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This Retro Computer Collection Was SAVED from LANDFILL!!!

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This video is kindly supported by www.PCBWay.com - My choice for for high quality PCB manufacturing, 3D printing and more! I thank them, and Elaine Hu for their wonderful support!
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- Greetings Fixers! -
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Come with me on a voyage of discovery as we FORCE OPEN THE LOCKS on a retro computer collection that was destined... to go to the rubbish dump!
Apologies for forgetting who sent this wonderful package ALMOST A YEAR AGO, but it's been an interesting one here at MFS as you all know! I make good in the end and would like to say a big thanks to Alan Goodman for this donation from his fathers house clearance.
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Комментарии : 105

@Daz555Daz 5 месяцев назад

Mark clearly not quite old enough to know how those suitcase latches work! That bit was hilarious.

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

I’m fifty this year. Maybe I’m just thick.

@Daz555Daz 5 месяцев назад

@@MarkFixesStuff ha ha.

@kevincozens6837 5 месяцев назад

I have a suitcase or two around the house with those types of locks. It was rather painful to watch the case be opened with a hammer whan a simple push of towards the edge of the case should have released the latches.

@colinr0380 3 месяца назад

@@MarkFixesStuff Can't it be both? 😉👍

@frankowalker4662 5 месяцев назад

Watching you fight with those locks was a truly painful experience. What a haul. (and rescue)

@waynenewark5363 5 месяцев назад

In TV shows they usually only use a screwdriver.

@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit 5 месяцев назад

Fireman fred. first game I ever wrote. utter dross, but got me started.never thought i'd see it in a video!

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

What else did you write? Ten points for the Charlotte Coleman drama reference in your username btw.

@chrisrobson8540 5 месяцев назад

Mark fixes stuff......apart from old cases those get knackered to buggery🤣🤣🤣

@RobA500 5 месяцев назад

Those case catches twist as you did then push lock away from catch to release it providing they are unlocked. They were quite clever cases as the catches and hinges expand to allow greater filling. The contents was rather extraordinary, great stuff.

@spankysmp 5 месяцев назад

I love 'youngsters' fighting with old school suitcase locks. I was nearly screaming at the screen. 'I've been at this with a hammer and a blow torch for two hours now and nothing' Over 50 year old - 'Watch and learn' ...twist..push, click.

@philipstephens5960 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, I was also pointlessly yelling at the screen about how you just had to push the knobs away from the catches to make them spring open. Hasn’t Mark seen people open briefcases the same way? 😂

@ChrisShadowens 5 месяцев назад

Thumbnail aside, anyone else hoping it was filled with old jazz mags? At least one old copy of Swedish Erotica should've been wedged in there somewhere, just like you'd find it in the woods!

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

Ah... woods grot. A lost tradition.

@johnwells558 5 месяцев назад

It’s bin bags matey, please don’t American on us or I’ll send my Mum around to sort you out.

@summersbco 5 месяцев назад

It's 'trash bag'. Speaking of your mum and the sack, I hear she's pretty good in it.

@domramsey 5 месяцев назад

Wow, so lucky. Those vintage suitcases are worth thousands! Just make sure you don't damage the...... oh. Oh.

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

Oh... At least I still have the gaffer tape left

@TimGilberts 5 месяцев назад

Ha ha that double play adventure is hiding an arcade game - hidden city was one by me BITD - I still have the contract

@Jimbaloidatron 5 месяцев назад

Somehow I can smell the old case and books. :-)

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

Yep. It smells like what you’re imagining

@kerrisrees2867 3 месяца назад

So jealous of the Dixons cassette player I had exactly the same one in the 80's as a kid and been trying to find the same one lol

@SiAnon 5 месяцев назад

PTO : Key under duct tape lol

@gooseman247 4 месяца назад

Oh wow, I had that 60 programs book. What a haul!

@davidretrogamesplayedbadly3533 5 месяцев назад

A suitcase full of awesomeness , very generous gift mate.

@ByteDelight 5 месяцев назад

TBH: give me such a suitcase, and a TV (and some power obviously), and put me on an island, and I probably will be having enough todo for months.

@ByteDelight 5 месяцев назад

Probably a new membrane with that..

@pelculator 5 месяцев назад

Next video; Mark fixes the twist and slide locks

@plan7a 5 месяцев назад

Following that: Mark Fixes A Table and Mark Fixes A Radiator (that previously had the unfixed table against it)? Perhaps?🔨

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

The table is a bit crap. I’ll end up using it for the laser cutter I think

@franciscomeza8905 5 месяцев назад

Always awesome to see this saved from the bin and being put to use once more. Cheers MFS.

