Gaming on the Keyboard from Chornobyl
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2024
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After our ‘success’ with the Soviet mouse, we just HAD to try out this keyboard when we spotted it on eBay! Imagine our surprise when we spotted the same model in the ruins of Chernobyl!
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:06 What is it?
2:45 That ain't right
4:15 What's going wrong?
6:44 How do we fix it?
7:24 Tetris
10:01 Doom
11:15 The Best?
13:04 Credits - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
In the intro, Linus mistakenly adds 'Soviet' when expanding the acronym C.S.S.R. which should be simply 'Czechoslovak Socialist Republic'.
Additionally, there are comments stating that this keyboard couldn't have been used at Chornobyl. We can't be 100% sure, of course. The photo of the KB in the ruins comes from www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/73ej6l/i_visited_chernobyl_and_the_abandoned_city_of/
If this is the only mistake in this video, then so-viet.
@@LinusTechTips he did it
@@EATBreallol! 😂
cool
yeah, the soviets tried inserting themselves into our republic since ww2, so we're pretty used to this :D still standing strong tho :D
i clicked because linus was on the left
bbruh
Funny
I clicked because his face was eughgh
new meme in every video comment section fr
That is odd, at my thumbnail Linus was on the right.
so much energy in the keyboard you don't even have to plug it in
😂
It'll power a fleet of 4090's without breaking a sweat
LMAOOO
I'm a little confused. Like I think I get the joke with the radiation but I don't get the not plugged in part
@@stormfire1435
usually the keyboard would have energy in the form of electricity when it's plugged in. The joke is, as you guessed, that it has energy without electricity but due to radiation
Someone needs to make "Strč prst skrz krk" brand and sponsor LTT so he has to say it at least 3 times in segue
Fr😂
Yes please
New chanel idea: *_Linus Pronunciation Tips_*
Strč prst skrz krk! Strč prst skrz krk! Strč prst skrz krk! Strč prst skrz krk! Strč prst skrz krk! 😅
Český koment raaah🇨🇿🇨🇿🔥🔥🔥
Although Zbrojovka Brno was closed, their parent company, CZ still exists, still makes guns and now owns Colt.
One of the best handguns in the world. Bren rifles are very good too (the new ones).
Based
*Bruno
*Brno@@Dornacgove
And they're some of the best damn guns in the world.
No. There was no such thing as Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic. It was the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The first "S" in the acronym stood for Slovak. It can get confusing, and it is admittedly unusual, but that's how this particular acronym worked.
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
Why not do a simple Google when writing the script. How can lab content be trusted when they made dumb mistakes like this
Hot take, but I don't really think this is an F up with checking. This honestly seems like a pretty obscure fact that doesn't have any real relevance to the video or anything the Labs had to do with testing
People will hook on the most useless information and criticise you for getting it wrong... No one cares about a dead country
@@jason_itykI don't think that the script was written by labs team tho))
Poslouchat, jak Linus vyslovuje Brno, je velmi zajímavá zkušenost.
ta nejlepší xd
Vskutku xD
Spletl si Brno a Bruno Marse :D
To je pravda
to sa ešte dá
ale tá zbrojovka je uplne dačo iné
Fun fact: I work at the location that this keyboard was made (sorta). It's now called Nova Zbrojovka and it's a major redevelopment site. Most of the factories and old buildings have been demolished and new office space has been build in their place, or turned into curling halls (very Canadian) or rented as space for events (we had a really cool company party there last year).
Really cool to see the area mentioned here.
Funnily enough, in this same location Tesla (this time the American one) is opening a new showroom and service center soon.
This keyboard was really made for typing rather than gaming. Czech is using latin alphabet and QWERTZ keyboard layout. The keyboard with Cyrillic letters was made specially for Soviets.
Looks weird, the layout of the Cyrillic letters is standard, but the Latin letters are placed (more or less) on the corresponding Cyrillic key. The Cyrillic keyboards I've seen (and the one I own) follow the standard layout for both Cyrillic (JTsUKEN) and Latin (QWERTY)
Really? The keyboard made for soviet industrial plants isn't good for gaming? No shit, sherlock.
@@twizz420 no need for that
@@ryanolsen294I think there is, actually.
