25:50 That was me the first time I got my C64 to run an example program with a little piggy's face that floated across the screen. it meant nothing in the grand scheme of things but I was as happy as I could possibly be.
The word "EPIC" does not do this justice! Hearing the result made my eyes watery. I have the greatest of respect for all your work. You deserve all the joy that radiates off your videos!
Fantastic, you successfully restored the system, and built a sound card for the g15. An awesome result and in time for 2025. Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
About that weird modification on the typewriter - maybe it was used as a stage prop at some point? They wouldn't have had a compatible computer available, but by soldering all inputs together, they could have made it "do something" by applying voltage to a random input.
I had the greatest moment of discovery when I was working in a workshop at the Old GPO research facility at Dollis Hill, North London, I saw a photo of Tommy Flowers holding a small prototype board for Colossus stood under the very window my prep bench sat at. Sadly all my workmates were like; 'Tommy who??' but there's no accounting for taste!
@@rjy8960 Sadly nothing so grand for the quiet man, if you search for 'Flowers Close, Dollis Hill' you will see the rather more depressing truth. His workshop at least still stands, now a Jewish girls school.
@@thirdeyeblind6369 In all fairness, they don't have the same significance to North Londoners like Tommy. His work literally stopped bombs and rockets landing on our heads.
The sound of the computer making music pales in comparison to a geek celebrating a win in a Geek Snoopy Bowl! Love it! Nothing beats nerds and their computers!
This makes me remember the first time I played Pinball Fantasies on my 386SX without sound card and the PC Speaker music was actually good. It was mindblowing.
Back in the mid early to mid '70s my dad worked at Lamar University in Beaumont Texas as a computer programmer/operator and instructor. As a pre-teen I spent many an hour hanging out in the computer room loading card decks, removing print outs, decollating paper and shooting rubber bands. I distinctly remember the special programs that he would load on the machine that would play music as you are doing here and make print outs of Santa and the Reindeer, Mona Lisa and a rather interesting lady that I never got to the see the length of. This music is awesome and all those memories came flooding back. Thanks so much for making this happen.
Hurrah! Another video. Everything stops for Usagi Electric. Happy Christmas! Much as I enjoy the subject rather more than I might have guessed before finding this channel, it's the presenter, his occasional guests and their almost child-like joy for what they are doing that has me looking forward to every episode. The occasional bunny is also rather charming. Thank you.
When I was at school in the UK in 1967 we had an Elliott 405 vacuum tube computer of the same vintage as the Bendix. This had been donated to the school, and, after about 6 months work, we had got it working. It had a loud speaker on the console which was useful in diagnosing problems. We too discovered a music program (or 'programme' in those days) with some Christmas music, which had almost identical sound. It takes me back...
I love this channel. As it opens up, he's talking about the oldest computer in the US (likely the world) in running condition, happens to be a vacuum tube computer. Also behind him, the world's newest vacuum tube computer, both in the same shot. Nice work, David, and Merry Christmas to you!
Apparently the Candes machines (one is shown at 1:41) are TEMPEST shielded Macintosh Plus systems, and there are only a handful of them known to exist. They were apparently sold to EMC labs. Is that H316 a complete system?
Once you get a ribbon, you just HAVE to start printing out some 'computer graphic' pictures of that time. And of course the famous 'calendar' printout. lol
Watching you going full mad scientist and then laughing your butt off was so infectious, I was laughing for the remainder of the video. You are awesome! Merry Christmas from Germany!
Wow. Stille Nacht on this computer. I'm absolutely impressed. Now I'm waiting, that you get the typewriter running with ink and all. I wish you and your beloved people a wonderfull Christmas full of joy.
Absolutely the best Christmas music from a computer in years! Youse guys are to be commended for getting this working! I can’t wait to see it actually printing when you get a ribbon.
The music sounded great! BTW, back in the day when most printers used ribbons, as a hobbyist, I refreshed dried up ribbons with WD40. I remember that it would get me by.
