Obscure Tech Review: Datamyte Measuring Tablet 

None of your vids have been boring... not everything we come by turns out an amazing find.

The whole industrial control & automation field is a land of dinosaurs, and that's the way they like it. This thing probably has a custom OS developed entirely in ladder logic.

Allen Bradley is a huge company that builds PLCs and Industrial controls all around the world! Their products are very expensive, and they are like Siemens, one of the only games in town!

holy shit you didn't have to murder the entire Boeing corporation like that!

I just found your channel a couple weeks ago. Lots of good stuff. My dad had two passions, electronics (he used to teach the electronics year at our IBEW local), and mining history. He would've loved your channel too. Thanks for bringing us along for all your tinkering.

Not boring at all. Always Interesting to see weird tech I have never heard of. Might be interesting to throw a Pie in there and try to hook it up to the original keyboard and screen and build a something out of it.

Convert it to mobile SDR with a raspberry

AB has been huge for decades.... On that note.. their hardware is, and has always been, antiquated. That was likely a current release.

I can’t seem to find those dang CR69420 batteries no matter where I look! Edit: You didn’t waste our time. I enjoy learning about odd electronics even if you don’t end up being able to do much with it.

The design and case of this thing looks like an afterthought. Like how a team of smart people will put a lot of work into something but then forget to write a good manual.

0:43 that’s why we use super glue instead

Slap it on a selfie stick, and walk around a mall with it.

still better than half the stuff on here. That's cool old tech

Please keep reviewing these things you find. You find the very best of things.

not waste of time its a time to remember connecting to anything involved going thru hoops paying a fortune for support and then finding something better for half as much 6 months later. love it.

Hah! Allen-Bradley has been around since before even my *dad* was born :) My fave "bin pick" when I was a pre-teen was an A-B motor starter box. I repurposed it for something else, of course. I cannot remember what, though :)

Not a boring but a Boeing video.

Werid old tech is what I like. Getting stuff with all of the attachments is always super hard, yet the gem is when you do and it is pretty cool!

I like all your weird device uploads and, even with the less-useful stuff you find, it's all interesting to me. Plus, I love learning what *not* to buy through your channel, too!

I initially thought it was some type of label writer 😅

Boeing only hand tightens bolts. Rivets are hand pressed if you are lucky

Gabe that battery looks like a stack of five 18350A Li-Ion flat-top protected cells (18mm x 35mm), with a button-connector on top of the first cell. You'll have to measure them to be sure, because protected cells are usually a couple mm longer. I always buy flat-top cells and just use a small button magnet on my flat-top cells when needed to make them button-tops.

It was an interesting journey of discovery, not a waste. Thank you for taking us along

a 68k processor running the show, and still the scroll was really crappy. either they're running it really slow, or the screen controller is slow as hell. the pcb tracks look like they were auto routed. interesting to see that kind of technology from 2002. and finally, it's really laughable how they put a big raised section for a lcd but they just put a really small lcd in the middle lol

0:34 better get them to the 🔥 *BURN* 🔥 unit 😆

YOU COULD USE IT AS A PAPER WEIGHT.

This looks a lot like a really small coolant radiator with a bomb Controller strapped in front of the fins. Also, I see that Gateway PSU! Pretty cool! And, last thing, this is probably a display for a manual mill (not a CNC mill) that shows like measurements and can set automatic movement for the cutting attachment

Almost daily uploads! Always watching

those buttons look really fun to push

Oh god keyboards in A B C D order are lame. I have a soviet calculator with an alphanumeric keyboard that goes in the order of the russian alphabet, but it has latin keys too, and that's more likely what you'll be using it with (its basic has cyrillic support, but my understanding is it's kinda tacked on, and some functions are in latin mode. I think they intended to sell this to other countries.). But, the latin keys are in cyrillic alphabet order so the letters go like A B V G D E etc.

Don't feel bad, it was only eight minutes and fourteen seconds.

Meshtastic communicator, or retro encabulator controller! Allen Bradley knows a thing or 2 about encabulators! That's why they teamed up with Rockwell automation.

