System Source Computer History Museum - Amazing Tour 2023

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Our friend Dan took a tour of the System Source Computer History Museum in Maryland recently, and he filmed an excellent tour of the museum. Join us on this tour as we relive some important computer history and take a trip down memory lane!

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@2000danlb
@2000danlb 7 ай бұрын
Josh, thanks for making my video footage look good! If anyone is in that area I highly recommend checking out this place. Unlike a lot of museums it is very casual and as you can see in the video almost nothing is behind glass. They encourage people to actually use the computers that are running and they do their best to actually keep things functional. Bob who does the tours is very knowledgeable and does a great presentation.
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for taking this footage for me! It was amazing to see all of those incredible machines!
@wdwstreamfinder
@wdwstreamfinder 6 ай бұрын
Wonderful video Josh, thanks to Dan. Brought back a lot of memories, saw lots of my old friends in the museum, friends meaning the computers I worked with and on all through the years. Missing a few things, we used to hold onto a lot of our old equipment for years. What came to mind is that those were thousand and thousand dollar machines at the time, and you worked on what the company bought and trained you on. And then they got surpassed and put in the back. Love to visit, love to work there on restoring a lot of the Apple and graphics equipment if only I had the time…
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 5 ай бұрын
Very cool! Thanks for sharing your memories!
@eprohoda
@eprohoda 7 ай бұрын
Like it~epic trip-:))
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
For sure!
@magicalcelebrations8670
@magicalcelebrations8670 6 ай бұрын
What an amazing collection and it's cool that it's available for viewing! I learned on a TRS-80 in high school and that's what made me want to major in computer science in college. In my job I worked on an SGI before we moved to Windows workstations. It's crazy how fast technology has changed! Thanks for an awesome video and thanks to Dan too! P.S. My 80 year old mother still relies on an adding machine for bookkeeping! 😊
@Petra.Disney
@Petra.Disney 6 ай бұрын
Great for my techie brother and son!
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
Awesome!
@3rd_Century
@3rd_Century 6 ай бұрын
Thanks Josh. This brought back some very fond memories of when I first started using PC's. And yes, I was a PCjr guy.
@nikkitobin527
@nikkitobin527 7 ай бұрын
Thank you Dan for showing the museum! The bendix and linc systems looked neat but very confusing lol. That’s awesome they even had an old Mickey telephone there too! ❤️😊
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching, Nikki! Yes, the Mickey Phone was fun!
@abcd1239me
@abcd1239me 6 ай бұрын
We had a Tandy TRS-80 with 8inch floppy drive, it even had the expansion 8" drives. It worked. then we got a Tandy 1000 SX for the family computer, then I gotten a NCR 286 computer just for myself. Then for the up to date family computer my mom gotten a Packard Bell 486 legend computer, I do not remember the model number on it though. But it had Windows 3.1x on it and I had a great time using that one.
@richardscott5155
@richardscott5155 7 ай бұрын
Wow
@richardscott5155
@richardscott5155 6 ай бұрын
Thx to you and your whole family for bringing the magic. Question, I can no longer get the chat on my TV. Is that normal?
@robmcleod2876
@robmcleod2876 6 ай бұрын
The machines at 15:00 are the bbc micro and the acorn archimedes. The bbc micro is based on a 6502 processor, and the acorn archimedes introduced the ARM architecture to the world.
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for identifying those!
@waltmacklin1770
@waltmacklin1770 7 ай бұрын
Hi Josh, at timestamp 11:02 through 11:10 in the above video, you mentioned vintage machines next to Lotus software- that was a HERO-1, Heathkit Educational RObot! I programmed one in 1982 in my Vocational Technical School Electronics Class! it had a claw hand. it was that 2-foot-tall robot, with wheels on the immediate left of the Lotus 1-2-3 software box! Those 8 seconds! I had a blast with that HERO-1 Robot in 1982! It was a kit to build yourself, for $1500.00. Or if you wanted it to work, Heathkit Technicians would build it for $2,500.00 Thanks! Walter Macklin
@2000danlb
@2000danlb 7 ай бұрын
When I was a senior in High School me and a classmate got to build a HERO-1 in our electronics class. Like most Heathkit products you could get it in kit form.
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
That’s really cool! Thanks for sharing! So, I take it they were challenging to build?