This is the joy I felt the Christmas I got my first computer. A Tandy color computer 3 with a disk drive and cassette drive. I had NO software to begin with, but it did come with a 2 inch thick book of example BASIC programs. My dad and I took turns over hours entering in hundreds of lines of POKES, GOTOS and other data. When we finally typed RUN at long last, we were greeted with an, I THINK, 8 bit representation of a hut, palm tree and some coconuts with a rendition of the theme song from Gilligan’s Island on our RCA console furniture! I was BLOWN AWAY, and have been hooked since. I wrote many many megabytes of BASIC on that computer and never really stopped since that December 25th. Early Merry Christmas everyone!
Amazing work... I've been following all the videos you've posted for the past several months and enjoyed every one. Looking forward to seeing what's in store for 2025...
Merry Christmas Dave! Seeing you so excited for the Bendix playing music over the radio was all the present I could ask for. Congratulations, you have truely raised the dead!
Amazing! What a fun way to round off a year of incredibly hard work on this computer. Wishing you a very happy Christmas too - and thanks for brightening up my year with these videos.
Thank you for your amazing work, and for sharing it with such infectious enthusiasm. It's a joy to watch. Wishing a Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones, from across the pond.
I feel like I'm smiling more and more each time as I watch your new videos :D Looking forward to the new ones and UE-1 completion! Awesome work and Merry Christmas!
This typewriter has mechanical tab stops under a flip up cover behind the platen. The tab stops are upside down U shaped clips. Usually the extra clips are stashed way to the right end of the platen where you don’t need tab stops. I had a typewriter like the Bendix, but short platen, back in the 1980s, mine said IBM on the front. You might want to put tabs every five spaces so that the carriage doesn’t keep flying all the way across when you hit tab on the input. Nice job on the restoration and thanks for the music. That brought back memories of doing an assignment back in college to get a Kim-1 6502 board to play Christmas music back in 1980 for an assembly programming class. My first attempt sounded about like the first output from the Bendix.
@ This one looks like the one I had, which was 12 point Pica type. Five spaces for a tab was pretty typical to give 1/2 inch tabs. Of course you can set it to whatever you want. Some experimentation may be necessary to figure out what the program assumes. Any stops are better than none with the carriage flying across every time it hits a tab. Anything printed after the tab will just be a jumble at the right margin.
@@robertosutrisno8604 I am still involved in electronics and data processing. Personally, changing technology doesn’t seem like a big deal. Hopefully most engineers don’t stop learning when they’re handed their diplomas. I prefer the technology we have now. I spent decades fiddling with DIP switches, wire wrap jumpers and what wires were necessary in a null modem to get equipment to talk. That takes away time from real problem solving. I much prefer the current technology environment because it is so much easier to be creative.
You should put a few ounces of the chad in baggies and sell it a "Computer Confetti". Make the brand something silly like "Programmer Party." Have some text like "Brought to you by Chad" and "Bits from a real computer program," and "the bits of a scrambled message." The artwork with a guy (a typical 1950s programmer/operator) named Chad, of course. Many styles of art can be done, such as the typical computer room photo op, or my favorite, a comic book type novelty ad. Sell them to fund your research! OK, so maybe it will be just a good recycle gag, but Greeting Card Confetti is a thing! Or package it a porch pirate "paper shrapnel."
Yepp, since Colin Furze can sell rock from his dug outs, and people are queueing for it, you could definitely sell it Way to end the year 🎉 (I know it's not there yet but still!)
I like the “bit bucket” name for the next accessory for the paper tape punch 🙂 Nice job on restoring the wiring on the typewriter I/O. Running the music program was beyond awesome, congratulations!! 👍 Merry Christmas to you 🙂
Iceland Calling, What a wonderful way to celebrate the Christmas Spirit! Congratulations on all the work to get to this point. I look forward to getting through DIAPER II!
A blast to watch David. If you speak to Bob would you wish him a Happy Chanukah, from me. I worked for Chimes a Baltimore based operation and we worked with him going back to when System Source was a Computerland. A merry Christmas to you.
Congrats, as always! This is absolutely wonderful A couple more fun tidbits about Huskey. He also worked on the ENIAC and wrote some of the manuals. While at UCB, one of his PhD students was Niklaus Wirth and one of his Master's students was Ken Thompson.
I found your channel not that long ago, and gosh does your enthusiasm and knowledge make me insanely happy. Since you seem to be a FACIT aficionado; I think I just may have some cool gadgets that I could possibly send your way. Will have to look in to postage and what-not though. If at all interesting, feel free to reach out!
