Met old Stuart at MCM last weekend. The queue for him was enormous.. and it was purely because he was talking to everyone in it for bloody ages. And he's lovely in reality too. And despite looking sweaty and knackered, because he presumably was after meeting people for like 20 hours over three days, he seemed genuinely really interested in talking to every one of his fans. Absolutely top top bloke.
@Wemius61Ай бұрын
I was lucky enough to meet him recently. Couldn't agree more - lovely bloke, a real gent. Reacted as though I was the one person he'd been waiting all day to see, and had all the time in the world for me.
@Lazarus70007 жыл бұрын
So. Box one, mystery black box of wires appears to be magnetic core memory, little tiny magnets laced (by hand) on really fine wire. For years this was the best computer memory you could get; it was also non-volatile because the little magnets kept their polarization. One wire to magnetize the core one way or the other for one or zero, and another to sense one or zero. Simple. Hard as fuck to make, now it could probably be made by machine but there's no call for it anymore. Texas Instruments speech synthesizer is for the TI99/4A computer which was a really neat machine with a whole host of capabilities like, well, speech synthesis. The thing was hugely expandable; you could get an expansion chassis for it and both fixed and removable disk drives, a mouse, etc. They also had a cartridge port and could run programs that way, usually games of varying merit. They were never very successful, though.
@Estr0Vi7 жыл бұрын
I was about to comment the same thing about the core memory.
@amicloud_yt7 жыл бұрын
I really wish he would've shown that part. It's a very interesting part of computing history!
@gunmunz7 жыл бұрын
so that's the dome thing?
@Lazarus70007 жыл бұрын
gunmunz I'm afraid that one's got me by the left nut. My dad had a Timex Sinclair (Timex had the ZX Spectrum license in the US) and I'm surprised anyone has nostalgia for the little door stop; that keyboard was a war crime. I still have no idea what the dome thing is. If I had to guess, it's a RAM expansion, that was a thing for the Sinclair and it had the configuration of a "black box with one connector", but that thing doesn't look like it'd mate anything like comfortably with the system. The dome shape speaks to me of an antenna, but wireless networking on one of those is as goofy as the CAD/CAM system for the Apple ][ we've got the controllers to at work.
@beelzibubbles7 жыл бұрын
It was, but it was never released: www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/31270/Sinclair-QL-Prototype-Wafer-Memory-Expansion/
@starkbux7 жыл бұрын
I feel like this "computing history archive" could really just be the back room of your house.
@starkbux7 жыл бұрын
Tell us the truth, Ashens.
@isawadelapradera64907 жыл бұрын
*YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!*
@Infernape78907 жыл бұрын
The back room of his house has a portal to this archive, so you aren't entirely wrong.
@Zellio20116 жыл бұрын
Maybe it's his basement
@JimBeezie7 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love these archive box videos. They're kind of like loot crate videos that I actually give a shit about. Thanks for the upload Ashens.
@Fl0xtpvnk2 жыл бұрын
This
@Jaies_7 жыл бұрын
It must be fun to know all these things and what they do.
@Jaies_7 жыл бұрын
For the most part.
@TheLobstersoup7 жыл бұрын
I suspect he's just making them up as he goes along. "Hey this is a ZX 24, the predecessor of the ZX60, which had only three keys and they were all on its' underside. Naturally, it didn't sell very well." See how easy that is? ;)
@somedude56577 жыл бұрын
TheLobstersoup o m y
@tj127117 жыл бұрын
+TheLobstersoup The tech geeks in the comments would call him out on it if he were making it up
@TheLobstersoup7 жыл бұрын
He buys their silence with the millions he made producing videos for KZfaq. Ashens is old Hebrew for "Illuminati". Conspiracy Therory unfolds... >>Edit: comment written at 21:21. Illuminati confirmed. If I don't write again, you know what to do!
@judgebigmansion34927 жыл бұрын
More Ashens is Confused at Outdated Technology seasons 1-12, please.
@jaymesyt7 жыл бұрын
It's 2am I have school in the morning Oh look an Ashens video!
