Opening Up 6 Months of Vintage Weirdness & LGR Mail!

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Man, I wish there was an actual Cool Crab mouse pad or t-shirt I could buy. I'd get it in a heartbeat.

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Good stuff!

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[smooth jazz music] [drive buzzes] [computer beeps] - Greetings, and welcome to another LGR unboxing of donations thing! And wow, it has been over half a year since I've done one of these videos. That was before I moved even. So yeah, this is six months' worth of stuff that's been generously sent by y'all, so thank you so much for your ongoing support and just, yeah, offering so many things. Yeah, let's just get right to it. We've got a lot to enjoy here. Alrighty, so, first one up here is from Andrew. Okay! Yeah, I remember him mentioning this now. Yeah, this is a "DinoPark Tycoon" t-shirt. [laughs] Oh! "Let them eat fungus." Yeah, this is a game that I've been meaning to cover for years now, and this'll be a perfect shirt to show whenever I do. [satisfied laugh] Thank you. All right, this one is from the Netherlands, from Lukas. Oh, yeah! Yeah, yeah. This is a book that I've been looking forward to. "Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium." 158 plusโ€“er, 150 pages of contemporary floppy disk culture. Yeah. And check this out. Featuring "Clint Basinger of LGR." So a bit of shameless plug, I suppose. This was fascinating to be a part of. We did an interview over the internet a while back. Page 26. But yeah, this is a book all about, well, just the legacy of floppy disks. How they're still used, how they're perceived. Well, there's me in there for some reason. [laughs] I was honored to be a part of this, but it's just kinda funny, considering some of the other legends that are in here. It's just like, wow. Yeah, this is just really cool. Floppy disk art, floppy disk music. Of course, conversations with Foone, and just so many people. Yeah, a fascinating book. I haven't read it yet, but... I mean, obviously I was in it, so... Hey, whatever. Take that for what you will. Thank you for sending me a copy, folks. Okay, I got a thin one here from Wilson. Aw, heck yeah, dude. Toshiba Recovery/Backup CD for the Satellite 320 Series. So yeah, I do have one of these. Apparently Wilson did as well, but apparently broke. That sucks. But I'll put this to use as nice, fresh restoration. Always love getting things OEM. Thank you. All right, got one here from John. Little smiley, 1 megabyte cache. Ooh, yes! So this is awesome. This is a modern recreation of the 1-megabyte cache module for M919 motherboards, systems. They were pretty infamous for having fake cache on board. So yeah, you can get L2 right here, but a full 1 meg. PC Chips M919, the Megacache project by PancakePuppy. 3.3 volts only. Can't work on 5-volt CPUs. But this is something that I've shown before on LGR, or at least over on LGR Blerbs. Right, I have this Quantex 486. And yeah, I had another one, a reproduction, for the 256k, I believe. - "Cache-" - Shut up, me. Which one was this? Yeah, 256k. It's a proprietary COASt module. Well, anyway, this one's a full 1 meg, so this'll be useful for, if not that, then definitely a couple of other future projects at some point, 'cause I have some other M919 boards. Thank you. Okay, one from the UK. This one's from Taras. It's some vintage ALF stickers. Okay. Why not? Oh, that's bleak, but pretty cool. That's from a "Nuclear War in the UK" book. Oh, I guess they wrote a book too. Anyway, "Greetings, here's the flexi disc/ad, IBM UK-issued in 1981." Awesome. So, look at this. If you're not aware of what a flexi disc is, well, it's right in here. I've never actually had one of these. But I've known about 'em for a long time, and this one in particular really has my attention, for obvious IBM reasons. That is a flexi disc. It is a not-quite-vinyl... Or maybe it is, I don't even know exactly what it's made of. But yeah, it's a record, 33 1/3 RPM, and you can play that on your record player. It's got grooves and everything. It's just really flexy, so people, or companies, stuck these in magazines and distributed them as promo items at events and through the mail, or whatever. "Some relaxing sounds taken from Dvorak's 'New World' symphony, specially rearranged for IBM." Oh, that's so cool. I don't have my record player hooked up right now or I would try that. But yeah, "Two relaxing ways of freeing your brain from all of this." Oh, 1981. "The temporary way," or "The permanent way." That's, um, quite the ad. "An IBM computer from $6,500." It's not the PC. Yeah, this is the Datamaster, or one of them. 1980. Oh, I guess '81. For whatever reason, they decided to promote it with a flexi disc. Anyway, thank you so much. This is really neat. And also coming from Scotland, makes sense. IBM had a ton of computers they were manufacturing in plants over there back then. All right, got one here from Harry in France. So, "Here's a mousepad from 1998 when Intel used the Simpsons for their Pentium II advertising campaign." All right! It's a reproduction he made via Photoshop, had it printed. And this one too. Oh! Got a Cool Crab. [laughs] Oh, that's awesome. Very cool recreation right here though. Intel and the Simpsons. I did not even know that they were promoting one another back then. [Clint laughs] Thanks very much. Okay, got one here from Stan in England. I suppose that this is gonna be changing going forward. Okay, handwriting. So, "As discussed, here is a FlashPath Floppy Adapter for MMC." Ah, yes. So I have a number of these, but not for this particular memory card format. So, "As noted," yeah, "I was never able to get it completely working." [brief chuckle] Oh, wow! "Greensboro is the only place in America I've ever visited. I remember Cheerwine and that's about it." Eh, that's all you need to know. Okay, so we have some batteries, CR2016s. And here we go. Yeah! So, check this out. Oh, there's a little sticker in here. Yeah, this takes MMC cards in particular, and converts them over to floppy disk. Mmm, sort of. Kind of. I mean, it will go into a floppy disk drive. You put your batteries in right there. But yeah, it does require some specific cards, specific software, drivers, whatever. I haven't actually experimented too much with this one in particular. I've more experimented with those from Sony that use the Memory Stick format that also goes into a floppy disk drive. But yeah, I just think