Yeah, but can it be used as an L band antenna 📡 🤔

You've got your favorite screw driver that lives on your desk, I've got a whole 3 piece tool kit that is always in my back pocket (literally). I'm a Klein junky so two toosl are the 32527 multi but screw driver (I work in telecom and use the square bit all the time, and the different size driver bits are handy too) and 32910 which I also double duty with my impact driver some times, and a knippex 8701180 pliers which happens to be my favorite tool. There's not much I can't do with this set always at hand. I guess my Klein can wrench is never out of reach too but I've got other tools that can do the same job, it's a little thinner sided so it works nice opening pedestals and stuff. That would be the 4th tool in my three piece set. And a set of vise grips.

2nd channel idea for when you end up with a dud like this one, see how many firecrackers it can withstand.

Read the title as "dynamite measuring tablet". Waited half the video to see what that thing has to do with dynamites 😅

we dont need no stinking torq specs

2007... the design is really early to mid-80's, even for industrial gear

some stores like old target used to use stuff like this for inventory

Good or bad, at least it’s monetized.

Reminds me of these VTech-computers they made for kids at around the same time. Did you check if there are any spelling-games on it?

"not worth throwing on ebay" bruh they're $200-$300 on ebay edit: holy crap and a lot more from some sellers 0_0

Those mini din connectors appear to be fairly standard SUN/APPLE RS-422 serial ports.

It's plastic construction, bright bumpers & large screen lends itself to becoming *an important Sandland control panel!* Cut it in flush to the wall, corrosive insides removed and place behind the screen an (sand) egg⏳timer counting down something or another😮💙 😂

It might be nice to have a handheld controller thingy with inputs and a screen, sort of like a handheld glass teletype for your arduinos and pi's -- but I'm not getting great vibes from this, and it'd be a lot of work to develop the code for any odd thing you might want to use it with.

Brad Carter loves you!

wow and peace be upon you sir from me

Someone got up on the wrong side of the review table this morning!

I say keep it for later videos. May not know what's in.......

The Boeing joke, haha!

A low quality product to monitor the production quality of a product. What could go wrong?

Boring or not, stuff like this is fascinating to me to look at, so i say its a good video! You should see if you can make it run doom

Contact the company about use case of this device

Is a Quality Control logging device? Hook it up to a certain metrology device and it logs data?

Maybe you can run ham radio deluxe on that! It has a serial port that would run my yaesu 450!

Cool find, unfortunately it didn't turn out to be a gem.

Reminds me of a Tandy 102 Portable I've got, which was used at a Boeing facility for... some... thing... We guess some sort of manufacturing tool interface. It's about the same form factor.

No QWERTY keyboard ? 😅

A good movie prop perhaps?

Ex-Boeing employee here...........OFFENDED!!!!! 😂😂

We gotta get Doom running on it at least.

I am interested in what processor that is... looks like a Motorola 68040. AB always charged big bux for their stuff.

It sounds like it was used to verify calibration of tols for manufacturig.. You never take into consideration the development cost and high overhhead to manufacture small runs. It would be kept in a calibration lab, not used on the production floor. The hadware and connectors are non standrad to keep people like you from tamprting with its calibration. Tools like this are required for ISO90001 certification. A decent reflow oven to build boards was over #20,000 in 2000. Pick%& place wachines were much higher. A basic PCB assembly business cst north of a half milion dollars in 2000. The tool to calibrate our torque wrenchws was rack mounted.. Allrn Bradley was a leader in fctory automation in 2000. They strted our mabufacturing resister early last century, in the early electronicss industry. Nany had NSM numbers for support of nilitary equip,ent.

Hey you should get your sdr and dish out scanning the sky thare supposed to be a soler storm it’s ganna be an R3 and G3 see if there’s any frequency spikes

ugh - abcd keyboards are cursed!

interesting video

A quick search shows that this is an Allen Bradley data collection unit.

Just save it for parts.... You never know when you need some of those ROM chips ;)

Will it blend?

People sell those things for 300+ dollar on ePay so you could definitely get your money back. Retro programmers and tinkerers would probably love to mess with one of those for everything but its intended purpose but with a price like that.. nah :D

Gabe single-run and non-consumer electronics, in the late 90s, and even today, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to design, build, and implement. It may look like a $20 dollar piece of consumer electronics, but it is far from it!! That is likely a $50K or 80K tool!

CR69420's lmfao

CR69420's

Can it run Doom?

Boring ?? Naaaaaaahhh . Always interesting seeing something new to me. Hope you can recover your money though. 🤔

8min nailed's XD

Boeing punch incoming. 🤣👌🏼

will it run doom ?

Can it run doom?

Was that an H8 CPU?