*Thanx Clint. Greets from Turkey...*

It's a small world, after all.

This is amazing!! Thanks alot 😁

Issa Kuhdashti Send him some coffee from Mehmet Efendi ve Mahdumlari as well - and make sure to get the confectionery from Haci Bekir.

Hey Clint, I just typed things right here.

That is wild.

That's pretty interesting! I don't know if it still exists, but Marlboro cigarettes had something similar in the US, with a whole catalogue of items you could buy if you had "proof of purchase" of a given number of packs. Which is a crazy incentive when you think about it, "smoke more and you can get a bag or some coffee mugs!"

Really ?! Holy crap :=)

I dug up a sample newspaper ad from 1996: i.imgur.com/ZVeSpll.png A quick translation of the bulletpoints: The heading reads something like "Here are the supreme/superlative features of this computer" -- 1) This is the Brother PN-8500 MDS, Made in USA; 2) Software localized; 3) User's Manual available in Turkish; 4) Terminal software included, internet access with a 'standard modem'; 5) Word Processor & spreadsheet program included, "... for you to type in all manner of corresondence, reports, homework, etc."; 6) ... this bullet point says the items in the previous bullet point can be saved into memory; 7) ... this one's a comment as to how useful the spreadsheet software really is ...; 8) ... has an address book; 9) ... back to the theme of spreadsheets: It says this computer opens Lotus 1-2-3 files -- not to mention that the word processor is 'compatible with' Word, Word Perfect, and 'PW'; 10) Screen has 80 columns, 22 rows; 11) Has floppy drive; 12) ... says the computer has a 'printer interface', the parenthetical remark then explains that said 'interface' is a 'printer driver'; 13) ... features games like 'Tetis and Turnabout'; more games available through Brother resellers. This was a pretty wild period indeed for media conglomerates in the country. As to the coupon craze: We still use some of the crockery we received in the 90s through coupon clippery.

I'm in New Zealand and I have of those Brothers, not sure which model. I used for typing up my accounting notes at Uni.

Retail $1,999.99

@@sebione3576 for base model

@@zaburinaburi1705 -including microtransactions-

Ahahahahaha!! omg is his products selling division still operating? lmao

I see what you did there.

😂

The translator is probably legit me thinks 😂

Soundz lejit

I thought that was gonna replace "You're Winner" from Big Rigs.

What do you mean shut up? It was Children's Day in Turkey.

@@FigureFarter what

@@idiotsimulator8055 April 23rd

@@aretard7995 what

Every single reply to this comment is a train wreck.

Not that retro for Turkey in the 90s, I'd bet :D

Well down, Turkey, well down.

Not so much retro.. more like "from the 8th level of hell" or something heh. I like the AA batteries though. Post-apocalyptic word processing.

Perfect for what i need today. an ashtray, storage compartment, and no modern OS- +history and DOS lessons

I thought it was a compartment to hold a rather small sandwich.

You have a nice mother

"computer" haha

@@aretard7995 It may have had the brain of a calculator (quite literally, given the blobs of resin) but yeah, text editor spreadsheet, some games and enough info to keep yourself occupied for a while. My aunt would love this kind of system, there is barely anything to be confused about. There have been worse starts when trying to learn computing, I'm sure (my MSX started up in basic, also not ideal).

@@aretard7995 hey in many ways this kicks the ass out of the beloved British SinclaIr budget computers. only thing this is inferior in is it has no way to make any programs of your own, but in shere user functionality it is in fact the superior machine.

@@ColtGColtG it may have good specs but it's just as limited as VTech I.Q. Unlimited

10/10 did not contained profanities

With the ability to send and receive between PC and this thing, I don't think the world of this thing is a small world after all.

Turkey is fuckin' weird. I should visit one day.

Learn to spell, Christ.

@@RejectedRecords1998 If your talking to me, yeah I should, and disable auto correct. If you're talking to the OP; come on, he's probably a native Turkish speaker, he did pretty well for himself, especially for a KZfaq comment

That's interesting. Thanks for sharing. :)

This thing was percent one hundred always trash.

i wonder what those excerpts were from

@@dzvxo searching the phrase in quotes reveals an article "Paths to the Inferno: The Wandering Sisters" from May 3, 1993 Time Magazine

Well down

@@Vokabre Well Down.

