Retro Tech Thrift Finds!! - EP 005 

I really like these thrift videos. I have a ton of vintage stuff myself and I really need to find some more blank media like VHS tapes and blank floppy disks.

Oh yeah! The Armada 1750! I have one of these in my collection and it is my favorite machine because it is great for DOS up through most pentium 2 era games. The battery even holds a charge in it. The thing is a tank! Nice find.

lots of cool stuff there bud, that Acer at the end is pretty good find especially with the peels still on keeping it looking pristine :)

I can remember an inkjet printer from the early 90's where you changed the ink cartridge between black and color, so when you printed anything black with the color cartridge installed it just used a mix of the three to get black so the prints always looked washed out.

11:00 score!!! what a good wild find

overall that's a very nice haul, I've got four laptops coming in the mail form eBay ranging from XP to Windows7/8. I also picked up a couple of CIB mid 2000's PC games as well but they're all kind of meh. However my luck with older retro tech that dates back to the 90's and early 2000's has been very sparce when thrifting so I'm kind of envious you where able to find that Compaq and Dell Latitude out in the wild. Those are very decent machines overall and I can't wait to see them up and running.

Many moons ago I had a Hewlett Packard Deskjet 680c, very good printer and looked very similar. I've owned many Epson printers throughout the years. My current printer is an Epson ET-2760 eco tank. My first laptop I purchased new from NCIX (still have it, still works) is an Acer Travelmate 290 with Windows XP, Intel Pentium M CPU @ 1300Mhz. Always cool to see the old tech😁 Have a great long weekend👍

23:00 what an excellent purchase, and a wonderful idea for a video in the future. I’d watch the heck out of that TRR!!

That DeskJet 600 was the very first printer I got at home back in 1999. 😍😍

Another great video. I have very bad memories of the acer travel mate it was one of the slowest laptops I ever had lol. Its okay for doing things like word processing and things like that but the load times are very horrible. I love big box software too. I absolutely love your videos.

I've been watching your channel for the past few months and your videos motivated me to create my new series! Seeing the Windows Vista sticker on the Toshiba Satellite and the Acer makes my heart flutter. As I'm currently tinkering with Vista on an HP Pro 3000. It wasn't that bad of an OS IMO.

I just picked up a sound blaster CT1350B at my local Goodwill for $10 last weekend, which blew my mind because they hardly have anything other than crap keyboards. Was in a SB16 box which is what caught my eye. If only I had a PC to put it in. From my extensive research on the card (5 mins of googling) they're picky about system clock speed.

my parents have the same cassette carrying case just in brown, and I had the same acer laptop just with a Pentium 3 processor. Great finds buddy.

I still have and use regularly an HP desk jet 500. Still works perfectly and with good paper the output looks as good as anything.

Look at these finds! I know im getting old when xp is considered retro now haha great video dude, nice finds!

Awesome retro stuff find so far!😁

I have found all my Sims 2 games, Sims games, CD-R's, Sealed copy of C&C 3 Tiberium Wars, floppy disks, an older Compaq Presario with Athlon XP at my local Value Village stores. All for way cheaper than it costs to buy the stuff on eBay and have it shipped.

For the flight simulator shrink wrap, you can maybe make small holes on the top and bottom with a needle to let air in, like this it might not keep in shrinking. Keep up the great work. Take care.

I have one of those Dell C600 laptops in my storage space, though I'm not sure where the power brick with its very proprietary connector is. It worked a decade ago. Who knows if it still does. These still mounted NiCd CMOS timebomb batteries, so there's one of the reasons why it might not anymore... In a different vein, I've just found that Dell still has drivers, BIOS updates and utilities for this quarter of a century old laptop up on their website!

I used to like Flight Simulator. I was ticked off when Mayor Daley had Meigs Field runway bulldozed overnight without notifying the FAA

Can't wait for a vid on that Acer Aspire at the end there

I still have that same cassette case with alot of those same groups and a couple of Stomping Toms too, they had those in the mid 80s

15:45 I would love to have flight similar 98 in my collection,. I tried to run it as a kid on my P122 lol. didn’t go well!!

love the thrift finds pal

That book cover reminded me of the poster for an Eighties computer-centric move called Electric Dreams. It’s about a love triangle between a nerd, a hot cellist, and the nerd’s computer. Also, corps is pronounced “core.”

Love it Mr Retro Recall. Keep up the awesome work and you truly make this a fun stroll down the tech memory lane!

I was not envious until you pulled out the Compaq 386. My very first computer was a Compaq 286 that looked very much like it. You couldn’t do much with it, but I miss it nonetheless.