For some unknown for me reason in ussr they were really against using QWERTY or cousins and instead used phonetical layout. It means that Й became J, У -- U, Т -- Т, В -- V and so on. Stupid, inconvenient to use? Yeah. Of course if this is the only keyboard you have ever used you will learn to use it, but it just is stupid to use ЙЦУКЕН for latin, especially since phonetical mapping didn't always work and some letters are in quite random places. @@kaasmeester5903
Fun fact: Commodore International, the company that made the Commodore 64 game console in the 80s, sold typewriters in its early days and imported Console typewriters from Brno starting in the late 50s. So that keyboard has tangential gaming heritage.
back on those days my country produced a PC and a MSX home computer with the keyboard of the Comodore 64. buy it from Mitsumi, the manufacturer, and reused it. we also created a couple of PC keyboards and manufactured them for the cocom countries, both a lot better than this one. I´m trying to find one
The Commodore 64 was a home computer. It was NOT a console.
Consoles don't come with a built-in keyboard and BASIC interpreter. They don't come with a user manual that taught you how to program.
@@klaxoncowk.
Commodore 64 is one of my favorite gaming consoles of all time. I’m so glad Linus made a video on a keyboard from the same company that made the console. I remember when I got my Commodore 64 for Christmas. It was amazing to have the power to create my own games and apps. I know it’s not the most advanced piece of hardware, but I have a lot of good memories with it.
"Game console". Shakes head. The Commodore 64 was a full on home computer, and it still held up for doing actual work until the days of the 486. It's remembered for games these days because the people that use them now were kids that played games on it 30-40 years ago, but in it's day the 64 was just as good as any other computer, and better than most.
This is the sort of video I would really like to see a more in-depth version of. I want to see more of how you analyzed the signals with the oscilloscope, more about the service manual and schematics, and more about how you programmed your microcontroller to translate the signals.
Sounds like you want a university degree sir!
But I feel the same
Fun fact: Tesla company (the OG one) still in business had plant in town Rožnov pod Radhoštěm which was sold and is one owned by Onsemi, an American semiconductor company which couple weeks back announced they picked our country for investment of 2 billion dollars for R&D and production of their chips.
Sadly the quality today varies. It's your classic China. But they do make some nice media steaming boxes with android TV.
@@JanHurychWell, i think he might be referring to the semiconductor production plant in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm being still in business, though only as a part of a international corporation... But it's true that (the cheap ones) products with the Tesla branding are pretty crap today, at least judging by the reviews on Alza... But for the price they cost, you only usually get shitty products, but you can probably get better deals. But the budget options were never too good to begin with...
On the shelf here i have a tesla domino, a 80's budget radio from Tesla (Domino I, picked up on Sbazar for 100Kč), and the FM tuner, I'd say it's "main" feature, is kind of shit, but on the other side, I have a Tesla Sázava, a 70's way costlier radio, and it in fact still is a great radio, even does CCIR FM (I think it cost 500 - 1000 Kč on Sbazar, not sure)
Proč to celý vůbec píšu v angličtině?
Wait I thought the Tesla brand was sold to someone and it's now used to sell Chinese stuff as Tesla Electronics... Such a shame
@@david-polak the brand was in fact sold of, the comment refers to the fact that Onsemi still makes chips in the used to be Tesla plant in Rožnov...
@@JanHurych Their vacuum cleaners are pretty good. Dunno how much horsepower the Tesla I have has, but it mops and vacuums the floors quite well.
Hellos from the Czech republic! Correction: There was no Czechoslovak SOVIET Socialist Republic, there WAS the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was in the Warsaw pact but NOT the Union.
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
Thanks for the Fact Czech!
Ahoj! Love you czechs
@@daniilandreev2775 Is this some kind of elaborate trolling, typing "correct" under every comment correcting the name and then proceeding to write the country's name incorrectly? Kudos for persistence, even though I don't really get the motivation.
I am Czech too
Brno is a town in the Czech Republic, towards its border with Austria.
Brno is not a real place, it's a classic Czech joke.
@@philipcooper8297 Is it like Bielefeld? (Refering to the Bielefeld Conspiracy)
And I'm pretty sure it's not pronounced "Bruno" like they did in the video.
@@vanCaldenborgh I like to believe every country has their own Bielefeld conspiracy. It builds community.
@@philipcooper8297 nope cesky krumlov doesnt exist, brno does but people wish it didnt
It's so funny to me as Czech person how Linus is so confused over how to pronounce Zbrojovka and that Brno's football team is named after it
he got used to having vowels
I don't think it's uncommon at all to name a football team to a tech company, even in western Europe. PSV Eindhoven was named after Philips. The company that used to sell lights, cassette tapes, cd's and of course the mighty Philips CDi.
A dream came true, Linus talking about Czechoslovak Tesla.
yes vubec jsem to necekal
I swear somebody intentionally told Linus the worst way to pronounce Zbrojovka Brno just to troll him.
FR!
Yeah...