these are fascinating. I like collecting all the different format ones. I'd like to do a video covering all of them at once. Either way though, thank you very much. These are just extremely cool. This is one that I did not have. Hey, here's one from Matt Hrushka, friend of the show. We finally got to meed at VCF Midwest earlier this year. That was awesome. So it appears to be a US Robotics modem, but let's get inside. And it looks like it inside, too. However, looks can be deceiving. So check this out. There is a Raspberry Pi in here, among some other things. Yeah, this... Basically it's just, yeah, a DreamPi built into a classic US Robotics external modem. So he says, "Think of it as the modem on the ISP end, except you use your modem in your computer and connect the phone cord to this, bypassing a PBX or traditional telephone network." So yeah, getting the Sega Dreamcast online has been really popular for this. But from what I gather, you can do other things too. I mean, yeah, there's... Oh yeah, he's got it working in DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Mac OS 6 and 7. This is gonna be really cool. I just need to mess around with it because I don't really know a lot about it. I've seen some other videos on the DreamPi. So thanks so much, Matt. All right, got one here from I don't know who. PRH? Oh, here we go. We've got a book by Rachel Ignotofsky. "The History of the Computer." Yeah, I remember this being mentioned. PRH, Penguin Random House. Well, that makes dadgum sense. [laughs] It's a little past May now, but here it is. Yeah, this looked really cool. Just a whole lotta PC... Pre-PC, just computing history in general. But it was all of these illustrations that particularly got my attention. Nice and friendly looking. It's got that style, I'm not even sure what you call it, but it is a style. [laughs] So many infographics videos use this kind of thing. Yeah, anyway. It seemed like a pretty neat book, and I was happy to get a copy to take a look at. Oh yeah, "Microsoft and the PC Clones." Yeah, this is awesome. Thank you very much for sending this over. It seems like a neat history book for young adults. All right, got this one here from Sam. Oh, heck yeah! I know what this is. Check it out. Apple IIe Owner's Manual. So an Apple III Monitor III Owner's Manual to go along with it. Yeah, so I have this monitor and this computer setup. All right. "Hi, I've been watching you for years." Thank you! "Definitely helped me get into the old tech and computer hobby. Hope you enjoy these manuals." I will. I love old manuals. And it really helps complete the whole experience of owning a lot of these computers. There's really not much quite like '80s computer manuals, and Apple always did these really great ones. Aw, dude! [laughs] Just so much information. That's just wonderful. And usually... Yeah, programming examples and all sorts of nitty-gritty details. It's wonderful to have this kinda thing. Yeah, the Monitor III. Simpler, but no less awesome. Look at that. Thank you very much. All right, have one here from Enoch in Japan. [Clint laughs] Dude! Aw! These look awesome. All of these look... What the heck? Super Menthol? "We support your no-smoking." Are these like candy cigarettes? I used to have candy cigarettes as a kid, but... Wow. These are a little different. These look like little rolled-up ones. Daggum chocolate dinosaurs? Dude. What is all this? I love it! Ha! Even just seeing it. This is gonna be fun to go though at some point with some friends. Oh, Mini Colas? Got a delightful printout there. Is that Osaka? All right, we've got a note here. "Hope things are going well at LGR." They are! Thank you. "Happened to stumble upon an old screensaver software from the early '90s for the PC," and on floppy. "Happened to have found this software amongst several other odds and ends in a place within Osaka city called Nipponbashi. Screensaver is from an old show called 'Ranma 1/2.'" Okay. Well, this is the screensaver. I enjoy everything about this packaging at the moment. Apparently it was 4,800 yen back in 1995. MS Windows 3.1. [cackles in 16-bit OS] Standard setup process, yeah. Got a README.TXT and all that. Well! We're gonna have to try this. All right, well, I'm trying it on my main Windows 98 PC, and just doesn't work, despite installing all the screensaver files. Nothing, so could just be incompatibility between English and Japanese Windows versions. All right, Japanese Windows 98 here, and it works perfectly fine! I, uh... Yeah, just don't know exactly what's going on. [laughs] It's just some characters and whatever that I don't know anything about. But that's okay. It's all fun, cutesy kinda stuff. And here's this guy being chased or attacked by dogs or whatever. Here's another. It's just falling leaves? This one's quite pleasant. Little falling leaves. This one doesn't do anything, for some reason. Looks like it tries to, whatever. And this one just opens little windows. And little people show up and do stuff. There's a reading guy. There's somebody who's kicking around. There's like a karate dude, ladies, and... Yeah, there's a lady. I don't know, different things. And then this last one. It just sort of blanks out the screen eventually, around the edges like this. And then it comes back and shows random images from a show, I guess. Anyway, neat! That is just a nifty thing to have. Thank you so much for that, and for all the sweet goodies. Okay, got another one here from France. I don't know who it's from. So apparently I'm just getting hooked up with all kinds of mousepads from Harry. [laughs] This is also from him. So, IBM and Apple mousepads from the '90s. Homemade reproductions. All right! I guess these are photos of the originals. A printout. Oh yeah, the classic IBM Supply Kit, 1979. All right, so what do we got here? Some sort of CM Mouse cheese mousepad. Mac OS 8. Ooh, OS/2 Warp. That one's pretty darn cool. Classic Macintosh. Another OS/2 Warp one. "Get warped!" Ooh, they got the packaging again there. That one, I like that one a lot. Think I'm gonna use that one straight away. Oh, classic, just IBM ThinkPad. Also love this one. So simple. These are really, really cool. Thank you again, Harry. Got one here from Travis. All right. So, "Back in March, you featured the ARGUS, a Gravis UltraSound clone." That I did, and "never owned a Gravis UltraSound PnP." I did not. So he mentioned that he happened to have one, plus some legacy RAM for it. "Always intended to build a legacy