@jkmac625 5 месяцев назад

I remember those style of suitcases, you just slide the catches to open, can't remember if spinning them does anything.

@terriblegamer9267 5 месяцев назад

Great vid. Keep 'em coming

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

Thanks, will do! More coming!

@chessoc7799 5 месяцев назад

The scrabble was good as I remember :)

@fattomandeibu 5 месяцев назад

All those C15s remind me of when, as primary schoolers, me and my friends'd get together on a Saturday and pool our pocket money together, with one of us given the critical mission of going into Dixons(maybe Woolies, depended the person) for blank tapes, then the rest of us would gang into Boots to get as many games from the £1.99 section as the money we had would allow. Then it was off to my dad's house to use his high speed dubber for a bit. Weird part is, the internet seems to think that high speed dubbing didn't work for copying computer games when it did, or at least on my dad's fancy Sony hi-fi. Scallyways, the lot of us. This was C64, of course, I never owned a Spectrum so it'd be weird if I were buying and copying Spectrum games.

@Colin_Ames 5 месяцев назад

Some decent stuff there.

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

Really bloody lucky here!

@TimmyJoe633 5 месяцев назад

Booty was the first game I ever played on my first specky, it's a great 'collect keys whilst avoiding enemy' sort of game.

@Graeme_Norgate 5 месяцев назад

I’m now going to try and find that D D D D Dixons ad

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

I seem to remember it panning down a pile of car stereos

@Lhawk2107 4 месяца назад

this is my first time seing a real treasure chest ...

@HappyCodingZX 5 месяцев назад

I do love the punk aesthetic of early Spectrum titles. Blaby released a whole series of rushed out conversions of arcade classics which usually had the trifecta - flickery, jerky, and buggy. The kind of stuff your nan would buy for you when you really wanted Jetpac.

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

^^^ Exactly this x 1,000.

@mrt.7146 5 месяцев назад

I'm getting Michael Dailly "care"-pacakge vibes 🤣

@nicholas4124 5 месяцев назад

that poor suitcase..

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

My poor hammer!! Hey it was already spilt down one side!!! 😂

@ukmk3supra 5 месяцев назад

C7 is the figure 8, C5 is the mickey mouse ears one.

@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 4 дня назад

The Machine Code programs will take forever to print in.

@thefamouseccles1827 5 месяцев назад

I have the Commodore64 version of the PCW software pack. Easiest type-ins ever.

@shortymtb 5 месяцев назад

90seconds of pre roll adverts... way to go youtube...

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

Sorry I can’t control them

@BenRattigan 5 месяцев назад

Giants Revenge the tape cover and artwork looks like Jack and the Beanstalk which was also by Thor and supported Currah Speech Unit.

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

Would you believe in never heard a Currah uSpeech in my life?

@BenRattigan 5 месяцев назад

@@MarkFixesStuff they where terrible, but my dad liked to buy the latest thing and the company was based in Hartlepool so he got one and that was literally the only game we had that supported it.

@tenminutetokyo2643 5 месяцев назад

What a mega score!

@giulianomarco 5 месяцев назад

No copy of "The Key"? That enabled mass, um, borrowing of software. Beat mono tape-to-tape. Also, the only decent printer was the AlphaCom 32. My mate's ZX Printer died after printing out 15ft of the machine code disassembler I wrote.

@1981DMC 5 месяцев назад

Very cool. I remember having CHAMP. It's a machine code assembler.

@LifeSizeTeddyBear 5 месяцев назад

Looking at the edge connector on that joystick interface, I think it is actually for a ZX81 rather than a Speccy, based on the number of connections to the left of the key.

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

Oh nice spot! I didn’t think of that!

@baxtardboy 5 месяцев назад

Spent many an hour on Booty. The music still plays in my head sometimes.

@psyborb 5 месяцев назад

God, I remember Urban Upstart. I got bored of playing it fairly quickly, and turned to reverse engineering it instead. It's a hybrid mixed BASIC & machine code game. I recall the drawing routines were achingly slow, so were probably coded in BASIC. Though I might be wrong about that last part.

@RCSRetro 5 месяцев назад

Seriously!! You just turn the latches so the little knobs are at 12 and 6 o clock and then you just slide / push them towards the outer edges of the case! This is day 1, week 1 stuff!

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

I’m was off sick that day. Luckily the case was ruined anyway or I’d feel really awful 😣

@ChrisHopkinsBass 5 месяцев назад

I had the C64 version of the “Sixty Programs” book. It was rubbish 😂

@Sozzled39 5 месяцев назад

Mark breaks into Stuff. Using the tool of an Orang-u-tan (or Jeremy Clarkson).

@Daz555Daz 5 месяцев назад

I have that same model cassette deck. Also the Boots one from around the same time.

