Opening 8 Months of Vintage Tech Oddities & LGR Mail!

Likely the only LGR donations unboxing of 2023! Opening up tons of vintage hardware, software, oddware, computer games, and retro tech. Massive thanks to everyone who contributed this awesome stuff — and made offers to do so!

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● Links to various items and projects shown in the video:

● All background music licensed from:

00:00 LGR Mailbag video begins
00:26 Explanation of things
01:35 Mini Control numpad joystick
03:29 NEUROBLAST HyperCard DiskZine
07:48 Sound Blaster AWE64
09:02 Shift Happens book preview
10:46 1998 Micron Additions catalog
13:14 The Abandoned Book
14:10 Command 3D Sound Engine
15:56 Apple IIe goodies
18:27 RollerCoaster Tycoon for Xbox
19:21 16GB 2.5" PATA SSD
20:00 Nostromo N52 Ultima Edition
21:42 New in box Epyx IBM PC games
22:22 Trashland pinball table shirt
24:00 Vintage mousepad recreations
25:39 CardScan business card scanner
27:08 Palm Computer Fun Pack
28:02 Handspring Visor Neo
29:47 ASUS 701 Eee PC
32:00 Duke Nukem Forever goodies
37:49 IBM Teraplex polo shirts
39:27 Apple Disk II + Floppy Emu
45:27 1978 UNIX Programmer's Manual
47:21 Rockwell Anita 1211SL Calculator
49:43 Xerox 6085 Cherry MX keycaps
52:19 Tandy 1800 HD laptop bag
53:58 Circuit City Toshiba Satellite T2105
58:34 And that is it!

#LGR #Retro #Unboxing #computer #vintage #technology

[thastump]

A UNIX manual given by Dennis friggin' Ritchie himself?! That is a powerful artifact!

[princehahaha]

Dennis Ritchie was the inventor of the C programming language and co-wrote a book on it (with Brian Kernighan). So many programmers all over the world learned C from that book.

[troublecluster]

The ILM/Lucasfilm badges at the start of the video are given out to ILM crew after projects have wrapped. It is a long standing tradition at the company to this day. Awesome video as always, Clint!

[Ultimatebubs]

Wow... that UNIX manual really does belong in a tech museum somewhere!

[loganhetzel]

I used to work at a Circuit City (almost right up until the end) as a PC Tech and our store still used DPS - the circa 1980's Point of Sale system (bet you can't guess what we said that acronym stood for) - That software has a "DPS Access Menu" option in there, so this laptop likely had some form of connectivity to the DPS network at whatever store this came out of. Probably used to check out reports by store management/district management. I remember hating working on that POS system frequently. It was a nightmare on Black Friday - If someone tried to check their sales numbers that day, it would crash the entire store for a good 20-30 minutes while the main system booted back up. Pretty sure that's how I learned what a credit card imprinter was - yeah, we had those too...

[ZAZZAMATAZ]

holy crap Dennis Ritchie!?! That needs to be in a museum!

[aserta]

46:18 hold the phone. No way! That's freaking regalia, my dude. That book is priceless.

[RyanSoulard]

As a software dev, I was shocked that you didn't freak out when you got the Dennis Ritchie business card.

[JoeSiegler]

32:43 - Hey LGR.. That was a DVD that we handed at at E3 2001 which had the 2001 E3 trailers for Duke Nukem Forever & Max Payne on them. There was a metric ton of them produced. The content is easily viewable on youtube, so it's only reason for existence now is to say you have one. :)

36:56 - Those prints were things that were in the Balls of Steel Edition as I recall. Although they look physically bigger than what I remember that was packed in those sets.

37:16 - that was a DNF mousepad that Gearbox put out right around the time DNF came out.. I got one for free as I was working at Gearbox at the time, but I bought a second one because I thought they would go all bottom up before too long. But it's one of the most durable mouse pads I've EVER seen. It's amazingly high quality, and the one I bought myself is still sealed.

[ShapeyFiend]

Now that it's getting so challenging to find stuff in thrift shops these unboxing videos compensate for the shortfall nicely.

[pxzogcn]

46:20 You underplay the incredible historical importance of Dennis Ritchie! He's arguably the most under-recognized giant in the history of computing. Not only did he co-create UNIX with Ken Thompson, he invented the C programming language! Our modern technological landscape would be unthinkable without Ritchie.

[tehroller]

Mailtime videos are my favourite, Next to thrifts of course :) Dont ever stop making them!

[BRUXXUS]

I love these unboxing videos! Hearing about all the people that send things in, the little stories that go with each item's background is super fun. You always show respect and appreciation. :)

[PrairieDog]

Me, my Mom, and Sister all worked for Circuit City in the 90s. That AS/400 backend was awesome for it's era. Not much in retail today is as good. Even with the passwords, the programs on the Toshiba is probably only the frontend to the AS/400.

[HobbyTimeToys]

I love the unboxings. This channel is awesome.

[piparalegal]

I love watching your videos. They're amazing. Your voice is really soothing for me, so it's a nice listen when I'm feeling really horrible.

[danieldougan]

That iMac sitting on top of a PS/2 is surreal.

Also, with regard to the LC 575, I have a story. My mom was an elementary school teacher. My mom's school district issued LC 575s to teachers to use in their classrooms. They allowed them to take them home during the summer months. This was A) so the teachers could practice using them and B) so they wouldn't get stolen from empty classrooms. So, that meant I got to use it during the summer. I was 14 years old during the summer of 1994, and I used the CRAP out of that thing for the next few summers, mostly for drawing since we never hooked it up to the internet. We never had a useful computer in our house before (the CoCo 2 doesn't count because it felt useless and obsolete from the day my dad bought it because it was), so I was thrilled to get a chance to play with one at home instead of in a school computer lab. The irony was I really could have used a computer during the school year, but that's when it was in my mom's classroom.

[Caplax]

My heart skipped a beat when I saw that Micron catalog. I exclusively collect Micron stuff and just this week acquired a Netframe 3100 server that makes a brief appearance @12:21. Very cool thing you have there. Catalogs rarely show up online, so to see one is extra special.

[Siobhan]

Someone who used to be in my life pointed me toward your channel and it’s one of a few things I cherish from that relationship. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to watch your channel together before the relationship ended, but I am grateful that he pointed me here. I enjoy unboxing videos. They’re comforting so watching an unboxing video from your channel (an already entertaining and comforting channel) is special and extra enjoyable. That’s a nice little book on the evolution of keyboards. That’s definitely something I would be interested in checking out. I watch things like that on the History Channel all the time haha

[RJmakes]

It’s always a good day when LGR uploads.