Time flies in a very strange way. Every time you're like "I haven't done one of these in 5 months!" I'm like "there's no way it's been that long, I was JUST watching one" - and I go back and check, and lo and behold, yep, it's been 5 months. WTF
Fun fact about the school computer comment, my elementary school had a lab of Apple IIe machines, usually referred to as "the younger kids computer lab" until around 2003 when the building was tipped over and rebuilt. For a long time I figured the Apple IIe was just a contemporary computer for 2001 when I was using it, I had no clue how old they were by then
What a good way to unwind after work on a friday. Also I know I've seen it said before but I really appreciate the work that goes into your subtitles, "laughs in miniature" got a good chuckle
APS, the manufacturer of the external hard drive assembly for the Mac clone you got, actually made Mac clones themselves. The machines were called M Power, but they are exceedingly rare, as shortly after the late 1996 announcement they had been chosen to make the clones, they were bought out by the Canadian provider of all stuff Mac, LaCie.
I'm not even intrigued by vintage technology, or so I thought. Yet here I am, 36 videos of yours watched in a week, more in the queue. Never, EVER change.
The PowerPC always reminds me of the time when I was interviewing for a tech job. I commented to the interviewer about the PowerPC sitting at his desk. His reply was, "No, it's a Mac."
@@godslayer1415 LOL you're too young I guess for the Z24s with the 60 degree V6s. "Nice Cavalier" was heard by my ears many, many times two decades or so ago.
@@the_kombinator I used to have a (bright blue) '91 Cavalier RS some years ago, and sure it had a few issues (including some MN car cancer) but the little 4 cylinder always got me from A to B. It even fired right up on a particularly cold ( -24° F) February late evening... And it pretty much always got around 25 MPG. I really miss that little beast sometimes.
Thames Water is the water company that runs the water utility for London, I didn't know they had hired James Pond to do their "wet work" but that may explain why they charge me over £1000pa for something that constantly falls out of the sky in huge quantities for free in England.
The Libretto 100CT has a NiMH CMOS battery from what I recall, so removing and replacing that should be a priority as it will probably have started to leak at this point, unless you know it has already been done. Looks like that one has escaped the common fault of having lines down the left of the screen, which is very common on the 7.1" TFTs that Toshiba used in the 100CT/110CT and ff1100. Also worth noting that the 100CT actually has a very early widescreen display of 800x480 - one of the most obvious differences from the previous models, which had a 6.1" 640x480 display. The older Librettos (70CT and earlier) won't even display anything on the screen unless they've got a good HDD, but Toshiba had fixed that for the later ones like that 100CT. I've actually just completed my Libretto collection, with at least one from every generation - although I don't yet have a working 20CT, as that model has a bad habit of blowing fuses (I'm not 100% sure if it's just because it was trying to charge on a stronger amperage charger than the original, or if it would do the same even with the battery removed - and I can't use the original 1A chargers as they are 100V only).
Generally speaking, the amperage on chargers and other power supplies only matters if there's some kind of communication protocol to allow them to tell the thing you plug into them how much is safe to draw. Otherwise, the amperage rating is just saying "the thing you plug into me had better not draw more than this or I might blow a fuse/catch fire/etc." (Ohm's law says that the amps are determined by the output voltage of the supply and the resistance of the load you plug into it. In water metaphor, the rate of flow is controlled by the pressure from the supply and the diameter of the tube.)
Omg thank you so much 💖 This video like a breath of fresh air. I am from Ukraine and currently with a group of people watching this in air strike shelter. Thank you for such calm and somber time⭐
@@kaitlyn__L Thank You 💕 If you want - you can 💖 Just knowing about your support means a lot. Really. So... Most sincere thank You 💕 Best wishes for You ☀️
I live in Essex England and Thames water is the company I have to pay for my water. We had Acorn Computers in my school up until I left in 1999 but they were Risc PC's at that point. When I started at that school we had Archimedes A5000 I think.
I remember that Creative Surround Station! I worked for the support center in Stillwater, OK (back when it was there) and remember seeing this setup in our office!
Take good care of that keystick. Scored many goals with it in the past. And speaking of IBM speakers, just released a video on some IBM Aptiva computer monitors. Ahh, go figure.
27:36 Back in 2012 when I was still in uni a housemate of mine complained that one of their compsci lecturers who was about to retire refused to update his course and it essentially required you to have a computer with a parallel/serial port to do his coursework. Even then, the first gen Core i chips were a fair few years old.
