Yes, those are Apple wrenches and Apple //e port covers (for the original, beige //e -- they were grey for the later "platinum" //e). There were three (or at least three) different sizes of back-panel ports. When you got an interface card (such a Super Serial Card, a disk interface card, an AppleMouse card) that had a DB-type connector, you'd pop off the appropriate-sized back panel port cover, put the DB-type connector inside the computer, and then use the Apple wrench to screw in the jack screws (screws with large, hex heads which had a threaded hole in them). So, your DB connector from the interface card would be securely attached to the //e's back panel and then you'd screw in the thumbscrews on the cable going to your printer, mouse, or disk drive.
I got ketchup chips at a Wegman's grocery store here in Maryland last week, their store brand. They were quickly eaten. As a Canadian, I was thrilled. They also had dill pickle.
We had ketchup chips at Walmart here in Tennessee, and I don’t know why we had them, and I don’t know where the went. Sadly they only had them for a year or so. I liked them and was sad when they went.
Hey, I'm an old timer at this stuff myself. The longer you live the more you know. Puts you in a position to help others and be cool while you're at it. Keep up the good work! And Hi from Scotland.
To be fair, Ryzen is actually a big step in X86 32 and 64 bit architecture advancement. It is more about efficiency and increasing performance than just throwing cores at a problem.
I remember "way back in the day" when the Computer Literacy Bookstore in CA used to sell RAM chips, as well as potato chips in the same aisle! Not sure exactly when that was, but I believe that it was around 1984 or 1985, back when O'Reily nutshell handbooks were sold with what looked like grocery store bag covers, and were stapled together... I remember having bought Nutshell Handbooks from CL on Curses, VI and a few other topics. I'll bet that I've still got a few of them stashed away somewhere...
About anti static mats, do not just ground them. ESD protection is achieved when you are in the 1M ohm area of resistance to ground. Main issue is isolation, like your wooden table, which is a perfect isolator. So IF you get an ESD mat, get a ESD grounding plug (just gets plugged into a wall socket) and then attach the mat to that. ESD done wrong is very dangerous as it potentially reduces YOUR resistance to ground to 0, which in case of an electric shock can be fatal. All you want is that everything (including you) slowly discharges. So no direct grounding. Having an ESD floor adds to that safety, as it also would have a resistance of ~1M ohm. Meaning electrocuting yourself will be much harder (compared to a well "grounded" cement floor).
A couple years ago, Lays was trial-ing international flavors in the U.S. I remember the Canadian flavor "Fully Dressed". It was similar to the U.S. "barbecue" flavor but milder.
The stagnation in CPU speed improvement is real. My lab computer is an i7-3770k. The current top-of-the-line i9-11900k is only twice as fast, according to UserBenchmark, and that's in benchmark tests. In real life usage, you might not even notice the difference.
Rammy advises to use an anti-static wrist-strap when working with systems that contain static ram. Static ram is extremely sensitive to electrostatic discharges. It is probably the main reason for system failures in early systems that used a lot of static ram chips.
Only the old PMOS ICs (not only RAM) are really very prone to static damage, and only if you can't remember to touch something earth-grounded before handing them, and to touch the chassis of the machine before touching components. And if someone is handing you a component - touch their hand briefly before grabbing the component. That's al the precautions you need, even if you wear a fleece hoodie and walk on a synthetic carpet all the time. Being permanently grounded is a horrible idea, especially if you tend to work on mains-referenced and/or high voltage stuff, like CRTs.
I have tweezers, spudgers and plastics tools, and a screwdriver set from Ifixit since more than 2 years now, nothing broke or began unusable, very reliable tools.
Grappler+ had code to print screenshots with one escape sequence. Was extremely practical to print graphics. I had printed the whole Ultima IV map using that system. It gave a 1.20mx1.20m map.
Hi Tim Tams are great, vegemite is a acquired taste, i can have some on a cracker biscuit but a thin spread and i can have it on a slice of bread but the bread needs some butter on it to kill the taste - it is a bit salty / yeast taste For a few years we have those cheese sticks that are about the size of a drinking straw inside had a stripe of vegemite, it was OK Regards George
As an American, I’ve always wanted to try Ketchup flavored chips. I, too, have made the french fry comparison. I have even straight-up dipped chips in ketchup in the past.
I've mixed ketchup into mashed potatoes before. Now that one people really call weird, but it's honestly pretty tasty. Same principle. Potatoes + ketchup = tasty.
The chips I would love to be able to find in the US are paprika flavor. I visit Germany quite often for work (or did in the before times), and they are one of the most popular flavors there, if not the most popular.
@@truckerallikatuk that’s a good idea. There isn’t a big Eastern European community around here (North Carolina), but there’s probably a Polish supermarket somewhere in Charlotte.
@@Doug_in_NC if you find one, and if you like salami, see if you can get some krakowska (“kra-kov-ska”) too! Might be in the deli aisle rather than in a packet. It’s a highly excellent, garlic and black pepper-y, cured sausage.
Used to make banners for my coworkers back in the day with my image writer II and my apple IIc. Between me and my father back then we wore out the 9 pin print head and had it rebuilt. Please excuse my nostalgia.
@@marciomaiajr Depends what you want to do. I had a few games that didn't like my i7-2600. But it can do a lot. But I was really feeling back with blender and unreal engine. So I got the Ryzen and holy crap it's amazing.
I understand you can re-flash the ROM on the Apple II Grappler+ card so that it actually functions as a SmartPort card, able to read prodos images off say a floppy-emu.
Ketchup was my favourite growing up in the UK. For some reason Walker’s discontinued it in the early 00s though and it only comes back every few years in limited edition? But anyway I tend to have salt and vinegar or prawn cocktail now. The latter is vinegary and sweet but it’s not quite the same. Do love me some ketchup crisps though.
Since Firewire was a full network bus (perfectly capable of being used for internet connections, for example) I've always wondered why desktop versions of Windows didn't get confused having it and Ethernet in the same way that two Ethernet adapters would confuse them.
