VCF West would have been exponentially more awesome with you in attendance. I'm glad you're feeling better! I'm going to try my very best to make it to VCF Midwest. I'm going to have a MUCH bigger problem with the consignment area at Midwest, since by all accounts it's the largest one. I plan to fly there. Though on second thought... It is only a 15-hour drive LOL.

I'm still surprised I didn't get any bugs when I was shoulder-to-shoulder at VCF East this year. (I was the guy who showed up with the Apple VOC and Amiga 4000 to get recapped).

Love his channel! I’ve been watching for years. Time to re-watch all of his videos on the 1401 with a new perspective! Marc has my dream- job. 😂 Thanks!

Thanks! Oh that’s awesome. Did you own those systems since they were new or did you acquire them more recently?

@@miketech1024 I've had these systems for a while. The 486 Olivetto (Echos 48 Color) was the first laptop I ever had as a kid and was a hand me down from my dads work. The Armada 1510 was a gift for christmas some years after it was released and was actually my first laptop with a sound card AND a CD-ROM drive. Imagine I could play so many games on the go (if it weren't for the DSTN screen lol)! The Deskpro EN P3 1GHz was a system I've used from around 14 to 18 so it feels like I've had it for ages. It has a special place in my heart so I loved to see it in the video you did about. (Never even know there was a solonoid in those cases! But its to lock the case, I found out after looking it up seeing it in the video.) To limit myself somewhat I've set the goal to only re-create all the systems I've actually had in my life. We're built in the same year and I personally started out with an old (even then) PS2 model 55 which I sadly don't have anymore. So I still have a lot to collect!

@@mjaerkens Ah we're on the same path then! I'm also trying to re-acquire all of my childhood machines. I have an absolute laundry-list of systems I'm trying to own again! Unfortunately, they also happen to be some of the most sought-after systems...

@@miketech1024 It seems we are! At least you seem to remember which systems you've had. To me everything before my p1 233mmx is a bit hazy as I remember having a lot of different pentium 1 systems at the time. Some with and without MMX. It really doesn't help most systems were obscure pre-builts from local (Dutch) resellers. So those were never really available in big quantities, let alone see them in the wild now 30 years later. I will tell you, seeing the videos and actively doing retro stuff is jogging those memories!

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying them! 🙂

Thanks! If the battery electrolyte did not damage the traces too deeply, the motherboard might still be ok. If there are any socketed chips nearby, try removing them and applying DeoxIT to the socket(s).

@@miketech1024 Thanks for the advice! Will do! Luckily I have your videos as a point of reference! I cannot wait for the motherboard repair video! Cheers!

He is a treasure!

@@miketech1024 hope you pay him well! 🕺🏻😜

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Wow I didn’t know that about the CHM building. That’s so cool!

I'll most definitely be testing those drives! I'm dying to hear these Seagates operate again!

I'm going to try my very best to make it there!

I did find those machines fascinating previously, but seeing one in action REALLY drove it home! How awesome it must be to have the privilege of tinkering with hardware like that! I'm gonna need a bigger house...

I definitely plan to do VCF East next year!

Yeah the build quality seems pretty awful, just based on the exterior. Very thin sheet metal. It does have an interesting backstory though!

@@miketech1024 Yeah, most of argentine-made stuff has quite a background. Here in Chile we used to have those Olidata pieces of crap which weren't much better than those Commodores

Correct.

Another cheer for Living Computers. Such a great place. Crossing my fingers it opens again soon. A great place to welcome Mike to the PNW.

Ohh the fabled Living Computer Museum! If they ever do re-open, I hope they're ready for me to move in!

Hate to burst your bubble, but LCM is gone, it will never reopen, the employees have found other jobs and the collection has been pretty much liquidated.

Nice! Yeah I bet that door is unobtainium now. Might have to come up with a 3D-printed approximation of it. It's really hard to replicate that IBM texture though.

@@miketech1024 Yeah I have Seena. Few photos of them missing it - so it seems to be. Common issue. Tbh, If I can't get one of the doors, I'm more than happy to have just rescued it from scrap as it is. Interesting little machine. Did you know these were also the first ever Aptivas?

So glad I found those. Huge thanks to @THEtechknight for bringing those to my attention!

Yeah I just couldn't make it happen last week. This video format is new to me and ended up taking way longer than I expected to get together. Being in San Francisco at the time I had no shortage of distractions which didn't help LOL.

@@miketech1024 Totally understandable!

I know the feeling! I was quite nervous when I met Adrian. Fortunately that faded fast because he is so friendly and welcoming, we became friends instantly! I very much enjoyed meeting so many viewers of the channel. I’ve never been great at initiating conversations so all of the people come over to chat was a great way to bring me out of my shell. It was a lot of fun talking to so many people with the same interests. I hope we have a chance to meet at a future event!

@@miketech1024 thanks for the reply! Now I regret not saying hi all the more. 😅 Too bad Adrian couldn't make it to California, I'd have really liked seeing him talk at the excellent panel as well. :) Thanks for all the videos of you digging through your hoard! They're incredibly entertaining, especially due to the tight and to-the-point editing. Well done! :)

Thanks! I was using the Mitsubishi system around 1995, so it was pretty much obsolete by ‘90s standards. I was still quite happy to have it.

That exhibit was cool! I've been very curious about platforms like those. There's a surprising number of peripherals available in the PC104 form factor. I've had it in the back of my head for a long time to try and build a hand-held 486 for gaming using these!

I swear I can still mentally 're-cite' the sounds it makes during initialization. I'm super curious to know how accurate it is in my head after all these years LOL. Currently I'm holding out on testing it, since I like to save all initial testing for the videos. That is killing me right now though LOL.

The consignment area was hard on my emotions LOL.

@@miketech1024 I can imagine!

Hanging out with Adrian was exponentially awesome! Having the exact same interests we have no shortage of things to talk about! I saw a couple of Commodores autographed by Bil Herd at VCF West, so that was cool.

@@miketech1024 I've always wondered what Adrian's day job is... assuming a sys admin or hardware engineer, but I was thinking, maybe you now have enough subs to do YT fulltime? But it's risky depending so much on that fickle algorithm.

You have not lived till you have hung out with Bill Herd.

@@mspysu79 Hahaha, that doesn't surprise me!

I hope to meet you as well! Going to try my hardest to make it to Midwest this year.