That Libretto 100CT is a lil MMX powerhouse! I have two and love them like my children! (don't tell my ACTUAL child that, although she wouldn't be shocked) :)
Um… By the way… the bad news is the not-famous Japanese dark fantasy web game Eden's Ritter Glenze collabs with Asuka 120%. The reason why I called it bad news is because Eden’s Ritter Glenze has an alternate R-18/NSFW version besides the non-NSFW version, and the developers of Eden’s Ritter Glenze confirm that three Asuka 120% heroines they collab with will have their own NSFW scenes in Eden’s Ritter Glenze. It appears that Eden developers borrowed Asuka 120%'s IP/copyright temporarily from present Asuka 120% developers/copyright owners… But the good news are: 1. There’s gonna be a remake for the first Asuka 120% games, and 2. There’s gonna be a new 3D based sequel for Asuka 120%, most likely it’s SFW hopefully, as they will have online multiplayer mode. 🙏
In my last year of primary school ('94-'95) there was an Acorn Archimedes in my class. Probably still had some of the BBC Acorns too. Those old things stuck around a long time.
Yeah same here . We had Archimedes until I left in 95. Still remember playing paperboy on the BBC . Had one room of windows pc running 3.1 and some other green screen machines. I don't know if macs ever really made it into UK schools in the 90s
I finished primary school in England in '96 and it was all Acorns - A3020s and 3000s, and some BBC Micros in the younger classes. The secondary school I went to had just got a load of Windows 95 PCs from RM, while one computer room was still all Acorn Archimedes with a Nexus network. Some BBC Micros were still floating around throughout the late '90s
That anime fighting game looks suspiciously like a naughty game, but after a quick Google, it isn't. I'm almost disappointed, those naughty games were nearly always so bad they're good.
After binging all the unboxing episodes, seeing one posted just two days ago is actually great timing! I love yer videos man, keep up the great content! I have yet to find a proper source of income so I have to get my retro computing fix from your videos, and they essentially keep me from wasting what little money I have buying old retro tech just to experience the childhood I never had. I definitely wish I was born in the 90s(or even the 80s) rather than 2001, just so I could have experienced the golden age of tech! Regardless, thank you for bringing us the experience some of us might never experience otherwise!
Oh wow, that CD-ROM drive! I had a 1X one of those as my first CD-ROM drive. Thing was finicky as Hell and wouldn't read even some commercial CDs. But I agree, using it was SO satisfying! :)
Just to say, BBC Micros and Acorn machines were used in the UK well into 1996/97 from what I can remember. After that I moved onto a school that was using mostly windows stuff and then one that had the old coloured iMacs (at least for a while)
!We had Archimedes machines at secondary school a while into the 2000's, they only got their first windows machines in 1998/9 (PII 300? with Win98(SE?)) and they were primarily to the two computer rooms, replacing A7000 machines that were originally purchased with a grant from Acorn themselves, when they got replaced by XP machines they ended up being relocated to regular classrooms primarily for the new computerised register system. They also had the full network system and had two? RISC PC's as network servers, which were still there unused when I left I believe and Econet sockets dotted around the place (you didn't need that many as you daisy-chained machines). I know in one of the IT rooms there was a small cupboard full of A3XXX machines and my GCSE electronics prodject used an A7000 PSU! In a lotof ways Acorn machines were ideal for classroom use as the most damage you could really do to one is erase/meddle with the configuration settings, the OS beimg on ROM was impossible to delete or really be affected by viruses, especially on units without a HDD.
Re: your comment at 31:00: in England, we had Acorn computers in schools right up to the very late 90s. My school had a lot of Acorn 3000 series machines. Played a lot of SimCity and Mavis Beacon on those.
Me at 38:38 : Wait, what....? Is it really...? WHOOOOOOAAAAAAA!!!! YES, YES, YES, YES!!!! I had that keystick in the 90's, got it as a christmas present. I'm looking for ages to find one again... great to see one still around.
@@CaptainZombeh Dunno about this one but on the gog digital version they made it so if you have keyboard and controller connected you need to switch to your keyboard which is genius cos you have huge disadvantage of using unfamiliar controls. edit: it seems that gog version its just this but with added vr missions
But you probably learnt more than with newer computers. The Raspberry Pi was invented because IT classes had descended to "This is how you use Microsoft Office".
RE: 30:55 ... we had acorn computers in 96 for a year or so before we got windows PCs. Funny, we used to play James Pond on them ... but not this Thames Water version! Swindon is very close to my home town.
When I started at my high school in 1999 there were four Acorn Archimedes still kicking around, on which we played Math Circus, The Land of Um and I want to say Lemmings but I may be conflating things there. I had never, ever encountered an Archimedes before but was very, very intrigued by these strange computers tucked away in the corners of a few of the maths wing classrooms. The whole school ran on an NT 4-ish(?) network otherwise, loads of Windows computers (for which I was grateful, I'd just moved from New South Wales where the Department of Education was very much in bed with Apple). But yeah, these four Archimedes, just kind of sitting there, getting used every now and then.
Love those old flip clocks. My dad got one when he was in high school (sometime in the early 70's) that lasted till 1992 when it stopped working. Was reminded of it about this time last year when Technology Connections did a video about them. Think it was titled "Why These Aren't Digital" or The Digital Clocks Aren't Digital". I would link it if UA-cam didn't delete shared URL's.
That clock is awesome! I had one almost identical to it for a number of years, but it just had a tiny light bulb to light up the time, not a black light with luminescent numbers... VERY cool! Hope to hear the nasty sound of that alarm in a future video (if it's as awful as mine was).