I’ve used desktop versions of Windows with two ethernet adaptors just fine. (Mobo and PCIe; or two on the mobo.) Albeit only one of them was actually plugged into the router. But I didn’t have to disable the other one and occasionally used it for file transfers onto a laptop
@@kaitlyn__L You can often get away with it, but that doesn't mean it will always work. I used to work cab;e internet support, and one of the things we'd see is perfectly normal connections, which would do normal DHCP traffic for connection startup and shut down and respond to pings just fine, but wouldn't actually work, and the only anomaly on the machine was a second ethernet card. A bit more common was DOCSIS modems, which usually have USB ports for some reason (which is very strange, since USB became standard after ethernet did) causing the connection to not work properly if USB and ethernet was connected (although that could be the modem getting confused as well). I even saw somebody try to use USB and ethernet on a Mac and was wondering why there wasn't a driver for the modem's USB port for Macs (never mind that Macs had ethernet standard for several years before they got USB).
I understand in Buffalo NY I'm right on the border, but we've always had both dill pickle and ketchup chips in every grocery. I also despise both, but I don't like salt and vinegar chips in the first place 🤷🏼♂️
Speaking of performance and how we saw it in the day - you cannot imagine! My first job outside college was BASIC programming with a PASCAL-like preprocessor written by our guru (man I learned a shitload from that guy). On an XT with a 10Mb HDD! I moved over to admin from programming so I never got to actually experience the performance increase in my daily life - but tests I did against old machines pretty much blew my mind. The 486 was the greatest single leap in processor performance you can imagine! It was astounding.
32 bit started with the 386, 64 bit maybe? The jump from your i7 to the 9th gen on my bench is just as big. I7 first gen can deal with about 8 h264 streams before it maxes out. 9th gen will deal with 16 streams at 20% use. On top of that VT-D, Quicksync, more cores and lots of new extra features make a huge difference. Core2 Vs Core i is even more stark.
I’ve got a 2600, it’s not quite as stark a difference from the first gen i7s, but it’s definitely getting long in the tooth. A couple years ago it was roughly on par with the brand new i3s, so software still ran just fine on it. But now it’s below even a new i3 and is starting to lag even on heavier websites (why does JS bloat have to keep growing??). Probably will get a Ryzen 7.
@@kaitlyn__L avoided AMD for years over heat zland reliability. Been in the industry as long as Adrian, seen maybe half a dozen dead Intel chips in that time and probobly into three figures dead AMD. Built a Chia rig on Ryzen a few months ago and its a really impressive little machine.
@@rtechlab6254 yeah, I’ve been following this stuff since 07 or 08 and for ages everyone was like “Bulldozer will fix everything” but then heat etc etc etc. But everyone was rly impressed by Ryzen and it’s been a few years now. And the price per performance is great, I like that they can dynamically overclock instead of just boosting to a set frequency. I like the socket compatibility. Etc. So since I’ll need a new motherboard for sure it’ll probably be Ryzen.
I'm guessing Ketchup chips are regional in the US. They sell them in convenience stores all over Florida. They've been around for as long as I can remember.
I Love how Adrian is constantly telling us there will be less videos because of his day job. But then every Wednesday there is a new MMC. Thank you Adrian.
I cannot imagine being in the PNW during this heat wave. I used to live in the Seattle area and the highest temp I ever experienced as a 107. 116 would have ended me.
@@bricklearns I have lived in Texas for the last decade and we do get some temps up around those and even some humidity to add to our misery but fortunately A/C is everywhere here. Until the power company fails us again.
As I recall from the original advertising the Grappler+ card had more chips because it has a built in print spooler so you don't have to wait for the printer to finish before you can use the computer again, we had them in our Apple IIe's in school and it was quicker to get back to using the computer when sending a print job out. I believe the black objects are wrenches that came with Apple cards to remove the nuts on each side of parallel and serial ports to screw them to the case.
Another great episode! For the Ketchup potato chips I actually prefer the Himalayan salt kettle cooked chips from Costco dipped in ketchup. That combination is AMAZING! Also, keep the invoice for the iFixit order because they have a lifetime warranty. If any of the tools are damaged they send you a replacement for free! That includes and of the tools in the case including the plastic tools!
When I visited the UK, i was absolutely amazed by the flavors of crisps - Venison, Redwine and Juniper.....Wiltshire Ham and Picalili.....from M&S and Waitrose.
Watched this just before doing some upgrades to my laptop. It's the first time I've seen a proper reaction to the iFixit toolkit. It convinced me to buy one. The upgrades went very smoothly so I'm pretty happy. So you got them a sale!
I live in the Salt Lake City area of Utah in the USA, and while Fry Sauce is our go to condiment for everything (along with Ranch Salad Dressing) Ketchup Potato Chips are actually quite popular in my area, we even carry them in the convenience store I work at. So too are Dill Pickle flavored chips.
That Edimax dongle-less network card is a relatively modern but very useful asset. A rebranding of it under "Ladox" was my only way to bring my HP Omnibook 5000 online back in 2003 when I was very young and new into retro computing. In Turkey, I was unable to find matching 16-bit PCMCIA network cards and dongles, and that very Edimax card helped greatly. I still use it to this day, with computers that contain no mission-critical information and that are locally networked.
That flexible shaft tool, I used to take out the screws from the fan motor under the dash of my daughters car. They put things in places that are almost impossible to get to.
I went from a Tandy CoCo 3 running a 68B09E cpu at 800kHz, to a 386 running 40MHz, to a 486 running 80MHz, to a Pentium running 133MHz, to a K6 running 200MHz, to a K6-3 running 450MHz, to an Athlon running 1GHz, all in less than 10 years (1992-2000). I went from 512kB of memory in the Coco3, to 4MB of memory in the 386, all the way to 1GB of memory on the Athlon. I also went from a 2400 baud modem to 1.5Mbps DSL in that same period. The 90's were a wonderland for those of us into computers.
Not sure how it happened but I just spent the last 45 minutes reading about the company Old Dutch and its 86 year history. Fascinating. It's the most conservative company ever. They don't do expanding quick or automating all the production, don't do a big advertising budget, sticking to the core business and apparently it's working out great for them. Now I want to try it but I live 4000 miles away. Ah well. Nice video, except I didn't watch it :)
Those are 7 pin tubular locks. Wafer locks are ones that take a more regularly-shaped key. The blade of the key would slide through a hole in the center of a metal wafer, pushing it up or down (depending on which side of the lock it is in). They were/are the most common automobile lock type.
iFIXIT -- I love mine and congrats Adrian! What a set - I have the very same one. You will NOT be dissapointed with that. Love your content and have been watching you for years. God Bless!
