Wow seeing that MSX brings back memories, its called "Sakher" in Arabic its a localisation of the MSX brought to the Middle East by a company called "Al alamyih" (a Kuwaiti company) aiming to introduce computers in the region, it was my first encounter with a PC as a kid, we had them in the school PC lab and I feel in love with PCs since then, What an amazing job done by Stuart. Thanks for the enjoyable content Adrian, love from Dubai.
Wikipedia's Deletionista have turned the Sakhr Computers article into a redirect to nowhere good, because of course they would. There is an article called Sakhr Software Company which barely mentions the former hardware business. There seem to be zero articles on the actual computers on Wikipedia. You have to google for outside wikis for that - all of which is weird, because usually Wikipedia is biased the most against "official enemies" -- but Kuwait is a US client, not an enemy, so it's really not clear why the hate. With friends like these...
@@pedrofelck If you want to edit-war with people who more often than not are clearly networked and all have each other's backs, you're welcome to it. No, seriously: I applaud your courage and your patience, and wish you good luck.
@@ropersonline it seems the quickest way nowadays is to make a video about it and then get someone else to cite your video.... what a screwed up world we live in.
So jealous that you got an электроника! I’ve been teaching myself Russian throughout quarantine and really want a Soviet-era micro. I would be so excited if I could find one with all of the documentation like yours!
It says "household computer for personal use" on the Russian box, Adrian. I didn't even know we had these! A friend of mine used to have ZX Spectrum clone. But this device? Never heard of it before! Always amazing to watch your channel!
That Soviet machine isn't a ZX Spectrum clone (to my surprise lol). It's an Elektronika BK 0010.01, which appears to be a PDP-11 compatible microcomputer...! There's an article on the Elektronika BK series on Wikipedia. Seems like a _really_ interesting machine.
Elektronika BK 0010-01 was made from about 1984 to about 1994. It is indeed a 16-bit DEC PDP-11 "clone" although there are some differences. It contains a scaled-back version of MSX Basic (Vilna Basic) in ROM. Serial interfaces SHOULD be fully PDP-11 compatible. If it helps Power Supply (БП) is a DIN 5 connector with pins 2 and 4 being earth. Pins 3 and 5 +5VDC at 2A. Tolerances are pretty tight so stay within +/- 5%. (Edit: Added tolerance info and amperage.)
Nowadays knowing what the BK is, should be required knowledge for every TH-camr. And this BK wasn't even the only PC line using the CPU. Later computers, incompatible to that introduced more ram and 256 colors. I would really love to have one, or make one myself.
@@racecar_spelled_backwards868 The expansion interface (МПИ bus) isn't fully compatible, they're a clone of DEC's Q-Bus parallel interface, but use a different type of connector. The BK in particular is even more different because some of the pins have been omitted and the connector is smaller. There is a modern project board called the SMK-512 that lets you use a floppy, CF card or a hard disk and adds additional memory. With it you can turn the BK from a curiosity piece to something you can actully mess around with - www.forum.pk-fpga.ru/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=492 I'm still trying to source components to make one for my BK
@@peshozmiata ive seen the smk in forums! It's a really cool device, to the floppy, ide, ram and ay, i think its also somewhat pass through for things like a serial card.
Yeaa :) Elektronika, Microcomputer for personal use! That was on Russian case :) Greetings from Bulgaria - here we have also good old computers - Pravetz 8D , Pravetz 16... And others :)
I love Pravetz 8D, make my own digger game for it at some point, but I don’t have machine, in order to use it I need sing in for activities for kids(well I am a kid at that time), and travel acros city for 2 hours to get 1 hour of machine use. God/Devil/Tom Cruz, someone save us from communism
Just some facts about the Soviet Elektronika BK computer, hope it will be helpful. The Elektronika BK microcomputer is using a 16 bit 1801 series CPU which was designed for various applications like CNCs calculators and home computers. It is instruction compatible with the PDP-11. The BK is the first fully 16 bit microcomputers in the soviet union for home usage. The CPU running in these machines between 3-4.6 MHz. The maximum supported speed of the 1801 processors can go up to 12 MHz. The video output is going to be SECAM. It is compatible with PAL but only the video part, the colors will be missing since it is in a different frequency range.
I would love to see the Soviet computer and maybe some computers from the GDR in the future as well, such as Robotron computers featured and being used. Thank you Stuart for creating and sharing this wonderful experience and great computers and care packages. And thank you Adrian for making these videos.
The Pink - Pink Panther Logo means that the packing material is an Ownes-Corning product. (Owens-Corning is known for its insulation products..) They've been using the Pink Panther logo for more than 35 years on now... :o) Tony K., Melbourne, Florida.
Can't wait to see the UK computers on your channel. There's plenty more 8 bit computers you can cover from the UK such as Acorn Electron, Dragon 32, Oric etc.
I had a dragon 32 back in the day and this was in the US. I wasn't a fan of it because we also had some better computers in the house at the time (like the c64), but I would like to have one again just as part of my 'buying back my childhood'. :)
It's picking up on "So that's a..." I tried replaying that part of the video a few times like Carlos above, and mine acted the same, lighting up and waiting for a command and not doing anything. Then, the last time I tried it, it announced it was going to play "We Are The World" (wtf?!) before I yelled at it to stop. I wonder if that's the same song it started playing for Adrian. I guess it could've been worse. It could have somehow interpreted what Adrian said next as asking it to play "Baby Shark".
I have one, complete with tape and disk drive, and a bunch of tapes, disks, and cartridges, buried deep beneath 25 years worth of crap up in my attic!! I'd love to know if it still works - it did back in the early 90s! But it'd take a major expedition, and dynamite to get near it now!! :-D
Well, you know the joke goes: Q:What is worse than find a maggot in your candy? A:Finding half a one. look forward to seeing more in Adrian's digital sub-basement.
Intro to Russia actual starts 24:32 (You don't want to miss these!) Also, yes the JCUKEN (ЙЦУКЕН) layout is the main Cyrillic keyboard layout for the Russian language in computers and typewriters.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I'm not mistaken, the lettering on the outer box translates to: _Butovian computer_ (i.e. computer from Butovo, which is a locality) _micro-computer for individual use_ PS: The words on the left of the lid are: решает decides обучает teaches хранит keeps реализует implements управляет manages In summary, it does all the things!