@blakewilliams88397 жыл бұрын
JmKw lol it's 10:45 pm were I live
@FergusonFiller7 жыл бұрын
Lol fam it's only 9pm
@ilusions47 жыл бұрын
lol same. well... 1:49AM
@videoman4687 жыл бұрын
welcome to british internet
@THB1927 жыл бұрын
it was only 9 or 10 where I was.
@FrontierJazz7 жыл бұрын
But it WAS a quantum leap, in that it was practically the shortest leap possible.
@FrontierJazz7 жыл бұрын
I just did now. I guess it was indeed quite a jump. The Fonz would be proud.
@FrontierJazz7 жыл бұрын
Haha, Mackintosh?
@mspenrice6 жыл бұрын
Somehow managed to make something with less colour than the spectrum, and barely any more processing power despite having a 68k derivative onboard... plus its default storage system was the Sinclair microdrive. shame, shame.
@TheHutchy013 жыл бұрын
Are we talking the only way it was a Quantum Leap is that it put Dean Stockwell's eyebrows on every program?
@JohnvanCapel7 жыл бұрын
So this is basically a giant advertisement for the Centre for Computing History. And I still legitimately find it fascinating.
@TEEHEE-sb2ey7 жыл бұрын
The weird device is a PARCtab. It was unveiled in 1988 and labeled as "ubiquitous computing" by parc(part of xerox)to demonstrate what they though how people would interact with their handheld devices in the future. It is often considered a precursor to the more popular PDA handheld device. There wasn't enough mainstream appeal at the time to sell it so it was for the most part confined to the status of being used as research testbeds.
@kirstygunn91497 жыл бұрын
Thanks for another video from this awesome place. we have been for a day out to the museum and it was brilliant .the staff are really friendly and helpful and my two autistic children had a lovely time playing on all the computers and consoles . my oldest son was in heaven as he is a massive fan of retro gaming and your channel.
@MellowGaming7 жыл бұрын
I really wanna go digging through that archive. I'd spend all day going "I remember that!" and then putting the thing back.
@GODOFGUITAR21127 жыл бұрын
These are slowly becoming my favorite Ashens videos
@Daniel-ri2dy7 жыл бұрын
i love how Ashens makes this really interesting i dont think i could stomach this if this was a video by anyone else.
@jeremyadkins96657 жыл бұрын
You just made my boyfriend's day with your discovery of that TI-99/4A Speech Synthesizer; his family had it and the computer that it went to, and he played so many games on there, even did minor programming on it as young as 3 years old (a prodigy, he), so that dragged him down memory lane by the ear. Congrats, man.
@n0isyturtle7 жыл бұрын
This really has become my favorite series, which is bittersweet because I know it can't last forever. Someone find this man some more boxes of old obscure electronics!
@howardatkinson89584 жыл бұрын
DK Tronics keyboards were used on the ZX81 as well as the ZX Spectrum. This is why they keyboard has stickers as the layout was different.
@vengeance17017 жыл бұрын
Wish I could get there, Stuart, melad. Got this rather large bit of water in between me and said destination.
@gastchannel7 жыл бұрын
Boats have historically been widely used to traverse large pockets of water, so that's an option.
@vengeance17017 жыл бұрын
Gast Ah. I shall learn to build one!
@AgentTasmania7 жыл бұрын
There's a really big rock in the way for me.
@vengeance17017 жыл бұрын
AgentTasmania You must destroy it then.
@ButtonMasherReal7 жыл бұрын
+vengeance1701 It would also be advisory that you just buy a boat from a man that has already built one. I have also heard of particularly large boats with the capacity to hold numerous amounts of people, which can also traverse large amounts of water. Perhaps you could stow away on one.
@shannon43867 жыл бұрын
My dad's friend gave us an old commedore 64 when I was around 6 (I'm now 30, so it was already an old computer then). I basically compare every keyboard now to the Commedore 64 keyboard. It was so satisfying to use. I played the lemonade stand game like nobody's business with that keyboard.
@annother33504 жыл бұрын
It was bloody clunky though
@ceejayszee7 жыл бұрын
Clint Basinger would love this.
@hanselmanryanjames7 жыл бұрын
He sure would, I bet he watches this already anyway. ClInt if you're here reply to my comment!