Their mod mats are probably equivalent to an ifixit product. I haven't personally used one ($100 is a lot to swallow for someone on a tight budget), but having been watching GN for many years now, they look like a very good product and something I really wished I had.
I knew there was a reason I love your channel, eh. ALSO ... Old Dutch is available in ONTARIO NOW! Dorito's also have Ketchup flavour now too... it's unusual. The ifixit kit two cool things, 1. the lid acts as a screw separator. 2. the lid can be put on the bottom magnets too!
I have a lot of nostalgia for the 486. In summer 1992 I retired my 286 and upgraded to a 486SX 25, which was mind-blowingly faster and better. That was, incidentally, also the first PC I ran Linux on. My next PC had an AMD 486DX2 80, which had a nice combination of bus speed (40 MHz) and clock speed (80 MHz), kind of like the DX2 66, but more so. Good times!
Those guitar pick-shaped guys are also useful for getting the bottom of a modern laptop open... although I usually just use actual blue tortex picks since I have them all over the house.
43:00 I think I know what they are: The Apple Macintosh case cracking tool. The original Macs were intentionally designed to be hard to open, requiring an abnormally long Torx screwdriver to get to the screws, and then a special tool to actually get the case to pop open. I suspect those are them.
I know you keep saying you can't get them in the US, but I live in south eastern Maine, I regularly buy ketchup chips, can get them in a few brands, and even kettle cooked.
7:47 I've got SEVERAL of each of those chips, dozens of socket 2, 3, 4, 5, motherboards, even a couple socket 7's for pantiums.. And a literal MOUNTAIN of cards, soundblasters, 8bit mono/cga, Tseng ET4000s.. Everything retro nuts go nuts for. And I'm trying to sell it all..
Actually most of the Lays chips you buy in the US are made in the US. There's a Frito-Lay plant a few miles down the road from me, and when the wind blows in just the right way it smells like heaven :D
Being from Toronto, going to Florida as a kid for winter vacation, the first time I saw milk in a jug was weird, since I am used to seeing it in bags and cartons.
RE: The PCMCIA Firewire card, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it worked in just about anything with PCMCIA and the appropriate driver. I've opened up a lot of old iMacs and stuff and found parts with Apple-specific part numbers that were (you guessed it) exactly the same as the ones you'd find in Dell or HP machines; I mean, identical in every way, and from the same manufacturer. Especially wireless adaptors. The Apple ones just get an apple branding mark screenprinted on them (like "Airport Extreme").
I can't help but think that the Tandy Combi Mouse could have had a tongue-in-cheek "feature" of "Comes with both Left AND Right buttons!", considering some things they sold were quite low-budget, and standard features occasionally being sold as premium options... :P
The All Dressed flavor of Lay's potato chips are an excellent contribution to potato chip flavors here in the US. They're basically barbeque flavor, but with even more vinegar. Quite wonderful, if prone to removing the surface of my tongue thanks to all the vinegar acid.
Pretty sure that type of lock is actually called a tubular lock. You can get tubular picks that can open those locks in seconds. Also, I have a feeling that bag of keys is actually part of a set of all the possible bittings for the IBM locks. I bet the complete set would have one of each possible type of key. You can check each key to see if there are any duplicates -- if each numbered key is unique then that's probably what you have and that can be incredibly useful.
The 486DX-50 was not unstable in itself, it ran extremely hot. I remember setting up an EISA server with one of those, and I actually burned my finger on it :) I guess that much heat could destabilize it - in those days we didn't even THINK of heat sinks! I will say that the performance of that CPU on a 32-bit bus was WAY better than any DX2-66 I saw.
I still have my original Grappler + for my Commodore 64. It comes in a cool case. They had very good marketing, and i remember buying mine back in 1985 pretty much due to the advertisements in Compute's Gazette lol.
I can confirm that the AMD DX4-100 would be destroyed by 5 volts. Back in the day, I borrowed one from a friend to test if it was compatible with my motherboard, as I was interested in it as an upgrade for my DX2/66. I couldn't get it to boot so I kept trying different jumper settings, then on the last try, I forgot to set the jumpers back to 3V after swapping the processors over. Nothing happened at first, so I switched the jumpers to 3V and turned it on, to be greeted by a fizzing noise and the smell of burning electronics. I was too embarrassed to admit what I'd done, so I told my friend it worked fine and paid him the asking price for it.
I have to say I bought a kit from ifixit against all comments that it was a piece of crap and unfortunately mine is a piece of crap! At least for what I paid for it. I also have to say that yours looks beautiful so maybe they got their thing together finally! Thank you for the great content Adrian!
Just quick note: intels sl2 and dx4-100 also ran at 3.3v. It was quite common for later 486 boards. Most 486 boards take it well to raise bus speed to 37.5 or 40mhz (if I recall correctly ISA cards are trouble maker if - cause some don’t come along with higher clock well). Ran my amd dx4-133 at 40mhz bus (160) for years and it was very stable. Many did. back then.
I have the exact same generic yellow screwdriver set, I’ve used it for maybe 6 or 7 years. I’d seen people advertise the iFixit one in sponsorships before but it seemed like basically the same stuff. So seeing your examination and excitation, comparing it to the yellow one, has actually made me consider getting it. I had no idea the handle had metal and proper bearings and stuff for the spinning. Plus it looks a more ergonomic shape.
Also: American Sour Patch Kids are really quite different from European ones. Different flavourings and different colourings. When I tried American ones I was shocked they were just regular super bright artificial gummies. The ones I’m used to from Europe have real fruit flavour (different actual flavours too) and more subtle colours. Not sure about AUS/NZ Sour Patch Kids though.
Aww. I thought that “credit card adapter” was something that let you swipe cards. But it seems IBM just called all their PCMCIA cards that way for a while? I guess PCMCIA is roughly credit card sized.
Those little black apple things are little 3mm(4mm?) wrenches to screw those tiny socket nuts to the back of the Apple case. Just look at the Apple /PC port (video, printer, serial, etc...) and look at the two nuts above and below the port where the cable screws into... Those little wrenches fit those nuts. They came free when you bought a Apple IIe or Apple II+ with certain cards.