How are you even supposed to pronounce such vowel-defficient words?
Realne
@@weegeequeviucoisas9854 You take the "Br" from bread (except with a hard R) and add "no" (as in the opposite of yes). Somehow Linus added a "u" in there (Bruno). Br-no
czech repunblic mentioned lessgoo
Ne asi. Konečně Česko a Slovesko u LTT. A ještě k tomu TEchnika SLAboproudá, parádní.
@@petsox6977 czechc for the wiin
je to tak xd ez win
Po druhý být zmíněn v LTT videu. A dokonce i Slovensko poprvý, kdyz zmiňují Československo. ❤
Niiiice 🎉
2:48 savage 💀
I love how in depth this went, love the new lab kid, would love to see more like this.
I so want to hear Linus say řeřicha after struggling with Zbrojovka Brno
Yeah or our Slovak famous phrase: “Guľôčka v jamôčke”
@@Nameisnotimportant And y'all should try to pronounce "Tři sta třicet tři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes tři sta třiatřicet stříbrných střech."
@@ziixe_ Yeah certainly
@@ziixe_lots of 3's!
Strč prst skrz krk
5:32 Linus mentions that the information is broken into two half bytes. I don’t think many people know this, there is a term for a half byte. One half of a byte (4 bits) is referred to as a “nibble”. The term came from a play on the words “byte” and “bite”. When you eat, what is smaller than a “bite”? A “nibble”. I think it should be spelled nybble to differentiate it from nibble meaning a small bite. A nybble would be a small byte.
i thought it was a meme, but its real, kinda funny
4 bits = a nibble, 8 bits = a byte, 8 bytes = a word.
Our teacher mentioned that once in university and apart from that I had never heard anyone use that word
Wait was this a fun fact without a "Fun fact:" prefix?
it actually is sometimes spelled nybble, but I mean it's so uncommonly used, why not start now? I definitely prefer nybble.
If this keyboard was built in 1989, it has absolutely zero chance of being deployed at Chernobyl.
Not really.
The plant was still in operation until 2000.
But I'm also very disappointed with the absurdly misleading title of the video.
But yes the plant was still in operation, there is still to this day people working inside the exclusion zone with even tasks like cleaning the streets.
There is even a hotel in the area.
So yes a keyboard like this could have been used there, but it's not *from* Chernobyl, it's from Brno.
Not necessarily - the other three reactors were used well into the 90s.
It's amazing how much information you packed into this video
Thanks for czeching (pun intended) this obscure piece of tech from our small country. I had no idea something like this even existed.
Ahoj!!!! Ja jsem se už ptal kde čeští sou
@@EndeavourLOL-_- Czech is't funny nation, they greet u with Ahoj!, but they don't have access to sea.
ČSSR does not stand for "Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic" but for "Czecho Slovak Socialist Republic"
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
Those counties were essentially puppet states that if they misbehaved, soviet army would march in@@daniilandreev2775
Potato tomato
@daniilandreev2775 it was a Soviet puppet state....sure, it wasn't officially part of the USSR but it was a communist state with a government that was a puppet of the Soviet union
@@orange3203 uhh no
I absolutely love the depth in which this goes into how the keyboard is working. I really wish manufacturers still provided schematics and diagrams for electronics to aalow them to be fixed easier
These personalized videos are getting more and more on point 🙂 Mom used to work in Zbrojovka Brno until ‘89.
The editor did a great job removing the crackling sound from the keyboard
...isn't that sound from a Geiger counter?
Adderall is to thank for everything in this video
_3.6 Roentgen, not great not terrible..._
@@jablue4329 yeah
ok i am actually disappointed that you didnt play Alexey Pajitnov's original version of Tetris on an Electronika 60 emulator for this video
Another missed opportunity: Playing Fallout with it (Too soon?)
@@meatblazestudios3778 Or even better would have been STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl.
At least there's the unlockable theme of it in Effect and yeah...
Impressive work refurbishing and actually making use of such an old keyboard. Really enjoyed the dig into its inner workings.
The oscilloscope data was so interesting.
@LinusTechTips 0:11 ČSSR stands for Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and not Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic. Please correct. It's like we would say Canadian State of Murrica.
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Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
@@daniilandreev2775 How many times did you respond with this exact same information? You have to be aware most of the people watching this and all of the people who made it have no idea why you would care about that right?
+1 for Canada State
I guess I was spoiled working on MC AV-8B harriers, where we always had schematics, principles of operation docs, and more. It's hard finding that stuff for commercial (restaurant) equipment I work on now and damn near impossible to find a schematic for any consumer electronics. Wiring and diagrams should come with anything you buy, which could seriously facilitate right-to-fix.
