We had a system like that at Syracuse U. in the late eighties, leftover from the seventies. But I used it to type all my papers. It was always available, easy to use with great spell checking. And its daisywheel printer gave my papers the appearance of being typewritten, unlike all the dot matrix printouts so common in those days.

I bet this guy doesn’t even know if they all run

Krivulda considering most of them have probably been acquired as is without any manuals i dont think that kind of troubleshooting would even be worth ones time.

@@Opry99er Most were acquired in a running state, but stuff fails just due to aging of components, so before power-on anything would need to be re-inspected first. Some stuff, like the big SGI machines have power requirements that my current warehouse location doesn't satisfy.

@@NinuRenee Except for things like ASICs in an SGI machine, everything is very well documented similar to what Marc shows on his channel w.r.t. his vintage gear.

+Geiger Very cool collection you have!

So would I. Or maybe it could be leased out to a movie company for background in a sci-fi flick. Most of the Millenials would never know the difference :)

Yeah that unit is what's really notable in this video..

Did you write it in in assembly or Basic?

@@gregorymalchuk272 Pascal.

An ASCII-art video wall on serial terminals would be SO cool.

I only just realized from an episode of the Computer Chronicles that "Pixar" was the name of the supercomputer used to render their early computer animation clips in movies.

Syd Mead at 10:05?

The head is so deep in the anus one could actually find new forms of life

Agreed.. it is nice that he probably saved a lot of this stuff but to just store them away for no reason is pointless to me. I use everything I collect ranging from IBM 5155s to Sun 3/80s and SGI Indigo2's.

Actually, hoarders have been some of the best places where I've gotten stuff :)

RaymondHng HEATHKIT had its own line of PC's?

@@Jeffrey314159 Heathkit had several terminal kits: H9 and H19. They also had the H89 which was the H19 enclosure with a Z80 processor and floppy drive.

Most works, but I have limited power at the warehouse. The teletypes, being more mechanical than electronic, are the things that need serious work to restore to working order because the lubricants gum up over time.

The whole surface is a essentially giant membrane keypad. You could press the function keys with your fingers. I think they used a stylus in the center mouse area.

Try dialing into Compuserve with one. The text coming in through the modem would print from the top of the screen down then wrap and write over what was already there. Unless you were quick hitting the clear screen button (or whatever it was called). Of course then you couldn't see what had just been printed on screen. I had more success dialing in with a thermal printer / acoustic coupler teletype kind of thing. Used a whole roll of paper playing "Megawars". We had weird computers at home when I was a kid.

Most were in working order when acquired, yes.

The intention is to have a publicly museum where you can have a "period experience" on period equipment, similar to the Living Computer Museum. So duplicates are necessary for spare parts and to have more than one machine functioning in the exhibit at any one time. That's the plan, anyway :)

The Apple logo looks like a sticker.

The Apple logo sticker was added by the previous owner as a tongue-in-cheek touch. :)

So do you!

I've always maintained that if you have a list of what you have, and it's all organized, and you can locate any item w/o searching... it's not hoarding, it's collecting.

We had a meetup down at the warehouse before the pandemic and a couple of those Teletypes were transitioned to homes where they could get the attention they deserve :)

well, in any case, fuck Microsoft, I use Linux.

mee mee I agree!! Microsfot has not invented ONE thing. Windows was STOLEN from APPLE who got permission to use it from Xerox who invented it. Thats why Linux/Unix people us Xwindows. Beciaee Xerox invented it. Bill Gates was not even close to a visionary. He just ripped off other companies or bought other companies just for thier patents. He also couldn't code his way out of a paper bag. He had others do it. His company is just focused on making him huge profits by buying out any competition. He destroyed any innovation by others. He hated any competition. Microsoft is shareware at best. I die laughing when the typical response is "re-install everything" or "please re-boot" I worked on Mainframes and a "re-boot" is never an option. I worked at one company who didn't "re-boot" the mainframe for over 5 years, as there was never any need to. I dont mind upgrades and such, but i DEMAND backward capability like IBM has been doing for decades. Microsoft is JUST a money maker and will do ANYTHING to stop comeption and maintain or increase thier profits. Not a nice company PS I have 12 rack mounted computers, and two laptops at home and only 1 computer(laptop) runs windows, the rest are Linux machines

@@rty1955 Oh dear lots of misinformation. Windows was never 'stolen'. And Apple never 'paid' Xerox. What happened is that a number of Apple employees had seen the work that Xerox PARC was doing and knew there was something there. They had to plead with Steve Jobs to let him take a look, because at the time he didn't really care. But once he saw it he knew it was the future. Bill Gates also saw the future in what was shown in PARC. Now Steve never really paid the engineers in PARC instead he gave them stock options in Apple. The other thing that needs to be mentioned is that Steve and Gates had an agreement that Steve would be allowed to launch his GUI version first before Bill's but there was no clause on what happens if there was a delay on Steve's computer and guess what? There was a delay and eventually Bill Gates was able to launch his version and the rest is history. I'm not denying that Windows is bad, but your characterization of Bill Gates is extremely unfair. He was a coder and was involved in creating the BASIC language for the Altair 8800, one of the first commercial personal computers. In fact it was because of that Basic version that he made the infamous ' Open Letter to Hobbyists' where he mentioned that it was stealing for computer hobbyists to use his BASIC interpreter without payment.

@@jackkraken3888 gates collaborated with jobs to write software for the apple computer. It was at this point gates stole the code for the gui and decided to publish it for himself. Apple did in fact give stock to xerox, giving legitimacy to the work that jobs was doing, gates just stole the work from apple. As far as gates as a coder. A lot of rhe work was done by paul Allan while gates was hard at work figuring out how he could screw people. Gates was not a bright coder at all. Paul had to correct a lot of code gates wrote. Gates was all about business and how he could make money, no matter who he stepped on. Hardly a nice guy

@@rty1955 Gates didn't steal the GUI code from Apple. They were given a licence to use it from Apple. But there was a dispute regarding if these elements were even copyrightable. Also don't forget that Bill Gates also hired Charles Simonyi from Xerox, just like how Steve hired Bob Belville from Xerox..

Silent terminal with tape drive option to record or send prepared offline data (I think). First time I ever saw one of these.

Yes it's the TI Silent 700 model 733ASR. The cassettes play the role of the paper tape on a traditional Teletype.

@curiousMarc Do you have more footage of the DEC Gigi? I'd love to hear more about it! I remember occasional mentions of it at the time from DEC literature, and it seemed to be a unique evolutionary point between graphics terminal and workstation.. also those Tek terminals with literal 4K screens!!! the whole collection had me 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