I'd love a series of Ashens just talking about computer evolution and history. He has a wonderful cadence, seems like he knows a lot of the ins and outs, and these videos are rather comfy on top of that.
That Windows 7 bag came with the Windows 7 Ultimate party box for those who hosted windows 7 parties. I still have my box, including Microsoft branded napkins.
I applied for a kit but I don't think I ever heard anything back. I remember Microsoft went out of their way to remove eBay auctions for people trying to sell off their party packs lol
@@samholdsworth420 Not sure which part is sad but if you're saying it's sad that I still have my box, good news! I ended up donating it to a friend in 2022 who helps with a computing history museum not too far from San Francisco. I guess somehow they didn't have one or something.
I pestered my dad to take me to Cambridge to see this place after the first Archive Boxes video. It was great! The guy at the front said they've seen a lot more visitors since Ashens did that one.
That Atari brought me back to when I was a kid, and I had an Atari 800XL. It had a five-and-a-quarter inch floppy drive attachment, and its cartridge slot was on the top instead of the side. My favorite game for it was called Mail Order Monsters.
Thank you for taking the time to showcase some of what this place has to offer. Being in the states, I'll likely never have a chance to check out this place, so it's nice to see a bit of a micro-tour.
Take a bunch of random tat and sling it in a box. That's the way to run an archive! In the distant future, people will find this treasure trove and spend entire careers trying to work out how a commodore music maker, an apricot track ball and an ISA video card worked together. :D
And no matter how much technology changes, we still complain what we have is crappy. Looking back should remind us what we started with. I just made a new custom rig and this video was great timing to remind me of the old "pcs" I had. When video cards came out people were blown away by them.
Ah, a Dragon 32, we had one of those. The joystick was definitely a bit odd, more suited to flying a slow moving drone with that big stick swinging in a huge circle.
The 'Left Cartidge' on the 1200XL for those interested, represents a 2-cart system Atari tried to use where the Right Cartridge would be supplemental to the Left Cartridge for very large, complex programs that wouldn't go on one cart comfortably. Didn't really catch on for a few reasons so Atari themselves dumped the right slot before long.
Such an amazing place ! Dammit, if only I had seen your video earlier, I was in Cambridge only months ago and would have surely visited this place if I knew. Great vid as always !
I need more of this !!!! these are the videos you should be doing! not couch stuff, thats so five years ago. You have such a great presenters voice and I love hearing your tech stories.
Actually that Amino Box isn't for streaming from your computer to your television it was actually the one of the early Digital TV boxes supplied by cable companies (at least here in the states) the ethernet port was actually what connected to the modem that you had for your internet and cable tv from the cable company.
These are fascinating for me as a US fan of yours, I knew a little bit about US computer history but nothing about British ones. Same with all of the British games and systems you feature in your videos, just interesting to hear and read about what was going on at the other side of the pond.
That Apricot mouse/trackball thing did use I.R. and the cable was a light guide that optionally connected peripherals to the machine. We had these things in collage back in the day. The light guide stopped computers sitting next to each other from picking up each others keyboard/mouse inputs. Used to be great fun walking up behind someone typing and randomly press keys to confuse em. I cant remember if you could select different I.R. codesets, but the ones we used deffo all used the same transmission codes.
That Amino was used for a lot of digital signage systems (where you have a server sending various video/presentations to lots of TV's), especially in UK schools. That model was still being installed 5 years ago and there are quite a lot of them still in use.
The Comic Sans Keyboard would be ideal for educational purposes, since it is one of the only fonts that dyslexic people can see flawlessly. That, in conjunction with the bright colours and large keys, makes for a product I'm rather impressed with!
I remember nearly all of that. My first computer at 6yo was an Atari 600xl... but seeing as my parents still treat tech like white goods, they never spent a penny on it after that. I'm now 39... much hasn't changed. Awesome video.
The Atari 8-bit computers, when introduced, had the industry's most advanced graphics hardware, and it was so ahead of its time that it hardly ever changed throughout its production life.
The Apricot Mouse: The unique combination of an 80's TV remote and the trackball from every golf arcade game available in every bar, that no one asked for
The Tano Dragon was a clone of the Tandy Color Computer. They weren't particularly expensive, but they had a better processor than most other competing computers at the time: the Motorola 6809. What really made these shine was when you ran Microware OS9 on them, because this turned the machine into a multiuser timesharing system.
I wished I still had my old machines and never sold them (Commodore 64, Dragon 32, Philips MSX, Commodore 128,, EACA Colour Genie, Schneider IBM compatible pc, don't remember the model but had built-in keyboard and disk drive) good times, sweet memories.
Loading things off cassette and disk was a good teacher of patience as these days you have to wait longer for game and system updates to download for the consoles.