Had one also, as a kid. White plastic case, Philips I think. Stood right next to my bed. Made a snoring noise, all day, all night. I always tried to stay awake and see the flop to the next full hour or echo numbers: 22:22, 23:23; 0:00
I unknowingly used an Apple II in a school as late as 2007, in a second or third grade classroom. The teacher made it clear to put the game in before powering on, and one of the few games there was a Number Munchers one. There were some older PowerPC macs as well, if I recall correctly...
did not expect to see someone sending clint a king gizzard vinyl, much less demos vol. 1+2. super dope though. that clip of evil death roll playing filled me with a childlike glee
Oh yea, I remember referbishing one of those Libretto once. Might have been that 100 version you have. Pretty neat to see those sort of oddball design from those, huh?
32:09 Thats the first game in the Asuka 120% PC franchise. There's a total of 5 games all together and it was released up to 1999. Of course we in the States never got any official release and im not sure of its rarity in Japan. But hey, as a Street Fighter clone, it looks pretty cool
IDK if it's been brought up but 31:24 'asuka 120% return' part of a series of anime fighters for Japanese systems (I believe there's been at least one on PC Engine/CD and a PSX/Saturn one?)
I remember getting my first Mac in 2008, and realizing they don't have the spiral-bound manuals anymore. I was a sad panda. The Mac was great thankfully! I desperately wanted a Toshiba Libretto in 2007-2008, but had to settle for something like the Fujitsu Lifebook. People had never seen a computer that small, and it was an instant conversation starter. Life before Netbooks! Almost forgot to turn on the snarky subtitles..."chuckles in dust bunnies"
@2:06 mark you say that the inputs are inverted. At some point navigation from cell phones started bleeding onto other devices and it can get quite frustrating if you have a mix of old and new hardware and frequently switch between the two. Cell phone navigation is "data-oriented" rather than "control-oriented". When you gesture scroll upwards on a phone you'll move the screen content up and the scrollbar down. The person that designed the game menu is applying the same logic. When you press down you are moving the list not the chevrons. On my old Lenovo X220 if I gesture swipe upwards (two fingers) on the touchpad within Chrome it will move the scroll bar upwards moving the screen content down. On my newer Lenovo P1 gen 3 the same gesture in Chrome will move the page contents upward and the scrollbar down.
@@kaitlyn__L It actually never really bothers me too much to do anything about it. I only ever notice it whenever I'm moving frequently between two machines that have the opposite default behavior. I typically just figure out which way is up and move on from there.
I still used an A3020 in school till around 97 then they started slowly phasing them out for PC's, in the UK anyway, it had a ECONET, we also had a few RISC PC's and some other various models, I think the "server" was an A5000, but this was all a while ago now!
@@jackrmcconnell I can't remember the make of our PC's, they were too running 95 and Office 95/97 I expect they were the same or very similar being education etc, we had some very early "WANG" branded PC's in the maths suite but they were only ever used by 1 teacher as far as I recall they were there when I started secondary in 95 I think they were DOS or 3.1, the later ones were just grey boxes I remember one had dial up internet and they put a lock on the phone line to disable it.
CHEERS CLINT!!!! Thank you for sharing in all the great "near-retro" stuff that you not only find, but that people share with you. You've brought back A LOT of memories to not just me, but I'm sure LOADS of your audience too!!! Wishing you the BEST OF LUCKL on the upcoming changes and I hope things go smoothly for you!!! See you soon!!! :D
Truly amazing what these pioneers went through to make these computing powerhouses as accessible to the general public. All I use my computer for nowadays is watching Age of Empires 2 tournaments and hardcore pornography.
Not sure what 80s car that could be. I remember the wave of LEDs and LCDs and VFDs (especially vfd clocks) that sprouted by the 80s. Never mind the digital dashboards. The 1984 Corvette seemed so cool and futuristic … at the time. Then reality set in.
31:13 OH HEY! Asuka 120%! Waddaya know, I just did a big 'ol retrospective on that on my channel (like literally a few days ago)! It's actually a FANTASTIC and highly influential 2D fighting game! Alas what you have there is the last, and worst, game in the series. The original developers went out of business around 1997-1998 and the publisher had another developer continue on for two more games: Final on PS1 and Returns on PC. Unfortunately Returns is incredibly jank and runs very slow. That said it's also a pain to get ahold of and run because old Japanese PC stuff is hard to get ahold of and run.
My high school still had some Archimedes by the time I left in 1998. I don't recall which classes used them, as there were quite a variety of machines in different departments. The Art dept had a single solitary Amiga 2000 that sat in a cupboard unloved and unused. The computing classes were instead all kitted out with early 90s Macs of various kinds - if you were lucky you got one of the faster 030 models. There were also still a lot of BBC Micros in use, particularly in the CDT dept where they were still being used for CNC machines and stuff like that. I remember using Econet with a shared printer and disk drive, if anyone remembers that.