Major props to the major artist in the latest videos for making the info so lively and easy to understand
Love to see a mod that uses the hall effect for analog input if damaging an antique like this isnt an issue
It’s our keyboard
@@TsarBomba69420 we all know the joke
i love this kid, excited to see more of him
We made a basic note editing software with x86 assembly when we were in college. It was a really fun experience. The first thing we learned is that of make and break codes. Our code translates these codes into key strokes and functions
There is an Ukrainian guy who's whole TH-cam channel is devoted to the computers of Chernobyl and the Soviet Union. 👍
The name of the channel is "Chernobyl family" of you want to check them out. 👍
Thanks 👍🏼
@@rmcdudmk212 ChOrnobyl family.
@@rmcdudmk212 oh wow. he has some quality to his videos for being such of a small channel. this is going to send me down a learning rabbit hole for sure!
Chornobyl Family! Highly recommend!
CSSR stands for "CzechoSlovak Socialist Republic" as it wasn't a Soviet republic.
Since the keyboard was made in 1989 and the Chernobyl disaster happened in 1986, the keyboard was not in the affected reactor(s).
Pretty misleading tbh.
They could've used the keyboard there after the disaster. The last reactor went offline in 2000.
These keyboards were produced since at least 1986 (judging by the date I've found on a scan of its manual). This specific one might've not been in there but the same model likely did.
Chernobyl was still active for many years after the original disaster they didn't even shut down all the reactors until later on. So it's actually quite possible that this keyboard was used at Chernobyl also not possible just letting you know cause not everybody realizes the reactors weren't all shut down
a bit of clickbait, the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant ran until 2000, saying "Chernobyl" people think of an unlivable exclusion zone that will kill you as soon as you step into it. like Linus said "is this thing radioactive?" no, LTT has run out of decent entry level computer topics, so they have to do this junk.
I was pretty confused as to what Chernobyl, Ukraine had to do with Slovakia. Because wasn't Ukraine part of the USSR at that time before the USSR desolved in like what, 93?
I have a few light starters from within Prypriat itself - didn't even trip the airport security (it has twice the background radiation).
I can see this being a great mod project, reusing and enhancing the hardware, and updating to newer control and communication chips and software.
2:07 when i read ''Gesundheit!'' i laughed my ass off for like a solid minute.. this will be a greate video.
Ein Volk ein Reich ein Komentarbereich
Haben die einen deutschen Editor oder warum ist das auf deutsch hä bin gerade super verwirrt lol
@@SumriseHD english speakers just like to use it instead of bless you, i guess to add spice
Linus on the left
Keyboard on the right.
Linus is putting his money where his mouth is
It may have been used at Chernobyl, but it would have been after the 1986 disaster. The other 3 reactors were still operable for a little while after.
linus had handsome helping hand this episode hope we get to see him more
Really love these kinds of deep dives onto obscure hardware. Great work team!
Linus trying to pronounce Zbrojovka made me chuckle, anyway, greetigns from Czech Republic
Damn, it's cool to see that thing working! I bought a consul 259.13 board off ebay a couple years ago but never got around to working on it. This video is convincing me I should really take a look at it and try to get it working. I was hoping to write a qmk adapter for it to maybe get it working more like a modern keyboard, but I might just end up when the semi-functionality you guys got.
I really enjoyed the deep dive into debugging the schematic
Linus make a soviet setup complete with a soviet era monitor and pc.
linus is gonna get a glow up... literally.
They look sick! I wonder if there would every be a case where you'd still want all wheel steering.
If you hook up the device directly to the matrix array, maybe you could detect if someone's holding that key.
Would love to see more vids like this!
Damm you ok bro
Reminds me of my IBM model F, both in terms of construction and the headache of getting it to work.
when I saw that connector interpreter thingy, i would have just connected the key matrix directly. so yay, seems i was a step ahead :D
I have never seen so many Slovak and Czech people in here, this is amazing 😂😂
I've noticed this keyboard is using the ЙЦУКЕН / JCUKEN keyboard layout, which is a phonetic keyboard layout for the Russian keyboard layout while the Czechs use a modified QWERTZ keyboard layout. Very interesting...
Why is it interesting? Czech keyboard layout originates from typewriter and when typewriters came in czechoslovakia, it was part of austro-hungarian empire, so the only available typewriters here were with german layout. And german keyboard/typewriter uses QWERTZ.
(I prefer variant of czech keyboard layout called "czech programmer" which is basically english with alternative characters on numeric row. Or even better, the layout used in Apple's "ABC Extended")
Not russian but Cyrillic.
