Hi yes it's a road trip time again. I'm in the car I'm in the underground carpark ready to go because I Got the word that the Australian are computer museum Society is. Well they're kind of not shutting down, but they're in trouble. They're here in Sydney in Villawood at what They've got a warehouse here in Villawood and they're basically their lease is running out.

They've got a warehouse full of vintage computers and they don't know what to do with them. So I'm going there to check out the the scale of the problem so we'll find out. could be very interesting. It's not a museum, it's I believe it's like a dark and dingy warehouse that they've got all this stuff stored in.

Anyway, we'll find out. Let's go. This one's about to go out. Check it out.

Trash ad Model 2 with the 8 inch floppies. Ah beautiful. Alright, take it away. What a shame Oh Bye bye.

sorry about the noise but we are on a road here. This is the Australian computer Museum Society warehouse and that, yes, that is a gigantic harddrive platter. We're not sure of the what it's from or the density or anything like that, but anyway, this building is about to be. It's about to be demolished so it's going to be turned into these.

It's gonna be turned into these apartment buildings and up this there's John say hi John greetings how are you today? Great and this stuff is mostly. it's probably half gone. Is it No, No, probably better. Third, I'd say about 1/3 gone.

Yeah, Yep. alright. Wow have a look around. Same sorts of heavy stuff inside, a bit of space.

Yep. alright, thanks. let's go have a look and this is dark and gloomy so I may have to get out the lights. Whoo! All right.

So what we'll do first is we'll just have a walk around I am shooting this at 60 frames per second so no 4k stuff. I Figure you'd appreciate the higher frame rate on this one and this is just their holding warehouse. It's not really a music not designed to be a museum. as such.

They have moved quite a few times so all this stuff is are. as John said, about a third of its probably gone already. There's some deck stuff here you go and Taylor's simple: what on earth is that looks pretty recent so bugger that and we've got that like newer stuff like compact. What is this? Digital Electronics proprietary limited Digital Event Recorder system Wow I Have no idea what this is, so it's not just vintage our computers, it's just all sorts of electronically stuff now.

I Have heard that they do have I'm not sure if it's still here, but an original one. Eder Kate Yep, they're looking for a new home Anyway, it's about. this place is about to be demolished so they are looking for people to mine this stuff until they can find a bigger place. So there's lots of you know stuff which is probably not of interest to anyone.

We got some wire wrapping. check out that. Just tons of stuff everywhere. What on earth is that maintenance panel from I've got no idea.

but anyway, there's ton of stuff in here cut possibly go through it all. so please forgive me. There's just like boards everywhere. Who knows what they're from.

They could. these could be like incredibly rare boards or something. Do you just have you no idea? Let's have a look. hey, you know I have no idea what it's from.

Not a clue. Zenith Zenith Data Systems Monitor: This looks like our monitor section, so let's wander down here. Oh No Wow It's just like like old PC Stuff like I don't know why you know it. It requires a specific type of person to collect like old PC You know compatible stuff and things like that, so you know if that's really I Don't know anyone who actually does that, but there's tons of monitors up there so let's go deeper.

Like in, there's like lots up the top there as well. just no shortage of them. So Epson Monitor Classic: Oh, there we go look. We've got some hard drive, our platters, and stuff like that.

No idea what that is. See, who knows. That could be something really interesting I Mean you know there's a month of Sundays in Nah, tear downs here. It's just crazy.

Look at that. I mean that's one hell of a typewriter? Is that even a typewriter? It looks something more serious than that. It's incredible. It's at a counter, it's at a counter.

Wow No idea what that is as a digital VAX Console for those VAX Fanboys Oh HP Color Laserjet and more PC Stuff Not really interesting PC Stuff Oh look at that. Look at those. IBM terminals. Ah Beautiful.

IBM 3270 Eight terminals. Brilliant. Ah, it's that more digital stuff. Got no idea.

Something with a motor on it and wow. look at like all the documentation and start. Pdp-11 Pdp-11 Engineering drawings Wow Like wow, you gotta be kidding me Oh Jackpot Management Information Systems Proprietary Limited Digital Equipment Corporation Wow Oh Schematics There we go in. Pdp-11 Schematics: Like just sitting up there.