I left primary school in '96 and Archimedes were still king. Remember the first CD unit arriving in '94, the 'internet computer' in the library in '95/96 and a Acorn Risc PC with some sort of sound capture interface/microphone. Not a trace of an Archimedes when I went into secondary school, just the remains of Econet boxes and the cables having a hundred layers of paint on them that you could peel off in the back of the class.
Also forgot that every Archimedes in our school (one/two per classroom) was paired with either a mono or colour HP Deskjet 500 series, if you wanted a colour print you put the file on the disk and had to go to another classroom and ask nicely...
I had an Archimedes 3010 as my first proper computer. we had a few in my highschool, all the computer classes were done on 386s though. I quite liked it, but it was a bitch to get games for.
somehow managed to never see a BBC or anything acorn at school (uk - late 80s onwards)! only 480Z and then RM nimbuses. Seems they were everywhere else!
In reference to the James Pond edutainment title, I'm from the UK and we had Acorn Archemedes in High School for the first few years, so that would have been 95 to about 97, I even remember them having a RISC PC sat in a corner and the grumpy IT guy being very excited about them. We then moved to Windows 98 machines built in bulk by some local company; we even had a TFT flat panel in the library, it was... awful.
USPS likes to thank LGR for keeping a whole post office employed with all the packages he receives.
😂
1.) He might have a spot reserved at the USPS.
2.) I’m waiting for someone to mail him a mainframe through the mail..
To be fair he said that’s 5 months so it’s not really that much
@@Thinker77 It'll happen someday.
@@Thinker77 A Mainframe that arrives upside down and with damage to the parcel.. :D
Time flies in a very strange way. Every time you're like "I haven't done one of these in 5 months!" I'm like "there's no way it's been that long, I was JUST watching one" - and I go back and check, and lo and behold, yep, it's been 5 months. WTF
Tell me about it 😞
I came here thinking the same thing
indeed
DONT REMIND ME. GOD, GETTING OLDER BLOOWWWSSSSS
the older we get, the passage of time starts to feel halved, then halved again and so on. scary stuff
We still had BBC Micros in our school until around 1998. There were still a few kicking around after they were replaced with Macintoshes.
Fun fact about the school computer comment, my elementary school had a lab of Apple IIe machines, usually referred to as "the younger kids computer lab" until around 2003 when the building was tipped over and rebuilt. For a long time I figured the Apple IIe was just a contemporary computer for 2001 when I was using it, I had no clue how old they were by then
Nearly an hour of procrastination! Thanks, LGR!!
Worth it tho
What a good way to unwind after work on a friday. Also I know I've seen it said before but I really appreciate the work that goes into your subtitles, "laughs in miniature" got a good chuckle
APS, the manufacturer of the external hard drive assembly for the Mac clone you got, actually made Mac clones themselves. The machines were called M Power, but they are exceedingly rare, as shortly after the late 1996 announcement they had been chosen to make the clones, they were bought out by the Canadian provider of all stuff Mac, LaCie.
I used to have that exact clock-radio beside my bed when I was a kid. Those flip-clocks with the neon numbers are still the raddest thing ever.
the aptiva speakers and keyboard ! i had the same in the late 90's
LGR and King Gizz! The crossover I never knew I wanted!
Hello fellow gizzhead!! Omnium Gatherum is amazing!! Just listened to it an hour ago.
@@funcamp_ltd. It's fantastic!
had this vid playing in the background and my ears shot up when he said king gizzard, holy shit
I'm not even intrigued by vintage technology, or so I thought. Yet here I am, 36 videos of yours watched in a week, more in the queue. Never, EVER change.
The PowerPC always reminds me of the time when I was interviewing for a tech job. I commented to the interviewer about the PowerPC sitting at his desk. His reply was, "No, it's a Mac."
Nice Cavalier
-ITS A CHEVY!!
PowerPC is the name of the processor. Motorola's mac clone was called the StarMax.
@@the_kombinator "nice cavalier" said by no one ever.
@@godslayer1415 LOL you're too young I guess for the Z24s with the 60 degree V6s. "Nice Cavalier" was heard by my ears many, many times two decades or so ago.
@@the_kombinator
I used to have a (bright blue) '91 Cavalier RS some years ago, and sure it had a few issues (including some MN car cancer) but the little 4 cylinder always got me from A to B. It even fired right up on a particularly cold ( -24° F) February late evening... And it pretty much always got around 25 MPG.
I really miss that little beast sometimes.
Thames Water is the water company that runs the water utility for London, I didn't know they had hired James Pond to do their "wet work" but that may explain why they charge me over £1000pa for something that constantly falls out of the sky in huge quantities for free in England.
As a fellow UK viewer I totally have the same question
Ah yes that finally explains you and your brother's names, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Clint 😃
That Gunship single is one of my favorites! I’m surprised to see that pop up.