@hanselmanryanjames7 жыл бұрын
He could make like 30 oddware videos with all this crap!
@ceejayszee7 жыл бұрын
It's like 60 thrifts in one box!
@gtamasterplayer3837 жыл бұрын
Yes he would.
@CarissaIsACat7 жыл бұрын
shits in suits jjjj
@paulnash98517 жыл бұрын
Only Ashens could make me laugh with a video like this. "Whispering about cheeses...."
@EspadaMK3 жыл бұрын
I had a plus d interface from mgt, it was a disc/printer interface for the spectrum. Pressing the button would allow you to dump save game states to disc or tape. Quite an interesting bit of kit.
@THB1927 жыл бұрын
XEROX PARC. Shame we don't know what the device was. For those of you non computer geeks in the audience, PARC stood for Palo Alto Research Center, XEROX's Research Center in, well Palo Alto, where they developed magical space wizard technology, like OO, and what was essentially the modern desktop computer, graphics and all. They probably could've gotten rich off of it, but they didn't know what they were doing, and decided to stick with copy machines.
@dubbs7 жыл бұрын
Without PARC computing would be way different. They had the first GUI, mouse, even ethernet was developed there. The device in the video is a very early PDA. I remember reading an article a few years ago about it. The device had IR to transfer information if i remember correctly. The three buttons where for selecting options. Google Xerox PARC PDA and you can find more info about it. Oh PARC still exist, but not in so much of it's past glory. They were working on healthcare related devices two years ago. They was part of the division I worked at when I was working at Xerox.
@apathetk7 жыл бұрын
It was the PARCTab. An early prototype of PDAs.
@JohnnnyJohn7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info knowledgeable person!
@THB1927 жыл бұрын
Sweet. I, like most of us, only really know PARC for the dynabook project, and what came out of it.
@bearnaff93877 жыл бұрын
I apparently made a horrible gasping noise when I recognized the PARCTab. I remember seeing those in the late 90's on the PARC website and wanting one soooo badly, along with the IR-based wireless networking that used giant ethernet-connected IR deathstars mounted in the ceilings of each room.
@C0nnie7 жыл бұрын
seems like such a cool area to visit. reminds me of something i'd see in my grandpas closet
@VoidHalo7 жыл бұрын
Heh I remember back about 12 or 13 years ago trying to run Half Life 2 on my crappy computer with a 900mhz AMD Thunderbird and a Voodoo Banshee for graphics. The game ran at a blazing 12fps. I was so determined that I still played it, regardless of how shitty it ran.
@TheHutchy012 жыл бұрын
I once played Assassin's Creed Black Flag at 2fps for exactly the same stubborn reason.
@TheSmart-CasualGamer11 ай бұрын
My current games laptop runs Assassin's Creed III at a fantastic 6fps, despite the fact that other games of similar ages run at 30.
@ImTheKingOfHyrule7 жыл бұрын
If I ever manage to make a trip to the UK I will definitely be visiting this museum.
@kelvinwills23947 жыл бұрын
Timstuff it's cool I've been there it live about an hour by car
@AiOinc17 жыл бұрын
4:29 There's a local store that has a big crate of older ISA modems. Micro Genius is a famiclone, by the way. It's actually pretty good if I recall. 6:05 Looks like something that would've come out of a Xerox Alto. 6:32 Speak of the devil. 7:42 Philips CDi inspiration much? 8:58 The TI99/4 had a speech synthesizer if I recall. A KZfaq user called bd594 has one of these, I believe. 10:20 I could use a card like this for my G3. 13:20 Elite was a good game as well. Gotta love the ingenuity of people in the late 80s early 90s compared to now. 16:47 Is that the Frieden mechanical calculator CuriousMarc fixed for the computing museum?
@GingerNinja_23197 жыл бұрын
I had a BBC acorn electron, it was my first PC. Many hours spent playing hopper. Good times!