machine so I can use my GUS PnP, but a lot of time has passed, 25-plus years, still haven't built it," so hey, here it is. "Picked this up brand new almost as soon as they were available. It lived in at least three of my computers over the years. I've been long involved in the PC demoscene as a music writer." That makes sense, considering the Gravis UltraSound. This is gonna be really cool. I had some weird issues with that ARGUS. I want to say that was a Blerbs. Uh, yeah. The ARGUS, UltraSound Clone. So I just wasn't familiar with the way the PnP worked. It's all plug and play stuff. I was using it on a machine that maybe wasn't the most suited for it and I didn't know what to... Drivers, software, it was... Eh, it was a thing. So now that I kinda know what to expect, this should be awesome. Oh yeah, look at that! Gravis UltraSound Plug & Play, original disc. That's super neat. Don't see too many of those. Ooh. Nor do you see many of these. Look at that beautiful card. Advanced Gravis Computer Technology, 1995. UltraSound Plug & Play version 1.0. RAM expanded. You got that wonderful AMD InterWave chip on there that makes the magic happen. [whispering] Oh, yes. IDE connector there. Anyway, yeah, this is what the ARGUS is based on, specifically this version of the card. There were Compaq OEM versions as well, but this is the OG PnP. Thank you so much. Oh, this is a treasure right here. Got one here from N. Ooh, what is this? Ho-ho! Oh, yeah. Oh, I remember being told about this now. So this is something they found at a Value Village for 3.99. Kinda flabbergasted that this was found, sealed no less. But wow, very happy to have it. So this is the ASP, or Advanced Signal Processor upgrade for Sound Blaster 16 cards. You often see this little empty socket there on many Sound Blaster 16 models. Finding the chip alone is a thing, but sealed in the box is nuts. So yeah, adds ASP stuff, like real-time hardware assisted audio compression and decompression, Creative FastSpeech, Qsound, advanced text-to-speech, and other stuff. Yeah, I don't know. Actually, I've never messed with this package of stuff before. Never even seen one of these complete like this, you know? This, this is just... [growls] Thank you! Can't wait to try this. All right, got one here from Chris. Oh, my word. Oh, my word. [laughs] The Sound Blasters keep coming, dude. So no note with this one either, but this is another Sound Blaster thrift store find, at a Goodwill. $49. Just the Sound Blaster. This is insane. I think everything is in here except the card, but I've got a buncha Sound Blasters. One or two of this version, but not the box. Or at least not this exact box. So at first, thought it was totally complete in there. I mean, and it mostly is, except that it is missing the card itself. But he asked if I still wanted it and, I mean, come on! Look at all this. Oh, man. That seems original. Yeah, 1989/'91. Software and hardware catalog. Look at that, the C/MS chips, advertised right there for 30 bucks, wow. Stereo speakers, those dinky little things. There's that cable. Line attenuator/mixing cable, 11.95. $100 Software Developer Kit. FM Sing-Along II, Voice Editor. So yeah, everything in here but the card itself. Like I said, I have a number of really early Sound Blaster cards. Just gotta figure out which exact model, released variant, goes with this. So thank you so much for picking this up. Oh, can't wait to fill this thing with the card. All right, got one here from good ol' Anders Enger Jensen. Cassettes and vinyls inside, of course. Always welcome a new Jensen release. All right. Cassettes. Good ol' "Retro Grooves." "Planet X3" soundtrack. "Attack of the Petscii Robots." And naturally, some vinyl releases for all three as well. [Clint laughs] Ah, always good stuff. Nice, happy chiptune music and all that. And of course, friendly for YouTubers to use. Traditionally, anyway. Thank you, Anders, as always. What a cool guy. All right. No name on this one. Whoa. All right, so this is from Paul. Hopes I enjoy this Sony Vaio P VGN-P70H. "Had a good time messing around with it, but honestly I have no use for it." Isn't that the way it goes? "Currently has BunsenLabs Linux." If I'm planning on swapping the original parts, "I warn you, it is torturous to disassemble and reassemble. I didn't work on it for like three months because of those cables." Duly noted, but wow. Just look at the way that this thing probably looks. Whoa-ho. Well, isn't that just lovely? It's a very different style of Vaio than anything I have. Wow, look at that. Japanese, I am assuming. Japanese exclusive. What a neat little thingy! I'm gonna have to learn about this, figure out what's going on. We have battery? Do we have power? Nah, doesn't seem like it. Well. Oh, man. Yeah, drives and things. I see what you mean. That ribbon doesn't look great [laughs] to work with. All kinds of stuff though. Always nice to have this kinda thing complete in box. Yeah, I'm gonna dive into this at some point, see what it's all about. Either way, what a beautiful piece of hardware. Ultraportable subnotebook, released in 2009. Sort of a netbook, but kinda not. There were some in the US, but not this one exactly, I guess. Yeah, it's an Intel Atom-based thing, so you'd probably put windows XP on here if you were gonna go with Windows. On the other hand, yeah, Linux makes a lot of sense. [laughs] Thank you for sending this project over. Got one here from Tim. Okay, we got a DVD player box, but I doubt that's what this is. Oh, here we go! "Clint! Have fun, Tim." Thank you. Well, this is one that I have never actually come across before. You know, for sale or whatever. I've seen it online many, many, many times. But yeah, it's just never been in my possession, till now. "Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge" CD-ROM. This is a weird one, as were all of these. There were so many bands that made CD-ROM software packages back in the mid- to late '90s. Came with some instructions. That's all you get in here. [laughs] It's just the software game sorta thing on CD-ROM. 1995. [cardboard squeaks] Nice little fart there. Oh man, look at all these blurbs on the back. "16 sumptuous, fully navigable 3D environments." "Cursor-sensitive VoodooRaver." "There's never been an interactive rock 'n' roll CD-ROM of this caliber," except for the other ones. Yeah, it's right up there with, like, Peter Gabriel's "Xplora," 1 and 2, "Prince Interactive," The Residents' "Freak Show," Aerosmith, "Revolution