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most likely not allowed to smell in california!

Use to go to the great smellin Fairbanks store. One year the wife and I picked up tons of stuff and made all kinds of Christmas ornaments (MIL SPEC)

I bought some connectors for coming out of devices that worked perfectly! Established experimental data. The girl may remember me because I had injured my hand and my bandage leaked blood on the counter. Thanks you'll be in the thanks to.😊😊😊😅😮😢

My dad used to take me to their old building with the flying saucer! I was too young to know what any of the equipment was, but they always had bizarre old computers on the shelves, I thought they looked super cool

I have been going to this particular place for better than 30 years. Great information and the first time I have seen it in the new building.

What a cool place. I live about 2 hours from there. It would be worth the drive. I miss the days when radio shack stores were still around. Thanks fur the video.

I'd like to stop by... but I don't have a "high end European Car" I guess living in a parent's basement has its up side. Very COoL. Cheers

Every time I go to Sky Craft I'm there early and checking out late in the afternoon no time for lunch break, My dizzy world, just no rides yet. The staff are very helpful and love to answer questions.

I miss the Smell of the old store and the location.

We had a place in Vancouver, BC called Satellite Electronics where you could buy surplus aircraft and ship WWII radios. I remember in the 70's buying a AN/ARN-7 with a friend who also bought one. We even got the glass covered Antennas and the control heads. We were kids then just learning about radios (and weird aircraft power supplies!). My radio was missing a complete circuit but somebody had been kind enough to include all the parts I would need to rebuild it inside in a carboard box. My friend and I split the cost of a manual and this was my first soldering experience. The funniest part was that my radio worked afterwards but his never did. I never laughed so hard, but almost got beat ul for it!😂

I4 problem...stupid drivers

MacGuyver would take over the world with that place 😅😅😅 great content!!!

Wow, crazy this showed up on my recommended list; I was just here the other day to grab a bench power supply!

I've been going to Skycraft since I was a little kid in the 80s.

Sharing this on FB! Thank you!

The Radio Shack parts are from one of the last Radio Shack dealer stores in Orlando. It closed two years ago. Used to be on Orange Ave I believe. Had been around since the 70’s

I could go crazy in that place! Probably could not see it in one day.

yeah, I'll just randomly wander around many times there when I have the time, I tend to lose track of time in there though. I'm convinced someone there has built a time portal and installed it on the front door.

I love that place

I love SKYCRAFT - I am so glad they moved to his location... It sucks that they can't put their ICONIC sign up...

I was there today and dropped off a trailer load of electronic enclosures, LED fixtures and some unique items. It a great place to sell excess inventory.

I'm heading over there today. My favorite store!

I moved to Orlando in 1973 and started going to their original store which was just west of downtown Orlando off I-4 in 1974. Then they moved to the Fairbanks location just west of Winter Park off I-4. The staff was always helpful. You just explained what you were trying to accomplish and they would come up with what you needed or even a better way of doing something. I've solved many a project dilemma with parts from Skycraft over the last 50 years. Wow, how time flies when you're having fun. The new store off Edgewater Dr. is still my go-to when I need some odd-ball thing-a-ma-jig part.

I was there just yesterday.

Aah man I-4 gets your cardio up with no aerobic motion Crank the stereo & Roll Out...

That Place Is Great!!! Diggin through "obsolete" tek is too fun if you know how to use it & make the build look all mad scientistic...STELLAR.

Pro tip: Drop the wife and kids off at Disney, then spend the day at Skycraft. I live 45 minutes North of there and used to spend a lot of time there in the early to mid-2000s. More often than not, there would be these three Japanese gentlemen huddled together, actively bouncing ideas off each other (I assume, as I don't understand Japanese). I believe they were inventors. They each had baskets full of stuff, nice guys with limited English speaking. The story I heard about the place was that it was started by a couple of guys who bought large surplus items at auction from NASA and would strip and test the components to sell. They used to have a lot of space stuff on display, including an astronaut's space suit. Great place to visit! Thanks for the video, I am planning a visit, I haven't seen the new store.