This soviet БК-0010 is not a clone of any sort but a completely independent peace of hardware with a PDP-11 compatible processor. Микро ЭВМ is an abbreviation for micro electronic computing machine. And yes, it is dramatically yellow, originally it should be in grey color. Btw, pretty rare machine in this days, especially in grey color. Video output is SECAM)
Now I am ultra jealous. I've wanted a spectrum and an amstrad since my friend brought one back from his trip to visit his grandparents in England. They also sent him a UK television and power adapter. He had 100s of games for his zx spectrum and when he got his amstrad and BBC micro for his birthday and Christmas the same year with lots of games and programs we looked forward to every package his grandparents would send.
21:55 that computer was called صخر we had one over 30 years ago 🤣 I was 3 so I don't remember much. but remember it had puzzle games and other games that I don't remember. back in 1970-1980 in Saudi Arabia we had only 110 @60Hz we moved to 220 and uk plugs in the early 2000s I think
It's so cool to hear computer history outside of North America, Europe and Japan. I hope Latin American computers get some space in Adrian's channel too!
Wow, Stewart is amazing...he spent so much time in putting that together and creating those intro videos. I work in NH, he should open up a Retro Shack with all the stuff he has access to. I think Nashua, NH was home of the US headquarter of Sinclair Research.Thank you Stewart!
6:00 Sometimes an Amazon echo can misinterpret Alex, Atari, Aida, Al, Aley, and Ala as Alexa so that was probably it. There’s probably a plethora of other names that can trigger her but I haven’t discovered those yet.
Mine was triggering so often when I would say "I like the(fill in the blank)." Unfortunately, it's built into a sound bar and there's no way to change the activation word, so she's forever deafened.
Also, it says (features) "SOLVES tasks in calculator-programming mode", ""TEACHES using general and special aducating programs", "STORES databases you entered", "IMPLEMENTS various intellectual-game programs", "OPERATES various domestic appliance in your house". Right part lists factory number (serial number), DOM, weight, price and so on. (BTW, 724 roubles was incredibly expensive!)
"Operates various domestic appliances in your house" I've never seen smart-home capabilities used as part of the marketing for a computer before. Was this actually a thing people were able to use it for? Unless that wasn't a typo and you genuinely meant "alliances", in which case I have even more questions.
A common insult on the internet is 'you must have too much time on your hands', but I think it's safe for us to say instead, given the fun he provides (and his packing art), that Stuart has just enough time on his hands. :)
Star Raiders is awesome! In '78 I worked at a computer store. We put an Atari 800 on an LCD projector and nice audio system. We cranked it up and were having a blast when employees from the neighboring business came over to see what was going on. We all had a blast playing. This game holds a fond place in my heart.
The keyboard on that 400 was called the "B-Key Keyboard". They came in two different styles... one with all brown keys and one with mostly brown, but a few off color keys.
Congrats Stuart I think this is officially the best mail call video ever! I'm really excited to see the more "exotic" machines like the russian and arabic ones. I've never seen them before. I suspect that computer is supposed to be yellow though.
Hi Adrian, don't forget you have 240V coming into your house so powering equipment from Europe will just need the installation of an appropriate two pole breaker in your fuse board and the correct type of outlet in your workshop. No need for a step up transformer!
The Atari "Keyboard controller" was part of a package that would let you program Basic. This package included two of those controllers which would clip together, and would have two overlay covers and the Basic programming cart.
@@DavePoo yes indeed it was. Calling Amstrad “the best of British” sounds a bit tongue-in-cheek to me, though... they made some well-loved machines, sure, even outside of computing.. but the best? Nah.
@@kaitlyn__L what was the best British 8 bit computer in your opinion? The Dragon? (nice CPU, but limited when it comes to graphics and sound). The ZX Spectrum (cheap, but lacks 'standard' interfaces so you have to buy it afterwards). The beeb? (A great machine but expensive). The Enterprise 64/128 (a really nice one but lacks software support in the UK), Sam Coupé (another great machine but too late on the market). Memotech MTX500/512 (a nice one but it's a rare machine due the limited lifespan). I kind of love all the British computers, but every machine has his strong and weak points. So in my opinion there isn't a machine that you could label as the best British computer. The Amstrad CPC is a good allrounder, it has a Z80a running at 4 MHz, more than decent graphics and a soundchip. It had a few standard ports, a nice software library and it wasn't the most expensive on the list. It might not be the best in some cases, but I would say it was a pretty good 'allrounder'.
@@xXTheoLinuxXx the BBC was the best of its time. Best doesn’t mean most accessible or most popular, everyone who loves the Speccy acknowledges its limitations and sometimes questionable chip supply. That’s part of the charm. But it’s not the best British computing had to offer. (Though I will say the CPC wasn’t half bad in games respects, but it couldn’t generate Teletext or other serious uses like the BBC!) I will add best doesn’t even mean it’s necessarily my favourite in terms of library or experience. I really love my CPC, for form factor, industrial design, games, etc. Just best like how Jaguars used to be and represent the best of British motoring. Must say I haven’t heard of the Enterprise, Sam Coupé or Memotech, though I might have seen pictures?
@@kaitlyn__L the BBC was indeed a very nice machine (my first computer was his little brother, the Acorn Elecctron). But all those extras that that machine had to offer came with a price. What I really liked about that machine was the BASIC. The Enterprise was a bit too late for the British market and they drop a lot of machines in Hungary. It had a bit more cclours and higher resolutions than other British machines I believe. The Memotech used the same videochip as the MSX1 machines and the soundchip is the same as the one from the BBC, so it wasn't a bad machine. The company made a mistake to invest every penny based on a 'maybe' deal with the USSR, and well they choosed something else. The Sam Coupé was made by a company that made stuff (hardware) for the ZX Spectrum. After Amstrad took the company over and didn't do 'huge' upgrades, they made their own kind of Spectrum. It was compatible with the Spectrum 48K (due emulation) but it had a faster CPU, more memory, better graphics and sound, a build in 3.5 inch floppy drive. I would describe it as a kind of slower Atari ST (due the CPU power, but it has nice graphics) but with a better soundchip.
I don't remember the Spectrum +2 keyboard being especially bad, but it would have been 25-30 years ago. That CPC464 keyboard looks in great shape, the blue has faded to grey on a lot of them.
My one is faded, albeit not to grey. Just a kind of... sky blue. The red is slightly on the pinkish side too. Green still looks strong, but that’s maybe just because our green cones (in our eyes) are the most sensitive. Edit: compared to the final shot of the video, I’ve got to say the green on mine is more of a saturated pastel green, so they have all had a roughly equal and medium level of fading.
