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30MB hasrd drive, I've got more memory as 3rd level cache on my CPU nowadays (64MB)

The year I was born

Why is this song catchy? If it wasn’t associated with Nazis I would have blasted it from my car

I have bricked a few drives in my time.

that's a spiffy lookin terminal

Jeez what a story

God, it's hard to imagine paying $1500 (in 80s money no less) for just 5 mb. I bought a 4 tb hard drive for 50 bucks on my last build.

Did they actually pay taxes on those "profits"? LOL

You are very funny

Great story telling

Very Ponzi

Fortunately I've not dealt with many sovblock pc clones. The only ones I remember were the ones at school. Even then, starting with the nineties most PCs were foreign imports. And the only pc that needed a floppy to get into the bios setup I ever encountered was an ibm ps/2...

Background "music" is too loud and distracting. Takes away more than adds to the presentation. Just ditch it. It serves no purpose other than to annoy. I don't think I can make it though this video, which would otherwise be excellent.

"Aegis" is a word I don't hear often.

I clearly remember the early 20MB hard disks in early portable computers. They added a huge premium (~$2000) to an already pricy business tool. I opted for 2 3.5" double densiy floppies. This decission was one I lived with for about a year. Then I purchased the most forward thinking computer of it day, The NEC Ultralite with a "whopping" 2MB solid state "silicon disk." It ran software faster than anything short of a super-expensive 386. It was also a mere 4.4 lbs. I carried it for two years and it still drew double-take whenever I opened it. Fully equipped with an external HD 3.5" floppy (that could format double density disks as high density) is cost me $2500. A bargan in 1989.

Did you ever find out if the bricks used MFM or IDE interfaces?

Gotta give them points for trying

I did a report on one of those in 6th grade! I even made a mock-up of it!

ed was electric desk a early program like lotus 1 2 3. we used it in tech school back in 1985

13:06 Holy autoexec echoes, Batman!

Good video! The Tiny BASIC users were the original open source movement. I bet today they like Linux. Also, while I'm here, I enjoy BASIC programming, but I don't have the skills, or time, or space for that matter, to run actual hardware. Naturally, I use emulators. If anyone wants to know about a good, free BASIC emulator, PC-Basic emulates GW-Basic and will make files in actually usable formats. You know, .txt, .csv, whatever you want. I'm not affiliated with that project at all. I just thought the other BASIC hobbyists might be interested.

6:46 is this one of the earliest uses of the term "WTF" ?

This is hilarious.

I don't remember seeing a stepper motor in a hard drive. You've been in this game longer than me.

Ha! Very entertaining video. That was really cool you were able to get that Miniscribe back up and going... I've got to acquire an old hard drive with a stepper motor in it one of these days, in me ever-growing collection LOL. Thanks for sharing!

Sooo many years ago, but it was fun, also had a BBS back then. Fun time and not cheap pone bills 🙂

I wonder if its possible to see what the Chatpad is looking for? If there's any specific requests being sent to the host PC.

I'm curious about the brown patch on the PCB - is that a burn mark? And what looks like a bunch of resistors mounted way up high ("flapping around in the breeze") above the board. Are these two things related, I wonder?

Running the PSU without load may not be the very best idea, is it?

Was that the Brick of '87?!

I wonder what my Imsai 8080 is worth? It's missing one switch lever and has a TDL Z-80 CPU board. Over all, it cost me over $6000.

I hope I will be building cutting-edge, history-worthy hardware when I’m 60-something, too.

Is the faulty monitor colour or monochrome? A shadowmask problem causes way more issues than that, colour purity would be way off and severe convergence errors.

Also .. nobody back then would have entered a 5KB program via switches back then. People were more patient back then, but even if you take 3 seconds per byte that would be 5 hours, same for checking again, and it would be gone when switching off. Also those switches were usually only rated for a few 10000 actuations, so ... You keyed in paper tape loader of a few tens of bytes, and then loaded the program from tape. If you wanted something with more error checking and maybe the ability to load into different memory areas .. you still used that and loaded the better loader from tape, too.

I did not guess that Tech Time Traveller was Canadian.