Heh, I dunno why I was imagining edible logos in the form of perforated blotter paper... I mean, watching these videos is often a trip but that'd be on another level I guess.
Fun fact: HARIBO stands for „Hans Riegel, Bonn“ and it’s the name of the founder and the city it’s from. That being said it should be ADBLPO instead of ADRIBO.
That Tektronix device is known as a sync generator or black generator. It's the heart of a TV station or video production place. It was used in television stations to sync up equipment so that the signal would stay correct as it travels throughout the plant. Without it a color signal would go out of sync and be all rainbow like and engineers would run around trying to get it working again. The equipment would use the signal as a reference for the actual video signal. Just to note in a old analog TV station we used composite video instead of RGB because we would had just combined the 3 signals at the transmitter anyway so it didn't make sense, and space is a premium, and cables cost $$$$$.
is that true? but honestly, i would have assumed some kind of candy, too. just because of the packaging of it. also, might not be a good idea to use a dye that colors your fingers when using?!
28:00 that whole top card looks like it's not fully engaged into the slot below. See how it's kind of crooked? Maybe reseat everything? could be why there's no patterns?
I used to love those Harpoon games way back in the day. It was a lot of attacking circles and lines though with a Quick time video every once and a while. You had to have a good imagination but it was fun.
@@Nukle0n I still have a working build with the 800MHz version and 768MB of RAM. It was a really great CPU. Ran it for like 8 years in DOS, Win98 and WinXP.
Sad to hear that your YT renevue hasn't been great lately, but I'm actually happy you're not taking the clickbait route like many other channels just to make quick cash. All those flashy OMG YOU WONT BELIEVE IT CLICK NOW videos are making me puke.
Some people are just doing what they have to to survive. its sad when people have to do that, but if they're already doing YT as a job its really hard to just find something else if revenue dries up.
The truth is, the more popular Adrian is the more chance this will continue, ie, when the nodality wears off it's the $ that incentives continuation. It's why I let short ads run at the start and at the end - I browse something else or get a coffee during. lol -.
@@SidneyCritic : A lot of this may be that so many of us viewers are actually using TH-cam Premium to bypass the ads.... (Adblock only works so-far, and impacts on the TH-camr involved). So they're trying to find new ways to attract revenue, now that they're losing out on ad-revenue from Premium users.... Screw the 'Clickbait' thumbnail idea - I've noticed of late a lot of videos keep changing the thumbnails and wondered what that's all about... so now I know! ;-)
Use a scope on the generator. I'm fairly certain it just makes a blank, but exact NTSC frame. And I already am in love with it. It does work with other devices in a mainframe to drive other devices, i.e. there are matching pattern generators, etc.
I have an NTSC test generator even older than that. It's a Heathkit CD-2. It is tube based and uses multiple multivibrators to generate the test video signals. It can also be used as a visual exciter with an external video input.
If you're unsure if something is edible putting it into your mouth is a quick, but potentially dangerous way of finding out. Also, if something tastes good that's usually not sufficient proof of its safety, in the unlikely event of someone using the sweetness of candy to prevent one's tongue from detecting a poison.
Harpoon was a pretty descent naval surface warfare simulator. It was predicated on simulating naval engagements between NATO vs the Warsaw Pact, and US vs USSR. It was a software version of a cardboard table top strategy version. It's a Cold War geek game back from the day.
@@AndrewTubbiolo Hmm, the oldest machine I can recall using it on was a 486. The earlier versions of Harpoon weren't horrible, but the later versions were nearly unplayable. So I took a look around an it's still for sale at Matrix for $60. $60 is a bit stiff, but I understand that Matrix has some killer Christmas sales and it went for $10 last year. It's a bundle for all of the versions from pre-release to 2003.16b. So that means plenty of opportunities to re-live old bugs. :)
I have a feeling that the signal generator is just a front end, or half the picture/device. I have a theory that the ports in the back are the input for the picture, and the thing you have there is the filter control to adjust things manually.
The 68LC040RC20 is definitely without FPU. The _LC_ in the name signifies that it's a non-FPU version. The 68EC040 version would be the without FPU and MMU, and one which is marked as 68040 (without LC/EC in it) is usually the full version, although Motorola was messing around with that marking in later iterations (like the 68040V embedded core). Anyway, the 68LC040 is definitely a version without FPU.
Thank you for not participating in that stupid thumbnail clickbait trend that seems to have spread like an out-of-control virus lately. I have unfollowed several channels that I used to watch regularly because they went down that road.
