Josh, thanks for making my video footage look good! If anyone is in that area I highly recommend checking out this place. Unlike a lot of museums it is very casual and as you can see in the video almost nothing is behind glass. They encourage people to actually use the computers that are running and they do their best to actually keep things functional. Bob who does the tours is very knowledgeable and does a great presentation.
Wonderful video Josh, thanks to Dan. Brought back a lot of memories, saw lots of my old friends in the museum, friends meaning the computers I worked with and on all through the years. Missing a few things, we used to hold onto a lot of our old equipment for years. What came to mind is that those were thousand and thousand dollar machines at the time, and you worked on what the company bought and trained you on. And then they got surpassed and put in the back. Love to visit, love to work there on restoring a lot of the Apple and graphics equipment if only I had the time…
What an amazing collection and it's cool that it's available for viewing! I learned on a TRS-80 in high school and that's what made me want to major in computer science in college. In my job I worked on an SGI before we moved to Windows workstations. It's crazy how fast technology has changed! Thanks for an awesome video and thanks to Dan too! P.S. My 80 year old mother still relies on an adding machine for bookkeeping! 😊
Hi Josh, at timestamp 11:02 through 11:10 in the above video, you mentioned vintage machines next to Lotus software- that was a HERO-1, Heathkit Educational RObot! I programmed one in 1982 in my Vocational Technical School Electronics Class! it had a claw hand. it was that 2-foot-tall robot, with wheels on the immediate left of the Lotus 1-2-3 software box! Those 8 seconds! I had a blast with that HERO-1 Robot in 1982! It was a kit to build yourself, for $1500.00. Or if you wanted it to work, Heathkit Technicians would build it for $2,500.00 Thanks! Walter Macklin
When I was a senior in High School me and a classmate got to build a HERO-1 in our electronics class. Like most Heathkit products you could get it in kit form.
@@retrotv1tech Yes they sure were! We were first year Vo-Tech students, and Mr. Palmer my teacher ordered the already assemlbed Robot, because he didn't think we could do it. I don't think we could have built it, myself! Mr Palmer had a Commodore Vic-20 and then a Commodore 64, too! So I bought first my Vic 20 and later the commodore 64! In the 1980' s! Walt Macklin here.
Thank you Dan for showing the museum! The bendix and linc systems looked neat but very confusing lol. That’s awesome they even had an old Mickey telephone there too! ❤️😊
We had a Tandy TRS-80 with 8inch floppy drive, it even had the expansion 8" drives. It worked. then we got a Tandy 1000 SX for the family computer, then I gotten a NCR 286 computer just for myself. Then for the up to date family computer my mom gotten a Packard Bell 486 legend computer, I do not remember the model number on it though. But it had Windows 3.1x on it and I had a great time using that one.
The machines at 15:00 are the bbc micro and the acorn archimedes. The bbc micro is based on a 6502 processor, and the acorn archimedes introduced the ARM architecture to the world.
The machine at 6:42 is the Xerox Alto, the first computer designed around a graphics user interface (GUI). They didn't make a lot of these, but Steve Jobs was given an early demo of this machine which lead to Apple designing the Lisa and eventually the Macintosh. So, although most people probably don't know this computer, it is easily one of the most influential computers ever produced. Not sure if it was just turned off, but last time I was there it was functional.
I designed an interface for the cray computer that was used to simulate an atomic plant control room. This is a sad story but here it is. While testing the simualtor a plant employee was solving problems as they were thrown at him. He was doing so well they threw an un solvable problem at him. It was so realistic that he forgot he was in a simulator. When he realized he was headed for a china meltdown and there was no way to fix it he passed away from a heart atack. Sad but true.
Great Techy Vid Josh Sadly Didn't See Any Of The Old Apple Ma\c Computers That WE Had At High School :( But Did See The "Compaq" I Had "The Amstrad" Puter At Home (Very Siimilar To Compaq" WISH I Had Of Kept It Now But Ohh Well :( Mother KNows Al About "Early Adding Machines" & "Printing Presses" As Mother WAS / IS A SENIOR Banker For A Well Known UK Bank & My Mother & Her Family Lived IN A Street THat Had "A Printing Press Company" At The End Of The Street So She Was Forever In There Watching Everything Getting Printed :)
Hey Josh, wondering if you have thought of trying Raspberry Pi. Lots of neat projects like robotics and coding. Not really retro, but kind of a mix of an old Sinclair computer and a Realistic 100 in 1 electronics projects kit.
Josh, thanks for making my video footage look good! If anyone is in that area I highly recommend checking out this place. Unlike a lot of museums it is very casual and as you can see in the video almost nothing is behind glass. They encourage people to actually use the computers that are running and they do their best to actually keep things functional. Bob who does the tours is very knowledgeable and does a great presentation.
Thank you so much for taking this footage for me! It was amazing to see all of those incredible machines!
Wonderful video Josh, thanks to Dan. Brought back a lot of memories, saw lots of my old friends in the museum, friends meaning the computers I worked with and on all through the years. Missing a few things, we used to hold onto a lot of our old equipment for years. What came to mind is that those were thousand and thousand dollar machines at the time, and you worked on what the company bought and trained you on. And then they got surpassed and put in the back. Love to visit, love to work there on restoring a lot of the Apple and graphics equipment if only I had the time…
Very cool! Thanks for sharing your memories!
