This Retro Computer Collection Was SAVED from LANDFILL!!!

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4 ай бұрын

This video is kindly supported by www.PCBWay.com - My choice for for high quality PCB manufacturing, 3D printing and more! I thank them, and Elaine Hu for their wonderful support!
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- Greetings Fixers! -
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Come with me on a voyage of discovery as we FORCE OPEN THE LOCKS on a retro computer collection that was destined... to go to the rubbish dump!
Apologies for forgetting who sent this wonderful package ALMOST A YEAR AGO, but it's been an interesting one here at MFS as you all know! I make good in the end and would like to say a big thanks to Alan Goodman for this donation from his fathers house clearance.
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#Retrocomputing #Retrogaming #Nostalgia

Пікірлер: 104

@Daz555Daz 4 ай бұрын

Mark clearly not quite old enough to know how those suitcase latches work! That bit was hilarious.

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

I’m fifty this year. Maybe I’m just thick.

@Daz555Daz 4 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff ha ha.

@kevincozens6837 4 ай бұрын

I have a suitcase or two around the house with those types of locks. It was rather painful to watch the case be opened with a hammer whan a simple push of towards the edge of the case should have released the latches.

@colinr0380 2 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff Can't it be both? 😉👍

@frankowalker4662 4 ай бұрын

Watching you fight with those locks was a truly painful experience. What a haul. (and rescue)

@waynenewark5363 4 ай бұрын

In TV shows they usually only use a screwdriver.

@RobA500 4 ай бұрын

Those case catches twist as you did then push lock away from catch to release it providing they are unlocked. They were quite clever cases as the catches and hinges expand to allow greater filling. The contents was rather extraordinary, great stuff.

@spankysmp 4 ай бұрын

I love 'youngsters' fighting with old school suitcase locks. I was nearly screaming at the screen. 'I've been at this with a hammer and a blow torch for two hours now and nothing' Over 50 year old - 'Watch and learn' ...twist..push, click.

@philipstephens5960 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was also pointlessly yelling at the screen about how you just had to push the knobs away from the catches to make them spring open. Hasn’t Mark seen people open briefcases the same way? 😂

@chrisrobson8540 4 ай бұрын

Mark fixes stuff......apart from old cases those get knackered to buggery🤣🤣🤣

@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit 4 ай бұрын

Fireman fred. first game I ever wrote. utter dross, but got me started.never thought i'd see it in a video!

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

What else did you write? Ten points for the Charlotte Coleman drama reference in your username btw.

@ChrisShadowens 4 ай бұрын

Thumbnail aside, anyone else hoping it was filled with old jazz mags? At least one old copy of Swedish Erotica should've been wedged in there somewhere, just like you'd find it in the woods!

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

Ah... woods grot. A lost tradition.

@kerrisrees2867 2 ай бұрын

So jealous of the Dixons cassette player I had exactly the same one in the 80's as a kid and been trying to find the same one lol

@Jimbaloidatron 4 ай бұрын

Somehow I can smell the old case and books. :-)

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

Yep. It smells like what you’re imagining

@johnwells558 4 ай бұрын

It’s bin bags matey, please don’t American on us or I’ll send my Mum around to sort you out.

@summersbco 4 ай бұрын

It's 'trash bag'. Speaking of your mum and the sack, I hear she's pretty good in it.

@TimGilberts 4 ай бұрын

Ha ha that double play adventure is hiding an arcade game - hidden city was one by me BITD - I still have the contract

@domramsey 4 ай бұрын

Wow, so lucky. Those vintage suitcases are worth thousands! Just make sure you don't damage the...... oh. Oh.

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

Oh... At least I still have the gaffer tape left

@davidretrogamesplayedbadly3533 4 ай бұрын

A suitcase full of awesomeness , very generous gift mate.

@gooseman247 4 ай бұрын

Oh wow, I had that 60 programs book. What a haul!

@franciscomeza8905 4 ай бұрын

Always awesome to see this saved from the bin and being put to use once more. Cheers MFS.

@SiAnon 4 ай бұрын

PTO : Key under duct tape lol

@terriblegamer9267 4 ай бұрын

Great vid. Keep 'em coming

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do! More coming!

@jkmac625 4 ай бұрын

I remember those style of suitcases, you just slide the catches to open, can't remember if spinning them does anything.

@Colin_Ames 4 ай бұрын

Some decent stuff there.

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

Really bloody lucky here!

@chessoc7799 4 ай бұрын

The scrabble was good as I remember :)

@ByteDelight 4 ай бұрын

TBH: give me such a suitcase, and a TV (and some power obviously), and put me on an island, and I probably will be having enough todo for months.

