Everyday I wake up and I'm little older than the day before and I have come to the realisation that my feelings for this time period are beyond nostalgia and rose tinted glasses. I've never felt since the same since the late 80's and early 90s as a teenager that these were days of endless wonder and possibilities. Time passes I realise that my imagination and vision of what was to come would never be a bright as it was during the 8 and 16 bit era. Today we have almost infinite amounts of computing power and some how its less exciting than it once was and I don't know why :-/
It is because we are a special generation. The only generation that conciously experienced and was able to make their own 2 distinct era's in human history. We grew up in the analog era learning and using it as children. Much like our parrents and grand parrents. But we where also lucky to be young enough to be able to adapt to a world that quickly turned digital over the span of a decade. Many of our parrents where to old and set in their ways to really understand this new digital foolery and many, including my own still struggle to this day. While the generation after us where to small to remember or simply wheren't around during the analog electro mechanical days and simply don't know any better. I don't think we really realise how big this revolution actually was in historic sense and how it changed society to it's core. It changed pretty much how everything had been done for ages and the previous unimaginable things it has enabled. Since then we seem to have stalled conciderably. Especially the last decade innovation has hit a low point. All that seems to happen nowdays is gradual improvement far past the point where it was already good enough 10 years ago. Phones get faster, but who really still cares about it, they did everything i needed 7 or 8 years ago. Displays become better but who really sees the difference with 8k? Do you really see the difference between 15 megapixel images and 30 megapixel images? Has the internet really become a better place compared to the early 2000's? Does scrolling trough netflix for 45 minutes to find anything worth watching provide a better experience then the excitement and commitment of renting a dvd? Has spotify killed the real experience of good music? Aquiring music was a concious decision back in the day and our attention wasn't constantly distracted by new shiny things so the music we did aquire was listned to more intensly and created a deeper emotional connection. Looking out to captivating tv series every week and being left with a cliffhanger and the excitement felt waiting for the new episode added value and made the experience more intense. Now we just binge it half a sleep and it has become forgetable. Lots of things we used to conciously and purposly experience back in the day have become throw away moments. The constant unlimited availability of things has deminished their value in many cases.
I appreciate Neil's train of thought on getting the car cleaned first, if you're going to take a retro collection to care for show you can look after your own stuff.
This might be The nicest and most friend y UA-cam channel. You have to just love this channel. Soooo coooosy to spend time with those marvelous guys ❤️❤️❤️😀👍
Disaster averted. I'm so glad you showed that A500 and opened the trap door. I had no idea that the RAM expansion might have a battery on the board. I checked mine just in case and sure enough, once I managed to unsolder the metal case it was in, there was the Varta battery. Fortunately it had only JUST started to leak and was pretty easily cleaned up. I feel fortunate as well because the date was November of 1988 so it was probably way overdue. Great episode, great collection and thanks for saving an A501 RAM expander from battery death.
My mom has a box full of miscellaneous greetings cards etc, and there is one of the 80s (or maybe even 70s) small WH Smith paper bags in there. Items like that must be quite rare now, due to their disposable nature.
Well done Ian for donating all of those computers. It's not easy to let go of nostalgic things, but life moves on and a big collection can hold us back and be a burden. Ian, you've managed to do what I've been thinking about but haven't been able to yet!
You never see stuff like this anymore. Truly amazing. Bless Ian for lovingly keeping these machines and sending them to a place they'll be enjoyed by hundreds! Really want to visit The Cave one day if I ever am able to afford going outside the US.
What an amazing collection! Ian is VERY generous donator to the museum! I trust he has a free pass....!! 😀 I look forward to the future videos with you and Mark fixing-up all those treasures! It's great seeing Mark as regular part of RMC; he's such a great character, and you two have a really good friendship going, and he's fantastic with his repair work 🙂
I never had any of their stuff but it was clear from magazine ads that they were a major producer of Amiga hardware, they did all sorts. I love how they combined hard disks with memory and accelerators in one neat unit that connected to the side of the A500 and extended its form seamlessly (even though it obviously requires a lot of desk space!). I think they often had through-connectors for further addons to be daisy chained together.
