Thrift Store Finds! Records, Tapes, Gadgets and More!
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- The databits channel is pleased to provide you with the best in new tech, vintage and oddity gadgets, media formats, repair projects, electronic experiments and restorations of thrift store finds. There are also many "how to" and instructional titles. The goal is to search through garage sales, antique malls and resale shops for gadgets you didn't know existed, electronic toys you had as a kid, stereo or turntables your parents used or a film projector your school used to teach you valuable lessons. Typically we produce one video a week with several trips to a thrift store per month. Sometimes, through research, an item is searched for on ebay and purchased for review. A list of some of the most popular items watched here on the channel are: record cutting on various materials, DLP television repairs, VCR's, Camcorders, turntables, record players, records, car reviews and dictation equipment.
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Tecras and porteges of that are were TANKS Never seen on of those with the hinges broken that almost laptops if this period had. The time that the units were FROM JAPAN and last FOREVER. Palstic never gets old, never wore out. They are good workhorses. LCD DSTN display are kinda of SLOW and tend to be annoying at certain points, but I love them because they are so relaxed to work with, they dont hurt my eyes like modern displays. They are "pasive". Contrast on a rotary control is a nice detail you wont find anymore in a laptop. shame they are sort of useless now, but great notebooks.
I had at least one of those "Red Raven Movie Records" when I was a child, dating back to the middle 1950s. I also had one of the mirrored objects you spoke about. As a child it was enjoyable to watch the animations, one of which was fish jumping in and out of water. I remember one of the records was red in color. I think another one was yellow.
Yes indeed, thanks for sharing!
I had those Star Wars 8-tracks back in 1980ish and used to listen to them almost every day.
there was also a picture disk release of this aswell
You can also replace that CD-ROM drive with not only a Floppy drive, but you can put in a DVD drive.
Because windows 98 was released after DVD
DVD was released in North America in 1997
I had those Burger Chef records when I was a kid. That is so cool you found those !!!!!!!
Mike Cramp I had them as well. Mid 70's I think.
I had a Red Raven Movie Record and the mirrored device when I was a little kid!
Cool, thank you for watching!
Databits, the 2 tape drives are either QIC-40 or QIC-80 ( Quarter Inch Cartridge 40 tracks or 80 tracks ). The QIC-40 was 120 MB compressed capacity and the QIC-80 was 250 MB. compressed capacity. Fuji made EXTRA Capacity tapes that were 800 MB. and stuck out of the drive about 3 inches because the reels were HUGE. I don't have the m/c's but I do have some tapes.
8:40 - What does it sound like? My guess is the head-azimuth needs adjustment.
not going to lie in the early 00's I used to rip movies to vcd all the time so I could play them on my Dreamcast. what an era!
Wow, such fun!
how do you rip movies to vcd?
@@namesurname4666 It's been so long that I don't even remember what program I used to use. Sorry I can't be of help.
I actually have the vinyl LP of The Story of Star Wars. The record bought by my family in the '70s, I think. I was born in 1978 so I have no idea. I haven't considered uploading the digital audio transfer as Disney now owns the rights to Star Wars, and you do NOT want to mess with Disney. It is kind of nice having original Star Wars media.
i have that 'story of star wars' on vinyl...it comes with a record album sized photo album of the movie...as kids we played the crap out of that record.
Maybe the tape drive is a Ditto drive, made by the same company as the Zip drive? I had a couple of those, including one made by Sony, and those tapes were such a pain, always getting despooled. I had regular Simon but never heard of Simon Swipe or Rubik's game.
I have some of those items you have shown.. I also have the Rubiks slide..
I know this is late but Burger Chef was bought out by Hardee's some time in the 80's.
thank you
Thanks for the upload, Databits ! I enjoyed the part about the "movie record".. that is quite an old concept going back to the praxinoscope. I had to google it first, I mistook it for the zoopraxiscope which is very similar in principle.
My little boy received that Simon Swipe for Christmas 2016
There's a channel called GOZER'S DEN that demonstrates the movie records.