Should definitely show some of the gameplay of the box games!

The game switch is a RadioShack package and catalog number. 15 or 150 series was video, including TV's, VCR's, and DVD players along with video-only cables and audio/video cable kits.

Hehe, if LGR saw you buying an inkjet printer he'd be shaking his head at you as he had a *rough* experience with an inkjet printer not that long ago. Hopefully you have some better luck! You uploaded a little earlier than normal which is neat, I usually catch your stuff on my Sunday morning over here. Lots to stuff to play with going forward!

Had Laplink Mac back in the day to transfer MSoft Word files from Mac 2CI to Zenith 286 Clone with an optical drive as hard disk running Windows 3.0! Paint dries faster than an optical disk as a system disk!

I had one of those sony mavica's back around 2004, it took mini cd discs though. You found a good bunch of stuff there, that's for sure, here in Indiana, you can't get computers in thrift stores, they don't sell them.

I had the Deskwriter 600c. Basically this printer but for Mac

A 90’s DeskJet long before Instant Ink and HP+! Also happen to own a version of Photo Explosion-v4 in my case (basically a rebadged Serif PhotoPlus-this was before Affinity Photo which I adore even though owned by Canva now).

the pc at the end is the best

Nice Haul Specially Laptop And Acer Desktop Might Be Fun To Explore Windows Vista

it looks like value Village in the thrift store picked over, you must’ve been there recently! heh They do have a half-life too hard box there, which I might go back and pick up. I’m also looking at a 56K modem, just nice to have. I wish I could find an external modem local.

A good haul and I particularly like Acer desktop PC..

yes, I can believe it’s been three months, I’ve been waiting for the next one. Come on everyone let’s get our stuff over to TRR to review!

They expected to you have a Gordon Lightfoot collection of cassettes already.

funny i just traded that exact dell lattitude to a friend not to long ago

I had the same color printer until a few years ago.

I have one of those infra drives, will not work without an interface card or sound card with the pins for it

Just updated my Latitude core 2 duo to May Windows 10 update! Owned an Acer that looked like the Laptop but backlight failed. Still works with a monitor.

I sold you a few of these things. Belive it or not but that compaq keyboard already had a hard scrubbing, it used to be coated in a thick crust, was super gross. Also I am not sure what went wrong with the psu I had it power up right before I listed it, if you want you can reach out about it.

Huh that Toshiba is not far off a friends laptop spec wise that he ended up spilling cola on at some point before it got thrown out. Think his was an Asus, i recommended him when it was new too take out the battery if he's gonna use it at home plugged in. Which helped it last quite some time but to keep track on the battery charge percentage, like charge it too 50 - 70% and then take it out and he never had too buy a new battery for it and still had decent battery life by 2015 before he broke it. Core 2 duo 2.0 ghz i think 6 gb ddr3 ram, 500 gb 2.5 inch hdd i think as well which was when it broke later moved too his desktop pc ca 2017 or so. ATI HD graphics of some sort i think it was ATI mobility 4350 or something like that, was soldered too the motherboard of the laptop.

Oh!! That printer!! I had some kind of it, maybe 645,or 640,me think!!!! More then one,and they died....

I just scored the same server board but in a complete case without memory and a hard drive. a week ago. Fully working. Added 4GB memory and installed Windows 7 Pro on it. Everything is operational. The onboard graphics on my is the ATI chip...so no 3D My board is also the one with two PCI-e x 8 and two PCI slots. I have another case that I want to start working on because the motherboard on that one has a few capacitors that needs to be replaced. But that case has a built in hard back plane for 8 removable hard drives If the MB does not work I might replace the board with the first board and add my SAS controller card in it and build a NAS

And For Using Core 2 Duo Or Quad On Modern Day I Recently Installing ChromeOs Flex (Yep Linux Distro Come From Google For Non ChromeBook Devices) Is Working Pretty Well

Use monitor with PC with a monochrome card with Composite out {or Hercules]

This is a neat video!

i have that kind of acer laptop. its really easy to put in a real intel pentium cpu, not the celeron rubbish.

I had Dell C600 once I was in University. Best memory ever.

also i have that toshiba, but it has a cracked screen.....not my doing.

All cool items.

I'm early

i used virtual pc before microsoft bought it and removed the free version

some lucky guy bought new old stock 50 VHS bands in a cardboard box for $45

the garbage laptop duo are for sure dead!

RU-vid unsubscribed me from your channel without my knowledge or permission.

17:55 NO I haven’t seen this online! you can put a floppy disk inside of the camera ??? 💾📸😮