What a generous donation. I'm sure Ian could have sold most, if not all, of that treasure for a sweet sum. Anyway, I'm always astounded by the diversity of old school computers. Around 30 years ago I predicted that there would be a convergence on Unix as ram prices plummeted and cpu speeds increased. That has in fact happened with Macs moving to BSD, Linux becoming a world class operating platform, Android being built on top of it and even Windows including an Ubuntu subsystem. On that note I'm using Riscos Direct on a RPi just to be different. I even bought new software for it to make it as productive as possible. I just hope that the future brings us as much excitement as the past, when the potential to be a bedroom developer was every kids dream.
That's great and couldn't see any better place for these machines, than The Cave... Nostalgia and warm feelings for the older and younger enthusiasts. Good for you!
I might have not been old enough to have grown up with most of these computers, but I had an atari st as kid and it was the most memorable thing from my childhood, playing Lode Runner, Xor, Locomotion, Lotus Esprit, Rodland, Parasol Stars amongst many others that made me fall in love with the computer scene from the day, even though i only discovered it fully few years ago, randomly stumbling upon this channel got me excited with the idea of being able to experience all these systems, my parents used to tell me stories of loading from cassette tapes and how long it took back in the day, never understood that... But yeah can't wait for the whole thing to be done and visit at some point and experience all these beautiful pieces of history, it's such an exiting project to me! Thank you.
I owed both the Commodore Plus4 and Toshiba MSX back in the day, so good to see them in and amongst this very generous donation - like seeing old friends from a life time ago. 12 years old and I was totally blown away one Christmas morning when I tore back the wrapping and clapped eyes on the Plus 4 logo, which if I recall correctly came with a 10 game stock bundle, all in uniform white cassettes with bold lettering, titles such as Icicle Works, Mayhem, Exorcist and Fire Ant, with a couple of educational, I believe on mathematics, which were instantly discarded, hehe.
My goodness. What a collection that is. Ian - what a great thing to do. As you rightly said - these guys know how to look after this stuff and will give it the love it deserves.
That’s my dads collection of computers. I remember when I was younger using some of the computers to play games. A lot of them were kept in the loft not being used for years before being moved to the garage. Good to see them going elsewhere where they can be taken care of.
Ian, what a legend. You are keeping the scene alive. As a guy your age, we love people like you. I still have my CPC464+.... Had it 30 years. I love my old 8bit..
I can't believe the generosity of some people. Amazing. And your efforts in building a place for these classics deserves these rewards. Respect all round.
I see the Tatung Einstein computer, and this Taiwanese manufacturer is so big and important in Taiwan that they have their own long established and relatively prestigious university in Taipei, aptly named Tatung University. Most people in Taiwan know the Tatung brand for their rice cookers and white goods. Imagine if Lord Alan Sugar had opened an Amstrad university! ;) Tatung is pronounced dar-tung.
When I was working in a small independent computer shop in Banbury, Oxfordshire, during the early '80s, along with the usual Sinclair, Commodore, Atari, etc, we had those Tatung Einstein computers come into stock; they had a lovely Matching Tatung colour monitor included (I think it was around a 12" display?), that sat on the main computer. They were aimed more at small business users... It was a lovely machine, and very well solidly built! About the £400 region if I remember right....it's a long time ago, and I was early 20s back then! We always called them 'tay-tung'.... that's what the boss called them (real decent bloke), so the rest of us did too!! 😀
@@AJC508 I’m a Mandarin Chinese speaker, who lives in Taiwan, I’m hardly an idiot, no need to be rude. Tatung is pronounced as dar-tung by the Taiwanese and by the company’s workers.
@@stevesstuff1450 yes, it’s tricky pronouncing Taiwanese Mandarin transliterations to English accurately because unlike Pinyin used in Mainland China, it’s not consistent how the English version is written in English. E.g. the district I used to live in in New Taipei City had three different official transliterations to English, which really confuses foreign expats - Zhonghe, Chungher and Jhonghe, all used on different government buildings and banks in the district! With Taiwanese names one has to read aloud the original Chinese with a Taiwanese accent… Brits even often pronounce Taiwan incorrectly, too.
I’m in America, and used to own quite a trove of Commodore 8-bit equipment - perhaps about 25% the size of Ian’s entire trove. I had to give it up when I moved across the country 12 years ago; most of it received a rather sad and ignominious fate. I wish that I could’ve found guys like you at that time to whom I could’ve donated it.
