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Yes I am back at the Museum / warehouse and there's a shipping container here today and it's absolutely empty. No, no. this started archiving some of the documents. by the looks of it.

So is this shipping container? Ah, just going to be for the documents I Don't know. Look, we've got some magazines. random magazines. What The Dick Professional? Oh yeah, anyone used to subscribe to the Deck Professional? let us know.

Wow Alright, so it looks like they're starting to do some documents anyway. I am back because I forgot my tripod so liftin even though I didn't use them I left them here. So anyway I have another rummage shrew. Can't help myself.

Now the only problem with a shipping container? Well it looks big and it is standard 40 foot shipping container. Apparently they only have a 12-ton limit for it. so they they did some back of the envelope calculations. That's enough paper to max out the 12 ton limit.

So anyway, there's a bunch of stuff outside. digital. Om Dr. Pack.

Whatever mathcad patience. there's a whole bunch of like digital computer products, Debase theory and Ms-dos application. Fantastic. What's what's in here? Mystery? Did you're more digital software stuff? This is all just outside.

No. I See Microsoft C C++ Ah, tons of books, just documentation. more digital stuff. It's just tons of dollar.

or HP thirty multiple regression analysis pack. Oh just say that's how the program packs for some HB stuff and that all shrink-wrap IP messages Volume three: Yeah, it's a very noisy on the road here. Fortran and business data processing Structural design language Engine Issues Emanuel Wow Compact Computer Australia What do we got? Oh we miss VAX Wow A bunch of magazines Lotus 1-2-3 G Pick no idea what peak is there you go. It's another operating system, not a flu.

gigantic monitor. oh what's that thing? that - no, it's a no calculator. Oh wow. Check it out.

Impromptu teardown? There you go. Electromechanical. Very nice Wow Arts and Olivetti Logos 240 There you go. Throw you.

Oliver Li Fanboys. So I was published in On: Really? Yeah, yeah, that's how I Got my start. Check out this. We found this digital what looks like a like a just a word processor II type thing and then it's got a data talk button down here.

It's actually got an acoustic coupler on the side, so it's a some sort of data terminal. That's sweet. Here we go, we found a paper tape program. Look at this.

copyright 75 by Digital Equipment Corporation and then so beginneth the code? Yeah. Machine Code: Yep, very great. There's probably dozens of these in the archives I'm sure hundreds of them. Check out this oddity.

It's an Apple controller interface. It's got outputs, loads, output, status bits. It's certainly what. LEDs I Don't know what's going on there.

some logic stuff, power obviously home built and strip board. look at that. Wow You know it's someone. put a lot of effort into that wonder.
Who is it yours? Bua Content up. I'm always intrigued by these types of boxes. so let's open it up and have a look what's inside? Sweet! Ah, look at the acoustic coupler. Wow ha ha.

Texas Instruments Silent 700 Electronic data terminal. brilliant carrier detect. great what's on here. Oh, it's just test pattern so there's still stuff left to be found.

I'm gonna head back up of course. I Had to get up on top of the shelves I'm actually standing on top of one of them at the moment. Check this out! It's another digital disk cleaning disk cleaner thing. Digital cartridge cleaner.

There you go. Fantastic! And uh yeah, good thing about hopping up here, you can get to stuff that you couldn't ordinarily get to look at those monitors over there. It's incredible. This is great.

I know Literally, at my feet is the trash ad model - fantastic. The top covers come off, but I'm going to try and get that one down is it's not a very good condition. And at my feet again, more Trs-80 stuff. software, library discs and other Trs-80 discs 8 and other mysteries.

Misc utilities. Yet another trash 80 box. Oh wow. manuals.

They look like they could be service manuals or something. maybe disks? Pick this out first thing. I Get out of the box. That's not interesting, but this is Don McKenzie Who's famously just shut down.

He was like practically the first electronic retailer online anywhere in the world. I Believe it. Like selling that kits and stuff that is anyway. and he just shut down after all this time.

And this is the Dawn Mod 1540 aka memory into the keyboard of the trash ad Model 1 so he gave you all the instructions to do that good on your done found in the archives. Absolutely brilliant. There we go. There's the Don mod.

yeah, so you can upgrade the Model 1 level to track cuts and then cut the tracks and do whatever. Fantastic. There you go. there's the original Don mod.

Wonderful. So then he shut down some Lnw programmable board rate I Have Lnw research I've got no idea what that is. Sorry family relations The Family Relations Computer System Version 8 written by Robert Mote. What pretty character of descendants.

Oh ok, it's a genealogy thing is it? Well this is a real eclectic mix of stuff in here. The original was at night buy it for a dollar. that was the original. way like QuickStart cheat sheet couldn't control code thing.

Nice new dos ad for the model 1 or what some jazz? Well there's a ton of old stuff in here that's just in the first one. I open and these all look like you know someone's personal like notebook and stuff with all listings and did it actually belong to John Saxon I Don't know. but anyway look at this like we've got all these and written assembly language stuff. This is great dude.

look wow Wow. This was a lot of lot of work on someone's part back in the day. What treasures will we find in this obviously genuine wood grain realistic cassette album? Wow, look at like is fantastic. Whoa.
Hello! Oh Tapes Here we go. let's have a look: Microsoft Editor Assembler plus Graphics canceled What keyboard debounce Systems keyboard fix you needed a program for that? It's terrific. Backgammon Nice Zed To all anyone remembers Zed to a ski for the Trs-80 What? the trash ad didn't come with a ski and it always game or something I don't know Cosmic Patrol Its are going to invade a system tape gold and how much would have a one? Meg Piggyback Ram Expansion board costs for whatever HP product that is back in the day, it's probably invaluable to someone, right? Surely little bit of an impromptu teardown of this Intel way Universal Promit Programmer Date: Unknowing There you go. You can just pop the lid off.

it's designed to be popped off because these aren't screws. They're just like, you know, half turn watching my cords and there's not much. Not much in there at all except these are your logic and programming cards. There you go.