I'm guessing that the little compartment was a place to store the power cord, is that right? If not, what was it used for? Thanks for your information, I thought this was so very interesting.

That slot on the front is using for add-ons. (E.g. flash memory card; IO Card, for fax/modems and Internet Card). Also, power brick is really huge.So it can't fit. I'm sorry for my late answer. Also, thank you for your question.

Maybe you should send him a message to his KZfaq account.

Can you send me? I am a turkish too.

As a Serb, I laughed so hard

"Hello, Comet support? I need help with your Notebook CNC-9606. I don't know where to find this thing called 'kebab'. Yes, kebab. I don't know either, your device keeps asking me to remove it."

What is files? Baby, don't delete me, don't delete me, no more!

@@Gameboygenius i wanted to write that xd

Minus the internet connectivity.

@@und4287 Nope, its pretty much the same. Just as crappy.

had a good laugh over this, you're actually 100% right

@@archkull I know. Chromebooks are always the worst and the cheap build quality and the limitations of the system in the video reminded me of them.

My mom got me a chromebook. Then dual booted debian to play games lol.

no shit :)

@@HERKELMERKEL yeah İ am Turkish and doğum günü mean birthday annemin mean my moms

@@HERKELMERKEL aptalmısın aw doğru dediği

Uh . . . They are very drunk you see

@H; ben oyle anlamamıştım ben mesala wow falan kulalnirim böyle durumlar icin

Türk müsün?

Kimse Evet

give him some more info about that computer, mouse, outputs purpose (is it for monitor or for what) if you can ofcourse

Hadi adam senden bilgi bekliyo kardeşim anlat :)

BodziuM haha, i wish i knew more about it, my neighbour gave this to us when they were moving out in 2001 or something. I don't have any manuals for it. I only have the Notebook.

The files are _inside_ the computer!!!!

@@willowashe WHAT!!??

I usually don't like comments but when this one said 99 I just couldn't help it.

heart this comment LGR!

A bit late on my part, but thank you for making this video possible.

Teşekkürler

And you can select a starting height, hence 'high' :)

yeah, I'm guessing that if he had chosen anything other than '0' there would be blocks on the playing field when the game started.

Same thing in the Game Boy version!

Yeah same.

I do remember at one point Turkey and Israel were on friendly terms, obviously before Erdogan's reign. I would guess for the stars of David, the software may have been developed by Israeli designers. Not knowing the develops and therefore their intent, I would take a wild guess "It's a Small World" was done in the spirit of the song itself as maybe symbolizing the low level cooperation or the oneness of humanity.

"It's a small small intestine..."

Several sketchy electronic toys and stuff used that song back in the day. I guess it was just popular and recognizable, so these manufacturers simply added it to everything.

All the symbols displayed are from the standard Windings font

Pretty sure it's to carry extra batteries

its an ash tray

my thoughts exactly.

Haha that was my first thought too! 😂🤦‍♂️

"This is a new-old stock IBM and I've wanted one for so long. Now if you look in the back its got some empty bays for expansion cards or you could hide your weed in there." - Stoner LGR

hi chriddof! thought you'd vanished off the face of the earth. glad to see that's not the case.

Kinda weird that some laptop pda thing would have Its a Small World Afterall on it.

Disney slave child, "You _must_ sing, otherwise they'll make you star in a Christmas movie with Tim Allen!!"

Had little snow globe played it since wee little one. Never knew lyrics till now though. Thx for posting.

Wow he take too much importance in his family :)

@@cysper479 probably they were the only reminders he can set in his pre-teenage era :)

@@cysper479 damn you dont care about your parents birthdays?

shit thats what i've wanted to ask

Maybe, but can it run Crysis?

@Nova Games shut up Can it run *pong* ?

Can it run away

@@clockworkengine whats away? I've never heard of that game

Weeeeeird

Yeah, those toy laptops that were barely a step up fro ma Speak & Spell. tinyurl.com/ToyLaptop

Yea, those... I have really boring memories of them.

Jesus 117 likes... Wow... I guess thanks?