@ByteDelight 4 ай бұрын

Probably a new membrane with that..

@pelculator 4 ай бұрын

Next video; Mark fixes the twist and slide locks

@plan7a 4 ай бұрын

Following that: Mark Fixes A Table and Mark Fixes A Radiator (that previously had the unfixed table against it)? Perhaps?🔨

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

The table is a bit crap. I’ll end up using it for the laser cutter I think

@fattomandeibu 4 ай бұрын

All those C15s remind me of when, as primary schoolers, me and my friends'd get together on a Saturday and pool our pocket money together, with one of us given the critical mission of going into Dixons(maybe Woolies, depended the person) for blank tapes, then the rest of us would gang into Boots to get as many games from the £1.99 section as the money we had would allow. Then it was off to my dad's house to use his high speed dubber for a bit. Weird part is, the internet seems to think that high speed dubbing didn't work for copying computer games when it did, or at least on my dad's fancy Sony hi-fi. Scallyways, the lot of us. This was C64, of course, I never owned a Spectrum so it'd be weird if I were buying and copying Spectrum games.

@Banshun 4 ай бұрын

I sure there is a niche on KZfaq for cat turd unboxings.

@TimmyJoe633 4 ай бұрын

Booty was the first game I ever played on my first specky, it's a great 'collect keys whilst avoiding enemy' sort of game.

@mrt.7146 4 ай бұрын

I'm getting Michael Dailly "care"-pacakge vibes 🤣

@Lhawk2107 3 ай бұрын

this is my first time seing a real treasure chest ...

@BenRattigan 4 ай бұрын

Giants Revenge the tape cover and artwork looks like Jack and the Beanstalk which was also by Thor and supported Currah Speech Unit.

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

Would you believe in never heard a Currah uSpeech in my life?

@BenRattigan 4 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff they where terrible, but my dad liked to buy the latest thing and the company was based in Hartlepool so he got one and that was literally the only game we had that supported it.

@tenminutetokyo2643 4 ай бұрын

What a mega score!

@Graeme_Norgate 4 ай бұрын

I’m now going to try and find that D D D D Dixons ad

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

I seem to remember it panning down a pile of car stereos

@HappyCodingZX 4 ай бұрын

I do love the punk aesthetic of early Spectrum titles. Blaby released a whole series of rushed out conversions of arcade classics which usually had the trifecta - flickery, jerky, and buggy. The kind of stuff your nan would buy for you when you really wanted Jetpac.

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

^^^ Exactly this x 1,000.

@nicholas4124 4 ай бұрын

that poor suitcase..

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

My poor hammer!! Hey it was already spilt down one side!!! 😂

@shortymtb 4 ай бұрын

90seconds of pre roll adverts... way to go youtube...

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

Sorry I can’t control them

@ukmk3supra 4 ай бұрын

C7 is the figure 8, C5 is the mickey mouse ears one.

@baxtardboy 4 ай бұрын

Spent many an hour on Booty. The music still plays in my head sometimes.

@thefamouseccles1827 4 ай бұрын

I have the Commodore64 version of the PCW software pack. Easiest type-ins ever.

@LifeSizeTeddyBear 4 ай бұрын

Looking at the edge connector on that joystick interface, I think it is actually for a ZX81 rather than a Speccy, based on the number of connections to the left of the key.

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

Oh nice spot! I didn’t think of that!

@giulianomarco 4 ай бұрын

No copy of "The Key"? That enabled mass, um, borrowing of software. Beat mono tape-to-tape. Also, the only decent printer was the AlphaCom 32. My mate's ZX Printer died after printing out 15ft of the machine code disassembler I wrote.

@1981DMC 4 ай бұрын

Very cool. I remember having CHAMP. It's a machine code assembler.

@RCSRetro 4 ай бұрын

Seriously!! You just turn the latches so the little knobs are at 12 and 6 o clock and then you just slide / push them towards the outer edges of the case! This is day 1, week 1 stuff!

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

I’m was off sick that day. Luckily the case was ruined anyway or I’d feel really awful 😣

@psyborb 4 ай бұрын

God, I remember Urban Upstart. I got bored of playing it fairly quickly, and turned to reverse engineering it instead. It's a hybrid mixed BASIC & machine code game. I recall the drawing routines were achingly slow, so were probably coded in BASIC. Though I might be wrong about that last part.

@Daz555Daz 4 ай бұрын

I have that same model cassette deck. Also the Boots one from around the same time.

@christreen7193 4 ай бұрын

My plus, Interface 2, and two micro drives are still in their original boxes 😊

@Sozzled39 4 ай бұрын

Mark breaks into Stuff. Using the tool of an Orang-u-tan (or Jeremy Clarkson).

