games like fleet command need to come with a warning

Wow this took me back a few years. Fantastic vid, thanks.

RMC has some way to go!

Where's the mainframe that takes up a whole room and uses tape drives?!

No thanks. Games like that should be avoided at all cost. They are microtransaction hell. I'd never let them sponsor me if got offered. But if the money is good I doubt blame people from taking it if needed.

AMAZING place, mate! wow I hope I can visit there one day👍💪

Dat is het zeker! Fijn dat we mee kunnen genieten met deze video. 👌🏻

The pen for the tablet on the Aesthedes looks a lot like the pens I've used on GTCO tablets. They are still around and apparently have merged with Calcomp.

You did such a great job with the museum, amazing

Ik heb jaren met dat soort oude meuk gewerkt (Personal computers maar ook mainframes, mini's en allerlij rare PDP11 achtige systemen) Toch eens komen kijken, vind het heerlijk om de ouwe spullen werkend te krijgen.

I also noticed that they have a support account, which is a nice touch on a museum where things might misbehave or suddenly not work

Kinda sad.. Poor old server Was never to be

The amount of CD-I stuff they have is awesome, it really made me feel like a 14 year old kid again believing that FMV games where the future

My school got official kit, i was the only person of the Philips test program to understand it, even testing the old Music CD games. great times ! Red Book, we knew what it was, i was close with Philips too, my school NOT ! as a kid, Philips was my future...

OMG. Careers' Officers - nobody but the clueless should take their advice. One told me because I am colour blind (very mild red-green that affects a LOT of males) I couldn't possibly work in Electronics, despite it being my hobby since a 7 year old. Apparently I can't see wire colours. I did work in Electronics as a service engineer but eventually switched to IT as that was more lucrative and interesting and I could see the writing on the wall for third party repair.

@@Drew-Dastardly I'm also red-green colourblind, and yet I was fine at graphic design... although admittedly, I did have some problems with wiring cat-5 cables on the Cisco course, but I had my teacher stand behind me telling me which colour was which (without giving away whether it was the correct wire or not, obviously!). But in fairness, who makes patch cables from scratch these days anyway? Weirdly, since I didn't come from an electronics background, I picked up the fibre-optics signalling module a lot quicker than everyone else in the class, but was really slow to understand the copper-wire signalling... maybe it's because I was more used to thinking about the behaviour of light than that of electricity?

Delta Elektronika (not to be confused with the Taiwanese manufacturer of the same name!) is well known for its superb customer support.

Fascinating machine. What processor architecture was it based on? My family had a graphics business back then, and it might give the Mac II we had a run for it’s money… (we had that Mac configured with a couple of 19” Trinitron monitors and a big digitizing tablet; and ran Freehand, Illustrator, PageMaker, and Photoshop on it. Eventually it got a Radius Rocket 68040 accelerator; and it became practical to run 3D software like Infini-D, Swivel3D, and RayDream as well)

@@darkwinter6028 The Wikipedia page says that it had 10 x Motorola 68000.

Wasn’t there CorelDraw software for Windows95. I vaguely remember it was free software on disc with my computer….

@@gareth1971 The original one did. This has 2x68020 and 4xEF9635 to drive the displays.

Could it be that there are some forgotten spare parts you know of, left somewhere in a corner and a maintenance manual, complete and unabridged. I am not asking it for myself but that machine is of such an outstanding beauty it has to be restored completely some sunny day.

I have to fly 10 hours to get there but I've been there twice. :)

Zullen we samen gaan Willem ik ben ook nog nooit geweest en wil heel graag. Raar heh als je dicht bij woont is het altijd lastiger.

Voor mij een kwartiertje.

@@randomsam83 dat is om de hoek. Dan ga je iedere keer dat je een retro urge krijgt? 😉

@@CallousCoder Ik rommel het liefst met defecte vintage apparaten (thuis).

As I understand it, the original designer is no longer alive. His daughter still lives, but she doesn't have a lot of info about the machine.

CAD, nope, this is Realtime PAL editing gear

in that case you missed a great video!

My thoughts exactly.

Yes, those were Tectronix 4051 as well ;)

Didn't know that it was that rare.