My friend at primary school had one of those Sharp MZ-700's, glad you showed that one cause i remembered how it looked but nothing else about it, deffinately a blast from the past. What a great collection, loving how this brilliant channel keeps growing 👍
What a generous man! Great donation! I'm upset that our 8-bit landscape in Poland was so poor. Only Commodore 64 - ZX Spectrum - Atari 65/130. And even having one of this in 80s was quite rare. It was reality behind iron curtain :(
Awesome collection, and it's good to know it will be well maintained and put to good use at the cave! Above everything else though, it was really great to see Mark's place coming together again after the fire. It'll take a while, but the collection can be rebuilt. Probably some doubles (that already are well represented in the Cave) in this horde that could help with that effort!
What a generous gentleman! I can understand why he donated his collection. There is point where you run out of space, and either you go the next step and create a museum or give the computers away to be enjoyed by other enthusiast. Great episode and intro music. Really enjoyed this one. I am a C16/Plus4 guy by the way :)
I remember the video of the house burning down and all the retro gear getting destroyed, but only connected that this was him on seeing them go back to the house.
I'm with Ian on buying old computing tech from car boot sales & eBay years ago before they pretty much dried up, I did the same with my handheld electronic games that I'll be lending to The Cave. The photo floating around the net of the full set of 7 TomyTronic3D games with the licenced Tandy copy in the middle, is of my collection I completed 11 years ago, I wouldn't have a hope trying to complete that collection now.
Staggering generosity! Great to see some C16 and Plus4 love in the Cave. (Did you read my last comment and feel bad....🤣) The blooper at the end made me chuckle.
Wow! That's an incredible donation and so much cool stuff, I briefly had a MSX a few years back with a few carts but sadly sold it, Road Fighter is great Spotted a Texas Instruments too which my parents nearly bought me but switched to a Spectrum for some reason and I've not seen one since Look forward to seeing some of those next time I visit if you can find somewhere to display it all 👍✌️
What a fantastic donation. I have such fond memories. My computing history started in 1982 when in my first year of Secondary school with a load of Commodore Pets, one Commodore 64 and the obligatory BBC micro model B. My dad bought a Spectrum in the New year and spent ages playing Jet Pac. I was offered a ZX81 that I could play on in my bedroom for £5 from my paper round. I then got a TI99 4A bundled with everything from the legendary speech synthesiser and a load of software. There’s nothing like playing Parsec or Alpiner with that. The joystick was hateful though. I then bought a Plus 4 because they were really cheap at the time. I loved its intuitive BASIC completely unlike the hateful Commodore basic on our main breadbin 64 we now had as a family computer with a 1541. I loved that machine, although most games were coded for the C16 it made you want to write your own. I wrote a few very basic text adventures that were more fun to write than play. I then got an Atari 800xl because again my paper round and other jobs would only stretch to that. I loved the Einstein, but out of my league as was the Amstrad. Always found that a bit soulless and didn’t know anyone who had one anyway. I really loved the 800 and once you added the disc drive it added so many more titles. I met Jeff Minter at an Atari show and yes he was wearing a woolly jumper with a Llama on it. Revenge of the mutant camels was one of the first games I played on the 64. Looking back, there were computers coming out almost weekly or so it seemed at the time in the early 80s. I would love to visit sometime
Ian, thank you for this big donation to the Cave! You're so passionate about preserving these retro computers. In recent years I collected a Atari 800XL MSX home computer Phillips P2000 BBC Master BBC Micro And several C64's Realising that my knowledge of computer science started with these machines. A great video 😃👍🏻
That's a pretty massive donation! Can't wait to see all the episodes about these machines! And it's great to see Mark's house is almost fully fixed up!
The most generous donation? Really? That's a grand statement...what about that broken USB stick I once sent :-) Wow, just wow, incredible collection...congrats, this will make your space even better. Is this your first Sinclair QL for the channel? My all-time favorite computer!!! A computer that ran a pre-Linux like lightweight OS before Linus created it.
Awesome donation, made me look on the bay and found some cool stickers, just search the following below, thought they were pretty cool 😍 Amiga Retro Glossy Stickers 8 bit Retro Computer Stickers Commodore Retro Computers Die Cut Stickers
My heart skipped seeing that Commodore 16 in it's wonderful case. I have such fond memories of the C16 as it was one of our first family computers after the ZX81 and a borrowed Vic20. My farther made a wooden tray-case for the C16 that housed the dataset and the quirky joysticks it even had ventilation holes and cable management. I still own that original C16 but sadly not the wonderful wooden tray. This fitted case brought back all those great memories with my dad in front of the TV playing together on the C16, we went on to own the C128 and then an Amiga 500.