Oh Adrian! You’re workbench is cluttered with projects. Much the same way mine is. Thanks very much! I’m 69 yrs old and my wife, of 48 yrs, always asks me “When are you going to clean this mess up?” You’d think after all these years she’d realise that I will respond with “Soon.”, but in reality, I’ll just tidy around the edges. But thank you for having a cluttered bench in the background. All other presenters seem so clinically clean that it’s a shame to spoil their pristine works with cameras and recording gear. 😂
@@MarcKloos At least for product names, some people (including me) pronounce it based on what country it came from, so you would have the Sinclair "Zed" X spectrum using the Zilog "Zee" 80
Great videos. Stuart's video resonates with me. Atari was my machine of choice. My Dad gave me £200 for my birthday in 1981. I knew about the Atari range but they were out of my price bracket so I headed to my local store intent on buying a VIC-20. Imagine my surprise when I got to the store and discovered one Atari 400 was on sale for the same price as the VIC-20. I'm not sure what the deal was with the low prices for the VIC-20 and Atari 400 at the store but I kept my mouth shut and promptly bought the Atari 400 and never looked back. I then went on to the Atari 800 and the XLs and finally ST. In 1991 I landed a job as Staff Writer for Atari ST User magazine in the UK and published by Europress around 1991. I then went on to become Technical Editor and eventually Editor. I also moved around and was Technical Editor for Amiga Computing magazine before moving onto PC Home and CD-ROM Now PC magazines until 1999. I currently have two working Atari 800s, a Commodore 64, Amiga 1200 and an Atari STe. Great content on the channel. Keep on keeping on :)
Good lord Stuart, there is generosity and creativity in the generosity, however, you take it to a whole new level, let me extend a thank you to this channels sponsor STUART, not only have you provided us all with being blessed with a very good and longer video from Adrian goodie unboxing, you will also have provided us all with many many many more repairathon videos contain from Adrian. Thank you to both of you for this and future videos.
I see, at least two repairathons in the future. I like mini-series like these. I know they take a lot of effort, but I really look forward to the next episode and tracking your progress.
Yes, the Atari 2600 wasn’t actually badged that way until the all-black “Vader” version. The wood grain versions were all badged “VCS” or “Video Computer System” with a “CX-2600” part number on the bottom.
I'd like to express some great gratitude to stuart for all his donations to your channel. He certainly provides a great deal of content and I enjoy seeing the technology I only saw in catalogs back in the 70s and 80s. His time, efforts and expense doesn't go unnoticed nor unappreciated. Thank you Stuart! I only collect computers I used as a child so my current inventory includes a heathkit h89, a commodore 128d, a zx81, a microprofessor, a commodore colt, but I'm looking to add a coco, tandy model 3, and an Osborne 1.
Sounds like the _surprise_ crawled out of the Russian candy... oh well. Super cool haul man, you're going to have to go full-time to get through this lot. Cheers,
MSX needs some love on your channel too. Here in Brazil had some level of success and well remembered from computer enthusiastics here. I love MSX as gaming machine!
that ZX Spectrum 128K +2 gray was my first computer. i learned to code on it, and later became a software engineer. so its a pretty special computer to me
For your info: The all black Atari 2600 is informally known as the “Darth Vader” model due to it’s all black case and the fact that it was released in 1982, which was was between the release of second and third of the original Star Wars trilogy films, “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) and “The Return of the Jedi” (1983). It was the second 4-switch model introduced. The first 4-switch model was the CX2600 model (1980) which actually still had six switches, it’s just that two of the switches (player 1 & 2 difficulty switches) had been moved to the back as part of a cost reduction method, leaving only four switches on the top on the unit. The CX2600 model was the first to use 2600 in it’s model number but not it’s official name as Atari VCS (Video Computer System) still appears on the case and packaging. In 1982, when it’a intended successor was released, the Atari 5200, they renamed the VCS to the 2600, starting with the “Darth Vader” model. This was second to last Atari 2600 model, with the Atari 2600 Jr, (1986) being the last. The 2600 Jr. was a modernized and size and cost reduced model advertised as budget gaming system for “Under $50 bucks” with a large pre-existing library of games. The 2600 Jr. introduced a modernized smaller & thinner wedge shape design (similar to the Atari 7800 from the same year) which replaced the pole slider switches with two push button flat switches (Select and Reset) and two flat slider switches (Power and Color/B&W TV Type). Several different variants of the 2600 Jr. exists. The original features a shiny metal band with the Atari logo and a small rainbow bar below the logo located just below the switches at the top rear. A second 2600 Jr model had the rainbow bar go all the way accross the logo band. There was also rare all-black “Irish:” version (made in Ireland) that had an all-black logo band with a small rainbow bar similar to original 2600 Jr.
The Russian computer as said is Elektronika BK 010-01. This must be legendary for everyone MISTer out there. It is the first computer Alexei Melnikov had. Alexei is the creator of MISTer. There should be a core in MISTer of this beast.
Had an Atari 400 which I upgraded with a "b-key" keyboard. At least it looked like that..... long long gone. Be interesting to see when you open that up.
Or maybe some absolute madman will try to put him on the same level as CuriousMarc and send him a Xerox Alto or some other insanity from the mid to late 70's.
Ooooo i would love to hear that phone call... “ hello, Mr Adrian? Hi, this is the post office, we have a package for you and we need you to come and pick it up... and pls bring your own flat bed truck ...😊”
I worked for a company in the mid 1980s that was running an IBM 370-135 we moved and couldn't sell it. Left it in the building. Mainframe, tape drives, disc drives, card reader, IBM 1403 printer and all.
Oh Stewart is such an awesome guy. What an amazing voyage of discovery he created. Would love to see the Russian and Arabic machines boot up and their software / games in action. I'd be head over heels and doing cartwheels down the corridor if someone sent my channel an old floppy disk, and here you are getting mountains of awesome stuff, great old machines, game carts, candy, and so much more. Congratulations Adrian. Love your channel!