I have this keyboard, but the older version. Pretty sick seeing it on this channel.
Should probably have the the microcontroller read straight out of the keyboard matrix and bypass keyboard chip. Then all the issues with key presses repeats and such could be eliminated
Zbrojovka is still around and creates very fine weaponry like tz CZ Shadow pistol, love shooting that thing.
fallout must be feeling real now
"tucked in and cosy" love it
I was shortly making the keys in Zbrojovka factory in Brno as a student. Later, I had this keyboard at home using it with my PC XT and AT 286 :) The kyes have no physical contact, there is a magnet
I like this type of raw electronics engineering, since I do that work for a living.
as a czech person, it's very cute how excelently Linus fumbled literally everything in the ''zbrojovka brno'' :DD
Brno is one the most legendary gun manufacturers in history, and currently exist as a private company called "CZ" and still make some of the finest guns in the world.
They also own Colt.
Love all your channels. Your segues have gotten a lot better and funnier!
2:07 lmfao
Honestly haven't watched LTT in a minute but this video was hilarious lol
I always forget that the mundane day to day things that I take for granted are sometimes arcane arts to the untrained 😂
Powerhouse retro gear is making the rounds lately. It's like a wave, and I'm here for it!
One thing can be given to the Soviet era. The appliances, furniture, power tools and often tech was build to damn last, even under serious use wear and tear.
Also schematics always included
@@Michalosnup Those were common in foreign stuff as well. What wasn't common even back then was service manuals detailing every step of how it works, how to fix it and detailed descriptions of the individual circuits - even schematics for the integrated circuits
@@KofolaDealer Exactly, Im working on Jawa 20 (fichtl/pionýr/motorbike) right now, and Im so glad I have the workshop manual, everything described in detail together with pictures and schematics, awesome
not really
@@tsartomato Yes really, and I can say that honestly even for me despising what that regime did to my country.
Brno mentioned 🔥🔥🗣️🍺🇨🇿🗣️!RAAHHH!!🇨🇿🔥🍺 WHAT THE HELL IS A FAMILY FRIENDLY TOWN SQUARE!?!?🍺🗣️🔥🇨🇿♥️🗣️🍺🇨🇿🦅
That menscaped ad read was fantastic
So would it be possible to swap out key caps, reorder the lookup chart, get it running like a modern keyboard?
The sponsor segue was nuclear
Funny how linus tries to speak czech : D
Next to Atari 800XL my neighbour had, this was the first keyboard I ever touched 😅 awesome you digged that archeology piece out. Thank you for the memories mate.
Mans putting that lab to work
My friend from Chernobyl can type all the keys on this keyboard in one go just with his two hands.
only 2 hands, must be a tourist.
@@cerealport2726 good one lol
@@cerealport2726haha
Except it is Chornobyl, so your message is bs.
@@real_andrii no sense of humour, eh...?
Ariel was cool, trolling linus like that and I liked his energy
"Why did you DO THAT?"
"I thought it'd be funny."
Everyone: *knows what they're talking about* Me: *What's a computer?*
how many tips it takes to get to gaming, seems like people are stuck in the build mode, not gaming at all
OK! Who is this new guy!? He is fantastic!!!!
/every video where some new person appears
Now restomod it to a usable 2024 spec keyboard but with the 80's switches. New key caps, proper usb implementation, proper multi-key thing, proper stabilisation etc, but on the original board.
Another thing it would be awesome to see just a standard Logitech keyboard and mouse combo nothing fancy at all and show how they work so we could have a comparison between something that works for our market versus these old Soviet devices
i cant get over the way he says Brno as BRUNO like where did get that U from
Need more Ariel for sure
I swear Linus can make anything interesting
I was not ready for the Riley MANSCAPED jump-scare at the end of the video
It’s still better than the Magic Keyboard
😅
never heard of that one before
@@nathan22211Your reply is very original.
We in czech republic say “zlatý český ručičky” which means “handy czech hands”
Ariel is so entertaining you should have him on more videos!
This is how local coop look like at chernobyl 😂
To whomever did the animations for the electronic schematics in this video, I see you and I appreciate you
Imagine having more ownership rights including Right to Repair in USSR than in modern USA. Imagine electronics not just come with schematics, but also instructions how tune it and sometimes even how to make a new one(if you can obtain parts, which was hardest part).
So true. Not surprising at all though really. A system run by the State vs a system run by corporations.
This is also partly a matter of “what era is this from?” DIY was huge back in the 80s and arguably into the 90s…yes, even in the US.