The Einstein looks like it really belongs in a shot from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Wonderful colour design in that Tatung. I remember the C16 and Plus 4 and always wondered - even back then- what on earth Commodores marketing g people were doing. Plus 4s always seemed to be for sale in Tandy or similar catalogues… The “actual screenshot” seems to be the computer equivalent of “serving suggestion” 😜
Mark's got a good eye, the sharp MZ-700 has recently become one of my favorites despite (or because of) it's limited capabilities. The Einstein is a great machine, I finally got mine up and running - it's on my desk ready to do some retro coding. The keyboard is the best of any 8-bit machine I've used and the whole system is a pleasure to use, I understand why the software houses used the Einstein for cross coding in the 80's.
Ah I had a GVP add on with 60Mb HDD . It had 8MB memory. I absolutely LOVED IT. It was bolted to my A500+ . I got it for free ! I found it with a box of Amiga gear at the side of my road in around 1998.
When talking about the Tatung Einstein machine, you briefly mentioned it how developers used them for coding games for other machines. That would make a great episode - exploring how that was done. In 1987 when I was at college, I knew a student in the same accomation block as me who had a Tatung Einstein and he used it for developing commercial games for the ZX Spectrum (a nice sideline to earn some money to support his studies). I think he had an editor/assembler running on the Tatung Einstein to code the game, and uploaded the assembled machine code via an interface to a ZX Spectrum to run and test the game.
Very generous donation ,i love the Tatung Einstein one of the machines i have always wanted but never owned .Great to see marks house is looking fantastic again .
Thanks! and hope it can help manage Ian’s amazing donation!
The wife looked so happy she was almost brought to tears.
I cannot find her! Timestamp?
@@panosm.6853 At the very end! (I was wondering at first, too)
@@SwedishEmpire1700 Yep. Because that's all women collect -_-
Wow, I'm amazed at this level of generosity! Both Neil and Mark taking two days off to help Ian's wife reclaim her garage.. that's very noble of you.
Everyday I wake up and I'm little older than the day before and I have come to the realisation that my feelings for this time period are beyond nostalgia and rose tinted glasses. I've never felt since the same since the late 80's and early 90s as a teenager that these were days of endless wonder and possibilities.
Time passes I realise that my imagination and vision of what was to come would never be a bright as it was during the 8 and 16 bit era. Today we have almost infinite amounts of computing power and some how its less exciting than it once was and I don't know why :-/
It is because we are a special generation. The only generation that conciously experienced and was able to make their own 2 distinct era's in human history.
We grew up in the analog era learning and using it as children. Much like our parrents and grand parrents. But we where also lucky to be young enough to be able to adapt to a world that quickly turned digital over the span of a decade.
Many of our parrents where to old and set in their ways to really understand this new digital foolery and many, including my own still struggle to this day. While the generation after us where to small to remember or simply wheren't around during the analog electro mechanical days and simply don't know any better.
I don't think we really realise how big this revolution actually was in historic sense and how it changed society to it's core. It changed pretty much how everything had been done for ages and the previous unimaginable things it has enabled.
Since then we seem to have stalled conciderably. Especially the last decade innovation has hit a low point.
All that seems to happen nowdays is gradual improvement far past the point where it was already good enough 10 years ago.
Phones get faster, but who really still cares about it, they did everything i needed 7 or 8 years ago. Displays become better but who really sees the difference with 8k? Do you really see the difference between 15 megapixel images and 30 megapixel images?
Has the internet really become a better place compared to the early 2000's?
Does scrolling trough netflix for 45 minutes to find anything worth watching provide a better experience then the excitement and commitment of renting a dvd?
Has spotify killed the real experience of good music? Aquiring music was a concious decision back in the day and our attention wasn't constantly distracted by new shiny things so the music we did aquire was listned to more intensly and created a deeper emotional connection.
Looking out to captivating tv series every week and being left with a cliffhanger and the excitement felt waiting for the new episode added value and made the experience more intense. Now we just binge it half a sleep and it has become forgetable.
Lots of things we used to conciously and purposly experience back in the day have become throw away moments. The constant unlimited availability of things has deminished their value in many cases.