I don't know if you could find them these days but I used an inline 5v to 3.3v socket adapter on my 486 PC in the mid-90s. I had a motherboard that only supported 5 volts and I started with an Intel DX2 66. I upgraded it to an AMD 5x86 133 using the voltage adapter. Unfortunately the motherboard I had did not properly support the 4x multiplier that chip wanted (no matter what jumper settings I tried) but I was able to run the chip at 40 mhz FSB X3 for 120 mhz. It was a nice upgrade from the DX2 66.
@38:45 I had the Epson/ Grappler low cost clones called the Gemini 10X and the Wizard Printer Card. The Gemini 10X 9 pin printer used 19th century Underwood Typewriter Ink Ribbon Spools (not a cartrige) you had to feed manually.
I agree with the static straps, at least in OR. I have never had any static discharge take out anything modern or retro that I have worked on. The only time I ever wore one was back when I use to build enterprise servers, and that was really just because of the cost of the components/time to get replacements could put a client in a bad spot.
was wondering what that hole in your desk's paint was!! sealed lead acid = little tiny rubber caps over each cell and a plastic cap over that, sometimes you can revive batteries by adding a little water when they getting old
My first PC was a used 386sx @12mhz. Tbh I was pretty happy with that as a word processing machine. Later I swapped in a cheap 486DX & motherboard, the performance upgrade was jaw dropping. Great times!
Just so you know but that IBM 3270 emulator card is for emulating a IBM 3270 Computer Terminal (introduced in 1971 and was used to communicate with IBM mainframes). Even after IBM stoped making 3270 terminals, the protocol used with them continued on, but instead using terminal emulators on IBM PC’s. In fact, IBM made an IBM 3270 PC which was an IBM PC XT with IBM 3270 terminal emulation hardware built in. What this means for you is that since you don’t have access to an IBM mainframe to communicate with using the 3270 terminal protocol, that emulation card is basically useless to you, even if you had the special coax dongle it requires.
I think the truth about ESD is that it's unlikely you are going to cause catastrophic failure by touching the parts. It can happen, but i believe it's actually quite a rare case. What's more likely is that the ESD is causing more minor damage to the parts and is shortening the life of the components, making them now more likely to fail in the future.
Not to be pedantic, but a lot of time ESD isn't an instant chip killer. But MOS chips (N-mos, P-mos, CMOS, etc.) can all be damaged. Not necessarily killed, but you can definitely shorten the lifespan. I'll have to see if i can find the ESD mat i used to get and recommend. Very tough, you could drop a soldering iron on it, and while it would have a burn mark, it would not instantly melt through. And it was rubbery, so parts didn't bounce so far, and surface marring was less of an issue.
Lay's is known as Walkers here in the UK, same logo though. We also have Ketchup flavour here in the UK, known as Tomato Ketchup, along with Beef and Onion, Prawn Cocktail and Worcester Sauce flavours
I bought an Intel Core i7 920 around Christmas 2008 as part of a new build for an audio recording machine. I've since had to build a new machine for audio recording but now use that i7 920 to play AAA games to this day. My graphics card is always the bottleneck. It's amazing that the almost 13 year old CPU can handle what I throw at it.
The ketchup chips are intriguing. It's too bad they aren't available here. The whole ketchup and potato thing totally makes sense. I have a friend who lives in BC. Maybe I can get her to send me some. Cheers!
The iFixit kit is awsome and i have one myself , but the most important thing about iFixit is that they support the right to repair.
Yes, those are Apple wrenches and Apple //e port covers (for the original, beige //e -- they were grey for the later "platinum" //e). There were three (or at least three) different sizes of back-panel ports.
When you got an interface card (such a Super Serial Card, a disk interface card, an AppleMouse card) that had a DB-type connector, you'd pop off the appropriate-sized back panel port cover, put the DB-type connector inside the computer, and then use the Apple wrench to screw in the jack screws (screws with large, hex heads which had a threaded hole in them).
So, your DB connector from the interface card would be securely attached to the //e's back panel and then you'd screw in the thumbscrews on the cable going to your printer, mouse, or disk drive.
Several weeks since he said he'd stop these videos. Still doing them. Good for us.
I got ketchup chips at a Wegman's grocery store here in Maryland last week, their store brand. They were quickly eaten. As a Canadian, I was thrilled. They also had dill pickle.
My two favorite flavors of potato chips, along with "all-dressed" which just showed up in the US about 6 years ago.
We had ketchup chips at Walmart here in Tennessee, and I don’t know why we had them, and I don’t know where the went. Sadly they only had them for a year or so. I liked them and was sad when they went.
Mid-90s was a time when every new clock speed advancement actually translated into significant speed boost. Not anymore nowadays.
Love the little mountain of Haribo in the corner :)
Hey, I'm an old timer at this stuff myself. The longer you live the more you know. Puts you in a position to help others and be cool while you're at it. Keep up the good work!
And Hi from Scotland.
"A bit of a heat wave." Understatement of the year.
I'm in Newberg with no AC. WOW
Some areas are hot, other places are colder, most still mild which is normal variation.
Well, he is Canadian! Saying “a bit” instead of “a lot” is very common
To be fair, Ryzen is actually a big step in X86 32 and 64 bit architecture advancement. It is more about efficiency and increasing performance than just throwing cores at a problem.
Little moments like that intro are what make me love this channel so much. Adrian, you're too relatable!
I remember "way back in the day" when the Computer Literacy Bookstore in CA used to sell RAM chips, as well as potato chips in the same aisle! Not sure exactly when that was, but I believe that it was around 1984 or 1985, back when O'Reily nutshell handbooks were sold with what looked like grocery store bag covers, and were stapled together... I remember having bought Nutshell Handbooks from CL on Curses, VI and a few other topics. I'll bet that I've still got a few of them stashed away somewhere...
Ahh, now I understand the iFixIt reference in yesterdays ADB2: The Hard Cardening video 🤣
About anti static mats, do not just ground them. ESD protection is achieved when you are in the 1M ohm area of resistance to ground.
Main issue is isolation, like your wooden table, which is a perfect isolator.