The Libretto 100CT has a NiMH CMOS battery from what I recall, so removing and replacing that should be a priority as it will probably have started to leak at this point, unless you know it has already been done. Looks like that one has escaped the common fault of having lines down the left of the screen, which is very common on the 7.1" TFTs that Toshiba used in the 100CT/110CT and ff1100. Also worth noting that the 100CT actually has a very early widescreen display of 800x480 - one of the most obvious differences from the previous models, which had a 6.1" 640x480 display.
The older Librettos (70CT and earlier) won't even display anything on the screen unless they've got a good HDD, but Toshiba had fixed that for the later ones like that 100CT.
I've actually just completed my Libretto collection, with at least one from every generation - although I don't yet have a working 20CT, as that model has a bad habit of blowing fuses (I'm not 100% sure if it's just because it was trying to charge on a stronger amperage charger than the original, or if it would do the same even with the battery removed - and I can't use the original 1A chargers as they are 100V only).
Stepdown stuff might be useful/more powerful fuses to prevent them poppin on using stronger amperage chargers
Generally speaking, the amperage on chargers and other power supplies only matters if there's some kind of communication protocol to allow them to tell the thing you plug into them how much is safe to draw. Otherwise, the amperage rating is just saying "the thing you plug into me had better not draw more than this or I might blow a fuse/catch fire/etc." (Ohm's law says that the amps are determined by the output voltage of the supply and the resistance of the load you plug into it. In water metaphor, the rate of flow is controlled by the pressure from the supply and the diameter of the tube.)
Omg thank you so much 💖 This video like a breath of fresh air. I am from Ukraine and currently with a group of people watching this in air strike shelter. Thank you for such calm and somber time⭐
@@kaitlyn__L Thank You 💕 If you want - you can 💖 Just knowing about your support means a lot. Really. So... Most sincere thank You 💕 Best wishes for You ☀️
I live in Essex England and Thames water is the company I have to pay for my water. We had Acorn Computers in my school up until I left in 1999 but they were Risc PC's at that point. When I started at that school we had Archimedes A5000 I think.
Find someone that looks at you like LGR looks at a 70's woodgrain radio clock and you have truly found your soulmate!
I remember that Creative Surround Station! I worked for the support center in Stillwater, OK (back when it was there) and remember seeing this setup in our office!
Take good care of that keystick. Scored many goals with it in the past.
And speaking of IBM speakers, just released a video on some IBM Aptiva computer monitors. Ahh, go figure.
Certainly will, thank you again for sending it over!
the tiny arcades aren't known for any accuracy. however the tv looks a little like the Simpsons tv.
27:36 Back in 2012 when I was still in uni a housemate of mine complained that one of their compsci lecturers who was about to retire refused to update his course and it essentially required you to have a computer with a parallel/serial port to do his coursework. Even then, the first gen Core i chips were a fair few years old.
You NEED to immediately start a new video on "The Ultimate In Christian Software"... that's hilarious 😂
Love these mail videos. Thanks for uploading them!
Thanks for watching them!
I am so jealous of that clock man, great vid!
44:02 Looks like the power supply is set to 230V, in case you missed it ....
As soon as I saw that, I went to check the comments and leave one if nobody else mentioned it
Jippii. Another great moment.
Here we gooo!!! 👍
Subtitles said "Chuckling in miniature"?
In? 😂🤣
What a weird thing to say... or write. 😄
I was in a rush and cleaning stuff out and didn't blow out that old mac clone. I feel exposed 😅, sorry about that Clint!
That Libretto 100CT is a lil MMX powerhouse! I have two and love them like my children! (don't tell my ACTUAL child that, although she wouldn't be shocked) :)
ive downloaded those asuka 120% characters for mugen so many times lol
I love Asuka 120%! Jealous you got a physical copy.
Me too!
Um… By the way… the bad news is the not-famous Japanese dark fantasy web game Eden's Ritter Glenze collabs with Asuka 120%. The reason why I called it bad news is because Eden’s Ritter Glenze has an alternate R-18/NSFW version besides the non-NSFW version, and the developers of Eden’s Ritter Glenze confirm that three Asuka 120% heroines they collab with will have their own NSFW scenes in Eden’s Ritter Glenze. It appears that Eden developers borrowed Asuka 120%'s IP/copyright temporarily from present Asuka 120% developers/copyright owners…
But the good news are:
1. There’s gonna be a remake for the first Asuka 120% games, and
2. There’s gonna be a new 3D based sequel for Asuka 120%, most likely it’s SFW hopefully, as they will have online multiplayer mode. 🙏
I was so disappointed that the tiny arcade needed batteries- and so delighted when the next scene was "the batteries are already in there".
In my last year of primary school ('94-'95) there was an Acorn Archimedes in my class. Probably still had some of the BBC Acorns too. Those old things stuck around a long time.
Yeah same here . We had Archimedes until I left in 95. Still remember playing paperboy on the BBC . Had one room of windows pc running 3.1 and some other green screen machines. I don't know if macs ever really made it into UK schools in the 90s
I finished primary school in England in '96 and it was all Acorns - A3020s and 3000s, and some BBC Micros in the younger classes. The secondary school I went to had just got a load of Windows 95 PCs from RM, while one computer room was still all Acorn Archimedes with a Nexus network. Some BBC Micros were still floating around throughout the late '90s
You probably don't want to put the alarm clock next to your bed. Those old "glow in the dark" things are usually radioactive.