That Smiths bag though! Totally took me back to the 80s!
The best retro channel ever. As a 53 years old man I’m just 17 whenever I watch your channel. My dream is to visit the cave one day. Thank you
I appreciate Neil's train of thought on getting the car cleaned first, if you're going to take a retro collection to care for show you can look after your own stuff.
I agree. I would do the same in respect for Ian. Neil is a very considerate and decent man.
This might be The nicest and most friend y UA-cam channel. You have to just love this channel. Soooo coooosy to spend time with those marvelous guys ❤️❤️❤️😀👍
Disaster averted. I'm so glad you showed that A500 and opened the trap door. I had no idea that the RAM expansion might have a battery on the board. I checked mine just in case and sure enough, once I managed to unsolder the metal case it was in, there was the Varta battery. Fortunately it had only JUST started to leak and was pretty easily cleaned up. I feel fortunate as well because the date was November of 1988 so it was probably way overdue.
Great episode, great collection and thanks for saving an A501 RAM expander from battery death.
Glad to see Mark is getting things sorted out after the fire
That WH Smith carrier bag at 22:38 hit me in the nostalgia feels hard... lovely video gents and what a lovely gesture from Ian to donate that haul.
My mom has a box full of miscellaneous greetings cards etc, and there is one of the 80s (or maybe even 70s) small WH Smith paper bags in there. Items like that must be quite rare now, due to their disposable nature.
Well done Ian for donating all of those computers. It's not easy to let go of nostalgic things, but life moves on and a big collection can hold us back and be a burden. Ian, you've managed to do what I've been thinking about but haven't been able to yet!
You never see stuff like this anymore. Truly amazing. Bless Ian for lovingly keeping these machines and sending them to a place they'll be enjoyed by hundreds! Really want to visit The Cave one day if I ever am able to afford going outside the US.
Another collector who realizes that it's better to not have something as long as someone who does have it makes good use of it. Love it.
Danke!
I teared up seeing how Mark's house is making its recovery. So very happy for you Mark.
What an amazing collection! Ian is VERY generous donator to the museum! I trust he has a free pass....!! 😀
I look forward to the future videos with you and Mark fixing-up all those treasures! It's great seeing Mark as regular part of RMC; he's such a great character, and you two have a really good friendship going, and he's fantastic with his repair work 🙂
GVP was the gold standard for Amiga gear back in the day. I loved my 030 accelerator/ram expansion/drive controller card.
I never had any of their stuff but it was clear from magazine ads that they were a major producer of Amiga hardware, they did all sorts. I love how they combined hard disks with memory and accelerators in one neat unit that connected to the side of the A500 and extended its form seamlessly (even though it obviously requires a lot of desk space!). I think they often had through-connectors for further addons to be daisy chained together.
I still have one, only a few miles from Finchampstead
What a generous donation. I'm sure Ian could have sold most, if not all, of that treasure for a sweet sum. Anyway, I'm always astounded by the diversity of old school computers. Around 30 years ago I predicted that there would be a convergence on Unix as ram prices plummeted and cpu speeds increased. That has in fact happened with Macs moving to BSD, Linux becoming a world class operating platform, Android being built on top of it and even Windows including an Ubuntu subsystem. On that note I'm using Riscos Direct on a RPi just to be different. I even bought new software for it to make it as productive as possible. I just hope that the future brings us as much excitement as the past, when the potential to be a bedroom developer was every kids dream.
That's great and couldn't see any better place for these machines, than The Cave...
Nostalgia and warm feelings for the older and younger enthusiasts.
Good for you!
Props to Ian, and his lovely wife.
What an incredibly generous gift.
Wow what a donation!
Thank you, Ian and fantastic to hear about Mark's house's refurbishment. It's looking grand.
I might have not been old enough to have grown up with most of these computers, but I had an atari st as kid and it was the most memorable thing from my childhood, playing Lode Runner, Xor, Locomotion, Lotus Esprit, Rodland, Parasol Stars amongst many others that made me fall in love with the computer scene from the day, even though i only discovered it fully few years ago, randomly stumbling upon this channel got me excited with the idea of being able to experience all these systems, my parents used to tell me stories of loading from cassette tapes and how long it took back in the day, never understood that... But yeah can't wait for the whole thing to be done and visit at some point and experience all these beautiful pieces of history, it's such an exiting project to me! Thank you.