X," Residents, "Bad Day on the Midway." Yeah, there's just a bunch of these. Thank you for this bit of weirdness. All right, got one here from Tyler. Long-time subscriber sending silly IBM stuff. Place he currently works at was an all-IBM house. "Mainframes, PCs, printers, et cetera, at one point, and this is a couple of the weird things I found," just cleaning out some areas. Dude, okay. Oh, hope to see me at VCF. Yeah, that was a great show indeed. And thank you for sending these over. So we have some IBM packing tape! [laughs] That's pretty rad. We got some kind of... What is this? It's like holder? Type of thing? And a printer ribbon, with disks! Oh, IBM PC, DOS 5.0. Oh, and there's one ribbon in there. Not sure exactly what that's for. Oh no, there's a bunch of 'em in there. Look at that. Huh! Well, thank you very much. I'm most intrigued by the tape. I have a number of boxes that I will wrap up using this. Got one here from Vince. "Enjoy your Mockingboard. Most software expects it in slot number four." Good to know. I have always wanted to try one of these. The a ReActiveMicro Mockingboard version 2.1. A clone sound card for Apple II's. A slightly older version. I mean, it's not the most current one, but I remember him mentioning that there were a few oddities about it in terms of functionality. Whoa, man. Some really nifty software here. So, "Duke Nukem." [laughs] For the Apple II. "Only has Mockingboard sound on Level 2." Yeah, so look at this. Got some alpha versions of "Peasant's Quest." [chuckles] "Monkey Island" lo-res. Yeah! Some chiptune stuff. More chiptune. "Duke Nukem" lo-res Apple demo for the Apple II. And then, of course, yeah, "Lemmings," on Apple II. These are all homebrew, far as I know. But the fact that it's stuff that also lets you use the Mockingboard for more things is just great. And I've just never used one of these at all, so thanks so much for sending this over. Got one here from Byron. [Clint laughs] Oh, no! There is actually packing... Okay. That's pretty funny. So it's a... [laughs] Printout of packing peanuts. And also some actual packing peanuts. What an up-and-down rollercoaster, playing with my emotions. So this right here is a Gravis Destroyer, one of the few Gravis game pads that I have never used. "Six quick action buttons." Yeah. This is kind of an updated Gravis GamePad, you know? Less of the classic Super Nintendo or PlayStation-style designs. It's just a game pad. But, you know, cool to have in box. Yeah, look at that. It's so round. So smooth. [laughs] I don't know if it's any good or bad. I've never really heard much about these. All right, well, it seems here we have a Pentium 4. 3.2 gigahertz. And a "fragile." What's in here? Nine Inch Nails? Nope. Another kinda fragile. AMD Athlon 64 X2. What a classic. Yeah, I don't have too many Athlon 64s. I mean, I did back in the day. I had a couple, but it's been a long time. Anyway, thank you for all the goodies! I enjoy this. Got one here from Paul. Okay, "Here is the fingerprint scanner we discussed." Awesome. "Hopefully you'll be able to find the software to get it working. Thanks for everything you do, man." Thank you, man! Gotta say, I don't believe I have any standalone fingerprint scanners, that I can remember. Especially not one of this age. Appears to be another thrifting find, $4.04. American Biometric Company. Look at that! Biometric Company BioMouse? Well, here's hoping we can find some software, 'cause yeah, I'd love to try this out. What a find. Thank you for sending this bit of weirdness over. Got one here from I don't know who. Oh! It's another one from Matt Hrushka. "Here's a strange Japanese IBM organizer we chatted about. Would love to know what it's all about." Well, we got some software. So that's good. But yeah, look at this thing. Whatever the heck it is. Neat little small IBM thing is always welcome in my book. Looks like a pager. Whoa! So that is just a straight up PCMCIA PC expansion card. Goes in a laptop or whatever. But it's got buttons. Or at least little... Are those actually... Can you press those? They don't feel like they go down, but they have to. Anyway, uh... Wow. This is like a little personal organizer, maybe? Just on a card? [laughs] I hope we can get this working, man. And we also have, um, a book. [laughs] That's quite a cover. What the heck? Look at this thing. I am massively intrigued. Oh, this is just like a yellow, protective softcover book sleeve thing. I mean, see, it's totally like a part of it though. It's like attached, and these, like, robot hands are, uh, covering herself. Anyway. Oh, hey, there's a disc in here. What in the heck? Ooh. Yeah, this totally looks like a little personal organizer. Just built into a PCMCIA card, with its own little screen and buttons and whatnot. This is neat! Yeah, thank you. Okay, got one here from Cameron in Canada. Well then! Go from that book cover to this box cover. "Lust!" "The ultimate interactive dating game." "What happens when you take a four-time Emmy-winning director, two of Hollywood's most famous comedy writers, top fashion photographers, special effects and editing computers that were used on 'Forrest Gump,' 'True Lies,' and 'The Terminator,' and Hollywood's hottest centerfolds and actresses? You get this year's sexiest interactive game." I have my doubts. I gotta look up... Oof, what? Two CDs? Hybrid PC and Mac. This is one I've never heard of. Dude, it's even got the original... Oh! [wheezing cackle] Okay, so it's got the original receipt. Uh, I cannot show what else they bought, but they bought some stuff. [Clint laughs] At this store. Anyway. Apparently this game cost like $35. Assuming it's a game, I don't know. It says it's a game, man. A lot of these are just like dadgum slideshows. I mean, QuickTime, Macromedia. Well, thank you for sending this in. Speaking of Camerons, this is from another Cameron. Not that one. "My mother and I have been really enjoying your videos." Shout-out to Mom. "We would love to see more thrifts." Me too! I just released one recently, so I hope you enjoyed that one. Anyway, thank you for the... Well, what did you send? A bit of a weird one. So this is a scanner mouse. Halo2Cloud.com Scanner Mouse. Didn't Cathode Ray Dude cover something like this? Yeah. Yeah. Well. D'oh. Ooh, that is kinda gross. The rubber has really gotten sticky. But eh, common for these type of things. Well, if I can get this working, this'll be an interesting thing to try in a future weird mouse video. Thank you so much! Got