Zoethout stokjes are litterally sweet wood sticks. You chew on them. They're not a common candy anymore but i used to get these as a child. Also "pasta" in Dutch also means "paste", so that's a speculaas paste like peanut butter but with speculaas. Enjoy! Was fun to see these Dutch candies on your bench!
Like a few other people mentioned here: The "zoethout" are licorice root, literally the root of the licorice plant. Really like those, but I guess you don't as you also don't really like licorice. The "Duimdrop" is a kind of sweet(er) licorice, "duim" translates as "thumb" and "drop" translates as "licorice". The idea is that you stick the licorice on your thumb and than suck on it. Never tried that to be honest. The "pasta" translates as "paste", you can put it on a sandwich. Never had this "stroopwafel pasta", seems tasty. The "kaneelstok" is a cinnamon stick, it's really sweet. The pink stick is even sweeter. Really like your videos, keep up the nice work :)
I have also seen these types of ram used in laser printers as memory expansion my HP laserjet printer has a slot for one stick of ram that looks similar to those sodimms that he has.
As a dutchman: You can spread a slice of bread with pasta. This is a special kind of spread. Regular kinds of spread are peanutbutter and 'chocoladepasta'. The 'stokjes' are called 'zoethout' which literally means 'sweetwood'. I remember these sticks from my childhood. I think you're supposed to just chew on them.
The laptop RAM is most likely 66mhz and would have been installed in some of the first portable computers which would have been considered laptops. The strange plug-in modules are likely for a video card as a RAM expansion for video memory. The ones that you suspect are cache are exactly that. They were most likely pared with an Intel Xeon in a slot-1 p3 or pentium 2. Not as old as some things you work on but still good tech.
The notchless ram is probably 72pin sodimms. And the ones with the pair of white push on pin connectors looks like 386/486 era laptop ram (compaq?) or perhaps a classic powerbook.
Based on whatever printing was on that wireless card, it claims itself to be a Eumitcom WL11000 which is a HFA3841 based device, it's a chipset primarily targeted for Windows 98 machines. Supposedly, the Belkin F5D6020 v1 is a rebrand of this card, so their driver should work and is available on the official site for 98 to XP.
Instead of a baking pan... can also use a microwave for 10 seconds per stroopwafel (and after that, wait about a minute before trying to eat or you may burn your mouth).
The memory module at 7:32 could also be from the 486/Pentium/early MMX era of laptops. I installed plenty of those modules in laptops circa 1995-1997. Toshiba, Compaq, HP, and TI all had some variation of that memory before the widespread implementation of SODIMMs. And while they looked similar, each brand had its own proprietary interface.
I am a big fan of your videos. There is no Power Supply in 6:06 - this is a solid state relay, capable of switching 120VAC at 1A. Greetings from Germany.
6:30 this is not a power supply. This is an isolated solid state relay for AC. I am sure. There is also a PDF online. 5 volt input DC. Output triac switches AC with zero detection.
I'm English but know how to pronounce it because I've been learning Dutch for a few years. There was an episode of The Great British Bake Off where they had to make stroopwafels, and the presenters mispronounced it every time they said it, like they'd not done even the most basic research. It annoyed the hell out of me.
Pasta. From my VERY basic Flemish is equivalent to 'paste' , so ground up stroopwaffels. Spread it on bread for a sandwich! And the stroopwafels have sea-salt in them!
When you've made a mug of Tea/Coffee, you sit the Stroop Waffle on top of the mug. It warms up the Waffle and keeps your drink hot. I'm pretty sure the 'Sticks' are liquorice sticks, and you chew them. I tried some in the 70's here in the U.K. They are an aquired taste. The pink stick and the brown stick are called a Stick of Rock. You just chew on them. They are everywhere in the U.K. Seaside, Historical sites and special occasions. They have text writen all the way through them with the name of the place you bought them.
That WiFi card has a label indicating it uses a Prism chipset. I had an IBM T30 with a PCI variant of the card and I was able to find firmware versions which enabled WPA and WPA-2 under Linux. It was super neat but unfortunately the hard drive died two days later and I lost everything.