Merry Christmas to you. And thank you for such a wonderful surprise. Amazing what old technology is capable of so many years later. Thank you so much for all you are doing to bring old technology back to life.
My honest congraits! Wonderful masterpiece. A lot of work done. A gigant milestone was reached. I have no idea when my Vacuum Tube computer would become alive, but it already took a lot from Bendix G15 interior. I also revived a teletype a couple of months ago - I have a video about it. But it was in a worse condition than yours and so far it can only print text.
Merry Christmas!!!!!!! Use to work on a IBM SYS3 with a 1403 printer. One of our programmers "concocted" a print stream that got the rhythm of a coupe of Christmas songs. No tones, just the beat. Was cool! We'd sing along with it. Wish I still had those programs
That's crazy. But I appreciate the lot of work behind to get that going. No one else had dared to go so far. (Well: Curious Marc probably). Thanks for sharing & happy celebration days !
I have to admit I don't understand all that you say or do, but I love the work you do with getting these old computers up and running and find your videos very entertaining but this was the best. Merry Christmas, and thank you.😊 Ps. Love your enthusiasm 😂
Wow a 68 year old computer that sings Christmas carols that is truly a special kind of Christmas miracle! Thanks and Merry Christmas!
Funny to think about 30 years after this bendix, the fairlight CMI arrived, computer evolution has moved so fast.
I don't care if it doesn't sound good, it's making an attempt that a 7 year old with a flute would equal.
When I saw the square waves, I was expecting Daisy Daisy........
Next episode: Hear the Bendix say "I'm sorry, Usagi, I am afraid I can't do that."
@@lukasbasques Not at all, the christmas music was very fitting.
"...a tape reader built for two"
@@TomFynn i think it will ask if you would like to play a game.
Lloyd is amazing
I absolutely relish the sheer joy you get from successfully fixing this old gear. It’s inspiring and really fun to watch!
This!
Same! This was a joy to watch 🌲
Amazing seeing a machine run that was made the year I was born! I wonder if it can play "Bicycle Built for Two"
@@ChristopherHailey Same here.
25:50 That was me the first time I got my C64 to run an example program with a little piggy's face that floated across the screen. it meant nothing in the grand scheme of things but I was as happy as I could possibly be.
The word "EPIC" does not do this justice! Hearing the result made my eyes watery. I have the greatest of respect for all your work. You deserve all the joy that radiates off your videos!
You shed a tear for this? Losa… also Usagi is a MAGA man I checked his X account. Makes me sick knowing that!
I'm over 50 and TIL the origin of the bit bucket.. Doh
I know, right? I'm 54 and went "ohhhhhhh!"
I had no idea. The concept makes perfect sense digitally.
Fantastic, you successfully restored the system, and built a sound card for the g15. An awesome result and in time for 2025. Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
wellt its PCM... sort of.
About that weird modification on the typewriter - maybe it was used as a stage prop at some point? They wouldn't have had a compatible computer available, but by soldering all inputs together, they could have made it "do something" by applying voltage to a random input.
makes me think of living history centers and wax mannequin displays
I had the greatest moment of discovery when I was working in a workshop at the Old GPO research facility at Dollis Hill, North London, I saw a photo of Tommy Flowers holding a small prototype board for Colossus stood under the very window my prep bench sat at. Sadly all my workmates were like; 'Tommy who??' but there's no accounting for taste!
The M25 should be re-named "The Tommy Flowers Orbital" IMO :) Nothing but respect for the man and Bletchley Park is my Mecca.
Christ imagine if you had asked them about Alonzo Church or van Wijngaarden 😂
@@rjy8960 Sadly nothing so grand for the quiet man, if you search for 'Flowers Close, Dollis Hill' you will see the rather more depressing truth. His workshop at least still stands, now a Jewish girls school.
@@thirdeyeblind6369 In all fairness, they don't have the same significance to North Londoners like Tommy. His work literally stopped bombs and rockets landing on our heads.
The sound of the computer making music pales in comparison to a geek celebrating a win in a Geek Snoopy Bowl! Love it! Nothing beats nerds and their computers!
This episode was a gem. And heroic to pull off a legit Christmas special in time
I've listened to just about every kind of synth music that exists but this was definitely a fun new addition to that list
This makes me remember the first time I played Pinball Fantasies on my 386SX without sound card and the PC Speaker music was actually good. It was mindblowing.
