Email him about this if you haven't.

Exactly. Interesting, that they do not start with year zero (in this case 1926 is year one, the start of Showa). See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_era_name

Whoa, you made me realize how long the Showa Era (i.e. the reigning period of said Emperor) really is

Correct as I was born in Showa 49 (1974)

That's my guess as well.

lmao true

*are still

kids learn faster than adults

So true! 😂

@@clemensgraetz Not really true today. Back then you had to know about HARWARE and SOFTWARE. Today everyone 8 to 80 really only needs to know about the apps they use. Outside of PC gamers (of all ages) whow build (or at leat customize) their own PCs, I think Generation X and early Millennials on average held the edge on knowing both the applications AND the "innards". Boomers had to learn it as adults, Xers (and early Millennials) learned it as kids and teens, in real time when this shit was all new and in great flux, and for the most part you HAD to code if you wanted software. I'm am in no way "dissing" younger folk, It's just that they were born and grew up in a time where thanks to advanced OSs and software, Shit just WORKS. An analogy: I am a late Boomer, I of course grew up with radio ALWAYS being around. My GRANDFATHER knew more ABOUT radio as he was there when it was born and you had to basically "roll your own". Sure, I knew more of the newer music and stations, but he knew how it ACTUALLY worked! My 20 something nieces and nephews still get me to do any hardware upgrades beyond anything plugged in via USB as they wouldn't "dare" open their PC! I go to THEM when I need advice on the latest app i'm trying to figure out.

New computer every 2 years?

@@paco3523 lol he rich rich

I think $25 would have been a good deal depending on your BASIC skills

That's awesome! Never underestimate the power of any technology to motivate and inspire.

Look at the pictures of the kids on the marketing material. 95% of home computers were used by one demographic of kids, white boys. Utter fantasy that these were going to be widespread used as computers, even in the white boys demographic.

Wouldn't that make it 1984 (1926 + 58)?

@@JustWasted3HoursHere Emperor Hirohito started his reign on Dec. 25, 1926, so the first year (Showa 1), was very short, and the second year started Jan. 1, 1927. In practice, a certain Japanese symbol unique to the era preceded the year number to avoid confusion, but I guess it was unnecessary or the symbol was not supported by the date code printing machine.

@@haweater1555 That's strange that the Emperor's reign goes by the calendar year rather than by the actual start of his reign. Thanks for the explanation, though.

Really glad someone else caught that it was Showa dating.

It's simultaneously disappointing and a relief when someone else has already explained what I though I could explain for everyone. 😜

@Karl Jansen don't worry, I ask him

@Karl Jansen Indeed don't worry, I also ask him.

@Karl Jansen I asked

@Karl Jansen I don't remember anyone asking for your opinion on his opinion 😁

@Karl Jansen I also ask him.

I guess I'm not the only audio head to watch the 8 bit guy. 👍

He did a terrible job! The cassette doesn't match the computer. That's the problem with retrobrite. It's just bleaching. Worse, it is a temporary fix at best. Only now it will never match because the computer has been bleached too white.

@@christo930 cry me a river... it look 100x better than before...

@@bonzainews It looked 1000 times better when it was only cleaned and not bleached. There was virtually no yellowing. It should not have been retrobrited. Basically retrobriting should never be done except under limited circumstances and especially NOT something so rare.

This brings back memories. I remembered this as if it was yesterday.

YTP fodder right here

Hmm

There are grown men that wear them and act as a baby! true story lol

Proceeds to open the box from the bottom...

@@NathanChisholm041 Well this channel is about a grown man playing with toys so...

The 𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙤𝙥 of 1983

Was going to say the same thing!

So, it's a Showa, not a Growa.

This is correct

Lol showa era.

Seinfeld laugh track ENGAGED

Maybe ctrl, or pig up?

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>PowerOS.init.EXE.Drive8 >PowerOS.initEXE2.2.execute.mode >PowerOS.execute.d8.uncontrollable_laughter >OUTPUT = >console< >console

The Simpsons reference?

I still have mine, with all 10 North American games (plus seven of the Japan-only games)

I had one too. It went to the local Auction house with other junk during spring cleaning in the early 90s. I never had any carts for it or tape drive so I couldn't save anything.

We have a section on the Atariage forum dedicated to the Tomy Tutor and comparable systems. If you are interested in technical details and homebrew multicarts then checkout: atariage.com/forums/forum/345-tomy-tutor-cc40-992-998-cortex-990-mini/

It's the only way to deal with Techmoan stalking you

Me too

+ that means me 2

@Derek can't agree more

@Derek he didn’t destroy any computer. This is destroying a computer: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptp2h6iCv6i8omw.html What he did was just a attempt to restore it but accidentally broke it (from the inside, from the outside it still looks perfectly fine.) and that also doesn’t change the fact that it was already broken so it really didn’t matter that he made it even worse. It’s just like breaking a already broken glass and then getting a lot of people mad about it.

@Derek kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ib-fo6Wb3M6qYYE.html comments open on this one. Quite a bullish response from him in here.

