Hello and welcome back to this episode of 8-Bit Unboxing.
Now, before we get started, there's a couple of things I need to tell you about.
So, as you probably know, the number of items I'm accepting each month has been getting
smaller and smaller.
And there's two main reasons for that.
The first reason for that is the amount of space I have keeps getting smaller and smaller
and smaller.
But, another item that you might not have considered is that the number of items that
I actually need is getting smaller as well.
And that's because, if you look back a couple of years ago on my website I had a fairly
large want list of things that I needed for my show.
And people keep donating those things to me and that list has shrunk pretty small now.
And so the number of things I actually need is smaller and there's just not as much
stuff that I've been accepting in.
And, as a result of that, you might not be seeing these episodes as often.
There probably won't be an unboxing episode next month.
I may start spacing these two or three months apart so just word of warning on that.
And even this month, I've received quite a few less things than normal so the video
would be kind of short but I decided to put in a little bit of an extra special thing
at the end to help compensate for that a bit so be sure you stick around to watch that!
The first package of the month comes from Travis Ormandy.
Hmm.
There's two bubble-wrapped boxes that say Seiko on them.
OK, this is neat looking, but I have no idea what it is.
It has a printer and a keyboard.
And what is this…
Ah yes, it is a watch.
I remember this conversation now.
This is basically a computer in a watch.
It's a full dot-matrix display and appears to have a 10 column by 4 line display.
And you place the watch in here and you can program it or something using this keyboard.
Well, this will have to be explored more fully in a later video.
Thank you, Travis, for such a neat donation.
Moving on, the next box is from Ben Kritz.
And here's a little note.
And it looks like what we have here are some Atari 2600 cartridges.
I'm always amazed that people send me these because I only accept ones I don't have
and I'm getting to the point where I think I have most all of them.
But anyway, these are definitely ones I did not have.
Thank you Ben!
Next up we have a little package here from The Netherlands.
This is from Wesley Tiems.
And it looks like the post office already started the process of opening it.. let's
finish the job.
Well, I don't want to bend whatever that is, so let's use some scissors.
And so, it looks like he has sent me some Super Nintendo cartridges.
Now this is one system that I have very few cartridges for, so almost anything somebody
sends me I probably won't have.
And it appears these came with the manuals too, so that's always nice.
Thank you Wesley.
OK, this has to be one of the most bizarre packages I've ever received.
It's basically a giant, heavy trunk, with wheels on it.
I was actually a bit nervous wheeling this into my house.
This is from Hazlett.
And it costs a whopping $82 dollars to ship it to me.
And no wonder being it is almost 60 pounds.
All right, well, let's see what we have in here.
Well, there's a note here.
But it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Ah.. this explains it.
There's more of the note down in here.
So yeah, now it makes more sense.
So, long story short this comes from Jill, who's husband watches my show from Afghanistan
but I'm not too clear on where this stuff actually came from.
So, I guess I should start pulling some of this stuff out of here and figuring out what
is what.
It looks like this is the main attraction.
It's a Kaypro 2000 laptop.
I remember the email conversation on this now, and I am excited to play with this.
This thing is heavy and built like a tank.
There was actually two of them in there, but only one is working.
These things are kind of interesting as the keyboard pops out like this, and the floppy
drive pops out like this.
In this box here, there are piles of MS-DOS games, both originals and copies and on different
sizes of disks.
I'll have to sort through that later.
And these are docking stations for the laptops, and they appear to have a full-sized card
slot in them as well.
But that's where this takes an interesting turn for me.
This machine seems to run MS-DOS.
I was thinking this would be a CP/M machine like the other Kaypro luggables, but it isn't.
So I guess I have another machine to test Planet x3 on.
The other machine here has a larger screen, but it is missing a lot of pieces and it's
dead as a doornail.
Anyway, a big thanks to the Hazletts for sending this.
Moving along, the next package is from Enrique Matta.
Looks like we have a note.
And what we have here are some more TI99 games.
And much like the Atari games, I keep thinking I have them all, but apparently I don't.
All right, thank you Enrique!
Next up we have a cube-shaped box from C. Reynolds.
OK, it looks like there are several items in here.
The first one is this.
It looks like an 8-track tape.
OK, it is an 8-Track tape.
But it appears to be blank, as if it were designed for you to record on it yourself.
I am not familiar with any recorders for these tapes.
Maybe I'd better ask Techmoan about that.
Fascinating.
This next bag appears to contain several other unopened examples of different video tape
formats.
I can put these in my museum next to my unopened betamax tape.
Here's Commodore 128 system disks.
I already had a few sets of these.
And a manual to a 1750 ram expander.
Yeah, so that's the main attraction here.
So, I already had a 1764 RAM expander but it is technically for the Commodore 64.
This version is meant for the Commodore 128.
So, thank you very much for that.
This will help with my Commodore history series.
OK, here's a long box without a name on it.
But, I found out later this was from Naoki Saito.
There appears to be a keyboard in here.
Ah yes, I remember this conversation now.
This is a Yamaha DX-100.
I get a lot of crazy offers for rare or expensive things and I usually take them with a grain
of salt because 90% of the time the items never actually show up.
And this is another one that I didn't think would actually show up, but it did.