@Camo_Dude7 жыл бұрын
the handheld device is called The PARCTab, it were a prototype for a early PDF like thing under their "ubiquitous computing vision" to show people their vision of the future. it was showed off with the PARCPad that was pretty much the same but book sized and featured a "touch screen"
@wotsac7 жыл бұрын
We did actually have the Amstrad 8256 or a close relative in the US. As I recall, the Sears department store sold them. I never saw one in the wild, or heard of anyone buying one, but I saw them in many stores at the time.
@graumail7 жыл бұрын
I spent HOURS on that stupid pool game as a kid. I had completely forgotten it until i saw him pull it out of the box. Memories. This is why Ashens is the best channel.
@enjoiorange7 жыл бұрын
This is probably my favorite ashens series to date
@LovezHD7 жыл бұрын
love your videos on old tech like this, it's like a window showing the times of yesteryear. bravo
@Fl0xtpvnk2 жыл бұрын
Plrase do more of these, easily my favourite series on the channel!
@ianmackenzie73407 жыл бұрын
I still have my old ZX Spectrum in the DKTronics keyboard with a 16K memory expansion and the Micro Drive. Them were the days
@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome7 жыл бұрын
Good old Hurricane Higgins. He was my favourite player when I was a kid.
@giulianomarco6 жыл бұрын
I had a dktronics keyboard for my Spectrum 48K in 1985. The duplicate higher cutouts at the back are so you can fit an Interface 1 underneath inside as well. The sticky labels on the keys were prone to twisting and coming off!
@AnimeToonist7 жыл бұрын
Good job, Ashens! You guessed correctly on the concave/convex option! (All teasing aside, that's how I always remembered it, personally-- conCAVE, being dipped-in, like a geologic cave. Convex, by process of elimination, being the one that bulges out.)
@boscorner7 жыл бұрын
I LOVE these computer history videos. they are some of my favorites.
@spirks29457 жыл бұрын
I was there when he was recording thees. I heard the staff say to eachother: 'Is ash still recording upstairs?" I asked them who's ash and they explained ashens.
@ladylevin13897 жыл бұрын
At lot of this stuff is waaaaay before my time but it's really great to be able to see the history of British computing and gaming. I'm gonna make it a point to go to that museum one day.
@Pillowcase7 жыл бұрын
in the iMac 3dfx box - the card with the sodimm socket is an iMac CPU daughter card. That generation of iMac had an expansion slot - the next generation did not. But it did have a Radeon which helped. Since the CPU board was socketed, it meant you could upgrade that too.
@portland182b27 жыл бұрын
The black dome at 2.50 is a Sinclair QL add on. It looks like the extra RAM module. Probably 512K
@paulward62497 жыл бұрын
The Xerox three-button thing is a Xerox PARCtab. One of the earliest examples of a PDA, and definitely one of the first of its kind with wireless networking. That black half-globe is actually the infrared wireless network interface.
@AndyLundell7 жыл бұрын
Haha. As soon as he said "Texas Instruments" I thought "I'll bet it's the speech synth!". Those things were good fun. I think most people who had a TI had that module. I don't remember why the front flipped open like that. Maybe I never knew. I still distinctly remember the strange way it said "Excellent Shot, Commander" in the game "Moon Mine".
@SwingYourSinners7 жыл бұрын
This might be my favorite series ashens does
@wisteela7 жыл бұрын
I have a PCW and I didn't know that test device existed. The board with slots and and switches is a VIC-20 multiple cartridge device. The Dragon 32 joysticks were analogue. The speech synthesiser is for the TI99/4A. The Plus D is a Spectrum disc interface. I have an Acetronic, which has a Radofin board in it.
@TanjoGalbi7 жыл бұрын
I found a fully working Amstrad PCW 8512 being thrown away in Canada while I was living there. I rescued it and played around with CP/M for a while until I was able to afford a PC. So yeah, they had made it over to Canada at least :)
@RetardicA7 жыл бұрын
I hope these never end. They're so fascinating.
@WalcomS77 жыл бұрын
These are honestly some of your best videos to date and I've been watching you so long we actually had a brief KZfaq message conversation concerning the Airphone 4.
@joannegray51387 жыл бұрын
I had an Acorn Electron.and so did my then best friend (we used them to help with Computer Studies because the programming language was BBC Basic, the same as the BBC Model B systems at school). I can confirm that they did not come with turbo switches or sound jacks.
