3: as I recall it was mostly used by fixed-frequency monitors (which they used to have a lot of when 21inch reached the consumer for a thousand bux, and these old huge industrial-quality fixies were available for $50 if you were willing to hack a cable and fight with resolution settings in e.g. xf86config, or buy a fixed-freq card). Which is of course to say that as a lower-middleclass highschooler I had a 21in monitor when only graphics professionals did otherwise... heh! The reverse was *much* easier; hooking a vga multisync to a machine with a 13w3, but those adapters usually had dip switches for exactly the reason you mention; there was no standard pinout. I think that usb-parallel cable is for a scanner, and my guess from the old parallel-scanner era is that particular cable is probably unique to that scanner... again the standards were pretty much nonexistent then. The "scsi" to "parallel" cable looks to me more like the parallel "mini-centronics" used by HP right before the parallel-to-usb switchover. Man I used to love that place... heh!
We also have several refurb sellers here in Denmark, prices also crazy compared to fb marketplace, you can often find refurb products priced above current retail prices lol. I just stick to fb marketplace and our local eBay clone
I live in the area, and I've not been impressed with their prices in the last several years. If you're buying something like a monitor that you want to know works for certain it can be okay, but there's so much stuff flooded on facebook marketplace and craigslist that's cheaper. For untested gear some of the stuff is just ridiculously priced; it's like they take the highest eBay prices and throw it out there. I get it, they're trying to subsidize the actual building, but their prices have gotten ridiculously hard to swallow. They used to have some reasonable deals, including on used networking gear. I only go there now if I really want to look through the bins of mass stuff they have if I need a part sooner than later. They bought out another location down in tukwila many years ago that used to be called Bruno's. I used to go there as a kid in the late 80s and early '90s and there would be Rows and Rows of used old computers. I always lusted after the luggable IBM, compatibles and others. Neat place, but they've definitely gotten into way over pricing used gear.
@@zeruty They don't really negotiate much. It's not that kind of shop. When they put it out there, that's the price. I've tried. Besides, that's far too much energy both personal and in gas to expend to go there when there are far easier ways to find/negotiate better prices without wasting an hour plus of my time to drive there and hope there's something I want that's worth even trying.
The "SCSI" cable looks like an LPT cable for HP laser printer. Please check pinout before connecting to actual SCSI. Also check the pinout for what you called the "DIN-5 extension cable" - some of the pins may be shorted to each other! The last cable may be a passive pass-through and not actually parallel. Check if it has continuity. All other cables like "joystick splitter" may actually be entirely different from what you think they are. At least check continuity of power and ground.
I don't understand how these e-waste places rather over price items and make a big profit on a single item, than move inventory and profit from volume 🤔
Sorry I couldn't finish this video - there was a similar place in the Bay Area, Weird Stuff, that went out of business a few years ago. Their prices were similarly too high. The last time (ever) I went there they had a fairly old looking LED scrolling display, marked as untested. I asked what they wanted for it they said $50, which struck me as quite high for an untested board. I offered 10, with the expectation that they'd come back with something more reasonable like 25-30, but instead the guy YELLED at me "He said 50!". I turned my back on him and walked out. Seeing the overpriced legacy stuff brought that memory back for me.
I used to work around the corner from weird stuff. I would go over on my lunch break and look around. Too bad they had to close. Pretty much all those surplus places are closed now.
@@RetroHackShack Yeah, I really miss Halted, they were great. Even Fry's, they were a good place to go for parts in a pinch
@@rmd6502 I would make twice yearly trips from Modesto to the Bay Area in the 90’s with my dad for surplus store adventures. We miss those days.
At first I was astonished by the outrageous pricing. Then I saw the color code sale price chart at 5:09 with the potential of up to 80% off. They'll need it!
They wanted WAY too much for the boomboxes, but they did have a good selection of audio gear.
Just visited the South store. Didn’t pick up anything but will go back. The south store seems less organized than the city store and I didn’t see price tags on most items. Staff was great. Great video!!
My dream is to start a shop/store like this.
The final cable says MICRImage not MICROImage. MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition and is the printing system used for the routing and account numbers on checks. The cable is to connect a check reader to a POS system.
