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This is a very special video to me because I was finally prepared and equipped to go back to my first vintage computer and the first project I ever tried to record to make a video of. A Commodore VIC-20 that I got fo...
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Here is the bonus section I mentioned in the last post. This was originally going to be part of the Roland MC-505 repair video but both the repair and description of the device were really too long to have both in one video. So I dec...
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This project took way more time than I planned and I actually ended up deciding to scrap about half of what I shot. But I should I should go back a bit to explain that more. This video is about repairing a Roland MC-505 that I was gi...
Hello! I thought I'd give another update with stuff because the server stuff I've been working on is finally over with after quite a lot of effort. Nearly all of the public facing sites I run are self hosted now and are working much bette...
2023-08-14 20:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! This was the other video I was working on before I started the change up with my server. That's going well and is nearly over now, I'm hoping to make an update video talking about it next week. This one though is about a CAD tablet for ...
This one was nerve wracking and exciting, after some back and forth I worked out getting a huge amount of HP hardware shipped half way across the US which is something I never do. I have probably bought 95% of my hardware locally because ...
2023-07-26 14:27:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! I've got a video coming up soon but thought I would take some time to give you some updates on what has been happening in the background. Mostly that I've been spending a bunch of time on preparing to redo the entire software stack on my ma...
2023-07-25 01:49:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! I've got some more stuff for that HP-9836C computer I picked up on plate (and even more planned for later). This time I was able to get the printer made for it and get it fixed to be usable again! And somehow this is my first time ...
2023-07-13 19:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! This is the update video I wanted to make to talk about some stuff like how I made the 9122C repair video. As a tease, I didn't edit this video after shooting it in any way other than adding some text and color work, but it still has multip...
2023-06-27 22:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! That floppy drive I got for the HP 9836C I showed at the end of the last video? It didn't work. But I was able to get it going again after a deep cleaning which I hadn't done on 3.5" drives before. And I think this 9122C drive is going to b...
2023-06-20 18:36:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a shocking video for me to make, I picked up this system a couple weeks ago now and have been working non-stop to get it going again. It is amazing and I cannot believe how much HP was able to pack into this thing considering how early it ...
2023-06-16 23:43:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again, thank you all so much for the understanding and feedback on the last post. I got a lot more response to it than I was expecting and wanted to mull over a lot of the input you provided and finish the physical copies while I thought abo...
2023-06-06 14:08:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, there isn't going to be a video this week and that happening finally gave me the incentive to make this video. Basically, I want to know what everyone here thinks about moving from a release schedule focused on weekly videos to one that fav...
2023-06-01 19:57:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! This is a simpler video for this week, mostly because I almost completely forgot to make this video! I was cleaning up recently and found all the parts to put it together and realized I never made the video on it, oops.
I designed th...
Wow this one was a lot more of pain to put together than I thought! This computer has clearly lived a troubled life and when I sat down to try to get it working again I completely underestimated what it would take to do it. But with some persevera...
2023-05-17 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Now that I've got my capacitor reforming setup dialed in I want to start getting some of the much older hardware I've picked up running again! I want to start on the S-100 computers first to see what I'm in for, but first I figured I'd get ...
2023-05-10 16:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This video has been a very long time coming, a detailed breakdown of how reforming capacitors and how you can do it. This has been one of my most researched and tested videos to produce because I wanted to make sure I got every single thi...
2023-05-01 23:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! A couple weeks ago a listing popped up near by me that had an Apple II plus in it that I was absolutely dreaming to get. I called them, only to be told that someone else has reached out first about them but if they flaked out I would be up ...
2023-04-26 21:41:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! So first, sorry for no video last week. I tried, but the concept fell apart at the last minute and it just wasn't possible to make a video. I meant to post about it but have also been thinking about making some changes to how I plan video p...
2023-04-20 18:13:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! This was a big one, probably actually too big. I maybe should have made three videos out of this but I don't want to flood the channel with Hydro Thunder videos. So I decided to make one bigger video with three different projects all in one...
2023-04-09 16:57:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week's video is something I've been meaning to look at for years and wow do I feel DUMB for not having done it sooner. What I thought I bought was just the tip of an iceberg of Roland MIDI awesomeness that I didn't know about an...
Hello! This week I wanted to take it a little easier and I've been meaning to take a look at this Commodore Adding Machine for a while and figured now was as good a time as any. This is a fairly straight forward device on the outside that has a fe...
2023-03-15 23:06:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I finally finished a video in a week! It's been a while since I did that though I did barely made it in time here. This video was very experimental for me in a number of ways and is my first real software review I think. It was also made almost en...
2023-03-11 19:17:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for no update last week but this project just kept going on and on, just when I thought I had the next thing sorted I encountered another issue. Now I know what I'm dealing with, it isn't surprising, but none of this one went how I expected....
2023-03-03 15:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This video took way more time to put together than I planned and ended up being so much longer than I really wanted it to be. But I tried a different production style with a hybrid of scripted and unscripted portions. I think it m...
2023-02-18 00:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello, I wanted to let you know there won't be a video this week. The last video on Doom Multi-monitor blew up way more than I expected and when that happens I've found it can be better to skip a release the next week to let that video have it's t...
2023-02-09 18:38:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I decided to go for an idea that had been kicking around in the back of my head for a long time. It was daunting because a lot of things had to fall into place to ever pull it off. After what I can only call one of my luckiest videos eve...
2023-02-04 00:07:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a hard fought video to get done this week, I wasn't sure I was going to make it. A lot of learning pains with stuff and unexpected set backs. But here we are!
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Hello, this week I got so closeto a video being ready but it just fell apart at the last possible moment in the most frustrating way. I won't get into the full nitty gritty details here because I'm hoping this will be solved eventually an...
2023-01-21 14:27:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, sorry I didn't get this one done earlier. There were a lot of problems that happened while making this and resulted in multiple reshoots. I just got it done in the edit and have already released it so there is time to watch this weekend.