@waltmacklin1770
@waltmacklin1770 6 ай бұрын
@@retrotv1tech Yes they sure were! We were first year Vo-Tech students, and Mr. Palmer my teacher ordered the already assemlbed Robot, because he didn't think we could do it. I don't think we could have built it, myself! Mr Palmer had a Commodore Vic-20 and then a Commodore 64, too! So I bought first my Vic 20 and later the commodore 64! In the 1980' s! Walt Macklin here.
@MissDisneyFan908
@MissDisneyFan908 7 ай бұрын
Good video Josh. I was ninja watching while getting ready for bed.
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
Nice! Thanks for watching!
@StangQuest94
@StangQuest94 6 ай бұрын
Very enjoyable video! Even thought I saw the system that's in Spaceship Earth! lol I loved the old gaming console part! More of that please!
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
For sure! Thanks for watching!
@plymouthrock7282
@plymouthrock7282 7 ай бұрын
Good morning 😃
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
Good morning!
@mattmilone92
@mattmilone92 7 ай бұрын
This opening is amazing
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@paullamhut4488
@paullamhut4488 7 ай бұрын
I designed an interface for the cray computer that was used to simulate an atomic plant control room. This is a sad story but here it is. While testing the simualtor a plant employee was solving problems as they were thrown at him. He was doing so well they threw an un solvable problem at him. It was so realistic that he forgot he was in a simulator. When he realized he was headed for a china meltdown and there was no way to fix it he passed away from a heart atack. Sad but true.
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
Wow. That is very sad. I’m very sorry to hear that. It is cool that you got to work with the Cray though.
@2000danlb
@2000danlb 7 ай бұрын
The machine at 6:42 is the Xerox Alto, the first computer designed around a graphics user interface (GUI). They didn't make a lot of these, but Steve Jobs was given an early demo of this machine which lead to Apple designing the Lisa and eventually the Macintosh. So, although most people probably don't know this computer, it is easily one of the most influential computers ever produced. Not sure if it was just turned off, but last time I was there it was functional.
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
Wow… that’s really cool! I didn’t know about that one.
@paullamhut4488
@paullamhut4488 7 ай бұрын
I saw a Heathkit 89 as you pased by it. It runs MPM or Hdos. Also CPM. I have a working one with both size disk drives.
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
That’s cool. I figured it would run CPM. I didn’t know much about MPM.
@alifrench8826
@alifrench8826 7 ай бұрын
Great Techy Vid Josh Sadly Didn't See Any Of The Old Apple Ma\c Computers That WE Had At High School :( But Did See The "Compaq" I Had "The Amstrad" Puter At Home (Very Siimilar To Compaq" WISH I Had Of Kept It Now But Ohh Well :( Mother KNows Al About "Early Adding Machines" & "Printing Presses" As Mother WAS / IS A SENIOR Banker For A Well Known UK Bank & My Mother & Her Family Lived IN A Street THat Had "A Printing Press Company" At The End Of The Street So She Was Forever In There Watching Everything Getting Printed :)
@2000danlb
@2000danlb 7 ай бұрын
There is another whole row of Apple equipment which I didn't get any footage of, but you can see it in the background starting at 5:59
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
That’s very cool! Thanks for sharing!
@michaeld1378
@michaeld1378 6 ай бұрын
At about 9:00, those IBM minis are probably system 36 or AS/400. You could get a 5250 card for PC so it could be terminal to 36 as well as normal PC.
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
That’s really cool how they made these machines so flexible to work with different systems.
@theshaggyfreak
@theshaggyfreak 7 ай бұрын
Ahh. I live not far from that!
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
Very cool!
@michaeld1378
@michaeld1378 7 ай бұрын
Hey Josh, wondering if you have thought of trying Raspberry Pi. Lots of neat projects like robotics and coding. Not really retro, but kind of a mix of an old Sinclair computer and a Realistic 100 in 1 electronics projects kit.
@retrotv1tech
@retrotv1tech 6 ай бұрын
I might show how you can play retro systems on a Pi. That would be fun for sure!
@michaeld1378
@michaeld1378 6 ай бұрын
@retrotv1tech That would be very cool. Is there MAME emulator that works on it? That might make me get off my butt and try it.
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