There's the Libretto!!
That anime fighting game looks suspiciously like a naughty game, but after a quick Google, it isn't. I'm almost disappointed, those naughty games were nearly always so bad they're good.
idk about that, I've played a good number of genuinely fun to play hentai games.
@@kaitlyn__L And "good number" does imply more than just a couple exceptions.
Re: Sidewinder - there was a bin in Redwest D (or E?) where prototype recycling went. Probably in a few of the labs. They were often scavenged.
18:55 now I know why Clint is the only boy who could ever reach me...
After binging all the unboxing episodes, seeing one posted just two days ago is actually great timing! I love yer videos man, keep up the great content! I have yet to find a proper source of income so I have to get my retro computing fix from your videos, and they essentially keep me from wasting what little money I have buying old retro tech just to experience the childhood I never had. I definitely wish I was born in the 90s(or even the 80s) rather than 2001, just so I could have experienced the golden age of tech! Regardless, thank you for bringing us the experience some of us might never experience otherwise!
Oh wow, that CD-ROM drive! I had a 1X one of those as my first CD-ROM drive. Thing was finicky as Hell and wouldn't read even some commercial CDs. But I agree, using it was SO satisfying! :)
Glorious, this pops up just when I'm about to eat food
Ooooh 50 minutes of LGR unboxing, now that's a treat!! 😻
Just to say, BBC Micros and Acorn machines were used in the UK well into 1996/97 from what I can remember. After that I moved onto a school that was using mostly windows stuff and then one that had the old coloured iMacs (at least for a while)
Can confirm. My school had Acorns as late as 96/97. I distinctly remember playing Arcventure on the Acorn in summer 1996
"I appreciate the dedication to making it look like crap" 😂
Dude that GE flip clock is a thing of beauty. As Indy would say “it belongs in a museum” but your shelf is just as good.
That’s my clock! Thank you for the kind words, I hope Clint enjoys it for many years to come!
That clone made my allergies flair up from just looking at the internals! 😂😂🤙🤙
@11:28 We did alot of construction in black mountain. Lol. For example the waltgreents. That place is a special level of whaa....TF
!We had Archimedes machines at secondary school a while into the 2000's, they only got their first windows machines in 1998/9 (PII 300? with Win98(SE?)) and they were primarily to the two computer rooms, replacing A7000 machines that were originally purchased with a grant from Acorn themselves, when they got replaced by XP machines they ended up being relocated to regular classrooms primarily for the new computerised register system.
They also had the full network system and had two? RISC PC's as network servers, which were still there unused when I left I believe and Econet sockets dotted around the place (you didn't need that many as you daisy-chained machines).
I know in one of the IT rooms there was a small cupboard full of A3XXX machines and my GCSE electronics prodject used an A7000 PSU!
In a lotof ways Acorn machines were ideal for classroom use as the most damage you could really do to one is erase/meddle with the configuration settings, the OS beimg on ROM was impossible to delete or really be affected by viruses, especially on units without a HDD.
Dude that GE clock is just so nice! Love it! The glow it has is just perfection
That was my clock! Glad you liked it, made my week!
King Gizz is such a great Aussie band 🙌🏼🙌🏼
They rock! Best ozzy metal band...🤘
@@NathanChisholm041 they’re amazing live too!
This lad needs an ASMR channel with jazz and just talking. I have tourettes and you put me at ease man
Re: your comment at 31:00: in England, we had Acorn computers in schools right up to the very late 90s. My school had a lot of Acorn 3000 series machines. Played a lot of SimCity and Mavis Beacon on those.
Me at 38:38 : Wait, what....? Is it really...? WHOOOOOOAAAAAAA!!!! YES, YES, YES, YES!!!! I had that keystick in the 90's, got it as a christmas present. I'm looking for ages to find one again... great to see one still around.
north carolina looks really nice judging by the photos in that book, i always like forests and nature and some of those photos look really beautiful
i saw you have "Metal Gear Solid" for PC, i'd love to see a review on it one day!
I always wondered how you defeat Psycho Mantis on the PC port.
@@CaptainZombeh Dunno about this one but on the gog digital version they made it so if you have keyboard and controller connected you need to switch to your keyboard which is genius cos you have huge disadvantage of using unfamiliar controls. edit: it seems that gog version its just this but with added vr missions
@@CaptainZombeh just git gud scrub
I was in secondary school in the UK in the 90s and our GCSE IT class has Acorn computers. It was a pretty poor school though.
But you probably learnt more than with newer computers. The Raspberry Pi was invented because IT classes had descended to "This is how you use Microsoft Office".
RE: 30:55 ... we had acorn computers in 96 for a year or so before we got windows PCs. Funny, we used to play James Pond on them ... but not this Thames Water version! Swindon is very close to my home town.