@@HomeComputerMuseum It was the last real effort from Luxor and it raised the bar a lot from their previous 8-bit series. But it was expensive and late in a time when PC started to take over. The Luxor 8 bit lines are interesting and were relatively widely sold here in Sweden back in the late 70:s and early 80:s. The ABC 80, the first model, was designed and produced by 3 companies in cooperation: Scandia Metric, Dataindustrier AB (DIAB) and Luxor. The first company, Scandia Metric, were early with computer educations and saw a need for a new schooling computer. They talked with DIAB and realized that they together had the competence to design the computer and peripherals, but lacked production capability for electronics and monitors. Luxor was an old manufacturer of radios, TV:s, etc, and had manufacturing experience and capability. The three started talks and the process was remarkably short. A first meeting was held 2 February 1978. At the end of July several prototypes were ready and the finished computer was shown 24 August the same year. One reason why they managed to produce the computer this fast was because they relied a lot on designs from DIAB. They already produced a bus computer targeted for industrial use. It used what DIAB named the 4680 bus with CPU cards, memory cards, I/O cards and whatever industrial controller cards connected to a bus with 16 bit address bus and 8 bit data bus. The ABC 80 computer had its own keyboard, a Z80 CPU, RAM and ROM but was bus wise comparable with the CPU 4680 cards. To the large bus connector at the back a breakout box could be connected, which allowed a very wide range of cards to be added. To for example add diskdrives, the disk drive controller card was added to that box. Since the bus allowed ROM modules on bus cards to be mapped into system memory the various controllers could add the necessary drivers. A lot of different cards and system enhancements were added this way. There is still a small community of ABC 80 enthusiasts in Sweden and last year I bought a new bus card with an FPGA that added SD card based HD emulation, Wifi support, separate programmable graphics output though HDMI, etc. A total of 33300 ABC 80:s were produced. After the relatively big success with the ABC 80 they released the ABC 800 series in 1981. It was more targeted for office use. It still used the Z80 processor but the system had several enhancements. Apart from double RAM capacity and a more advanced ROM it could take one expansion card directly, without breakout box. There were three models. The ABC 800 was an all-in-keyboard variant just as the ABC80. The ABC 802 was a compact variant with the computer inside a small screen and a separate keyboard, with diskdrives hanged on the side. The 806 was the largest variant with a separate CPU unit and separate keyboard and a screen which normally allowed color graphics. A total of 29300 ABC 800:s were made (all variants included). The 800 series sold, but the PC started to eat the market. One try on this is the ABC 1600, which is a completely different machine than the previous ones. It has a 68008 CPU and runs a UNIX dialect called ABCenix. As I mentioned in my previous post only 400 was made and they were relatively expensive. A system costed 47000 SEK back in 1985, which corresponds to 121693 SEK or around €10779 today. They would have needed to sell around 5000 to make the project profitable. After some hard years Luxor was sold to Nokia in 1985. They killed the Luxor Computers company in 1986, but tried to release a PC variant under the name ABC 1200, which is a very rare machine nowadays. DIAB also sold a more advanced UNIX machine under the name ABC 9000 for some while.

@@Pugopugo I had an 806 with the card expansion cabinet thing, plus a bunch of extra cards including a few for experimentation in a control software thing, got it from my school a few years after they stopped using it in favor of PLC for automation. I also had an ABC1600, with the tiltable screen, and mouse+keyboard, and a DIAB DS90 rack server hehehe. The DIAB and ABC1600 are in a friends basement, or his moms basement now, the 806 etc I'm not sure where it went, at the time I left Sweden for good, so I found homes for all that stuff. Probably 1998 or 1999 at the latest. Haven't been back except for a short visit once many years ago. The last DIAB thing was made but as I recall less than 20 in total, most went to the Swedish navy if I recall correctly, I found some of the original guys from DIAB through chasing info and hardware through ads in magazines, and indeed ABCenix and the DIAB SysV AT&T port as well as the hardware are cross compatible, the DIAB I used to own was used to build the binaries for ABCenix GUI by Luxor at the time, or rather the sub company made for that which I forget the name of now - it was tied to DIAB. I think the whole DIAB unix reference manual still survives, which is 80% of ABCenix, in my friends moms basement in Göteborg hehe.

@@noth606 Interesting to hear! There are quite some info to dig up and document about DIAB as well as Scandia Metric. Luxor and the ABC:s are quite good documented, but computers like Scandia Metric's Metric 85 TD is very little documented. I became kind of happy some years ago when I saw a roof box on a car that looked like it came from the 80:s and had "DIAB Data AB" printed on it. The company was renamed to that in 1986, after some turbulent years owner wise. That name is a bit funny as DIAB is already an achronym for Dataindustrier (computer industries) AB (aktiebolag = limited). That means that the new name contained Data two times and AB two times. :)

I know someone who still has a Hotmail address today. Maybe worth checking yours to see if it still works?

social media did nothing but make the scourge that is humanity the forefront instead of buried in 4chan

Yep, social media came along and ruined it. Now isn't that the truth.

totally! Love that sound lol! I remember can somebody answer the phon;, they sampled the dial up sound for the song. Good days ahhhh

I could tell, laying in bed listening to someone connect to my c64 bbs, their connect rate by sound, and what they were doing on the bbs by the sound of the drives loading, how long, clicks, etc. Such a different time.

I can smell that bit of the video. The new plastic smell and the ozone from the CRTs.

Man that parrot was funny back in the day. 🤣

ps omg msn messenger. My first girlfriend dumped me on that