The best MiniPET assembly video ever!

Ok I don't know how I got here, but I love your channel. Sense of humor is great! Super fun way of sharing retro computing!

Awesome! Welcome to the PET owners club! The Future Was 8-bit has some really cool stuff for sure!

13:27 that should've been the video thumbnail! 😂 Love the joy once you see it working!!

This is so funny; I love the real frustrations and achievements! Every time my wife calls me a nerd, I will send her to this channel. You guys are so entertaining; keep up the good work

I fully understand that excitement. I felt the same way when I finished my RC 2014 and got the BASIC start up sequence in a terminal window.

What an amazing acquisition! I loved seeing some of the assembly process, and Taylor's reaction when the screen came to life was priceless. And how astute of you to realize it needed to be mini-petted. 😂

Brilliant! When the wee beastie sprang into life and you were obviously so relieved and excited - priceless! My school was donated a 2nd hand chiclet keyboard PET so it was one of the early computers I did any programming on, alongside the RM 380Z it had (Golly, that must be over 40 years ago now!) … finally got to try out BASIC programming I’d worked out by following listings for PETs (and other machines) in PCW magazine. This must’ve been before I got my own 2nd hand VIC=20, and before the school got it’s 3 BBC micros. Loved the show, ladies!

Pins. And. Needles. That was a lot of fun. I felt so much anxiety waiting for it to start for you. I'm totally jealous you were able to snag one!

Congrats on the Mini-Pet build! I remember when yall wandered up and started touching my SuperPET inappropriately. I now understand.

I just realized, how much work that was! So cool, what you can make happen.

Great show girls. I live about 6 miles from Tynemouth Software in the UK. You did a great job. ❤️👍👍 love your retro videos. Imagine how I felt 40 yrs ago! I did a brand new qualification, school computing here in 1988. Totally useless nowadays (search master discs) 🤣 All was based on the Commodore Pet and the BBC micro. Glad the next, next generation are having fun (orgasm occasionally) 🤣🤣🤣 ❤

It was awesome seeing y'all at VCF Southwest! And that MiniPET is really cool.. nicely done!

Nicely done, pleased you got a kit and got it built and working. But no slacking on getting those key caps assembled!

Awesome build. My MiniPET probably gets more use than any of my other Commodores - love it. (it perches on top of my 8050 disk drive like a tiny bonnet!!) Now don't forget to add the finishing touches...

Somehow I think an entire Taylor and Amy Show episode with laryngitis would totally be worth watching. 😛

That was such a fun video. I watched your IAMSI now this, you are really pushing the edges of my budget here... 😁

Taylor you remind me so much of someone I went to school with named Ellie, it's hilarious Also this is excellent the pure squee of making it go is delightful thank you for posting it :D

Taylor your soldering skills must be pretty damn solid to solder that whole computer and not spend two weeks troubleshooting why it doesn't work. Nice job!

That was a relatable, and entertaining journey. Thanks for sharing it with us!

I saw you two live in the panel at VCFSW - hilarious stuff! Congrats on the MiniPET!

I only discovered the channel today (through Hackaday) and I have already watched 10 videos or so. Hilarious stuff!

You two always bring a smile to my face. Good job, glad it's not just me that has problems with chip legs.

I've just found you both but I love you so much. Excellent video! Congrats on the build. I started with computers with the PET at a Military School int he late 70's. So much love!

lol quirking out on behalf of us all. legendary scenes.

Ah, this brings some memories (Oh god no... not about *soldering* or touching hardware or....). But the original calculator style PET with the built in cassette recorder & small black and white screen (and I think 8K of RAM? Can't remember) that I first used in 1979 at school, that start me on my journey to being a computer nerd. *Sigh*.

I love yalls synergy. ❤

The jump cuts are the closest thing I've seen to magic. Well this morning anyway. It was great to meet you two at VCF SW. You showed me the box with your coveted PET on Saturday glad to see it here.

Victory! Well done on the soldering and the chips. I was given a retro kit for Christmas and it's still not working!

Wonderful work ladies 😸

That is a flipping nice project. The ole Larry Jytis is doing the rounds over here as well. Q: What do you call a diode thats suffered thermal runaway? A: A Fryode! Ahem... ...tumbleweed. ...crickets.

OMG, found you because of hack-a-day, and I'm never leaving.

Shared your channel in my Twitter Community - hope it drives traffic

I just love yours kitbuilding videos. :-)

"You have to mini-pet it!"🤗💻

With a cameo from game designer @RebeccaHeineman @1:00 (on the right edge of the screen)!

What a cute little PET. Awwwwwww :)

Yay! What a neat kit!

Hello, this is so awesome! And it worked the first time, excellent! I would love to have one too... Keep it up, it's great👍

Having built the previous version of the mini pet kit, I became very stressed and anxious when you started on the IC's. I'm glad you did a jump cut for the rest, don't think I could have taken the suspense. Too many flashbacks when I was doing the same. Are you going to do a follow up with all the nice keys in place and trying some software out?

Great project, and congratulations on getting it working. Hope to see the finshed product at some point. I'd have still been trying to solder the first diode on after two weeks. And the computer would never work. EVER. ☠️

Nice job! Looks like a fun kit!

I was wondering where the video of Action Retro singing "I like Tandy " in Texas was. I figured grabbing random festival presenters and forcing them into song was your thing. :-) Sean has quite the number of Taylor and Amy stickers one of his laptops.

Now you need to put a small tutu and a leash on it you’ll have a mini pet pet that you can pet! 😂

Love love love love this!

my two bundles of joy...

You guys are hilarious - great video!

Few things are as anxiety-inducing as putting chips in sockets

Witness Taylor and Amy, charter members in the fraternity of dreamers. An excitable pair whose passions are pure in intent and who are conspired against by exhaustion, a world full of retro technology, and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment Taylor and Amy will enter a world of blissful electronics petting.

Hey! Awesome video and... I think you're gorgeus! ;) Wil you consider a different perspective, and maybe a splitscreen with video capture? Some shots are a bit out of focus from this angle, and the screen has artifacts and reflexes.

*Laughing* You guys are nuts :) Well done.

0:45 "Friend of the channel Amy.." Can you be a friend of the channel if you're 1/2 of the channel? "..from Tilt Five" oh, more than 1 Amy exists apparently!

Great video, I have to admire your perseverance in getting the chips in those sockets. I hope you are going to make another video when it is all complete?

I wish these were still in production

Awesome job! While i understand why you skipped over the component soldering, I would have liked to watch a little bit, to see your setup and your soldering technique.

That was just so much fun, and what's more... it works. But the thing that's best of all is now you have a pet that you can pet any time you want. Isn't life grand? :)

CONGRATIOLATION !!! WWOOOOW

The PET had a 9-pin "D" connector for auxiliary controls (joystick/paddles with Atari 2600-compatible pinout) too? I'm gonna guess that bit of wiring was part of every Commodore system predating the Amiga, even the largely-forgotten ones.

WoW Girls For you safety I think seat belts should be added to your chairs I don’t want you to hurt your selfes your excitement is off the scale LOL Cool Kit

Is this kit available for purchase? I've been looking a while on thefuturewas8bit and haven't seen them.

What kinda case are you gonna put it into?

Ah yes, PETSCII has an actual left arrow. I dunno it made sense at the time I guess

you are technicaly so cute !

No case?

Centre-negative should be banned. I just don't get why they're ever considered a good idea in a world of 95% centre-positive connectors