one here from Joey. "Titan Pinball, home of competition silicon rings." His note here is just a copy of the email he sent, but he says, "Hey, would you like Joe Siegler's Dopefish mug?" [laughs] I said yes. In case you're not aware, Joe Siegler is a 3D Realms/Apogee Software legend. And apparently, he says in the email here, as he was cleaning out his 3D Realms office after they folded, he auctioned off some random merch he still had and gave his old forum guys first dibs. I remember that, too. I was actually wanting to bid on some of that stuff, but I didn't have any money back then. Even has Joe's old 3D Realms business card. Shout-out to Joe. I know he keeps up with some LGR stuff on occasion. Rest in peace, OG 3D Realms. But look at that. "Eat your veggies." That is wonderful! It's so strange how things come around after... Like, I spent so many hours, just days and weeks, perusing that forum that Joe moderated, and keeping up with "Max Payne" and "Prey" and "Duke Nukem Forever" news and whatever else, and to get one of his mugs? This is so surreal. Thank you, Joey, for sending over Joe's mug! Got one here from Jacob. Well, I don't see a note, but there is some interesting stuff here. [laughs] This is a mouse, I assume. Looks like a PS/2 mouse. Just shaped like an ugly baseball. I mean, like the colors are ugly. It's like peach and... [stammers] [sniffs] Ah, that smells like a Stretch Armstrong. Oh, this is weird. Sports Mouse by Champ. It does have two buttons. They're just lazily covered. This is so dumb! I love it! And we also have some USB ISA... Is for like the, uh... So that should hold onto that little USB ISA adapter that I have in my IBM AT. I've actually got a couple of 'em now. Yeah, I did a video on that. I want to say it's on Blerbs. But I didn't have any kind of bracket. This looks substantial. That should be great. Nice 3D-printed things with some screws. And then there's this. What are you? The Micro Pad. I like the way it looks. Windows 95. Sales analysis, productivity. All right. Yeah, it's just a numpad add-on. That's cool. Just curious about the mechanism. Not the worst. It is a rubbery membrane thing, but it's got some decent bounce-back. Doesn't feel bad. It reminds me of a Dell QuietKey. Thank you very much for these. All are awesome. Except for this, which sucks, but I approve of the suckage. Then I got this one here from the UK. From Nostalgia Nerd. Oh, yeah. My man's got a new book. And I got a press sample from Hachette UK Distribution. But yeah, he got in touch, and he was like, "Hey, dude, want my new book?" Here it is. "Gadgets, Gizmos, & Gimmicks." It's more a broad kind of... Well, you know. Less consoles and computers, from what I gather., and more general gadgetry. Lots and lots of things. Yeah, I enjoyed perusing the last one while taking a multitude of dumps. And this one, I'm sure, will fill the same purpose. Yeah, nicely presented. Nice photos. Just a pleasant little read. Very much like the last one, the "Retro Tech" book. Was good too, but anyway. Yeah, shout-out to Nostalgia Nerd for both the books. And the videos. Check out his channel. Got one here from Judah. Well, this is new. I've never seen these bubbles in a paper form. They're always plastic. [bubble pops] That's pretty cool. All right, we got a note here. So, "Hey, Clint, I was stoked to find this in a closet at home and finally have an oddity to contribute to your channel." [chuckles] "Could very well make the cut for an Oddware video some day. The makeshift postcard on a decade-old tuna..." What? Oh! [laughs] Makeshift postcard from an old toner box. Oh, yeah! Would you look at this? So we have a Fossil Abacus. MSN Direct smart watch, of a sort. Definitely have a thing for these type of devices. Any kind of wrist computing, smart watches. Older ones, you know. Yeah, just the fact that this one's an MSN watch. [laughs] Look at that. That's a pretty smart-lookin' watch. Wrist Net. That's a little better-feeling in terms of quality than I thought it might be. I don't know anything about this. I just know that he was like, "Hey, you want it?" And I said yes, so I look forward to researching and figuring out more. Thank you very much. Got one here from Brian. "Greetings from Colorado!" Lovely state, so I hear. "Get ready to enjoy the wonders of 16-bit digital sampling with the Windows Sound..." Oh, yes! Windows Sound System! [cackles] "It appears complete in box, most components are still sealed." So this is a thing that I have... Well, I've got a loose one of these cards, but I've held off on really doing much of anything with it until I had a good reason to put it in something, or until I found one in box. And here it is in box, which just makes it much more likely for me to do a video about. So yeah, this card is a fascinating thing. And Windows Sound System support, WSS. Just overall compatibility with Windows 3.1, for a while, a good few years. What else we got in here? Oh, "CyClones." That's an almost-classic. [chuckles] That's one of those... I almost reviewed that really early on in LGR, but I think I reviewed "H.U.R.L." instead. Anyway, that takes me back. What do we got? Oh, a little thingy here. Little Allsop 3.5-inch disk holder. These are fun. But yeah, the Windows Sound System. I just want to see the original card. 'Cause I think this is... Yeah, it's mostly in there. Wow, that is straight up sealed. This is gonna be really cool to go into then. Yeah, we'll leave that, I guess, for an eventual video. And also appears to have been a thrifting find, $10. Thanks so much. All right, this one is from return address. Or, Sam. [laughs] Return address was in the name area. All right, got a note here from Sam. "Hope you're able to make great use of this calculator. I only knew what it was thanks to you, your great video on the calculator wars." Ah! "Was really gross when found, but plugged it in and it works. Did a little bit of cleaning and it looks better." Great! "Probably needs more though." We'll see. Thanks so much. Oh, look at that power cord. Oh. Oh, my word. Look at this! [keys clicking] Oh! Those are reed switches. Wow! [Clint laughs] So this is a Sharp Micro Compet, the QT-8D. This is legendary. This was introduced in... Oh, what, 1970? It cost like $3,000 back then. Or, you know, the equivalent of it. Notable for a number of reasons, but being the first, I think, of its style or size, you know, sales distribution method or whatever, to be an LSI logic thing. You gotta give me a