When I saw "melted Haribo" I was thinking of the ballistic gelatin bears used for target practice, maybe 20 cm x 10 cm x 6 cm. I knew it was unlikely to happen, that's a lot of gelatin, but still GIANT MULTICOLOR GUMMI BEAR!
Me luvz the shirt, Adrian! Although, not to partial with compact cassettes. If I had to go back to tape, it'll be reel to reel for me.
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I hade two K6-2 450 and one K6-2 500Mhz. The interesting thing with the K6-2 400Mhz and up at least officially is that they support multiplier 6x and the way its implemented is the same way as Multiplier 2x on intel socket 7 processors. So it was very common that your could get a voltage adapter, Powerleap for example and often with a K6-2 400Mhz included. This would socket in to a Socket 7 board and you would sett the board to run as 2x66 but because the K6-2 400Mhz or faster would interpret that as its internal multiplier of 6x you got 6x66 so 400Mhz can be run on Socket 7 boards that dont officially support higher then say 3x multiplier. In fact I still have my K6-2 450 that I delided and ran in a Digital branded Pentium 200Mhz MMX system. The board supported K6 processors to and allowed for 2.8V so I put a delided K6-400 in it with a bigger cooler and sure enough it posted as a K6 @ 300Mhz. I booted up slackware Linux 8.1 and cat /proc/cpuinfo showed a K6-2 with 3Dnow! @ 400Mhz! And it was about 2x faster at compiling code then my Pentium 200Mhz MMX. It ran like that for 2+ years and I still have the CPU. This trick dident work for my other Pentium 200Mhz MMX system but that did not have an official K6 bios support, so it seems that if the board supports K6 it has a good chance of working with a K6-2 upgrade, like a power leap adapter. I also seen people modify the VRM on Socket 7 boards to allow for say 2.2-2.5V on one of its jumper settings to more safely run K6-2 processors. K6-2 processors had different Vcores depending on model and stepping, 2.4V was common, I think they went as high as 2.5V stock so 2.8V was on the high side but not uncommon to run them at when overclocked even for years.
Hilarious that Haribo melted like that lol. I read the title wrong I expected to see edible stickers for some reason! that would definitely be cool though lol
Been watching your videos for a while, and thank you for the learning experiences. I missed so much of this when i was kid. I didn't have the funds to afford. Awesome work. Thank you!
22:50 There is in fact only one transistor in a metal package on that "mainboard" and it's marked with "Q420". The other transistors on that board use the more common black ceramic package. All other metal cans are actually ICs, marked with a "U". If you search for the model number you can easily find a manual, which includes schematics and a circuit description. The ICs on the mainboard are only three different types: flip-flops, dual 2-input gates and buffer-inverters - all from Fairchild. Finally, if I interpret the manual correctly, the thing that looks like a regulator on the backside is actually a power transistor.
The engineering on 70s Tektronix gear is incredible. Have a 5000 and 7000 mainframe scope from them. Rock solid (once calibrated) and well documented. The downside is that they used some custom parts which are hard/expensive to replace now. Also have a Tek vector-based graphics system from about the same era; mindblowing stuff.
Regarding views on YT: you are the 3rd person I hear from about the views going down, and people in the comments suggested that YT might have changed how the views are counted/processed lately. Others suggest it's due to lifted restrictions in various parts of the world and people just go outside more. Me personally, I'm mostly interested in thorough PC repair videos, so I watch repair parts and tend to skip over other stuff.
I played Harpoon during the 90's. Remember the book and some realistic gameplay. It really gave a glimpse of advanced military strategy. I don't play military games anymore, but can be interesting for someone else.
I'm playing the spiritual successor of Harpoon, Command: Modern Operations while watching this video :). This kind of simulator or game is super fun for anyone into RTS, sandbox playing and real life modern electronic center warfare.
I used to have one of those K6-2 CPU's in the first PC I ever built. That served me quite well for a very long time, mostly because I was too poor to upgrade though. I think I kept using that all the way up until I got an Athlon XP 3200+.
That AMD K62 was a hell of a CPU..... it was the first CPU for my first real PC, and then backed up with a Voodoo 3DFX card... I originally had a 233MHz, then upgraded to 333MHz, and added more RAM, and went to a Voodoo 2 card, and could play anything at that time; Unreal, Unreal Tournament 99, Quake 2, Quake 3.... Great times!! :-D
16:33 - correct, the Nintendo 64 used Rambus Ram, but they had it made in a custom for factor they called it RDRAM18-NUS. I have 3 N64s that are not working and I tried to figure out what could be wrong and suspected that the RAM is faulty, I read up on it so much but couldn't figure out what's wrong with them.
