EEVblog #1112 (PART 2) - More Vintage Warehouse Diving

Some more random vintage computer warehouse diving (climbing actually).

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[williamgottlieb]

I can't wait to see part three of this warehouse exploring as you now realize you left your tripod there yet again.

[RobTaylor-HiTech]

Saw the TRS-80 stuff and it brought back memories. I was one of the first people to create a add on board for TRS-80 Model 1, 3 and 4 that allowed it to address 1MB of Ram piggy backed. Had to create a special ras/cas refresh circuit to allow refresh for the swapped overlay memory are of 16k blocks. LeScript adopted the memory for their word processor.

[timthompson]

I picked up a working HP 150 a couple of months ago. That’s actually the whole computer, not just the terminal. The HPIB was typically used to interface to the external floppy disk drive and printers or plotters. It was one of the first to use 3.5” rigid floppies. The one I have includes a thermal printer built into the top of it. It all fits in a 1’ cube. It’s an interesting old artifact. As you mentioned, it runs MS-DOS, but the floppies are on the HP format, so they aren’t compatible with the IBM PC. I’ll probably do a brief video on it one of these days. I found a lot of software and documentation for it available at the HP Museum website in Australia.

[mauryginsberg]

If somebody could somehow create only videos just like this one, I would watch every single one!

[Deuphus]

leave it how you found it. If you open it, close it mate.

[MrKillswitch]

All of those 286 on up through pentium 1/2 era are worth saving these days as those machines do go for bit of a premium to collectors and retro gamers.

[ehtkhr]

2:56 OMG "PICK"!! We were using PICK on McDonnell Douglas (yes, the aircraft manufacturer) mainframes in the early to mid nineties when they moved it across to Reality X (BSD Unix).

[davekimball]

As someone who used to live near Maynard, Massachusetts, seeing all that old Digital Equipment Corp stuff makes me smile.

[station]

Yeah totally due to leaving the tripods behind, and not because he filled the car up and needed to make two trips.

[StreuB]

DAMN!!! Check out the smoked wire wound resistor at 11:30 on the lower right corner of that "Personality" board!!!

[daviddevillers]

Those cassettes are awesome! Work with my grandfather on a TRS-80 - learned backgammon on that thing. Great memories!

[DatBlueHusky]

This is great, stuff is irreplaceable now and having stock like this is going to be worth more than gold years down the road

[dangerousmythbuster]

Dave, don't you have enough space in the old Altium building for all this stuff? In fact, you could set up a proper museum.

[ForViewingOnly]

11:52 That early touch-screen monitor is very interesting. You can see the touch-menu option boxes burnt into the bottom of the screen.

[oldestnerd]

Here I am again. This still reminds me of all the stuff I have in storage. So depressing, but I'll finish watching.

[alfoncejean]

weight limit ? easy fix :put the contener in its final spot then do back and forth using regular cars.

[rfengr]

Sparcstation IPX in the crate at 10:20; used to have one 20 years ago.

[aarongreenfield]

I bet this has vintage computer enthusiast's all over the world just squirming, wishing they could be there to grab that stuff!

[joepena]

I've always wondered what computer they were using in the movie Real Genius and there it was, the HP 150.

[ForViewingOnly]

Hi Dave, in the unlikely event that you find yourself in the UK and you want to do a day trip to the Channel Islands, you're welcome to come and see my 8-bit computer museum. I think you'd be pretty excited, and it'd make a good video.