@BenRattigan 5 месяцев назад

You’ve never used a 48k ZX Spectrum unless you’ve nearly been electrocuted by its power supply.

@theforthdoctor7872 5 месяцев назад

You should put the hammer in the sonic cleaner. If fact you could put any tools in for a quick clean. I know you have a big chopper so why not pop that in as well. 😉

@Brewskii2117 5 месяцев назад

That suitcase was in my family for years, me mum used it during the blitz...thought I might pass it on to you hoping you'd appreciate it... Jeezus Christ you Animal! (kidding)

@thefamouseccles1827 5 месяцев назад

lol I had a Gun Shot joystick too, albeit in black. Horrible metal leaf directionals - not proper switches. It broke in my childhood hands with very little prompting.

@blackterminal 5 месяцев назад

Hi I had one. Loved it it was perfect for games on my Atari ST. Sadly it broke on the metal leaves as yours did.

@christreen7193 5 месяцев назад

My plus, Interface 2, and two micro drives are still in their original boxes 😊

@smaza2009 5 месяцев назад

Blaby computers were based in Leicester I believe, produced games for the spectrum and indeed one of the better dragon 32 games cosmic crusader spent many hours playing that and was one of the few games the strange dragon joystick worked well

@digitalarchaeologist5102 5 месяцев назад

I'm sure I had that exact dixons cassette recorder, and used it on my Acorn Electron, not only that. I had a case just like that for tapes and I forgot it was even a thing

@retrorobbins 5 месяцев назад

it a nice box lol

@Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P 5 месяцев назад

13:11 that's what she said

@BastetFurry 5 месяцев назад

I think the only games i would have been interested in would have been Hidden City and The Sealed City because for me (Text-/P&C-)Adventure, RPG and turn based Strategy it is. All genres the Speccy sadly is lacking off, mainly because loading in additional content is such a shore on it. -.-

@TimGilberts 5 месяцев назад

See my comment elsewhere as hidden city was in fact an arcade game - not sure why they did that!

@plan7a 5 месяцев назад

Was that suitcase a Tardis in disguise; there was so much in it... Including some Pringles and a C5 it seems... (Oh wait, it did [possibly] belong to a Time Lord, so it could have been!). [Disclaimer: Attempts at humour might not be possibly understood by all].😵‍💫

@microknigh7 5 месяцев назад

You'd do well in a job like, let's say, baggage handling...

@cosam2 5 месяцев назад

And with the lining of that suitcase one could make a smashing blouse or at the very least a stylish set of underwear.

@RonHelton 5 месяцев назад

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@Mrshoujo 5 месяцев назад

So you've never used paperclip wire to pick the locks on a suitcase? Are you going to transfer all that tape software to digital media?

@cnfuzz 5 месяцев назад

Retro computing is bad for muscles 😅

@kiasanth 5 месяцев назад

I can speak with dolphins. They just don't seem to know what I'm saying.

@LanceHall 5 месяцев назад

So from the introduction cat turds ARE possible things to send?

@summersbco 5 месяцев назад

Only if they're not declared

@wimwiddershins 5 месяцев назад

But it's difficult to decide which ones from the collection to send...

@meetoo594 5 месяцев назад

Urban upstart, there's a game I haven't heard mentioned for many a year. Its not very good, which isn't surprising since richard joseph software were also responsible for the bloody awful transylvanian tower.

@MrRawMonkey 5 месяцев назад

A bit disrespectful not opening a parcel in a timely manner when someone has made the effort to send it to you.

@MarkFixesStuff 5 месяцев назад

We had two parents unfortunately pass away between this parcel arriving and me having the opportunity to record opening it. It wasn't a requirement to open it in a video, but I thought it would be nice for the sender to see it, so I held it back. Hence the delay.

@kgfgfg1 5 месяцев назад

He saves stuff from the landfill just to burn it down instead 😂 Yeah, not much of a saving for the retro community besides the Videos of it that are enjoyable to watch anytime

@frankurmom8741 5 месяцев назад

#british bc of all the "bloody 'ell" and "Blimey" I assume?

@Banshun 5 месяцев назад

I sure there is a niche on RU-vid for cat turd unboxings.

@retrorobbins 5 месяцев назад

WD40 not UB40 will help lol

@BastetFurry 5 месяцев назад

Nothing a crowbar can't solve, didn't we learn that from Doctor Gordon Freeman? 😅

@christianfairhurst3877 5 месяцев назад

I had that Sixty Programs book, it was crap. Lots of errors in the code. Giants Revenge was the follow up to Jack and the Beanstalk. They were both truly awful but looked good in screenshots. I'd give it to Octavius to do a video on.