Makes me wonder if a socket could be installed that lets the N64 take conventional RAMBUS memory so it can be expanded/repaired when none of this form factor is available
@@rawr51919 I saw some guy tinkering with the expansion pak, took out the ram from the expansion pak and soldered it but it has to be a certain type of motherboard where they only used 1 chip instead of two so one row was free. I don't know if the pinout could be matched with an adapter. I'm not sure if the ram is faulty, the cartridge slot is cleaned pretty thoroughly.
I know the video stated these were all references to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory but just in case ... Charlie Bucket was the boy character who eventually inherited the chocolate factory from Willy Wonka. Sorry if that is too obvious.
I was wondering if the name was a coincidence. The only other Bucket family I know was in the UK sitcom Keeping Up Appearances where she would ask people to say her name as "bouquet".
@@6581punk I guess it could be a coincidence, but I doubt it. "Charlie" kept putting "himself" in the letter, but it could just be something that he has been teased over his entire life! :)
These big EEPROMs/Flash ROMs make great multi game carts for old computers / video game systems. I use them in Atari 2600, Interton VC4000, Emerson Arcadia, Odyssey², Colecovision, Vectrex and with one chonking adapter in the Channel F.
We had the Mac version of Harpoon back in the day. I played it a bit until one of the disks went missing during a move. It was a fairly complicated strategic sea battle game as I recall.
I remember the ads for Harpoon in magazines. It was ported to the Amiga as well, and originally released on 1989. I'd expect somewhat low system requirements for the original game, given the vintage and the fact that it was ported to the Amiga. Don't focus too much on views count. It's a trap. There's still 30-40 thousand people that view your videos every week, and you get to influence a whole community. That's basically crazy. As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. No, wait! sorry..... that's Hunter S. Thompson. Honestly, just serve the retro-gaming community by creating good and interesting content. I've learned a lot about hardware just through watching your troubleshooting. I'm _mostly_ a software person, and know the hardware through the software. But the actual low-level signal stuff was always like wizardry before I saw you troubleshooting this stuff. Honesty, those are BY FAR the most interesting videos.
There is a weight measurement on all packages, and at least in Europe (where you'd find the most Haribo products), the vendors need to also print the price per 100g/1kg on the shelves to make it transparent.
31:54 - By the time you post this video, you probably already know that it's the _LC_ part that makes it the "low cost" CPU with no FPU. So you have the 20 MHz LC 040, no FPU.
i do believe that the LC part of that 040 means it lacks an fpu, i could be wrong, and someone can correct me, but from what research i've done LC stood for "Low Cost" which lacked an FPU
For those of us who live in the Southern US, where those kinds of temperatures aren't entirely uncommon, seeing melted candy, even occasionally on store shelves, is pretty normal. When working at some stores, I've actually seen them come off the delivery truck like that.
Even in Virginia one has to be careful leaving things in the car…..I just retrieved an IPod from my Pickup glovebox…..the battery swelled so much it pushed the screen off…..I still works though…so I’ll be able to transfer it all to my phone perhaps.
Adrian, seeing that pile of ICs in the background, if you ever find a neat storage solution to that kind of problem, please make a video about it. I'm facing a similar problem! 😅
RAMBUS Memory was used not just in the Nintendo N64 but also the SONY Playstation 2 and 3. Other than that, only here and there (Cirrus Logic Laguna, an early 3d Graphics card) and the Intel i820 for Slot 1- sometimes 370 (but very rare), 840 (Dual Channel RDRAM) for Slot 2 (rarely 1) and the "legendary" Netburst Chipsets i850 and i860... I had up to 1,5GB in my DF400 Board (SIemens Celsius 670). Your RDRAM Modules seem to be a whopping 512MB each, so 1GB total...
I still have my pre-launch pack of 95 with the hardware/software design manuals for use to design systems ready for Microsoft new system which we had to sign an NDA on entering the event in UK.
I personally enjoy the candy stuff sprinkled into the main video mail call videos, if it's something interesting.(like the melted Haribo, and the logo candy(?)). , and idk why people complain about it so much, it's not exactly difficult to skip ahead in a youtube video if you don't want to watch it.
Because the top 20 comments end up just being about this stupid candy, and you have to scroll down way too far to actually see people talking about what this channel was once supposed to be about.
I have that same Never Forget shirt that I bought back in late May from Amazon. I just showed my daughter a quick segment of this video and she said "Hey that's your shirt!". I posted the Amazon link for it but my comment got removed for having the link.
Sometimes ya get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you :) I did a short read about Rambus but blah blah blah, I could not follow that. I never encountered a Rambus issue in real life. Apparently they are still alive and even kicking.