I owed both the Commodore Plus4 and Toshiba MSX back in the day, so good to see them in and amongst this very generous donation - like seeing old friends from a life time ago. 12 years old and I was totally blown away one Christmas morning when I tore back the wrapping and clapped eyes on the Plus 4 logo, which if I recall correctly came with a 10 game stock bundle, all in uniform white cassettes with bold lettering, titles such as Icicle Works, Mayhem, Exorcist and Fire Ant, with a couple of educational, I believe on mathematics, which were instantly discarded, hehe.
Amazing donation, thank you for the donation to the chanel so we can all see this. And Mark, you welcome, your house is looking great.
I had tears in my eyes seeing this amazing man give away this unbelievable collection. Bless you sir.
That is a truly amazing donation, some great machines there. Also good to see Marks house is coming together.
Thats an awesome donation! Just amazing. Good to see Marks home looking so nice now, quite some way from that horrible fire.
My goodness. What a collection that is. Ian - what a great thing to do. As you rightly said - these guys know how to look after this stuff and will give it the love it deserves.
That’s my dads collection of computers. I remember when I was younger using some of the computers to play games. A lot of them were kept in the loft not being used for years before being moved to the garage. Good to see them going elsewhere where they can be taken care of.
Ian, what a legend. You are keeping the scene alive. As a guy your age, we love people like you. I still have my CPC464+.... Had it 30 years. I love my old 8bit..
Absolutely brilliant! What an absolute gent. Not only donating it but also indirectly sharing it with the rest of us here :) all the best from Sweden
Brilliant video. Good news all around. So glad to see Mark’s house nearly finished.
TI99/4a was my first home micro, inherited from my dad when he bought his 464... Love it, one of the most underrated and neglected home micros...
I can't believe the generosity of some people. Amazing. And your efforts in building a place for these classics deserves these rewards. Respect all round.
Awesome donation.
Mark, your house is looking great. :)
That is an amazing donation so many are retro rare
Ian, thank you, sir.
Great collection, good job gathering all these machines!
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Brilliant donation, and good to see Mark again!
I see the Tatung Einstein computer, and this Taiwanese manufacturer is so big and important in Taiwan that they have their own long established and relatively prestigious university in Taipei, aptly named Tatung University. Most people in Taiwan know the Tatung brand for their rice cookers and white goods. Imagine if Lord Alan Sugar had opened an Amstrad university! ;)
Tatung is pronounced dar-tung.
Oh no … now idiots will pronounce it as. … dar-tongue
When I was working in a small independent computer shop in Banbury, Oxfordshire, during the early '80s, along with the usual Sinclair, Commodore, Atari, etc, we had those Tatung Einstein computers come into stock; they had a lovely Matching Tatung colour monitor included (I think it was around a 12" display?), that sat on the main computer. They were aimed more at small business users... It was a lovely machine, and very well solidly built! About the £400 region if I remember right....it's a long time ago, and I was early 20s back then!
We always called them 'tay-tung'.... that's what the boss called them (real decent bloke), so the rest of us did too!! 😀
@@AJC508 I’m a Mandarin Chinese speaker, who lives in Taiwan, I’m hardly an idiot, no need to be rude. Tatung is pronounced as dar-tung by the Taiwanese and by the company’s workers.
@@stevesstuff1450 yes, it’s tricky pronouncing Taiwanese Mandarin transliterations to English accurately because unlike Pinyin used in Mainland China, it’s not consistent how the English version is written in English. E.g. the district I used to live in in New Taipei City had three different official transliterations to English, which really confuses foreign expats - Zhonghe, Chungher and Jhonghe, all used on different government buildings and banks in the district! With Taiwanese names one has to read aloud the original Chinese with a Taiwanese accent… Brits even often pronounce Taiwan incorrectly, too.
Thanks Ian. Yeah Mark.
Incredible donation from Ian, what a bloke. Really good to see Mark's home coming back together, I felt so bad for him after the fire.
Great so see Mark's home looking so good, and nice load of stuff you got!
I’m in America, and used to own quite a trove of Commodore 8-bit equipment - perhaps about 25% the size of Ian’s entire trove. I had to give it up when I moved across the country 12 years ago; most of it received a rather sad and ignominious fate. I wish that I could’ve found guys like you at that time to whom I could’ve donated it.
Nice donation. Good to see all these items go to a deserving place where others can enjoy them and not just be locdked away in a dark garage unseen.