James Pond on the Acorn‽ 😍
(My schools still had them until the early 2000s)
I look forward to the next mail time video. These and LGR Thrifts are some of my favorite videos
*chuckles in dust bunnies*
I love watching with closed captioning.
When I started at my high school in 1999 there were four Acorn Archimedes still kicking around, on which we played Math Circus, The Land of Um and I want to say Lemmings but I may be conflating things there. I had never, ever encountered an Archimedes before but was very, very intrigued by these strange computers tucked away in the corners of a few of the maths wing classrooms. The whole school ran on an NT 4-ish(?) network otherwise, loads of Windows computers (for which I was grateful, I'd just moved from New South Wales where the Department of Education was very much in bed with Apple). But yeah, these four Archimedes, just kind of sitting there, getting used every now and then.
Love those old flip clocks. My dad got one when he was in high school (sometime in the early 70's) that lasted till 1992 when it stopped working. Was reminded of it about this time last year when Technology Connections did a video about them.
Think it was titled "Why These Aren't Digital" or The Digital Clocks Aren't Digital". I would link it if UA-cam didn't delete shared URL's.
That clock is awesome! I had one almost identical to it for a number of years, but it just had a tiny light bulb to light up the time, not a black light with luminescent numbers... VERY cool! Hope to hear the nasty sound of that alarm in a future video (if it's as awful as mine was).
Had one also, as a kid. White plastic case, Philips I think. Stood right next to my bed. Made a snoring noise, all day, all night. I always tried to stay awake and see the flop to the next full hour or echo numbers: 22:22, 23:23; 0:00
I unknowingly used an Apple II in a school as late as 2007, in a second or third grade classroom. The teacher made it clear to put the game in before powering on, and one of the few games there was a Number Munchers one. There were some older PowerPC macs as well, if I recall correctly...
That Atari shag carpet wood wall everythingness was amazing.
*Looks at files on floppy album*
“Impressive Compression”
what a great name for a band.
El Huervo's stuff is fantastic, I totally dig the "Do Not Lay Waste to Homes" EP.
god I love king gizzard. so fun to play on bass
They still had Archimedes at my school in the mid/late 90's, although PC's were mainly used.
The James Pond - Thames Water - Archimedes - Mashup was all kinds of levels of nostalgia for me.
did not expect to see someone sending clint a king gizzard vinyl, much less demos vol. 1+2. super dope though. that clip of evil death roll playing filled me with a childlike glee
same
Hearing the riff woke me up from a nap and I immediately thought who's playing King Gizzard lol
same!
Oh yea, I remember referbishing one of those Libretto once. Might have been that 100 version you have. Pretty neat to see those sort of oddball design from those, huh?
32:09 Thats the first game in the Asuka 120% PC franchise. There's a total of 5 games all together and it was released up to 1999. Of course we in the States never got any official release and im not sure of its rarity in Japan. But hey, as a Street Fighter clone, it looks pretty cool
It's not a Street Fighter clone
IDK if it's been brought up but 31:24 'asuka 120% return' part of a series of anime fighters for Japanese systems (I believe there's been at least one on PC Engine/CD and a PSX/Saturn one?)
The Cybereality album was a sign to make some vaporwave content for the channel 😏
I remember getting my first Mac in 2008, and realizing they don't have the spiral-bound manuals anymore. I was a sad panda. The Mac was great thankfully!
I desperately wanted a Toshiba Libretto in 2007-2008, but had to settle for something like the Fujitsu Lifebook. People had never seen a computer that small, and it was an instant conversation starter. Life before Netbooks!
Almost forgot to turn on the snarky subtitles..."chuckles in dust bunnies"
18:33 "Good for you." - has been a while since I audibly guffawed during a YT video :D
That Libretto is an actual PC? I thought it was a toy! It’s so tiny!
That is one of the big ones. The 50CT is smaller. The first laptop I bought :-)
@2:06 mark you say that the inputs are inverted. At some point navigation from cell phones started bleeding onto other devices and it can get quite frustrating if you have a mix of old and new hardware and frequently switch between the two. Cell phone navigation is "data-oriented" rather than "control-oriented". When you gesture scroll upwards on a phone you'll move the screen content up and the scrollbar down. The person that designed the game menu is applying the same logic. When you press down you are moving the list not the chevrons.
On my old Lenovo X220 if I gesture swipe upwards (two fingers) on the touchpad within Chrome it will move the scroll bar upwards moving the screen content down.
On my newer Lenovo P1 gen 3 the same gesture in Chrome will move the page contents upward and the scrollbar down.
That now makes it make so much sense! Thank you! 💯
@@kaitlyn__L It actually never really bothers me too much to do anything about it. I only ever notice it whenever I'm moving frequently between two machines that have the opposite default behavior. I typically just figure out which way is up and move on from there.
I still used an A3020 in school till around 97 then they started slowly phasing them out for PC's, in the UK anyway, it had a ECONET, we also had a few RISC PC's and some other various models, I think the "server" was an A5000, but this was all a while ago now!