Yeah, you're right about load times. Very few people in America in the 80s had tape drives. If they had computers, they were floppy-based like the Apple II and IBM PC lines. Man, the first time I learned about tape drives when I was eight or something, I had a reaction much like finding out about starving kids in Africa.
apricotcomputers.com/ - Website still online, *they have plans to re-lauch in 2017 under the parent company 'BRAND ACCESS'. *apricotcomputers.com/2016-spring-is-in-the-air/
I'd be one of the fewer Americans nostalgic just as much for computers as consoles and, to compound it, we were strictly a Commodore household. We went through the VIC-20, C128, A1000, A500, and ended on the A1200. Fun times... and then Commodore went bankrupt.
The AmiNET 110 device is an early TV over IP set-top box. The fiber-to-the-home ISP I'm on used those for many years before switching to Motorola set-top boxes running Microsoft Mediaroom.
it is scary how much of this stuff I remember. we all thought it was the best thing going and look at what we have today. they both still frustrate the shit out of me at times.
an atari......we had the 800xl....our first computer....my young childhood was listening to the good old tapes loading....ahhhhh yes that sound that all todays kiddies have never heard. back in the days that the computers would go into a nuclear meltdown at the thought of playing todays games on it !!!.
That "vickit" you showed seems to be a stack storeboard interface for the Vic-20. It is supposed to add additional memory to a Vic-20, up to a munificent 32k! That'll make Pirate's Cove sessions run like greased lightning!
that vickit is Stack Storeboard: This expansion card for the Commodore VIC-20 allows you to add multiple RAM chips to expand a Commodore computer's storage
That's not just a VGA card -- that's a Trident video card! They were the cream of the mid-low-end market for a time in the early 90s. They couldn't keep up when 3D acceleration became the thing though.
I wasn't even born that early, but damn, I love looking at old electronics. Never finish this series.
I love the way ashens just knows EVERYTHING.
He knew what was in the boxes before filming 😂
I'd love a series of Ashens just talking about computer evolution and history. He has a wonderful cadence, seems like he knows a lot of the ins and outs, and these videos are rather comfy on top of that.
That Windows 7 bag came with the Windows 7 Ultimate party box for those who hosted windows 7 parties. I still have my box, including Microsoft branded napkins.
I applied for a kit but I don't think I ever heard anything back. I remember Microsoft went out of their way to remove eBay auctions for people trying to sell off their party packs lol
That's incredibly sad.
@@samholdsworth420 Not sure which part is sad but if you're saying it's sad that I still have my box, good news! I ended up donating it to a friend in 2022 who helps with a computing history museum not too far from San Francisco. I guess somehow they didn't have one or something.
that Vic-kit card is actually an early networking card... you're welcome i had to search the bowels of google for that
Thank you
What do the bowels of Google smell like?
+Jake Campbell I'm asking for a friend
thanks dad
thnak you!
i'm editing this, because i don't care that i misspelled thank
I always find these videos so facinating. They're like little time capsules. Makes you wonder what kind of tech we'll see in the future.
I pestered my dad to take me to Cambridge to see this place after the first Archive Boxes video. It was great! The guy at the front said they've seen a lot more visitors since Ashens did that one.
Took the kids today. They loved it, made me feel old. Well worth the visit.
That Atari brought me back to when I was a kid, and I had an Atari 800XL. It had a five-and-a-quarter inch floppy drive attachment, and its cartridge slot was on the top instead of the side. My favorite game for it was called Mail Order Monsters.
Thank you for taking the time to showcase some of what this place has to offer. Being in the states, I'll likely never have a chance to check out this place, so it's nice to see a bit of a micro-tour.
"HERES ONE OF THEM!"
thank you ashens.
Take a bunch of random tat and sling it in a box. That's the way to run an archive!
In the distant future, people will find this treasure trove and spend entire careers trying to work out how a commodore music maker, an apricot track ball and an ISA video card worked together. :D
LUNATIC75 all the boxes are labeled with a number. I assume there is a database of what items are in each numbered box.
But it took scientists from the future year 2020 to work that out.
The back of all museums are like this
Make more videos like this or I will say mean things to you on Twitter.
XD lol
MORE VIDEOS!!!! 😭😭😭
aaaaaaaah so scary
idiot
MORE VIDEOS!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I'd like to see more videos looking at old computer shit like this. Always interesting to see ashens review things he knows so much about.
This has to be my all time favorite of your videos, open more boxes!!!
I was so excited to see this video, I'm so glad you're doing another one of these Ashens. I love the computing history you're presenting here.
And no matter how much technology changes, we still complain what we have is crappy. Looking back should remind us what we started with. I just made a new custom rig and this video was great timing to remind me of the old "pcs" I had. When video cards came out people were blown away by them.
1 frame a month is fine by me as long as it can run it
@Samson Themighty its walking it
fucking hell give me the comic sans keyboard. boy will i get the ladies.