What an amazing collection and it's cool that it's available for viewing! I learned on a TRS-80 in high school and that's what made me want to major in computer science in college. In my job I worked on an SGI before we moved to Windows workstations. It's crazy how fast technology has changed! Thanks for an awesome video and thanks to Dan too! P.S. My 80 year old mother still relies on an adding machine for bookkeeping! 😊
Thanks Josh. This brought back some very fond memories of when I first started using PC's. And yes, I was a PCjr guy.
Like it~epic trip-:))
For sure!
Hi Josh, at timestamp 11:02 through 11:10 in the above video, you mentioned vintage machines next to Lotus software- that was a HERO-1, Heathkit Educational RObot! I programmed one in 1982 in my Vocational Technical School Electronics Class! it had a claw hand. it was that 2-foot-tall robot, with wheels on the immediate left of the Lotus 1-2-3 software box! Those 8 seconds! I had a blast with that HERO-1 Robot in 1982! It was a kit to build yourself, for $1500.00. Or if you wanted it to work, Heathkit Technicians would build it for $2,500.00 Thanks! Walter Macklin
When I was a senior in High School me and a classmate got to build a HERO-1 in our electronics class. Like most Heathkit products you could get it in kit form.
That’s really cool! Thanks for sharing! So, I take it they were challenging to build?
@@retrotv1tech Yes they sure were! We were first year Vo-Tech students, and Mr. Palmer my teacher ordered the already assemlbed Robot, because he didn't think we could do it. I don't think we could have built it, myself! Mr Palmer had a Commodore Vic-20 and then a Commodore 64, too! So I bought first my Vic 20 and later the commodore 64! In the 1980' s! Walt Macklin here.
Thank you Dan for showing the museum! The bendix and linc systems looked neat but very confusing lol. That’s awesome they even had an old Mickey telephone there too! ❤️😊
Thanks for watching, Nikki! Yes, the Mickey Phone was fun!
Great for my techie brother and son!
Awesome!
We had a Tandy TRS-80 with 8inch floppy drive, it even had the expansion 8" drives. It worked. then we got a Tandy 1000 SX for the family computer, then I gotten a NCR 286 computer just for myself. Then for the up to date family computer my mom gotten a Packard Bell 486 legend computer, I do not remember the model number on it though. But it had Windows 3.1x on it and I had a great time using that one.
Very enjoyable video! Even thought I saw the system that's in Spaceship Earth! lol I loved the old gaming console part! More of that please!
For sure! Thanks for watching!
The machines at 15:00 are the bbc micro and the acorn archimedes. The bbc micro is based on a 6502 processor, and the acorn archimedes introduced the ARM architecture to the world.
Thanks for identifying those!
This opening is amazing
Thanks!
Good video Josh. I was ninja watching while getting ready for bed.
Nice! Thanks for watching!
Wow
Thx to you and your whole family for bringing the magic. Question, I can no longer get the chat on my TV. Is that normal?
Good morning 😃
Good morning!
The machine at 6:42 is the Xerox Alto, the first computer designed around a graphics user interface (GUI). They didn't make a lot of these, but Steve Jobs was given an early demo of this machine which lead to Apple designing the Lisa and eventually the Macintosh. So, although most people probably don't know this computer, it is easily one of the most influential computers ever produced. Not sure if it was just turned off, but last time I was there it was functional.
Wow… that’s really cool! I didn’t know about that one.
I designed an interface for the cray computer that was used to simulate an atomic plant control room. This is a sad story but here it is. While testing the simualtor a plant employee was solving problems as they were thrown at him. He was doing so well they threw an un solvable problem at him. It was so realistic that he forgot he was in a simulator. When he realized he was headed for a china meltdown and there was no way to fix it he passed away from a heart atack. Sad but true.
Wow. That is very sad. I’m very sorry to hear that. It is cool that you got to work with the Cray though.
I saw a Heathkit 89 as you pased by it. It runs MPM or Hdos. Also CPM. I have a working one with both size disk drives.
That’s cool. I figured it would run CPM. I didn’t know much about MPM.
Great Techy Vid Josh Sadly Didn't See Any Of The Old Apple Ma\c Computers That WE Had At High School :( But Did See The "Compaq" I Had "The Amstrad" Puter At Home (Very Siimilar To Compaq" WISH I Had Of Kept It Now But Ohh Well :(
Mother KNows Al About "Early Adding Machines" & "Printing Presses" As Mother WAS / IS A SENIOR Banker For A Well Known UK Bank & My Mother & Her Family Lived IN A Street THat Had "A Printing Press Company" At The End Of The Street So She Was Forever In There Watching Everything Getting Printed :)
There is another whole row of Apple equipment which I didn't get any footage of, but you can see it in the background starting at 5:59
That’s very cool! Thanks for sharing!
At about 9:00, those IBM minis are probably system 36 or AS/400. You could get a 5250 card for PC so it could be terminal to 36 as well as normal PC.
That’s really cool how they made these machines so flexible to work with different systems.
Hey Josh, wondering if you have thought of trying Raspberry Pi. Lots of neat projects like robotics and coding. Not really retro, but kind of a mix of an old Sinclair computer and a Realistic 100 in 1 electronics projects kit.
I might show how you can play retro systems on a Pi. That would be fun for sure!
@retrotv1tech That would be very cool. Is there MAME emulator that works on it? That might make me get off my butt and try it.
Ahh. I live not far from that!
Very cool!