Jeez. Okay, looks like they have a separate card for each one. This is a two seven, one six personality card. So yeah, if that's why the top of this was designed to be easy to get in.

Do ever copyright made in the United States of America USA USA But yeah, you would buy the different cards for whatever. You know it's not like it's a universal problem programmer, but it's not like the the thirty thousand dollar dot IO one that we've torn down in a previous video. So yeah he just put these little personality cards in and whatnot. but that's how you programmed your um problems for your Intel processors back in the day.

Sweet and just notice this up here which is interesting. Check it out this HP at 150 monitor and it's more than that. it's more than a monitor. It was one of the first like touch screen computers.

You can see all these holes down here like this. these are infrared transmitters and is matching infrared receiver holes down here. Sure that clogged up sorry if you can't see that. Sure that clogged up very nicely and see the matching holes over there and it can you can detect.

Oh and of course top and bottom as well I'm sure you can see and they would. That was like for the HP 150 computer which came out in the early 80s and it was using a Dow a V8 processor. It wasn't PC compatible but it ran air miss Dawson stuff and it's look it's a serial interface to that so this is like just like a serial. The monitor was like a serial terminal.

how many does that and it's got the HPI be the I Triple E for Deloitte, the Hewlett Packard are the original the Hewlett Packard interface bus. so presumably that got the well I don't know where like I Presumed that it's like a terminal and the data came in and out of here. in the Hpid was maybe the yard touch screen now controller interface perhaps.

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17 thoughts on “Eevblog #1112 part 2 – more vintage warehouse diving”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars rwdplz1 says:

    Update?

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars scot shabalam says:

    If you can help it avoid that old paper like the plague it literally is the plague it can have silverfish and other pulp eatting insects in it especially if it's been damp.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike Mertes says:

    A warehouse full of my childhood dreams… cries

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gabriel Androczky says:

    I would definitely kick your ass for opening all those boxes and just leaving them in a mess after you're done… that's not too nice dude.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Paolo Lanciani says:

    Sembri un topo in un negozio di formaggio

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars NightWolfx03 says:

    I have one of those HP 150's

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Paul Stubbs says:

    Ah the TRS-80 stuff, I ended up doing my own mods to my model one, replacing the 16k ram chips with 64k chips, so all the ram was now on one board, not spread (somewhat unreliably) over an expansion interface. (I never knew anyone did this as a comercial product/mod). As for the LNW stuff, it's an aftermarket expansion box for a TRS-80 model 1, I have one, and just recently had to repair it. Darn if I'd only known, I would have probaly made the trip up there.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ZKH Prins Sven Olaf van CyberBunker-Kamphuis says:

    plenty of space, but wrong continent. how come a bunch of computer nerds that clearly all are old enough to have made their millions in the .com boom, if not the 1970s microcomputer boom, can't find a suitable building and some trucks and trailers and containers in any of their companies combined. seriously people. get organized. the number of times 'computer companies' had to borrow my trucks to move their stuff to their datacenters when actually you're just getting paid to set up their ripe lir and configure their routers, because, them being 'the average nerds', they never bothered to buy their own vehicle fleet and such, cannot be counted on all of my fingers combined. also why not just buy the land the current building is on and keep the building as-is. they can build their appartments on any other piece of land just as well. it doesn't exactly look like downtown manhattan or tokio anyway. give them a few 1000 and i'm quite sure they'll happily move their appartment plans a few blocks down the road. the place doesn't even look all that big. about the size of one of our fuseboxes all in all. how come this is such a huge logistics problem. is there a shortage of buildings and trucks in australia or what? or is it just the target audience: nerds, once again, not having their stuff sorted out. (as in if it doesn't have keys and it doesn't have a powerplug, why buy it , who could possibily need analog things like 'trucks' and 'real-estate' 😉

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ver64 says:

    Why did you laugh so much? ….are you from another planet and our old technology make you laugh?…..

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Red Squirrel says:

    Man I hope all this stuff can be preserved somehow. It's kinda sad to see history possibly get destroyed. Though it's kinda bittersweet though, even if say I had the resources to get all this stuff, it would just sit and collect dust TBH… but I guess the idea that it's saved is what would count.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dollar Guy says:

    Save that woodgrain case for LGR! 🙂

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David DeVillers says:

    Those cassettes are awesome! Work with my grandfather on a TRS-80 – learned backgammon on that thing. Great memories!

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Peter Sage says:

    This is so sad that the museum has to make way for condos. I now agree with people who say that gentrification is evil.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Von Skipppy says:

    The warehouse/museum people should be appalled at the pigsty they created. It should have been graded and then and only then if it made the grade be stored and cataloged. Instead they allowed it to turn into a royal turdhouse. Then they didn't have a PLAN B for when they got kicked out. Over all, a bunch of amateur hicks that had no clue how to manage their little club. I'm sure there were some real bits of historical treasure buried among the tons of ewaste garbage, but with ZERO effort to sort and organize it, they wasted all this time and now everything will end up being pitched. They should have had a huge garage sale and sold everything by the pound just in hopes that the good stuff will find a home other then the ewaste landfill.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars w9gb says:

    TI Silent was popular item, before PC portables.

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rýán Túçk says:

    What kind of ad was that, 3 seconds?

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike Pepper says:

    HP-150: that 'monitor' was the actual computer. The HP-IB was for the disc drives. They even had a slot in the top to add a thermal printer. Yes, dust was a problem. The HP-150 Model II had the IR diodes behind a plastic filter.

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