That's the Grandfather of LGR Thrifts!

Thanks to this Kapyro computer, I got myself a masters and phd in psychology, wrote my own resumes at a time before word processors, and made a small business of typing people's dissertation and college papers.. THank the world for this ground breaking machine. I gladly paid $1795, and $650 for a no name daisy wheel printer... All before dot matrix, and inkjet.. Those were the days like the days after the wright brothers in aviation...

LGR Encounters Local Unassuming Guy Local Unassuming Guy, offers Unassuming Boxes LGR Accepts You Win! Unassuming guy Dropped one of the Earliest Portable Computers ever. LGR took it

You had so much enthusiasm. I love this video, it reminds of me when I find a 3€ old tower pc with a turbo button. I don't think you've ever shown so much happiness in the later videos. This is the essay of the video: "I have no idea if it works, how to use it, I don't know anything because it looks broken but I'm so happy I cannot wait to try it"

God,l I remember when you released this video. You used to do more system reviews, that's what initially got me hooked way back in the day.

@tsskiller08 Thank you! I'm a huge CC fan myself, so when I saw all that Digital Research stuff and then Kildall's signature on that paper, I literally jumped out of my seat! Gary's one of my heroes, may he rest in peace.

That was fun to watch. My first computer was a Kaypro. I had some of those disks. I got those magazines. I recognize some of them. I so wish I still had it. It was an awesome machine. Towards the end of the era of CPM, before MS-DOS took over, I had a tee shirt that said "CPM LIVES". Thanks for the memories.

Goodness... or rancid... . lol... I think my CP/M disks are being kicked around the floor of a barn... Those are CD-Trays that went into the first 1x CDROM drives that were slot loading... a standard CD-ROM goes in them. I have dozens of them, I just use them as CD cases now. Lasar Optical media had the lasar media in it which reflected like a rainbow and was non-removable. The Heath/Zenith machine was a computer you built yourself several years before any 8bits ever hit the shelves. I have one that was home built that was just a dumb terminal. Heath made lots of kits for lots of things, ham radio recievers and morse transmitters, metal detectors, all kinds of cool little electronic projects in their own Health project boxes. If you got Heath software, that is probably the super rare stuff of that lot. I'm surprised it actually exists... at all. Maybe later they came out with factory built machines, but by the time VIC's and Atari's and TI/99's hit the shelf, that was all she wrote for HeathKit and ever having to solder your own computer together. Prebuilt computers and the computer revolution destroyed Heathkit. I'd research into that, if Heathkit ever made and sold fully assembled computers. If they didn't, then that Heathkit user group software stuff came from some hardcore ancient guys... I suspect they tried though to sell full machines, as that stuff looks company/factory made/printed.

@UKRetroGames Hehe, was just messing around with the PIP commands on the Kaypro last night. Very interesting stuff.

I absolutely love how LGR went from “I don’t really know what is it” to his today’s shape, preserving his fantastic voice and passion for old computers.

How odd to see this. My first computer was an Amstrad PCW running CP/M Plus and the second was a Kaypro AT. The Kaypro was a fine machine, insanely heavy and looking like it might have been constructed from bits of a WWII tank.

@Holammer The guy who owned this stuff certainly did! There are dozens of disks full of financial and business files made on PerfectCalc and Wordstar and such.

@alanw3000 This wasn't really a review, just a showing of the stuff. There will be full reviews of these machines at some point, no worries!

Hey LGR - with the work I've been doing on the nabu cloud cp/m, youtube did an excellent job recommending this video. It was neat to see your roots 12 years ago. Computer on the bed, justifying why you have all this "old crap" and "where to put it." Fast forward to today, you have a storage container, and it's your full-time job. 91k views on a 12-year-old video - this is excellent O.G. LGR!

@tom611 I totally plan on it, I'll be following up on a lot of this stuff in some later videos at some point.