Stewart is like having Howard Hughes as a benefactor. The amount of energy and preparation he put into this packaging presentation is amazing. The Egyptian sweets, (won't call it candy) looks a lot like baklava, with pistachios. There's one I really like, that looks like a bird's nest, with pistachio "eggs." I am familiar with Russian candies. A lot of it is made in Ukraine by the chocolate king, who was the previous President of Ukraine, after the 2013 regime change. The "fun" sized candies, to me, are like cakes and cookies with jam, covered in chocolate. They have one that's called "bird's milk." Also they have chocolate covered cherries, some with liquor, those are the best. They also have chocolate bars, like other European countries, which I would rather have, than the individually wrapped candies. I bet the maggot is in there for the "baked" portion of the candy. I say it's okay to toss those, but if you do find hollow liquor filled candy or cherries, those should be okay to eat. I know it's disgusting, so you do what you want. I am sorry for Stewart who put the effort in to get that for you only to have it happen. Bonus points for effort, it's okay things happen. I looked it up, the Egyptian computer is Japanese, localized out of Kuwait. Japan had tons of personal computers, we were never exposed to, in the US/Europe. The Russian computer manufacture date, is post Soviet Coup. Good luck with the Soviet designed computer. If any chips are custom, you are looking at a historical paperweight. All the computers I had a chance to see, were localized clones of US designs, built outside of the USSR. Their PC boom didn't happen in the 80's. They spent their energy on the space race and didn't consider a "digital" revolution. Keep in mind, they were still serializing the fonts of typewriters to prevent free speech. Institutions, schools, universities, party bosses, factories, were the destination for computers. Personal use was not a consideration. I vaguely remember some news piece about the Russia trying to spark their own computer industry, in the 90's. By the 2000's, many middle class had Wintel clones. My first exposure to the Worms 3D game was in St. Petersburg. Huh, who'd of thought - my kids were too young. The scene in most cities and Moscow, in the early 2000's was pirated versions of Western titles. Things are caught up now, with Steam and other market places in the global market.
One thing I'm wondering, how do you store all this stuff? I mean, how big is your basement. (I already get complaints having for 7 consoles and 2 computers)
You can use the primary windings of old HID light ballasts to step up voltages, and they're cheap and easy to come by in up to 1000 watts or you can put identical ones in parallel for more current.
Good to see more of my favourite youtubers getting MSX systems (RMC just got one as well)! Hope you will make some content with it. The MSX was very popular over in here in the Netherlands and it was my first computer (first three actually before getting a 486). So have very fond memories of it (I recently bought a Toshiba HX-10 which was the first MSX we ever had and trying to find the other two as well). And there are really fun games on the MSX platform, Penguin Adventures is my all time favourite. And needless to say, I really enjoy your channel and you being you doing what you like, thats what makes your video's really enjoyable to watch. Keep up the good work and greetings from the Netherlands.
The Atari 2600 is better known as the "Vader Model". It's the 3rd variant that came in the silver boxes starting in 1982. The keyboard controller was included with BASIC Programming for the VCS.
Oh my, Stuart must have spent weeks and months preparing all this. Amazing dedication! 👍
Talk about setting a high bar… chocolate bar… :-D
weeks and months and A LOT of money.
He really is having way too much fun with all this! :D
Stewart knocked it out of the park! And Adrian was the perfect presenter. Kudos all around. Very enjoyable.
Your reaction to the maggot in the Russian candy bag was priceless 😄
We call it protein here in Uganda 🙂
I love this comment!!!!!
@@adriansdigitalbasement I will gladly take it off your hands. I have a pet jumping spider, and you'd be amazed how expensive flies are.
34:25 checks entire box of chocolates from the UK in case of any stragglers... :)
Because russia is home to some 💯 million maggots
@@nneeerrrd not nice.
Wow seeing that MSX brings back memories, its called "Sakher" in Arabic its a localisation of the MSX brought to the Middle East by a company called "Al alamyih" (a Kuwaiti company) aiming to introduce computers in the region, it was my first encounter with a PC as a kid, we had them in the school PC lab and I feel in love with PCs since then,
What an amazing job done by Stuart.
Thanks for the enjoyable content Adrian, love from Dubai.
How was the right to left support?
Wikipedia's Deletionista have turned the Sakhr Computers article into a redirect to nowhere good, because of course they would. There is an article called Sakhr Software Company which barely mentions the former hardware business. There seem to be zero articles on the actual computers on Wikipedia. You have to google for outside wikis for that - all of which is weird, because usually Wikipedia is biased the most against "official enemies" -- but Kuwait is a US client, not an enemy, so it's really not clear why the hate. With friends like these...
@@ropersonline there were an article that got deleted? If that's the case, can't you just read it from the edit history (and maybe restore it)?
@@pedrofelck If you want to edit-war with people who more often than not are clearly networked and all have each other's backs, you're welcome to it. No, seriously: I applaud your courage and your patience, and wish you good luck.
@@ropersonline it seems the quickest way nowadays is to make a video about it and then get someone else to cite your video.... what a screwed up world we live in.
The Cyrillic layout on BK-0010 is the standard Russian type-writer layout, and the Latin letters are direct correspondences to the Cyrillic ones.
Phonetic layout
Oh, this soviet computer БК-0010.01, the love of my childhood 🙂
It is based on КР1801ВМ1 microprocessor, compatible with PDP11 instruction set!
You can even run AT&T Unix on it github.com/sergev/bkunix
But only if you've got a Floppy Drive Controller. Otherwise... it has a built-in BASIC ;)
нåxyú в чебурнет катсап
@@nneeerrrd нåxyú твоя мама хороша !
The best mail call ever on your channel Stuart has pulled out all the stops for this one. 👍
My Alexa started playing "We Are the World" at that same spot in the video. Too funny!
he said "so that's uh seen better days" and my alexa heard "alexa sing better days"
I loved Stuart's intro videos. He's sent you some realy cool stuff.
Thanks Stuart for providing a big boost for content! This should keep him busy for awhile! :)
It seems Stuart could have his own channel with the amount of stuff he sends. Thanks to both of you.
So jealous that you got an электроника! I’ve been teaching myself Russian throughout quarantine and really want a Soviet-era micro. I would be so excited if I could find one with all of the documentation like yours!
It says "household computer for personal use" on the Russian box, Adrian. I didn't even know we had these! A friend of mine used to have ZX Spectrum clone. But this device? Never heard of it before! Always amazing to watch your channel!
ZX-Spectrum clones, AFAIK, appeared a couple years later, at least in my experience.
And there was number (I could recall 2-4 names) of different 8080-based (AFAIK) computers, not compatible with each other.
That Soviet machine isn't a ZX Spectrum clone (to my surprise lol). It's an Elektronika BK 0010.01, which appears to be a PDP-11 compatible microcomputer...! There's an article on the Elektronika BK series on Wikipedia. Seems like a _really_ interesting machine.
Maybe you can dig up a copy of Zork for it.