The video board for the Tektronix project is like some parallel universe stuff... Im not used to seeing such early transistor technology, lil before my time
I don't think that the lack of click-baity thumbnails is the reason for TH-cam-problems. I no longer get recommendations for new videos on this channel, or indeed a lot of the other channels that I follow and subscribe to. TH-cam constantly recommends me older videos that I have already seen, for the past month it has only suggested the old "Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade", but none of the new videos from this channel. No idea what's going on, but a lot of "old" youtubers are having similar problems, and it seems that the recommended-algorithm no longer really works :(
I played the PC version of Harpoon a lot in the early 90s. An old USAF buddy of mine stayed up way too late many work nights playing it on an underpowered Packard Bell 286 that I paid way too much for at Best Buy. May have been a GI, but I was not a sophisticated computer consumer back then!
Is anyone else not seeing this on the Patreon feed? Also, idea for second channel video: ASMR video with Adrian murmuring about ... something ... while slowly playing with the chonky controls on the vintage signal generator. :)
No, my understanding is that all XC68LC040’s lack the math (floating point) ALUs and registers. The XC68040 (without the “LC”) does have the floating point ALUs and registers. The “RC20” probably just indicates the speed grade.
Heh, I dunno why I was imagining edible logos in the form of perforated blotter paper... I mean, watching these videos is often a trip but that'd be on another level I guess.
Hah, I had the same expectation!
ME TOO!!
I was thinking of something more psychedelic also!
I dont know if a visit Timothy Leary would be a good thing.....But, might be hilarious.
Hi Clint :). Me too because says in the title :p
:Sent from random person: "I'm not sure what it is." :Puts in mouth:
That's a bold move.
😮😬
He also plugs in random USB flash drives he receives in his main PC.
Sure was!
That's an understatement! I admire Adrian's faith in humanity. I'd be more careful tho. :^\
Fun fact: HARIBO stands for „Hans Riegel, Bonn“ and it’s the name of the founder and the city it’s from. That being said it should be ADBLPO instead of ADRIBO.
Came down looking for this exact comment. +1
ABLAPO might be more usable though. :)
Love that you still sprinkle in the candy, keeps proceedings light and cheery. Can't be all business all the time.
That Tektronix device is known as a sync generator or black generator. It's the heart of a TV station or video production place. It was used in television stations to sync up equipment so that the signal would stay correct as it travels throughout the plant. Without it a color signal would go out of sync and be all rainbow like and engineers would run around trying to get it working again. The equipment would use the signal as a reference for the actual video signal. Just to note in a old analog TV station we used composite video instead of RGB because we would had just combined the 3 signals at the transmitter anyway so it didn't make sense, and space is a premium, and cables cost $$$$$.
So it's basically a genlock source for an editing suite?
I died when you took that big old chomp on the logo pencil erasers!!
is that true? but honestly, i would have assumed some kind of candy, too. just because of the packaging of it. also, might not be a good idea to use a dye that colors your fingers when using?!
28:00 that whole top card looks like it's not fully engaged into the slot below. See how it's kind of crooked? Maybe reseat everything? could be why there's no patterns?
I used to love those Harpoon games way back in the day. It was a lot of attacking circles and lines though with a Quick time video every once and a while. You had to have a good imagination but it was fun.
Adrian, I am so glad that you used the term Plethora to describe all those e-proms ... It really means a lot to me ❤️😂😁
Fun fact for those that didn't know: AMD produced the Slot A "K7 Athlon" for a short time before going with the Socket A/462 architecture.
I had one of those. 700mhz! 3DNow! Instructions!
@@Nukle0n I still have a working build with the 800MHz version and 768MB of RAM. It was a really great CPU. Ran it for like 8 years in DOS, Win98 and WinXP.
That Signal Generator looks like it would be a great gift for FranLab...
Or Curious Marc! :)
the little logos and the adribo are so cute! Really fun stuff!
Sad to hear that your YT renevue hasn't been great lately, but I'm actually happy you're not taking the clickbait route like many other channels just to make quick cash. All those flashy OMG YOU WONT BELIEVE IT CLICK NOW videos are making me puke.
"Can you fix CRT color issues with this plastic ring?"
Some people are just doing what they have to to survive. its sad when people have to do that, but if they're already doing YT as a job its really hard to just find something else if revenue dries up.
@@stitchfinger7678 TH-cam is totally ruining TH-cam
The truth is, the more popular Adrian is the more chance this will continue, ie, when the nodality wears off it's the $ that incentives continuation. It's why I let short ads run at the start and at the end - I browse something else or get a coffee during. lol -.