Goodwill takes computer parts and monitors peripherals...i was a manager of electronics dept.
The tape drive is a Travan.. It does not have the mechanics to be one of the 8MM drives.. It looks to be a Seagate STT38000 (TR-4) If they work they are worth a bit of money..
Mike, I appreciate the info. Sorry, I'm behind on commenting!
I also have the tape drives you showed as well.. Even have some tapes..
That laptop would make a great mp3 player
Wow, guess you don't get more than about a minute of sound on those Red Raven discs?
That Jimmy Neutron blurb reads like the outcome of a game of "make up the stupidest possible plot for a kid's movie", which was drunkenly greenlit. Still, neat to see an actual official VCD.
SVCD is often preferred as a bootleg format where MPG4 / Divx or just plain DVDR isn't practical, as it uses MPG2 encoding but about two thirds the rez of DVD. Although the recording time is rather less than VCD it's not quite half, and you can often still fit a shorter film onto two discs, and rarely you need to go to three (LOTR being a rare 4-disc, but worth it because the length of the film means you'd probably need to use 3 plain VCDs anyway, and the resolution would be much higher - I remember making my own customised VBR single-disc VCD of it as a challenge, and with MPEG1 resolution and non-anamorphic encoding of the cinemascope letterboxed version you got about 144 lines of vertical resolution (taking the bitrate hit to fit an anamorphic version over two discs got you closer to 192 lines... but was a bit pointless when it was only going to get played on a 4:3 CRT anyway)... SVCD would double that, and boost the horizontal rez by about a third too).
And CDRs are quicker to copy and more widely compatible than DVDR (and most DVD players should be able to handle it). Or at least that was the case last time I paid the format any attention, like more than 10 years ago... I doubt anyone's actively bootlegging into that format for any market other than the dwindling stock of SVCD compatible VCD players and computers with only CDROM drives.
Until now I never even knew anyone made non-Iomega branded Zip disks. Even though I was still actively using an internal Zip100 in 2002-2003 (CDRs still being a bit hit and miss, and USB memory sticks not yet being a thing), every last disc I had was Iomega branded, never saw any offered by other makers.
The tape drives probably just take plain QIC cartridges. Travan was a bit of an oddity IIRC in that it essentially took the QIC format and... bulked it out a bit, to no identifiable benefit. We had an Iomega Ditto for a while, which was a terrible Travan based PoS, and the cassettes and the slot for them were large enough that it had to be installed in a 5.25" bay - as opposed to the drives you have there which are clearly 3.5" mechanisms in rather empty looking 5.25" adaptors.
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do you think that the technics amps might have been blown due to overload at max vol? metalhead kid maybe?
I'm extremely skeptical that a 1996 laptop would have 128mb onboard, that's more like what its maximum upgrade would be. Toshiba were terrible for undersupplying their laptops with RAM, you might have only 16 or 24mb in there, maybe 32mb at most; a competing machine I have of just a few months earlier maxes out at just 48 and came with 16 stock (+ a 32mb upgrade = 48).
If it's reporting more than that, it may have been upgraded in a secondary slot - I've had machines with one slot on the underside, and another under the keyboard (have to partly unscrew the case, then undo some clips to lift the keyboard out *upwards* to reach the slot). Or maybe it's only got 12mb (the bare minimum needed to boot Win98), and you've misread where the comma separator was? :)
A Philippines Version of the vcd, nice one you have found!
Thank you!
Tecra Laptop: No insult intended, but did you think to plug it into the wall to charge it?
No, I was afraid it would explode. Of course I did.
I love flea markets, thrift stores, yard sales.. Anyplace I can have an opportunity to find cool stuff..
Try disconnecting the hard drive and then booting it that may possibly reset it worth a try also get an ide adaptor and connect the hd to another computer to see if its recognised it may be that the hd has died
The ZIP drive has a short video called "Because it's your stuff"
I'll have to check that out.
man i'd kill for that motherboard it'd be perfect for building a little server
supernoob17 - no need for violence, you can bid on it here: www.ebay.com/itm/262790222312
I found a Panosonic RS790S Reel to Reel player the other day
Collin S. - did you get it working?