Elektronika BK 0010-01 was made from about 1984 to about 1994. It is indeed a 16-bit DEC PDP-11 "clone" although there are some differences. It contains a scaled-back version of MSX Basic (Vilna Basic) in ROM. Serial interfaces SHOULD be fully PDP-11 compatible. If it helps Power Supply (БП) is a DIN 5 connector with pins 2 and 4 being earth. Pins 3 and 5 +5VDC at 2A. Tolerances are pretty tight so stay within +/- 5%. (Edit: Added tolerance info and amperage.)
Nowadays knowing what the BK is, should be required knowledge for every TH-camr. And this BK wasn't even the only PC line using the CPU. Later computers, incompatible to that introduced more ram and 256 colors. I would really love to have one, or make one myself.
@@racecar_spelled_backwards868 The expansion interface (МПИ bus) isn't fully compatible, they're a clone of DEC's Q-Bus parallel interface, but use a different type of connector. The BK in particular is even more different because some of the pins have been omitted and the connector is smaller. There is a modern project board called the SMK-512 that lets you use a floppy, CF card or a hard disk and adds additional memory. With it you can turn the BK from a curiosity piece to something you can actully mess around with - www.forum.pk-fpga.ru/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=492 I'm still trying to source components to make one for my BK
@@peshozmiata ive seen the smk in forums! It's a really cool device, to the floppy, ide, ram and ay, i think its also somewhat pass through for things like a serial card.
What a legend Stewart is, great episode!
Yeaa :) Elektronika, Microcomputer for personal use! That was on Russian case :) Greetings from Bulgaria - here we have also good old computers - Pravetz 8D , Pravetz 16... And others :)
Expect some Novitchok one day
Love the Elektronika logo, and their calculators, and game and watch clones. Of course they had their fingers in everything electronic for a time.
I love Pravetz 8D, make my own digger game for it at some point, but I don’t have machine, in order to use it I need sing in for activities for kids(well I am a kid at that time), and travel acros city for 2 hours to get 1 hour of machine use. God/Devil/Tom Cruz, someone save us from communism
Wondering: How do we thank Stewart? (Of course, besides saying it here: Thank you, Stewart.). (Edited: correct spelling of Stewart's name.)
++++ Thanks!
By writing his name correctly would be a start ;-) It's Stewart.
Yes, big Thank You to Stewart!
@@galier2 Thank you. Yes. Done.
That is a very generous donation from Stuart expertly packaged and funny videos. Looks like we will have to step up our game. Wow.
Just some facts about the Soviet Elektronika BK computer, hope it will be helpful.
The Elektronika BK microcomputer is using a 16 bit 1801 series CPU which was designed for various applications like CNCs calculators and home computers. It is instruction compatible with the PDP-11. The BK is the first fully 16 bit microcomputers in the soviet union for home usage. The CPU running in these machines between 3-4.6 MHz. The maximum supported speed of the 1801 processors can go up to 12 MHz.
The video output is going to be SECAM. It is compatible with PAL but only the video part, the colors will be missing since it is in a different frequency range.
I would love to see the Soviet computer and maybe some computers from the GDR in the future as well, such as Robotron computers featured and being used. Thank you Stuart for creating and sharing this wonderful experience and great computers and care packages. And thank you Adrian for making these videos.
The Pink - Pink Panther Logo means that the packing material is an Ownes-Corning product. (Owens-Corning is known for its insulation products..) They've been using the Pink Panther logo for more than 35 years on now... :o) Tony K., Melbourne, Florida.
A certain Noel can help you with those amstrads and spectrums I’m sure. Lots of cool stuff!
Edmonds?
Rmc?
@@erikbraun2867 No Noel Llopis (Noel's Retro Lab)
Can't wait to see the UK computers on your channel. There's plenty more 8 bit computers you can cover from the UK such as Acorn Electron, Dragon 32, Oric etc.
I had a dragon 32 back in the day and this was in the US. I wasn't a fan of it because we also had some better computers in the house at the time (like the c64), but I would like to have one again just as part of my 'buying back my childhood'. :)
Whaaat?! That's amazing! Much respect & cheers for Stuart 💪🏾🙏🏽
Ha my Alexa started playing music at the same time as yours! Whatever you said, it wasn’t just your device!
Mine didn't play music but it lit up like it was waiting for a command. I replayed that part of the video and it reoccurred.
It's picking up on "So that's a..." I tried replaying that part of the video a few times like Carlos above, and mine acted the same, lighting up and waiting for a command and not doing anything. Then, the last time I tried it, it announced it was going to play "We Are The World" (wtf?!) before I yelled at it to stop.
I wonder if that's the same song it started playing for Adrian. I guess it could've been worse. It could have somehow interpreted what Adrian said next as asking it to play "Baby Shark".
My gosh. That CPC looks in pretty good shape.
I absolutely adore my 800XL. I think you’ll enjoy doing an Atari 8 Bit deep dive.
I have one, complete with tape and disk drive, and a bunch of tapes, disks, and cartridges, buried deep beneath 25 years worth of crap up in my attic!! I'd love to know if it still works - it did back in the early 90s!
But it'd take a major expedition, and dynamite to get near it now!! :-D
The good thing about the atari's are the abundance of cheap and easy to build floppy drive emulators.
@@brianv2871 Agreed. When I got my 800 that’s all I got, the computer. The SDrive Max is what really opened up the system for me.
Well, you know the joke goes:
Q:What is worse than find a maggot in your candy?
A:Finding half a one.
look forward to seeing more in Adrian's digital sub-basement.
He could have a russia fly soon!
I thought those computers were too old to come with a worm.
Hello Alan! Good to see you here
Put the maggot into Mezcal and cheers!
Finding a human finger in it.
The black Atari is the "Darth Vader" version.. I love that version! Still, the woodgrain models scream 1970's. :)
Intro to Russia actual starts 24:32 (You don't want to miss these!) Also, yes the JCUKEN (ЙЦУКЕН) layout is the main Cyrillic keyboard layout for the Russian language in computers and typewriters.
нåxyú в чебурнет катсап
Простите! I can't read Russian. пока-пока
@@nneeerrrd I think this is trying to say "Eat/cover it with ketchup" :)
@@ultrametric9317 no)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I'm not mistaken, the lettering on the outer box translates to:
_Butovian computer_ (i.e. computer from Butovo, which is a locality)
_micro-computer for individual use_
PS: The words on the left of the lid are:
решает decides
обучает teaches
хранит keeps
реализует implements
управляет manages
In summary, it does all the things!