The tape deck on the xerox sunrise was probably there to play back tapes made with a voice recorder (by the boss in his office - to be written down later by an assistant). The tape deck even seems to have a little speaker below
I have seen the connector from 18:45 on an IBM 6555-773 monitor for an early 90s AIX workstation
Thanks
At 2:32, that's a Thermaltake Level 10 GT case which I definitely would have bought if I'd known they existed back when they were being sold. I looked it up only after seeing it here.
As I was watching your video I got excited when I recognized the logic board on the left side of the popular electronics magazine. That board came out of one of the Crey Supercomputers. Last December I treated myself to a piece of hardware history from the Crey X-MP supercomputer. I own one of the memory boards that is housed in a pixie glass display case that came with a certificate of authenticity 11:25
That “parallel” to SCSI cable is likely just the latter. SCSI has so many different connectors that you need a bit of a war chest to connect any two things.
DB25 was common on Macs and Zip drives. The HDB50 interface was common on PC cards and some external drives, like portable CD / CD-ROM drives, the Jaz drive, etc. Most external SCSI stuff used the Centronics 50-pin connector.
Then there was Wide SCSI, which moves us up to HDB68.
Any of those connect to any other, so it’s useful to have DB25 to HDB50, DB25 to Centronics 50, HDB50 to Centronics 50, and adapters for some of the above, plus HDB68 to HDB50, and a slot bracket with IDC 50 ribbon connectors to HDB50 to transform external to internal or vice versa.
There were funny parallel to scsi adapters though, just to add confusion. and then theres the zip 100 plus drives that will do either parallel or scsi out of the same plug.
I think the cable that you showed around 13:22 that is labeled HP is an IEEE-1284 DB25 Male to MicroCentronics 36 Male Parallel Printer Cable. They were used on the HP LaserJet 1100.
Thanks
My psychiatrist uses a Bose radio. That monitor swivel probably could have fit in a carry-on. In Seattle they have a computer museum called 'The Living Computer Museum'. It has a mainframe and a Xerox Alto. Of course, the Xerox Alto was being fixed when I was there.
Did they open back up? They have been closed since COVID last I checked
@@RetroHackShack You're right; they are closed. Figures.
Those prices are from a different planet, correct???
I think they find the prices on ebay then triple it.
That Alienware at nearly 900 bucks? They'd have to be.
Canadian dollars lol
Cool. Nice to see other vintage stops. But uhh yeah those prices were in orbit. Not sure how they stay in business. $45 for a rubber-dome $3 thrift store 101 key keyboard? I think not.
Yep. That's another reason I only bought cables there.
10:54 yes just an external fan with an easy-reach power button that hooks into the slots on the side of the Apple II. You can plug the computer and monitor into the back of the fan. Don't know if they were at all effective at cooling but they are popular enough that you can buy a new-made version at Reactivemicro.
Cool. Thanks.
@@RetroHackShack The most popular version was the Kensington SystemSaver
I always find a bin full of scart cables at my local thrift shop, and I think scart cables are more common to find than composite cables where I'm from
That weird looking Thermaltake case is the Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition and it wasn't cheap back then. Even today people on ebay are selling these for 200 USD or EUR. It's "successor" (more likely a later model from the Thermaltake "Level" series) is the Thermaltake Level 20 Tempered Glass Edition for 750 EUR.
I like it
I visit thrift stores in any area I visit. One thing I always look for is unusual cables. Usually 25 cents to one dollar. Several times it has paid off when I buy old electronic gear that didnt come with any cables. I did find one of those Sony video cables, never knew for sure what it was for until now!
Those old computer prices were about 30x too high in my opinion! CRT monitors for $200? They have to be kidding! More like they pay you $5 to take it away!
$5 - $10 is what I pay at ewaste.
There is a market now for CRT monitors and TVs for retro gaming.
Some people will pay those prices.
I run an E-waste facility and I charge to take CRT's. The funny thing is I have never had anyone ask to buy a CRT from me. Sure, I have saved a few for myself for my own collection but in the end, I pay to ship them off to a special handling facility. To see CRT monitors on sale for those prices blows my mind! And this isn't the only place I've seen high prices for CRT's which are the bane of the e-waste industry and carry the worst reputation from a potential pollutant standpoint, deservingly or not.
Looking for S-VHS VCR? You were standing right in front of one at 3:50.....
