A computer video series focusing mainly on retro technology from the 80s, 90s and 2000s. However, once or twice a year I'll create something totally "out there." My main goal at this point is to make educational content about retro technology that is interesting and engaging. Some people will be re-living their childhood, while others will be experiencing the technology for the first time.
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I have 2 of the dell monitors that have composite and svideo. They are both 21” and are surprisingly heavy. I have 2 complaints. 1 the external power supply is annoying. I don’t use them much anymore and whenever I need to use one I always have to dig up the power cord. 2. The button to switch inputs hardly ever works right. Other than that they are great
IMO you would be better served diverting all power to the main living area and calling the studio a lost cause until power is restored. Remove the parallel kit, extension cord the ecoflows from the studio to space heaters in the main space or charge the 'main' battery bank. Opposed to heating the air use heating blankets in locations where they would help, a space heater uses 1500w where a blanket will use around 180w. Last would look into a portable propane generator for that last stretch survivability, propane is a 100% shelf stable fuel. You showed what is possible with minimal sacrifice, a few adjustments and it could be a sustained several day plan in the worst conditions.
I'm a bit sad you cut out the point about most dishwashers manuals TELLING YOU to put the detergent on the door. Everyone just thinks its nuts when they first hear it, but then I direct them to their machine's manual and it almost alwaus tells them to throw detergent on the door. Also the rogue recommendation to just rip apart the tablet and sprinkle some of the insides for the prewash was spot on (in Europe the powdered dishwasher detergent virtually disappeared. We only have the tablets available nowadays).
I found out in 1984 how terrible computing can be without a disk drive or a secondary disk reader. My first computer was the Macintosh with 1 mb of memory. It was so cool until you actually tried to use the thing and realized some programs required more than 30 disk insertions to load the program into memory. As this problem became known programmers started including some type of minimal program instructions on the same disk.
What I find funny is in the 80's, we called all the commodore stuff poop as an apple II fanboy. We called the vic-20, the sick-20. Playing games, while fun, wasn't my main thrust when i was 10. I liked programming, running my own BBS, playing with graphics and such. It was where you started from, the other computers were never better. Perspective.
Those old school machines worked well (Just imagine) what Commodore Machines would be if the company were still around now a days (The Amiga) was a killer machine.. (with the use of coprocessors) for Individual Periferals (Audio) would have it's own processor and Chunk of RAM (Buffer) resulting is smooth operation not slowing down the main Processor.. Amiga rocked for it's time. 👍
3:50 Oooh, something I know about! Blood Brothers is a British play which is about two twins who were separated from birth into very different wealth classes, and the struggles of people in poverty, in what I believe to be Thatcher's time? I know because I had to read it when at school. Was my favourite part of English. Loved Literature, hated Language :)
David, if you want to prevent another flood like that from happening, you should eliminate any Shark Bite fittings with solder or press style fittings. Shark Bites are the laughing stock of the plumbing industry and have costed customers tens of thousands of dollars in repairs due to floods that would have never happened if proper soldered or pressed fittings were used.
Someone else my have mentioned it, but you forgot to mention that the reason that Epson got into home printers was the 6502, and Chuck Peddle. Before this, they only did analogue calculator printers.
WOW.. Not that I did the precise math ... But.. 80% of the Media formats shown I have never seen.. and amazingly we can now catagorise them along with clay tablets (that I've seen)..
The need for batteries is a dealbreaker for me using a solar system. From the start, batteries are prohibitively expensive and could only power high usage devices for a short time before needing a very long time to recharge. Then as time goes on, batteries are known to degrade pretty rapidly. Their output potential decreases and so does the amount of energy they can store. That means an already mediocre usage time gets even worse. I can’t justify spending thousands every few years to replace batteries to keep them at maximum potential. The savings on the utility bill will go right back into replacing batteries, it may end up actually costing more than I would save on electricity in the first place. Until battery tech improves, I don’t think solar is a very good option, and the same goes for electric cars. I wish batteries would get better because I love electric cars and the concept of solar, but I can’t justify buying into something that’s gonna need expensive and involved repairs in a relatively short amount of time.
Just found a free Yamaha PSS-480 this week, and it made me think back to this video! It uses a YM-3420 FM-synthesis chip (I may be wrong, but I think it's essentially a YM-3812 combined with an 8-bit CPU, RAM, ROM, MIDI interface and DAC all-in-one chip). It seems to offer everything the PSS-470 has, plus MIDI. I plan to tinker with it, it certainly sounds just like one of my AdLib and Soundblaster cards!
I love your channel but looks like I am older then you I was born in 1969 - still have Atari 2600 still works the only change I did for the Atari 2600 I replaced that tv cable with coax cable with f connector on the end - I did that when I was very young
ZX 80 with the 16K ram pack.....saw it in Popular Mech back in the day, ordered it and the rest is history.....subscribed to the Magazines for the Sinclair. Tried to buy the QL but that did not happen. Did the Microcomputer/Microprocessor course from the National Radio Institute in Washington DC.....put together and tested a Sanyo MBC550, never looked back. Reply
I really love these home improvement videos you drop on occasion. It's so interesting to see how you run your life and it inspires me to try doing similar things for my own home
I think the primary reason why VHS was so bad was that the tapes were manufactured with the cheapest dollar store crap tape stock they could get their hands on and duplicated with the cheapest tape duplicator money refused to buy. Then they charged you top dollar to buy it take it home and play it on the cheapest possible device you could get your hands on. VHS was quite a bit more capable but no one was willing to pay for that, at any point in the chain.