So IF you get an ESD mat, get a ESD grounding plug (just gets plugged into a wall socket) and then attach the mat to that.
ESD done wrong is very dangerous as it potentially reduces YOUR resistance to ground to 0, which in case of an electric shock can be fatal.
All you want is that everything (including you) slowly discharges. So no direct grounding.
Having an ESD floor adds to that safety, as it also would have a resistance of ~1M ohm.
Meaning electrocuting yourself will be much harder (compared to a well "grounded" cement floor).
A couple years ago, Lays was trial-ing international flavors in the U.S. I remember the Canadian flavor "Fully Dressed". It was similar to the U.S. "barbecue" flavor but milder.
The stagnation in CPU speed improvement is real. My lab computer is an i7-3770k. The current top-of-the-line i9-11900k is only twice as fast, according to UserBenchmark, and that's in benchmark tests. In real life usage, you might not even notice the difference.
We occasionally get Ketchup Lay’s (and other brands) up here in Seattle, but we mostly just have the Ruffles All Dressed ones.
Rammy advises to use an anti-static wrist-strap when working with systems that contain static ram. Static ram is extremely sensitive to electrostatic discharges. It is probably the main reason for system failures in early systems that used a lot of static ram chips.
That’s why they called it static RAM. /s
Only the old PMOS ICs (not only RAM) are really very prone to static damage, and only if you can't remember to touch something earth-grounded before handing them, and to touch the chassis of the machine before touching components. And if someone is handing you a component - touch their hand briefly before grabbing the component. That's al the precautions you need, even if you wear a fleece hoodie and walk on a synthetic carpet all the time.
Being permanently grounded is a horrible idea, especially if you tend to work on mains-referenced and/or high voltage stuff, like CRTs.
I have tweezers, spudgers and plastics tools, and a screwdriver set from Ifixit since more than 2 years now, nothing broke or began unusable, very reliable tools.
Grappler+ had code to print screenshots with one escape sequence. Was extremely practical to print graphics. I had printed the whole Ultima IV map using that system. It gave a 1.20mx1.20m map.
Hi
Tim Tams are great, vegemite is a acquired taste, i can have some on a cracker biscuit but a thin spread and i can have it on a slice of bread but the bread needs some butter on it to kill the taste - it is a bit salty / yeast taste
For a few years we have those cheese sticks that are about the size of a drinking straw inside had a stripe of vegemite, it was OK
Regards
George
.. to refresh everyone's *memory* on Rammy...
That was bad and you should feel bad, take your like and think about what you've done 😁😄
"refresh" as well. also a memory joke >.
I cached it so it was access quickly
These in the UK are 'Walkers' brand and yes I love ketchup crisps as we call them here in the UK as well.
I was so freaked out when travelling abroad as a very young child when I noticed every country has Lay’s except for the UK. lol
As an American, I’ve always wanted to try Ketchup flavored chips. I, too, have made the french fry comparison. I have even straight-up dipped chips in ketchup in the past.
I've mixed ketchup into mashed potatoes before. Now that one people really call weird, but it's honestly pretty tasty. Same principle. Potatoes + ketchup = tasty.
The chips I would love to be able to find in the US are paprika flavor. I visit Germany quite often for work (or did in the before times), and they are one of the most popular flavors there, if not the most popular.
Try any store selling Eastern European products. Paprika is popular across Europe.
@@truckerallikatuk that’s a good idea. There isn’t a big Eastern European community around here (North Carolina), but there’s probably a Polish supermarket somewhere in Charlotte.
@@Doug_in_NC if you find one, and if you like salami, see if you can get some krakowska (“kra-kov-ska”) too! Might be in the deli aisle rather than in a packet. It’s a highly excellent, garlic and black pepper-y, cured sausage.
@@kaitlyn__L Thanks for the recommendation. I googled and found at least 3, so I am going to have a look at the weekend.
@@Doug_in_NC good luck!
Used to make banners for my coworkers back in the day with my image writer II and my apple IIc. Between me and my father back then we wore out the 9 pin print head and had it rebuilt. Please excuse my nostalgia.
the jump from Haswell to Ryzen is amazing, i went from encoding a mp4 at 67 fps to 387.
Interesting. I have an i7 4790k and I'm thinking about upgrading to a Ryzen CPU. Do you think it's worth it?
sandy bridge to a 5900x for me. HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!! One of my blender models took an hour in 1080p. Now it takes 5 minutes in 4k. LMAO
That's exactly the use cases for the Ryzen monsters - encoding, modelling, 4K gaming.
@@marciomaiajr Depends what you want to do. I had a few games that didn't like my i7-2600. But it can do a lot. But I was really feeling back with blender and unreal engine. So I got the Ryzen and holy crap it's amazing.
And, depending on where you buy them from, Ryzen cpus are cheaper than Intel cpus.
I understand you can re-flash the ROM on the Apple II Grappler+ card so that it actually functions as a SmartPort card, able to read prodos images off say a floppy-emu.
I could smell those chips as soon as you opened them. Also, Old Dutch is available here in South West Ontario, too:)
Loved the outake left in the video! We have tomato ketchup chips in Australia also. They are great!
Ketchup chips are great, i'm surprised it hasnt caught on in the US
Ketchup was my favourite growing up in the UK. For some reason Walker’s discontinued it in the early 00s though and it only comes back every few years in limited edition? But anyway I tend to have salt and vinegar or prawn cocktail now. The latter is vinegary and sweet but it’s not quite the same. Do love me some ketchup crisps though.
the little wrenches are for tightening the studs in the back of the IIe
yes. came with the later disk controller card for unidisk/doudisk that had the db-19 connector.
@@sweintz or the super serial card or the mouse interface card or the SCSI card. Basically anything that had one of those D-shell connectors.
I am a huge fan of the Ifixt kit. Had mine 3 years, haven't lost a piece, and haven't broken anything but one or two "guitar picks".
Since Firewire was a full network bus (perfectly capable of being used for internet connections, for example) I've always wondered why desktop versions of Windows didn't get confused having it and Ethernet in the same way that two Ethernet adapters would confuse them.