Prices are insane lol, probably ebay buy it now prices. They should tick that "sold" checkbox to find the actual value of their items.
my fav case of all times
That thermaltake reminds me of old mainframe/minicomputer styling.
no way. i go here so often. i- i could be going here today!
mostly a museum due to the prices, but they have everything you could think of. the “everything in here is x dollars each” bins might have some good deals though.
usually very quiet in there which is nice, even saw a drone being flown around the store by employees a few times, it makes me terrified the blades will collide with something and hurt it though.
Much of the computer gear I see in this video I have personally thrown in the dumpster or sent off to a recycler.
I remember one school district had 25-30 pallets stacked full of old Apple computers. Apple II's to the colorful iMacs.
They were offered free to teachers, students, or parents that wanted one. Very few takers. I assume they eventually had to pay someone to take them.
Such beautiful vintage machines they had
Big fan of the channel. I don’t know if it was for sale, but I wouldn’t have been able to pass up the Quadram Quadlink. Turn my PC in to a Mac, yes.
The 5 pins DIN can be used to connect cassette recorder to an MSX machine (at least my Sakhr AX-170)
The USB to parallel is maybe to connect old devices to laptops in the period of time when parallel connectors are not included in laptops anymore (I know this because of my experience in some old marine equipment)
Thanks
Those prices are REDICULOUS! Pure gouging. Regardless of what a collector /might/ pay for an item, it's still 30-40 year old tech with almost no use, warn out product that has most likely been through multiple owners and is likely to fail at any moment if not already dead.
An ancient yellowed Apple composite CRT is not worth $150. $55 for a Sun mouse?
You couldn't give this stuff away 15 years ago and now it's demanding a premium price? Just how many vintage collectors do they think there are to support this?
@21:21 that's a Mac 25-pin/DB-25 SCSI connector with with a SCSI-2 connector on the other end. NOT PARALLEL. Unfortunately they share the exact same plug but if you connect a PC parallel device to a one it will damage it.
If you're really into the Adam3A terminals, you should look into the Callisto II project.
I wish we had something like this around here.
The MicroImage cable reminds me of the cable that we used to hook up a cheque scanner a while back at the bank...
That BoomBoxTV combo would make for a great street hack SX-64. Maybe call it the SUX-64?
I like that idea!
I go to RE-PC once a month or so. It’s sucks they’re closed on Sun because weekends are my only free time. By the way, that last cable said “MICRimage” and “MICR” is the coding with magnetic ink on checks, so it may have been part of a point-of-sale system.
“Never need to upgrade”…. 😂
Glad someone got it.
The Hyperion is Canadian made portable computer that predated compact. It uses a version of Dos called HDOS.
Dynalogic made this computer.
I used to go there regularly at around middleschool age, heh... They used to have a few huge shelves in the back corner with the weirdest old computers dumb terminals, etc. stacked precariously. I loved staring at and even digging through those shelves, and was rarely bothered there by other customers who mostly stayed out in the safety of the tables and sorted bins...
back then floppy drives were a buck, i bought piles to scrap for robotics, apple and mac drives especially for their geared eject motors. external apple drives for their perfect project-boxes. Heh! I'm a bit ashamed at having thought these things' abundance as waste meant I was doing a service by gutting them.
13W3: as I recall it was mostly used by fixed-frequency monitors (which they used to have a lot of when 21inch reached the consumer for a thousand bux, and these old huge industrial-quality fixies were available for $50 if you were willing to hack a cable and fight with resolution settings in e.g. xf86config, or buy a fixed-freq card). Which is of course to say that as a lower-middleclass highschooler I had a 21in monitor when only graphics professionals did otherwise... heh!
The reverse was *much* easier; hooking a vga multisync to a machine with a 13w3, but those adapters usually had dip switches for exactly the reason you mention; there was no standard pinout.
I think that usb-parallel cable is for a scanner, and my guess from the old parallel-scanner era is that particular cable is probably unique to that scanner... again the standards were pretty much nonexistent then.
The "scsi" to "parallel" cable looks to me more like the parallel "mini-centronics" used by HP right before the parallel-to-usb switchover.
Man I used to love that place... heh!