@OldSchoolNYCGamer I'll certainly be doing a follow-up! The Kaypro is up and running, at least mostly. I'll need to do some work on that A: drive. The Osborne I've still had no luck with at all, just endless strings of "BOOT ERROR" on startup, not even sure I have the right boot floppy for it.

@Pozorrogo Yup, the guy was super-nice and gave me a great deal since I drove a ways to get the things. And conversely, I can't wait to review these things myself!

A few comments. I was one of the absolute top tier salesmen for the Osborne 1 in Southern California. I sold so many I won two in sales contests. I still have a minty mint, blue/grey case example with modem and external battery options. It still works. When I quit the store the sold these units, interestingly, I worked for a big Apple reseller in LA that sold Kaypros. These were HUGE with Holllywood writers, as I could get them into a Kaypro II and a letter quality printer for cheap.

@maddmaxstar Yes, I was thankfully able to get both of them working. The O1 still has some issues with disks in Drive B: on ocassion, and I haven't been able to get the 8088 addon for the Kaypro to work. But otherwise, they're working just fine for the majority of situations! I still haven't gotten around to reviewing these, I need to remedy that. I did a review of a game on the Kaypro a while back though: Ladder.

@emceelokey Mostly for managing large amounts of text-based information. Really useful for smaller businesses doing inventory, finances, word processing, databases, even basic online access a couple years later.

Seeing videos like this always makes my day. Any vintage computer find is awesome. This though, takes the cake. To have an agreement with Gary Kildall's signature on it is definitely a collector's item. It makes Computer Chronicles fans like me proud. Congrats on the find, it was certainly worth it.

@Borin81 Awesome, thanks. I'll have to look into it... makes me want to track one down now that I have so much software for the thing.

3:59 OMG That was Everything Weather. That was one of my favorite games as a kid. I would nostalgia sooooo hard if you covered that in the future

I'm watching all your videos from the beginning, and the subtle whirring of the camera has started to talk to me and is frankly quite comforting.

Great. There is so much stuff that most people don't understand or appreciate in computer history. Your videos are priceless. Thanks.

The haul videos are some of my absolute favorites on this channel. How exciting. Look at all those goodies!

Watching just 10 years later! And its still such a treasure!

Thanks to one of my friends, I got a large haul of Computers, Software, Documentation, etc. from the beginning of the DOS era (with some Apple II stuff thrown in there), including journals like yours and SDKs. Almost none of it has been archived.

Recall an article once, in the early 80s, the financing outlook for software was to be approximately three times the cost of hardware. So, overall, those prices are inline with what the 'standard business software cost' would be estimated for accounting purposes. Of course, then came those darn home-computer users... :)

I wish there were 80 inch floppies that held about a gigabyte. That would be awesome.

This really is completely awesome, you must be over the moon right now. I can't wait to see a review of the Kaypro, this will be a learning experience for me as I know NOTHING about the Kaypro machine, but it sure looks interesting.

what a haul! so happy to see you have some of these beauties!

I know it's been a year since you made this video, but I STILL hope you are having a blast with that mega haul. I just got an Osborne with a box of stuff and a green Zenith monochrome monitor from freecycle-- it was all given to me! It's no Kaypro, but still awesome. Great vid!

WOW that is one sweet classic PC haul right there! I think you are in for a lot of fun.

My family had a TRS-80 that was portable like these! I think my mom still has it in her closet somewhere. It's so great that you're finding and collecting all this cool old stuff, I wish I had room to! I do still have a Commodore 64 and Amiga 500, but no room to set them up. I'd love to be able to play around with those as well as some Apple and Atari machines from the same era. But alas I'll have to try and stay happy with emulation for the time being.

i had a Kaypro 2 myself, this machine was so much ahead of it's time !

Wow lots of historical computing stuff!! Nicely done!!

WordStar was an outstanding word processor back in the day. I still miss the way it let you embed commands and codes in the text to format the document exactly the way you want. If you find a program called "XenoCopy", you can read and write CP/M disks on any IBM PC clone with a 5.25" floppy drive.