@ItsBigIan7 жыл бұрын
I got quite excited when you uncovered the Hurricane there.
@retrocjt7 жыл бұрын
These are easily my favorite videos because I am massively interested in retro technology and own quite a few retro gaming consoles and personal computers
@PashPaw7 жыл бұрын
The TI Speech Synth is for the TI-99/4A. It uses the same chip as a Speak and Spell. It's extremely fun to program.
@Captain1diot7 жыл бұрын
I remember playing Lemmings on an Acorn computer in school in the early 90's.
@ukrpgfan40297 жыл бұрын
Your school sounds very outdated..early 90s????
@dodgeman7777 жыл бұрын
we had acorns at my primary school in the late 90s, I think we were some of the last to use them though
@benryves7 жыл бұрын
My prep school was still using BBC Micros well into the mid-1990s.
@Captain1diot7 жыл бұрын
benryves A teacher in my high school had a BBC Micro. I used to play on it during lunch time playing Chucky Egg and Astroids, I think.
@DaveF.7 жыл бұрын
I worked in a private school between 97 and 2001 - they were still using Archimedes in the primary classes when I started and the science departments has a huge amount of education software on BBC floppies - I spent an enjoyable few weeks working out how to wire a BBC -B to a PCs serial port to suck the data off the floppies so we could port it over to emulators and keep on using the educational stuff in science classes.
@ravenpup39027 жыл бұрын
I like how he says "It whispers to me about the cheeses of the world" it's a nod back to his 10th anniversary special where he says youtube was a mouse in space that beamed down visions of the all the cheeses in the world.
@SproutyPottedPlant7 жыл бұрын
Well I finally got to go to the Centre for Computing History, mentioned your channel too! That place is truly amazing. They have a Sega Mega-Tech!! The 50hz CRTs were painful to look at at first, took a little while to get used to them again. Enjoyed playing with the Amstrad Mega PC, Acorn Archimedes machines, NES, Famicom (which sadly was not playable, had that as a kid not the NES) Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure, Dragon32, Commodore VIC20 and 64 and the Mastersystem. Played around with BASIC on the Apple II and fombled the Amiga 500. They also have a replica of a 1970s office and some very large computers. Sadly couldn't find a Virtual Boy or Sega CDX. The guy told us they have plans to completely change the foyer area and put something called a 'Mega Processor' in there but that's all he knew. We are going there again!
@Naroketh7 жыл бұрын
Dr. Ashen... Loved this video. With that in mind, PLEASE more of this! old computer stuff is why I'm subscribed!
@TheToyBoy19787 жыл бұрын
me and my brother actually bought a massive collection (around 20 big boxes) of stuff like this 15 years ago for £80 and split it between us, ive been selling a lot of it on ebay recently and already topped a £700 return & still got a fair bit left, my favorite piece's that ive kept for myself is a commodore amiga 600 and a 128k zx spectrum with a few hundred games!
@biggadd7 жыл бұрын
The item in the playmobil bag at 5:50 looks like Magnetic-core memory! A very early computer RAM chip from the 1950s, used until the mid 70s
@WeekdayWeekend5 жыл бұрын
That's what I was thinking, for the 1401 or the like
@MrPaulMorris7 жыл бұрын
The DKtronics keyboard did house the Spectrum motherboard. If I remember correctly, the second set of holes was to allow an Interface 1 to also be included.
@atlanticcable7 жыл бұрын
That Plus-D unit looks like something I had for my Spectrum +2A. It connected to the expansion port on the rear and hooked up a 3.5" disk drive (only took the 720Kb disks if memory served). When you hit the red button, it flashed the entire memory onto the disk, so you could avoid having to load the game off the tape next time you wanted to play it. You just had to remember to press a key on the keyboard to tell the machine if it was a 48k game or a 128k game.
@DeadBaron7 жыл бұрын
Oooh! I have a Ti-99/4a right here that I still use every once in a while! Extremely underrated classic computer! Would love that speech synthesizer at 8:55
@Bootleg_Jones7 жыл бұрын
The song that plays during the montage of the computer museum at the end of these videos always reminds me of Tubba Blubba's theme from Paper Mario for the first few bars...