@@SidneyCritic : A lot of this may be that so many of us viewers are actually using TH-cam Premium to bypass the ads.... (Adblock only works so-far, and impacts on the TH-camr involved). So they're trying to find new ways to attract revenue, now that they're losing out on ad-revenue from Premium users.... Screw the 'Clickbait' thumbnail idea - I've noticed of late a lot of videos keep changing the thumbnails and wondered what that's all about... so now I know! ;-)
Use a scope on the generator. I'm fairly certain it just makes a blank, but exact NTSC frame. And I already am in love with it. It does work with other devices in a mainframe to drive other devices, i.e. there are matching pattern generators, etc.
Well, I'm still watching your videos. A couple may slip through the cracks, but I do try to watch them all. They're both informative and entertaining.
Why didn't you try changing the card in the old signal generator? There was an extra in the box...
I have an NTSC test generator even older than that. It's a Heathkit CD-2. It is tube based and uses multiple multivibrators to generate the test video signals. It can also be used as a visual exciter with an external video input.
If you're unsure if something is edible putting it into your mouth is a quick, but potentially dangerous way of finding out. Also, if something tastes good that's usually not sufficient proof of its safety, in the unlikely event of someone using the sweetness of candy to prevent one's tongue from detecting a poison.
Oh, yeah.. someone actually made stickers for him. Super.
I used to have that exact same cyrix cpu and upgraded to that exact same K6. A world of difference.
there's a manual for the Tektronix thingy out there on the internets. as far as I can tell, it is indeed supposed to output the gray screen.
here's the link (I hope youtube doesn't hate me): w140.com/tekwiki/images/3/3b/062-1126-00.pdf
I bet Mr Carlson's Lab would LOVE to have that.
Harpoon was a pretty descent naval surface warfare simulator. It was predicated on simulating naval engagements between NATO vs the Warsaw Pact, and US vs USSR. It was a software version of a cardboard table top strategy version. It's a Cold War geek game back from the day.
One of my favorites. Pity that it was so poorly written, most games would end up crashing.
@@MrWaalkman I ran it on a 286 with two megs of ram, and it worked fine for me.
@@AndrewTubbiolo Hmm, the oldest machine I can recall using it on was a 486. The earlier versions of Harpoon weren't horrible, but the later versions were nearly unplayable.
So I took a look around an it's still for sale at Matrix for $60. $60 is a bit stiff, but I understand that Matrix has some killer Christmas sales and it went for $10 last year.
It's a bundle for all of the versions from pre-release to 2003.16b. So that means plenty of opportunities to re-live old bugs. :)
Adrian, send the sig gen to Mr Carlson’s Lab! Although, it looks to be part of a larger unit (maybe a - back then - high-end oscilloscope?)
Agreed he would love that
Doh, I just made the same comment - lol -.
There's a stoner super jealous of that solid haribo peach bar, lol 😂😂
I have a feeling that the signal generator is just a front end, or half the picture/device. I have a theory that the ports in the back are the input for the picture, and the thing you have there is the filter control to adjust things manually.
Adribo or Rammy-bo? Glad you're still mixing the candy reviews in with the techy stuff.
The 68LC040RC20 is definitely without FPU. The _LC_ in the name signifies that it's a non-FPU version. The 68EC040 version would be the without FPU and MMU, and one which is marked as 68040 (without LC/EC in it) is usually the full version, although Motorola was messing around with that marking in later iterations (like the 68040V embedded core). Anyway, the 68LC040 is definitely a version without FPU.
Dear Lord you're game, man. I have absolute respect for you now. Thanks for your videos.
Thank you for not participating in that stupid thumbnail clickbait trend that seems to have spread like an out-of-control virus lately. I have unfollowed several channels that I used to watch regularly because they went down that road.
"Haribo has turned into solid mass!"
Still delicious!
When I saw "melted Haribo" I was thinking of the ballistic gelatin bears used for target practice, maybe 20 cm x 10 cm x 6 cm. I knew it was unlikely to happen, that's a lot of gelatin, but still GIANT MULTICOLOR GUMMI BEAR!
It turned into Chernobyl's "Elephant Foot"! Run! Run for your lives!!
"Beware of the Blob, it..."
@@minty_Joe Still delicious!
Me luvz the shirt, Adrian! Although, not to partial with compact cassettes. If I had to go back to tape, it'll be reel to reel for me.
I hade two K6-2 450 and one K6-2 500Mhz.