When I watch other types of reviews, I now use your show as the standard when judging them. You're genuinely into what you're doing, and extremely informative. I tip my hat to you, sir.

Wow, 8 years later I ran across this awesome video! What greatness, congrats! I hope you still have these!?

Wow... This is ancient. I meant the video lol. The quality if the video reminds me of some 90s VHS recorders.. some which I have lol

Amazing find Phreak! I haven't seen these kind of beasts ever since my uncle sold his Kaypro back when I was still living in Los Angeles.

Ancestral LGR Blerb! What a haul!

I love your show. Your always making interesting vids.

Thanks for your videos! I am also interested in the history of old computers, consoles and pong systems. Hope you get both of the systems to boot up and maybe try out some games/software on them? Computers are such a big part of our history and I am glad that you have time to tell us about these gems. Looking forward to your next video. Greetings from Finland!

These were all-metal units, as you know. The model 2 had the lesser capacity drives as you mentioned, and were a blue and grey case. The 4s, and later the 10s, had that very nice charcoal case which was very professional. The 10 had a hard drive, which worked quite well. We feared getting a bunch in for service for being portable, and it didn't happen. Both computers served the niche market extremely well.

Any follow up?

It'd be awesome to scan the Cornucopia and user group letters to upload them somewhere! So much of that stuff is unfindable now. Very nice haul.

I remember seeing a video or three on these beasts of 'portable computers' this just reminds me of my old DOS machine, just with a teeny little screen shoved in it. Sadly I don't even remember the machine make. Your vids are very awesome though it brings back memories of playing Silpheed, bouncing babies, sokuban, space invaders, tetris etc.

Wow.... I never seen that much of a score when it comes to this in ages and well worth what you paid for, you got to do a follow up if you get both those beasts up and running!

Sounds like you have had a fun night with all those goodies.

Nice find. I have never heard of any of this until now.

God you hit the mother load on this one o.o amazing things you can find on craigslist.

That's a outstanding colection!

Seeing all the manuals and the thing that they had for perfect makes me nostalgic when thinking back to Sims 3/EA

Awesome stuff! You should show some of the games in another video once you get it working

Nice haul. Nice to see your happiness. It's always good to be passionate about something. :)

The "Perfect Manual" was probably made using the "Perfect" software. I know at least in the early days, WordStar used to do that -- they would proudly mention at the beginning of the manual that it was written and printed out using WordStar itself.

@harshbarj Most of the ones I can image are really common, like the versions of CP/M and the Kaypro software suite. The others that I would love to image that aren't so common, like the Heathkit and other unknown programs, I cannot image with my 360K IBM compatible drives. Many of them are in disk formats that simply cannot be read, due to be hard sector disks, among other issues.

That magazine cover!!! Kay-pros on the go!! That awesome 80s HEADBAND! :D Awesome stuff man.

A very smooth looking VHS upload

I still have a Kaypro IV in my garage. The only difference between the II and the IV was the latter's double-sided floppies. The Kaypro 10 had a hard disk and was in an entirely different league.

@vwestlife I've been trying to get WordStar to function, seems pretty sweet from what little I see before I get read errors. I'll have to check out XenoCopy, I've been attempting just that with other programs with mixed success. And I think it was you that mentioned something about hard-sectored disks in the previous ulpoad. You were right, there are several boxes of hard sector diskettes in this lot.

@FuyuAkiWorld Someday, yeah. I've planned on it ever since I got them, just haven't gotten around to it.

@yaponetz A mid-90's JVC S-VHS camcorder.

The cornucopia mags look FASCINATING!! and $50!! I know the vid is over 5 years old but F88K!!!!

too me you're up there with the NERDYNESS an AWESOMENESS as AVGN. TY for every great video you do great great stuff man keep it up.. =)

I used to have a camcorder that sounds just like yours! Tape sound and all! Way cool you found that stuff on craigslist. I would like to see those computers in action some time.