Now, that's an episode which leaves me with a smile on my face. Much thanks and a Merry Christmas to you, too, as well as to all other viewers.
I love the G15's industrial design. Seeing this piece of history running is fantastic.
I actually really like it was modified, this means someone wanted to keep using it, extending its life. Super cool stuff once again!
Back in the mid early to mid '70s my dad worked at Lamar University in Beaumont Texas as a computer programmer/operator and instructor. As a pre-teen I spent many an hour hanging out in the computer room loading card decks, removing print outs, decollating paper and shooting rubber bands. I distinctly remember the special programs that he would load on the machine that would play music as you are doing here and make print outs of Santa and the Reindeer, Mona Lisa and a rather interesting lady that I never got to the see the length of. This music is awesome and all those memories came flooding back. Thanks so much for making this happen.
Hurrah! Another video. Everything stops for Usagi Electric. Happy Christmas!
Much as I enjoy the subject rather more than I might have guessed before finding this channel, it's the presenter, his occasional guests and their almost child-like joy for what they are doing that has me looking forward to every episode. The occasional bunny is also rather charming. Thank you.
My kitty is absolutely fascinated by the music from the Bendix.
Happy holidays!
That couldn't have been a better video. Merry Christmas. 🎄
When I was at school in the UK in 1967 we had an Elliott 405 vacuum tube computer of the same vintage as the Bendix. This had been donated to the school, and, after about 6 months work, we had got it working. It had a loud speaker on the console which was useful in diagnosing problems. We too discovered a music program (or 'programme' in those days) with some Christmas music, which had almost identical sound. It takes me back...
It's very nice to hear someone mention Tommy Flowers.... a very important figure who's often overlooked.
Tommy is mentioned in many places at Bletchley Park.
I love this channel. As it opens up, he's talking about the oldest computer in the US (likely the world) in running condition, happens to be a vacuum tube computer. Also behind him, the world's newest vacuum tube computer, both in the same shot. Nice work, David, and Merry Christmas to you!
Brilliant!! What a beautiful video.
Apparently the Candes machines (one is shown at 1:41) are TEMPEST shielded Macintosh Plus systems, and there are only a handful of them known to exist. They were apparently sold to EMC labs.
Is that H316 a complete system?
Best Christmas episode ever! 🎄
Once you get a ribbon, you just HAVE to start printing out some 'computer graphic' pictures of that time. And of course the famous 'calendar' printout. lol
I remember that specific printout. Difficult to do today without fanfold paper.
@@pklausspk Fanfold paper? That is what Ebay is for! However, UA-cam might ban you for ASCII calendars from the 1960's!
This was magic. Thank you and Merry Christmas
Fantastic channel. I love that old Diode tester.
The best Silent Night I've ever heard, Merry Christmas.
Watching you going full mad scientist and then laughing your butt off was so infectious, I was laughing for the remainder of the video. You are awesome! Merry Christmas from Germany!
Oh man, that was so much better than “HELLORLD”!
I "like" that that bug in Linux took over a decade to fix...
Epic! I don't think there's anyone on youtube that shows your level of excitement and enthusiasm...for anything! Merry Christmas to you!
You so bring back memories of messing about with mini-computers and early micros in the late 60's / early 70's! Happy Christmas from Dorset UK :)
Amaaaaaziiing! Merry Christmas David!
Awesome work! Merry Christmas. PS your bunny is lovely.
Wow. Stille Nacht on this computer. I'm absolutely impressed. Now I'm waiting, that you get the typewriter running with ink and all.
I wish you and your beloved people a wonderfull Christmas full of joy.
Wonderful! Merry Christmas to you too!
Absolutely the best Christmas music from a computer in years! Youse guys are to be commended for getting this working! I can’t wait to see it actually printing when you get a ribbon.
dude. what an amazing year. what an amazing machine & man & community!
The music sounded great! BTW, back in the day when most printers used ribbons, as a hobbyist, I refreshed dried up ribbons with WD40. I remember that it would get me by.