I’ve used desktop versions of Windows with two ethernet adaptors just fine. (Mobo and PCIe; or two on the mobo.) Albeit only one of them was actually plugged into the router. But I didn’t have to disable the other one and occasionally used it for file transfers onto a laptop
@@kaitlyn__L You can often get away with it, but that doesn't mean it will always work. I used to work cab;e internet support, and one of the things we'd see is perfectly normal connections, which would do normal DHCP traffic for connection startup and shut down and respond to pings just fine, but wouldn't actually work, and the only anomaly on the machine was a second ethernet card. A bit more common was DOCSIS modems, which usually have USB ports for some reason (which is very strange, since USB became standard after ethernet did) causing the connection to not work properly if USB and ethernet was connected (although that could be the modem getting confused as well).
I even saw somebody try to use USB and ethernet on a Mac and was wondering why there wasn't a driver for the modem's USB port for Macs (never mind that Macs had ethernet standard for several years before they got USB).
Nice stuff you got there 😃👍🏻. And thanks for mention my channel 😉. I feel honored!
I understand in Buffalo NY I'm right on the border, but we've always had both dill pickle and ketchup chips in every grocery. I also despise both, but I don't like salt and vinegar chips in the first place 🤷🏼♂️
Speaking of performance and how we saw it in the day - you cannot imagine! My first job outside college was BASIC programming with a PASCAL-like preprocessor written by our guru (man I learned a shitload from that guy). On an XT with a 10Mb HDD! I moved over to admin from programming so I never got to actually experience the performance increase in my daily life - but tests I did against old machines pretty much blew my mind. The 486 was the greatest single leap in processor performance you can imagine! It was astounding.
32 bit started with the 386, 64 bit maybe? The jump from your i7 to the 9th gen on my bench is just as big. I7 first gen can deal with about 8 h264 streams before it maxes out. 9th gen will deal with 16 streams at 20% use. On top of that VT-D, Quicksync, more cores and lots of new extra features make a huge difference. Core2 Vs Core i is even more stark.
I’ve got a 2600, it’s not quite as stark a difference from the first gen i7s, but it’s definitely getting long in the tooth. A couple years ago it was roughly on par with the brand new i3s, so software still ran just fine on it. But now it’s below even a new i3 and is starting to lag even on heavier websites (why does JS bloat have to keep growing??). Probably will get a Ryzen 7.
@@kaitlyn__L avoided AMD for years over heat zland reliability. Been in the industry as long as Adrian, seen maybe half a dozen dead Intel chips in that time and probobly into three figures dead AMD. Built a Chia rig on Ryzen a few months ago and its a really impressive little machine.
@@rtechlab6254 yeah, I’ve been following this stuff since 07 or 08 and for ages everyone was like “Bulldozer will fix everything” but then heat etc etc etc. But everyone was rly impressed by Ryzen and it’s been a few years now. And the price per performance is great, I like that they can dynamically overclock instead of just boosting to a set frequency. I like the socket compatibility. Etc. So since I’ll need a new motherboard for sure it’ll probably be Ryzen.
I'm guessing Ketchup chips are regional in the US. They sell them in convenience stores all over Florida. They've been around for as long as I can remember.
probably bc there’s a market for them with all the snowbirds down there
I Love how Adrian is constantly telling us there will be less videos because of his day job. But then every Wednesday there is a new MMC. Thank you Adrian.
A bit annoying really...
I cannot imagine being in the PNW during this heat wave. I used to live in the Seattle area and the highest temp I ever experienced as a 107. 116 would have ended me.
It's been extra fun without AC
@@bricklearns I have lived in Texas for the last decade and we do get some temps up around those and even some humidity to add to our misery but fortunately A/C is everywhere here. Until the power company fails us again.
As I recall from the original advertising the Grappler+ card had more chips because it has a built in print spooler so you don't have to wait for the printer to finish before you can use the computer again, we had them in our Apple IIe's in school and it was quicker to get back to using the computer when sending a print job out. I believe the black objects are wrenches that came with Apple cards to remove the nuts on each side of parallel and serial ports to screw them to the case.
Another great episode! For the Ketchup potato chips I actually prefer the Himalayan salt kettle cooked chips from Costco dipped in ketchup. That combination is AMAZING! Also, keep the invoice for the iFixit order because they have a lifetime warranty. If any of the tools are damaged they send you a replacement for free! That includes and of the tools in the case including the plastic tools!
in the UK! lays chips are called walkers crisps, and we regularly get special flavours and the last one we had was KFC flavour
Kfc flavour was disappointing
When I visited the UK, i was absolutely amazed by the flavors of crisps - Venison, Redwine and Juniper.....Wiltshire Ham and Picalili.....from M&S and Waitrose.
Canada also has special chip varieties from time to time, mostly during voting sessions for flavors or during sweepstakes
Watched this just before doing some upgrades to my laptop. It's the first time I've seen a proper reaction to the iFixit toolkit. It convinced me to buy one. The upgrades went very smoothly so I'm pretty happy. So you got them a sale!
I live in the Salt Lake City area of Utah in the USA, and while Fry Sauce is our go to condiment for everything (along with Ranch Salad Dressing) Ketchup Potato Chips are actually quite popular in my area, we even carry them in the convenience store I work at. So too are Dill Pickle flavored chips.
That Edimax dongle-less network card is a relatively modern but very useful asset. A rebranding of it under "Ladox" was my only way to bring my HP Omnibook 5000 online back in 2003 when I was very young and new into retro computing. In Turkey, I was unable to find matching 16-bit PCMCIA network cards and dongles, and that very Edimax card helped greatly. I still use it to this day, with computers that contain no mission-critical information and that are locally networked.
That flexible shaft tool, I used to take out the screws from the fan motor under the dash of my daughters car. They put things in places that are almost impossible to get to.
I went from a Tandy CoCo 3 running a 68B09E cpu at 800kHz, to a 386 running 40MHz, to a 486 running 80MHz, to a Pentium running 133MHz, to a K6 running 200MHz, to a K6-3 running 450MHz, to an Athlon running 1GHz, all in less than 10 years (1992-2000). I went from 512kB of memory in the Coco3, to 4MB of memory in the 386, all the way to 1GB of memory on the Athlon. I also went from a 2400 baud modem to 1.5Mbps DSL in that same period. The 90's were a wonderland for those of us into computers.
