Hey VWestlife! We use them here in Australia for Decking screws. Drilling into decking planks, very good torque and the bit never jumps out of the screw when you over tighten causing damage to the wood. Come to think of it they should be using these inside computers instead of philips heads or those terrible torx
I'm in the US and I love robertson / square drive. It's even better than torx that they're trying to popularize (I've stripped torx before, never stripped a robertson), also the screw-holding power of the bit is great... can hold it at almost any angle and it won't fall off.
Heh, I forgot to include the pronunciation guide on my name when I wrote that letter. You got "Augie" right -- just like "Augie Doggie." The last name, just for the record, is /dih-BLEEK/
I literally jumped out of my chair when I saw the name. There can be no way to mistake the name of an absolute LEGEND! I read your stuff for years on CBR.
He comes off as the biggest asshole in these unboxing videos. Free stuff and then he always has something backhanded to say to the person that gave it to him
Oh, come the fuck on. He has over 800k subs, he probably gets offers for all kinds of bullshit, and probably receives trash too. He's talked about this in videos. Also, it's pretty obvious he records his audios separately from the footage. What, do you want him to jump around like a 5 y/o to make all of you people that feel the need to comment on shit you don't even know about feel better? Get lost.
Wow, a Commodore PC! My dad had one for his business. Sure brings back memories. I used to write basic programs and play a flight simulator in 1 FPS :D
My dad bought a Commmdore PC 10-III, which I imagine is the model right before the PC 20. It was my very first IBM compatible PC made by the only company that I previously had computer experience with (I had a Commodore 64 and later a Commodore 128). Once I got the 10-III, I never looked back, moving forward with other IBM compatible PC's. :)
arduria We had the 10-II iirc. Me and dad was always fighting over if the screen should be in normal or inverted b/w mode (I preferred white text on black background) :) Shortly after this I got a C64 and stayed far away from PCs...
Back in school we had a classroom stocked with PC-10 and PC-20s and learned programming in Turbo Pascal. We used to laugh at these machines, they appeared so clunky and pathetic compared to our Atari STs and Amigas at home.
LOL.. Westlock, Alberta.. Just a few miles from where I was born.. Damn the world is small.. I really did "Laugh out Loud" when you said you needed to go to the store to buy a square bit (called Robertson in Canada). EVERYTHING is square drive up in the frozen poophole of hoth. Its really a Canadian thing. When we moved onto our sailboat (in the Caribbean), I brought a TON of stainless screws with us. All Robertson drive. I have never found a Robertson driver in the 4 years we have been away from Canada. P.S. you can drive square heads with a flat head of the right size. If its the right size it will fit "corner to corner" in the square hole and work fine (as long as the hulk didn't tighten them).
Northcentral USA here, Robertson drive fasteners are used in the construction trades - not exclusively, and in my opinion a Torx fastener could be used instead, but you do see them often enough that we have a selection of bit sizes to deal with them as we find them in my trade.
4:49 - "Unfortunately these are high-density, so I can't use them with Planet X3." Is there something I'm missing here? If I recall correctly, you can format higher-density floppies to lower-density formats, you just can't do vice-versa. Depending on the drive you're using, you may have to tape over the second corner-hole.
The physical difference between HD and DD floppies is that they use different ferrites for keeping up magnetic data. HD floppies are hence magnetized by stronger fields, and that is why DD-only drives can't deal with writing on them. Reading might work though, if the HD disk is first formatted to the lower size of DD, but I'm recalling that is not guaranteed either for all drives. On the other hand, it is possible to format at least 3.5" DD floppies to HD if you drill that HD hole on them first, but the disks won't then be very reliable. 5.25" floppies also might be more delicate with these things, as at least certain contemporary sources have warned that mere writing on a 5.25" DD floppy in a HD drive may render them unusable in a DD-only drive. I guess might yet experiment with these a bit some day.
I drilled the missing hole to some DD floppies and I were able to use them az HD discs. I can't recall any problem with them, while some HD discs died under my hand. However, I still can't get why a higher storage capacity disc is not good for the Planet X3
I've had no issue covering up the HD hole on 1.44MB floppies and formatting them as 720K. I do this a fair bit for my Tandy 1000HX, since 720K floppies are so hard to come by, but I've got boxes of useless 1.44MB floppies that I've just been overwriting and reusing. Do note though that if you're using a storage media (floppy or CF card) an XT system, you need to format it in the XT system before you transfer anything from a modern PC. Something funky about the way XTs did things that I haven't figured out yet, but I always have to format it in the XT first, otherwise it will never read it.