This is the joy I felt the Christmas I got my first computer. A Tandy color computer 3 with a disk drive and cassette drive. I had NO software to begin with, but it did come with a 2 inch thick book of example BASIC programs. My dad and I took turns over hours entering in hundreds of lines of POKES, GOTOS and other data. When we finally typed RUN at long last, we were greeted with an, I THINK, 8 bit representation of a hut, palm tree and some coconuts with a rendition of the theme song from Gilligan’s Island on our RCA console furniture! I was BLOWN AWAY, and have been hooked since. I wrote many many megabytes of BASIC on that computer and never really stopped since that December 25th. Early Merry Christmas everyone!
Congratulations on getting that 68 year old computer not only working, but playing Christmas music! Love it!
You're my personal hero.
Amazing work... I've been following all the videos you've posted for the past several months and enjoyed every one. Looking forward to seeing what's in store for 2025...
Merry Christmas Dave! Seeing you so excited for the Bendix playing music over the radio was all the present I could ask for. Congratulations, you have truely raised the dead!
Amazing. Thanks and Merry Christmas to you.
Amazing! What a fun way to round off a year of incredibly hard work on this computer. Wishing you a very happy Christmas too - and thanks for brightening up my year with these videos.
That was amazing!! Great job!!! Wow!!
Love you man, what a way to end the year. This is epic. Marry christmas.
Your videos have made me grin so much this year, I’m blown away by your achievements! Congratulations and happy Christmas. 🎄
This is awesome.
That's was magical to hear Silent Night from such a historical computer. It lives with Christmas spirit 🎉
Congratulations and a Merry Christmas. I appreciate all the work you do on these computers, it is a great watch.
the design language of this machine is so perfect. a vacuum tube minicomputer.
Fantastic, it does not get much better than this, fantastic work, have a great Christmas
This was awesome. It is truly inspiring to see the work being put in to keep something like this machine in workable state.
Thank you for your amazing work, and for sharing it with such infectious enthusiasm. It's a joy to watch. Wishing a Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones, from across the pond.
This genuinely made me happy, great video and thank you to everyone involved for making it happen. Merry Christmas!
I feel like I'm smiling more and more each time as I watch your new videos :D
Looking forward to the new ones and UE-1 completion! Awesome work and Merry Christmas!
So FUN! Thank you.
Congratulations and Merry Christmas
- such a success !
This typewriter has mechanical tab stops under a flip up cover behind the platen. The tab stops are upside down U shaped clips. Usually the extra clips are stashed way to the right end of the platen where you don’t need tab stops. I had a typewriter like the Bendix, but short platen, back in the 1980s, mine said IBM on the front.
You might want to put tabs every five spaces so that the carriage doesn’t keep flying all the way across when you hit tab on the input.
Nice job on the restoration and thanks for the music. That brought back memories of doing an assignment back in college to get a Kim-1 6502 board to play Christmas music back in 1980 for an assembly programming class. My first attempt sounded about like the first output from the Bendix.
That's cool! Did you still doing computer stuff over the '00s? How did you and your peers adapt with the blazing fast progress?
Careful…. What tab stop spacing to use (8? 4? 5?) is a known point of argument in tech and programming.
@ This one looks like the one I had, which was 12 point Pica type. Five spaces for a tab was pretty typical to give 1/2 inch tabs. Of course you can set it to whatever you want. Some experimentation may be necessary to figure out what the program assumes. Any stops are better than none with the carriage flying across every time it hits a tab. Anything printed after the tab will just be a jumble at the right margin.
@@ppokorny99 There is only one correct answer: 42milliCubits
@@robertosutrisno8604 I am still involved in electronics and data processing. Personally, changing technology doesn’t seem like a big deal. Hopefully most engineers don’t stop learning when they’re handed their diplomas. I prefer the technology we have now. I spent decades fiddling with DIP switches, wire wrap jumpers and what wires were necessary in a null modem to get equipment to talk. That takes away time from real problem solving. I much prefer the current technology environment because it is so much easier to be creative.
Just goes to show, modern advanced technical knowledge on a ancient machine can perform wonders.
That is absolutely awesome!
Legends. You and everyone helping, System Source, all involved. Thank you.
This was so fun! I bet you could do a lot with this system once you really get the hang of it.
Best Christmas Gift EVER!!! Incredible you have the Bendix G15 playing Silent Night... and have a Merry Christmas!!!