Not sure how it happened but I just spent the last 45 minutes reading about the company Old Dutch and its 86 year history. Fascinating. It's the most conservative company ever. They don't do expanding quick or automating all the production, don't do a big advertising budget, sticking to the core business and apparently it's working out great for them. Now I want to try it but I live 4000 miles away. Ah well. Nice video, except I didn't watch it :)
I moved from Portland to Canada… I’ve had ketchup chips once since then and now after 7 years I’m craving them. Thanks Adrian!
Those are 7 pin tubular locks. Wafer locks are ones that take a more regularly-shaped key. The blade of the key would slide through a hole in the center of a metal wafer, pushing it up or down (depending on which side of the lock it is in). They were/are the most common automobile lock type.
Now I want to go get some Ketchup Dorritos.
iFIXIT -- I love mine and congrats Adrian! What a set - I have the very same one. You will NOT be dissapointed with that. Love your content and have been watching you for years. God Bless!
Gamer Nexus has some incredible mats por technicians.
they're nice but unnecessary. Incredible is a stretch
oops i saw the rest of the video, yeah that's a cool mat that's anti static
I love my large mat from them. Steve is the man.
That said, I still don't ground myself or the mat.
Their mod mats are probably equivalent to an ifixit product.
I haven't personally used one ($100 is a lot to swallow for someone on a tight budget), but having been watching GN for many years now, they look like a very good product and something I really wished I had.
@@AceStrife I'm a shill for GN I guess. I have the desk mat, and bar mat as well. I'm all about style I guess.
I knew there was a reason I love your channel, eh.
ALSO ... Old Dutch is available in ONTARIO NOW!
Dorito's also have Ketchup flavour now too... it's unusual.
The ifixit kit two cool things, 1. the lid acts as a screw separator. 2. the lid can be put on the bottom magnets too!
Yup, port covers and Apple II wrenches. Those should fit the nuts used to screw in things like disk drive port to the back.
I have a lot of nostalgia for the 486. In summer 1992 I retired my 286 and upgraded to a 486SX 25, which was mind-blowingly faster and better. That was, incidentally, also the first PC I ran Linux on. My next PC had an AMD 486DX2 80, which had a nice combination of bus speed (40 MHz) and clock speed (80 MHz), kind of like the DX2 66, but more so. Good times!
Those guitar pick-shaped guys are also useful for getting the bottom of a modern laptop open... although I usually just use actual blue tortex picks since I have them all over the house.
My man Adrian looking fresh in that Macintosh shirt!
Great video indeed!!!
Ketchup chips are awesome. I hate how hard they are to get here.
And Micro Center too. So happy to have one close by.
43:00 I think I know what they are: The Apple Macintosh case cracking tool. The original Macs were intentionally designed to be hard to open, requiring an abnormally long Torx screwdriver to get to the screws, and then a special tool to actually get the case to pop open. I suspect those are them.
I know you keep saying you can't get them in the US, but I live in south eastern Maine, I regularly buy ketchup chips, can get them in a few brands, and even kettle cooked.
7:47 I've got SEVERAL of each of those chips, dozens of socket 2, 3, 4, 5, motherboards, even a couple socket 7's for pantiums.. And a literal MOUNTAIN of cards, soundblasters, 8bit mono/cga, Tseng ET4000s.. Everything retro nuts go nuts for.
And I'm trying to sell it all..
Thanks for keeping the goof, we’re all human. PS. Nice shirt
Actually most of the Lays chips you buy in the US are made in the US. There's a Frito-Lay plant a few miles down the road from me, and when the wind blows in just the right way it smells like heaven :D
I bet you miss Harvey's, Swiss Chalet and Milk in bags too! ;)
Being from Toronto, going to Florida as a kid for winter vacation, the first time I saw milk in a jug was weird, since I am used to seeing it in bags and cartons.
The first add-on called "Printerface" I saw was from Fuller in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum, It was standard Centronics compatible.
RE: The PCMCIA Firewire card, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it worked in just about anything with PCMCIA and the appropriate driver. I've opened up a lot of old iMacs and stuff and found parts with Apple-specific part numbers that were (you guessed it) exactly the same as the ones you'd find in Dell or HP machines; I mean, identical in every way, and from the same manufacturer. Especially wireless adaptors. The Apple ones just get an apple branding mark screenprinted on them (like "Airport Extreme").
Better choice for chips: chips with paprika flavour, like we had in Germany.
I'm Canadian so grew up with ketchup chips everywhere, and I'm not a fan. Paprika sounds way better!
I can't help but think that the Tandy Combi Mouse could have had a tongue-in-cheek "feature" of "Comes with both Left AND Right buttons!", considering some things they sold were quite low-budget, and standard features occasionally being sold as premium options... :P
Says he's super busy at work and yet we still get the Saturday videos and the Wednesday Mid Week Mailcall! Plus the 2nd channel videos! :-)
I love out takes and bloopers. I often put them at the end of my videos as Easter Eggs and my viewers love them!
@Adrian, a pin on the 486 66MHz is bent. I hope you can fix it.
The All Dressed flavor of Lay's potato chips are an excellent contribution to potato chip flavors here in the US. They're basically barbeque flavor, but with even more vinegar. Quite wonderful, if prone to removing the surface of my tongue thanks to all the vinegar acid.
Pretty sure that type of lock is actually called a tubular lock. You can get tubular picks that can open those locks in seconds. Also, I have a feeling that bag of keys is actually part of a set of all the possible bittings for the IBM locks. I bet the complete set would have one of each possible type of key. You can check each key to see if there are any duplicates -- if each numbered key is unique then that's probably what you have and that can be incredibly useful.
The 486DX-50 was not unstable in itself, it ran extremely hot. I remember setting up an EISA server with one of those, and I actually burned my finger on it :) I guess that much heat could destabilize it - in those days we didn't even THINK of heat sinks! I will say that the performance of that CPU on a 32-bit bus was WAY better than any DX2-66 I saw.
I still have my original Grappler + for my Commodore 64. It comes in a cool case. They had very good marketing, and i remember buying mine back in 1985 pretty much due to the advertisements in Compute's Gazette lol.