My brother and I had, if I remember correctly, Trinitron 20" with 13w3, connected to old Macs (II/IIci) we got from Boeing Surplus
Thanks for that info
@@zeruty Man, it broke my heart when Boeing Surplus went the way of the ebay... But not as much as when Radar closed up... That really hurt.
I’d be like a kid in a candy store at a place like this 😊
We also have several refurb sellers here in Denmark, prices also crazy compared to fb marketplace, you can often find refurb products priced above current retail prices lol. I just stick to fb marketplace and our local eBay clone
I live in the area, and I've not been impressed with their prices in the last several years. If you're buying something like a monitor that you want to know works for certain it can be okay, but there's so much stuff flooded on facebook marketplace and craigslist that's cheaper. For untested gear some of the stuff is just ridiculously priced; it's like they take the highest eBay prices and throw it out there. I get it, they're trying to subsidize the actual building, but their prices have gotten ridiculously hard to swallow. They used to have some reasonable deals, including on used networking gear. I only go there now if I really want to look through the bins of mass stuff they have if I need a part sooner than later.
They bought out another location down in tukwila many years ago that used to be called Bruno's. I used to go there as a kid in the late 80s and early '90s and there would be Rows and Rows of used old computers. I always lusted after the luggable IBM, compatibles and others.
Neat place, but they've definitely gotten into way over pricing used gear.
Have you tried making offers or asking for discounts on items that have been sitting for a long time?
@@zeruty They don't really negotiate much. It's not that kind of shop. When they put it out there, that's the price. I've tried. Besides, that's far too much energy both personal and in gas to expend to go there when there are far easier ways to find/negotiate better prices without wasting an hour plus of my time to drive there and hope there's something I want that's worth even trying.
yeah, its mostly a museum now. you wont be coming home from there with much.
This is one of the best episodes of LGR Thrifts I’ve ever watched. 🤣😂😆
LOL. My thrift stores have nothing these days. All the good stuff gets sent to shopgoodwill.
The Apple 2 thing was a fan- I had one from 1981 to the late 80s- Apple 2's had terrible heat dissipation issues.
Nice
WTF? I feel like they bought these for $10 at Value Village and slapped $100 stickers on them. Down right insulting prices.
actually.. everything there is donations. it hurts to see someone bring in a PC you would’ve loved.
The "SCSI" cable looks like an LPT cable for HP laser printer. Please check pinout before connecting to actual SCSI.
Also check the pinout for what you called the "DIN-5 extension cable" - some of the pins may be shorted to each other!
The last cable may be a passive pass-through and not actually parallel. Check if it has continuity.
All other cables like "joystick splitter" may actually be entirely different from what you think they are. At least check continuity of power and ground.
Thanks
Can anyone suggest one in the NYC or Central Jersey area?
In case you haven't noticed, you're editing/exporting 29.97 or 30 fps footage at 25 fps. That makes it look more jittery.
Those prices are nuts.
This is like xmas land for me! id spend all my money :) vintage mac/pc
How could Arianna Ponytail who uses vintage PC's not have any vids?
@@AndrewTubbiolo this makes no sense
I don't understand how these e-waste places rather over price items and make a big profit on a single item, than move inventory and profit from volume 🤔
Records, the format that never really died, Though I was born just after the era, i see why pepole still swear by them.
Next time, maybe you ought to drive there, for you never know...
Fuck never thougt the case in the thumpnail as vintage.
Interesting retro stuff, but those prices...
the alienware had a i7 6800k, 32gb of ram and a 970 4gb lol for almost 900$! what is this world coming too lol
Get ready for HIGH prices! I don't even bother going to this store.
Yeah. Their eBay store is pretty ridiculous too, but cables are cheap.
I wouldn’t shop with someone getting all Nazi about face masks anyway.
@@paullee3660 Welcome to Seattle 😆
it can still be fun if you never look or think about the price tags. be weary of bored employees flying drones though.
I couldn't have made it out of there without dropping $1000+.
Not lowering our prices because they're not making these any more....
Seems like a pricey store for stuff they get for free. Also, how long are you guys gonna mask anyway? Europe stopped months ago, except at hospitals.
This video was recorded about two years ago now 🙂
Appears to be a Motorola time port connector 1996 startac ripoff
I don't have a place like that where I live. Lame!
Does anyone not wear glasses anymore
I am like number 431
Crack pipe pricing.
lol that stuff is mostly recycling junk