This soviet БК-0010 is not a clone of any sort but a completely independent peace of hardware with a PDP-11 compatible processor. Микро ЭВМ is an abbreviation for micro electronic computing machine. And yes, it is dramatically yellow, originally it should be in grey color. Btw, pretty rare machine in this days, especially in grey color. Video output is SECAM)
Now I am ultra jealous. I've wanted a spectrum and an amstrad since my friend brought one back from his trip to visit his grandparents in England. They also sent him a UK television and power adapter. He had 100s of games for his zx spectrum and when he got his amstrad and BBC micro for his birthday and Christmas the same year with lots of games and programs we looked forward to every package his grandparents would send.
I felt the reaction to the maggot and spoiled candy 😢
wow, iam from Egypt and its been ages since i saw one of these !!
21:55 that computer was called صخر we had one over 30 years ago 🤣
I was 3 so I don't remember much.
but remember it had puzzle games and other games that I don't remember.
back in 1970-1980 in Saudi Arabia we had only 110 @60Hz
we moved to 220 and uk plugs in the early 2000s I think
It's so cool to hear computer history outside of North America, Europe and Japan. I hope Latin American computers get some space in Adrian's channel too!
Wow, Stewart is amazing...he spent so much time in putting that together and creating those intro videos. I work in NH, he should open up a Retro Shack with all the stuff he has access to. I think Nashua, NH was home of the US headquarter of Sinclair Research.Thank you Stewart!
6:00 Sometimes an Amazon echo can misinterpret Alex, Atari, Aida, Al, Aley, and Ala as Alexa so that was probably it. There’s probably a plethora of other names that can trigger her but I haven’t discovered those yet.
Why do you people have corporate spying devices in your homes?
Hence why I switched mine to use the "echo" as the activation word...
Mine was triggering so often when I would say "I like the(fill in the blank)." Unfortunately, it's built into a sound bar and there's no way to change the activation word, so she's forever deafened.
@@nish_nabotna Why are you on a corporate spying website?
My echo kicked off right at that point in the video "Hmm, sorry I don't know that one"
Also, it says (features) "SOLVES tasks in calculator-programming mode", ""TEACHES using general and special aducating programs", "STORES databases you entered", "IMPLEMENTS various intellectual-game programs", "OPERATES various domestic appliance in your house". Right part lists factory number (serial number), DOM, weight, price and so on. (BTW, 724 roubles was incredibly expensive!)
"Operates various domestic appliances in your house" I've never seen smart-home capabilities used as part of the marketing for a computer before. Was this actually a thing people were able to use it for? Unless that wasn't a typo and you genuinely meant "alliances", in which case I have even more questions.
@@stevethepocket fixed :)
A common insult on the internet is 'you must have too much time on your hands', but I think it's safe for us to say instead, given the fun he provides (and his packing art), that Stuart has just enough time on his hands. :)
That BK0010 is a gem!
My "Amazon Device" also went off, that's hilarious! 5:32 you said "So that's ah", that's what triggered it :)
Star Raiders is awesome! In '78 I worked at a computer store. We put an Atari 800 on an LCD projector and nice audio system. We cranked it up and were having a blast when employees from the neighboring business came over to see what was going on. We all had a blast playing. This game holds a fond place in my heart.
12:01 - I was really hoping for an "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" game cartridge to be included :)
and where was Centipede?
That can be arranged.
Preferably one that came out of the burial site.
The keyboard on that 400 was called the "B-Key Keyboard". They came in two different styles... one with all brown keys and one with mostly brown, but a few off color keys.
Congrats Stuart I think this is officially the best mail call video ever! I'm really excited to see the more "exotic" machines like the russian and arabic ones. I've never seen them before. I suspect that computer is supposed to be yellow though.
Sssnake is considered to be one of the worst video games of all time. Including it is just absolute genius. Hats off to you, Stuart.
Everyone should find themselves someone that loves them like Stuart loves Adrian.
Can't go wrong with a big box of Atari! I love the styling of the XL machines.
I wonder what will become of all this stuff in 40 years. I really appreciate that people are saving and repairing it after the first 40 years.
Soviet computer's box cover says "Domestic computer, microPC for individual use".
Oh my you got the vader 2600 lucky guy!
The 464 was my 1st computer I loved it.
Hi Adrian, don't forget you have 240V coming into your house so powering equipment from Europe will just need the installation of an appropriate two pole breaker in your fuse board and the correct type of outlet in your workshop.
No need for a step up transformer!
The Atari "Keyboard controller" was part of a package that would let you program Basic. This package included two of those controllers which would clip together, and would have two overlay covers and the Basic programming cart.
Alan Sugar is probably proud from your statements about the Amstrad. Very cool!!
However, wasn't that ZX spectrum (with the built in cassette drive) also manufactured by Amstrad?
@@DavePoo yes indeed it was. Calling Amstrad “the best of British” sounds a bit tongue-in-cheek to me, though... they made some well-loved machines, sure, even outside of computing.. but the best? Nah.
@@kaitlyn__L what was the best British 8 bit computer in your opinion? The Dragon? (nice CPU, but limited when it comes to graphics and sound). The ZX Spectrum (cheap, but lacks 'standard' interfaces so you have to buy it afterwards). The beeb? (A great machine but expensive). The Enterprise 64/128 (a really nice one but lacks software support in the UK), Sam Coupé (another great machine but too late on the market). Memotech MTX500/512 (a nice one but it's a rare machine due the limited lifespan). I kind of love all the British computers, but every machine has his strong and weak points. So in my opinion there isn't a machine that you could label as the best British computer. The Amstrad CPC is a good allrounder, it has a Z80a running at 4 MHz, more than decent graphics and a soundchip. It had a few standard ports, a nice software library and it wasn't the most expensive on the list. It might not be the best in some cases, but I would say it was a pretty good 'allrounder'.
@@xXTheoLinuxXx the BBC was the best of its time. Best doesn’t mean most accessible or most popular, everyone who loves the Speccy acknowledges its limitations and sometimes questionable chip supply. That’s part of the charm. But it’s not the best British computing had to offer. (Though I will say the CPC wasn’t half bad in games respects, but it couldn’t generate Teletext or other serious uses like the BBC!) I will add best doesn’t even mean it’s necessarily my favourite in terms of library or experience. I really love my CPC, for form factor, industrial design, games, etc. Just best like how Jaguars used to be and represent the best of British motoring.
Must say I haven’t heard of the Enterprise, Sam Coupé or Memotech, though I might have seen pictures?
@@kaitlyn__L the BBC was indeed a very nice machine (my first computer was his little brother, the Acorn Elecctron). But all those extras that that machine had to offer came with a price. What I really liked about that machine was the BASIC.