I can confirm that the AMD DX4-100 would be destroyed by 5 volts. Back in the day, I borrowed one from a friend to test if it was compatible with my motherboard, as I was interested in it as an upgrade for my DX2/66. I couldn't get it to boot so I kept trying different jumper settings, then on the last try, I forgot to set the jumpers back to 3V after swapping the processors over. Nothing happened at first, so I switched the jumpers to 3V and turned it on, to be greeted by a fizzing noise and the smell of burning electronics. I was too embarrassed to admit what I'd done, so I told my friend it worked fine and paid him the asking price for it.
And here I am, just opened yesterday's video from second channel and checked notifications before clicking play.
I have to say I bought a kit from ifixit against all comments that it was a piece of crap and unfortunately mine is a piece of crap! At least for what I paid for it. I also have to say that yours looks beautiful so maybe they got their thing together finally! Thank you for the great content Adrian!
Just quick note: intels sl2 and dx4-100 also ran at 3.3v. It was quite common for later 486 boards. Most 486 boards take it well to raise bus speed to 37.5 or 40mhz (if I recall correctly ISA cards are trouble maker if - cause some don’t come along with higher clock well). Ran my amd dx4-133 at 40mhz bus (160) for years and it was very stable. Many did. back then.
I have the exact same generic yellow screwdriver set, I’ve used it for maybe 6 or 7 years. I’d seen people advertise the iFixit one in sponsorships before but it seemed like basically the same stuff. So seeing your examination and excitation, comparing it to the yellow one, has actually made me consider getting it. I had no idea the handle had metal and proper bearings and stuff for the spinning. Plus it looks a more ergonomic shape.
Also: American Sour Patch Kids are really quite different from European ones. Different flavourings and different colourings. When I tried American ones I was shocked they were just regular super bright artificial gummies. The ones I’m used to from Europe have real fruit flavour (different actual flavours too) and more subtle colours.
Not sure about AUS/NZ Sour Patch Kids though.
Aww. I thought that “credit card adapter” was something that let you swipe cards. But it seems IBM just called all their PCMCIA cards that way for a while? I guess PCMCIA is roughly credit card sized.
Chips / Crisps with mild flavours are great dipped in wet ketchup like fries are. Lightly salted are particularly good that way.
Those little black apple things are little 3mm(4mm?) wrenches to screw those tiny socket nuts to the back of the Apple case. Just look at the Apple /PC port (video, printer, serial, etc...) and look at the two nuts above and below the port where the cable screws into... Those little wrenches fit those nuts. They came free when you bought a Apple IIe or Apple II+ with certain cards.
Shout out from West Australia mate!
Kiwi's LOVE their pineapple chunks!
The ruffles all-dressed chips are awesome.
I don't know if you could find them these days but I used an inline 5v to 3.3v socket adapter on my 486 PC in the mid-90s. I had a motherboard that only supported 5 volts and I started with an Intel DX2 66. I upgraded it to an AMD 5x86 133 using the voltage adapter. Unfortunately the motherboard I had did not properly support the 4x multiplier that chip wanted (no matter what jumper settings I tried) but I was able to run the chip at 40 mhz FSB X3 for 120 mhz. It was a nice upgrade from the DX2 66.
Don't worry, I can't hear your background noise due to my fan blowing on me.
Old Dutch is now available in eastern Canada. So you can pick some up when you’re up visiting family in Montréal!
@38:45 I had the Epson/ Grappler low cost clones called the Gemini 10X and the Wizard Printer Card. The Gemini 10X 9 pin printer used 19th century Underwood Typewriter Ink Ribbon Spools (not a cartrige) you had to feed manually.
I agree with the static straps, at least in OR. I have never had any static discharge take out anything modern or retro that I have worked on. The only time I ever wore one was back when I use to build enterprise servers, and that was really just because of the cost of the components/time to get replacements could put a client in a bad spot.
was wondering what that hole in your desk's paint was!! sealed lead acid = little tiny rubber caps over each cell and a plastic cap over that, sometimes you can revive batteries by adding a little water when they getting old
My first PC was a used 386sx @12mhz. Tbh I was pretty happy with that as a word processing machine. Later I swapped in a cheap 486DX & motherboard, the performance upgrade was jaw dropping. Great times!
Adrian needs some Coffee Crisp bars to go with his ketchup chips
And a double-double
Just so you know but that IBM 3270 emulator card is for emulating a IBM 3270 Computer Terminal (introduced in 1971 and was used to communicate with IBM mainframes). Even after IBM stoped making 3270 terminals, the protocol used with them continued on, but instead using terminal emulators on IBM PC’s. In fact, IBM made an IBM 3270 PC which was an IBM PC XT with IBM 3270 terminal emulation hardware built in. What this means for you is that since you don’t have access to an IBM mainframe to communicate with using the 3270 terminal protocol, that emulation card is basically useless to you, even if you had the special coax dongle it requires.
I think the truth about ESD is that it's unlikely you are going to cause catastrophic failure by touching the parts. It can happen, but i believe it's actually quite a rare case. What's more likely is that the ESD is causing more minor damage to the parts and is shortening the life of the components, making them now more likely to fail in the future.
Not to be pedantic, but a lot of time ESD isn't an instant chip killer. But MOS chips (N-mos, P-mos, CMOS, etc.) can all be damaged. Not necessarily killed, but you can definitely shorten the lifespan.
I'll have to see if i can find the ESD mat i used to get and recommend. Very tough, you could drop a soldering iron on it, and while it would have a burn mark, it would not instantly melt through. And it was rubbery, so parts didn't bounce so far, and surface marring was less of an issue.
Your air conditioner noise is barely even noticeable! Love your videos, keep it up!
Lay's is known as Walkers here in the UK, same logo though. We also have Ketchup flavour here in the UK, known as Tomato Ketchup, along with Beef and Onion, Prawn Cocktail and Worcester Sauce flavours
I bought an Intel Core i7 920 around Christmas 2008 as part of a new build for an audio recording machine. I've since had to build a new machine for audio recording but now use that i7 920 to play AAA games to this day. My graphics card is always the bottleneck. It's amazing that the almost 13 year old CPU can handle what I throw at it.
The ketchup chips are intriguing. It's too bad they aren't available here. The whole ketchup and potato thing totally makes sense.
I have a friend who lives in BC. Maybe I can get her to send me some.
Cheers!