"pasta" == "paste" The English word "paste" comes the from the Romance (or late Latin) word "pasta" which meant paste or dough. The word "pasta" eventually came to mean noodles in addition to paste/dough, because pasta is made by extruding a dough through a die and then drying it. In English the word "pasta" (with its original meaning) became "paste" over time, then we re-imported the word "pasta" into English again to mean noodles. French tends to drop the "s" after certain vowels; these words now usually have a circumflex accent over the vowel. Hence the modern French word "pâté" (pasta->paste->pâté) which is a different kind of edible paste. 😄
The Dutch word pasta means paste. Nothing to do with macaroni or whatever. This kind of "pasta" you would put on home made stroopwafels, or you can put it on bread and eat it as a sandwich, I suppose. Never tried it. The stroopwafels say "karamel zeezout"; I've never seen those before (I've been in the USA for more than 20 years) but that probably means salt water taffee flavor. Not my thing I gotta say. Those "soldaatjes" cones are really old fashioned candy, from before they figured out how to make candy in specific shapes. They just rolled a cone from special paper and poured hot caramel in and cooled it down. Then you unwrap them (partially or your fingers will get sticky) and suck on them like a lolly pop, or chew on them if you're impatient like I am. My grandparents probably enjoyed those when they were kids too, and so did my parents, and so did I when I was little, but they're probably not very common anymore. Those big cinnamon and hard-candy sticks bring back some good memories; we used to get those at the fair, once a year or so because that was the only place where you used to be able to get them. Probably things have changed now and you can just order them online or buy them at the store. As a kid, it would take me a couple of days to eat one, because we'd take a bite or two and have enough of it for the day. I've seen them bigger than you got, by the way, up to like an inch in diameter and a foot long or so. Cutting them is as good as impossible, you just break off a piece with your teeth or suck on them. They're brittle too; I'm surprised only one of them broke in only one place. The Wilhelmina peppermints are available in the USA at places like World Market, usually in smaller packages though, and usually only with Queen Wilhelmina's portrait (or profile) on it. You're correct, she was the queen at the time of world war 2, and then we had Juliana until 1980, then Beatrix, then Willem-Alexander who coincidentally is celebrating his 55th birthday today, the 27th of April 2022. If you see someone in orange clothes going nuts today, wish them a happy King's Day haha. The "stokjes" are licorice root, from the looks of it. They are literally a root of a plant, I'm not kidding. It's what licorice is made of (by the way there's no such thing as "black licorice" or "red licorice", if it's not black it's not licorice). You eat it kinda like chew tobacco: you put the end of a stick in your mouth and chew it to release the sweet flavor (that's why we call it "sweet wood" - "zoethout") but you don't swallow the wood itself. When the flavor diminishes, you cut it down and chew on the next piece. It gets really messy and gross looking and you probably won't like it if you don't like licorice candy. It used to be something that I spent my allowance on when I was little, but I don't think they sell it anymore in candy stores. Judging from the map, the sender lives in Baarle-Hertog, an interesting little town that's an enclave of Belgium inside the Netherlands. The Dutch part of the town is called Baarle-Nassau. The town has Netherlands-Belgium border lines all over it, and some people live in the Netherlands while their neighbors live in Belgium. I think there may even be houses that have border running right though them so you can cross the border by going from the living room to the kitchen.
[Sticks?] You strip the bark off on the sticks and then chew on them. I used to do that when I was a kid... bit of a health food thing in the 80's I think its also an ingredient in root beer... (racine). Cheers,
Also being from 1984, I can identify with those CPUs. There's some days I feel like I can't work either. Unfortunately unlike those CPUs I can't just cease functioning, I have to drag myself out of bed and into the shower, then off to the office.
IIRC the modules with the two little white connectors maybe might possibly be for clamshell-style Pocket PC devices from the early 2000's. It looks similar to the one in my NEC MobilePro.
From wikipedia Dried sticks of the liquorice root are also a traditional confectionery in their own right in the Netherlands as were they once in Britain although their popularity has waned in recent decades. They were sold simply as sticks of zoethout ('sweet wood') to chew on as a candy. Through chewing and suckling, the intensely sweet flavour is released. The sweetness is 30 to 50 times as strong as sucrose, without causing damage to teeth. Since about the 1970s, zoethout has become rarer and been replaced by easier to consume candies (including 'drop').