The Enterprise was a bit too late for the British market and they drop a lot of machines in Hungary. It had a bit more cclours and higher resolutions than other British machines I believe. The Memotech used the same videochip as the MSX1 machines and the soundchip is the same as the one from the BBC, so it wasn't a bad machine. The company made a mistake to invest every penny based on a 'maybe' deal with the USSR, and well they choosed something else.
The Sam Coupé was made by a company that made stuff (hardware) for the ZX Spectrum. After Amstrad took the company over and didn't do 'huge' upgrades, they made their own kind of Spectrum. It was compatible with the Spectrum 48K (due emulation) but it had a faster CPU, more memory, better graphics and sound, a build in 3.5 inch floppy drive. I would describe it as a kind of slower Atari ST (due the CPU power, but it has nice graphics) but with a better soundchip.
I played it back, you said “so that’s uh” and that activated the device. Ha!
Mine too
he said "so that's uh seen better days" and my alexa heard "alexa sing better days"
34:09 This is very sad! I know some of these candies and they are very delicious. 😢
Russian Chocolate from the Red October factory very good.
You must try Akkond sweets
I'm loving this! So much retro goodness from all over the world! Hilarious "artifact" in the Russian candy!
I don't remember the Spectrum +2 keyboard being especially bad, but it would have been 25-30 years ago.
That CPC464 keyboard looks in great shape, the blue has faded to grey on a lot of them.
My one is faded, albeit not to grey. Just a kind of... sky blue. The red is slightly on the pinkish side too. Green still looks strong, but that’s maybe just because our green cones (in our eyes) are the most sensitive.
Edit: compared to the final shot of the video, I’ve got to say the green on mine is more of a saturated pastel green, so they have all had a roughly equal and medium level of fading.
"Jungle Hunt Warlords Surround Bowling" will be the name of my next Rock Band!!
Oh Adrian! You’re workbench is cluttered with projects. Much the same way mine is. Thanks very much!
I’m 69 yrs old and my wife, of 48 yrs, always asks me “When are you going to clean this mess up?”
You’d think after all these years she’d realise that I will respond with “Soon.”, but in reality, I’ll just tidy around the edges.
But thank you for having a cluttered bench in the background. All other presenters seem so clinically clean that it’s a shame to spoil their pristine works with cameras and recording gear. 😂
Every time you say Zed instead of Zee I send you a virtual 👍 great work as usual.
I think Canadians also say Zed.
@@MarcKloos At least for product names, some people (including me) pronounce it based on what country it came from, so you would have the Sinclair "Zed" X spectrum using the Zilog "Zee" 80
Great videos. Stuart's video resonates with me. Atari was my machine of choice. My Dad gave me £200 for my birthday in 1981. I knew about the Atari range but they were out of my price bracket so I headed to my local store intent on buying a VIC-20. Imagine my surprise when I got to the store and discovered one Atari 400 was on sale for the same price as the VIC-20. I'm not sure what the deal was with the low prices for the VIC-20 and Atari 400 at the store but I kept my mouth shut and promptly bought the Atari 400 and never looked back.
I then went on to the Atari 800 and the XLs and finally ST. In 1991 I landed a job as Staff Writer for Atari ST User magazine in the UK and published by Europress around 1991. I then went on to become Technical Editor and eventually Editor. I also moved around and was Technical Editor for Amiga Computing magazine before moving onto PC Home and CD-ROM Now PC magazines until 1999. I currently have two working Atari 800s, a Commodore 64, Amiga 1200 and an Atari STe.
Great content on the channel. Keep on keeping on :)
Good lord Stuart, there is generosity and creativity in the generosity, however, you take it to a whole new level, let me extend a thank you to this channels sponsor STUART, not only have you provided us all with being blessed with a very good and longer video from Adrian goodie unboxing, you will also have provided us all with many many many more repairathon videos contain from Adrian. Thank you to both of you for this and future videos.
Stewart is a very generous guy, I look forward to your video's on his stuff especially the stuff from the Uk as I am also from the UK :)
I see, at least two repairathons in the future. I like mini-series like these. I know they take a lot of effort, but I really look forward to the next episode and tracking your progress.
Stuart has set the MMC bar so high! Love the little videos that pre-empt each section! Of course the British micros are best 👍🤪🤪
Wow thumbs up for Stuart to send nice stuff, i like the unboxing!!!! I'm like a kid curious what's next. Nice Adrian to share this with us!!!!
Yes, the Atari 2600 wasn’t actually badged that way until the all-black “Vader” version. The wood grain versions were all badged “VCS” or “Video Computer System” with a “CX-2600” part number on the bottom.
I'd like to express some great gratitude to stuart for all his donations to your channel. He certainly provides a great deal of content and I enjoy seeing the technology I only saw in catalogs back in the 70s and 80s. His time, efforts and expense doesn't go unnoticed nor unappreciated. Thank you Stuart! I only collect computers I used as a child so my current inventory includes a heathkit h89, a commodore 128d, a zx81, a microprofessor, a commodore colt, but I'm looking to add a coco, tandy model 3, and an Osborne 1.
oh, wow! BK-0010 (it actually has PDP-11 compatible CPU)
the text on the box is "home computer. for personal use"
Sounds like the _surprise_ crawled out of the Russian candy... oh well.
Super cool haul man, you're going to have to go full-time to get through this lot.
Cheers,
But maggot is famous Russian candy! Extra juice!
Man this is one of the coolest unboxing I seen with neat stuff and a bit of a world trip. Bloody heck Stuart you have done an epic job on this.
MSX needs some love on your channel too. Here in Brazil had some level of success and well remembered from computer enthusiastics here. I love MSX as gaming machine!
Lol, is that the 8bit Guy's paperclip at 13:50?
Amazing!! The best unboxing video on all of TH-cam! I know what I will be watching over the next year, thanks to Stuart!!!
that ZX Spectrum 128K +2 gray was my first computer. i learned to code on it, and later became a software engineer. so its a pretty special computer to me
Stuart is one of the most awesome human beings ever.