I live here in orlando and ever since their store on Fairbanks ave closed I never heard about them reopening. They should put some of those missile decorations outside on the roof and by their name again.

I had an idea years ago that I shared with their manager. It was for a truly virtual store. I envision a camera, or several of them, operated like a drone where a customer on-line could roam the aisles of the store and even zoom in close to examine an item, price or sign. Don't laugh. Some very practical version of this idea will some day exist. It would also be great for trade shows. Add two way audio after beeping a salesperson and there you have it!

Yes. About the time my car broke down they moved from their years old Fairbanks location to within walking distance for me! Countless times I have had something in the back of my mind, I visit the store, and there it is, the perfect item for my idea. Or one that just might work if I give it a try. Their work ethic is as high as it gets and as a result they are always coming up with new or used gadgets, accessories and even surplus food. There truly is something for everybody because they travel the country finding stuff.

Love the video, I go there several times a year.

I've been going to Skycraft for propably twenty years, even though I live just north of Augusta, GA. Day trips once or twice a year.

New Shop is Lee Rd crossing Edgewater Dr They actually have Dozens of MILES of Wire! anything you'd need for conductance!! Ask For Keith when you visit

Been going there since the 80’s. Have yet to make it to the new store. Miss the flying saucer. Stupid winter park ordinances.

Quite a few elevators have been repaired from this store for hard to find items. Or when you could not find what you needed anywhere else this is the place to go.

It's like my grandfather's garage on steroids!

We had a place like that up here in Ocala but it closed up about a year ago. Which kind of sucks cuz I went to that guy all the time. I know in like Wildwood in Sumter county add Inverness in citrus county which is on the West Coast they had some places I don't know if they're open anymore that ended up adopting the radio shack name which I'm pretty sure they're not really anything worth seeing.

Did you ever get it up and running

Just a guess but, Digikey 23-0766500068-ND or 23-0766500055-ND for the 9 circuit, and maybe 23-0766500063-ND or 23-0766500060-ND for the 2 circuit. BTW the last time I powered it up, about 15 yrs ago, my Xerox 820 worked ok, but the keyboard escape key contacts are fubar. The editor really used that key alot (however there was a ctrl key workaround). I could open it up if you can not find the wire colors and voltages documented anywhere.

Just out of curiosity, what O.S. are you running on your laptop ?

Hi Mike, I find your version of the Greek language fascinating! I learn 'new' words with every video! :) Are the flood waters going away? Take Care! Thumbs up! Jim

Hi Mike, Glad to hear you found a useful vintage board. I'll add both boards to my 'watch' list for estate sales. Always enjoy watching you experiment with your vintage computers. Thumbs up! Jim

Yeah there is Radio Shack open in a strip mall in Layton utah just off of Antelope Drive. Never came back because it never left this one has been opened the whole time. To be really cool if they sold RC cars and like fpv drones and stuff like that.

Common trick. Power up through an incandescent light bulb first to limit current while caps reform.

Motherboard could be a ProcesserTech or Godbout (CompuPro) product.

S-100, the original open architecture!

Fantastic & informative video! Thanks a million. I don't have any of the old gear any more, but have a few virtual machine programs on my Win11 box nowadays (VMware and 86Box). As I did run a bit of CPM stuff and early MS-DOS back in the '80s and '90s, I'd like to be able to 'build' a couple of virtual CP/M machines in one of those emulators, so some of the techniques you used have put some ideas into my head to try out. But, you also mentioned about using emulators for CP/M in the video. Did you get any further with that idea? What I'd love to be able to do is install CP/M on an IBM-type VM with a couple of virtual floppies and a virtual HDD (I understand that can be no more than 8MBytes). I did manage to get one working, but when I tried to create virtual floppy disk images and/or transfer the .com/binaries of programs like NewWord/WordStar and dBase over, I failed miserably. A video showing how to do that would be a god-send and will probably attract others who are into retro-computing but like me don't have the old kit!

Nice buold for a.controller box, not for diy controller build

That's cool nice find

Hi Mike, Have you have dumpster diving again??? :) New 'old toys' are the best! Great find! Thumbs up! Jim