@digitalarchaeologist5102 4 ай бұрын

I'm sure I had that exact dixons cassette recorder, and used it on my Acorn Electron, not only that. I had a case just like that for tapes and I forgot it was even a thing

@theforthdoctor7872 4 ай бұрын

You should put the hammer in the sonic cleaner. If fact you could put any tools in for a quick clean. I know you have a big chopper so why not pop that in as well. 😉

@ChrisHopkinsBass 4 ай бұрын

I had the C64 version of the “Sixty Programs” book. It was rubbish 😂

@BenRattigan 4 ай бұрын

You’ve never used a 48k ZX Spectrum unless you’ve nearly been electrocuted by its power supply.

@smaza2009 4 ай бұрын

Blaby computers were based in Leicester I believe, produced games for the spectrum and indeed one of the better dragon 32 games cosmic crusader spent many hours playing that and was one of the few games the strange dragon joystick worked well

@Brewskii2117 4 ай бұрын

That suitcase was in my family for years, me mum used it during the blitz...thought I might pass it on to you hoping you'd appreciate it... Jeezus Christ you Animal! (kidding)

@thefamouseccles1827 4 ай бұрын

lol I had a Gun Shot joystick too, albeit in black. Horrible metal leaf directionals - not proper switches. It broke in my childhood hands with very little prompting.

@blackterminal 4 ай бұрын

Hi I had one. Loved it it was perfect for games on my Atari ST. Sadly it broke on the metal leaves as yours did.

@retrorobbins 4 ай бұрын

it a nice box lol

@Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P 4 ай бұрын

13:11 that's what she said

@RonHelton 4 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@plan7a 4 ай бұрын

Was that suitcase a Tardis in disguise; there was so much in it... Including some Pringles and a C5 it seems... (Oh wait, it did [possibly] belong to a Time Lord, so it could have been!). [Disclaimer: Attempts at humour might not be possibly understood by all].😵‍💫

@BastetFurry 4 ай бұрын

I think the only games i would have been interested in would have been Hidden City and The Sealed City because for me (Text-/P&C-)Adventure, RPG and turn based Strategy it is. All genres the Speccy sadly is lacking off, mainly because loading in additional content is such a shore on it. -.-

@TimGilberts 4 ай бұрын

See my comment elsewhere as hidden city was in fact an arcade game - not sure why they did that!

@microknigh7 4 ай бұрын

You'd do well in a job like, let's say, baggage handling...

@Mrshoujo 4 ай бұрын

So you've never used paperclip wire to pick the locks on a suitcase? Are you going to transfer all that tape software to digital media?

@MrRawMonkey 4 ай бұрын

A bit disrespectful not opening a parcel in a timely manner when someone has made the effort to send it to you.

@MarkFixesStuff 4 ай бұрын

We had two parents unfortunately pass away between this parcel arriving and me having the opportunity to record opening it. It wasn't a requirement to open it in a video, but I thought it would be nice for the sender to see it, so I held it back. Hence the delay.

@cnfuzz 4 ай бұрын

Retro computing is bad for muscles 😅

@cosam2 4 ай бұрын

And with the lining of that suitcase one could make a smashing blouse or at the very least a stylish set of underwear.

@meetoo594 4 ай бұрын

Urban upstart, there's a game I haven't heard mentioned for many a year. Its not very good, which isn't surprising since richard joseph software were also responsible for the bloody awful transylvanian tower.

@kiasanth 4 ай бұрын

I can speak with dolphins. They just don't seem to know what I'm saying.

@LanceHall 4 ай бұрын

So from the introduction cat turds ARE possible things to send?

@summersbco 4 ай бұрын

Only if they're not declared

@wimwiddershins 4 ай бұрын

But it's difficult to decide which ones from the collection to send...

@kgfgfg1 4 ай бұрын

He saves stuff from the landfill just to burn it down instead 😂 Yeah, not much of a saving for the retro community besides the Videos of it that are enjoyable to watch anytime

@frankurmom8741 4 ай бұрын

#british bc of all the "bloody 'ell" and "Blimey" I assume?

@retrorobbins 4 ай бұрын

WD40 not UB40 will help lol

@BastetFurry 4 ай бұрын

Nothing a crowbar can't solve, didn't we learn that from Doctor Gordon Freeman? 😅

@christianfairhurst3877 4 ай бұрын

I had that Sixty Programs book, it was crap. Lots of errors in the code. Giants Revenge was the follow up to Jack and the Beanstalk. They were both truly awful but looked good in screenshots. I'd give it to Octavius to do a video on.