That 3 set of mini sims look like what I remember the ram for my SGI 540 looking like. You had to install them in sets of 3. And I remember them being VERY finicky about installation.
11:58 I don't know Dutch, but the word in French looks similar enough to the word in my language to know that it says 100% liquorice, so it may be unprocessed liquorice.
As we would say in the Deep South, "Thar's your problem - you have an air gap in your video wiring." The "oo" in Stroopwaffels is pronounced like the long "o" in "owe".
The cinnamon stick you should suck on those (cinnamon and sugar) don't know about the pink stick. (guess it's about strawberry/ raspberry and sugar) very sweet indeed.
Hi Adrian! I wonder if you ever heard of the adhoc mode the old b WLAN Cards most time were capable of. This mode allows you to connect exactly two machines to each other which could be useful to transfer data. Since the g+ standard however I think the adhoc mode is depreciated and so most people I know don't even know this mode existed.... Keep up the excellent work!
Sorry Adrian I forget to write how to eat(chew) them but see you get already many replies on thing you ask thanks to all how answer questions p.s. there will be next box coming same box Greetings from Eric
Those weird ram cards lwith the dual connectors reminds me of my old Dell Inspiron laptop from like 2000 that used that style of connector to add vram. But I’m going completely off memory as that laptop went away in like 2005.
I visited Amsterdam just before the great plague, and went to the fair where The Stroop Waffle guy is, hot off the grill. ... Aw man. It completely _wrecked_ me.
Duimdrop is a sticky liquorice, you take a small piece of it, put it in your mouth and wet it, then press it on your thumb nail. So you can taste the liquorice by putting your thumb in your mouth without the need to have the liquorice in your mouth all the time so it lasts longer. Duim is the Dutch word for thumb and drop for liquorice, hence duimdrop.
And next time you are in the Netherlands, we are going to meet up to get you some freshly made stroopwafels. Sure, the mass produced ones you can buy at the supermarket are nice, but they should be eaten when freshly made and still slightly warm. And 'pasta' is like 'paste' in english, not like the italian pasta. So yeah, its the stuff inside stroopwafels, in an easy to use form for spreading out. Zoethout is something to chew on, you don't actually eat it.. I hate the stuff ;-)
The stroopwafels are a special kind (caramel seasalt). The sticks are “sweetwoodsticks”. You chew on the tip. This will turn in “fibers” and will give a kind of sweet taste. You don’t eat the fibers but suck on it until its taste is lost. My father used to buy the kaneelstokken and the zuurstokken at the local yearly fair and buy my mother oliebollen at the oliebollenkraam at the same fair.
Plastos = Greek for molded or formed. Pasta is a related word in Latin. Pasta is our word 'paste'. Pasta, paste, pastry, plaster, plastic... you get the idea
Stokjes is liquorice root, you chew it, very popular in the UK in the 60's & 70's, also, place a stroop waffle on top of a mug of coffee then eat it after a few minutes.
Id never noticed before, but now that I have it really stands out, and that is that your voice is quite similar to Alex Battaglia from Digital Foundry. Different dynamic in how you speak, but the core voice is similar enough that if you both read the same script and I wasnt looking at the screen I wouldnt think twice if I was told he was you or vice versa. I almost wish Id not noticed because its going to be a distraction when watching either of you for the next little while :) Also, I understand the intention is good, but always found it odd to be gifted with massive volumes of calories and a potential case of diabetes. :) If I ever pull my thumb out and start my youtube channel, and people are kind enough to send me these sorts of gifts I'd feel awkward about it. Would absolutely appreciate it, and would be rapt that people can be so kind, but most of us arent spring chickens anymore and it gets harder and harder to stay in good shape as time goes on and I don't keep that sort of stuff in the house, because its so easy to eat and takes a week or so to burn off those excess calories.
The sticks remind me of Slippery Elm and, to some extent, Horehound but both of these are more natural medications than sweets though Horehound is sometimes used as a flavoring in old fashioned hard candy lozenges.