For your info: The all black Atari 2600 is informally known as the “Darth Vader” model due to it’s all black case and the fact that it was released in 1982, which was was between the release of second and third of the original Star Wars trilogy films, “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) and “The Return of the Jedi” (1983). It was the second 4-switch model introduced. The first 4-switch model was the CX2600 model (1980) which actually still had six switches, it’s just that two of the switches (player 1 & 2 difficulty switches) had been moved to the back as part of a cost reduction method, leaving only four switches on the top on the unit. The CX2600 model was the first to use 2600 in it’s model number but not it’s official name as Atari VCS (Video Computer System) still appears on the case and packaging. In 1982, when it’a intended successor was released, the Atari 5200, they renamed the VCS to the 2600, starting with the “Darth Vader” model. This was second to last Atari 2600 model, with the Atari 2600 Jr, (1986) being the last. The 2600 Jr. was a modernized and size and cost reduced model advertised as budget gaming system for “Under $50 bucks” with a large pre-existing library of games. The 2600 Jr. introduced a modernized smaller & thinner wedge shape design (similar to the Atari 7800 from the same year) which replaced the pole slider switches with two push button flat switches (Select and Reset) and two flat slider switches (Power and Color/B&W TV Type). Several different variants of the 2600 Jr. exists. The original features a shiny metal band with the Atari logo and a small rainbow bar below the logo located just below the switches at the top rear. A second 2600 Jr model had the rainbow bar go all the way accross the logo band. There was also rare all-black “Irish:” version (made in Ireland) that had an all-black logo band with a small rainbow bar similar to original 2600 Jr.
The Russian computer as said is Elektronika BK 010-01. This must be legendary for everyone MISTer out there. It is the first computer Alexei Melnikov had. Alexei is the creator of MISTer. There should be a core in MISTer of this beast.
Had an Atari 400 which I upgraded with a "b-key" keyboard. At least it looked like that..... long long gone. Be interesting to see when you open that up.
Awesome! Can't wait for the candy reviews :) That middle-eastern sweets box looks really nice!
Thanks Stuart for keeping the channel from going full Commodore!
One of these days, someone’s going to send Adrian an old IBM 360 mainframe... in a cardboard box! 😝
Or maybe some absolute madman will try to put him on the same level as CuriousMarc and send him a Xerox Alto or some other insanity from the mid to late 70's.
@@mndlessdrwer CuriousMarc ftw!
Ooooo i would love to hear that phone call...
“ hello, Mr Adrian? Hi, this is the post office, we have a package for you and we need you to come and pick it up... and pls bring your own flat bed truck ...😊”
I worked for a company in the mid 1980s that was running an IBM 370-135 we moved and couldn't sell it. Left it in the building. Mainframe, tape drives, disc drives, card reader, IBM 1403 printer and all.
I can only assume that the keys at the bottom of the Soviet computer labeled RUS and LAT are for switching between the two character sets
I noticed them as well.
Oh Stewart is such an awesome guy. What an amazing voyage of discovery he created. Would love to see the Russian and Arabic machines boot up and their software / games in action. I'd be head over heels and doing cartwheels down the corridor if someone sent my channel an old floppy disk, and here you are getting mountains of awesome stuff, great old machines, game carts, candy, and so much more. Congratulations Adrian. Love your channel!
Stewart is like having Howard Hughes as a benefactor. The amount of energy and preparation he put into this packaging presentation is amazing. The Egyptian sweets, (won't call it candy) looks a lot like baklava, with pistachios. There's one I really like, that looks like a bird's nest, with pistachio "eggs." I am familiar with Russian candies. A lot of it is made in Ukraine by the chocolate king, who was the previous President of Ukraine, after the 2013 regime change. The "fun" sized candies, to me, are like cakes and cookies with jam, covered in chocolate. They have one that's called "bird's milk." Also they have chocolate covered cherries, some with liquor, those are the best. They also have chocolate bars, like other European countries, which I would rather have, than the individually wrapped candies. I bet the maggot is in there for the "baked" portion of the candy. I say it's okay to toss those, but if you do find hollow liquor filled candy or cherries, those should be okay to eat. I know it's disgusting, so you do what you want. I am sorry for Stewart who put the effort in to get that for you only to have it happen. Bonus points for effort, it's okay things happen.
I looked it up, the Egyptian computer is Japanese, localized out of Kuwait. Japan had tons of personal computers, we were never exposed to, in the US/Europe.
The Russian computer manufacture date, is post Soviet Coup. Good luck with the Soviet designed computer. If any chips are custom, you are looking at a historical paperweight. All the computers I had a chance to see, were localized clones of US designs, built outside of the USSR. Their PC boom didn't happen in the 80's. They spent their energy on the space race and didn't consider a "digital" revolution. Keep in mind, they were still serializing the fonts of typewriters to prevent free speech. Institutions, schools, universities, party bosses, factories, were the destination for computers. Personal use was not a consideration. I vaguely remember some news piece about the Russia trying to spark their own computer industry, in the 90's. By the 2000's, many middle class had Wintel clones. My first exposure to the Worms 3D game was in St. Petersburg. Huh, who'd of thought - my kids were too young. The scene in most cities and Moscow, in the early 2000's was pirated versions of Western titles. Things are caught up now, with Steam and other market places in the global market.
That barrel like RF connector is called a Belling & Lee.
Thanks Stewart !!! . Excellent as always Adrian
One thing I'm wondering, how do you store all this stuff? I mean, how big is your basement. (I already get complaints having for 7 consoles and 2 computers)
the layout is as it is supposed to be - it is ЙЦУКЕН primary layout, as machine uses KOI8-R - it maps latin on top of similar cyrillic.
Wouldn't a Russian(Soviet) standard be SECAM rather than PAL? At least with normal TV-I don't know about PC output? Great haul you got there.
You can use the primary windings of old HID light ballasts to step up voltages, and they're cheap and easy to come by in up to 1000 watts or you can put identical ones in parallel for more current.
That was very nice of him to give away so much...
What an outstanding mail call. Thanks Stuart.
Now that is some awesome retro hardware! drooling over those computers!!!!! Awesome video
Good to see more of my favourite youtubers getting MSX systems (RMC just got one as well)! Hope you will make some content with it. The MSX was very popular over in here in the Netherlands and it was my first computer (first three actually before getting a 486). So have very fond memories of it (I recently bought a Toshiba HX-10 which was the first MSX we ever had and trying to find the other two as well). And there are really fun games on the MSX platform, Penguin Adventures is my all time favourite. And needless to say, I really enjoy your channel and you being you doing what you like, thats what makes your video's really enjoyable to watch. Keep up the good work and greetings from the Netherlands.
The second video talking about the UK's greatness I knew the second box had to be filled with Sinclair Zed X Spectrums.
I was expecting a Sinclair QL though.
@@MarcKloos with bonus shonky microdrive action!
Dood that’s nuts! The 400 rocked. The 600 was pretty cool.
The Atari 2600 is better known as the "Vader Model". It's the 3rd variant that came in the silver boxes starting in 1982. The keyboard controller was included with BASIC Programming for the VCS.