My friend at primary school had one of those Sharp MZ-700's, glad you showed that one cause i remembered how it looked but nothing else about it, deffinately a blast from the past. What a great collection, loving how this brilliant channel keeps growing 👍
Some amazing stuff there and nice to see an update on marks house too …brill vid x keep up the good work lads x
All hail Saint Ian ❤❤❤❤. Amazing!!!!
What a delightful horde and a thoroughly top chap for donating. Also a very wise chap for donating to the cave 😉
Very very generous of Ian to donate his collection. The Commodore 16 in the case is amazing!
That really is a generous donation. What a guy.
Wow. Just wow. I propose a special "Ian" benefactor wall / area. So good.
What a generous man! Great donation! I'm upset that our 8-bit landscape in Poland was so poor. Only Commodore 64 - ZX Spectrum - Atari 65/130. And even having one of this in 80s was quite rare. It was reality behind iron curtain :(
Wow, Neil, now that's a treasure cave of retro kit. What a fantastic donation.
Wow. First Ian gives you all that stuff then he even does your PCBWay voiceover for you! :) 2:11
Still can't get over how much Mark looks like he should be shredding guitar with that hair.
Wow Ian is an amazing man to do this for the public to get to see all this ❤️❤️❤️
Awesome collection, and it's good to know it will be well maintained and put to good use at the cave! Above everything else though, it was really great to see Mark's place coming together again after the fire. It'll take a while, but the collection can be rebuilt. Probably some doubles (that already are well represented in the Cave) in this horde that could help with that effort!
wow amazing donation - bet his wife was happy to get rid of the "old junk" :)
What a generous gentleman! I can understand why he donated his collection. There is point where you run out of space, and either you go the next step and create a museum or give the computers away to be enjoyed by other enthusiast. Great episode and intro music. Really enjoyed this one. I am a C16/Plus4 guy by the way :)
Kudos to Ian for his generosity.
Awesome, Generous donation!
I wasn't aware of Marks misfortune with the fire, but glad to see his home on the up and up.
I remember the video of the house burning down and all the retro gear getting destroyed, but only connected that this was him on seeing them go back to the house.
I really wish someone would take this awesome concept and build a retro museum where visitors can actually play with the gear, here in the US.
I'm with Ian on buying old computing tech from car boot sales & eBay years ago before they pretty much dried up, I did the same with my handheld electronic games that I'll be lending to The Cave.
The photo floating around the net of the full set of 7 TomyTronic3D games with the licenced Tandy copy in the middle, is of my collection I completed 11 years ago, I wouldn't have a hope trying to complete that collection now.
So happy that these treasure got a great forever home! You all are doing god’s work.
That's the cleanest garage I've ever seen
The house is probably so big there’s no need to store stuff in the garage.
What an amazing donation.
Staggering generosity!
Great to see some C16 and Plus4 love in the Cave. (Did you read my last comment and feel bad....🤣)
The blooper at the end made me chuckle.
Wow! That's an incredible donation and so much cool stuff, I briefly had a MSX a few years back with a few carts but sadly sold it, Road Fighter is great
Spotted a Texas Instruments too which my parents nearly bought me but switched to a Spectrum for some reason and I've not seen one since
Look forward to seeing some of those next time I visit if you can find somewhere to display it all 👍✌️
What a fantastic donation. I have such fond memories. My computing history started in 1982 when in my first year of Secondary school with a load of Commodore Pets, one Commodore 64 and the obligatory BBC micro model B. My dad bought a Spectrum in the New year and spent ages playing Jet Pac. I was offered a ZX81 that I could play on in my bedroom for £5 from my paper round. I then got a TI99 4A bundled with everything from the legendary speech synthesiser and a load of software. There’s nothing like playing Parsec or Alpiner with that. The joystick was hateful though. I then bought a Plus 4 because they were really cheap at the time. I loved its intuitive BASIC completely unlike the hateful Commodore basic on our main breadbin 64 we now had as a family computer with a 1541. I loved that machine, although most games were coded for the C16 it made you want to write your own. I wrote a few very basic text adventures that were more fun to write than play. I then got an Atari 800xl because again my paper round and other jobs would only stretch to that. I loved the Einstein, but out of my league as was the Amstrad. Always found that a bit soulless and didn’t know anyone who had one anyway. I really loved the 800 and once you added the disc drive it added so many more titles. I met Jeff Minter at an Atari show and yes he was wearing a woolly jumper with a Llama on it. Revenge of the mutant camels was one of the first games I played on the 64. Looking back, there were computers coming out almost weekly or so it seemed at the time in the early 80s. I would love to visit sometime
Ian is a legend, what a generous thing to do.