@@BlackEpyon The more I think on this, the more I recall covering the HD hole and formatting HD floppies to 800K so I could move data between my (then) modern Mac and an old Mac Plus.
You never seem very grateful and always seem totally bothered by the stuff that people are kind enough to send you. Even when you’ve accepted the donations.
What do you want him to do, act like a child every time he gets some old POS piece of hardware. He’s appreciative. He is also slightly awkward, which is what you’re detecting
That's because in addition to the stuff he said he was going to accept, people like to send their trash in as well. "Here's that computer we agreed about, and by the way, 20 GBA games and some used floppies I found in the garage while we were cleaning". He doesn't want the shit, yet people feel the need to sneak their trash in every time. No wonder he'd be bothered.
@@smcic He tells people straight up not to send him shit. He can't take it and he doesn't want it. They're not donations if it's just some dude offloading his junk onto him because he doesn't want to throw away his shovelware.
Even though it (the computer) said it was from Canada if you didn’t show the label I’d think “square screws must’ve been from Canada “ , we use those weird things....;)
Please try to find an Acorn Archimedes PC with RISC OS 3.11 operating system. Then make a video showing how this PC and operating system looks and works like.
a "square" bit.. dude that's the greatest bit in the world.. ROBERSTON bit... way better then PHILLIPS (X) bits because it is a lot harder to round out the bits and the screws for ROBERSON stuff
Well...we really just don't use them in the US. We tend not to like working with oddball screws and bolts. We mostly use flathead screws, Phillips, or socket screws. Allen wrench screws really get on my nerves too.
@@ct92404 I don't wanna be rude or anything, but Phillips and slot screws are literally the worst things to use for everything but a very small amount of applications. Robertson screws are beautifully designed and fix near every problem you've ever had with slots and Phillips. It's the main drive type up here in Canada and I'm disappointed it isn't more widely adopted. If I see one more American woodworker on RU-vid use Phillips wood screws I'm going to cry.
Your vids are getting a bit boring. All random reviews and unenthusiastic unboxings. Only one I was bothered about was the Amiga 600/1200 but never surfaced. Used to be cool hacks/mods and creative content.
I know you don't usually send donations away but it would be great if once you're finished you sent that barcode scanner thing to Clint (lLGR) for an Oddware episode.
I remember reading about those cat-shaped barcode scanners, but living in Europe I've never seen one. If you ever get a chance, maybe do a teeny-tiny info video about it? :) Anyways, wonderful to hear from you again, stay awesome!
one day when I have the money im going to send you just a massive fridge, so then you'd have to figure out where to put it, plus I think the reaction to it would be realy funny on video. Just you confused about why someone would send you a fridge. Plus it would be a nice fridge with the double doors on the front and stuff. I think other people would laugh at it as well. Then I'd send fridges to other youtubers and watch them all be confused as well. I'll be the fridge bandit.
Youtoob comments Are the worst! Phone number, address!! Give it a rest people! Not that big of a deal. Your info is circulating on the web, get over it. That’s all I read in the comments. How ungrateful the guy is. You know what’s ungrateful? Watching a free video and all you can do is complain about the phone number or address that’s visible. Nice video David, as always. Thanks for the content
@@nilswegner2881 They were designed without graphics and for business and even with an add on, they never lost that stigma no matter the amount of GPU cores. But then again today's games are interactive movies and to me are not even close to appealing. The realism is what ruins it. Take away all the ability to imagine that a pixel was a space ship.
CueCat! "All the rage" isn't quite right, though. It was a colossal failure, and a laughing stock during the Dot Com boom. Looking forward to the video on that one! :D
PerHedetun I must have had at least five free ones from magazines and so on. I recognized it before he even removed it from the box, and I swear I involuntarily shivered. I can’t imagine the amount of e-waste those things ended up generating.
They could read regular barcodes with software layer easily found at the time. Used them heavily for used book sale inventory listings back in the day when you could actually make a lot of money doing so.