Me when my first zoom call of the day starts

😂

Maybe if it was Big Clive 😉

Wish I could clean that fast! Guess this is The 8-Bit Guy’s first To-my! :D. Interesting video as always. Looking forward to My Second Studio.

The retro brighting process is my fave bit lol. So satisfying!

Lol

@TutorialsByKevin Patreon early release. They get to watch the video a few hours before everybody else.

I felt the same. I was really wondering why he would even bother restoring this but it turns out its not a bad little machine at all. Little kid me back when this came out would have hated it. I was such a computer snob from the earliest 8bits believing only Commodore and Sinclair could make something worth owning.

When I first saw the thumbnail for this video, I thought this "educational computer-thing" was something that V-TECH typically made. The high retail price surprised me, thought it would be some cheap thing sold at Sears.

@@ClayMann Just don't watch the 8 Bit Guys Sinclair review. Of course the best things about the two computers you mention were the affordable price and the huge Games Catalogue. @Haweater Somehow I doubt if they sold many of these at full price. Back around 1983 every toy company thought they had to produce a computer. Mattel and Mettoy I'm looking at you.

that's me at friday afternoon

I think he meant isopropyl alcohol.

When I get home from work

When it's that dirty you definitely need some alcohols

I don't trink alcoholololoa shhdhsa

How disappointing.

@TutorialsByKevin Maybe patreon supporters can get the link earlier

Yes, I know the Romanji names are sometimes different from the actual Western-languages Latin-alphabet names.

Can someone tell me what are the 2 pronunciations? I heard the same word

@@OrloxPhoenix Toe Mee

In the modern TakaraTomy ad's (there was a merger) they say it like Tommy.

(to David) "you have bee accused of anti Soviet behavior"

and not only soviet, i've seen quite a bit of west german hifi stuff equipped only with DIN and no RCA. The standart lived a bit longer in europe, seems like it. But damn right, it stuck around in post-soviet space for way too long. We still keep a 1993 boombox my granma recieved as payment (she worked at resistor factory and in the early 90s it didn't have money for wages but stocked goods had to go somewhere) and it has nothing but those DIN connectors. I ended up soldering a DIN to 3,5 mm cable for transfering stuff and boy, those connectors are such a pain to solder.

On 99 tapes.

Are you mad?!

Wait,what?!?!?!?!

@@tap20 keanu

@@tap20 chungus

Early microcomputers often used a DIN-5 for cassette I/O (e.g. most TRS-80s, original IBM PC), but its pinout was not compatible with the DIN-5 on European audio equipment. With no need for stereo, some pins were used to control the cassette motor (remote pause), and the computer supplied microphone-level rather than line-level audio, intended to connect via a breakout cable to Ear/Mic/Remote jacks on a typical shoebox cassette deck.

@@jordanhazen7761 Haha, beat me to the TRS-80. My model 3 has one. Still works. It would probably survive a nuclear EMP.

My '70s era Sansui stereo amplifier has a 5-pin DIN jack for connecting to a tape deck, one cable for left and right line-level inputs and outputs. Obviously the Tomy Tutor wouldn't use that pinout, but I'm curious what it is set up to use. As others have said, other computers used it in some fashion.

my Sony reel to reel and most cassette deck got it. is realy superior to RCA one cable for do alls. super handy.

Also normal audio connection in western europe

Yup pretty standard cassette port for MSX computers and the TRS80 if I recall.

All of my TRS-80 stuff used that connector. Also the early IBM PC.

That DIN-5 is even used in my 1968 USSR radio as AUX port

@@user-jw9hf3hw2f Standard DIN tape/aux ports are in/out with the middle pin being ground, one side in, the other out. So it allows both recording from the radio and playback through the radio speakers. 5-pin uses the two extra pins for the other stereo channel. Everything is line level, except microphone and record player connections, which are straight from the physical sensor.

wow, I didn't know this

But is he using _denatured_ alcohol? Ethanol (grain alcohol) and Isopropyl alcohol are perfectly safe to use for cleaning in any concentration. Of course, methanol is terribly bad for you.

@@TechBench He is. You can see the label briefly, and he uses it on other videos as well. It could also be that he has a brand that uses something other than methanol for the denaturing which doesn't soak through skin.

@@alexmcd378 it has always bugged me. Like, everyone else uses isopropyl alcohol (including myself). I don't know why he uses denatured alcohol, IPA works much better for his needs

@@luansm Well, I'm using denatured as well right now, because IPA is hard to find during the pandemic, and when you do find it you can usually only buy one bottle. But it's temporary for me.

If the intro music ever changes ... I will break down and cry! 😞 Then I'll start on online petition to have it put back to its rightful place at the start of these videos. 😁

Sometimes I go back and play the intro again because it just makes me so happy.

I like the old into more. Almost nostalgic.

I can't speak for Sarah Purcell, but the correct pronunciation of the English classical composer is 'Pursle'.

It’s only been Takara-Tomy since the two companies merged in 2006 😉

@@SonOfFurzehatt In Sarah's case it's definitely pur-SELL...I'm old enough to have watched Real People back in the late 1970s (don't judge, we only had 4 channels back then, lol)

@@chrisfreemesser5707 Real People was the KZfaq of the 1970s.