And the babies
They are very common and quite cheap! I have the yellow one with F keys.
Totally getting one for my high end gaming pc build...
haha
+TheMAMAnimations who the fuck even cares about that game anymore
I love it when you talk about old computer stuff. Please make more.
Ah, a Dragon 32, we had one of those. The joystick was definitely a bit odd, more suited to flying a slow moving drone with that big stick swinging in a huge circle.
The bit where he mentioned The Scarlette Samurai was very interesting. I didn't realise this guy was so articulate. Real eye opener!
The 'Left Cartidge' on the 1200XL for those interested, represents a 2-cart system Atari tried to use where the Right Cartridge would be supplemental to the Left Cartridge for very large, complex programs that wouldn't go on one cart comfortably. Didn't really catch on for a few reasons so Atari themselves dumped the right slot before long.
Love this series ! Please keep doing more of these since it's really interesting !
1:06 LGR Burn
lol
Burning the man while you're biting his style, that's some doublethink action right there.
Still keeping my fingers crossed he will visit this beautiful stuffy nerdy place one day
Beat me to it hahah
This is clearly LGR lite.
This is amazing! Can't wait for more videos if there are any.
why are we facing ashens this feels wrong
how does it feel to be the brown sofa for once
Bloody hell, just you wait until you see Barshens.
Wait till you see, Gamechild, Polyibus heist, and Turn back
Such an amazing place ! Dammit, if only I had seen your video earlier, I was in Cambridge only months ago and would have surely visited this place if I knew. Great vid as always !
I need more of this !!!! these are the videos you should be doing! not couch stuff, thats so five years ago. You have such a great presenters voice and I love hearing your tech stories.
As a Welshman I adored seeing the Dragon 64. I had no idea that we even made anything like that here!
Was there Friday because of your last video! Great trip down memory lane! Thanks. 😊
I love these computer archive videos! Please keep them coming!
It's bugging me how he's not as stupidly carefull with this old technology as I would be
That place looks amazing
Thanks for being kind to the Dragon, I loved mine 😃
Actually that Amino Box isn't for streaming from your computer to your television it was actually the one of the early Digital TV boxes supplied by cable companies (at least here in the states) the ethernet port was actually what connected to the modem that you had for your internet and cable tv from the cable company.
I think this is my favorite chanel! 😝
I really wish you demonstrated some of these items. Never the less, very entertaining video. That room looks like a lot of fun.
I love this so much please do more of these!
These are fascinating for me as a US fan of yours, I knew a little bit about US computer history but nothing about British ones. Same with all of the British games and systems you feature in your videos, just interesting to hear and read about what was going on at the other side of the pond.
That Apricot mouse/trackball thing did use I.R. and the cable was a light guide that optionally connected peripherals to the machine. We had these things in collage back in the day. The light guide stopped computers sitting next to each other from picking up each others keyboard/mouse inputs. Used to be great fun walking up behind someone typing and randomly press keys to confuse em. I cant remember if you could select different I.R. codesets, but the ones we used deffo all used the same transmission codes.
Apricot Computers... Ceased operations: June 2005
I bought the Dragon 32 in 1982, my first home computer. Great little machine for the time.
That Amino was used for a lot of digital signage systems (where you have a server sending various video/presentations to lots of TV's), especially in UK schools. That model was still being installed 5 years ago and there are quite a lot of them still in use.
The Comic Sans Keyboard would be ideal for educational purposes, since it is one of the only fonts that dyslexic people can see flawlessly. That, in conjunction with the bright colours and large keys, makes for a product I'm rather impressed with!
I remember nearly all of that. My first computer at 6yo was an Atari 600xl... but seeing as my parents still treat tech like white goods, they never spent a penny on it after that. I'm now 39... much hasn't changed. Awesome video.
IN THATCHER ERA WALES, CAPS LOCK YOU
The Atari 8-bit computers, when introduced, had the industry's most advanced graphics hardware, and it was so ahead of its time that it hardly ever changed throughout its production life.
the dragon64 came with a free sheep!
that's great we love our sheep down in Wales 😂
"down in Wales"
I'm in Bristol. Wales is directly north.
+Harichi Kashanami up in Wales then better?!
I love these, keep doing more. We don't have collections like these in the states.
The Apricot Mouse: The unique combination of an 80's TV remote and the trackball from every golf arcade game available in every bar, that no one asked for
Am I the only one who thinks these videos are ashens best
Ashens sounds ready to watch "All in The Family" with all of those "those were the days" references...
You're giving me horrid memories of being forced to watch old telly at my Nan's house. Thanks for that.
my dad watched that show so much.
Wow that place gotta be a real gold mine.
