Inside the WILD Lab of CuriousMarc

Vintage test gear and Apollo hardware - holy moly you have to see this incredible lab!

Check out the insane lab that CuriousMarc calls home. Vintage NASA Apollo space technology, retro computing, old school test equipment, oscilloscope music, and more!

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0:00 "I never turned everything on at the same time"
0:37 NASA Apollo space communication tech
1:37 The most insane clock collection
3:25 1960s HP's 1st computer and test rack
5:06 More Apollo gear
5:55 CuriousMarc's engineering crew
6:27 Machine shop
6:48 Welded discrete RF systems from NASA
9:05 The Xerox Alto from 1974
10:38 Marc's prestigious engineering background
11:55 The first HP logic analyzer, which uses Intel's 1st chip
12:30 Oscilloscope music in the "low frequency corner"
13:13 How Marc's collection started - a 10 GHz oscilloscope
13:48 1964 IBM 360 computer restoration project
16:35 CuriousMarc channel origin story

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[juliankandlhofer]

17:40 "my videos require effort on the part of the viewer" resonates quite well with me :D
marc's videos are the only one's where I'll say "you know what, I'll go to sleep and watch this tomorrow so I can pay full attention"
him and his team are absolutely brilliant and sooo inspiring to me and I learn something new every time.

[cda]

What makes his channel amazing is the lengths they go to restoring stuff, they honestly do not ever give up no mater how ridiculous it gets even de-capping IC's to see why they don't work anymore.

[RaoulB.]

Curious Marc’s channel truly is a gem! It’s not common to have all that knowledge freely accessible and in a convenient format as an interesting YouTube video! Thanks Keysight (and Marc ;) ) for the tour!

[MarcelHuguenin]

Thanks Keysight for doing this video with CuriousMarc. His channel if my absolute No. 1 favorite channel. I love the masterclasses we're getting from him and the team.

[Bobbias]

Easily one of my favorite YouTube channels out there. Marc and his friends do some true sorcery in some of those projects.

[SalvaBarbus]

One part I love about CuriousMarc's channel is when the elevator music starts playing. That's when you know the serious stuff is about to happen!

[ForViewingOnly]

This video get a thumbs up before I even start playing it. Curious Mark's Apollo Guidance Computer video series just BLEW MY MIND! I'd never seen this level of engineering and determination in any YouTube video before. Curious Mark and his team are in a class of their own.

[SubTroppo]

It is excellent that the heritage is being appreciated by Keysight. I had also hoped to see some of the old electro-mechanical telex machines and calculators which Marc has repaired (the mind boggles).

[winged_neko]

oh my gosh, YES! Marc is so awesome, "even" behind the scenes :D
thank you Keysight for sharing this awesome video with us, and thank you Marc for accepting a behind the scene recording!

[philmayf]

Marc is a treasure. His extended group of collaborators is so good that it's incredible.

[izzieb]

Everyone talks about his wonderful lab, but nobody comments on Curious Marc's wonderful moustache.

[christophernetherton]

It was wonderful to see you guys together! Thank you for the tour!

[kmgy]

Not only is each of Marc's videos a mini-tutorial, but we also get to see the brilliant engineering that went into the older gear.

[lucylastik]

That was a treat! We never get to actually see Marc himself on the channel, he's always behind the camera.

[jeremiefaucher-goulet]

Marc has the best channel on YouTube by FAR. It's been amazing to watch him over all those years.

[Spookieham]

Mark sums his videos up : " they need some work on the part of the viewer". I am lucky I am an Engineer so get so much out of them. However even people who aren't can learn so much. They are I would argue the best series of technical videos on YouTube. And he sells fantastic T- Shirts😁

[Padoinky]

I worked for Xerox, right out of university, from 1986 to 1989, initially in the Webster NY manufacturing campus, then moved to the corporate HQ in Stamford CT(long ridge rd) …actually had access to all sorts of revolutionary tech - had a STAR 6085 workstation w/ the graphical user interface, email, Ethernet connectivity linked to laser printers, etc. all this cool tech was developed out in the Xerox Palo Alto (CA) Research Center (PARC)

21 yr old me had no idea about just how groundbreaking these technologies were….

[ndles]

Marc, I agree. The more I watched you open up the AGC, The more I couldn’t believe these brilliant engineers were doing this in the 60s. It profoundly impacted my view of things. Your channel is absolutely incredible.

[leandrolaporta]

Curious Marc is one of a kind, the Apollo series he did on the AGC computer and the Apollo communications equipment where epic!.
Not to mention the altos restorarion when they started to check line by line the execution of the machine to see where it got stuck, amazing.

[bobert]

Marc is one of a kind. I would do anything to just sit back and watch him work in person.