moment. [laughs] Those VFDs, too. This is a really early VFD, from what I recall. That's just... It's just beautiful! Nice little carrying handle there. [Clint laughs] Oh, man. I gotta plug this in. This power cord feels like medical grade. It's all rubber tubing-feeling. [switch clicks] [Clint laughs] Whoa. [key thumping] Oh! [keys clicking] Wow! Those switches feel amazing. [Clint chuckles] Thank you so much for sending this in, Sam. This is truly special. This is museum piece stuff. Got this one from William. It's a little thingy. Color switch? Yeah, this feels like Apple II stuff. Yeah, here we go. So this is the PC Transporter card. [Clint laughs] Yeah, this is an Apple II thing. To be more specific, this is for the Apple IIGS. William offered to sell it to me. And yeah, this allows you to run PC software on a IIGS. We actually talked about this at SEGE, the Southeast Game Exchange, over the summer. And yeah, check this out. We've got... I mean, it all connects together and adds different ports. I don't know how this actually functions. I've never used one of these. I've never had anything exactly like this. We have an NEC V30 CPU right there. Among all sorts of other good stuff. Looks like probably an 8087 would go right here. A coprocessor. Yeah, 1987. This is really cool! Thank you, William, for keeping me in mind. Okay, got one here from Marc. CuriousMarc. So yeah, this may look familiar. This is my Dictaphone 1680 calculator, also known as the Sanyo ICC-0082, and it was not working. I've had this for a long time and wanted it repaired, working again, because it's just awesome. I've got a video about it on this channel, when I'm just trying it out. However, thanks to Marc and pals over there... Or actually, they offered straight up to do some repairs on it. They're like, "Hey, we can fix it." So Ken over there not only reverse-engineered the chipset a bit, but they were also able to figure out what was going on with the display, the segments not going. Yeah, definitely check out that video if you're curious about the process. But it turned out there was a bit of battery leftovers that were unwelcome, causing some iffiness with the traces. And now it should be fully working, so let's test it out real quick. [Clint chuckles] Oh, yes. [buttons clicking] Beautiful! Just beautiful. There's still a little sticking with some of these keys, so it'd be worth taking apart to clean it up a bit. I hadn't actually done that yet. But yeah! It's a fully working calculator, finally, and it's just as beautiful as I had hoped. Oh, man. I absolutely love that display right there. It's not traditional Nixie. I forget what they determined that it was, 'cause I wasn't even 100% sure myself. - [Marc] As the gas itself is glowing, suspended- - [Clint] Right, so Sanyo Eightron? Yeah, anyway. It's just such a cool calculator, and I'm really, really grateful to them. And their channel is amazing, too. Like, the stuff they work on is so, so much more special than this, but you know, they were still psyched to work on that too. So just a wonderful bunch of folks over there. Check out the CuriousMarc channel. And yeah, thanks again to them for getting this beautiful piece of tech history working again. All right, got one here from Jeffrey. Ooh! Hmm! Got a GeForce MX 4000 PCI graphics card, 128 megs, by 3D Fuzion. UPC is gone, so I guess somebody just bought it for the rebate and never actually used it, but that's fine. Ah, yeah. Don't have one of these boxed. That's awesome! It's shame it's in such a boring box. I always preferred when video card companies did insanity. This is getting there. [chuckles] The Mad Dog Prowler 4.1 DSP 4-channel PCI sound card. Yeah, here's just a sound card. I don't actually know what it is. "Sensaura Positional Audio." Huh. Definitely no EAX and A3D, but... Oh, well, this seems to support those too. [laughs] What? Well, this is interesting. And also, this Sensaura, whatever the heck. Mmm, yet another company acquired by Creative Labs and just eaten alive. I guess they were around in '91 though, and did other stuff, building on the DirectSound 3D API. Yeah, I don't... [chuckles] I don't think I've ever ever used anything with Sensaura stuff. So yeah, fascinating, from 2002. Thanks for sending these in! All right. Well, this one's coming apart. From Logan. Was a hard drive. Bullet Drive Express. Well, that would've been cool. It's got a little IBM laptop drive in there. Well... [laughs] Yeah, that took the brunt of the damage. It wasn't protected in the box. [Clint laughs] Another one of these? I think this is my fifth. Oh, my word. So I've shown this so many times in different unboxings over the years. They keep getting packed in with other things that are sent. Anyway, another InterAct Intelligent Trackball that's going to another home. Well, this is a box of stuff. I don't recognize any of it so far. Typically I only give an okay to boxes of stuff I know what's gonna be sent, because I only have so much space. Ah, let's here. All right, so, "This contains the Intermec tablet that we talked about in April." Okay, well, we'll see if that survived. Hopefully it did. "Normally the Goodwills in my area do not take computers or tablets, but I guess I was lucky to find this." You would be lucky. Most do not. Asks if I'd clone the hard drive and archive it online. I hope that wasn't the hard drive, 'cause that thing went to hell and back during shipment. We'll see. A little tiny key chain digital camera. Some cords. This appears to be... Yeah, this has gotta be what that hard drive thing is. Road Warrior International, PCMCIA to IDE adapter. At least that's intact. We'll see if I can still get the interface running at least. And even if the hard drive died, which I have a feeling it did, considering how banged-up it was, but we might still be able to salvage the interface. Hmm, what is this? Kid Pix 3D. I have never heard of this! I'm very familiar with... Oh, wow. Earlier Kid Pix, of course. Kid Pix, Kid Pix Studio. That was a staple growing up. Publish to YouTube? Wow. I did not even know they were still doing Kid Pix stuff at this point. This is 2010! Ah, MPC Wizard? "Test and tune your multimedia PC." [laughs] Well, that seems fascinating. What? I guess it's just a... Yeah, a bunch of tests to see if you're MPC compatible, or how well it's working. Well, this is beefy. What is this? Macintosh Educational Software Guide. 