Wow. that's nuts. No idea what. they are.

the back of something big and old. Oh, what's that I have frequency? DPL What is that? some sort of baseband receiver filter or something? Not sure. but ah yeah. look at all these.

Look at all the tapes up there. They probably contain, you know, various sir programs. Whatever are Po6? What's a digital? RPO Six disk drive 300 megabytes, right? 300 Meg Digital hard drive Wow They tape. Oh yeah, yep, yeah, you're right.

I Think they could be down here? Yeah, there we go. There's the platters for those digital planets. Open her up. Oh there we go.

Yep. Beautiful. Probably still readable today if you had the had the working thing to do it. Yeah, what's a technique? Oh SS 16 Ram reset Power of that? No idea.

Wow Honeywell Honeywell Terminals Are they incredible? and just a random box of modern, newfangled rubbish? What's it? What's this garbage doing here like that's something I'd find in the dumpster. Two of those a week in the dumpster. You can only hear me say this a lot. I Have no idea Andromeda Systems Inc Yeah.

Bua Bua dispute line clock Nae fault. it's like right, protect Busy ready. Oh my goodness. Like it's just.

it's just incredible and this stuff is absolutely amazing. Check this out. This is an Intel. You might think it's an EEPROM programmer.

It's a prompt of 48, but it's not an EEPROM programmer. It's actually an Intel development system. and it actually comes with all this stuff. Look, that's an Intel monitor with an 8-inch to 8-inch floppy on it and whatever that is some sort of processing unit or something down the bottom.

I've got no idea but these are old Intel development units Wow like I like probably for like 8080 systems or something like that. and this is how you would have like developed programs for Intel stuff and back in the day. So you know for the early Intel processors, there's the back of the end. Dramatis: Systems Inc I Got no idea what's the D connectors? This is amazing.

What's in here? Secret Squirrel Oh Secret squirrel Cave in here. Not much interesting, just Oh Teller a 3300 of course everyone knows the teller a 3300 and just monitors. Monitors Monitors monitors. More monitors.

What do we got out here? More stuff. No overhead projector? Yeah, you get fifty bucks of that in the Trading Post All oh there's a documents room. All right. I Won't miss the documents room and ton of old floppies.

Oh Printers Tektronix and Tektronix What? It's a Tektronix 46:12 I Get obviously what did sell to printer. It's a print up some sort of thermal printer. Oh you think? Yeah I don't know what's happened there. but that's not a happy ending.

Sorry for all you whatever it is that that is fanboys. It's been a pigeon problem in here. Okay. I've been told to take a deep breath before going in here.

It's the documents room. These digital racks. Wow Oh yeah, not kidding. Oh Try and breathe in here.

Wow Yep, this is just a mountain of boxes. This is just nuts. This is absolutely nuts. Wow How would you ever find anything Concurrent Computer Corporation? Anyone know that system? A Micro Five? Yeah, Tandem.

We do know Tandem as a digital Vac 6002 stucked away at the back there and more. Concurrent Systems, Inc. Wow Like how they going to find someone to like store that cuz this place is closing down in a in a week and it's going to be demolished. I'm gonna find someone to mind all this stuff, but that's just incredible.

11 cents a kilo for scrap metal? We think 11 cents a kilo and into data. What is it like a cassette based? I've never seen a cassette based on a WoW what on earth? Oh god, there's nothing in the back of it. It's just got some boards on the back. there's the presumably there, the power supplies at the back I'd be guessing and then the CPU unit and stuff like that.

Uh, all right, no, it's not gonna open and the power supply to go with it presumably Wow I Just like yeah, let's look at a random document. RT R STS macro and system program in volume 6. Looks like they got the complete set. Fantastic.

This is just insane. More digital stuff. Oh yes, we have the punch punch card. 80 bytes storage device.

Brilliant. This looks like a do-it-yourself plotter. There it is. pin up pen down and it looks like it's maybe it's not a do-it-yourself I don't know.

but uh wow, that's just absolutely yeah. Yeah, that's got night. No, it's like someone's just made a case for it. I think it's a mill.

my plot. it's a my plot anyone use a my plot back in the day? There you go like what on earth is that thing? It's got some I've no idea. some sort of like custom job I Like no clue anyone. I Dug one layer down and yep, I found a Commodore Vic-20 look at that.