Oh, it's working perfectly fine, aside from the fact it plays tape too fast. The tape I got with it was a bunch of radio recordings, and a guy (probably the previous owner) was saying "Testing 1 2 3..." over and over. It's a pretty sweet deal for $10
cool now i know what a quad 8 track looks like been wanting to try one out . And i got the same star wars 8 track
I have a DCR-DVD105!
Do you have a DCR-DVD650?
I could swear that simon swipe was actually happy when you got the combination right.
Jack Kraken - I know! I felt the love!
At 19'00.... Can it be a DAT-tape? At the time there was two kind of Dat-tapes, For computers and for music. Reg. Stig Österberg, Dalsbruk, South Finland.
It's definitely a backup drive of some sort.
Simon swipe = Not as irritating as Close encounters of the third kind
Here in Holland we unfortunately don't have an equivalent to thrift stores like in US so I pretty much only stuck with internet
ilcool90 - I'm so sorry. Maybe some day
kringloop?
I have both The Story of Star Wars and that soundtrack on LP record.
I recorded Jimmy neutron on VHS back in the day. never seen it on video CD
I wanna go to the thrift store
Did you repaired your panasonic AV-3605 vtr?
Alexis Roy - I have not, it's on my list!
Those backup drives aren't Sony AIT are they?
Yes I'd guess DDS/DAT as well.
DAT/ DDS go all the way into the device - they don't look deep enough and they look too wide anyway
The screen is a passive matrix screen, which is why it's milky and blurry.
kargaroc386 - that's exactly the word I could not remember, thank you!
1:56 -what? How could there be 1TB HDD in 90's laptop? :D ;)
enjoyed your video..always interested in what others find! new subscriber here :)
Cool, thank you for watching and subscribing!
i have an old tape drive of unknown origin. yours if you want ir.
that vcd you holding is from the philippines at 16:03
i wonder who bought by the previous owner.
Good question!
I love your videos keep up the good work
Christopher Raspante - thank you, the holidays limited me but I'm back on track!
You'll, be sorry with, bootleg DVD'S !!
If those VCDs have paper stuck labels, then they're going to die someday. If they're silk screened or inkjet printed, you lucked out.
the vcds are pirated
@ 12:33 Here it is in action: ua-cam.com/video/4CeS4LrqBfc/v-deo.html
News from the future: Star Wars is RIP.
You got that right.
I got a windows 95 laptop for $14
I know why the laptop doesn't work
The battery is 0%/dead
Probably it needs more power? I guess the motherboard is dead
I got a national Panasonic m7 camcorder, it worked when i got it , but when i later on put it on record mode and recorded 30 minutes , and eject the tape , it won't, and is in slow forward mode , then I tear down this thing and the i got the tape out , but before that , I unscrew a plastic screw , I think it wight need oil , but I don't think so , then I screw it back , but down the bottom, and then when I this camcorder back, and use the record mode , it makes a grinding noise, and that screw is right on to of the capstan , is the speed control screw , but it somehow interferes the head drum when recording, the screen went all gray, and the strange thing about it is that, it playbacks no problem but, only the record mode oh, and this is a VHS, so you wight can help me out .
Fang Lei When I got a Panasonic M7 camcorder, I had the same problem as soon as I plugged it in. I tried everything and eventually got it to eject the tape in there by manually pulling the tape door open after hitting eject. Turns out the tape had been in there for over 10 years and had got stuck to the inside of the unit! Ever since I got that tape out, I never had the problem again. Hope this helps!
Planet Random thank you so much!
Fang Lei don't mention it! Just 2 things to be careful about though: 1: make sure you hit eject before attempting to pull the door open, and 2: don't pull too hard on the door, or else it could come off. Happy to help and I hope this works for you!
thick toshiba laptop
For sure!
ESD bro ESD