I hope I can demonstrate this to you eventually, but the trouble is it is broken.
But based on the symptoms described, I'm hoping maybe I can fix it.
We'll see.
OK, thank you Naoki!
Next up, we have an apparently very fragile box.
Although, sometimes I think putting that wording on the box has the opposite effect.
Looks like there's a Kraft joystick inside.
It appears to have the Commodore slash Atari connector, but I've never seen this model
for those systems.
Here's a note on the box.
OK, so this is something that has been on my want-list for a while.
It's a Hearoid, but was also sold under the brands of Omnibot and Radio Shack sold
it as the Robie Sr.
Now he didn't have the remote control to this, but somebody else had offered to ship
me a remote a few months ago, but I turned them down as I had no robot to use it with.
However, I contacted him back and he says he's sending the remote control.
So, hopefully I'll have that in next month's unboxing video and I'll have a complete
unit.
Now, unfortunately, this guy is in serious need of repair and cleaning.
The arms appear broken.
The whole thing needs some retrobrite.
Here's the tape deck.
This thing could play music cassettes but also could store data on a cassette tape with
instructions on how to do things.
Anyway, I hope I am able to get this thing working again.
Stay tuned for a future episode.
Next up is a small package, I think this is from Germany.
Not sure who sent it.
OK, this is a Viduzzles cartridge for the Commodore 64.
This is a neat little video jigsaw puzzle game.
I later found out this is from Harald out of Hamburg Germany.
So, thank you very much!
And here's another package, where I'm not sure who it's from.
It appears to be from Berlin, Germany.
And inside is a Sonic the Hedgehog cartridge.
Oddly enough, this looks like it is for the Maser System.
I didn't even know this game was available for that system.
Yeah, in fact this little sticker, probably from the reseller, says it is for the master
system.
I'll be interested to check this out.
Thank you!
OK, and that about wraps it up for all of the donations for April.
Now, I said there'd be something special at the end and so here we are.
So, what I wanted to do is if I look back, I've been doing the unboxing videos for
about a year, I think it's 13 months.
But, I just got to thinking about it and I thought, you know to commemorate that, I should
do like a top ten most awesome donations that I received over the last year or at least
since I've been doing the videos.
And, I actually had a really hard time narrowing down just ten items, because I received a
lot of cool stuff.
In fact, I received over 200 donations over the last year.
All right, so I thought I'd tell you a little about the criteria that I used to judge these
top ten.
Obviously, one of the things was how valuable was the item?
But also, another thing was how rare is the item?
Like, how hard would it have been for me to get if I had tried to go out and find one
of these by myself?
The 3rd criteria was, of course, what condition was the item in.
And the 4th criteria was how useful was the item to me?
I mean, just because something is expensive and rare doesn't necessarily mean it's
all that useful to me in a video.
So, there was one other thing I wanted to mention that I struggled with a lot.
So there were two or three people who sent me like really big boxes of stuff and there
were all of these really cool items shoved into this one box.
And I struggled to decide if that was considered one donation or multiple donations by the
same person.
And, what I ultimately decided is I wanted this top ten list to be just individual things
rather than groups of things.
And, so keeping that in mind, let's get started.
Starting with number 10, I'm going to go with the boxed Timex Sinclair 2068.
And yes, you're definitely going to see this in an upcoming series about the Sinclair
units.
Moving on to number 9, I picked the TRS-80 Color Computer 3.
This was actually the last piece of the puzzle I needed to make a video series on the whole
coco line of computers, so you'll be seeing this again.
Number 8 is a keyboard, and while I've received some pretty cool keyboard donations, I think
this Yamaha DX-100 is actually the most awesome.
In fact, I'm almost done with a repair video on this, so you'll be seeing that in a few
days.
Number 7 the TRS-80 Model 1.
And while the power supply needs re-capping, this is definitely a computer you'll be
seeing again.
Number 6 is the IBM PCjr.
I'm planning a whole series on the PCJr and Tandy 1000 machines, so expect to see
this again.
Number 5 is the Commodore 1551 disk drive.
These are really hard to find, and I was thrilled to receive one and you'll be seeing this
again in two different future episodes.
Number 4 is the Amiga 600.
You'll be seeing this around episode 7 or 8 of Commodore history once I start getting
into the Amiga line of computers.
Number 3 is the Bell and Howell or Darth Vader Apple II.
I'm actually planning a restoration of this computer, however, I'm planning to bring
this with me to Maker Faire in November where hopefully some experts are going to help me
out with this, so you'll be seeing this around the end of the year.
Number 2 is the Commodore PET.
And while I've already shown it in several videos, don't be surprised if it pops up
again here or there.
And can anyone guess what I picked for number 1?
If you guessed the Commodore Max machine, you guessed right.
You'll actually be seeing this featured in a revised episode of Commodore history
in just a week or so.
And it will probably make a few appearances in other videos.
All right, and that about wraps up this video.
So I hope you guys liked this and I did want to mention that I know last month it doesn't
seem like I produced a lot of content, and it's because a lot of the projects I was
working on ended up being delayed, waiting for parts, and all kinds of stuff.
So, I'm hoping you'll actually see more content this month than normal, because many
of those videos I'm almost done with.
Anyway, stick around for the next episode and thanks for watching.
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