The interesting thing with the K6-2 400Mhz and up at least officially is that they support multiplier 6x and the way its implemented is the same way as Multiplier 2x on intel socket 7 processors.
So it was very common that your could get a voltage adapter, Powerleap for example and often with a K6-2 400Mhz included. This would socket in to a Socket 7 board and you would sett the board to run as 2x66 but because the K6-2 400Mhz or faster would interpret that as its internal multiplier of 6x you got 6x66 so 400Mhz can be run on Socket 7 boards that dont officially support higher then say 3x multiplier.
In fact I still have my K6-2 450 that I delided and ran in a Digital branded Pentium 200Mhz MMX system.
The board supported K6 processors to and allowed for 2.8V so I put a delided K6-400 in it with a bigger cooler and sure enough it posted as a K6 @ 300Mhz.
I booted up slackware Linux 8.1 and cat /proc/cpuinfo showed a K6-2 with 3Dnow! @ 400Mhz!
And it was about 2x faster at compiling code then my Pentium 200Mhz MMX.
It ran like that for 2+ years and I still have the CPU.
This trick dident work for my other Pentium 200Mhz MMX system but that did not have an official K6 bios support, so it seems that if the board supports K6 it has a good chance of working with a K6-2 upgrade, like a power leap adapter.
I also seen people modify the VRM on Socket 7 boards to allow for say 2.2-2.5V on one of its jumper settings to more safely run K6-2 processors.
K6-2 processors had different Vcores depending on model and stepping, 2.4V was common, I think they went as high as 2.5V stock so 2.8V was on the high side but not uncommon to run them at when overclocked even for years.
Hilarious that Haribo melted like that lol. I read the title wrong I expected to see edible stickers for some reason! that would definitely be cool though lol
i read the title exactly the same way as you, I was expecting the stickers to be lick-able.
@@stephenlord1539 would definitely be cool!
Been watching your videos for a while, and thank you for the learning experiences. I missed so much of this when i was kid. I didn't have the funds to afford. Awesome work. Thank you!
22:50 There is in fact only one transistor in a metal package on that "mainboard" and it's marked with "Q420".
The other transistors on that board use the more common black ceramic package.
All other metal cans are actually ICs, marked with a "U".
If you search for the model number you can easily find a manual, which includes schematics and a circuit description.
The ICs on the mainboard are only three different types: flip-flops, dual 2-input gates and buffer-inverters - all from Fairchild.
Finally, if I interpret the manual correctly, the thing that looks like a regulator on the backside is actually a power transistor.
The engineering on 70s Tektronix gear is incredible. Have a 5000 and 7000 mainframe scope from them. Rock solid (once calibrated) and well documented. The downside is that they used some custom parts which are hard/expensive to replace now. Also have a Tek vector-based graphics system from about the same era; mindblowing stuff.
Regarding views on YT: you are the 3rd person I hear from about the views going down, and people in the comments suggested that YT might have changed how the views are counted/processed lately. Others suggest it's due to lifted restrictions in various parts of the world and people just go outside more. Me personally, I'm mostly interested in thorough PC repair videos, so I watch repair parts and tend to skip over other stuff.
I played Harpoon during the 90's. Remember the book and some realistic gameplay. It really gave a glimpse of advanced military strategy. I don't play military games anymore, but can be interesting for someone else.
I'm playing the spiritual successor of Harpoon, Command: Modern Operations while watching this video :). This kind of simulator or game is super fun for anyone into RTS, sandbox playing and real life modern electronic center warfare.
It seems like Charlie has let the candy factory go to hell since he took over from old man Wonka...
You could do with some smaller rectangular QC logo stickers for chips.
We had an AMD K6-2 500 MHz earlier. It was such a speedy processor. My brother updated from a K6-2 333 MHz and it wassuch a difference.
I have a k6-2/500 in my DOS machine, it is a little overkill for that though…
I used to have one of those K6-2 CPU's in the first PC I ever built. That served me quite well for a very long time, mostly because I was too poor to upgrade though. I think I kept using that all the way up until I got an Athlon XP 3200+.
That AMD K62 was a hell of a CPU..... it was the first CPU for my first real PC, and then backed up with a Voodoo 3DFX card... I originally had a 233MHz, then upgraded to 333MHz, and added more RAM, and went to a Voodoo 2 card, and could play anything at that time; Unreal, Unreal Tournament 99, Quake 2, Quake 3.... Great times!! :-D
"The snozberries taste like snozberries!"
16:33 - correct, the Nintendo 64 used Rambus Ram, but they had it made in a custom for factor they called it RDRAM18-NUS. I have 3 N64s that are not working and I tried to figure out what could be wrong and suspected that the RAM is faulty, I read up on it so much but couldn't figure out what's wrong with them.