@AnTran1477 жыл бұрын
Seeing that Amstrad testing PCB...man we've come a long way in such a short time.
@MartinKidd7 жыл бұрын
My ZX Spectrum back in the day had one of those DKTronics keyboard on it instead of the rubber keys. As far as I recall the spectrum motherboard went inside it and everything lined up ok on the back. Mine looked a little different to that one.
@MurlocManiac5117 жыл бұрын
I like that matey isn't even hitting a cue ball, he's just going straight for the red.
@happydorkgirl7 жыл бұрын
I love these archive videos. It's a fantastic bit of intellectual improv on your part and I'm always left wanting more. Were I in the UK I would definitely go to this museum.
@celtifox82747 жыл бұрын
I love these, they remind me of the older Ashens videos
@mog3987 жыл бұрын
Just when I'm getting sleepy, here's a legit reason to procrastinate on even going to bed!
@CollectWithRyan7 жыл бұрын
Love the longer videos!
@RetroTechArchive7 жыл бұрын
The 'big mass of wires' is Core Memory. A type of magnetic memory used by very early computers.
@juliusrosenthal28857 жыл бұрын
I don't think I've ever watched this channel while not toasted out of my mind
@RetroReviewYT7 жыл бұрын
Ashens, that Voodoo card was for the original iMac, it goes in the mezzanine slot.
@erinjoyce55317 жыл бұрын
The thing in the playmobil bag was a RAM module for a 60s era mainframe computer
@ShanetheFreestyler7 жыл бұрын
Every time I see these videos I wish I could hop a plane to the UK and spend the entire trip here! So many retro electronic goodies, it'd be like a dream!
@Fady7937 жыл бұрын
6:29 is called a Xerox PARCtab at old times that was used as an office handheld tablet or something that has a bunch of applications supposed to "help you" with your daily office work, and the screen is indeed a capacitive touch one xD
@DirectorOfChaos92923 жыл бұрын
So a PDA of sorts?
@danforbes35737 жыл бұрын
Fantastic stuff Ashens.I hope there will be another one soon.
@BertGrink3 жыл бұрын
That Xerox PARC thingy... I believe PARC stands for Palo Alto Research Center, as in the place where Steve Jobs got the ideas for the Apple Lisa and the Macintosh. That thingy just after the Sam Coupé interface is a +D disk interface for the Spectrum, the successor to the Disciple disk interface for the Speccy.
@timm33047 жыл бұрын
The 3 button xerox parc device in the 2nd box was a PDA, it had a stylus.
@Softshelldiety7 жыл бұрын
I've been really enjoying this series of videos!
@jlferris59957 жыл бұрын
I really want to visit this place if I ever find myself in the UK.
@Crawldragon7 жыл бұрын
Old computers always kind of amaze me because at the time I was born there were a number of different operating systems but the Big Three of DOS, Linux, and Macintosh had already been established. It was only later I learned that Amiga was still going strong at the time. It seems like a lot of old computers tended to have proprietary operating systems, which I guess is why they ultimately failed when general-purpose OSes like the Big Three were released.
@TheFerretLives7 жыл бұрын
I had that very same dktronics keyboard for my 48k spectrum, ah what memories! And you put the spectrum inside (minus its rubber keyboard) btw. I then lost my rubber keyed case and eventually lost the dktronics one too, it could even be that very one!
@GlasgowGallus7 жыл бұрын
I had the Amstrad PCW when I started uni in 92, a pressie from my dear old step-dad. Did what it said on the tin...
@knmyers7 жыл бұрын
I get so excited when Ashens uploads I sound like that screaming goat vine
@coltenmeyer27757 жыл бұрын
Lol any one else been around with me since the 2008 beginning? I got my first psp and was looking up reviews and bam i found the op station and its never been the same since. Im quite happy he got his big break.
@robintst7 жыл бұрын
I would absolutely love to visit this place. Sadly, I am on the other side of the Atlantic.