So I'll take that for a teardown. probably doesn't work. This keyboard is buried under this keyboard which weighs an absolute ton and probably wise cuz it's all like diecast bottom on the thing. Unbelievable.

just like bamboozled by the stuff I am pulling out of here this is: Texas Instruments Alarm1 Luncheon report, groups display and if through the F40 function keys. What Setpoint Manual Cassette auto like I don't know Did TOA maker a security system at one point I Got no idea. Nuts. Ah, look at that.

Look at that patch board. analog computer: It's an E a 680 analog computer. Oh my goodness. I can't even get to it.

sorry Connie can't even get to it I'd have to move like a dozen boxes to get in there. but Wow the purge panel for that thing. analog computer amazing I Saw I saw one of these in the Powerhouse Museum but yeah, it's just incredible. Bhp Central Research Labs in Melbourne Here you go Bhp Newcastle Let's open up a random box.

This was on the bar underneath the Vic-20 attached programming attached. it's not attache, it's attached Abel Computer Inc anyone? Bueller User Guide: a Hey What? I don't know can I get it? Tech Tips: Able Computer Tech Tips 1985 Wow What else have we got? Pdp-11 Pdp-11 keyboard stuff Australian Standard for transparent overlays Okay, this is it. More Pdp-11 stuff. This is incredible I Like I've just dug through the first layer.

Then there's a mystery box. What does here we go: Mystery Item A DOP $3,800 systems. What can? No clue anyone and occasionally you find a bit of Teske a a sister on Donna counter timer need I Might note that do a little retro teardown second channel stuff probably. We think right up in there is a old mechanical calculator.

looks like got the crank handle and everything he's he's he's going in, he's going in. This is not gonna end well. This back to back modem simulator synchronous NS Synchronous. All those playing along at home made in Canada right? all my Canadian viewers.

Sometimes you've got to dig through the stuff to find. There you go in. Amiga 2000 I'm gonna crawl in there. Get it out.

Remove the box to get to it like a bought one. Let's try out a mystery box. Let's have a look. What's inside here that looks like some sort of cereal chair.

Maybe a protocol analyzer or something. Cereal analyzer Ampex DDX 900 Tester Is that like a Lion tester? Cylinder address head alignment No, it's a hard drive hard drive alignment tester. Wow, you're that like that used to anyone at all your 4 megabytes of ECC memory for 350 bucks anyone? A surface mount? No that old-fashioned through-hole rubbish. Let's have a look.

Oh just thing of beauty. It's a joy forever. Wow that that's custom data race Beautiful. There you go.

It's a VAX bi bus so some sort of VAX system. was it a standard bus? Anyway, it's a for Meg card that double-sided Not a single sign of rubbish. This is the high capacity job in their original case. Look at that magic and there's a few of them.

Check it out. Wow How much memory would you have in your vac system? Incredible. Check out this: NCR this. What's that? It's like a calculate look at them, look at the huge and it's big.

like a gigantic ledger system, right? You think something like that? I Just yeah. look at Wyatt yeah it's pretty and I'm like eh, well it's like think of it anyone paper inaudible. Ah, the capable. Oh yeah, I wouldn't mind that.

I'm gonna do get out. let's start digging. Yeah great. Ok thanks.

Check out this board from a some sort of digital, you know, like a PDP type system I Don't know I don't know that pedan PDP bus offhand, but look all discrete. You know 2,400 series are stuffed by looks about return authorization in 91 but they still using this in 91. Incredible! Oh Check this out. Stored-program buffer.

Oh really how you're doing a construction Dwight Instrument Company? Linda's New Jersey anyone remember the Dwight Instrument Company what happened to them and it's like it's got a little like four digit lead display presumably and I just a a couple of our thumb wheel switches and you just these store some programs on there for what I don't know. some sort of controller or something else, some sort of custom in industrial theory. Check out this thing tucked away. it's a Geo star.

It's some sort of a mapping system. an electronic system division Geoscience Geo Sauce so nice. Green screens is two of them so some sort of like geophysical monitor and based on the mount they're you know it was probably like a on a like. kind of reminds me of something that would be on and used on old seismic survey vessel, geophysical vessel or something like that.