Google lens work from Android 6 it works whit the cam. You put in translation and take a pic works (I try in Chinese and German not perfect but can read the general)
Those stroopwafels are heated on a plate in a microwave for some seconds. look through the window of the microwave at the stroopwafels if you see the stroop or caramel coming out they are done. Better before the caramel comes out turning off the microwave. They will taste even better.
I'm half dutch, and as others have said, the stroopwafels are best when you make a cup of hot tea or coffee (or even hot chocolate if you'd want) and you put the stroopwafel over the mug. It's a bit of a game to know when to lift it off before it becomes too soft to flip it over and let the other side get warm. Also, those sticks are anise or licorice sticks, I believe, they are meant to just be chewed on, if I remember what my mother has said.
I saw on another tech channel that the Dutch are not calling their country Holland anymore, but just "The Netherlands" because Holland refers only to a particular region without that country.
Hello Adrian, those worden sticks are realiseren old dutch candy. Just chew on it, enjoy the vlavor, but dont eat the wood. Dump it when therse no more in it.
the peppermints are called extra strong mints in the uk. the bits of wood are raw licorice, you suck on them and gently chew them, they are an acquired taste, if you chew too much you will taste it all day.
Ah- Eric lives in Baarle-Nassau, a place where borders are recursive: Netherlands encloses Belgium which encloses Netherlands which enclose Belgium - a really funny place. Houses that straddle the border have two entrances, one per country. Whichever country has the lower property tax, they unboard that door and board up the other. Yes, I've drive through there - I used to live in Breda, about 20 km away in the Netherlands.
OK one thing that just bugs me. Why don't you use a gold, silver or white Sharpie to mark them? You are aware that they make Sharpie pens that write quite well on black devices, right? Not picking on you mind you but it would be easier to ID the parts if you could see the marks clearly.
There is something about the sharpie gold and silver paint pens that don't last long. Usually dry out long before the markers. I got a few paint pens, some bright colors of nail polish that were on clearance for a dime each. Great for marking dark items.
i have a hitachi win95 laptop that uses those 2 weird laptop ram modules that have the connectors on the back, its an hitachi notebook m-100t/720 but idk what the ram type is called
When I was working in Eindhoven in the Netherlands, I was taught to put my stroopwafel on top of the coffee to heat it up and make it super tasty. I guess it works for teas as well but either way an economical use of available materials.
Those notchless RAM modules are used in my Gateway Handbook 386 and 486 computers, never had to chance to find a expansion which these computers could recognize…
One of those modules might be an AIMM (AGP Inline Memory Module). I have an Abit 815 (maybe 815E) chipset board with 1MB built in video. The manual mentions an AIMM that can bring the graphics memory up to 4MB. I never had an AIMM and ended up running that motherboard with a Voodoo 2 SLI.
It's Licorice root. My mum sold them in her Wholefoods shop in the 70's and 80's. you chew on it and your saliva makes them soggy and then you suck on them. Can not recommend. CAN NOT RECOMMEND. Back away... back away slowly... What? Garbage Disposal? I hear nothing... ;)
Rock candy is the Touristy candy of Europe. Often mint and more latterly fruit flavoured one can simply snap off a section with ones teeth (or ones teeth snap off with the rock)... Hit it with a toffee hammer in a bag. Eat the shards. My advice.
Being thready, I bet that garbage disposal won't like them either. And if you're unlucky, your plumber that has to clear the pipes also won't like them (or perhaps they will because you'll have to pay them haha). Anyway, they're not dangerous. Just give them to the nearest Dutch person and no-one gets hurt :)
''See me dressed like all the sports, in my blazer and a pair of shorts. With my little stick of Blackpool Rock, along the promenade I stroll. It may be sticky but I never complain, it's nice to have a nibble at it now and again Every day wherever I stray the kids all round me flock.''
Stroopwafels are the best. I am not sure you will like these though with sea salt. The small glas jar is sweet sirup paste, and not pasta. The sticks are sweet wooden sticks, you can suck on them. Kinda old fashioned candy really.
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