@drumdreamer92 As far as these machines? Yes, both are running rather nicely. Got all the disks for the Osborne from a fellow collector, and that Kaypro came with more than I'll probably ever use.

This is so awesome! Yes, it was worth it. I wish I had that.

The Heathkit diskettes and tapes are for Heathkit H8 and/or Heathkit H89. 10 sector (hard sectored diskettes) are for H8 and H89 and won't work in other systems. Very nice collection! Most likely you will find tape with Benton Harbor Basic which was the basic interpreter included with H8 and H89 systems without floppy drive.

@christo930 Yup, it's all working quite nicely! And yeah, it was about 20 bucks in gas but hey, well worth it to me.

Spacewar?!!! That alone is worth the price of the entire haul. I played it in the middle 80's, and never saw it again, until '03. Probably the most satisfying game I've ever played (although Gorilla, Lemmings, and Hydro Thunder are high on my list, too).

Where do you even find a replacement full height 5 1/4" floppy drive anymore? I've only seen a couple half heights here and there

now, THIS is an unboxing video worth watching :)

There must be alot of value for all that classic equipment !

What a treasure you lucky boy. ;-) great stuff

Great find man, I would travel 2 hours for that too. Hell, I'd travel 2 hours just for the osborne!

Did you ever get any of this working? I don't see any vids for Kaypro or Osborne on your channel. Helluva deal at $50...really helluva deal even if none of it worked.

its crazy to think how expensive these once were. now they are pretty much big heavy worthless rocks. glad to see them getting some love.

Super cool finds. These computers were really, really expensive back in the day. Hope you get them to work. I wonder how the world would've looked like if IBM had chosen CP/M instead of MSDOS as their operating system.

totally awesome! greetings from germany!

WOW Phrekinde, you really hit the archival mother lode on this one. If only you could find a Heathkit machine. The Computer museum in Silicon Valley might have one :D

god, the osbourne looked like those old radio emitters from WWII it is soo cool

The thing optical disks went into was called a shuttle. This was the first system I ever sold software for, a horrible inventory system I wrote over summer vacation in 1985. It had no record delete feature so I guess it filled up eventually. o.^

you are so lucky, i hope i will find something like such stuff sometime.

@Pozorrogo Sorry I commented before I watched the video at the end FIFTY BUCKS?!?! Thats freaking awesome! Great find XD I cant wait for you to review one of those bad boys

I know next to nothing about these machines, but for some reason this shit is incredibly interesting.

Oh wow!!! congratulations!!! You are indeed lucky man! It's like a child inside a candystore when there are a happy hour :D

"There will be a proper and full-length review of these machines at some point." Still waiting for this.

@rejectofsoul24 I use it because it's cheap and I like the effect. It's a pain, but I don't exactly have the money to put towards a nice HD camera.

The thing for the optical drive was a caddy for an early cd-rom disk. I remember using those in the early 1990s

I'd love to see a modern one of these. A mold to hold a mouse in the keyboard (either wireless or with a retractable cord). Bluray drive, USB, sd card slot(s), stereo speakers with volume knob and an. 8"-10" hd touchscreen/tablet display in the front. Gaming rig internals. Could be uber badass..

nice haul clint

@dehBix That would be "Fortran" (IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System)

@psyjax As of now, I do not. I've been wanting one for quite a while and scour eBay every so often for one. Also for the original Compaq Portable, I love those things.

@StickPeopleAndPuff A local ad on Craigslist

@piplol2468 Oh that is so nice... I hope you get a cable for it, that's an incredibly cool machine and one of my most-lusted-after.

Diggin thru the Trenches finding Videos I've Missed over the Years, Making Sure I didn't miss any Likes; Or just Watching Again! Going Back into the Matrix Now!

@theinquisitor The first computer game was "Tennis for Two", developed on an analog computer in 1958.