Ian, thank you for this big donation to the Cave!
You're so passionate about preserving these retro computers.
In recent years I collected a
Atari 800XL
MSX home computer
Phillips P2000
BBC Master
BBC Micro
And several C64's
Realising that my knowledge of computer science started with these machines.
A great video 😃👍🏻
THAT'S THE HEAVEN IN EARTH!
Ian is the man.
Neil and Mark are such quality people in the retro scene. Thanks for all you do.
That's a pretty massive donation! Can't wait to see all the episodes about these machines!
And it's great to see Mark's house is almost fully fixed up!
I look forward to all of the videos about the items in this large batch!
The most generous donation? Really? That's a grand statement...what about that broken USB stick I once sent :-) Wow, just wow, incredible collection...congrats, this will make your space even better.
Is this your first Sinclair QL for the channel? My all-time favorite computer!!! A computer that ran a pre-Linux like lightweight OS before Linus created it.
Wow, that's an incredible donation! It's great to see Mark's house looking nice too.
So happy to see Mark’s house in such a fantastic shape!
Wow, amazing donations!!! Ian is just amazing!
Awesome donation, made me look on the bay and found some cool stickers, just search the following below, thought they were pretty cool 😍
Amiga Retro Glossy Stickers
8 bit Retro Computer Stickers
Commodore Retro Computers Die Cut Stickers
My heart skipped seeing that Commodore 16 in it's wonderful case. I have such fond memories of the C16 as it was one of our first family computers after the ZX81 and a borrowed Vic20.
My farther made a wooden tray-case for the C16 that housed the dataset and the quirky joysticks it even had ventilation holes and cable management. I still own that original C16 but sadly not the wonderful wooden tray. This fitted case brought back all those great memories with my dad in front of the TV playing together on the C16, we went on to own the C128 and then an Amiga 500.
Wow the Tatung Einstein really does look great, never seen one before either.
The Einstein looks like it really belongs in a shot from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Wonderful colour design in that Tatung.
I remember the C16 and Plus 4 and always wondered - even back then- what on earth Commodores marketing g people were doing.
Plus 4s always seemed to be for sale in Tandy or similar catalogues…
The “actual screenshot” seems to be the computer equivalent of “serving suggestion” 😜
Mark's got a good eye, the sharp MZ-700 has recently become one of my favorites despite (or because of) it's limited capabilities. The Einstein is a great machine, I finally got mine up and running - it's on my desk ready to do some retro coding. The keyboard is the best of any 8-bit machine I've used and the whole system is a pleasure to use, I understand why the software houses used the Einstein for cross coding in the 80's.
Great !!
Thank You.
Ah I had a GVP add on with 60Mb HDD . It had 8MB memory. I absolutely LOVED IT. It was bolted to my A500+ . I got it for free ! I found it with a box of Amiga gear at the side of my road in around 1998.
When talking about the Tatung Einstein machine, you briefly mentioned it how developers used them for coding games for other machines. That would make a great episode - exploring how that was done.
In 1987 when I was at college, I knew a student in the same accomation block as me who had a Tatung Einstein and he used it for developing commercial games for the ZX Spectrum (a nice sideline to earn some money to support his studies). I think he had an editor/assembler running on the Tatung Einstein to code the game, and uploaded the assembled machine code via an interface to a ZX Spectrum to run and test the game.
Still remember buy the Microsoft sidewinder controller back in the Pentium 133Mhz days. Can't believe it's in retro collections already.
R.I.P. The Queen
Ian , your a legend and a gentleman, such a generous donation
Very generous of you Ian
That GVP drive gives me memories of standing in a specialist computer shop, weighing up whether to buy one or keep saving for a PC...
Very generous donation ,i love the Tatung Einstein one of the machines i have always wanted but never owned .Great to see marks house is looking fantastic again .
Wow what a donation! Looking forward to the video on the GVP looks like a great addition to soup up!
Amazing progress on Mark's house, glad he's recovering from all this.
Stunning donation. Such memories