Makes me wonder if a socket could be installed that lets the N64 take conventional RAMBUS memory so it can be expanded/repaired when none of this form factor is available
@@rawr51919 I saw some guy tinkering with the expansion pak, took out the ram from the expansion pak and soldered it but it has to be a certain type of motherboard where they only used 1 chip instead of two so one row was free. I don't know if the pinout could be matched with an adapter. I'm not sure if the ram is faulty, the cartridge slot is cleaned pretty thoroughly.
@@Dukefazon that's super interesting/proprietary af, if only this was adaptable to work with regular RAMBUS RAM
I know the video stated these were all references to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory but just in case ... Charlie Bucket was the boy character who eventually inherited the chocolate factory from Willy Wonka. Sorry if that is too obvious.
I was wondering if the name was a coincidence. The only other Bucket family I know was in the UK sitcom Keeping Up Appearances where she would ask people to say her name as "bouquet".
@@6581punk Yeah I was thinking of Hyacinth immediately! 😂 "This is the Bouquet Residence, the Lady of the House Speaking" 📞
@@6581punk I guess it could be a coincidence, but I doubt it. "Charlie" kept putting "himself" in the letter, but it could just be something that he has been teased over his entire life! :)
Maybe melt haribos on the stove and make some C64 haribos. Maybe use a C64 mini to create a mold?
These big EEPROMs/Flash ROMs make great multi game carts for old computers / video game systems. I use them in Atari 2600, Interton VC4000, Emerson Arcadia, Odyssey², Colecovision, Vectrex and with one chonking adapter in the Channel F.
Did you try flipping the voltage switch on that test equipment
Did you check the modules of the signal generator? The top most at least did not seat properly at all.
Played the paper version of Harpoon when I was stationed on CVN-71 1987-1991; also played the video game.
that amd k6-2 500 was my 1st brand new pc i built before that it was second had stuff from friends
We had the Mac version of Harpoon back in the day. I played it a bit until one of the disks went missing during a move. It was a fairly complicated strategic sea battle game as I recall.
you need to use that happy mac as a Haribo mold ;
I remember the ads for Harpoon in magazines. It was ported to the Amiga as well, and originally released on 1989. I'd expect somewhat low system requirements for the original game, given the vintage and the fact that it was ported to the Amiga.
Don't focus too much on views count. It's a trap. There's still 30-40 thousand people that view your videos every week, and you get to influence a whole community. That's basically crazy. As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. No, wait! sorry..... that's Hunter S. Thompson.
Honestly, just serve the retro-gaming community by creating good and interesting content. I've learned a lot about hardware just through watching your troubleshooting. I'm _mostly_ a software person, and know the hardware through the software. But the actual low-level signal stuff was always like wizardry before I saw you troubleshooting this stuff. Honesty, those are BY FAR the most interesting videos.
2:32 That sort of illustrates how little is in the bag. The shapes are designed to space the sweets out as much as possible :)
There is a weight measurement on all packages, and at least in Europe (where you'd find the most Haribo products), the vendors need to also print the price per 100g/1kg on the shelves to make it transparent.
Fruitcake that sig generator to CuriousMarc! He collects all things Tektronix. I bet he'd love it! :D
This video won me over at the peach block/blob -- haha!
31:54 - By the time you post this video, you probably already know that it's the _LC_ part that makes it the "low cost" CPU with no FPU. So you have the 20 MHz LC 040, no FPU.
Mr Carlson's Lab would probably take the sig gen.
I just got that shirt for my birthday!
K6-2 is an awesome cpu. if you set multiplier to 2x on motherboard, cpu runs at 6x internally.
I had a bag of Sakura gummies arrive from Japan which coalesced into a single mass. Still ate it.
That's pronounced Bouquet!
+1 for the reference!
Lol you realy tried to eat these erasers😂
Haribo candy melted onto a popsickle stick..."think about it, won't you?" (Joel from MST3k
"It's not like everything I look at is working perfectly after I am done with it" ;)
Funny thing is that the guy who played Charlie in that movie actually lives about one county over from where I grew up.
6:39 Charlie Bucket is the boy character from Willy Wonker and the Chocolate Factory! Wheres the candy?!?! 😁👍
Hey Adrian! Your aside on those older cpus reminded me, has anyone done any content on socket 8? I know it was pretty limited...
Just keep up adrian. we love the vids
i do believe that the LC part of that 040 means it lacks an fpu, i could be wrong, and someone can correct me, but from what research i've done LC stood for "Low Cost" which lacked an FPU
I have heard similar things about the LC and EC versions of the 68K processors.