It may not be a boat version, may be a ground-based geophysical thing, but I don't know. Is it some sort of power line? local? sorry debate. Start station one. Hmm.

Anyone right at the top there found something for you? Amiga Fanboys, it's just nuts. There's all. there's all the tapes. it's an incredible.

There's Terahertz and anyway, check it out. Amiga Hardware Reference Manual Third edition. thank you very much and on their first edition. Rubbish C128 Commodore Service Manual Amiga User interface style Guide Fantastic and make a Rum Colonel Reference Manual Devices: It's got the individual devices so I don't know.

It's got my floppies and source codes and the includes in Auto Docks for the Ramat Colonel Fantastic. Jeez, look at they have a thick that is that's incredible. And the Rum Colonel Reference Manual for the libraries Wow Like that's just crazy sir. you can't read that.

but you know, just tucked away up the top right at the back. There you go. Complete set. Check it out.

There's just tons of these tapes. and like computer security tape 3m I Mean they look like they were, you know, pulled out of the machine yesterday and 1988. They was still using these things. Incredible clearly.

John Hill Borns the Man. If you want to Y troubleshoot and repair your Commodore 128, there it is. Oh Peanuts for all the chips? Ah, fantastic stuff. Who wants it? Oh, you remember the white pages on CD I Do that was a thing.

And just like floppies, there's just boxes and boxes and boxes of floppies and everything else. It's just incredible. I Don't know what this thing here is. Oh no way.

Punch. it's a process ram duck Oh Ram ACK So it's some sort of punch storage computer I Don't know. Oh, it's an IBM Okay, there you go. Wow Ancient.

Absolutely ancient in just you know. Manuals like that, right? Somebody wrote all these manuals, how to use the 8 w 1 CRT and maintenance manual for something I Don't like. it's just incredible. Word star Yeah, everyone remembers word star MultiPlan Fantastic.

Yes. I have opened that. It's just a bunch of it apart. Just like the amount of stuff in here.

it's just crazy, right? Some someone you know rode, lots of people you know, wrote these manuals, wrote these software, wrote everything, and it's just you know. Had a stay, they probably spent you know, years doing this. and all these books that are being written and are absolutely like you know. the latest guide to One Two three released Three Point One that was huge in its day.

and it's just the mini computer in the laboratory. Wow Yep, that's in case you care about the mini computer in the laboratory. but hey, that'd have been a great text in its day. I'm sure.

but yeah, I'm just like wow, huh? Sister: the 808 E6 Random one the apricot. Technical info: I Remember the apricot I used to use an apricot. anyone else? the networker Oh wow. everything's in individual ones.

Outline: Technical Specification: your processors. Ah. Incredible. Yeah.

I Think the libraries used to have the the Apricots back in the day. Hang on, Looky, what we have here: Tektronix 465 Service Manual Wow 465 Scope I Wouldn't have expected to find a Tektronix 465 service manual here. Unbelievable. What else is in that box? Wow A Tektronix 4010 series.

anyone? use one of those. Intelligence graphic enhancement options Instruction manual Wow Timing diagrams and everything. Winner winner chicken dinner. but damn.

44 Digital multimeter Service manual Flexible disk memory storage you had in the four eights 5 scope. Probably a ton more stuff in here. And for all you modem fanboys, we have the nice modem to a data plex the send out of 300 I Got one of those in the mail bag didn't I some sort of homemade job I don't know that box is Dynacraft So there you go I Hope you enjoy that little impromptu you tour around the Australian Computer Museum's Society's warehouse before it gets torn down. Yes, it is going to get torn down next week.

unless so, unless they can find someone who can like temporarily mind and store all this stuff until they can potentially get a new warehouse, then let us know, Contact me and I'll put you in touch so it's absolutely fascinating. I'm gonna go around and take a look good look around now without the camera and see what I can find. possibly for some Mart tear downs and stuff like that. Unfortunately I Heard about this a bit late and I think a lot of the good vintage stuff is actually gone so but there might be some more interesting that obscure stuff left over.

We'll find out anyway. Hope you liked it if you did, give it a thumbs up. Catch you next time.