2025 is going to be a great year! You've accomplished a lot in 2024 and I can't wait to see what you do next.
You should put a few ounces of the chad in baggies and sell it a "Computer Confetti". Make the brand something silly like "Programmer Party." Have some text like "Brought to you by Chad" and "Bits from a real computer program," and "the bits of a scrambled message." The artwork with a guy (a typical 1950s programmer/operator) named Chad, of course. Many styles of art can be done, such as the typical computer room photo op, or my favorite, a comic book type novelty ad.
Sell them to fund your research! OK, so maybe it will be just a good recycle gag, but Greeting Card Confetti is a thing! Or package it a porch pirate "paper shrapnel."
Yepp, since Colin Furze can sell rock from his dug outs, and people are queueing for it, you could definitely sell it
Way to end the year 🎉 (I know it's not there yet but still!)
That is a great idea.
PLEASE DON;T DO THIS - chad in the eyes is very painful.
I like the “bit bucket” name for the next accessory for the paper tape punch 🙂 Nice job on restoring the wiring on the typewriter I/O. Running the music program was beyond awesome, congratulations!! 👍 Merry Christmas to you 🙂
And a very merry Xmas to you and your family too.
Thank you for bringing this computer back to life
Iceland Calling, What a wonderful way to celebrate the Christmas Spirit! Congratulations on all the work to get to this point. I look forward to getting through DIAPER II!
LOL! Man, the commitment. I officially admire you and your team in this video. So much passion. Love it.
A blast to watch David. If you speak to Bob would you wish him a Happy Chanukah, from me. I worked for Chimes a Baltimore based operation and we worked with him going back to when System Source was a Computerland. A merry Christmas to you.
Congrats, as always! This is absolutely wonderful A couple more fun tidbits about Huskey. He also worked on the ENIAC and wrote some of the manuals. While at UCB, one of his PhD students was Niklaus Wirth and one of his Master's students was Ken Thompson.
Really impressive getting this running :) Thank you for the efforts and wish you blessed Christmas!
I found your channel not that long ago, and gosh does your enthusiasm and knowledge make me insanely happy. Since you seem to be a FACIT aficionado; I think I just may have some cool gadgets that I could possibly send your way. Will have to look in to postage and what-not though. If at all interesting, feel free to reach out!
Great job and big MERRY CHRISTMAS to you as well!!!
Merry Christmas to you. And thank you for such a wonderful surprise. Amazing what old technology is capable of so many years later. Thank you so much for all you are doing to bring old technology back to life.
well done love seeing it up and running
Merry Christmas! I love my Sunday morning coffee with Usagi every week!
You and the Bendix have come a long way! Congratulations!
My honest congraits! Wonderful masterpiece. A lot of work done. A gigant milestone was reached.
I have no idea when my Vacuum Tube computer would become alive, but it already took a lot from Bendix G15 interior.
I also revived a teletype a couple of months ago - I have a video about it. But it was in a worse condition than yours and so far it can only print text.
Damn Lloyd Comes Through!
What a G!
This channel is the best.
(Horns up!)
Loyd is the GOAT
Merry Christmas from France ! Thanks a lot for your videos, I really love them.
Merry Christmas to you, David! And to all the viewers!
Nice, merry jingle bells to you!
Excellent!
Merry Christmas to you and yours too!
Well done. Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas!!!!!!! Use to work on a IBM SYS3 with a 1403 printer. One of our programmers "concocted" a print stream that got the rhythm of a coupe of Christmas songs. No tones, just the beat. Was cool! We'd sing along with it. Wish I still had those programs
Awesome! What an Xmas present!
Merry Christmas to you and your family! Good to here the old computer to play music.
You are a joy to watch. Merry christmas and stay happy. Cheers🎉
Awesome and gratifying to see the paper tape punch playing a small role in the G15 project!
That's crazy. But I appreciate the lot of work behind to get that going. No one else had dared to go so far. (Well: Curious Marc probably). Thanks for sharing & happy celebration days !
Nicely done!!!
Beautiful! Merry Christmas!
I have to admit I don't understand all that you say or do, but I love the work you do with getting these old computers up and running and find your videos very entertaining but this was the best. Merry Christmas, and thank you.😊
Ps. Love your enthusiasm 😂
Fantastic, thanks for the super interesting video.