The Tano Dragon was a clone of the Tandy Color Computer. They weren't particularly expensive, but they had a better processor than most other competing computers at the time: the Motorola 6809. What really made these shine was when you ran Microware OS9 on them, because this turned the machine into a multiuser timesharing system.
If and when I ever make a trip over to the UK I'll definitely pay the Centre for Computing History a visit.
ME "Ashens sent me"
Them "He is no longer allowed on the premises"
Going to the museum soon. I've already been once, great place.
the "Power Replay" was actually used for playing pirated games. It even came with a spring adapter for the lid to allow disk swapping.
Oh Doctor Ashen, we want more of these (which actually means I want more of these, being honest).
I wished I still had my old machines and never sold them (Commodore 64, Dragon 32, Philips MSX, Commodore 128,, EACA Colour Genie, Schneider IBM compatible pc, don't remember the model but had built-in keyboard and disk drive) good times, sweet memories.
Look how well moisturised those hands are!
Loading things off cassette and disk was a good teacher of patience as these days you have to wait longer for game and system updates to download for the consoles.
Yeah, you're right about load times. Very few people in America in the 80s had tape drives. If they had computers, they were floppy-based like the Apple II and IBM PC lines. Man, the first time I learned about tape drives when I was eight or something, I had a reaction much like finding out about starving kids in Africa.
Oh my god Apricot, I totally forgot about them until I saw this. My friends Dad had one.
It's kind of nifty to see Stuart go through the boxes in his storage shed...
I saw your book when I went to that museum a couple of weeks ago!
Raiders of the Lost Arch Support Shoes, more like.
Please excuse the offence, but that is the single worst fucking joke I've ever heard.
+Dylan Greene It was cleaver
OMG when I started work I used an apricot computer with that mousey trackball thingy, great computer.
Great video, man. That place would be amazing to wander around in.
Apricot Computers,
Defunked: June 2005.
apricotcomputers.com/ - Website still online, *they have plans to re-lauch in 2017 under the parent company 'BRAND ACCESS'.
*apricotcomputers.com/2016-spring-is-in-the-air/
Oh no, they lost their funk?
Also defunct. About the same time, in fact.
+AgentTasmania I was hoping someone spotted that xD wp
+Rob Rophside Harambe?
+Küala Music Jimmies are rustled.
You need to do more of these, brilliant
LootCrate have certainly stepped up their game.
well done ashens. this video is great and informative. You are really selling this place.
These videos are awesome. Hope to see more.
I'd be one of the fewer Americans nostalgic just as much for computers as consoles and, to compound it, we were strictly a Commodore household. We went through the VIC-20, C128, A1000, A500, and ended on the A1200. Fun times... and then Commodore went bankrupt.
This Atari 1200XL story is the funniest thing I've heard in a while
The AmiNET 110 device is an early TV over IP set-top box. The fiber-to-the-home ISP I'm on used those for many years before switching to Motorola set-top boxes running Microsoft Mediaroom.
Well this is amazing and why am I on the Internet on this time whilst reading phan fic 💗
im so glad theres more of these
Loved this!
it is scary how much of this stuff I remember. we all thought it was the best thing going and look at what we have today. they both still frustrate the shit out of me at times.
I had never heard of these Dragon computers... Very interesting!
I went here after I saw your first video. its pretty cool
I have to visit this place. it sounds so amazing
an atari......we had the 800xl....our first computer....my young childhood was listening to the good old tapes loading....ahhhhh yes that sound that all todays kiddies have never heard. back in the days that the computers would go into a nuclear meltdown at the thought of playing todays games on it !!!.
I like to imagine there's a staff member standing there moderating you while you sit on your knees talking to yourself.
Really enjoy these videos hope he makes more
Bigtrak!!! I had one of them. Coolest thing ever!
I hope there's more of these coming. I absolutely _adore_ older technology.
Why, I'm typing this on a laptop from 2011 right now! シ
That "vickit" you showed seems to be a stack storeboard interface for the Vic-20. It is supposed to add additional memory to a Vic-20, up to a munificent 32k! That'll make Pirate's Cove sessions run like greased lightning!
that vickit is
Stack Storeboard:
This expansion card for the Commodore VIC-20 allows you to add multiple RAM chips to expand a Commodore computer's storage
This is my dream version of a Lootcrate video.
Power Replay was handy since it could circumvent the region locks without needing to have a chip soldered into your PS.
That midi adapter is for the Gravis Ultrasound brand of sound-cards, very popular card in the music-making pc scene in the early 90's.
These kind of videos are memorizing...
Am I the only one who wants that keyboard for gaming just for the hilarity?
That's not just a VGA card -- that's a Trident video card! They were the cream of the mid-low-end market for a time in the early 90s. They couldn't keep up when 3D acceleration became the thing though.
Running Crysis at 1 FPM? Sign me up!
oh man the edit at the end was amazing!
i wanna go!