1991! It's just like, "Here's the crap that's available for Mac." [Clint laughs] Oh, that's kinda great. Good grief, some of these are expensive. I'm seeing like $250, $100, $200. That's pretty cool. Even more Mac educational stuff. Science Resource Guide for grades 7-12. K-12 Mac Writing Resource Guide. And K-6 Mac Elementary Learning Resource Guide. Even for the pictures alone, this is incredible. Oh, that... Wow, this brings back some memories. The very first time I used a Mac, one of the very first computers I used that was multimedia, was a Mac set up in a library. Of course, the very first computer I used was an Apple IIe in kindergarten. And a very well-loved issue of EGM. My word. November 1993. This looks about like the magazines I had as a kid. The very few gaming magazines that I ever got my hands on, I wore them out. They were always barely holding together. Here is our tablet. That's pretty awesome. Intermec Norand 6642. If Intermec sounds familiar, I have covered... It was this thing, the Proxim RangeLAN2. So I had one by Intermec and the other one was by CruiseLAN. They're just wireless access points. But anyway, I guess they made tablets as well. Pretty slim, all things considered. I see why it needed an external hard drive. Uh-huh. I'm assuming there's no battery life. No, there's not. Well, let me just see if I can plug it in real quick. Well, that's very janky, but if it works, it works. [chuckles] Got a little LED. [tablet beeps] [tablet humming] Maybe it has a hard drive inside. Oh! Hey-hey! Let me get my filter off here. "Press 1 to resume." [tablet beeps] That is phenomenal. Yeah, this is more capable than I was thinking. This is closer to one of my Fujitsu Stylistic tablets. I mean, I noticed it had USB over there, but didn't quite know what to expect. All right. Definitely needs a little recalibration on the pen. We got games installed? We sure do. Oh, heck yeah, dude. Heck yeah! This is awesome! All right. Well, thank you very much for sending this over. It's a shame that external hard drive didn't survive, but so it goes. At least everything else did, it seems. All awesome stuff. Thank you very much. Got another one, I don't know who it's from. Oh my! Very large hard drive. Physically. Oh, wow. No physical note, but I do have one in email here. They still didn't give a name, but that's fine. They found this Micropolis 1335 85-megabyte 5.25-inch ESDI hard drive just hanging around on the side of the road in L.A. Micropolis drives in general are somewhat uncommon. But this one... Yeah, this one, for the connection, the capacity, the apparently new old stockness of it. Like, I still got the media defect table printed out. And this really old desiccant pack. Wow. [thingy rattles] Well, there's a... Yeah, thought I heard something rattling around. I don't know what that is. It's a rubber... Rubber end piece. That is nuts, man. Look at that. I've always been kind of drawn to Micropolis drives because of the "SimCity" connection. Original name for "SimCity" was gonna be "Micropolis." They had to change the name because, eh, you know. 1986. Wow. ESDI. I have a couple of ESDI machines. I don't think I have any with 5.25-inch full-height drives though. Either way, this is just a lovely piece in terms of everything. [chuckles] So thank you very much for sending this. Seriously, what is this rubber piece though? [Clint laughs] It looks like a cap that would go on the end of something cylindrical. Okay, this is a rather large one. This is from Elmar in the Netherlands. [laughs] We have woodgrain. Greybusters fully colored multimedia keyboard. Fully colored! Woodgrain is a color. You heard it here. And this... Buddha keyboard. This is something else. Found themselves on eBay, "finding items I didn't know I was looking for." [chuckles] So it goes. "And I found these two full-color printed keyboards. Looked so tacky and cool at the same time." More tacky, but hey! "They apparently made a bunch of different prints like desert, camouflage, aquarium, Tweety, SpongeBob, golf, pineapple, wood, and Buddha." And oh, yeah, YouTube channel RetroGameCouch. Also sent a... Oh, hey. Well, thank you. Little drink coaster. Honestly, like the wood ones, I've seen wood keyboards before. I've never seen a Buddha board. [Clint laughs] Oh! Well. [plastic clacking] Oh, this is terrible! [laughs] Like everything about it. This whole things feels like... It's like made of the same plastic as a... Well, like a cup of yogurt. A disposable yogurt package. It's... It feels almost like paper, it's so thin. No wonder it's coming the heck apart. It is a PS/2 keyboard. It says French. It is an AZERTY layout, so. Man! Oh! That's really bad. [laughs] And the wooden one's gonna be the same thing, just cheap garbage with a wood texture applied to the top. I mean, yeah, if I saw these on eBay, I would totally buy them too. This is completely ridiculous, and I'll at least show the wood one sometime in a video. Oh, yeah, that's just the worst kind of sliding plastic over membrane you can imagine. Now can this spacebar go back properly? [laughs] So it does go back in, but... Oh, this is just the cheapest thing I've ever felt. I can't get over how bad it feels. I'm really genuinely impressed. Thank you for sending over this e-waste. [laughs] I'm interested in at least trying it once. [Clint grunts] Nothing but large ones left. This one is from Matt. [Clint chuckles] Well, isn't that lovely? We've got, folks, a Macintosh Plus. Something that I have expressed interest in hoping to find several times as I have gotten documentation and other things that go with this, but I've never actually had the computer. Now I do, and it's lovely. Little bit yellowed, but so it goes. It's got the keyboard and the mouse. Mm-mmm. Ooh. I don't know which version of it it is. I know some of these had Alps switches. Others had other switches. There's a disk in there. [laughs] And from what I recall, this is working for the most part. Maybe not fully tested, but working. Let's see if there's a battery in here. Doesn't look like. Which is cool. So yeah, anyway. Just awesome, I don't know. Something about the Macintosh Plus. It's always appealed to me, you know, being that in-between of the earlier ones, the 128 and the 512 and whatnot. But it doesn't change as much of the case and the aesthetic as something like the SE and the SE/30 does with the different design language. This came from Matt, who is a Patron of mine. He noticed that I was interested in a Mac Plus, picked one up about a year or so back, and I was interested. "Bought it from someone who