@andy58667 жыл бұрын
i bloody love these videos
@acidhelm7 жыл бұрын
I had one of those pool games in the early 80s, so I'm guessing that the one in the museum was re-branded for the UK. The marks on the cushions are diamond-shaped, and I think snooker tables use round marks.
@GaviLazan7 жыл бұрын
I visited with my wife a couple of weeks ago, hoped I would get to see the boxes... :)
@BRMBug7 жыл бұрын
One of the upsides of my Dad having worked for TI for 15 years, and now Raytheon (at the same facility) for another almost 20 is that we have a few surplus TI 99/4A computers, and many accessories including an entire expansion system, a speech synthisizer, a modem, and quite a few games and programs. Of course, we hardly used any of it at all at all because I was 5 when we got it, and it takes a comically long table (the likes of which Bruce Wayne keeps in his dining room) to set it up on. Also, by the time I was interested at all in computers it was the mid 90s, and all that stuff was horribly outdated. I've thought about trying to dig it all out of the garage and figure out how to use it just for a laugh, but I can't even remember how to use DOS anymore, let alone whatever language the /4a's used.
@Sirdeathvids7 жыл бұрын
I love it when I see a new Ashens video!
@Phoenix23127 жыл бұрын
+Ashens I would love to visit there... But there is a major problem... I WOULD NEVER BLOODY LEAVE!!!!! THAT'S HEAVEN TO ME!!!!!
@shanedean13307 жыл бұрын
I bought a SAM Coupe in my last year at high school (I'm now 42) along with Defenders of the Earth on disk and I remember that I had to put some specific command in before I could load the disk as it seemed to be a very early form of DoS. Not sure if it ever got sorted...I sold mine a couple of years ago for about £250 to someone in Italy on eBay...
@rs.matr1x7 жыл бұрын
Nice. A Micro Genius IQ-501. I found one of those a few months back for $5 Canadian at a local thrift store with both controllers. Very cool Famicom clone. They mostly sold them most often in regions where Nintendo didn't set up shop, so for example, in soviet russia they had the micro genius labelled as the Dendy. As far as Famiclones go, they're top quality. They'll play any famicom cartridge as they're pin compatible. Even Castlevania 3 should work. I like the design of the thing, feels almost like a tape cassette deck.
@schadenfreudebuddha7 жыл бұрын
looks like they even copied the snes discoloration problem....authentic!
@rs.matr1x7 жыл бұрын
I'm wondering if that one belonged to a smokers family because the one I have is still relatively grey coloured
@tithund7 жыл бұрын
Nah, the discoloration on old computers has nothing to do with smoking, it's bromine fire retardant that colors the surface brown when it's exposed to sunlight.
@eustacequinlank74187 жыл бұрын
Yup, my first SNES and some Triniton monitors have done the same. It doesn't happen to all of them though, it depends what batch the plastic was molded from. Supposedly you can 'reverse' this, but I haven't tried.
@kosmosyche7 жыл бұрын
Yep, it's Dendy. Or Dendy Classic, to be more specific. There was also Dendy Junior model, which looked almost exactly like the first model of Famicom, but in a different color scheme. Early 90's were fun times in Russia, lol. Steepler - the company that imported and sold these pirate clones under the Dendy brand was so huge, that it had it's own chain of "official" Dendy stores, the official Dendy magazine (modelled after Nintendo Power) and freaking Dendy TV show on national television. Both were immenselly popular with kids. Nintendo either didn't care enough to intervene or couldn't do anything, because the copyright laws in Russia at the time were nonexistent. If you asked me in 1992 (I was 11) what was Nintendo, I would have said that it was one of the developers that make games for Dendy (like Konami or Capcom, but a bit lamer).
@ztepS7 жыл бұрын
It's hard to see but the mass of wires on 5:54 is probably a ferrite RAM unit. It used tiny magnetic rings on wires to store data before modern RAM chips.
@ellisjennings567 жыл бұрын
ashens, i love these boxes. please keep doing them
@ItsJustWalter7 жыл бұрын
Damnnn i want to visit that museum one day...
@trumpwonhereistheevidenced43907 жыл бұрын
You're correct about concave and that's the same reasoning I use to remember which is which!