Give David a break. Like me, he only speaks Texan.

Disabling comments was not exactly taking it in his stride..

@@ryballs4569 Also true.

@@ryballs4569 Do you really want the comments flooded with idiots that didn't even watch the video ranting about how he destroyed an already broken computer that they didn't even know existed until some crazy person on twitter told them to be mad about it?

I love David , Am I the only one brainstorming cartridge adapter with fusible traces for each pin to test other carts

He didn't take it well, initially. Like, at all. But he's taking the right approach now. And it's addressing one of the more reasonable things he did in that video. Honestly, there are going to be dremel jokes for the rest of his KZfaq career. It's unavoidable. And those are even partly tongue in cheek, as it's directed toward his audience, not him. Might as well try to take it stride.

How much does it internally differ from the 99/4 ? Does it still treat the address lines of the 8-bit memories as a memory mapped I/O port?

@@johndododoe1411 Yes, still 8-bit. But the better cpu the tms9995 has build in ram useful for the WP, also the onchip timer are cool. Not forget the new instructions

Note that the carbon contact restorer he _didn't_ end up using is also a CAIG product, like DeoxIT. Back in the early 80s at work we used their Cramolin product, which contained TF solvents, now banned. DeoxIT is actually multiple products, they have one that is safe for conductive plastic controls.

@@bobblum5973 TIL

I did that for my mother's casio keyboard.

Or better yet, if you can find a power brick that isn't welded closed, open it, desolder the cable, flip it, resolder it, and snap the case back together, and have something that looks pretty much stock without shrink wrap on the cable 👍

A lot of eighties stuff (if not all) uses centre negative DC plugs. Surprised that 8 bit guy doesn't have a stack of compatible adapters.

Awesome reference... but fortunately, these machines _can_ be disassembled for cleaning and repair. Given Johnny 5's limited hardware, I suspect his sentience could possibly be attributed to tin whiskers acting as neurons (see _Whisker (metallurgy)_ on Wikipedia), but that's just a hypothesis.

Disassemble??!? Dead!!

or... like the French pantomime guy: "Ohhh noo! I am ehh dammajjjjj" 😂

Johnny would be really happy to have an qualified friend refurbish after a few decades!

After the hack job from the last video? You bet.

@referral madness You would need to ask nvidia for that. But it does save a lot of time on the CPU side, as you need to update a tilemap instead of individual pixels, and give you sprites (albeit only 4 per scanline) for essentially free.

@referral madness It doesn't execute any code, so it would be best to just call it a screen buffer with sprites. There were similar circuits back then like the VIC II or the NES PPU. But it isn't always easy to tell the difference - the Atari 800 chips handled fancy display lists that almost felt like code while the Amiga chips they evolved into actually could execute limited code.

I thought of this too, however it likely wouldn't make much of a difference because glass is fairly opaque to UV light. A better solution would be to hot glue or tie a heavy nut to the part with a length of thin fishing line.

@@h2o2go141 Yeah, that sounds like a good option.

"Murray

What does that mean?

@@paco3523 He misprounounced the last name of the advertising spokeswoman. (I was about to make the same comment since I remember seeing her on TV back in the 80's also.) It seems that it's going to be a thing that he accidentally mispronounces names that he's only ever seen in print before. :D

Same. I used to love that show when i was a kid. :/

estern calendar year→　AD

It's been around much longer than that. _Candid Camera_ started airing in the '40s.

oof

lol

electric dusters as well as hand pumpable air dusters are readily available in compact packaging. Alternately, for folks that use it fairly often, a small air compressor can be had pretty cheap.

I like to use an old oxygen tank that I fill with a dual stage compressor. It's more like bottled air, though.

While there are reasonable and conscientious alternatives out there (as Mike and John pointed out), I'm hoping that manufacturers eventually produce something in the same form factor that's equally effective, but clean. I'm sure it will happen eventually, if the demand is out there. While I'll probably get a compressor eventually, it's definitely not as convenient.

May I ask which language you speak because that sounds quite interesting 😅

Not stupid at all, it's always interesting to learn about how other cultures do things especially when they have a different way of doing something we just take for granted.

@@yeet8957 Judging from Koutetsu Jeeg's uploaded videos, I would say Italian. This might be a tad insensitive, but try saying "It's a-me, Tomy" and "It's a-me, Tommy" with a Mario voice. Sounds pretty similar in my head. 😅

Japanese has that exact issue with some phonemes, such as English's "r" and "l" sounds. The initial consonant of らりるれろ(ra ri ru re ro) is somewhere between "r" and "l", and substitutes for both when bringing English words into Japanese.

@@Curt_Sampson Yeah, as a Swede I have to make a very conscious effort to not pronounce chip as ship, joke as yoke or booze as boos as most Swedish dialects consider the sounds in the beginning of those word pairs as variants of the same sound. On the other hand I have to remember that English doesn't make any difference between Tommy and Tommi/Tommie, while Swedish has a distinct y sound.