I was thinking it was where you would store your power cord (the one that's gone missing) so it doesn't go missing.

Yeah , I thought the same thing about the batteries.

"1970s business laptop " Not sure what you mean, perhaps you are joking, as this clamshell design really only took off in the '80s and this device is clearly imitating the look of contemporary '90s laptops.

All 3 of my personal organizers have broken LCD screens

Михаил Генералова Yes, we Americans have it TOO soft!

Christopher Sobieniak well as a trade off we get enough free space to fit our big enter key :)

Михаил Генералова The way to use this, at least on PCs is the same in most countries: AltGr+key=lower right symbol. Shift+AltGr+key=upper right symbol. AltGr is the right Alt key, making it extra annoying when some companies omit that key, so you have to press Fn+Alt+Shift+' just to get a | for piping some output.

The ALT keys can get annoying if you weren't training yourself to use those particular characters.

You communist stop talking, the Turkish keyboard has nothing to do with Europe nor you

Ayşegül

Is just PC-Speaker dude, not something as fancy as a holtek

Works for me!

Betcha didn't watch Turkish Star Trek yet

I bet he haven't watched the longest death scene ever recorded in the history of filmmaking

Özbekler da var

Olmaz mı? :)

Bende.

LGR ı izleyen Toptur. Bu kadar net !

😂

rofl

Baby don't hurt me

erica No More

Some kind of food???

A miserable pile of secrets

a small annoying organisms capableof flight that likes to land on food and get in the wayof peoples vision

A typical arme*an throwing shit when see any Turk related thing. I saw your other replies in the comments that underestimating and making fun of this computer. Of course, people gave you a correct answer to shut you up.

No can't, but can run farcry.

ZERA kriz

I know that version. Its the one where Superman and Spiderman battle the Empire using stock footage from The Temple of Doom and then slap a bunch of women with paper swords.

GreyWolfLeaderTW I know, lol

Chewy

Loves, from Turkish Republic.

Merhaba ))

ATATURK

Wi Ar LaV yU ne ya ADGSDJVVVLQMKWMDNRNWM

The eBay-ish screengrabs that came up were oddly amusing on that front. I know £1 = about 3TL... the first one was just 40TL, there was another for about 200, which seemed a little ambitious... then a third for _850 TL,_ wtf?! I bet it didn't sell for that much when brand new.

They are just making up prices so that a dumb rich guy would mistaken the item as valuable and buy it, but in reality, these damn things are everywhere in the flea markets. Shame.

$1 = 4TL €1 = 5TL fuck.

alienozi 10 lira bir an dedim nasıl around 2 bucks sonra aklıma kuru geldi ashjsgdhagah

Jyneath ekonomi bitti maalesef.

A lot of these games appear to be gameboy variants, which is where Alleyway comes from as well.

Also, I used to have Alleyway for my old Gameboy

ITS A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL

That probably scared the daylights out of some poor family once.

@@AsellusPrimus It even scared the hell out of me now.

:D

I used one of those. I think some of them even ran Palm OS.

I have two of them (because I thought the first one was broken before I realised the problem was just a dead internal battery). Still use the repaired one heavily. I'm not sure what the OS was, would have to dig up the manual and see what I can find. I do have photos of the innards that I took while replacing the battery, though.

Well Down ! comment.

Well down! And this is from a Turk.

Its an existential rhetorical question

Except it was by Nintendo and Mario was riding inside the spaceship, shaped like the "bat" When you die, he jumps out to his death.

Yep, sounds like it!

Seems to be, yepp!

Yes, that would be the song, and yes, you are hearing things.

trekaddict seek help talk to psychologist.

*I CAN'T **_UNHEAR_** IT!*

Merriman Devonshire Turkish flag has been six pointed before the standardized form of today.

Hm... more like Ottoman Empire timeframe? commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ensign,_Turkey_and_Ottoman_Empire_(after_1844)_RMG_RP_17_6.jpg

Checkout the flag of Karamanids(and some other beyliks too) and Barbarossa's Flagship banner. There was a Jewish Turkic Khaganate named Khazar Khaganate. You see the pattern there *wink wink* Great Khazaria is coming. :)