@@BertGrink just confirmed it 100% everymac says that the 68LC040 is a 68040 but lacks the FPU
Nice T-shirt design
For those of us who live in the Southern US, where those kinds of temperatures aren't entirely uncommon, seeing melted candy, even occasionally on store shelves, is pretty normal. When working at some stores, I've actually seen them come off the delivery truck like that.
Even in Virginia one has to be careful leaving things in the car…..I just retrieved an IPod from my Pickup glovebox…..the battery swelled so much it pushed the screen off…..I still works though…so I’ll be able to transfer it all to my phone perhaps.
Only 31 minutes and 54 seconds, I feel cheated, I need more Adrian... *shakes fist*
Adrian, seeing that pile of ICs in the background, if you ever find a neat storage solution to that kind of problem, please make a video about it. I'm facing a similar problem! 😅
that K6/2 is nice, i wish i didn't get rid of mine.
RAMBUS Memory was used not just in the Nintendo N64 but also the SONY Playstation 2 and 3.
Other than that, only here and there (Cirrus Logic Laguna, an early 3d Graphics card) and the Intel i820 for Slot 1- sometimes 370 (but very rare), 840 (Dual Channel RDRAM) for Slot 2 (rarely 1) and the "legendary" Netburst Chipsets i850 and i860...
I had up to 1,5GB in my DF400 Board (SIemens Celsius 670).
Your RDRAM Modules seem to be a whopping 512MB each, so 1GB total...
Nice to know you could make Bear by the Foot with a heat gun and gummi bears
Lol, I remember chewing on many a reconstituted gummy lump as a kid in Texas, never expected to be hearing that from Portland tho
Hariblob
Great video!!
These old k6-2 500 were great on a win98se pc
looks like that signal generator board not sitting right--need push down more...
I still have my pre-launch pack of 95 with the hardware/software design manuals for use to design systems ready for Microsoft new system which we had to sign an NDA on entering the event in UK.
Those strange memory modules are RAMBUS RAM modules.
I personally enjoy the candy stuff sprinkled into the main video mail call videos, if it's something interesting.(like the melted Haribo, and the logo candy(?)). , and idk why people complain about it so much, it's not exactly difficult to skip ahead in a youtube video if you don't want to watch it.
Because the top 20 comments end up just being about this stupid candy, and you have to scroll down way too far to actually see people talking about what this channel was once supposed to be about.
@@PJBonoVox only an attention seeking kid would be bothered by.... wow 20 comments
I have that same Never Forget shirt that I bought back in late May from Amazon. I just showed my daughter a quick segment of this video and she said "Hey that's your shirt!". I posted the Amazon link for it but my comment got removed for having the link.
K6-2 was a great CPU for the money. Really kicked!
Sometimes ya get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you :) I did a short read about Rambus but blah blah blah, I could not follow that. I never encountered a Rambus issue in real life. Apparently they are still alive and even kicking.
Charlie Bucket was a character from the Roald Dahl book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
The video board for the Tektronix project is like some parallel universe stuff...
Im not used to seeing such early transistor technology, lil before my time
lol.. that was great taste test
I don't think that the lack of click-baity thumbnails is the reason for TH-cam-problems. I no longer get recommendations for new videos on this channel, or indeed a lot of the other channels that I follow and subscribe to.
TH-cam constantly recommends me older videos that I have already seen, for the past month it has only suggested the old "Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade", but none of the new videos from this channel.
No idea what's going on, but a lot of "old" youtubers are having similar problems, and it seems that the recommended-algorithm no longer really works :(
The "bell" icon has three settings. Perhaps you have set it to "personalized" instead of "all"?
I played the PC version of Harpoon a lot in the early 90s. An old USAF buddy of mine stayed up way too late many work nights playing it on an underpowered Packard Bell 286 that I paid way too much for at Best Buy. May have been a GI, but I was not a sophisticated computer consumer back then!
6:39 No chocolate from "Charlie Bucket"? ;-)
I dont know what it is...but, I will taste it. LOL. Too funny man.
Is anyone else not seeing this on the Patreon feed?
Also, idea for second channel video: ASMR video with Adrian murmuring about ... something ... while slowly playing with the chonky controls on the vintage signal generator. :)
6:38 "It's Bouquet…"
No, my understanding is that all XC68LC040’s lack the math (floating point) ALUs and registers. The XC68040 (without the “LC”) does have the floating point ALUs and registers. The “RC20” probably just indicates the speed grade.