That sounds familiar. I know our school upgraded their suite from Acorn 3000 series machines to RM Computers running Windows 95 in ~1999/2000.
@@jackrmcconnell I can't remember the make of our PC's, they were too running 95 and Office 95/97 I expect they were the same or very similar being education etc, we had some very early "WANG" branded PC's in the maths suite but they were only ever used by 1 teacher as far as I recall they were there when I started secondary in 95 I think they were DOS or 3.1, the later ones were just grey boxes I remember one had dial up internet and they put a lock on the phone line to disable it.
CHEERS CLINT!!!! Thank you for sharing in all the great "near-retro" stuff that you not only find, but that people share with you. You've brought back A LOT of memories to not just me, but I'm sure LOADS of your audience too!!!
Wishing you the BEST OF LUCKL on the upcoming changes and I hope things go smoothly for you!!! See you soon!!! :D
Please do a video on the serial scope and incorporate your synth setup! That would be awesome!
Truly amazing what these pioneers went through to make these computing powerhouses as accessible to the general public. All I use my computer for nowadays is watching Age of Empires 2 tournaments and hardcore pornography.
OOOOh that Gradius vinyl !!!! I would so love that !!
That clock radio is amazing. It looks like it could have just as easily been part of a 70s or 80s car dashboard!
Not sure what 80s car that could be. I remember the wave of LEDs and LCDs and VFDs (especially vfd clocks) that sprouted by the 80s. Never mind the digital dashboards. The 1984 Corvette seemed so cool and futuristic … at the time. Then reality set in.
Oh wow, I loved the SideWinder Dual Strike. I went through two of them LOL
31:13 OH HEY! Asuka 120%! Waddaya know, I just did a big 'ol retrospective on that on my channel (like literally a few days ago)! It's actually a FANTASTIC and highly influential 2D fighting game! Alas what you have there is the last, and worst, game in the series. The original developers went out of business around 1997-1998 and the publisher had another developer continue on for two more games: Final on PS1 and Returns on PC. Unfortunately Returns is incredibly jank and runs very slow. That said it's also a pain to get ahold of and run because old Japanese PC stuff is hard to get ahold of and run.
Haha, you should look for Number Stations on that analog clock/radio thing.
I always enjoy a good unboxing video. Some nice stuff there! Mac clone from Motorola, that's a first for me. Great video.
KING GIZZARD! HELL YEAH Clint your life will not be the same.
Check out their ENORMOUS and PROLIFIC discography.
The Atart thing was pretty neat.. though yeah, Pac-Man didn't sound right to me either (as someone who played it in the 80s)
My wife and I got lost hiking Mount Mitchell lol
Oh - I didn’t know Clint was moving? When was that a thing?
My high school still had some Archimedes by the time I left in 1998. I don't recall which classes used them, as there were quite a variety of machines in different departments. The Art dept had a single solitary Amiga 2000 that sat in a cupboard unloved and unused. The computing classes were instead all kitted out with early 90s Macs of various kinds - if you were lucky you got one of the faster 030 models. There were also still a lot of BBC Micros in use, particularly in the CDT dept where they were still being used for CNC machines and stuff like that. I remember using Econet with a shared printer and disk drive, if anyone remembers that.
I finished high school too in the mid 90s. I remember playing “where in the world is Carmen Sandiego in the late 80s/90s in school.
I left primary school in '96 and Archimedes were still king. Remember the first CD unit arriving in '94, the 'internet computer' in the library in '95/96 and a Acorn Risc PC with some sort of sound capture interface/microphone. Not a trace of an Archimedes when I went into secondary school, just the remains of Econet boxes and the cables having a hundred layers of paint on them that you could peel off in the back of the class.
Also forgot that every Archimedes in our school (one/two per classroom) was paired with either a mono or colour HP Deskjet 500 series, if you wanted a colour print you put the file on the disk and had to go to another classroom and ask nicely...
I had an Archimedes 3010 as my first proper computer. we had a few in my highschool, all the computer classes were done on 386s though. I quite liked it, but it was a bitch to get games for.
somehow managed to never see a BBC or anything acorn at school (uk - late 80s onwards)! only 480Z and then RM nimbuses. Seems they were everywhere else!
In reference to the James Pond edutainment title, I'm from the UK and we had Acorn Archemedes in High School for the first few years, so that would have been 95 to about 97, I even remember them having a RISC PC sat in a corner and the grumpy IT guy being very excited about them. We then moved to Windows 98 machines built in bulk by some local company; we even had a TFT flat panel in the library, it was... awful.
Hey not all of us have secrets. How dare you! We had secrets before they were secrets! Now get away from my van. - Seattle people
I'm in Australia, my school had 2 Acorn computers in each classroom, and they were in use until replaced by Apple iMac G3's around 1999/2000.
That is a lot of retro stuff! Nice vid btw
Really enjoy these unboxing videos. I all so had a Dazzle video capture box thing for my Windows 98SE.