fixed the analog board and caps on the main motherboard previously," so that's awesome. "The battery was removed. The only other thing worth mentioning is one of the keyboard connector tabs is broken. Never got around to replacing that." Oh, maybe he means... Yeah. Just a little tab right there. Those come off all the time. But at least it's got the cable. So. [laughs] This is wonderful. I kinda want to plug it in real quick. [switch clicks] [Mac beeps] Mmm! What a lovely sound. All right. We have a picture. [Mac beeps] Yeah, just... [Mac beeps] Okay. [Mac beeps] Yeah, just had to jiggle around the disk there. They're not always happy when it's left in during shipment, I've noticed. Dude. [cackles] What version do we have here? [drive buzzing] 6.18 for the Finder and 6.08 for the System. Megabyte of RAM! Yeah, there was another message from Matt where he said he just wrote to disk, I think on a Mac 6100 or something. I think I do have the originals somewhere, the disks. I've got, like I said, a number of Mac Plus things just lying around, or that have been sent in or things that I've found over the years. So I've always wanted the system to go with it, and there we go. So anyways, just the System Tools. We're not gonna have like MacPaint or MacWrite or anything. There's not much on this main disk at all, but... Yeah, see if it ejects. [drive buzzing] [motor whirs] It does. Wonderful! Okay, let's test this keyboard. [chunky clicking] Oh, man! I love it so much. I still don't know what switches those are. Oh. Those are Alps, if I'm not mistaken. So, don't know exactly what they're called, but... Man, those funky arrow keys. You got the Up arrow here. Left, Right, and Down. [chuckles] This is just brilliant. Strong picture and everything too. I have another... I mean, really, probably three systems that could an analog board recap. But nice that this one's already done. Oh, this is nice! Thanks so much. And this one comes from Finland, from Cubeor. And that is a company, not a person. Mmm, I have been interested to see this thing in person. This is the Kanto... Kanto? Can't tell. mATX case version 1.1, with real wood panels! One of those things they sent to me, no strings attached. No payments or anything with money. I never take those kinda deals, but if a company has an interesting thing that seems LGR-like, I'm always interested in taking a look if there's no strings attached. [sniffs] Oh, it smells like wood! Wow. So I've gotta say, first impressions are pretty phenomenal. [Clint laughs] Nice finish! And it's a Finnish computer too. [laughs] Made in Finland. Oh-ho-ho! Oh, I love this! This is wild. Okay, so anyway. I could build something really cool in here. Well, maybe literally too, 'cause it's supposed to be a very cool case. It seems like it should be. I mean, all these little holes and openings and stuff everywhere. My question to you is: what do I build? Something mATX, of course, but... Yeah. Ideas are welcome. Such a unique case design. The real wood panels, and the opening. Well, appreciate Cubeor sending over this review/press/whatever example thing. I will do something with it, just don't know what yet. Again, ideas in the comments would be welcome. Nice! And the last one. I trust this is not a microwave. It's in a microwave box, it's from Germany, and it's from... I don't know. It says Game Shop, but that's very generic-sounding. Ooh. That's not another flexi disc, is it? "Computer Composities." IBM? Hey, it might be another flexi. That would be weird. Uh, I don't know. Let's see what this is. It's definitely a record. Oh, whoa! Hmm! Don't know what that is, but it looks neat. Computer records always welcome. [Clint groans] Whoa, that's substantial. Well, perhaps I missed it, but I don't see any notes. That being said though, would you look at this gargantuan package? We got a Sound Blaster PCI 128. 5X DVD-ROM drive. Four-channel amplified speaker system with powered subwoofer. Fantastic classic Cambridge SoundWorks setup. That right there is kinda what attracted me to this the most. Other than the fact that it's a whole kit in a box. Look at that. Full version of "Unreal." Obviously it is a European package. [laughs] Just look at this, though. I love the turn-of-the-millennium kind of silliness right there. "The complete multimedia upgrade for the next century!" Yeah, man, it looks new. More or less. It's at least get all the packaging. Sound Blaster 128 in there. Yeah, I'd like to do another Creative Labs bundle video. And this would be a very nice candidate indeed. Whether its on its own or it's part of an overall upgrade. I don't know, special perhaps. Let me see if I can find an email note. All right, well, I found the email. This comes from Angelo, so thank you very much. Says it's from the Netherlands. The package said Germany. Whatever. This is a European thing! So, if you had this in Europe, let me know. I would love to know what you did with it, what kinda computer you put it in, how much it cost. I'm sure this wasn't cheap. Yeah, this is awesome. Thank you so much. And that is all for this donations unboxing video. Uh, holy crap. [laughs] An insane amount of greatness right here that is gonna make some awesome videos, Blerbs, and just various projects in LGR Land. Thank you once again to everyone who sent things in, offered to send things in. And I don't ask for this stuff. Y'all don't have to offer it, but you do, and it's incredible. I hate that I have to turn away so many folks, but storage is always a thing. Yeah, it's an ongoing process, but I love every part of it and really do appreciate all of y'all for helping things keep on keeping on. So as always, thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.
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Keywords: unboxing, unwrapping, computers, video games, LGR, lazy game reviews, classic, vintage, retro, mailbag, mail call, computer, collectibles, software, hardware, games, imports, commentary, mail, thrifting, hauls, gifts, Apple, oddware, 80s, 90s, 2000s, floppy disks, keyboard, weird, strange, donations, laptop, gift, surprise, opening, unusual, rare, unique, donation, hard drive, woodgrain, big box, boxed, collection, vinyl, PC, macintosh, Microsoft, Macintosh Plus, Mac, cubeor, wooden, calculator, books, tablet, holidays, anime, ใ‚ใžใ‚“ไธ€ๅˆป, manga
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Length: 66min 36sec (3996 seconds)
Published: Fri Nov 11 2022
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