@@oldtwinsna8347 Our school library used these $600 Folett PS/2 injected barcode scanners, so I find it ironic that we had to budget these things, but you were getting them as junk mail. I recognized right away that they are basically keyboard emulators (hence the pass-through PS/2 connectors). The Folett scanners didn't need any special software (you could just scan a barcode directly into a text file or spreadsheet), but supposedly the CueCat needed special software to decode the barcodes IT was made for. I have no idea if CueCat could just be used a straight keyboard emulator without software.
Depends on what system. 8-bits became the standard for the byte sometime around the 70's, I'm not sure exactly when, but before that, everybody had their own definition for "byte," which could be anywhere from 6 to 12 bits long.
David dont trust that 6 in 1 cartridge it's a cheap bootleg, I actually have 32 in 1 that's bootleg when theres only 6 games they are just the same games with different names
You can still find instructions on how to "declaw the cuecat" to remove the barcode encryption that the CueCat added to its scanned barcodes. See www.cexx.org/cuecat.htm#neuter
Commodore xt clones were quite successful in Germany due to their good name from the C64. Also they struck a deal with the German railway to be the ones supplying the xt clones when they started computerizing.
4:32 "Which is one of the reasons I accepted this donation" [?!] ... Reason #237 why everybody should just donate Electronics to Goodwill or Salvation Army instead of 8bit-Materialistic guy ... He said it so many times, he's out of storage space and he's so selective now ...
I can't believe Robertson screws and screwdrivers still aren't common in the US even though they're superior. As usual, the US refuses to go for the better option. 🤦
Its not just the US , most of the world does not use them. But pick on the US , I know its the cool thing to do. Robertson screws are better but they are mostly a Canadian thing .
Boy, people love sneaking their trash into those donations don't they? Just because he agrees to take your computer or some other tech, doesn't mean you need to dump whatever garbage you have laying around the attic or garage into the box as well. You can tell by his voice when he goes through the stuff he doesn't want your random Gameboy games or used floppies with random shit on it. Just send him the thing he agreed to take and that's it. It forces him into an uncomfortable position. Like getting a gift you don't really want or need, but feel obligated to say something to be nice.
you didn't have Robinson bits? That is so odd. oh right Texas. Americans don't use Robinson very much. (Actually realized this as I was typing it.. so I just left the train of thought as is)
@@RU-vidSupportTeams Because it's unusual and worth pointing out. It's nice to know these old systems are interesting in their own right, not just because old bastards like me are nostalgic.
After watching Techmoan and LGR for years I just recently stumbled upon your channel. A shame it took me so long, because I'm hooked! Awesome stuff all around, and I'm especially fond of your historical chronicles/perspectives (the Commodore series has been excellent thus far) and your incredible restoration efforts. Keep up the amazing work!
Beyond me why people would donate to this guy. Most ungrateful person, desirable items will be stored in a dark spot never seeing daylight again and anything else most likely gets sold on Ebay or Amazon...
I have often wondered why people just give desirable items away to people on youtube instead of keeping them or selling them for their own profit instead of this guy profiting from it. Is it so they can for once in their miserable lonely lives have their anonymous name mentioned in a video? Finally in their life they've been noticed? Then promptly forgotten about again.. Dear god a lot of sad clueless people out there in this world.
@@RU-vidSupportTeams You people are overjudgding here. For instance, a few of these were clearly to promote something of their own (although they all match the channel's theme, so I see no problem). As for some others, a lot of people just want to get rid of junk and don't want to go through the hassle of selling and dealing with related headaches (i.e. potential returns, fail in delivery etc.). I wouldn't send things to him, either, but I don't think he would sell those off on Ebay or Amazon or whatever. In terms of gratefulness, I do agree with the OP. Still, 8-Bit-Guy delivers a lot of great content (even if sometimes they carry misinformation or are biased).
As a high-functioning autistic, I've learned not to take people's apparent lack of enthusiasm for disdain. Some people just aren't good at expressing themselves.
David is a complete prick. Even when he's not doing these "unboxing" videos, he often comes across as being very arrogant. His videos are interesting, but his personality is extremely grating. I would NEVER send him any "donations." And let's be honest, these aren't any kind of charitable donations going to a museum or something - they're going to his personal collection for HIM to play with or like you said to sell on eBay.
